All Hail the Heads!
I FINALLY got a chance to listen to the new Radiohead cd, Hail to the Theif. I apologize to all you fans that I didn’t pick this album up on June 10th like I had planned to. Stuff happens. Well anyway to the music.
I was sitting at work all day today listening over and over to the Hail to the Theif. From the very first listen I liked the music and liked the fact that had a mixture of all the old Radiohead album’s. It had some songs that were similar to the old days of Pablo Honey and The Bends. It had a lot of songs reminiscent of the OK Computer era and some Kid A type songs. Normally they stick with one sound throughout an entire album, but this they didn’t, which I really enjoyed.
Is it better than OK Computer? NO. Is it better than the Bends? Still NO.
Could this change: YES! |cheerful|
The uniqueness, diversity, and poignant, angst ridden lyrics of the fears and paranoia of today’s society make this album WELL WORTH THE BUY!! But give it a few listens before you make any judgments.
GRADE: A-
The Incredible Hulk
Incredible is a good word to describe this movie. So far, it has gotten unbelievably mixed reviews. However, I would like to give a go at giving an unbiased opinion. So here goes….
First, the Hulk moves rather slowly. I believe this was almost unavoidable, since they really needed to properly setup the Hulk, where he came from, and what his driving forces are. We all have to remember that there are people out there, especially from the younger generation, that did not grow up with Hulk. So this character setup is almost impossible to avoid. Also, if you watch Ang Lee’s other claim to fame, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon you will notice that in amongst the unforgettable action, the movie goes really slowly. In the middle of Crouching Tiger, there is a 25 minute recourse to go back and setup the main characters boy friend. Otherwise we would have had no idea where he came from. Once The Hulk gets moving, it explodes for an almost 40 minute continuous action scene. Which, by the way, does not go too far. I really thought that once the action started in this movie that there was going to be some ridiculous mayhem going on. Everything was believable. From a Comic book point of view.
On that note, please remember that The Hulk is a comic book come to life. Similiar to Spider-man, accept with a 15 foot - 1,500lbs. Green Monster. Stan Lee, the creator for almost all of Marvels line-up of comic book characters, really did an unbelievable job creating a sensible monster. What do I mean by this? Well, The Hulk represents everyones inner rage. He is what everyone has in side of them but they can’t release. Through the magic of Biology, and some Gamma ray Interference The Hulk comes to life in Bruce Banner. I am not saying there are no holes in this concept, but it is truely an awesome concept.
On a lighter note. The action. The action in this movie is awesome. Once it starts, it gets better and better. Not only can The Hulk do whatever he wills, to helicopters, jets and army tanks, but he can also jump 3 miles in a single jump. I was really unsure how this would look, and how it would come across to the audience. At first, from what I could tell the audience thought it comical. Then, at least in my case, the feeling you got when he did it was “I WANNA DO THAT!!!”. The effects to go along with this movie are second to none, as it goes with human-like characters. Gollum, obviously is the best digitized characters to date, even surpassing The Hulk. But Gollum ain’t no human. The Hulk is at least “somewhat human”.
Ok, my numeric review is somewhat strange for this movie. So it goes like this:
Casting: Perfect. 5 out of 5
Acting: 4 out of 5.
Action: 3 out of 5. Needed a little more
Effects: 4.5 out of 5.
Story: 5 out of 5. I love this story.
Cinematography: 4.5 out of 5. My fav category.
Go see the Hulk…..even if it’s just to see him smash stuff up at the end.
Quite Fast, Not so Furious
Where to start on this one! Ok, I think I got it. Let’s start out by saying, this movie is better than the first movie. That being said, let’s explain why. Vin Diesel, and the lack thereof. Vin, in my opinion, has alot of potential in the movie industry. The guy is huge, and has a good screen presents, ala The Knockaround Guys. However, this movie was much better without him in it. Tyrese was unexplicably good. He had excellent presence, and was pretty funny from time to time. Kudos to him for only his second big-screen flick. Paul Walker, needs a different job. I mean, my wife goes ga-ga over him, so he should obviously be in front of a camera, just not a motion picture camera. However, leaving out the one-liners for Paul was a tremendous improvement. And it seemed that he and Tyrese has alot of fun on this job, so that’s cool.
Oh yeah! Let me talk about the chinese chick (Devon Aoki) no disrespect, but for the first half of this movie, she looked absolutely disgusting. She is in one of the very first shots of this film, and I almost puked. My wife is my witness. However, once the close-ups were over, she wasn’t too vomit inducing. Still, there are alot of other oriental women that would have been better, as far as scenery, then Devon.
Anyways, overall, not a bad flick, fun, but the ending was a little drab. Better than first. 3 outta 5 stars.
Lord of the Rings: Update
Well its been awhile since we posted anything on the LOTR. Well got some big releases from The One Ring dot net.
It looks like the latest running time for the Return of the King is 3 hrs. and 10 mins. All I have to say is that would be awesome. I want the final chapter of one of the best .. (my vote for the best) trilogy of all time, to be as long as possible, it just adds to the epic of the LOTR series. Peter Jackson is sure to keep aweing people with the third and final installment.
They are also planning on making a LOTR musical. Which has Christopher Tolkien fuming mad. I would be too tho. The son of the LOTR author is not taking the news well.
Also, on the one ring they have some video footage (not the best quality) that was included in the trailer for the ROTK video game at E3 this year. I watched it and it was kinda neat. Take a look.
Well its getting late.. I’M OUT!
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