Sunday, December 9, 2018
First Man down
OK,
FIRST MAN, the story of Neil Armstrong and his first steps on the moon is, how do I put it? A goddamn bore. Unless you like seemingly endless
close-ups of the actor playing an unresponsive Armstrong. More than once I thought the video had paused for no reason. It reminded me of, dare
I say it? BARRY LYNDON.
You can forget about establishing shots. Action is seen through Amstrong's eyes. The take-off from Earth, the moon landing and the ascent from
the surface.
I can hardly believe the man who’s directed LA LA LAND directed this snoozer.
Saturday, June 2, 2018
What's on TV?
From the folks who brought you ID4 and ID4.2 is GEOSTORM. All I expected was great CGI and that is what I got. The story is lame and the
dialogue is absurd.
ID4.3 is in preproduction despite the fact ID4.2 was a costly flop. And a bore.
Which brings me to: SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, which is underperforming at the box office. At a final cost of between 250 and 300 millions dollars it must gross at least half a billion to even come close to breaking even. Ron Howard took over direction after the amateur clowns originally hired got the axe after trying to make a comedy. The joke was on them. I have not seen SOLO. I expect I never will.
I managed about 20 minutes of HBO's FAHRENHEIT 451. Some black guy who is supposedly well known played Guy Montag. Guy does his work broadcast on TV with American watching everything he does. He has a flame thrower that delivers a flame with the narrow accuracy of a Remington 700. He's a boxer who delights in pummeling newly discovered book readers. “That that, four eyes!” He hates ebooks. As far as I watched, no books were torched, but computers burned to cheering crowds, most who watched the burning images projected on the glass sides of high rise office buildings. There was no sign of Clarisse. I fled this disaster as Guy and his macho man captain were telling a bunch of schoolkids the Bible was the one OK book they could read. As far as I watched, the Hound was missing. The show was enough of a dog.
Finally, I arrived at THE CIRCLE. Minor role for Tom Hanks, who must have not read the script. The little chick who was in the Harry Potter films starred and I am somewhat under impressed by her presence and acting ability (reshoots were required to make her more appealing to the audience). The story is; Big Brother has arrived, but it is OK, because MS/Apple (whatever) is Big Brother. Bill Paxton's final film. He plays Glenne Headly's husband. She died shortly after the film's release. They both left us far too young.
How could I forget? THE GHOST IN THE SHELL. It had the great looking Scarlett Johansson as a robot. Lots of robots in this mess. Yeah, something about robots in a future Japan. I am not clear of what it was about. I only watched because of Ms Johansson.
Which brings me to: SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, which is underperforming at the box office. At a final cost of between 250 and 300 millions dollars it must gross at least half a billion to even come close to breaking even. Ron Howard took over direction after the amateur clowns originally hired got the axe after trying to make a comedy. The joke was on them. I have not seen SOLO. I expect I never will.
I managed about 20 minutes of HBO's FAHRENHEIT 451. Some black guy who is supposedly well known played Guy Montag. Guy does his work broadcast on TV with American watching everything he does. He has a flame thrower that delivers a flame with the narrow accuracy of a Remington 700. He's a boxer who delights in pummeling newly discovered book readers. “That that, four eyes!” He hates ebooks. As far as I watched, no books were torched, but computers burned to cheering crowds, most who watched the burning images projected on the glass sides of high rise office buildings. There was no sign of Clarisse. I fled this disaster as Guy and his macho man captain were telling a bunch of schoolkids the Bible was the one OK book they could read. As far as I watched, the Hound was missing. The show was enough of a dog.
Finally, I arrived at THE CIRCLE. Minor role for Tom Hanks, who must have not read the script. The little chick who was in the Harry Potter films starred and I am somewhat under impressed by her presence and acting ability (reshoots were required to make her more appealing to the audience). The story is; Big Brother has arrived, but it is OK, because MS/Apple (whatever) is Big Brother. Bill Paxton's final film. He plays Glenne Headly's husband. She died shortly after the film's release. They both left us far too young.
How could I forget? THE GHOST IN THE SHELL. It had the great looking Scarlett Johansson as a robot. Lots of robots in this mess. Yeah, something about robots in a future Japan. I am not clear of what it was about. I only watched because of Ms Johansson.
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