Today, although I posted already about technology and cool timey wimey stuff, I'm going to talk about movies I am excited about seeing this March. Follow me on this adventure through many fantastic worlds worlds, daring adventures, deep and sophisticated plots, and stuff like that.
The First Movie, Oz the Great and Powerful, to be released on March 8, while this nerd has been HIGHLY, highly skeptical as to the quality and validity of this movie's being called a worthy prequel to arguably the greatest film of all time, after discovering that James Franco is the lead actor, this nerd has decided that he would give the movie a chance. The movie, directed by Sam Raimi(a well known horror director branching into another field [also directing a reboot of poltergeist currently in production]), will take place in the time before Dorothy entered the land of Oz, telling the story all about how his life got flip twisted upside down so we'd like to take a minute, just hold the applause, I will tell you all about how I became the wizard of Oz...anyway, it's telling the story about The four witches and the wizard. I will go see it, but I swear if they try to computer animate Judy Garland in there, I'm going to walk out of the theatre. It's a disney movie, so it can't be TOO bad.
In other news, Steve Carell and Jim Carey star in the new movie The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. Directed by Don Scardino (a director known for his T.V. Shows that last for one season of funny and many, many more of painful, terrible quality), this film follows the tale of Burt Wonderstone as he battles his rival magician (Jim Carey) in an epic showdown of magic and trickery, but along the way, Burt (Carell) rediscovers why he loved magic in the first place. The film combines two of the greatest comedians of my era together in a movie that can only disappoint at the worst. I don't think it will be a terrible movie, but I am worried about the quality of the comedy and whether or not it will be clever humor or just physical or situational comedy due to the director and the writers (Goldstein and Daily[Daily plays Swedes from Bones]). If they allow Jim Carey to do a good deal of ad lib and just be Jim Carey (unlike Mr. Popper's Penguins), and Steve Carell to be that ridiculously serious character that messes everything up, then it will be a good movie. Ok, I'm ranting, so on to my animation segment.
The Croods, a Dreamworks animation about a caveman family, premiers March 22nd. The movie looks like a break from the basic animation Dreamworks has created and into a creative, colorful, and incredible animation. The trailer itself shows that change from the monochromatic world into a colorful, vibrant, and living world! I've been a fan of animation for a long time (I call it animated arts because it sounds more sophisticated) and I had grown tired of the lack in either story or animation quality in animation over the last couple of years. This probably will have a basic story of a teenage daughter wanting something other than what her family is offering her and finding a boy who can offer that and the family disapproving of said boy and she running away with said boy after a conflict and finding out that family values were important all along. If they don't use this tactic, then I will be surprised and I will pay all of my 1 followers a dollar. All in all, it could be a great triumph or a terrible failure (depending on how the studio did).
So this month looks like a fairly decent month when it comes to movies, and I am eager to see how everything plays out. By the way, my least anticipated movie (that I will never, EVER see) is The Host by Stephane Meyers. Terrible. Absolutely Terrible.
The Host might not be that bad. There are people out there who hate Twilight and like the Host. It's a scifi, and rather suspenseful from what I know of it. I am curious to see it, but I'll wait for NetFlix to have it.
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