Girls With Comics

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-sylvester-stallone-blames-batman.html

I’ll just copy and paste some key notes;

“”It was the first ‘Batman‘ movie,” Stallone told the Times, in reference to the 1989 movie adaptation starring Michael Keaton as the Caped Crusader. He went on to say, “The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on,” a clear dig at how the trim Keaton was encased in a sculpted Batsuit for the film. Stallone joked, “I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself… “I didn’t have to go to the gym for all those years.””

Translation: Man I wish I had tried out for the role of Batman. I’m pretty jealous because the comic book genre did survive, while my over the top action flicks couldn’t.

“”It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.””

Rambo, which he made merely a few years ago, was amazing and relied on little effects other than Stallone killing an entire Asian area singe-handedly. Don’t believe me? Go see it.

Stallone is a guest at this year’s comic con, by the way.

What gets me is that he brought his action star status on himself. Maybe if he wasn’t doing so many Rocky or Rambo movies, maybe he could have survived. Is the action movie dead? No. However ALL movies are more or less digitally enhanced now. There was no avoiding that, and maybe you shouldn’t complain about at all and be thankful that you have a movie coming out in a few weeks. The times, they are a changing. And you’re either on board or left in the past.

Oh and Judge Dredd was fucking terrible.

-Lauren

As we all know, Christopher Nolan is possibly one of the best, if not best, directors in Hollywood. Seriously, anyone who can make a comic book hero one of the highest grossing movies of all time because it was *fucking insanely awesome* is clearly worthy of the ‘Best Director In Hollywood’ crown.

I saw Inception. I was apprehensive at first since I was worried it would remind me of Dark Knight, but I was wrong. Essentially this movie is about a man who enters the dream world in order to get information the dreamer has stored away in the depths of the mind. Leonardo DiCaprio plays our hero (for better or for worse) who is helping Ken Watanabe bring down a rival company, so he can have a monopoly over his industry. The unsuspecting rival, played by Cillian Murphy was done beautifully. His minor back story has more of an emotional punch to it than DiCaprio’s. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who plays as a sort of side-kick to DiCaprio, is the least explored characters, yet in my opinion the most interesting. I feel he should have been given more care as he is a great actor, but was used poorly. Ellen Page was there and frankly she could have been any other pretty face. She was a very lack luster character who was clearly a pivotal one.

The acting in the movie is very tight, as is the script. On your first viewing you will be hard pressed to find plot holes. The movie is smart, but don’t let that dazzle you. If you do, you will miss the underplayed humor through the movie. You’ll find yourself more involved with the rest of the cast than DiCaprio, but I doubt you’ll mind. This movie is amazing. Nolan has proven to us once again that he knows what he is doing, and we all thank him for that.

-Lauren

This summer has been chock full of explosive or popular movies from established movie franchises; Iron Man 2, Eclipse, Toy Story 3, ect. The other movies due out this summer are not sequels or third installments. Inception, Robin Hood, and A-Team are just a few examples. While two of these are most likely going to do well or have a sequel respectively, the A-Team has a lot to prove. Based on the horribly awesome 80’s show where no one bleeds or dies, this movie–even before it’s release–was set up for failure simply because it is an A-Team movie. It’s a shame too, because what the fuck were you expecting? Much like how everyone hated Transformers 2, this movie got a pretty bad rap for being unbelievable. That’s all fine and dandy, but if we’re going on realism, why is Toy Story so popular, ditto for Iron Man. You have to give some wiggle room for this movie, otherwise you’ll wind up jaded and alone. It’s true.

First things first. How can anyone not like a movie with Liam Neeson? He is the most bad ass guy on the planet. He killed about 80% of Europe to get his daughter back. He has a bad ass voice. When he says he’s going to kill you, he means it. We all know it so don’t lie to yourselves. So, Neeson plays Hannibal, the A-Team’s leader. And you better believe he is the best guy for the job. When Neeson is in charge, or playing in charge, you will survive and then laugh about it later.

Sharlto Copley, the guy from District 9, plays Murdock. I’m not sure if he was supposed to have an American accent or a South African one, but who cares. Murdock is weird/insane and he plays him perfectly. Oh and he’s hot. Bradley Cooper was great as Face, and Quinton Jackson did an exceptional B.A. You really have to like the main characters, even if you are some prick who’s all “IT ISN’T MR. T THEREFORE IT SUCKS.” Shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down. Jessica Biel and Patrick Wilson round-up the sexiest cast in an action movie, and are pretty decent in their roles. Hell they could have been mumbling the whole time, but who cares! They’re pretty. And there are explosions to help you forget just how not great of actors they are!

The action in this movie is balls to the wall insane. Lots of explosions, fireworks, fire, and people bleed and they die! It’s amazing. The plot is riddled with holes, but is still more solid than Iron Man 2. It had one direction to go in, and it went there. It captures the spirit of the show, and that’s all I was really looking for. This movie is amazingly awesome and fun to watch. You do not need to think during this film, and since today was around 100 degrees outside, my brain checked out a long time ago. So go and enjoy, and don’t bitch about it! We all know if you’re reading this blog, you (much like myself) enjoy shit blowing up.

-Lauren