Oh man. I was looking on my blog list the other day and realized it has been almost a month since I have written anything. Even longer since my last Casting Call. Sheesh, I need to get on this. But I do have some good excuses: workload has been increasing and I moved into a new house. Yeah, been busy. So, to get back into the swing of things. So here's a couple of movie reviews to get started.
Wall-E
Runtime: 97 minutes
Rated: G
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Quick Synopsis:
Wall E is a movie about a garbage robot who has been on earth alone for the past 700 years, cleaning up the mess that we, as humans, left behind when we evacuated the planet due to overpopulation. But there's a twist, Wall E has developed a personality and is very lonely. That all changes when a ship lands on Earth and sends out a probe, Eve, who Wall E befriends and follows back to her mothership. What follows is the unlikely story of a simple, crude robot becoming the hero of mankind.
Now I don't know about you guys but I freaking love 90% of what Pixar puts out, the only exception being
A Bug's Life. What I loved about this movie, and what other people have complained about, is the lack of dialogue for the first 30-45 minutes or so. But the reason I loved it is this; Pixar told the story through visuals alone. Watching Wall E work everyday, play with his pet, collect things, and even come home to relax after a long day's work was an awesome thing. Even when Eve gets 'sick'(I'm trying not to spoil it for anyone if they haven't seen it) he still expresses his desire to care for her through his actions.
I think that we, as movie fans, get so wrapped up in the dialogue of the movie and the conversation between the characters, we don't see the actions and nuances of the people. I loved that Pixar wasn't afraid to be a silent film for the first half. Most of the robots don't talk at all, but their actions says more than any amounts of dialogue could.
Now this movie definitely had some political and social commentary in it, if you want to look that deeply into it. I would suggest not doing this and going to see this movie in the mindset of a child. If you haven't seen
Wall E yet, do so immediately. Behind Iron Man, it's my favorite movie of the summer so far.
Now on to my second film review.
Wanted
Runtime: 110 minutes
Rated: R
Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov
Quick Synopsis: Wesley Gibson is the biggest pushover you have ever seen. His boss walks all over him, his best friend is doing his girlfriend in the butt, and his life sucks. This all changes when an assassin tries to kill him and he joins a fraternity of assassins, the same fraternity his father belonged to. This fraternity uses a certain device to read 'Fate' and to decide who is their next target. Now Wesley is out to kill the man that killed his father.
That's basically the story in a nutshell, besides a few twists along the way, which I don't want to reveal here.
Wanted really doesn't know what kind of film it is. Is it a film about a pussy that becomes a bad ass killer? Is it a movie about a young man trying to find his past? Or is it just a straight out action film with lots of bullets and death? Honestly, I don't know either.
James McAvoy is really becoming a good actor, although I really wanted to shoot him through the whole car chase scene(screaming your head off for 10 minutes is NOT acting). After he becomes a bad ass, he really turns it up a notch in that department. Morgan Freeman gives his usual great performance and Angelina, who we all obsess over, really barely did anything the whole film. Her role was the most disappointing by far.
The action scenes were all really well done. The car chase scene, as well as Wesley's first few assassinations were a lot of fun to watch. Too bad
Hitman didn't show this much creativity.
While I enjoyed
Wanted, it honestly wasn't even as good as S
hoot Em' Up, a movie I regard as one of the best action movies in awhile. If you like action movies, go see it and you will probably have a good time. Otherwise, this movie is a coin flip.
P.S. Hope you haven't missed my ladies too much.
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Are you serious?
So after watching Wanted, I really wanted to see Shoot Em Up and I bought it because I don't believe in renting shit.
While it was very entertaining and had great action, I think Wanted topped it in the action department.
I mean it's apple and oranges and we can't really have a valid internet argument over it so...I'll just wait until I see you at PAX.
@Kryp
I think it comes that I really love Clive Owen as an actor and I just felt like the stunts were done better in Shoot Em Up vs. Wanted. Both movies had great action sequences in them, just Shoot Em Up was a little bit better. I mean c'mon. Look at the casts.
Shoot Em Up: Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti(need I say more?) and Monica Belucci vs. James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie.
@Kryp
I think it comes that I really love Clive Owen as an actor and I just felt like the stunts were done better in Shoot Em Up vs. Wanted. Both movies had great action sequences in them, just Shoot Em Up was a little bit better. I mean c'mon. Look at the casts.
Shoot Em Up: Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti(need I say more?) and Monica Belucci vs. James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie.
I think Shoot Em Up was a better action film and Wanted was a better all around movie. I thought both were awesome though.
Still need to see Wall-E!
I thought Wanted was a great movie but don't expect anything more than an action movie. I was pretty disappointed with Angelina Jolie too, she didn't have many lines.
I haven't seen Wall E yet but I plan on going soon. I love pretty much anything Pixar puts out. I'm a sucker for animation :P
I have not seen wall-e yet, but I have seen wanted. I really liked it.. I think its about the same level as shoot em up. The only reason I say that is the scene where he blows a hole threw the guy and then runs threw like 5 more men using the first dead guy as a human shield.(shooting the gun threw his head)
I too liked Shoot Em Up better. Owen and Giamatti in the same movie? What's not to like?
Do want both of them. I loved Shoot em up, so I guess I can't go wrong with Wanted eh?
"I mean, I move my hand half an inch this way to turn it on *click*, half an inch this way to turn it off. *click* How fucking hard is it to use a turn signal?"
I love Shoot em up.
does anyone know how Wanted the movie compares to the comic? i havent gotten to see it yet but the comic was some fun stuff