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July 27, 2005
Marching Along
I went to see the new movie about my mortal enemies on Monday. March of the Penguins was a pretty good movie, although if you do not want to watch an hour and a half of penguins walking and standing around, then I would not recommend it. It was a fairly typical National Geographic stuff with lots of very well done panoramic shots of hundreds of penguins walking single file atop the ice. I am not sure I would take young kids to see it since several of the penguins die rather painful deaths from exposure, starvation, and seal.
Supposedly this is one of the most profitable films of the summer, which is probably a good thing. Although I am not opposed to sequels if they are well done or remakes if they improve on the quality of the orginal material did we really need remakes of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bewitched, and the Bad News Bears. There are lots of creative ideas for movies that Hollywood refuses to take risks on and lots of things audiences would like to watch that Hollywood refuses to do. There still has not been a movie about the war on terror, unless you count Farenheit 9/11 or Team America: World Police. There also have not been any more biblical movies since The Passion, even though that movie made something like $350 million. The one movie they are planning about 9/11 is going to be directed by Olive Stone which means it will likely be full of conspiracy crap and may even make the terrorists heros if it does not claim it was all a plot by the Bush administration or the CIA. At least I saw a poster for X-Men 3 (coming next year!) in the theater two weeks ago when I went to a free showing of Wedding Crashers and a preview for the next Harry Potter movie when I saw March of the Penguins. Wedding Crashers at least tried hard to be a funny movie and Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson were both good, although I can not quite recommend going to see it in the theater. Wait for it on DVD.
Posted by Pete at July 27, 2005 10:05 AM
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