TAKEN 2
Just in case you thought there weren’t enough movies that were exactly the same as Taken, here’s Taken 2, which is exactly the same as Taken 1. If you think it’s slightly ridiculous that the same person would have family members kidnapped multiple times, clearly you have never worked in a movie studio, because if there’s one thing studio mavens know, it’s that if something ain’t broke, you don’t fix it. We paid to see Taken, ergo we’ll pay to see it again in a different city with less Liam and more annoying, too-young-for-her-age daughter (hooray). Though it may seem sophisticated that Liam and his fist of death have to face up to the consequences of their actions in the last film (slaughtering a bunch of dudes) the fact that he goes up against the same guys as before means that they (and the writers) are too dumb to take the hint that they cannot win against him. One Taken was enough for me.
FRANKENWEENIE
Like so many of Tim Burton’s animated movies, Frankenweenie looks vaguely disturbing despite being aimed at children. It’s just something about the way the characters look and move – the dark shadows under their dead staring eyes, the pinched flesh, the rotten wood look of Sparky’s tail… it’s so different from other Halloween-ish movies, like Hotel Transylvania, which came out this week, or the ever popular Hocus Pocus. I like to be creeped out by movies – I go to horror movies looking for that unsettled feeling – so I’ll definitely be checking Frankenweenie out. It also helps that it looks really funny – the kitty cracks me up and so does young Igor – Igor is one of my favorite comedic characters ever.
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
This movie is based on one of those skinny emo boy novels. My friend has been trying to get me to read it forever, but the whiny adolescent “waaaa I’m so different why doesn’t anyone appreciate that I am u-neek” thing has never really appealed to me, at least not on it’s own. To some extent all teen characters are like that, but at least some of them, like Katniss Everdeen or Harry Potter, at least DO stuff while they’re whining. The Perks of Being a Wallflower just looks like another one of those “nothing” coming of age plots where the character just goes to school, gets bullied, and ends up with a girlfriend, but the “passive aggressive” joke made me laugh, so I might check it out someday on DVD when I get bored.
BUTTER
Oh yes, I remember seeing this trailer ages ago and thinking it was funny. Apparently it dropped off the edge of the Earth for a while as it toured all the festivals and is finally getting released now. Carving butter is weird. Not so weird that I doubt anyone out there actually does it, but I do wonder how they keep their sculptures from turning into greasy melted puddles under all those lights. Do they mix the butter with pasticine or something? Anyway, that’s not the point. The point is that this movie looks funny. It cracks me up to see Jennifer Garner acting like a butter contest is the presidential election, and I love that “I get pregnant like once a month” line. It reminds me of Idiocracy. I will see this movie, but probably not until I get around to subscribing to Netflix.
SAMSARA
This movie describes itself as a “nonverbal, guided meditation” (read: load of New Age bullsh**), so if you’re looking to put yourself to sleep and you’ve got no one to flash back issues of National Geographic at you while you listen to Yanni on your iPod, watch this film. You might want to wait until it comes to DVD, though. I don’t think the theater will look kindly on you spending the night in your seat.
Also, if you’re in Sydney on Thursday, October 4 at 7pm you can catch the Cape Breton Film Series showing of Compliance, a disturbing drama about a fast food manager who violates an employee on the orders of someone pretending to be a police officer. You can see the trailer review here.
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