9.16.2012

 

Tangled


PG, 100 min
IMDb | Official site
Overall Grade: A-

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 1:16 AM
 

Wanted


R, 110min
IMDb | Official Site

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 1:12 AM
 

The Dark Knight Rises


PG-13, 165minutes
3rd in the 'Dark Knight' trilogy
IMDb | Official Site

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 1:07 AM
 

Inception


PG-13, 148 min
IMDb | Official Site
Overall Grade: A

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 1:01 AM
 

Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers


unrated, ~60 minutes
IMDb | Marvel site

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 12:54 AM

9.15.2012

 

Neutrino

by Frank Close, 166 pgs, hardcover

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 11:56 PM
 

Star Wars: Allegiance

by Timothy Zahn, 324 pgs, hardcover
Series: Star Wars

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 11:54 PM
 

Coming Apart: The State of White America

by Charles Murray, 306pgs, hardcover
Overall Grade: A

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 11:52 PM
 

How Firm a Foundation

by David Weber, 564 pgs, hardcover
Safehold series #5


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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 11:50 PM

9.08.2012

 

War Horse

PG-13, 146 minutes
IMDb | Official Website
Overall Grade: A-

An adaptation of a play, which is an adaptation of a book. 'War Horse' follows the horse, Joey, from the time when he is born in Devon, England through his training and upbringing by a boy/young man named Albert Narracott. Eventually, to save the family farm, Joey must be sold to a British cavalry officer, Captain Nichols played by Tom Hiddleston, at the outset of WWI. Of course, we know with hindsight that cavalry became completely out-dated with the machine guns and artillery introduced during the war and Cpt. Nichols is tastefully but emotionally killed off. Ownerless Joey and another calvary horse are taken by the German army to pull ambulances and put under the care of two young brothers who shortly use them to desert from the army. The boys hide in a windmill and are soon found and shot for desertion. The horses are found by the sickly girl on whose farm the windmill resides. The girl Emilie lives alone with her grandfather as her parents have already been killed in the war. She adores the horses, and manages to hide them once from a pillaging army, but the first time she goes out riding on Joey, she runs into more soldiers and both horses are retaken by the Germany army, this time for the backbreaking task of pulling artillery. The other horse subcomes to the heavy labor and dies. In the face of an Allied advance, the Germans releash Joey who panics what with all the explosions and the tank that chases him and he runs pell-mell into no-man's land. Eventually he becomes completely entangled in barbed wire and can't move. Soldiers from both the English and German sides come out to set him free (because they'll kill each other but not a poor horse apparently). A wounded Joey returns to the English side where he is almost put down before he miraculously encounters Albert Narracott, who is temporarily blinded by a gas attack. After some more drama, they go back to the farm in England together at the end of the war.
It was strange to watch a movie that follows a horse, especially since the people that encounter Joey keep dying. A good but not happy movie. Watched it on an airplane ride from Georgia back to California - mostly because it's on Hiddleston's filmography. Also, has Benedict Cumberbatch who leads cavalry to which Cpt. Nichols belongs. You might not even recognize Cumberbatch if you aren't playing attention as his different British accent and period mustache totally change his appearance.

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 6:43 PM
 

The Bourne Legacy

PG-13, 135 minutes
IMDb | Official Website
Side story of the Bourne trilogy
Overall Grade: B+

This story takes place at the same time the other Bourne movies are happening (though I'm not sure exactly when in those movies since it's been several years since I saw them). Aaron Cross is part of another program, similar to the one Jason Bourne was in, which has enhanced his physical & mental abilities. After surviving an attempt to eliminate him in the backwoods of Alaska, Aaron makes his way back to the U.S. and tracks down a scientist who used to do lab work on him in order to find the medicine necessary to keep his abilities. Turns out this lady, Dr. Marta Shearling, is also on the hit list of the shadow government agencies, so the two strike out across the globe hoping to keep themselves alive.
I like the chemistry between Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) and Dr. Shearling (Rachel Weisz). Not quite romance yet, but you can see it's heading there. (Sequel anyone?)
Aaron is also written well so that he's intelligent, but also a person with a scene of humor. Smiles make Renner's face 100% better. The writer(s) also have to qualms with making Dr. Shearling a doctor who is a biologist and not a people doctor. Refreshing to see non-science people recognize that just because someone does science on the human body doesn't mean they have a medical degree!

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