3rd Block
So I am sitting here in J2 and all the sudden I have editors screaming at me about how I need to rewrite my article... ok I exaggerated.
Well, tell me what YOU think:
Take the Grimm Brother’s folktales like the Little Red Cap, Hansel and Gretel, Little Snow White and Rapunzel; add Matt Damon and Heath Ledger and director Terry Gilliam and you get the makings of a possibly great movie, however it wasn’t. In this fantasy adventure two brothers, Wilhelm Grimm (Matt Damon) and Jacob Grimm (Heath Ledger), travel around Europe banishing banshees and destroying false demons. Their bluff is called, however, when they are forced by Napoleons French government to investigate a haunted forest where girls have been disappearing mysteriously. “While the movie had adequate star power, the stars lacked substance and tended to over act. Gilliam, known for his vision and colors, over stylized the sets making them look cartoonish. The pacing was slow and the movie highly predictable. Overall, I’d been better off taking the $6.50 I spent and putting it toward the next Ricky Martin C.D. to hit the shelves,” says Greg Reid, the Visual Communications teacher at A.T.C. Watching this movie I eventually got the feeling the plot was going in circles and that it wouldn’t end. The Brothers Grimm moves at the pace of a four year old solving a Rubik’s cube. The love interest (Lena Headey) doesn’t ever click (and she tries to click with both fellows). It’s not funny. Brothers Grimm scrapes the bottom of the barrel for laughs so hard its fingers bleed. Here are some of the highlights: toupee gags and watching the gingerbread man taunt his pursuers. It’s just not scary. Gilliam uses such tried and true techniques as making crows fly across the screen to freak people out. He tries to grab us with weird camera angles and high-pitched scores and scares in the distance. For all of the creativity he has shown in the past, there isn’t really one memorable piece of horrific imagery here, not one time where it doesn’t seem like Gilliam is making horror movies with paint by numbers. It’s not cinematic, either. The enchanted forest looks like it was stuck together on three sets with cardboard. The only redeeming value in The Brothers Grimm is that it manages to be just fun enough to make you not lose your mind. As it is, it’s an hour and a half of my life that I didn’t really enjoy, can’t have back, yet I don’t have any particular distaste for it. It’s just cheap and ineffective, slightly entertaining but not nearly enough to be worth the time. Go see it!
Well, tell me what YOU think:
Take the Grimm Brother’s folktales like the Little Red Cap, Hansel and Gretel, Little Snow White and Rapunzel; add Matt Damon and Heath Ledger and director Terry Gilliam and you get the makings of a possibly great movie, however it wasn’t. In this fantasy adventure two brothers, Wilhelm Grimm (Matt Damon) and Jacob Grimm (Heath Ledger), travel around Europe banishing banshees and destroying false demons. Their bluff is called, however, when they are forced by Napoleons French government to investigate a haunted forest where girls have been disappearing mysteriously. “While the movie had adequate star power, the stars lacked substance and tended to over act. Gilliam, known for his vision and colors, over stylized the sets making them look cartoonish. The pacing was slow and the movie highly predictable. Overall, I’d been better off taking the $6.50 I spent and putting it toward the next Ricky Martin C.D. to hit the shelves,” says Greg Reid, the Visual Communications teacher at A.T.C. Watching this movie I eventually got the feeling the plot was going in circles and that it wouldn’t end. The Brothers Grimm moves at the pace of a four year old solving a Rubik’s cube. The love interest (Lena Headey) doesn’t ever click (and she tries to click with both fellows). It’s not funny. Brothers Grimm scrapes the bottom of the barrel for laughs so hard its fingers bleed. Here are some of the highlights: toupee gags and watching the gingerbread man taunt his pursuers. It’s just not scary. Gilliam uses such tried and true techniques as making crows fly across the screen to freak people out. He tries to grab us with weird camera angles and high-pitched scores and scares in the distance. For all of the creativity he has shown in the past, there isn’t really one memorable piece of horrific imagery here, not one time where it doesn’t seem like Gilliam is making horror movies with paint by numbers. It’s not cinematic, either. The enchanted forest looks like it was stuck together on three sets with cardboard. The only redeeming value in The Brothers Grimm is that it manages to be just fun enough to make you not lose your mind. As it is, it’s an hour and a half of my life that I didn’t really enjoy, can’t have back, yet I don’t have any particular distaste for it. It’s just cheap and ineffective, slightly entertaining but not nearly enough to be worth the time. Go see it!