2011 Genre Movie Score Card Part I
As I sit here repeating dialog from The Thing and drool over Kurt Russell's manly beard, here's the beginning of my Score Card for movies theatrically released in 2011. Okay, one very late 2010 in there too:
True Grit: Amazingly amazing not even the last unnecessary 5-10 minutes could ruin this excellent film released in the last few days of 2010. So glad I saw this in the theatre. Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon show you how it's done. This was a very intelligent, mean and spaghetti western-like western. The violence was extremely realistic and brutal (as it should be). And some of the minor characters' steal the leads thunder. I would love to see Matt Damon and Josh Brolin do another western. So nice to see Josh redeemed from the mess that was NOT Jonah Hex.
Rango: I hate it when trailers lie. Rango looked perfect; Industrial Light & Magic's first animated movie with a really fun voice cast and it was a spoof on westerns? Sign me up. Okay, a few laughs including the Hunter S. Thompson bit in the beginning but once "Rango" hit the town of Dirt the tone of the film changed. It was too serious, a downer and at least 20-30 minutes too long. I would have preferred to see our lounge lizard wind up in some other genre, Depp's charming chameleon lost his charm about 10 minutes after arriving in Dirt. The western element just didn't work. And boy did I groan when the Spirit of the West was a rip on the Man with No Name (yep it was supposed to be Clint)...bad...bad...bad.
So as of early March 2011 1 win, 1 loss.
Next up, Sucker Punch.
I hope to catch Meek's Cutoff in early April, which I hope will be a frontier version of The Thing with human monsters. The paranoia and suspicion looks really good and it's all mountain man Meek's fault.
Now wait a minute...wait a minute...let's do what Mac says...
Puss in Boots (looks hilarious) but do we really have to - ooops Doctor Copper just got his arms munched... -
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