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Rango and Suckerpunch
Mar. 27th, 2011 09:05 pmLong gone are the days of structured reviews that examine aspects of the films objectively; brace yourself for stream-of-consciousness rambling. There are no spoilers behind the cuts (the reviews would probably be better with them...) but I can't make any guarantees about the comments.
RANGO
I saw this opening weekend but put off making a post about it until I could find a way to sum it up ... Turns out I never did find a better way than what I did about half an hour after seeing it. And that is: It's as if the writers of Animaniacs got together with a group of animation students and made a film, with a big budget and no filters. Seriously, there were so many times, while watching this, that I could see the page of notes from the executive producers: 'You can't do that in a kids' movie!' 'No one will get that reference!' 'WTF?' 'You can't show that!' 'What is the point of [X]?' 'No, seriously, WTF??' And then I saw the director looking at the notes, and after a well-timed comedic pause, tossing them over his shoulder into the bin.
( Rambling... )
Hmm ... maybe another way of describing it is 'Sort of like Pirates, but a Western, with animals and a plot.' Both of those descriptions can live together in peace.
SUCKER PUNCH
I'm going to be frank here: Roughly 90% of why I went to see this movie is because of this image:*
OMG KICK-ASS GIRLS AND A GIANT ROBOT FIGHTING WWI SOLDIERS WITH AIRSHIPS AND TRIPLANES YES PUMP IT STRAIGHT INTO MY BRAIN NOW PLEASE
I only saw the trailer last week, long after I'd committed to see it; I looked the movie up on Rotten Tomatoes about half an hour before leaving for the theatre and saw it had a 20% Fresh rating – oh well, if it was a stinker, at least it would be a stinker with kick-ass girls, a giant robot, airships, and triplanes in WWI. It would at least be attractively bad!
I left the theatre convinced of my duty as a blogger to inform whoever will read: Rotten Tomatoes and the critical establishment be damned! I really liked this movie, and I don't care who knows it.
( It's more than just ... all those things I listed. )
*Actually it's the one-sheet poster version of this image; despite it being all over LA I can't find it online.
RANGO
I saw this opening weekend but put off making a post about it until I could find a way to sum it up ... Turns out I never did find a better way than what I did about half an hour after seeing it. And that is: It's as if the writers of Animaniacs got together with a group of animation students and made a film, with a big budget and no filters. Seriously, there were so many times, while watching this, that I could see the page of notes from the executive producers: 'You can't do that in a kids' movie!' 'No one will get that reference!' 'WTF?' 'You can't show that!' 'What is the point of [X]?' 'No, seriously, WTF??' And then I saw the director looking at the notes, and after a well-timed comedic pause, tossing them over his shoulder into the bin.
( Rambling... )
Hmm ... maybe another way of describing it is 'Sort of like Pirates, but a Western, with animals and a plot.' Both of those descriptions can live together in peace.
SUCKER PUNCH
I'm going to be frank here: Roughly 90% of why I went to see this movie is because of this image:*
OMG KICK-ASS GIRLS AND A GIANT ROBOT FIGHTING WWI SOLDIERS WITH AIRSHIPS AND TRIPLANES YES PUMP IT STRAIGHT INTO MY BRAIN NOW PLEASE
I only saw the trailer last week, long after I'd committed to see it; I looked the movie up on Rotten Tomatoes about half an hour before leaving for the theatre and saw it had a 20% Fresh rating – oh well, if it was a stinker, at least it would be a stinker with kick-ass girls, a giant robot, airships, and triplanes in WWI. It would at least be attractively bad!
I left the theatre convinced of my duty as a blogger to inform whoever will read: Rotten Tomatoes and the critical establishment be damned! I really liked this movie, and I don't care who knows it.
( It's more than just ... all those things I listed. )
*Actually it's the one-sheet poster version of this image; despite it being all over LA I can't find it online.
