movies

[ratpie]

fast n furious7 great movie i loved the ending on the beach.

chappy was ok.

project almanac super cheese i like some low buget time machine movies.

run all night = taken 4

wild card i like the movie except for the rich kid felt like ha was narrating.

50 shades just wrong.

seventh son decent action flick.

watching the lazarus effect and get hard today.

[kaufenpreis]

This Is It- of course =)
Good Burger- its so funny lol
Mean Girls
Edward Scissorhands
Interview with the Vampire
New Moon

[kaufenpreis]

I also enjoyed Tomorrowland quite a bit. This shriveled, blackened and cynical heart actually grew a bit for having watched the movie. I did find the messaging to be a little confusing and some of the plot to be...questionable. But, all in all, I enjoyed the film and glad I watched it with the girls.

As for the ham-handedness...well, I won't say it wasn't. But, it's interesting that this criticism is leveled at movies with a positive message. However, dystopian, apocalyptic movies don't get labeled as such, though their messaging isn't any less obvious or blunt. This fits, I think, with the messaging that TLR pointed out in his review.

A positive, affirming message is often dismissed as cornball or ham-handed. But, cynical messaging is often treated as hard-headed realism.

This movie is basically Disney does YA. It's got the protagonist who is most "special". It's got the dystopian society that only she can save. But, thank goodness, it doesn't have the romance that she just "has to" have. The actual love story in this movie would have been awkward at its denouement, if it wasn't for the great acting performance in which it was delivered.

That's about when my heart grew a couple of sizes.