22 Jump Street - Better Than 21
I finally watched 22 Jump Street. It is even more enjoyable than 21 Jump Street. Channing and Jonah have great chemistry. They are the soul of the movie. Both characters are very likable, and you just want to see them working together. Even I don't like Jonah Hill as a celebrity, I like seeing his Schmidt pining for Jenko ;p The only problem I have with 22JS is the lazy plot. The baddies are not that impressive, esp. one of them. Anyway, news just in, 22JS earned 5.5M on Thursday night. That's a good beginning. Also I think Ice Cube and Gillian Bell are overrated by the critics. Still Gillian Bell is better than Melissa McCarthy. I never find McCarthy's fat jokes funny.
Now some Jamie Bell movie news. Snowpiercer opened Los Angeles Film Festival a couple days ago. This reviewer shared the same thought as me regarding the last 1/3 of the movie. He wrote:
Don’t kid yourself - the geeks have hailed this political-allegory thriller as some kind of visionary masterwork, but it’s not entirely successful or satisfying. Harvey Weinstein‘s concerns about length and commerciality were not unfounded. It says the right things but says them over and over again. It knocks you out conceptually during the first half (maybe for the first 60% or 65%), but during the last 25% to 30% you’re wishing it would just wrap things up already.
... Like many other Asian directors who are into action wanks and slaughtering for the sake of slaughtering, the gifted Bong Joon-ho is queer for swords, knives, axes and bullets slicing into and/or shattering human bodies. It gets him off, and after a while it becomes a drag to have to sit through a longish high-concept epic by a guy who either can’t control himself or has no interest in trying, especially during the last 25% to 30%. Thumbs up for the concept, A-plus for the first 70 or 80 or 90 minutes, and C-minus for the last 25% or 30%. The nihilistic finale leaves you with absolutely nothing except a shot of a polar bear. Big effing deal - a polar bear is alive and so we all have a chance.
Also there is a rumor that TURN will go to Netflix. Season one didn't do too well on AMC. It has an average of 1.4M viewers (only 0.39M are between the age of 18-49) per episode. But I am not sure if AMC itself sees it as a failure. The network has not had any successful new shows after Walking Dead. Mad Men's rating is down too, and that show will end in 2015. So will AMC give TURN a second chance? I am not interested in the period of American history the show was set in, and I don't like Jamie's hair (I know this sounds ridiculous) on the show. I also don't want to see him returning to TURN. But for continuity, his character can be killed off at the beginning of Season 2 (Well. if there will be a Season 2).
Finally, this post made me laugh. Vanity Fair’s Young Hollywood Class of 2003: Where Are They Now? ERW was one of them. 10 years later, all faded.
Now some Jamie Bell movie news. Snowpiercer opened Los Angeles Film Festival a couple days ago. This reviewer shared the same thought as me regarding the last 1/3 of the movie. He wrote:
Don’t kid yourself - the geeks have hailed this political-allegory thriller as some kind of visionary masterwork, but it’s not entirely successful or satisfying. Harvey Weinstein‘s concerns about length and commerciality were not unfounded. It says the right things but says them over and over again. It knocks you out conceptually during the first half (maybe for the first 60% or 65%), but during the last 25% to 30% you’re wishing it would just wrap things up already.
... Like many other Asian directors who are into action wanks and slaughtering for the sake of slaughtering, the gifted Bong Joon-ho is queer for swords, knives, axes and bullets slicing into and/or shattering human bodies. It gets him off, and after a while it becomes a drag to have to sit through a longish high-concept epic by a guy who either can’t control himself or has no interest in trying, especially during the last 25% to 30%. Thumbs up for the concept, A-plus for the first 70 or 80 or 90 minutes, and C-minus for the last 25% or 30%. The nihilistic finale leaves you with absolutely nothing except a shot of a polar bear. Big effing deal - a polar bear is alive and so we all have a chance.
Also there is a rumor that TURN will go to Netflix. Season one didn't do too well on AMC. It has an average of 1.4M viewers (only 0.39M are between the age of 18-49) per episode. But I am not sure if AMC itself sees it as a failure. The network has not had any successful new shows after Walking Dead. Mad Men's rating is down too, and that show will end in 2015. So will AMC give TURN a second chance? I am not interested in the period of American history the show was set in, and I don't like Jamie's hair (I know this sounds ridiculous) on the show. I also don't want to see him returning to TURN. But for continuity, his character can be killed off at the beginning of Season 2 (Well. if there will be a Season 2).
Finally, this post made me laugh. Vanity Fair’s Young Hollywood Class of 2003: Where Are They Now? ERW was one of them. 10 years later, all faded.