Movie Time! 3 Days-3 Movies-Third One’s The Charm!!
December 21, 2011 by pbenjay
Lots of things come in three’s and this week it was movies. We’ve seen HUGO 3D, WarHorse, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
We went to see HUGO 3D and enjoyed the imagery and of course the “new” 3D technology. Everyone we know who went to see this movie, raved about it so we were prepped to see a Scorsese masterpiece. We didn’t. IF it was meant to be just a children’s film, then I guess you could overlook the fact that Hugo as a character was endowed with such specialness, he might as well have been on Dora The Explorer. He was too unreal for me and perhaps that’s what distracted me from some of the film’s attributes. I alternated between thinking of Hugo as Harry Potter and Hermione when he spent time with Isabella. She was so like Hermione. And then, he would bring to mind the young boy, Trevor in Pay It Forward
The movie was about movies and Scorsese meant to show us just how much he loves movies and making them. Don’t you think it’s odd that this homage to hand-cranked cameras and hand-tinted frames was presented to us in stereoscopic digital 3D?
Next we went to see War Horse. Peter was hesitant about going and I was a little apprehensive because neither of us wants to watch any form of animal cruelty. Of course we know it’s “just a movie and no horses got hurt” but of they did get hurt and killed in the war and so just watching it was probably going to be upsetting.
Again, everyone who had seen the play was raving about how moving it was. Well of course it was moving…it’s easy to get an audience to care and cry about a beautiful horse who overcomes every obstacle and is a character so special, it becomes fantasy and not at all believable . In my opinion, the characters were trite; the drunken Irish farmer, the pragmatic and loyal working-her-fingers-to-the-bone wife, the dutiful son, the evil landlord and his snotty kid – they were all present. The horse was a magnificent animal just like Lassie was a beautiful dog. Honestly, the movie was pretty reminiscent of Lassie Come Home.
No question that the acting was fine, the cinematography was beautiful, the editing, superb. However, the movie itself, was just so predictable. The scene where the British soldier and the German one free the horse from barbed wire was a little over the top. And I mean, really…the horse actually ends up on the battlefield where his former owner is recuperating from an injury incurred during the attack??
Two down and two thumbs down – The Third One’s The Charm!
Martin Scorsese
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Movie Time! 3 Days-3 Movies-Third One’s The Charm!!
December 21, 2011 by pbenjay
Lots of things come in three’s and this week it was movies. We’ve seen HUGO 3D, WarHorse, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
We went to see HUGO 3D and enjoyed the imagery and of course the “new” 3D technology. Everyone we know who went to see this movie, raved about it so we were prepped to see a Scorsese masterpiece. We didn’t. IF it was meant to be just a children’s film, then I guess you could overlook the fact that Hugo as a character was endowed with such specialness, he might as well have been on Dora The Explorer. He was too unreal for me and perhaps that’s what distracted me from some of the film’s attributes. I alternated between thinking of Hugo as Harry Potter and Hermione when he spent time with Isabella. She was so like Hermione. And then, he would bring to mind the young boy, Trevor in Pay It Forward
The movie was about movies and Scorsese meant to show us just how much he loves movies and making them. Don’t you think it’s odd that this homage to hand-cranked cameras and hand-tinted frames was presented to us in stereoscopic digital 3D?
Next we went to see War Horse. Peter was hesitant about going and I was a little apprehensive because neither of us wants to watch any form of animal cruelty. Of course we know it’s “just a movie and no horses got hurt” but of they did get hurt and killed in the war and so just watching it was probably going to be upsetting.
Again, everyone who had seen the play was raving about how moving it was. Well of course it was moving…it’s easy to get an audience to care and cry about a beautiful horse who overcomes every obstacle and is a character so special, it becomes fantasy and not at all believable . In my opinion, the characters were trite; the drunken Irish farmer, the pragmatic and loyal working-her-fingers-to-the-bone wife, the dutiful son, the evil landlord and his snotty kid – they were all present. The horse was a magnificent animal just like Lassie was a beautiful dog. Honestly, the movie was pretty reminiscent of Lassie Come Home.
No question that the acting was fine, the cinematography was beautiful, the editing, superb. However, the movie itself, was just so predictable. The scene where the British soldier and the German one free the horse from barbed wire was a little over the top. And I mean, really…the horse actually ends up on the battlefield where his former owner is recuperating from an injury incurred during the attack??
Two down and two thumbs down – The Third One’s The Charm!
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