The box offices are packed with the usual summer action blockbusters, but for those who aren’t looking to see something blow up every ten seconds, there’s Epic (out on May 24), a family-friendly animated fantasy tale. The movie, which certainly does promise to be “epic,” is a story of a young girl (voiced by Amanda Seyfried) who is transported to different land where a battle between good and evil is taking place. With voices by Beyonce, Josh Hutcherson, and Colin Farrell, and an exciting storyline, Epic could be the first great animated flick of the year. But let’s see what the critics thought!

‘Epic’ Reviews

New York Times

As you watch its characters zoom through a lush forest on the backs of hummingbirds, the gorgeous 3-D adventure comedy Epic suggests a warmer, fuzzier Avatar, with a green heart. Directed by Chris Wedge, the movie is a hymn to nature rendered in phantasmagoric detail as refined as anything I’ve seen in a computer-animated family film. But as beautiful as it is, Epic is fatally lacking in visceral momentum and dramatic edge.

New York

At times, Epic seems to be trying to mimic Avatar, both in its action sequences and its attempts to tap into a we’re-all-connected-through-the-forest mysticism. There’s even a kind of Tree of Souls/Tree of Voices type place, where memories are stored. But the connection feels more generic than heartfelt, the need to scale everything up more dutiful than ambitious. (Whatever you may think of Avatar, it at least had a mad conviction that justified its awesome size and reach.) There is one genuinely delightful sequence, when the miniaturized M.K. and her companions find themselves trapped in her dad’s laboratory: Her beloved dog suddenly becomes a lumbering, terrifying monster, and the little people’s interactions with common household phenomena like lint and static cling produce fun results. But the charm of these scenes reminds us of the wasted opportunity the rest of the film represents. For all its attempts at wonder and spectacle and play, Epic is mostly a slog.

Los Angeles Times

When the movie should touch the heart, it just misses. When moments should produce gales of laughter, it struggles for a smile. When panic and fear should set the heart racing, it doesn’t. And when, in the midst of all the talking and fighting to save the forest, a caterpillar in a satin jacket breaks out in a bluesy song, you may wonder if Steven Tyler, yes that Steven Tyler, has jumped and jived into the wrong movie. The title itself only underscores the dissonance. Epic suggests bravado and swag when something along the lines of A Nice Little Adventure for Wee Ones would probably have been more on the mark.

New York Post

I had the sensation of sitting through a fourth-grade school play that contained no children of my own: the very definition of a nightmare.

New York Daily News

If you have a little one fascinated by the struggle between dung and mulch, “Epic” may briefly hold your child’s interest. Yet even young would-be botanists will find this charmless animated adventure as exciting as watching grass grow.

Oh, boy. Queen Bey will NOT be pleased with the critics. If we’re taking their words for it, maybe we should stick to the action movies on Memorial Day Weekend. But what do you think, HollywoodLifers? Is Epic worth seeing? Let us know!

WATCH: ‘Epic’ Trailer

– Andrew Gruttadaro

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5. 100$ Bills, Jay Z.: Jay Z was heavily involved in the production of the film in a variety of ways, so it’s no shock that he contributes a track of his own. 100$ Bills is a strong hip-hop track with a strong beat and lines from the film woven in with the lyrics. There’s even the somewhat haunting sounds of a children’s choir singing in the background. If you like the rhymes of Sean Carter, you’ll definitely enjoy this track.

Masturbation as portrayed in films- in GIF form!  

Joe Ross has just created a “process” that stands to make his company millions of dollars. At a clandestine meeting in the Caribbean, Ross discusses the details of the process with company executives. There he meets the enigmatic Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), and the two strike up an unusual friendship. Dell informs Ross that he’s naïve to believe that his company will fairly compensate him for his valuable work. Upon returning home, Ross becomes paranoid that Dell is right, and takes steps to protect his invention unsure of whom he can trust.

However.  While I had never read the books, my dad had them, so they were in my house.  And in my typical, over-organized fashion, where else would I store LOTR bookmarks…but in copies of LOTR?  So in the course of reading the books (those same copies that were sitting there all along) I’ve also unearthed the bookmarks.

I somehow don’t have the set from Fellowship, but I do have Two Towers and Return of the King…

The bookmarks are two-sided, and I’ve kept them in the same order so you can see which characters were paired.  Some make sense…others don’t.

My one regret here…no Faramir bookmark.  He gets more screentime in the Extended Edition and…I just love him (this scene!)  Ah well…aside from that, I’ve quite enjoyed rediscovering a collection I all but forgot I had.

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LEVERAGE wrapped up its final season as Timothy Hutton and his crew continue bringing justice to those beyond the reach of the law by employing classic scams and cons against them. The finalé reveals why Hutton shifted his team to Portland and what happens to the team after everything wraps up. This was a fun series, and I’ll miss it. “Justice or order—one day you’re going to have to make a choice.”
ELEMENTARY gives us a second present-day Sherlock Holmes series; where the BBC version present Holmes at his coldest and most calculating, Johnny Lee Hooker’s Sherlock is a drug addict on a self-destructive spiral since the death of his beloved Irene Adler. Enter Joan Watson (Lucy Liu), an ex-surgeon turned “sober companion” for recovering addicts (by the end of the series, she’s graduated to apprentice detective). Further from Doyle than the BBC version, but very entertaining in its own right. “Over the course of my career, I’ve plotted at least seven murders that took place in crowded restaurants.”
BIG BANG THEORY‘s latest season doesn’t change much (despite Leonard and Penny now being a definite couple)—they’ve got a formula set and they follow it faithfully. Whether the humor makes up for the sexism is a matter of taste—I still watch, even though I’m wincing often enough at the sexism (both toward the women and toward Raj for being, in the eyes of the writer, suspiciously girly). “I’ll keep that in mind, unnamed crew member in a red shirt.”

LORD PETER VIEWS THE BODY was the first of Dorothy Sayers’ two short-story collections in the series, and I must say, she doesn’t have the knack she does with longer works. At short-length, Wimsey’s silly-ass babble and eccentricities dominate things to the point the plot is buried, and they aren’t entertaining enough in their own right to make the stories work. Disappointing.
As a fan of Patricia McKillip’s, I was equally disappointed in her third novel, STEPPING FROM THE SHADOWS (I should mention I liked her first and second). This is her only mainstream work and her poetic style feels decidedly “off” here; a bigger problem is that it’s a coming-of-age novel (following a nervous pre-teen all the way through to adulthood) and I rarely find those interesting. Nor did it help that most reviews and the back cover present it as a magical realist fantasy, when it’s a perfectly mundane books (the supernatural elements are metaphorical and imaginary) and I really hate that.

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Director:

 Roger Christian

Writer:

 Christian Piers Betley

Stars:

 Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Amy Matysio

Stranded is about four astronauts who are stationed on the moon ark base their mission is never really explained but I think that the base is there is mine for moon core samples. There is the bases commander col Gerard Brauchman, the bases doctor Lance Krauss, the bases scientist Ava Cameron, and the bases engineer Bruce Johns.

The very beginning of the movie opens with the base been showered with meteors causing major damage to most of the bases facilities destroying one of the emergence escape pods, some the filters that clear the carbon dioxide from the breath able air, the communications antenna leaving them cut off from contacting earth. Col Brauchman sends ava to investigate the damage done by the meteor shower as there is only one ev suit she is the only one that can check the damage. As she begins looking at all of the damage she notices one of the meteors had crashed into some of the equipment she then proceeds to examine it and she some sort of spore on it before she can look at it any further the building she is in begins to fail and barely makes it out of there with her life.

The doctor explains to the crew that the carbon dioxide level is higher than it should be and that this could lead to headaches, delusions, sickness and even death so he orders everybody to keep a close eye on one another. Ava and the doctor both begin to look at the meteor. The doctor opens it up to find an orange substance in the centre of it he takes a sample and gives it to Ava to put into the machine to see what it’s made up of but of course when she goes to take the sample out she cuts herself and ends up getting affected by the alien spore. This is when the real fun begins as she becomes instantly 9 months pregnant and gives birth to some sort of creature. Of course none of the crew believe her thinking that she is going crazy from the carbon dioxide in the air and by the time they realise the creature is fully grown and wants off the station.

Plus:

The idea was good.

Minus:

The acting is poor.

The effects of the movie are very poor.

The story is full of classic alien horror movie clichés but unfortunately none of them work.

Horrible ending.

Verdict:

I will watch almost anything within reason and always try to keep an open mind when watching a movie to give it a chance but I knew from the very beginning of this movie that it was going to be bad you know when you just get that feeling. This movie is just horrible, the story is outdated, the acting is terrible, and the visual effects are basicly none existent. This movie should be avoided if possible.

1/10

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I was thinking a bit more about the Mass Effect 3 ending.  I may do a post later on with my thoughts on it specifically, but while I was thinking about it, the idea occurred to me that it was so disappointing because it was so anticipated.  Fans had years to think about how the Mass Effect series would end; and so whatever happened would likely disappoint them.  It is an intrinsically bad ending, don’t get me wrong, but its badness was amplified by how much everyone had been thinking about it.

The same thing happened, for me anyway, with the Harry Potter series.  A big plot point, discussed by fans and even used in the advance marketing of the last book was “is Snape good or evil”?  Everybody had two years to think about this question, and we all knew what was going to happen.  Even if you bet on the wrong outcome, chances were you’d heard alternate theories that turned out to be correct. It may have made it sell better to promote the debate, but it weakened the book’s dramatic power.

It’s hard to surprise your audience with twists when you are telling a story with long intervals between each installment.  The only way out is to not leave clues to what’s coming, but then the endings or plot twists will feel unsatisfying; like they just came out of nowhere.  The best plot resolutions have to have been logically set up beforehand.

Sometimes a writer can stumble on some good twist in the middle of a series.  For instance, few people see the famous twist in The Empire Strikes Back coming, unless someone has spoiled them on it.  I’ve heard that this is because George Lucas only decided to do it after A New Hope was released, so he hadn’t left enough clues to give it away before hand, but was able to satisfactorily retrofit his twist on to the second film with the vague setup given in the first. But he was very lucky.

Lucas also didn’t have the internet to contend with.  If he had, some random fan probably would have accurately guessed the ending by pure chance while speculating on some forum.  I see this as the inevitable fate of the Half-Life video game series: if they ever do release Half-Life 3, there is no way someone won’t have already guessed what the deal is with the G-Man and posted a huge essay about their theories to be discussed on some forum.

There’s no question that internet fandom has intensified this problem; for it enables like-minded people to interact and ponder their favorite series.  I don’t think this was as much of a problem before the internet, even though there were stories that appeared in installments in magazines and the like.

This problem is lessened a bit if you are not doing a sequel that directly continues a particular story.  J.J. Abrams was very smart to come up with the alternate timeline business for his new Star Trek movies, because it pretty much allowed him to do whatever he wanted.   And although it still does not really live up to its title, I think a lot of criticism from Fallout fans of Fallout 3 was blunted because it was set far away from the other games.  In other words, it’s easier to do a series that is a loosely-related group of stories in a certain setting or around a set of themes than it is to tell one coherent story over installments. And it’s easiest of all to just tell your story in one shot.  To bring us back to Mass Effect 3, I’m convinced that had they condensed the story of the whole series into one game–with the same endings–they would have gotten way fewer complaints.  On the other hand, they also would have made less money.

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Having been born nearly a decade after the show ended, I was of course unable to watch it during its initial run. But like many children of the 80s, I grew up with Nickelodeon and their Nick at Nite programming line-up. Get Smart was the first non-animated show I remember really getting into; I even got some of my friends into it, and I can only imagine how perplexed the teachers at our middle school must have been by a bunch of sixth-graders spouting off Maxwell Smart’s catchphrases. But it wasn’t until I was an adult that the internet gave me the opportunity to learn about the two movies from the 1980s, let alone to watch them. I caught The Nude Bomb four years ago, and this week I finally got to see Get Smart, Again!. While I have yet to see the Carell version, I can now at least say I’ve seen all of the Don Adams Get Smart shows and films.

Would you believe I had some concerns about this?

The concerns I had were mostly due to having watched The Nude Bomb prior. While that film was amusing in its own way, it had also been a distinct disappointment. It was attempting to mimic the humor of the original series while being a more modern type of spoof at the same time, and it didn’t quite mesh. It lacked the mock-seriousness that ran as a subtle undercurrent in the show. Where Get Smart was always about a goofy spy in ostensibly serious situations, The Nude Bomb was a goofy spy in overtly silly situations. Amusing still, but not quite the same. Worse, while it starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, it could only loosely be said to be a Get Smart movie — aside from cameos of minor characters Larrabee and Agent 13 (the latter of which with a new actor), no other characters from the series were present, and CONTROL was never mentioned (Smart was an agent of PITS in that film). It felt, in a lot of ways, as if the story had been written as a standalone film, with Maxwell Smart inserted at a later date.

Fortunately, Get Smart, Again! is indeed a Get Smart movie. With the exception of Edward Platt as the Chief, all the major characters and several minor ones return for the movie (Platt had passed away in the interim, and the movie is dedicated to his memory). Robert Karvelas returns as Larrabee, Richard Gautier comes back as Hymie the robot and gets some good laughs with his deadpan delivery. The original Agent 13, Dave Ketchum, is back. Rather more importantly, Adams’ co-star, Barbara Feldon, returns as Agent 99, restoring the on-screen chemistry and emotional balance that was lacking in the prior film.

Of course, we still don’t learn her actual name.

Perhaps just as importantly, Bernie Kopell returns as KAOS agent Siegfried, with King Moody in tow as Shtarker. Bringing back KAOS and its most memorable agents helps the film greatly, as the interactions between Max and Siegfried remain as comical as ever. There are a few additional characters brought in, with Harold Gould and John de Lancie having the most memorable roles, and the actors fit in well with the old cast, but it’s essentially a reunion show, and the original actors are still the undisputed stars here.

Even the director, Gary Nelson, is an old hand from the show, having directed several of the episodes. The result is that the cast and crew all truly get Get Smart. While the actors are visibly older, their timing is the same, and the jokes feel natural and unforced with a few minor exceptions. And the story has the feel of an old Get Smart episode, while acknowledging the passing of time. Dormant for many years, KAOS has suddenly resurfaced, threatening the world with a functioning weather-control machine. The United States Intelligence Agency realizes that their current spies are too unfamiliar with KAOS to deal with the threat before the ransom deadline, and so, seeking through the personnel files of the defunct CONTROL agency, they reactivate Maxwell Smart. Smart assembles a team of his former colleagues and mayhem ensues.

Like the episodes of the TV series, Get Smart, Again! works as both a comedy and a spy story. It has its moments of excitement and some fun fight scenes, always with the tongue-in-cheek approach of the original series. It has the wit that characterized the show, in the show’s actual style. People who are only familiar with the Steve Carell version might be better served by checking out some of the original episodes first, but anybody who is already a fan should enjoy this. Without wallowing in nostalgia, it brings the audience one final visit to the original agents of CONTROL, a visit that is highly appreciated.

Rating:

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Tons o’ Fun

Today is the birthday of Frank “Fatty” Alexander (1879-1937).

Originally from Washington State, Alexander had worked as a cowboy and a stagecoach driver until his enormous size allowed him an entrée to an industry that might not have been otherwise available to him — the movies. Mack Sennett hired him at Keystone in 1915. Though Alexander weighed almost 90 lbs more than Sennett’s reigning fat man Roscoe Arbuckle, there was little danger of the inexperienced Alexander usurping the latter’s position. Arbuckle was a popular star; Alexander was a bit player. But it’s handy in comedy to have a heavy man for smaller roles, and Arbuckle wasn’t about to do those any more with his name on marquees all over the country. While at Keystone, Alexander appeared in the ensembles of several of Syd Chaplin’s “Gussle” pictures, among others.

After leaving Sennett in 1916 he briefly bounced around among various studios before settling in as a vital part of Larry Semon’s stock company at Vitagraph in 1917. This was such a good situation that he remained there for eight years and dozens of films. Alexander got countless opportunities to shine during these years, in a comedy company so extreme that Oliver Hardy was the lesser heavy; when the two appeared on screen together, Hardy seemed positively trim. By 1925, Semon was having serious money worries as a result of his films going so far over budget that they couldn’t turn a profit. The Wizard of Oz (1925), in which Alexander played Uncle Henry, was a downright flop. (See my description of that film here). The feature The Perfect Clown was Alexander’s last Semon comedy.

From 1926 to 1928, Alexander was part of one the silent era’s most notorious comedy teams. “Tons o’ Fun” was a project of producer Joe Rock, who cast Alexander with Hilliard “Fat” Karr and Kewpie Ross, two men of comparable size, as a trio of exceedingly large men who just happened to be best friends. Their comedy shorts would usually involve the three of them going places and doing things that three very large men shouldn’t do, thus falling through floors, getting stuck in small room and so forth.

Then sound arrived. In the talkie era, Alexander only has a handful of credits, in very small roles, which to me is an indication that the untrained Alexander couldn’t carry lines. He ended his career working for the man with whom he’d begun it, Mack Sennett, with a walk-on in the W.C. Fields short The Barber Shop in 1933.

And now, that notorious version of The Wizard of Oz:

For more on silent and slapstick comedy please check out my new book: Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, just released by Bear Manor Media, also available from amazon.com etc etc etc