Saturday, August 30, 2008

And Now...Edition One of Trailers That Give The Whole Movie Away Shamelessly And Are So Bad They Inspire Me To Capitalize Every Title Word

Okay, so this is edition one of...well...the title is so freaking long! I'll abbreviate at some point. The focus of this edition will be the trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I know it seems that I am the only person who doesn't like the trailer. However, you can not deny its shameless use of clips from the ENTIRE FREAKIN' MOVIE and that if you read between the lines (or images, in this case) you can figure out the outcome of the entire freaking story.

I haven't figured out how to embed video yet, but I'll give you a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zqWqh9N7rI&feature=related

You see? It gives away more than half the movie in the teaser. I fear the day when the trailer comes out. They might as well just release the freakin' movie. We know what happens already.

Edition Two will appear at some point in time. Stay tuned!

(First) Review: Wall-E


WALL-E (97 minutes, rated G)

After multiple weeks of anticipation, I was annoyed to find that WALL-E was only being shown dubbed in Colombia, my location during its release date. I most definitely do not like watching movies dubbed. At all. I decided to wait out two weeks until I returned to the US. I must say, it was DEFINITELY worth the wait.

First of all, I want to establish the point that this is not a kids movie. As a matter of fact, this could be the most depressing, depraved movie I have ever seen. AI is no longer on the top of all of my top 10 lists.

The first third was definitely the best. Pixar has now gained even more respect than the already had from me. They somehow managed to perfectly characterize a robot with what appeared to be no difficulty, and did it all just facial expressions, and used no words whatsoever. That is definitely wow-worthy. Wow.
They also managed to make cockroaches, which may be the most repulsive things in the world, freakin' adorable. The animation quality in this third was probably the best, but to say it deteriorated in the second and third thirds would be a horrible misstatement. This third was also the most desolate and depraved. Wow.

The second third marks the arrival of EVE. At this point, the movie becomes something of a romance, a genre that I usually avoid. Of course, this was a romance between robots, so it doesn't count. Anyways, EVE laughs a lot and gains a personality after meeting WALL-E. They WALL-E saves her from a dust storm and they fall madly in love. WALL-E is sad to see EVE angry one day, so he gives her a plant. EVE eats it. WALL-E decides to hold her hand for a long time until a spaceship comes to take EVE back to Axiom, some scary floaty thing that floats around far away from here. The spaceship picks EVE up and WALL-E hitches a ride. He grabs some floaty stuff in space and sees beautiful arty things like the sun.

Then the third third starts. I won't go into detail about this third to avoid giving too much away, even though I probably already have. The bottom line is, this movie is beautiful. Go see it now.
And i realized I could make a lovely little acrostic about it.
W ow.
A wesome.
L ovely.
L egendary. (eventually.)
E normous.

Yay.
That is all I have to say. **** out of ****.

(You may have noticed that this is my first post. Hurrah. Here you will find movies, the truth, and rants. My rating scale is made of four stars. No stars is awful, 1 star is bad, 2 stars is okay, 3 stars is good, 3 1/2 stars is great, and 4 stars is HOLY CRAP AMAZINGNESSSSS. I must also state that I will rarely rate R-rated movies, considering the fact that I am twelve. I will occasionally review a CD or book, but only those that strike me as freaking amazing or freaking horrible.)

THE END.