Well hello world, Im sure you have been having as much fun as me helping fight the flood in Fargo and surrounding areas. Now that the river is receding its time to get back to work and back to reviewing movies and how their action is affecting lives everywhere. Last time we had talked about The Watchmen. Its been a couple of weeks and its now time to talk about the newer action films. This week, on the list, is Knowing. The movie stars Nicolas Cage, which is one of my favorite action stars. We have already discussed how the celebrities can affect how well the movie sells. I must say Mr. Cage had a huge deal with me going to see this movie.
On the other hand, the show, if you saw any previews was a Doomsday scenario. The man finds a list of numbers that was buried in the 1950's and after 50 years he decodes the numbers to find out the list gives the exact date, location, and how many people die in a huge disaster, whether they are plain crashes or earthquakes. Its an action thriller that puts you on the edge of your seat, with some NEW sorts of action, full in-depth view of plane crashes, that made my jaw drop. While he is trying to save/divert these disasters he finds out the girl who made the list has somehow passed this gift on to his own son (the discoverer of the letter). Following him through these disasters while trying to figure out how they know these dates are nail-biting to say the least.
This movie is based off the Nostradamus and Mayans who predict the world ending, "knowing" the future and the major disasters. I am very weary when December 21st of 2012 of what will happen. This movie was sort of a remake to this extent, never mentioning Nostradamus and the Mayans or their stuff, but the scenario of it. They show what happens when a huge city finds out by word of mouth about a widespread world ending, riots, stealing, chaos in its true form.
This movie is new and different for the so called "sci-fi" action it leans towards, and the action scenes are just amazing. The action is raw, fast, and End of the World. This makes a good action film now days based on what we've previously talked about. The newer genre's of action are coming into play, and to define this, i would have to say one word. Raw, showing every detail of a disaster and how things are instead of sugarcoating things so people can stomach them.
So to sum it up, the movies are getting less censored, and we the people Love it. I will recommend the move Knowing to anyone. So now that we've seen a little bit of sci-fi and lets start looking at whats coming up. Fast and Furious is coming out this Friday, and I have already bought my ticket from movietickets.com Lets see where the newest car racing action is headed.
Until next week, Rent a movie, and grab some popcorn.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Points of View
So lately we have been talking about heroes and villains. How most people like to see heroic movies and never like to see villains win, and how lately the villains have been winning in movies, and they are still best sellers, and that maybe we are changing as a society. I was having a discussion with a fellow movie buff that brought up something that i thought should be brought up. This would be the point of view, The point of view of the person watching of the superhero, villain, determines, who the superheros and villains are. I had never really had a full dosage of this kind movie. Yet, The watchmen, which i was there an hour and half before hand, sold out three theatres two days before it opened for a midnight showing, showed me point of view like ive never seen it before.
So lets get into what the point of view is, its defined as a mental position from which things are viewed, and this basically says that you should look at things from how others would see them. Everyone has their own point of view, the hard thing to do is, open up, and notice the other views, and realize they are there, they are possibility.
"SPOILER"
Now how does it work into The Watchmen, Action Films, etc. An example, in the watchmen, One of the "superheroes' has gone bad and is trying to nuke New York City, Everyone is trying to stop him because he is going to kill 3 million or however many live in New York. Well, This man succeeds in destroying New York, but in doing this, he prevents the imminent nuclear war between USA and Russia by blaming the Nuclear attack on the superhero who has radioactive power.
Now the thing is, I see him as a villain, he killed millions, he destroyed a city, he is a villain. My movie buff friend states he is the true superhero of the movie because he saved the world from nuclear war between USA and Russia. I dont believe killing millions to save billions counts as a superhero. Or is classified as one, He is still the villain in my eyes, but there is where we got into an argument about the point of view, and it really depends on the person watching it. The Watchmen is perfect for this, because every single character superhero/villain is either point of view chosen either side, they are only on one side because that person has Chosen to put them there.
Point of View is amazing and I cant believe I haven't noticed it had a huge impact on our decisions on how good or bad a movie is.
So lets Review The Watchmen,
Overall, Great movie, Im not going to throw it up to the amazing section though. It did have amazing costumes, good fight scenes, and graphics. Although, as a guy, and it being rated R, I think they overused Dr. Manhatten's Big Blue Penis a little bit, they could have covered it for at least 1/4 of the show. I mean it is comic book show for kids, they will eventually see it. They did have a sex scene that lasted a little longer than expected, once again, this is probably going to be seen by kids at one time. Other than that, It was a Great Adult film, but I dont believe it was worth Pre-ordering my tickets through movie.tickets.com or the hype of selling out three theatres that Thursday night at midnight. I Will however recommend this movie to anyone over the age of 14 or mature enough to see a penis on screen for 2 hours.
So lets get into what the point of view is, its defined as a mental position from which things are viewed, and this basically says that you should look at things from how others would see them. Everyone has their own point of view, the hard thing to do is, open up, and notice the other views, and realize they are there, they are possibility.
"SPOILER"
Now how does it work into The Watchmen, Action Films, etc. An example, in the watchmen, One of the "superheroes' has gone bad and is trying to nuke New York City, Everyone is trying to stop him because he is going to kill 3 million or however many live in New York. Well, This man succeeds in destroying New York, but in doing this, he prevents the imminent nuclear war between USA and Russia by blaming the Nuclear attack on the superhero who has radioactive power.
Now the thing is, I see him as a villain, he killed millions, he destroyed a city, he is a villain. My movie buff friend states he is the true superhero of the movie because he saved the world from nuclear war between USA and Russia. I dont believe killing millions to save billions counts as a superhero. Or is classified as one, He is still the villain in my eyes, but there is where we got into an argument about the point of view, and it really depends on the person watching it. The Watchmen is perfect for this, because every single character superhero/villain is either point of view chosen either side, they are only on one side because that person has Chosen to put them there.
Point of View is amazing and I cant believe I haven't noticed it had a huge impact on our decisions on how good or bad a movie is.
So lets Review The Watchmen,
Overall, Great movie, Im not going to throw it up to the amazing section though. It did have amazing costumes, good fight scenes, and graphics. Although, as a guy, and it being rated R, I think they overused Dr. Manhatten's Big Blue Penis a little bit, they could have covered it for at least 1/4 of the show. I mean it is comic book show for kids, they will eventually see it. They did have a sex scene that lasted a little longer than expected, once again, this is probably going to be seen by kids at one time. Other than that, It was a Great Adult film, but I dont believe it was worth Pre-ordering my tickets through movie.tickets.com or the hype of selling out three theatres that Thursday night at midnight. I Will however recommend this movie to anyone over the age of 14 or mature enough to see a penis on screen for 2 hours.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Heroes to Villains
So now that we have discussed a little bit about heroes and some more about villains. Lets talk about the HUGE blockbuster coming out this weekend. I must confess, my media dependency has taken control over me, and i have pre-ordered my ticket so I can watch this movie on the "ultra screen". I am driving an hour and going to sit in line JUST for this movie! What is this movie you might ask?
The Watchmen, based off of a comic book the movie dives in the superheros and villains. I ha vent read the comic at all and have no background on the movie whatsoever, yet I am excited. This is another new genre that is coming to the screens that we do not see much of. If you have seen some of the commercials it is about the superheros being casted out - hated- by the normal human race. One of the lines from the movie is, The world will look up and shout "Save us!" And I'll whisper "No." This is a superhero flick where the superheros are faced with the decision to stay the hero or fall into what society wants and become a villain. The world is about to end and its all who will save the world, if the world casted out those who can save it?
There are movies like this where the hero has to decide but in these, there is someone to stop them, what is going to happen, when all the heroes have gone bad, and there is nobody to save them. This hasn't been done to my recollection, a near example was a animated flick recently let out called The Incredibles, even in this movie, the superheroes, still remained "good natured" when they were cast out.
Most people do not enjoy sad ending movies, nor movies where the villain wins, I mean, Did the majority enjoy it when Hitler was on top? With the expansion of Valkyrie and now this, I am starting to see this trend change. I may be completely wrong about this movie, what i know about it is complete hype and a little background Ive looked into. Is the Desensitization theory that we're learning about in media class really starting to work. Do we enjoy seeing others fail, become corrupt, the signs are pointing to a yes. This is vastly different from the generation that didn't like to see a toilet on TV, Have we passed that teetering scale of good vs bad, Hero and Villain, Which do we like to see happen more. The next couple of months may decide these things.
Needless to say, if you haven't noticed it yet, I am Excited for The Watchmen. I will update next week and discuss the heroes and villains in the flick. Maybe they never fall into the villain side ...
Goodbye Blogger
The Watchmen, based off of a comic book the movie dives in the superheros and villains. I ha vent read the comic at all and have no background on the movie whatsoever, yet I am excited. This is another new genre that is coming to the screens that we do not see much of. If you have seen some of the commercials it is about the superheros being casted out - hated- by the normal human race. One of the lines from the movie is, The world will look up and shout "Save us!" And I'll whisper "No." This is a superhero flick where the superheros are faced with the decision to stay the hero or fall into what society wants and become a villain. The world is about to end and its all who will save the world, if the world casted out those who can save it?
There are movies like this where the hero has to decide but in these, there is someone to stop them, what is going to happen, when all the heroes have gone bad, and there is nobody to save them. This hasn't been done to my recollection, a near example was a animated flick recently let out called The Incredibles, even in this movie, the superheroes, still remained "good natured" when they were cast out.
Most people do not enjoy sad ending movies, nor movies where the villain wins, I mean, Did the majority enjoy it when Hitler was on top? With the expansion of Valkyrie and now this, I am starting to see this trend change. I may be completely wrong about this movie, what i know about it is complete hype and a little background Ive looked into. Is the Desensitization theory that we're learning about in media class really starting to work. Do we enjoy seeing others fail, become corrupt, the signs are pointing to a yes. This is vastly different from the generation that didn't like to see a toilet on TV, Have we passed that teetering scale of good vs bad, Hero and Villain, Which do we like to see happen more. The next couple of months may decide these things.
Needless to say, if you haven't noticed it yet, I am Excited for The Watchmen. I will update next week and discuss the heroes and villains in the flick. Maybe they never fall into the villain side ...
Goodbye Blogger
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