Movie Characters

Most people do not understand one of the most important items in a movie and that is the beloved characters.

I always say that "If I don't want the characters to hang around after the credits, the movie is not worth watching."

If you can't relate to any of the characters in the smallest of ways then you've lost one of the key components in a film. The characters need to breath, have a life all their own, and make you laugh or cry. A film is not just a pastime, it's an attempt at trying to follow in God's creative footsteps, only God can create life, but making a movie character is the closest thing you can get to doing that in this life. When a filmmaker comes up with a character and gives it life he is overcome with joy! And if that is how it feels when you make a fictional character, just imagine what joy God felt when he made humans, but also how much pain he must have felt when we turned on him.

Just as you would walk over to a friend's house to see said friend, to a lesser degree you would turn on the TV to see the characters again! Characters like Spongebob, Doofenshmirtz, and dare I say it Edward from Twilight, are characters people end up loving (some more unhealthily than others) and characters that once on the screen, take on a life of their own! Would you still watch Spongebob without Spongebob? Or would you still watch your favorite movie without the characters?

Joe Moshier, the lead character designer for the movie Bolt said "...The thing about designing is you can create characters that kids want to meet at Disneyland or become friends with in their minds, that's exciting to me."

Although I can't create life like the one and only true God, I can't wait to become a true filmmaker and come as close as I can to breathing life into a new creation!
And with mine, it can only turn on me if I turn on God.

Gnomeo and Juliet

"Oh, Gnomes now?"

Ok, have you ever had to watch a movie and the whole time leading up to it you knew it was going to completely stink? So you know it? Have you ever been wrong about it? Yes? Good! But now let me ask you have you ever been wrong and right about it? No? Well then prepare to watch Gnomeo and Juliet.

There has been tension between two neighboring garden gnomes for years "The Reds" VS "The Blues" but not till now has there ever been a spark of romance between a Red and a Blue (Guess what their names are) but also it's not till now that a full blown war is established between the colors. During this heated battle Gnomeo and Juliet try to keep their colors calm and their love a secret but can the love survive while Shakespeare and a water-spitting frog say it's DOOMED? Well, it's a children's film, so it will.

I was sure that this film was going to do rather poorly, and I believe it did, but I also believe that it would have done better if people (like me) were not so put off by talking Gnomes. The movie did something I did not expect, it didn't sick to a formula. Most movies today, "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Smerfs" ect. make their ideas and money based on a formula. And without a previous movie to copy off the movie would never make it into it's production stage.

But this movie did not take that route, which, in the long run helped it. You could not guess the next scene, which kept you on your feet (and I enjoyed that) The characters were smart, lovable, yet goofy. They also came equiped with puns that only the "upper-aged" would get and laugh at, not to mention the little slap-stick moments for the younger class.

But also to a certain degree the movie had what I expected, a tart taste to everyone over twelve years of age, you know, the moments that make you think that you are too old to be watching this, making this movie somewhat too childish, silly, and trying a little too hard just to make a few cheap laughs here and there. But still it had its moments, and although it is not a movie I would consider purchasing, it's a movie that I can enjoy when my younger brother pulls it out.

Don't judge a book by its cover, read the back too.

Coming soon to a blog near you!

Sorry everyone for the "reviewless week" but I have been busy, very busy. But I am now promising a bounty of reviews for everyone! It will flow like water, an abundant flow that will refuse to be corked!
Yes, I offer this and more to my faithful readers, be on the look out for these movie reviews coming soon!

Movie Review Drought

Sorry everyone again for no reviews, there seems to be nothing to watch (or time to be had) but not to worry, I have something for you all!

This is a trailer for a movie coming out in October I believe. This movie looks amazing, fun, and yet to be done (IT RHYMES!!) I hope to view it soon...uh...when it comes out. Now what makes this trailer so special? It is simple, you see, this trailer had a verbal "no-no" moment which I have graciously taken out for your viewing pleasure, enjoy movie watchers of America!

Goosebumps anyone?

By the way, if anyone would like to know the name of the music played in the trailer, let me know (I was nerdy enough to purchase it)

Many sorries my faithful readers

Due to the fact that today I have seen no new movies, you will be left reviewless for the next few days. Now, don't cry, I know how much this means to you but it cannot be helped! So as you dry your eyes look toward the future, and toward my next review!

Haven't heard of it either eh? Well, I am not surprised, this was a direct to DVD stink burger that got a not-so-shocking 3.1 out of 10 stars on IMDB! I hope to review it and hopefully, survive it.

Also I heard that cameraman suffered seizures through the entire film.

Movie Review: The Green Hornet

I remember the old TV show "The Green Hornet and his masked ward Kato" what a good TV show. And when I heard that they were making a Green Hornet movie, I had goose bumps! I waited a long time for this movie, and if you're looking for the classic Green Hornet kicking butt using his superior intellect.......keep looking.

You heard me, everything I loved and expected from the classic has been removed and replaced.......replaced with content that might just make the movie likable if you just pretended "This guy is not the Green Hornet I know". Yeah Seth Rogan kinda ruined everything about the Lime-colored stinger, but, I have to say he did a rather good job making up for it.

When Britt Reid's father died from a rather ironic bee sting, Britt's already shaky life crumbles to dust. But he finds he's not alone, his father's old mechanic/coffee maker has something in common with him.....he also hated Reid's dad... after a couple of beers and some sharing of frustrating tales they decide to do something crazy, break the law. The only problem is that they timed it wrong, they made it to the crime scene just in time to....save someone. A twist they did not see coming, but one that left them with tingles and in mere seconds they decide to spend a half a million dollars and become super heros known as the Green Bee! Which was later changed to the nicer sounding, Green Hornet.

Reid sheds his suave, sophisticated personality in this film to become a 35 year old 5 year old with a craving for beer and an allergy to the smarts... And Kato changes his undying loyalty to Britt for a deep down "Anti Reid" complex. Confused? Well, so am I. But I am cutting Rogan some slack, he obvioulsy was a fan of the show and this was just a movie he wanted to have fun with.......while giving some die-hard Green Hornet fans a stroke at the same time, but that's besides the point. Although these characters are twisted from the original, these "New Characters" are fun and are very different (in the "Ok" sense of the word) this makes them new hornet creations that make the movie watchable.......its just too bad they're carrying copyrighted names.

This movie has great lines, funny moments (lots o funny moments), hard-core action, and kick-butt cars, its a  movie in fact, that I want to watch again, and maybe even buy. But that is if I get get past the fact that this movie, in no way, has anything to do with the Hornet I know.

P.S. ClearPlay should be your buddy with this film, for some reason Seth placed around 40 S-words in there, just sayin...

X-Men: First Class, a movie completely ruined

It seems as though the pure awesomeness of this action film has been lost thanks to bodies........dead ones and uncovered ones.

Apparently you do need to reveal a lot of cleavage to save the world......the 21st century movie world....
It's very depressing that they would have to add the usage of the the "F" word and the vain use of Christ's name to get people of this time and age to view the film. Not to mention the heavy sexual theme that has mutants getting into bed with other mutants, do you really need this? Really?

What really makes me sad is the fact that Fox is completely oblivious to the fact that they are losing people because of these unneeded additions to the script. But what makes me even more upset is the number of people they are losing.....is a rather small number. People please, you say that you are disgusted at such things yet you go to the film and say you liked it! If you want clean movies you need to hurt the profits of the filmmakers by not going! This doesn't mean you don't see it, with great inventions like the clearplay you can view it, all it takes is a little patience.

You went to see the film for the action.....not shape shifters with an allergie to clothes, and you need to let Fox know that.

For the full review of the movie, please visit Pluggedin.com's review

Next Review

The next review will be on a movie that has been out awhile.......well, for the next few reviews I will be doing them on current DVDs because I have to wait till I can get to the theater again....anywho, the next review will be on "The Green Hornet" this is a rather green year, hasn't it?

Movie Review: I am Number 4

After looking at it's description I was excited, so I decided to place it on my Netflix cue and waited sure enough it was placed in my mail box and the very next day I placed it in my dvd player and watched it. There is only one thing I can say.......it was a movie....

After his leg starts glowing and bleeding during a late night swim with a girlfriend (it ruined the moment worse than yelling "FLEE!") "Four" (the undercover alien) finds out that "Three" has been killed. This meant that he was next, although they never explained why they must be killed in order. If I were the bad guy I would kill them in a random sequence and they would never know I was coming.......but let the writers have their moment....
After the death of Three, Four and his Guardian set out for a different life with new identities in the hope that this villain with an "order complex" doesn't find them. Well, he does.

I guess you could enjoy the movie.....after you drove your truck through the hole in the plot. No one says how they got there, why they needed to be killed in order, why didn't the whole "Number family" stay together if they are "more powerful" as a group and how the shape shifting lizard-beagle got there in the first place! Also, about 95% of the movie was about "Four" trying "fit in" with the crowd in high school and fall in love with a girl, who he (spoiler) leaves in the end! Dude, we aren't watching this movie to see you get together with a girl that you end up leaving with her ex-boyfriend...

The movie was too fast during the scenes you wanted to see and too slow in the scenes you didn't care about. And far too many questions were unanswered.  Not to mention the lame props...

The whole thing looked like a Cartoon Network movie special. With Sci-fi, huge prop guns, bad guys in trench coats and special effects that they had to use with discretion because they were on a budget..."Twilight" meets meets "Skyhigh" meets "Race to Witch Mountain" to put it lightly.

Once again I go back to the most important thing in the movie, the characters. These characters were way too stereotype-ish, The nerd, the football jockey jerk, the high school love interest, and our hero, the misunderstood teen that is having a hard life with his family and is trying just to "fit in". Its been done before....but the glowing hands are new.


Basically, you wont find anything new or special about this movie, its been done before and to death. In the end they made room for a sequel.......but I doubt they'll make it to one.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow's review will be on a movie that just recently came out on DVD, "I am Number 4"

Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda 2

YES! Just before midnight I was able to get a review on!

Just got back from the showing and was planning to go right to bed- but I have just enough soda in me to write a review. When I heard that Kung Fu Panda 2 was not doing as good as its predecessor, I wasn’t surprised, it seemed as though by the trailers that the movie was just a repeat of the last-but after viewing it I realized something. I was dead wrong.

Now how would they make Kung Fu Panda 2 as-nay-better that the last? Easy, by adding the same likable characters and throwing them into unbelievable action scenes- epic will not begin to describe the big-bellied “awesomeness” that was put on the screen before me.

Angered by the fact that his parents rejected him after his slaughtering of an entire race, “Shen” the peacock sets out to find “happiness” and he realizes that the only thing that would make him truly happy is not a family, but an iron-fisted rule of China-and Po with his new friends and skills sets out to stop him from doing such. When an animation company finds a movie that becomes a hit their first idea for a sequel is to stick to the formula-make a repeat of the last- but DreamWorks knew that would not bring the crowds in this time. Having Po the same clumsy, food-loving fool as in the last one would not work. So this time they kept his character and his “likeability” but added an air of confidence and ability letting him still be funny and lovable yet at the same time fierce and a master of what he does.

Another thing that made me like this movie even more was further development of the “Furious Five” who are behind Po 100% and believe he can do it, giving them more personality-and as Po puts it- “awesomeness” but none of them was more developed than Tigress-which tells me that there may be a bigger part for her along with a back-story in the third movie (hint-hint).

To sum it up- the best animated film this year so far (although Rio will still find its way into my DVD collection). With intense fighting, a sense of justice, and a further knowledge and love for the characters, this family movie is not just fun-it’s exciting! I hope to revisit the theater soon to have another taste of this dumpling-“Dragon Warrior sized!”

Its like I’ve been saying all along, it’s the STORY and the CHARACTERS that make the movie, not the visuals or the effects (although they were in there and were also breathtaking)-it takes a good story and characters to make you forget your in the theater and to make the Panda pop right off the screen. Though this may cause a problem if he starts eating your popcorn.

I always hate giving high ratings because it seems as though I am not critical enough, but to not give this movie one would be an injustice. Bravo DreamWorks.