Renaissance: Paris 2054

I don't normally hate a movie right away.  But this one, which has a tricky animation style gave me a headache.  You don't dream in black and white.  And I do enjoy some classic black and white movies, such as Gaslight, Casablanca, and any Busby Berkeley films.  But this movie is just black and white, no gray accept for the blood.

I get migraines, and this movie caused one.  I wanted to rent this movie because it stars Daniel Craig, the newest 007 from Casino Royal.  This was a poor follow up to the 007 role.  This movie has too many writers that were full of their need to write and not considering their audience.  And the animation is poor even for a CG movie.

This is a bad movie! And I hate getting head aches.

40 Days and 40 Nights

This movie review is dedicated to all Catholics, including myself, who sacrifice something for Lent.  40 Days and 40 Nights was supposed to be a cute movie, at least I thought so, but it was insulting.

The script is not well written and it is full of the standard, "let's put down Catholic" jokes.  If someone made a movie like this with white supremest undertones this would have been squashed.  But since this movie is about a people who are taught to feel guilty and turn the other cheek, it is okay to pick on them.

Okay, this is about a Catholic man who gives up sex for 40 days and 40 nights.  He falls for a woman and she thinks he is gay (another group who should be offended by this movie) because he is not "jumping her" the minute they are alone.

If you want to see this movie do it at your own risk.  It is a bad movie!

Aeon Flux

Okay, I know another DVD review.  But I had to review this action adventure science fiction.  I watched this DVD and was pleasantly surprised by the well thought out story.

Charlize Theron, plays Aeon, a character that was first developed at a cartoon character for MTV.  She is apart of a secret group trying to bring down the government of a post apocalyptic society.  She finds that she is a clone and then blows up the DNA storage facility.

The stunts were thrilling and the CG was not noticeable.  I liked the whistling for the tiny bombs.

This story took me in, I watched with great joy and curiosity. This was a good movie, pick up the DVD today.

Ann of the Thousand Days

Excellent movie!  Oh I mean good.  This movie is a classic made in 1969.  I watched it yesterday on cable.  

This movie stars Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.

The movie is about the spunky Ann Boleyn and how she was sought by King Henry the 8th.  The acting was great to watch.  The costumes drew you in.  The story was the meat to be devoured.  

I liked watching this movie and will do so again. 

I am looking forward to the release of the new movie, staring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, The Other Boleyn Girl.  I will review it here!

Aladdin

This is a personal favorite.  I watched this movie with my daughters for the first time.  I love Jasmine's spunk and Aladdin's survival instincts.  

This Disney movie was made during a time when they had a great composer in  Allen Menken. My husband's and my courting song was "A whole new World."  

The animation was top notch.  The voice acting melded well with the picture.  What else can I say?  

This is and always will be a good movie.

Sweeny Todd

Okay, I walked into a movie theater with high hopes for this movie: Sweeney Todd.  Hey, it had Johnny Depp and was directed by Tim Burton, so it had to be good right?  It was the biggest disappointment to my movie going life.

I watched, when I was a kid, Sweeney Todd, when it was broadcast on PBS.  I also sat in the Performing Arts Center, to see Sweeney Todd, when it came up to Anchorage, Alaska. When the chorus starts in the first act and builds you feel the tension. 

 Then when Angela Lansbury enters the stage, you find humor in dislikable subject matter, which was carried into the stage play that I saw in Alaska.  This did not translate into the film version.

Tim Burton's version of the Cannibalism, Revenge and Sloth that Sweeney Todd represents was done over too much.  He went too far.  He focus on the main character of Todd and not Mrs. Lovett was shocking.  Mrs. Lovett, in the broadway play, was humorous.  You could love the character.  I found I hated the Mrs. Lovett, in Tim Burton's movie.  

I like the actress that played Mrs. Lovett, Helen Bonham Carter.  She is an actress that could take on very dramatic rolls, but she did not play Mrs. Lovett well.

This movie does not deserve any critical awards.  Johnny Depp's performance was stiff.  He was seemly uncomfortable playing the serial killer Sweeney Todd.  Maybe it was that he was singing... his voice is passable so it can't be it.  He did not rise to the challenge of breathing humanity in a serial killer.  Without a good Mrs. Lovett, he could not play straight man to the humor of the female lead.

This movie was a bad movie and a waste of time.