I'm not quite turning into Nuke yet, but here I go with another multiple movie review.
"Red": This movie is just a good time. "Red" stars Bruce Willis as Frank Moses, a retired CIA operative trying to adjust to life as a retired person. But, retirement doesn't last long for Frank, after some unknown person tags him for assassination. Now, Frank needs to get the gang back together to figure out who's trying to kill him, and his new love interest (Mary Louise-Parker). Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren comprise the gang. What follows is a bit "Ocean's Eleven" and a bit "Die Hard" and a lot of fun. Karl Urban and Richard Dreyfuss star as the opposition/villains in "Red". This is a 4 star movie, filled with 2 hours of fun movie watching.
"Astro Boy": We watched "Astro Boy" on Friday night as a family. I had relatively low expectations, and was pleasantly surprised by this movie. After losing his son in a freak accident, brilliant scientist, Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage) constructs a replacement robot that he implants with his son's memories. To keep him safe, Tenma equips his new son with all the state of the art defense systems. However, Tenma quickly discovers that, despite his best effort, he couldn't truly duplicate his son, and rejects him. Sent out into the world, "Astro" struggles to find his place, until meeting with some other orphans. In these new friends, "Astro" finally discovers his place in the world. My kids rated this one 5 stars, I'd probably give it 4. We really enjoyed this movie, and were able to use to story to draw some good biblical parallels for the kids. Just a really nice movie.
"Astro Boy": We watched "Astro Boy" on Friday night as a family. I had relatively low expectations, and was pleasantly surprised by this movie. After losing his son in a freak accident, brilliant scientist, Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage) constructs a replacement robot that he implants with his son's memories. To keep him safe, Tenma equips his new son with all the state of the art defense systems. However, Tenma quickly discovers that, despite his best effort, he couldn't truly duplicate his son, and rejects him. Sent out into the world, "Astro" struggles to find his place, until meeting with some other orphans. In these new friends, "Astro" finally discovers his place in the world. My kids rated this one 5 stars, I'd probably give it 4. We really enjoyed this movie, and were able to use to story to draw some good biblical parallels for the kids. Just a really nice movie.
2 comments:
We LOVED "Red"--laughed out loud alot. That's my measure of a good movie :)
I think another improtant part of Astro Boy was that the human friends he met didn't trust him after they found out he was a robot. He couldn't live with his family and then couldn't live with his new "family", but he still did the right things, even after all the rejection. It was a really good movies with lots of moral questions to consider.
The only thing I didn't like, was Nicholas Cage voicing Dr. Telma. It just didn't seem to match the animated character and so it always seemed to me I was watching an animated mouth move while listenting to someone else's voice rather than listening to the character. The voice protrayal was a little flat. But, that's just my opinion.
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