Here he is!

I love this guy's name, Kent Slugger. Be still my beating heart.

*Not safe for work*

( Here he is! )

Hope you enjoy that.

Short movie review. I really enjoyed John Carter - a visual, science fiction feast based on the novels of the early 1900's. I don't want to give too much away but our hero - Civil War confederacy cavalry captain, John Carter is transported to Barjoum (Mars) when he happens upon a magical cave and amulet. He finds the gravitational differences give him super human jumping and warrior abilities there. There is a complex political culture and 9 races of peoples on Mars (Barjoum). I found this interesting enough that I might even look up the original books to see how those are. I love science fiction. Anyhoo. The movie held together structurally and it was visually beautiful. Taylor Kitsch is gorgeous here as the main character and the rest is well acted too. Definitely worth seeing on the big screen for the landscape and grandness of the film.

I love movies that deliver. Anyhoo. Happy Sunday to all of you and hope you are having a good weekend. Don't forget to change your clocks today, spring ahead by one hour, if applicable.

Cheers!


by spunk

Here he is!

I love this guy's name, Kent Slugger. Be still my beating heart.

*Not safe for work*

( Here he is! )

Hope you enjoy that.

Short movie review. I really enjoyed John Carter - a visual, science fiction feast based on the novels of the early 1900's. I don't want to give too much away but our hero - Civil War confederacy cavalry captain, John Carter is transported to Barjoum (Mars) when he happens upon a magical cave and amulet. He finds the gravitational differences give him super human jumping and warrior abilities there. There is a complex political culture and 9 races of peoples on Mars (Barjoum). I found this interesting enough that I might even look up the original books to see how those are. I love science fiction. Anyhoo. The movie held together structurally and it was visually beautiful. Taylor Kitsch is gorgeous here as the main character and the rest is well acted too. Definitely worth seeing on the big screen for the landscape and grandness of the film.

I love movies that deliver. Anyhoo. Happy Sunday to all of you and hope you are having a good weekend. Don't forget to change your clocks today, spring ahead by one hour, if applicable.

Cheers!


by spunk

Movie review....Act of Valor

I really am not a pro-military person, I have peacenik leanings and tend toward non-violence in my own life but I saw this movie today, Act of Valor. You can tell me that this is a propaganda film, pro-military and and all that but for many reasons this movie held together for me.

I was drawn into the lives of these men, fighting these skirmishes, and got to know them as warriors, family men and comrades in arms. No question they were re-enacting some scenarios that have really happened while also "fictionalizing" them for this movie - extractions, prevention of terrorist activity on US soil and a plausible plot along those lines.

I really enjoyed the cinematography of the film - it goes from focusing on blades of grass, and details in the forests where an "extraction" takes place in a very crystal clear way, to alternating views that are either simulating night vision goggles or a grainier view that the soldiers see through their eye gear. The action seems gritty and real and well enacted based on actual combat experience of the Navy Seals who are acting (as themselves) in this movie.

I admit to being totally engaged through the whole thing and here it is - I really cared about these guys. I cared when they got shot at, I hoped they made it through. We know enough about them to care, their wives, kids and families and then to watch keenly and to wish for them to be victorious in their missions.

Upsetting things happen that I won't detail but this movie is not for the weak of heart. It takes you all the way through some of these experiences.

A last note, the voice over narration from the beginning to the end of the film, is well written, touching and the tone of that illustrates the very idea of valor and what these men face in their lives. If you see this, stay through the end credits, watch all the names and the photographs displayed which show valor in many forms - ranging from firefighters, to police officers and others branches of service. Lots more to say about valor and where it can be. There was more in those pictures that I am missing...

Anyway. I don't know if you will see this movie, but I am glad I did. And ultimately, it was good entertainment, and kept my interest.


by debi_i_am at juicy_grapes