Red Tails

This last weekend Allison and I went to see a great movie, Red Tails. I'm not sure how many people have heard of this film, but it is amazing. Red Tails is a historical fiction story of the Tuskegee Airmen. The opening scene alone is worth the price of admissions. This film has all the special effects of Star Wars, but done realistically with planes of WW2. It should have all the SFX of Star Wars since George Lucas produced this film. Don't let that get to you though. This is a classic Lucas film, not a prequel. This movie also has heart. Red Tails looks at a part of American History that has never been given it's right due. The Tuskegee Airman fought for our country during WW2 and did it well. This movie shows how they went from being an experiment to the best bomber escorts in the war.

This story isn't just about fighting, it's about people. The characters in this movie are wonderful. You slowly fall in love with this characters. Every time they go up you hope that they make it back to their families and loved ones. Not every flight ends with everyone coming home. There could be a second film like the classic The Great Escape if they really wanted too. You'll fall in love with Raygun and Lighting so quickly that you forget you're not there with them. You may even like Coffee, he sure loves his planes.

I could go on about how amazing the movie is, but I won't. I loved this film and think everyone should go see it. If you're on the fence, get off. It's time to spend your money. Movies like this do not get made enough. Hollywood doesn't believe in many things. If you don't have a famous actor as your lead you're screwed. If you're in untested waters you're screwed. If you don't have enough white actors you're screwed. If anything we need to send Hollywood a message and see good films. Films that are fun and not the same sequel we've seen a hundred times already. Trust me, if you see this movie you'll be happy.

a-team friday

On Friday I went to see the best 80's TV show turn movie of our generation. That's right I went out with the boys and saw the A-Team. The film was awesome! It was like the 80's TV show but way better. Tons and tons of explosions. It was probably one of the best action films I've ever seen based on a TV show. They used the prefect formula to do this movie. Take all the greatness of the A-Team like crazy stunts and take out the lame things like no killing people. They get the bad guys, but they also kick tons of bad guy butt on the way. I loved the film and think everyone should go out and see the awesomeness that is the A-Team.

m is for imagination

Life has so many turns in it. I never know when I'll be out lefts and only have rights left. I figure some day I'll lose my crazy imagination. It's one of the few things I that I have that is excellent. I can be lost in my mind having adventures for hours. I've done this since I was a little kid and I think that most people don't do this anymore, I could be wrong. If I am let me know. Well I want to keep this imagination as long as I can. I've decide to start exercising it. I've been doing this by forcing myself to draw a comic a day. I don't always get one made, but I've been trying. Yesterday was one of those days I didn't finish a comic, but I made a minute stop-motion movie, so I think that was more than enough exercise for my imagination. I've drawn some really cool monster comics, so I figured I'd post them. Plus I'm going to post the movie too. Hope you enjoi.

starship troopers done wrong again

My sister asked me to go see a movie with her and her husband tonight. They decide to go see the must see movie of the Christmas holiday, no not Sherlock Holmes. That would have been amazing. If you haven’t gone and seen Sherlock Holmes you are an idiot. I mean that in the meanest way possible, because it’s that good of a movie, plus I do have a little man crush on Robert Downey Jr. It’s totally cool, so don’t bring it up. Well I’ve gone off topic. Sherlock Holmes is the best, just go see it. I totally get it if you can’t. Back to the subject, I was talking about the movie I saw this tonight. The movie people are raving over, Avatar.

What can I say about Avatar, that hasn’t already been said? It’s EPIC! Did you see how I capitalized all the letters in epic? That’s how epic it was. On the plus side it wasn’t so EPIC I fell asleep in it. No sir, it’s no Lord of the Rings boring. I fell asleep in all three movies, the first two at the theater and the last one at home. I can’t say I’ve seen all three movie all the way through. Mind you I did go in the middle of the day to see them so I wouldn’t be tired. I’m off topic again. Let’s talk Avatar. The special effect blew my mind away! The world they created was so awesome. The creatures were amazing. I loved the creatures they flew on. Awesome. I actually would have preferred if the movie was all about those flying animals and their riders, but then it wouldn’t have been EPIC and everyone would be sad. We need EPIC! It’s like in King Kong, the Jack Black one, where Kong fights three t-rexes. That was an awesome scene, but the rest of the movie I could do without. In fact they should make an hour and a half movie about Kong fighting t-rexes and that’s it. I would see that movie at least ten times in the theaters. I’m way off topic again.

Avatar was a good movie. I could feel the almost three hours on my butt though. It hurt by the end of the film. I felt the film need to end at about two hours, maybe a little before that, but then you would miss all the awesomeness that the build of the EPIC movie had coming or they could have milked a second film out of it and made a ton more of money. Although they might not have had the same impact if they left a huge cliff hanger like that at the end of the film. Sure it worked for the Empire Strikes Back, but that was back in the day. I digress. I enjoyed watching Avatar. It had amazing special FX that I’ve never seen before. I was amazed at how real everything looked. The story was well written if you haven’t seen Fern Gully. I’m not joking; it’s a live action Fern Gully. So pretty much they just made a live action EPIC version of Fern Gully in space. I hope this doesn’t make you look down on me or the film, because I love Fern Gully. It’s the best complement I could give the film. Now they do depart from it a lot and make Avatar its own thing. It’s a great action film when the action happens too. It’s no Die Hard, but we can’t hold every movie to that standard. So if you’re only going to see one holiday movie this year go see Sherlock Holmes. I think it’s better than Avatar any day of the week.