Haha, I thought about doing it that way, but if I did from Snow White to Tangled, then there was no way I could get through them all in time to watch Tangled in the theater. At least Tangled took place in the middle of this order, rather than the end.
Well, I don’t find Snow White boring, but it’s not my fave…I still respect it for being the very first animated film, and it’s definitely cute (and at times, scary), but I like others better…that’s just me.
Yeah, I guess there are pretty close-minded people out there. It’s either the ones who turn down anything new/different or the ones who turn down anything classic.
Ah, well, it’s nice to see that someone understands. I can’t tell you how many times I see people whining about how Disney lost it just because they did something besides a fairy tale or loose book adaptation.
Leirin: Yeah, it’s pretty cool. Though once in a while we broke the timeline order, because, well, it’s harder than it sounds! Like, I didn’t realize until too late that The Jungle Book wasn’t as ancient as I thought and there was a time when Bolt came up on Disney Channel and we still haven’t gotten to modern times. Or wanting to see Toy Story 3 so bad. Or remembering Cinderella a little too post-medieval. But for the most part we’re sticking to it. It’s interesting to watch them (almost) in order.
(BTW, does anyone know when The Fox and the Hound and The Rescuers take place? Thanks!)
Not sure about The Fox and the Hound (like K9Girl said, I lean towards the 1950s or maybe a bit earlier), but The Rescuers has always felt like the 1970s to me when it was released, by the look of the city they fly through.
It’s an interesting mess of a movie. It has thrilling action sequences, stylish visuals, good acting, nice scenery, and an entertaining fish-out-of-water subplot, but they don’t completely mesh together as a whole. By the end of the film, I was wondering just why everyone was trying to kill each other as the very little exposition at the beginning felt unsatisfying.
I watched Hanna today with my brother. The plot was kind of hard to follow. It all felt like a game of cat and mouse. But it was intense and thrilling. Some of the scenes really had me surprised and scared.
If anyone is curious whether Sucker Punch is a knockout… well, all I can say is that it’s more of a “Full nelson” than a “Haymaker”. You can read my rather pretentious review HERE.
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I recently watched the Tropa de Elite police drama films in a marathon screening at my friend’s place yesterday (we started after midnight and finished in the morning).
Tropa de Elite (The Elite Squad) - 8/10
A riveting look at the corrupt law enforcement in Rio, Brazil (possibly dramatized, with a few truths in between) through the fictionalised POV of a retiring commander looking for his replacement from two of his most promising candidates. It is an unflinching examination of BOPE, Rio’s SWAT-like paramilitary unit that resorts to unconventional and some may say “excessive force” means to combat the drug-dealers in the favelas. Some of the scenes are really intense, you see BOPE officers torture lookouts or snitches to get the information they need, or the victims who get on the bad side of the dealers perish in pretty gruesome fashions. One of the most memorable scenes is when they play a morbid game of “musical chairs” with corpses, whereby officers in charge of one district dump the slain bodies of victims in another district to pass the job to other cops. There is also a great love story, a tale of brotherhood and unconditional loyalty, and a “revenge plot” somewhere around the beginning of the third act.
Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora é Outro (Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within) - 7.5/10
While the first dealed with drug dealers and the police, the sequel goes for grander themes of the government and the political system. After a botched prison riot incident, the commander’s successor is demoted to patrol duty, while the commander himself gets a promotion instead of the retirement he was looking forward to. The ruling Governor enlists a band of corrupt cops to act as a local militia to flush the drug dealers out. But in the act of removing the old criminals, they have replaced them with crooked cops who now run a protection racket. A liberal opposition candidate investigates the conspiracy with a journalist, ending in pretty dire consequences. The story here is more complex, and it is difficult to keep track of the characters, coupled with the fact there were less action sequences. While I do enjoy “brain candy” dramas, I found this less “gut-level” arousing than the first film. Though, I did enjoy the strategy BOPE used during one of their operations (basically, it’s a classic [spoil]Trojan Horse[/spoil]). But overall, it felt like a convoluted and a “harder-to-understand-the-first-time-around” story than the first one. And while there was semi-justice resolution at the end of the first, the sequel ended with a more fatalistic tone.
Solomon: A: Well, this was a million times better than Jeremiah. It was three hours long, but I love long movies. I can’t really summarize the entire thing, but I would recommend it to a friend.
The Incredibles: Wow, I hadn’t seen this is almost a year. I missed it so much…it’s still everything it was in 2004. I remember when I watched it every day; oh, the memories. Anyway, I suppose I needn’t score it. You all know how I feel.
I watched the animated film Wonder Woman last night. It was absolutely amazing! I was actually quite pleasantly surprised. It makes me look forward to the David E. Kelley TV show premiering next year!
I’ll watch The Incredibles again tonight. This might sound stupid, but I feel like I’m rehooked on this movie. I’m so happy.
Today, I watched Beauty and the Beast, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and some of Ray with Glenn. I would review them, but I’ve seen them all dozens of times before. I love them all.
Tron: B: I really liked this movie, despite the distancing I felt from the characters. Can’t wait to rent the sequel.
Exactly. I had trouble caring for the characters, but the 80s graphics were very distracting, even enough for me to forget and love Flynn and the characters.
I’m excited for Fast Five. I like those kinds of movies and I’m a fan of Vin Diesel and The Rock.
Just bought and watched American Graffiti, I give it a 9/10. It’s very, very good at what it is, there’s no real plot, it’s more of a “look back at the era”.
The “plot” is four high school guys on their last night together before going their seperate ways to college and whatnot, and they get into all sorts of little problems and adventures, quite funny. Has a very young Harrison Ford, too.
I never heard of it until a couple of months ago… so underrated. I’m happy I’ve got it on DVD, though. Very nice film and puts a smile on your face until the bittersweet ending.
It’s funny you say it’s underrated, because it’s one of the most famous and highly-rated movies of all time! I saw it for the first time last month; I loved it, too!
Fun fact… most of it was filmed in a neighboring town from where I live. My neighbor actually drives on the road where the end drag race took place to school every day! And Mel’s Diner is one of my favorite places to grab something to eat in San Francisco.
I can’t tell you how many times I see people whining about how Disney lost it just because they did something besides a fairy tale or loose book adaptation.
Isn’t it only, like, 70 minutes long (as far as I remember)?