wanted and wall-e reviews/recaps
June 30, 2008, 2:33 am
reviews and recaps in 10 words or fewer.
wanted
recap: jolie crushes mcevoy. bullets curve. mcevoy becomes badass, crushes everyone.
review: gratuitously violent, but surprisingly funny. less dialogue, please.
4 stars.
questions for those who saw the movie: why are all assassins the same height? who would have thought mcevoy had a HOT BODY? a young edward norton? a mystical loom, really? who casted common as an assassin? why must there always be a nude angelina shot? (disclosure: i have not seen a mighty heart. too soon?)
wall-e
recap: battlestar meets brave new world meets terminator, but for kids.
review: lovely love story. way too many fat people.
4 stars.
questions: why does eve remind me of japanese anime? did anyone else think “cast away?” why is that peter gabriel song so damn catchy?
i will probably get pilloried for giving these two movies the same star ratings (out of five), but after being visually and aurally assaulted during wanted, it was hard to focus on wall-e’s slower pace. maybe i’d think differently if i saw the robot movie first, but that’s how the cookie crumbles.
if you’re wondering, i did a two-for-one double feature tonight–and, no, i didn’t find anyone to see wanted with me. i went alone. everyone else’s loss.
i feel compelled to write about battlestar galactica’s midseason finale, if only to try to proportionally represent my interest in this show within the total content of this blog. i unfortunately don’t write about it much b/c 1) i don’t want to spoil anyone who is behind 2) i don’t think too many of you watch it, and there are too many who never will, no matter how much i promote it.
