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Below are my reviews of "Fair Game", "Rango" and "A Screaming Man". Check it out.
Fair Game (2010)
Sean Penn's an odd sort of actor. I admittedly really enjoyed his performance in Milk, but I still reckon that he was upstaged by Dakota Fanning in "I am Sam". Here he's playing alongside Naomi Watts and she is clearly the better actor of the two, but she's never allowed to be the main character. Sean Penn is playing a politician and Naomi Watts is playing an Intelligence Operative. Her job sounds cooler, her performance is better, but for some reason the focus of the story is on the politician. Why? Well, because in the end this film is all about the politics. Basically, if you thought the politics was heavy-handed in "Green Zone", you ain't seen nothing yet.
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Rango (2011)
Gore Verbinski's previous directorial work was the first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, however he started off in special effects. Perhaps it's not entirely surprising then that he had now chosen to make a computer generated cartoon. The level of detail in the animation is far greater than I had expected from early promotions. (I looked up the website where I originally saw this promotion and unfortunately I can't confirm whether the original promotion had less detailed CGI because youtube has taken that video down.)
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A Screaming Man (2010)
I picked this one solely because of the Rotten Tomatoes score. 88% fresh is a pretty impressive rating. Still, I was confused by the vague synopsis. It's about a pool attendant and that seemed to be pretty much the extent of the information. It didn't sound exactly thrilling and, at the start of the film, I worried that it really would be as dull as that sounds.
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Fair Game (2010)
Sean Penn's an odd sort of actor. I admittedly really enjoyed his performance in Milk, but I still reckon that he was upstaged by Dakota Fanning in "I am Sam". Here he's playing alongside Naomi Watts and she is clearly the better actor of the two, but she's never allowed to be the main character. Sean Penn is playing a politician and Naomi Watts is playing an Intelligence Operative. Her job sounds cooler, her performance is better, but for some reason the focus of the story is on the politician. Why? Well, because in the end this film is all about the politics. Basically, if you thought the politics was heavy-handed in "Green Zone", you ain't seen nothing yet.
( Read more... )
Rango (2011)
Gore Verbinski's previous directorial work was the first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, however he started off in special effects. Perhaps it's not entirely surprising then that he had now chosen to make a computer generated cartoon. The level of detail in the animation is far greater than I had expected from early promotions. (I looked up the website where I originally saw this promotion and unfortunately I can't confirm whether the original promotion had less detailed CGI because youtube has taken that video down.)
( Read more... )
A Screaming Man (2010)
I picked this one solely because of the Rotten Tomatoes score. 88% fresh is a pretty impressive rating. Still, I was confused by the vague synopsis. It's about a pool attendant and that seemed to be pretty much the extent of the information. It didn't sound exactly thrilling and, at the start of the film, I worried that it really would be as dull as that sounds.
( Read more... )
