Reviews: The Book of Eli, The Lovely Bones
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I struggle with which journal to put movie reviews in. Sometimes they end up here and sometimes they end up in my personal one (especially if I use a lot of curse words to describe the film in question). I think it depends on how artsy-fartsy I get in my interpretation of why I liked or disliked the film, but even that isn't consistent. In ( Read more... )
I struggle with which journal to put movie reviews in. Sometimes they end up here and sometimes they end up in my personal one (especially if I use a lot of curse words to describe the film in question). I think it depends on how artsy-fartsy I get in my interpretation of why I liked or disliked the film, but even that isn't consistent. In ( Read more... )
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I liked Bones because the state of the narrator was unusual to me. It was an easy read, but it didn't leave me reflecting on it much when I was done. In my head I couldn't imagine how to make a movie without voice over on every inch of film.
Let me also go on record saying that if they ever try to make 'The Glass Castle' into a movie I will get in touch with my anger in a very real way. I read that book waiting for the big horrible scarring event to happen to her and by the end felt the author was just a big whiner. I can likely rattle off the names of ten people without thinking who have been through worse. IMO you can't bill your book as a story of against-the-odds-survival in this day and age and illustrate a childhood most kids could have cake-walked through.
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A movie could have been made out of the book. I don't know if one should have been, not because it's impossible, but because I didn't think the book warranted a movie. It might have been mildly progressive for a mainstream book in terms of the age of the narrator, but lots of other books have utilized this device. The movie could have been done without any voiceover and I think it would have told the same story. Maybe even better...bringing it up to the level of merely bad.
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I felt it was basically The Road but with more violence. I thought the fight scenes were decent but in the end I just found it kind of boring. Denzel and Gary Oldman were the reasons I wanted to see it. Fortunately I got to go to a sneak preview and didn't have to pay.
As the movie progresses and once you learn that he's blind I thought back and they did drop hints...he notices things by an elevated sense of smell (the first band of marauders) and then his interactions with Jennifer Beals who is also blind.
Oh well.
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Bogus.
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i really want to see what hit the editing floor, because i felt as if they decided to go a certain spiritual/protectorate / god protects his children route with it... but didnt commit to it all the way...
i hated the ended with the chick going from scared rabbit to baddass without even the hint of "the voice withing calling her"....
and i hated the daredevil aspect of the film...
Vince McMahon is always talking about the suspension of disbelief...and once i realized he was blind.. my disbelief was suspended..and i couldnt enjoy it any longer....
they should of Went all in with the mystical god protects angle....or made him a super soldier who learned braille.... oh.... and no way does a 1st gen ipod work for 50+ years... im calling shenanigan on that as well....
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