Im not to happy with all the remakes at are surfacing around now. Footloose, Top Gun, and the Three Musketeers, are the few that I remember. Footloose has an all new cast and Top Gun is getting done in 3D of in your face homoerotica. Goose Dies.
I'm actually pretty pissed off about The Musketeers remake. I love the 1993 version and i think it was one of the few Disney movies that was actually done right. With its allstar cast
Keefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Charlie Sheen, and Michael Wincott.
The movie itself is outstanding, its funny, great action, comraderie, a chase scene, betrayal, and just an amazingly fun action movie. This remake with Orlando Bloom(default renaissance guy, since Pirates of the Caribbean) and Milla Jovovich(who i love) looks like they took the game Assassins Creed and put it to film. Theres the Flying dutchman, which is a flying ship/blimp/thing which has an airbattle straight from Pirates but in the air. And they made the Countess D'Winter out to be some crazy Electra assassin in a corsett and bloomers. None of it looks fit for the period except the clothing. Its pretty much an affront to the novel by Alexandre Dumas which from last i check included no mention of flying blimps and other such redikulousness.
In essence i guess im just not a fan of remakes unless they are true to form. Along the same vein, the Count of Monte Cristo (also by Alexandre Dumas) was remade with Guy Pierce, but it kept pretty much the same storyline just updated from the 1975 version and it was good.
While i am putting up a fuss about this remake because of the over the top of it all, which isnt really needed for good storytelling, i am very much looking forward to the Sherlock Holmes sequel the Game of Shadows. I loved the first movie they did, and Robert Downedy Jr, and Jude Law are marvelous together, and I hope the sequel builds on the foundation that first one built. Guy Ritchie has a habit or directing good movies, so i doubt that i have much to worry about it.
Any remakes that you guys have seen and are looking forward to, hated very much so, or want to talk about?
Next they will remake Goonies, and Terminator 1.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Movie Review - Drive 8.2/10
This movie is pretty timeless. One where the main character has no name, has a role and fills it. Hes a driver, its what he does, and he does it well.
The only things that date this movie are the vehicles. If it wasnt for the vehicles this movie could have come out in 2000,1990,1980,1970,1960,.... The story is pretty decent but at times the pacing is slow, which would be okay if it were filmed in 1970 or so. At times the music is super loud and doesnt really seem to fit the scenes that well. It wasn't just music, but they were songs with loudly sung words about being a real human being.
Ryan Gosling, and Ron Perlman are the only names i recognized in the movie.
Synopsis
Theres a guy thats a part time movie stunt driver, part time mechanic. On the side hes a wheel man for random criminals. He starts hanging out with his neighbor and her son. He likes them but her husband gets out of prison. He owes money to people for protection in prison. He gets beat up, and the bad guys threaten the girl and her kid. Driver doesnt like it, so him and convict dad go do a heist on a pawn shop. It goes bad, convict dad dies, and girl criminal and him drive away. Later she gets shot and he has a million bucks in a bag. He tries to give it back, but the bad guys want to kill him, so he kills all of them. During all this at one point the little kids mom sees him stomp a guys head in to protect her and himself and shes very shocked and leaves. He calls her and she wont talk to him.
He drives away.
The chase scenes were pretty cool, and ryan gosling was really good with the hyper violent scenes. He played them to a T. He seemed very akward in social situations, which was part of his character, and he played that well too. The girl didnt seem worth fighting for, and at the end he left the million dollars lying on the floor as he drove away.
I feel that they could have done a bit more with the movie. Paced it a bit better, changed the music or toned it down some, maybe the girl could have died and he leaves with the boy. It has some very scenes that reminded me of Casino, but the ending felt blah.
It was a good film, very stylistic, and timeless.
Its a solid rent, and a maybe watch in theater this weekend, but next weekend Killer Elite comes out and that looks a bit more action packed if thats your thing.
The only things that date this movie are the vehicles. If it wasnt for the vehicles this movie could have come out in 2000,1990,1980,1970,1960,.... The story is pretty decent but at times the pacing is slow, which would be okay if it were filmed in 1970 or so. At times the music is super loud and doesnt really seem to fit the scenes that well. It wasn't just music, but they were songs with loudly sung words about being a real human being.
Ryan Gosling, and Ron Perlman are the only names i recognized in the movie.
Synopsis
Theres a guy thats a part time movie stunt driver, part time mechanic. On the side hes a wheel man for random criminals. He starts hanging out with his neighbor and her son. He likes them but her husband gets out of prison. He owes money to people for protection in prison. He gets beat up, and the bad guys threaten the girl and her kid. Driver doesnt like it, so him and convict dad go do a heist on a pawn shop. It goes bad, convict dad dies, and girl criminal and him drive away. Later she gets shot and he has a million bucks in a bag. He tries to give it back, but the bad guys want to kill him, so he kills all of them. During all this at one point the little kids mom sees him stomp a guys head in to protect her and himself and shes very shocked and leaves. He calls her and she wont talk to him.
He drives away.
The chase scenes were pretty cool, and ryan gosling was really good with the hyper violent scenes. He played them to a T. He seemed very akward in social situations, which was part of his character, and he played that well too. The girl didnt seem worth fighting for, and at the end he left the million dollars lying on the floor as he drove away.
I feel that they could have done a bit more with the movie. Paced it a bit better, changed the music or toned it down some, maybe the girl could have died and he leaves with the boy. It has some very scenes that reminded me of Casino, but the ending felt blah.
It was a good film, very stylistic, and timeless.
Its a solid rent, and a maybe watch in theater this weekend, but next weekend Killer Elite comes out and that looks a bit more action packed if thats your thing.
Movie Review - Contagion 4/10
I watched this movie last night. I wasn't impressed. It didn't have any of the elements of a story that grip you, have that wow factor, or impressive storytelling. It was basically a two hour commercial telling you to wash your hands.
They loaded the cast with Gwen Paltrow, matt damon, morphious, and jude law. But they jumped back and forth between all of them, each telling a mini story of what they are doing while this crisis is happening. And the crisis is, bird flu.
1. People start getting sick.
2. It spreads across the world.
3. Millions die.
4. Scientists find a cure.
5. Cure is distributed.
6. End Movie.
Thats what happened. It might as well have been a pbs special or a scifi budget movie. There were so many parts of the movie that didnt help to drive the movie forward at all and were just there to add filler. Matt Damon's wife cheats on him while she has a layover in Chicago. You find out about it later, he gets upset cause he has to hear about it from the CDC because she is dead.....and...and...ok switch scene.
Lawrence Fishburn tells a friend of his to get out of the city, but a reporter gets wind of it and calls him out on national tv. Washington is going to investigate. No conclusion.
Jude Law makes a lot of money by blogging about different drugs and then investing in them. He gets arrested and then gets out on bail. No conclusion.
Some lady gets taken hostage by the Chinese and they trade her for vaccine. She lives there for a week and starts to like the kids there. Turns out the vaccine they trade her for is a placebo and when she finds out about it she gets upset and runs through an airport. End scene, no conclusion.
Once Matt Damons daughters boyfriend gets a vaccine, they have a mini prom in their living room because everyone at school is dead. I guess prom makes it all better.
A good 20 minutes of the movie, spruced throughout the film, is this electronica music showing scenes of empty streets full of garbage, empty hallways and airports.
At the end, the government lines everyone up at a football statium and distributes the drugs. Then it shows how it all started.
If i read this script as a teacher, i would give it a B, because an 8th grader wrote it. The are human elements in the movie but you could have just left them out and it would have been the same movie. The movie leaves you asking for more, not from the story but from the 4-5 different stories that they follow and never really conclude.
Lousy movie.
Skip it.
Bugsy.
They loaded the cast with Gwen Paltrow, matt damon, morphious, and jude law. But they jumped back and forth between all of them, each telling a mini story of what they are doing while this crisis is happening. And the crisis is, bird flu.
1. People start getting sick.
2. It spreads across the world.
3. Millions die.
4. Scientists find a cure.
5. Cure is distributed.
6. End Movie.
Thats what happened. It might as well have been a pbs special or a scifi budget movie. There were so many parts of the movie that didnt help to drive the movie forward at all and were just there to add filler. Matt Damon's wife cheats on him while she has a layover in Chicago. You find out about it later, he gets upset cause he has to hear about it from the CDC because she is dead.....and...and...ok switch scene.
Lawrence Fishburn tells a friend of his to get out of the city, but a reporter gets wind of it and calls him out on national tv. Washington is going to investigate. No conclusion.
Jude Law makes a lot of money by blogging about different drugs and then investing in them. He gets arrested and then gets out on bail. No conclusion.
Some lady gets taken hostage by the Chinese and they trade her for vaccine. She lives there for a week and starts to like the kids there. Turns out the vaccine they trade her for is a placebo and when she finds out about it she gets upset and runs through an airport. End scene, no conclusion.
Once Matt Damons daughters boyfriend gets a vaccine, they have a mini prom in their living room because everyone at school is dead. I guess prom makes it all better.
A good 20 minutes of the movie, spruced throughout the film, is this electronica music showing scenes of empty streets full of garbage, empty hallways and airports.
At the end, the government lines everyone up at a football statium and distributes the drugs. Then it shows how it all started.
If i read this script as a teacher, i would give it a B, because an 8th grader wrote it. The are human elements in the movie but you could have just left them out and it would have been the same movie. The movie leaves you asking for more, not from the story but from the 4-5 different stories that they follow and never really conclude.
Lousy movie.
Skip it.
Bugsy.
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