So - without any real (or reel) background in reviewing movies or acting (aside from a play I did in my junior year of high school) - here is a run down of the movies I saw this summer.
Avengers: Age of Ultron
What a busy, busy movie. While I like superhero movies, Marvel has taken them to the next level because none of these movies can stand on their own and make sense. To understand the complexities of the relationships of the seven or so main characters you would have to have watched both Captain America movies, both Thor movies, all three Iron Mans, plus the first Avengers movie. You probably need a smattering of Agents of Shield too.
There was so much back story I had trouble with the current story.
So they build the "ultimate" bad ass robot and turns on them and then they have to fight not only it, Ultron, but all of the robots he creates on a city being lifted into the air on rocket boosters. Sure.
Strap in, hang on, go pee before the movie starts. Bring your kid to explain it to you afterwards.
B+
Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller saved money on writers for a script and dialogue and spent it on explosions, stunts, and car crashes. Money. Well. Spent. With a pretty straight forward plot that keeps you engaged, the movie is an adrenaline rush for almost the entire picture. Creepy bad guy and minions chase our hero across the desert because he has their fertile women (who don't want to be used as brood stock).
I liked Mad Max and the Road Warrior - the anti-hero who wants to turn his back on the world but still has a thread of decency. The new Max (Tom Hardy) conveys that very well.
Big, bad ass cars and trucks set in a future of feudal rules and borderline anarchy. All going really, really fast.
A+
Tomorrowland
I am saving this movie for when I get home and can take TJ.
IC
San Andreas
I love a good disaster movie. San Andreas delivers the disaster without being a disaster.
In less than two hours the Hoover Dam is destroyed, Los Angeles rolls like a wave and is reduced to rubble and San Fransisco is demolished and flooded. I like that most disaster movies are rooted in some fact. Clearly California is due for "the big one" and thanks to plate tectonics, everything west of the fault line will be under water in a million years or so. But we don't have time to wait that long so we can do in one movie day.
Duane Johnson does not suck as an actor. He's not a Brando either, but he does show emotion that you can believe. So there's that. Both lead female characters were obviously chosen for their endownment then maximized by lowcut tops. I saw cleavage that ran deeper than the geologic phenomenon in the title of the movie. And when the earth quakes, they shake.
Everything appeared as bad as I could be (memories of San Fransisco 1987) and I was doing good until they were piloting the zodiac boat through the flooded streets of SanFran.
Wait for Netflix but rent it in BluRay.
B
Just a note on the "trouble after 9pm". It is my personal philosophy that nothing good happens when you start your evening after 9pm. After 9pm people are looking for a good time that could include - but might not be limited to - drinking, criminal acts, debauchery, and general mayhem. It is a personal rule that I started as I got older and one I adhered to when deployed. There was never a good reason for me, or anyone else, to be roaming around a Forward Operating Base in the middle of Iraq at 10:30 at night unless you were on duty. I carried that forward to Kentucky, or North Carolina, or just about anywhere.
Coming up in Part II -
Jurassic World
Inside Out
Minions
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