I’m kinda continuing from yesterdays post. Firstly, I didn’t go see “Hancock”, it’s not out until the second. So this is what happened. Me and my Girlfriend are standing in the biggest crowd of twelve year olds staring at the boards. “So what do you wanna go and see?” I say, squinting to see the times. There’s the “The Happening” and “Wanted” just as before but then we see something that makes us understand the bedlam around us. “Kung Fu panda” has just came out.
Did we go and see it? Of course we did. Did I enjoy it? Hell yea! It was one of the greatest kids movie I’ve ever seen (and I’m a massive fan of “Toy Story”, “Monsters Inc”, “The Incredibles”, “Madagascar”, “Bee Movie”, and “Shrek” to name but a few.)
Jack Black plays this hopeless panda who becomes the “Dragon Warrior” and has to learn how to fight in order to defeat the evil one. It’s just like any other Kung-Fu movie but this one, this one’s sprayed with awesomeness. It’s hilarious. It really is. It’s great because it manages to carry a very good narrative full of jokes, without becoming boring or, to put it simply, crap.
With an all star cast featuring Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu and Jackie Chan this really isn’t a movie you want to miss. Trust me on that, I’ve been exposed to so much crap lately I should know.
I suppose you could say I’ve been “Experimenting with cinema” as of late. And by that I would mean “I’ve been taking risks and just watching shit I wouldn’t normally watch”.
So the other day, I took risk number one…
Risk Number 1:The Last Mimzy
Oh boy… Where do I even begin with this? Tell you what I’ll sum it up. Two kids from Seattle find a Bunny/Robot thing from the future that gives them psychic powers in order to try and save a the Earth… IN THE FUTURE. Throw in some tibetan lore, a Science teachers dreams, some floating stones, a slug like “Generator” and Alice and Wonderland references and you have, “The Last Mimzy”. It was…. Strange. A slightly surreal experience. Enjoyable? Yea why not. It certainly wasn’t dire but then again it wasn’t anything groundbreaking. I enjoyed it for what it was, an ambitious take on the sci-fi genre for children. Should you watch it? Depends. If your into this kinda thing, then try it, but get ready for some bad acting, shaky narrative’s and a hell of a lot of weird.
Risk Number 2: Superhero Movie
I want to clear something up instantly before I start. We get tickets for free, me and my girlfriend that is, until next march. Therefore, we go to the cinema quite a lot. Already we’ve been to see the quite controversial “Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, the surprisingly quite god “What happens in Vegas” and a repeat of “Superbad”. Bearing in mind we’d seen “The Last Mimzy” the day before, we decided this. We would go to the cinema, and watch whatever was on because we took a risk with “The Last Mimzy” and enjoyed it. So there we were, staring at the listings and we could have went to see “The Happening”, “Wanted” or “Adulthood” but for some reason we didn’t want to. We just went “You know what, I don’t wanna see any of them. Hey! That Superhero thing looks alright!”. Biggest mistake ever. Before the movie even started some chavs decided it would be funny to drop a stinkbomb and run around the room for a bit. They got thrown out, and Goddamn it I wish I had been too. This movie is diabolical. The worst thing is, it’s basically the first “Spiderman” movie re-acted out so it has a very decent narrative running throughout. I can actually sit here and say, if they kept the narrative in and just repeated it I would have enjoyed it more. At some points I was even begging for them to not ruin the scene with some crude jokes or really un-funny actions. There were some good Actors in there. Drake whatshisface from “Drake and Josh” which I hate but hey, he’s a good actor and Leslie Neilson, one of my all time favorite actors since I first saw “The Naked Gun“. As for the rest however, well look on the poster. Pamela Anderson is literally in it for a minute, the wolverine guy is in it for 30 seconds, the Storm character is in it for around 10, the Human Torch is in one scene… that’s around three minutes long and the Professor Xavier character is in bits, so overall has around ten minutes of screen time. Overall, this movie was dire. A literal waste of my time. I enjoyed around 2% of this movies content and even then it was something I’d seen before, or half arsed remarks about popular culture. All in all, It’s just “Scary Movie” with superheroes. And that’s not a good thing. Unless your twelve.
So, today we’ve decided to go back to the cinema and see the preview of “Hancock”. Apparently it’s not too good, but I don’t believe it! I mean come on, Will Smith’s never been in anything bad!
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