Michael Douglas stars as wealthy financier Nicholas Van Orton, given the ultimate birthday gift: a real-life mystery game starring him. How far does the game go, or is it a game at all?
I kept trying to predict the ending, and kept getting it wrong. But still I'm not sure I'm happy with how it turned out.
The Game
1997, 129 minutes, directed by David Fincher
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
X-Men: First Class
Why? The plot is disjointed and contrived. I would have so much preferred more effort put into the third film of the original trilogy to make it not suck so much than spend any money on this at all.
Wait, is this supposed to be a reboot? I can't tell. That's a large part of the problem. Set in the 1960s, this film shows events long before those of the trilogy, in a way compatible with (hello Hugh Jackman) the Wolverine origin film. Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) is a former Nazi scientist bent on world destruction to reform it for the mutant race. Erik Lehnsherr totally agrees with all of that except Shaw happened to have killed his mother, so Erik teams up with Charles Xavier and his new mutant understudies to take on Shaw and the simultaneous American and Soviet navies. If they'd made it clear this was a reboot, I might have taken it differently.
X-Men: First Class
2011, 132 minutes, directed by Matthew Vaughn
Wait, is this supposed to be a reboot? I can't tell. That's a large part of the problem. Set in the 1960s, this film shows events long before those of the trilogy, in a way compatible with (hello Hugh Jackman) the Wolverine origin film. Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) is a former Nazi scientist bent on world destruction to reform it for the mutant race. Erik Lehnsherr totally agrees with all of that except Shaw happened to have killed his mother, so Erik teams up with Charles Xavier and his new mutant understudies to take on Shaw and the simultaneous American and Soviet navies. If they'd made it clear this was a reboot, I might have taken it differently.
X-Men: First Class
2011, 132 minutes, directed by Matthew Vaughn
Thursday, May 17, 2012
11:14
I have a soft spot for congruence-of-events filmmaking. Sure they basically took the climax of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and turned it into a full-length feature, but seeing basically the same story over and over again, each time from a different view, each time learning a little more, just works for me. No complaints.
11:14
2005, 86 minutes, directed by Greg Marcks
11:14
2005, 86 minutes, directed by Greg Marcks
Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Avengers
First thoughts: There are a lot of ingredients in this pot.
Second thoughts: I was wondering when the not-so-super heroes would be relegated to civilian duty while the fly-through-the-air jumping-on-buildings super heroes would save the day. Oh, yes, here it is. Well at least they kept it as part of the action, as an important part of the mission.
Ending thoughts: I don't think this film - aka Iron Man III and friends - was the best film I've seen this year. Oh well. It's made enough money that there will be another film.
Final thoughts: Stay until the end of the credits for a bonus scene.
The Avengers
2012, 143 minutes, directed by Joss Whedon
Second thoughts: I was wondering when the not-so-super heroes would be relegated to civilian duty while the fly-through-the-air jumping-on-buildings super heroes would save the day. Oh, yes, here it is. Well at least they kept it as part of the action, as an important part of the mission.
Ending thoughts: I don't think this film - aka Iron Man III and friends - was the best film I've seen this year. Oh well. It's made enough money that there will be another film.
Final thoughts: Stay until the end of the credits for a bonus scene.
The Avengers
2012, 143 minutes, directed by Joss Whedon
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