Studios regularly release movies without screening them for critics. Usually these are in the ‘B’ movie category, not their Mega-Hits. When it is a blockbuster, no screening pretty much always means it is a huge steaming pile. This time, however, Hasbro had an explanation. It seems they blame the fact that Transformers was a full [...]
I can’t say that Up was a bad movie. It was, in many ways, good. When Chicken Run came out, it was 90%+ on the Tomatometer. Over the years I’ve noticed this across the board. Animated movies can be very high (with a few exceptions). Waiting for Up, we saw trailers for two horrible looking [...]
Ambition is certainly not lacking from this picture. This grandiose wankery permeates what is otherwise a pretty straight forward Saturday morning caliber story line.
Subtitles are a distraction for the high mind. A language not understood can create a beautiful soundscape, or layers of meaning never intended by the creators; like birdsong or glossolalia. Subtitles however, and the effort they require, are about as inimical to to the high state of mind as anything I can image. So there was one immediate strike against Executive Koala, a Japanese cult flick from 2005 about a salary man at a pickle company named Tamura, who happens to be an anthropomorphic koala bear who becomes a suspect in the murders of at least two of his lovers.
