Jan 13
It’s taken me a little while to get going with film reviewing this year for some reason. I don’t really have an explanation for it, but I’m hoping to pick up the pace and hit the gas for more writing in the near future. In that regard, I decided to finally check out The Fast and the Furious. I’ve seen bits and pieces of other films in the series on cable and so on, but I’ve never actually seen the 2001 flick that started it all.
When aliens land on this planet to finally take over, one of the things we’ll have to explain will be the Twilight series. Stephenie Meyer’s curious series of novels about Mormon vampires has been a hit, spawning the requisite film series that has also been a hit. The final book in the series, Breaking Dawn, finds itself divided in two for the final two films in the series.
What can one really say about a movie like Conan the Barbarian, by Crom? This 2011 flick is not a remake of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movies and is, for all intents and purposes, a reworking of the mythology. Robert E. Howard originally created the character of Conan the Barbarian in the 1930s in a series that was published in a magazine called Weird Tales.
Rango is the sort of film that winks and nods toward other films with knowing glee. It is sometimes very good at what it does, but it also drags in large measure and lacks heart and soul. Directed by Gore Verbinski and featuring an august cast of voice actors, this 2011 animated feature was one of the better-reviewed animated features of the year.
Astonishing in its pure unadulterated dreadfulness, Happy Feet Two is one of the worst animated movies I have ever subjected myself to. The sequel to Happy Feet is a complicated muddle of a movie, a film that stuns with a hectic, gaudy, insufferable opening scramble and never lets up for an hour and 40 moronic minutes. This is jaw-droppingly nonsensical stuff.
