It's a tale as old as time, it's a song as old as rhyme. Its a movie that celebrates the beautiful people in life its Beauty and the Beast. This movie is for sure one of my favorite Disney movies of all time and for good reason. The plot is fair tale stuff so I won't rehash it for you guys, but I will say I was embarrassed when Belle and the Beast were dancing in the ballroom and my roommate came in as I was tearing up.
The reason why this movie stands out from other Disney is for two main reasons the first is the cast this movie is flawless in the casting choices I am constantly blown away by the chemistry they all have (which is odd because the cast is never on the screen as real people). The second reason is the detail every scene seems to be brimming with life I forgot about when I was a child. And the music is top notch I love all the songs but especially be our great and Gaston (the role I played when it was done in Havasu).
Now that I have briefly covered the magnificence of this film I want to talk about something that makes me think about every time I watch this film. Is this the best version. Because I want all my readers only to know the best of all films. The answer is no the one from the forties is more real o the fairy tale but it is not the same as this film. This movie just has it all, it's one of the top five Disney movies everyone should own along with The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, and Treasure Planet ( I expect hate for this last choice). Go rewatch this movie on Blu-ray and be swept away from it's beauty.
Ebert's score 4 stars
Tyler's score 4 stars
Friday, September 20, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
That's all folks.
As a kid I can remember waking up every Saturday to watch cartoons. Most of the time it was Batman or the Ninja turtles and on occasion it was the kids from Rocket Power that occupied my day. However there was and is one cartoon that is above all others (besides the old Disney shorts) and this was Looney Tunes. Today i was tired from doing homework and decided to watch the shortest of all the movies on this list which is a collection of three cartoons by Chuck Jones. An I have to say I was blown away by the complexity of these cartoons.
The three cartoons are What's opera Doc, Duck Amuck, and One Froggy Evening. Ebert talked about how when he was a kid they used to play these before the movies like the previews of today. And that is honestly the most brilliant idea ever. if you think about it a movie starts ten to fifteen minutes after the start time because all of the previews are two minutes long. These cartoons would take that time in half.
The reason why I think I'm for the idea of shorts being played before a movie is because we just don't appreciate them anymore. Today I won't leave a rating because they were just seven minute cartoons although I will say they were all excellent and worth watching.
The three cartoons are What's opera Doc, Duck Amuck, and One Froggy Evening. Ebert talked about how when he was a kid they used to play these before the movies like the previews of today. And that is honestly the most brilliant idea ever. if you think about it a movie starts ten to fifteen minutes after the start time because all of the previews are two minutes long. These cartoons would take that time in half.
The reason why I think I'm for the idea of shorts being played before a movie is because we just don't appreciate them anymore. Today I won't leave a rating because they were just seven minute cartoons although I will say they were all excellent and worth watching.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Just my rotten luck.
In the world we live in we are subject to the cruelly of life everyday and few movies prove this more than the Italian film The Bicycle Thief. The movie was part of the neorealism movement that happened after world war two, I guess people were sick of fantasy after seeing horrors. The film is about a man who gets a job to provide for his family but all he needs is a bicycle. In the town it looks like unemployment is around 60% but that's just my guess. So his wife sells all her sheets and he gets his bike. But of course someone steals it, and then he goes through the next few days looking for his livelihood. The ending is almost as sad as the great Korean film Oldboy I mean this film is heartbreaking real. Check it out on Netflix.
The film is all about real life so it uses natural light and real buildings. the only fake things in this movie are the actors, which is a feat in itself. There's not much to say about this film because it would spoil so much. I will say it's great, sad, and well acted. My favorite character is Bruno the son of the main character he follows his dad into a depressing journey. The reason why I like small children in movies is because they are so vulnerable and it helps us relate to them better.
I remember watching this for the first time in film class no one hated this movie. In fact everyone was silent and just took it in. Much like I did in my last two reviews. I think that few modern movies have to power to do what this film does because we have strayed from real life. we are concerned with escaping, this movie doesn't let you escape it transports you into another life instead. Check this one out because it is such a powerful film and it just feels real. I dare you to try and hate this movie.
Ebert's score 4 stars
Tyler's score 4 stars
The film is all about real life so it uses natural light and real buildings. the only fake things in this movie are the actors, which is a feat in itself. There's not much to say about this film because it would spoil so much. I will say it's great, sad, and well acted. My favorite character is Bruno the son of the main character he follows his dad into a depressing journey. The reason why I like small children in movies is because they are so vulnerable and it helps us relate to them better.
I remember watching this for the first time in film class no one hated this movie. In fact everyone was silent and just took it in. Much like I did in my last two reviews. I think that few modern movies have to power to do what this film does because we have strayed from real life. we are concerned with escaping, this movie doesn't let you escape it transports you into another life instead. Check this one out because it is such a powerful film and it just feels real. I dare you to try and hate this movie.
Ebert's score 4 stars
Tyler's score 4 stars
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
For relaxing times, make it Suntory time
Let's set a scene a man is in Tokyo he's a washed up actor doing a commercial for some whiskey. Now enter a woman who is younger than the man by twenty years her husband is a photographer and she came along. The man and woman met and spend about two hours talking and getting to know each other, its the first stage of every relationship basically. This in a nutshell is Sofia Coppola's masterpiece Lost in Translation. Now the plot is very basic, but the movie isn't. This may be the first movie on this list that doesn't flow like it should. In fact many of you reading this if and when you watch the movie will say I don't get it the second after it's done.
The sets are on location and make everyone feel small even Bill Murray the tallest man in Japan. This is very important because this movie is about how small the world is and how lonely it can be. The acting is so good I was blown away I was pressed to the screen waiting to see what was going to be portrayed next. Scarlett Johansson is top notch she is sad, detached, and alone yet when Bill comes into play she is a totally different person who is totally the same. Bill Murray was robbed of an Oscar for this role. His face is blank but not emotionless this whole film feels like he is on hold if that makes sense.
The reason why I said most of you wont get this movie isn't because your stupid its because this movie isn't structured like a movie. It doesn't have much of a plot and it doesn't have a climax or anything else you learned about in creative writing. This movie is more of a movie about feeling. Yesterday I talked about Francis Coppola's great war epic Apocalypse Now and how it made me feel for the characters. This movie is similar but Sofia doesn't follow in her fathers footsteps she just films the characters feel stuff. If you stalked two people who started to hang out because they were lonely and just watched them you would have this movie. The writing isn't important because its about how they feel. I strongly suggest you watch this one its easy to swallow and I want someone to explain it to me.
Ebert's score 4 stars
Tyler's score 4 stars
The sets are on location and make everyone feel small even Bill Murray the tallest man in Japan. This is very important because this movie is about how small the world is and how lonely it can be. The acting is so good I was blown away I was pressed to the screen waiting to see what was going to be portrayed next. Scarlett Johansson is top notch she is sad, detached, and alone yet when Bill comes into play she is a totally different person who is totally the same. Bill Murray was robbed of an Oscar for this role. His face is blank but not emotionless this whole film feels like he is on hold if that makes sense.
The reason why I said most of you wont get this movie isn't because your stupid its because this movie isn't structured like a movie. It doesn't have much of a plot and it doesn't have a climax or anything else you learned about in creative writing. This movie is more of a movie about feeling. Yesterday I talked about Francis Coppola's great war epic Apocalypse Now and how it made me feel for the characters. This movie is similar but Sofia doesn't follow in her fathers footsteps she just films the characters feel stuff. If you stalked two people who started to hang out because they were lonely and just watched them you would have this movie. The writing isn't important because its about how they feel. I strongly suggest you watch this one its easy to swallow and I want someone to explain it to me.
Ebert's score 4 stars
Tyler's score 4 stars
Monday, September 16, 2013
I love the smell of napalm in the morning
Apocalypse Now is one of the best movies I have ever seen and one of the most horrifying. The movie does many things that are absurd and we shall discuss it fully. The movie is about a soldier named Capt. Benjamin ( Martian Sheen) who has recently returned to Vietnam because he couldn't stand being out of the jungle. the Captain must voyage on a river boat in the middle of the war to kill the insane Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). But that's just the plot I truly think the movie is about the insanity war brings to people and how it changes your perception. I've never seen combat and hopefully will never have to, Nor have I had the heart to ask my Grandfather a helicopter gunner how it was. I just hope it wasn't like this movie although I know it probably was to some. God Bless those in service or the veterans.
This movie doesn't have any ending credits which itself is mind boggling, but it makes for a great close. After the climax I sat on my couch in total disbelief because I wasn't given the normal movie close. It forced me to think about the film more. Also this film isn't like most war films were its small battles and then a huge war its kind to the flip of that. The most spectacular scene is when Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall) blows up an enemy camp in helicopters and he blasts Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries to scare the charlies and to pump up his boys. Oh and all the animals are real if you've seen this film you know about the ending and that wasn't a fake animal.
This movie has a lot of other things that are odd. All the actors that are stoned in the movie are stoned in real life. The Director Francis Coppola (Godfather) lost 100 pounds filmed for six months and then edited for three years. It's nasty and a sight to behold.
The reason why this movie is the best Vietnam film is because you get to watch every character go insane and get changed in every scene I don't want to give to much away but one man puts on his war paint to turn invisible and sprays purple smoke on the boat in enemy territory. Why? because he has seen to much horror which is what this movie is all about. War is hell and so is the effect this movie leaves with you. If you haven't seen it go on Netflix and watch it tonight and prepare to experience a true film. Then tell me what you thought I'm curious
Ebert's score 4 stars
Tyler's score 4 stars
This movie doesn't have any ending credits which itself is mind boggling, but it makes for a great close. After the climax I sat on my couch in total disbelief because I wasn't given the normal movie close. It forced me to think about the film more. Also this film isn't like most war films were its small battles and then a huge war its kind to the flip of that. The most spectacular scene is when Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall) blows up an enemy camp in helicopters and he blasts Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries to scare the charlies and to pump up his boys. Oh and all the animals are real if you've seen this film you know about the ending and that wasn't a fake animal.
This movie has a lot of other things that are odd. All the actors that are stoned in the movie are stoned in real life. The Director Francis Coppola (Godfather) lost 100 pounds filmed for six months and then edited for three years. It's nasty and a sight to behold.
The reason why this movie is the best Vietnam film is because you get to watch every character go insane and get changed in every scene I don't want to give to much away but one man puts on his war paint to turn invisible and sprays purple smoke on the boat in enemy territory. Why? because he has seen to much horror which is what this movie is all about. War is hell and so is the effect this movie leaves with you. If you haven't seen it go on Netflix and watch it tonight and prepare to experience a true film. Then tell me what you thought I'm curious
Ebert's score 4 stars
Tyler's score 4 stars
Sunday, September 15, 2013
I hate snakes
Raiders of the lost arc is a wonderful start to a wonderful adventure trilogy. Yes lets get this out of the way I live in a world where my trilogy set came with this cool coaster but I don't remember there being a movie called Kingdom of the crystal Skull so I guess it was a typo. Indiana Jones is one of the most famous film characters ever and is number 2 on the American Film Institutes top heroes list. This movie is so cool and just so down right adventurous that every time a theme song plays I'm off to find artifacts.
Lets take this time to deconstruct Indiana shall we? He's a teacher in the sense the joker is a clown. Indy has students who what to be with him he gets payed time off to hunt for treasure and shoot people. Oh yeah he caries around a freaken bull whip. That's way to cool for the average teacher. Anyway he basically goes one this long quest to find the Arc of the Covenant. This movie's opening scene alone is so famous its been spoofed in at least one hundred ways (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvy2tRH7HNE). This film is as fun as they come.
This movie was a blast and everything in it was top notch to Indy's sarcastic wit to all the cool fights. And most importantly my favorite part (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I_Ds2ytz4o) Boom classic cinema this is one of the movies I say watch with the whole family and trivia it was one of the first PG-13 movies along with Grimlins.
Ebert's score 4 stars
Tyler's score 4 stars
Lets take this time to deconstruct Indiana shall we? He's a teacher in the sense the joker is a clown. Indy has students who what to be with him he gets payed time off to hunt for treasure and shoot people. Oh yeah he caries around a freaken bull whip. That's way to cool for the average teacher. Anyway he basically goes one this long quest to find the Arc of the Covenant. This movie's opening scene alone is so famous its been spoofed in at least one hundred ways (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvy2tRH7HNE). This film is as fun as they come.
This movie was a blast and everything in it was top notch to Indy's sarcastic wit to all the cool fights. And most importantly my favorite part (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I_Ds2ytz4o) Boom classic cinema this is one of the movies I say watch with the whole family and trivia it was one of the first PG-13 movies along with Grimlins.
Ebert's score 4 stars
Tyler's score 4 stars
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Magic does not exist
Pan's Labyrinth is one of those movies that you can see a hundred times and still find beauty in it. The movie is a dark fairy tale, kind of an Alice in Wonderland for adults if you will. We follow a young girl whose mother has married a Spanish commander. This young girl is something to behold for she is also a princess she is daughter of the king of the underworld. The story follows this girl trying to become a princess in a fantasy world while her sadistic father-in-law makes war.
The movie is wonderful to look at and is like few movies we have seen since. The cgi is present and very noticeable but it works because it's a fairy tale. Faun is my favorite character his costume is amazing and no he is not Pan as many people think. In fact you will be hard pressed to find anyone named Pan in this movie.
I honestly can't say much about this movie because it leaves me with a mix of emotions. All i can leave you with is the remark to go and absorb yourself in this movie for it is beautiful in every way.
Ebert's score 4 stars
Tyler's score 4 stars
The movie is wonderful to look at and is like few movies we have seen since. The cgi is present and very noticeable but it works because it's a fairy tale. Faun is my favorite character his costume is amazing and no he is not Pan as many people think. In fact you will be hard pressed to find anyone named Pan in this movie.
I honestly can't say much about this movie because it leaves me with a mix of emotions. All i can leave you with is the remark to go and absorb yourself in this movie for it is beautiful in every way.
Ebert's score 4 stars
Tyler's score 4 stars
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