Superbad is a teen movie. It also will draw comparisons to American Pie, in it's "losers try to get laid" themes, and occasional gross-out comedy. But the comparison is unfair - Superbad is a funnier, more subversive and more importantly genuine movie than American Pie or any of it's awful sequels were. The three central characters have a believable, likable relationship, that the film takes time to establish. Cera, Hill (who deserves special praise, for turning what could have been a really unlikeable character into a sweet, if loud-mouthed and crass, teenager) and Mintz-Plasse bounce of each other perfectly. The movie creates some funny situations, and more importantly, hilarious dialogue throughout. Aside from one comedic misfire - an overly long (and poorly judged) gross out sight gag involving a pair of trousers and a dance - Superbad had me laughing constantly. It's sweet, it's funny as hell, and it's established a load of new talent.
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The Omen
(2006)
Horror symbolism 101 - another lazy cover version.
11 June 2006
Liev Schreiber was part of a very important horror movie. Ten years ago, he was in "Scream", a movie that made horror funny. And now, today, he's done it again.
The Omen is a movie that takes itself SO seriously, it becomes a parody of itself halfway through. Disastrously po-faced, John Moore is so amazed at how awesome his director of photography is, he jump cuts, steadicams and desaturates as fast as he can. But while the original movie built up a claustrophobic dread - a slow build to the awful truths that lay along the way, the 2006 cover version does away with that - that might require talent. Instead, it takes the main set pieces and links them together with lumpen dialogue, sledgehammer symbolism and dreadful music. The uneasiness you feel in the modern Omen is down to not knowing when the next cheap scare will be - a music sting from nowhere, or a flash of an image that has no relevance to the movie, but, y'know - LOOKS EVIL.
If Hollywood insists on continually remaking good movies, can you at least do it properly? I mean, how hard is it to do the Omen well? this film is yet another example of how mentally bankrupt some studios have become.It gets two stars for making me laugh out loud in several places. Can someone PLEASE give Liev Schreiber a better movie?
The Omen is a movie that takes itself SO seriously, it becomes a parody of itself halfway through. Disastrously po-faced, John Moore is so amazed at how awesome his director of photography is, he jump cuts, steadicams and desaturates as fast as he can. But while the original movie built up a claustrophobic dread - a slow build to the awful truths that lay along the way, the 2006 cover version does away with that - that might require talent. Instead, it takes the main set pieces and links them together with lumpen dialogue, sledgehammer symbolism and dreadful music. The uneasiness you feel in the modern Omen is down to not knowing when the next cheap scare will be - a music sting from nowhere, or a flash of an image that has no relevance to the movie, but, y'know - LOOKS EVIL.
If Hollywood insists on continually remaking good movies, can you at least do it properly? I mean, how hard is it to do the Omen well? this film is yet another example of how mentally bankrupt some studios have become.It gets two stars for making me laugh out loud in several places. Can someone PLEASE give Liev Schreiber a better movie?
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