Random musings

Just some random thoughts about popular movies for which I'm too lazy to write whole articles around. 

Into the woods

Into the woods begins with the song into the woods. It takes the actors fifteen minutes of singing into the woods before they finally get into the woods and spent the remainder of the movie into the woods whilst you are desperately waiting for them to get out of the damn woods!








The Terminator chase

The original two (three) Terminator movies where all about a superior killer robot that would stop at nothing chasing our heroes -and was, in fact, very hard to destroy. Much in the same vein as the slasher-horrors of the eighties with their Michael Myers, Jashon Voorhees and others.
So what I don't understand is why in the following sequels the moviemakers opted for less chase and more universe building and action. Blowing stuff up isn't the same as feeling stuck in a cat-and-mouse game. In the new terminator-movies they've taken away the thriller element in favor of the flashy-lights-explosions. Too bad.

Peter Pan problem

Every Peter Pan movie since the Disney animation has flopped at the box office (the 2003 version, Hook, ao). Even the live-television version this year (with the great Christopher Walken) didn’t get the best reviews. The only recent movie that was somewhat of a critical success was Finding Neverland - about the writer of Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie). So why does the entertainment industry keep trying?

BTW - Hollywood, if you wish to do something fun with the Peter Pan story, make a movie based on the book The Child Thief by Gerald Brom. But, just humor me, don't make the movie as bloody as the book is...because it really is rather messed up.

I do like the motivation the writer gave for this bloody version of the Pan-saga. He explains that the original unedited version of the Pan story by J. M. Barrie was far more cruel than we remember it nowadays.




Things I don't want to hear in behind-the-scenes interviews anymore! 

I know movies have to be promoted. And yes you wish to win over your audience. But sometimes it would be nice if the following few standardized sentences didn't happen in those behind-the-scenes interviews anymore:

"This has never been done before."
"The most exciting time of my life."
*(girl) actress has a giggly fit.*
"He was the best director I ever worked with."
"He/she was great/awesome/wonderful/sweet."
"The most special effects ever put on film before."
"We had to do it for real!" 

Sometimes I long for something like the Marnie-trailer in which Hitchcock basically takes the p*ss out of his own movie.