The wedding party wore converse
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ironymaidenFamily United
Family comedy set during a wedding scheduled against the 2010 World Cup final. Had some fun bits but the concept was way better than the execution.
The Great Museum
I was super-excited to see this peek behind the scenes of the renovation of the big museum complex in Vienna. While I admired the idea of allowing the footage to speak for itself, I was dying for at least the names of the people we were watching. No captions (other than subtitles), no interviews, no narration - no context. I was left struggling to understand who, what, where, how, and why for almost the entire film. At least I've been to the museums. I would have been utterly lost without that. Still, the stuff was really cool. The buildings are remarkable.
Leading Lady
From the team who brought you Fanie Fourie's Lobola, proof that Fanie Fourie's Lobola may have been a fluke. I sat through the whole thing...the romance wasn't earned and the writing was insipid, predictable, and unfunny. Go rent Fanie Fourie's Lobola.
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
Kung fu movie set in 1930s Shanghai, with a heavily desaturated treatment that was just short of black and white. Country boy takes his values and his kung fu to the big city, makes friends and punches people. The good: Yuen Wo Ping fight choreography, and every fight was used to deepen our understanding of a character. The bad: so much jingoism. (Yes, the Japanese really were bad guys at the time. But I was pretty creeped out by the rhetoric considering the ongoing territory disputes in the present.) Recommended if you like punching and are excited to see Sammo Hung. I enjoyed it.
Family comedy set during a wedding scheduled against the 2010 World Cup final. Had some fun bits but the concept was way better than the execution.
The Great Museum
I was super-excited to see this peek behind the scenes of the renovation of the big museum complex in Vienna. While I admired the idea of allowing the footage to speak for itself, I was dying for at least the names of the people we were watching. No captions (other than subtitles), no interviews, no narration - no context. I was left struggling to understand who, what, where, how, and why for almost the entire film. At least I've been to the museums. I would have been utterly lost without that. Still, the stuff was really cool. The buildings are remarkable.
Leading Lady
From the team who brought you Fanie Fourie's Lobola, proof that Fanie Fourie's Lobola may have been a fluke. I sat through the whole thing...the romance wasn't earned and the writing was insipid, predictable, and unfunny. Go rent Fanie Fourie's Lobola.
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
Kung fu movie set in 1930s Shanghai, with a heavily desaturated treatment that was just short of black and white. Country boy takes his values and his kung fu to the big city, makes friends and punches people. The good: Yuen Wo Ping fight choreography, and every fight was used to deepen our understanding of a character. The bad: so much jingoism. (Yes, the Japanese really were bad guys at the time. But I was pretty creeped out by the rhetoric considering the ongoing territory disputes in the present.) Recommended if you like punching and are excited to see Sammo Hung. I enjoyed it.
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