Movie reviewer in the Post
I've decided that I'm going to start seeking out reviews by Ann Hornaday (movie reviewer/critic for the Washington Post). Any movie to which she assigns a "red light" is a movie I want to see! For example...
In a recent review of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, she said, "This hectically paced pastiche seems less interested in exploiting the couple's sophisticated, sexy dynamic than in plunging them into ever more cartoonlike scenes of carnage." Sounds good to me! So why did she give it a red light?
In her most recent column, about the new Batman movie (red light!), she declares, "Clearly, only adults will be able to sit through a sprawling story that involves endless fight and chase sequences, arcane explanations of a panic-inducing hallucinogen threatening Gotham and a climactic scene featuring zombies straight out of a George Romero B-movie." I suspect she doesn't actually know any kids -- this is the kind of stuff I and my friends lived for in my younger years. Some of her major complaints were that the movie wasn't as campy as the 60s TV series, and spent too much time (40%) of the movie concerned with Bruce Wayne's formative years. Helloooooo? Isn't that what Batman Begins *should* be about?
So from now on, Hornaday=redlight means Javasaurs=wanttosee.
Here's a link to the column, but you probably need to have an account (free) with washpost.com to read it:
Batman review by Hornaday.
In a recent review of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, she said, "This hectically paced pastiche seems less interested in exploiting the couple's sophisticated, sexy dynamic than in plunging them into ever more cartoonlike scenes of carnage." Sounds good to me! So why did she give it a red light?
In her most recent column, about the new Batman movie (red light!), she declares, "Clearly, only adults will be able to sit through a sprawling story that involves endless fight and chase sequences, arcane explanations of a panic-inducing hallucinogen threatening Gotham and a climactic scene featuring zombies straight out of a George Romero B-movie." I suspect she doesn't actually know any kids -- this is the kind of stuff I and my friends lived for in my younger years. Some of her major complaints were that the movie wasn't as campy as the 60s TV series, and spent too much time (40%) of the movie concerned with Bruce Wayne's formative years. Helloooooo? Isn't that what Batman Begins *should* be about?
So from now on, Hornaday=redlight means Javasaurs=wanttosee.
Here's a link to the column, but you probably need to have an account (free) with washpost.com to read it:
Batman review by Hornaday.