New director Shane Black (taking over from Jon Favreau) did this flick good. While the bad guys remain a very cartoonish, comic-book threat, the film feels and plays more like a realistic action film with some (light) thriller elements. Plus a few more-funny-than-cute bits with a kid.
This should come out on a “recut & extended edition” DVD so you can watch it as shorts. I’m sure it’s waaaay better reformatted that way.
I remember people calling Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet a modern take on the classic story for the “MTV Generation.”
With Moulin Rouge he MTV-ed the hell out of it. Visual overload. Cool reworkings of classic songs. It’s fresh and unique, but it probably won’t be remembered as a ‘classic.’
Robert Rodriquez, in this case co-director along with comic book legend Frank Miller, has a special relationship with sequels. He’s never been afraid to continue or revisit stories and characters, and with his successful Spy Kids movies, the El Mariachi “trilogy”, and weird B-movie spoof series Machete, he’s also been able to take film franchises in diverse directions. In this case, however, he’s joined forces with Frank Miller again to adapt more of his Sin City graphic novel “yarns” – shortfilm-sized neo-noir mini-flicks that all have a location (the fictional Basin City) in common.
Read more at Running Wolf’s Rant.
I went to Arcade Empire on Friday. I made a video.
Line-up:
Janie Bay
Coelacanth
Albert Frost
Francois van Coke
Okay, okay. Prometheus is a mess of plot problems, holes, and unlikely characters. But the action, monsters, thrills and spectacles are brilliant.
So I guess it’s a case of: Can you suspend your disbelief enough?
2005’s Sin City will unfortunately probably be remembered most for being a “greenscreen film”, the film that made Robert Rodriquez quit the DGA, or “that black-and-white-with-splashes-of-colour movie”.
It should be praised for a stylish, exhilarating and revolutionarily faithful graphic novel adaptation. Also, the flick that brought Frank Miller back to Hollywood. Now let’s see if they can strike gold twice.
The Coen Brothers’ skill and diversity is incredibly impressive. I can’t believe how brilliant and varied their films are. Pretty consistently too. This one is a slow burner, but it burns pretty well in the end.
This sequel is not am improvement on the original. However, it has enough meat on its bones and a cute story that works both for kids and adults. Even imagining that a sequel to Despicable Me might be great is probably ridiculous, but this film succeeds in being fun and entertaining. It’s a successful standalone that won’t win any awards, but might win a few preadolescent hearts.
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