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Land of the Dead
The long awaited follow up to Romero's Day of the Dead is a bit underwhelming. After the zombiepocalypse, rich people are dicks, it sucks to be poor or a minority and zombies are still everywhere. Land asks the question, again, of who are the real monsters, us or the zombies? I mean really, we get it, people are dicks, especially in emergencies. And what happens when zombies begin to learn things? They are slightly harder to kill...I mean come on! There are so many one dimensional characters and so many ideas of what society would be like when the dead walk the earth, but nothing and nobody is explored or fleshed out. Disappointing.
RocknRolla
This movie was trying to do all of the right things, ie. hit all of the same high points of Lock, Stock... and Snatch. But sarcastic, quirky, lower and upper class criminals with sexy British accents can only go so far. This film meanders and takes way too long to get where it is going. The best way to deal with this would have been to cut out the 25 minutes that people spend saying the words "Rock and Rolla." As a bonus, if anybody asks, I can repeat this phrase in the 13 different ways it is endlessly used in the film in an excellent accent.
Slumdog Millionaire
Fascinating and fabulous. Two brilliant things about this movie. First, setting half the movie to the big money run on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Remember when this show first came out? Show was hella exciting, keeping people on the edge of their seats. Second, filming it in and around many of India's slums. What a horrible place to live, but fantastic place to shoot, incredibly ramshackle, horrifying poverty filled with colorful characters. In the end this movie is really almost a fairy tale, with true love, destiny, and incredible coincidences happening, all mixed with a Children of God rise from the slums aesthetic.Show Off