Apart from the fact that the victim was blubbering the whole way through and I couldn't understand what she was saying I enjoyed it. 7/10.
I watched another the same week, Stoker, and I don't even remember it being shown here. I think I know why, it was total crap. I've never been a fan of Nicole Kidman and now I know why. 0/10.
Will go and see The Lone Ranger as soon as school holidays are over. Can't wait.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/ ... mmer-ride/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;The media is flop-hungry. All year, the mainstream critics and entertainment journalists have salivated over the prospects of big movies falling flat, seeming to almost encourage it and acting disappointed when some of their predictions didn’t come true. From the early insistence The Great Gatsby was an obvious flop (it wasn’t), to the eager chanting that After Earth was destined to bomb (it did), to the obsessive attempt to convince us World War Z was doomed to failure (wrong again), the press has engaged in more than their usual bit of bandwagon narratives and really focused on the gloom-and-doom predictions more than ever.
The Lone Ranger, a film that’s about a hundred times better than you think it is due to the mindless press coverage and echo-chamber of the increasingly lazy professional critics. In this case, though, I think the press worked extra hard to ensure they’d control the narrative and render the outcome they insisted was unavoidable.
Let me be honest and tell you up front, I originally was excited when I first heard about the film, but as more news came out the negative press coverage sank my hopes. By the start of this week, I didn’t even plan to see it in theaters, and felt it probably wasn’t going to be very good. However, the review over at Salon said a few things that got me interested enough to reconsider seeing it in theaters. But I still went in with low expectations, and I thought the best case would be that it was a mixed bag filled with more “bad” than “good.” Most likely, though, I thought it was going to be awful.
Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be funny, exciting, heartfelt, and just full of real joy and great entertainment.
