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(this article has been shortened due to lack of energy, oh the irony..) Kickass exciting event movies, yo! It's not exactly my favorite area AND there's not a lot to say about them in general, so we'll go through this one faster than Speed Racer (2008): the Wachowski brothers clearly had buckets of fun with it, but not in a macho kind of way, so they got slammed for childishness. I can relate. In fact, I am so very immature that in ten years I have maybe seen three foreign action films. This category has the highest 'seen at the local cinema' rate of all and most multiplexes just don't show samurai or gojira running around. Maybe that's why the shortlist is filled with titles from the second half of the decade, representing the peak in cinema visits. Skip this one if you loathe Hollywood. Probably no one will mind it being called the best source for dumb and mindless. Just the way I like my entertainment.
Large amounts of superheroes have saved the world lately. Spider-Man
and Hellboy were the most amusing, preferably parts 2. Remarkably
the only latex dude that kinda fucked up, just driving off into the night,
turned out to be the best: Batman, a.k.a. The Dark Knight, a.k.a.
supporting The Joker. A couple of other terrific adventures that
definitely need to be mentioned: the
Bourne trilogy, Apocalypto, Sunshine and last but not least: the remake of Assault on
Precinct 13.
Obligatory exception to the
rule: missed this gem at the cinemas. Running Scared
starts with a shootout the kind average action movies finish with and
never lets go of the pace. A gun that was supposed to be disposed lands in
the hands of Cameron 'the creepy kid from Birth' Bright, who shoots
his stepfather with it. Paul Walker cruises with him through a world of
gangsters, whores and hockey pucks.
Thank you mister Emmerich,
master of disaster, for upping the amount of adrenaline, while keeping
2012 below The Day after Tomorrow on the overall chart, lists
get much easier this way. Destruction is over the top, dialogues are
silly, scientific/survival plausibility flies out of the window over and
over again, cheese splatters all over the place, this is the way every
overly long blockbuster should be done! End of the world and I feel
fine.
Last chance for Bay, after
several disaster movies the bad kind. Original toys and cartoons never
were a personal favorite, so insult of childhood sentiment became
impossible. Silly sentiment (thanks to Spielberg) and overall
overthetopness is what makes Transformers a success: no other film
in the past ten years has succeeded in completely turning off the brain
for over two hours this convincingly. Bay is no Boll yet, but I'm starting
to like him.
Event movie of the decade, no competition.
After two prequels angered a lot of fans, Lucas struck back with the birth
of Darth Vader and had the Ewok balls to make it a little clumsy. On the
way to this majestic moment we're treated to gargantuan space battles in
all colors, contrasting with ever darker growing vibes.
Cloverfield gets top billing because it's compact, therefore easier to swallow multiple times. It had a genius teaser trailer and defied sky high expectations. The digicam format massively increases the feeling of being part of the crowd and giant special effects experienced this intimately get close to revolutionary cinema. Something big hits New York, like really hard, the city becomes a war zone. Now that's what the entire world calls a perfect fundament for classic entertainment! |
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