Tomorrowland.

I went to see it at the Bob Bullock IMAX.   I can’t believe they still fall for that ” I lost my college ID” baloney.

What would have been the opening scene of  any other sci fi movie is the whole movie…..

A bright young boy from the early 60’s is recruited into some (SPOILER) extra dimensional think tank for genius spirits…

then a bright young high school girl is is recruited into the same think tank ….

the Matrix meets Men in Black meets …. the Lego Movie …. meets last years INTERSTELLAR..

with a touch of IRON MAN2 ( well the whole NYC worlds fair thing)

So Hugh Lauries characters pessimism CAUSED the end of the world……?  And that teen girls optimism cured it?

The one clever idea, as the girl says something optimistic the doomsday percentage went down, and when she watches the “future TV” and says something positive the monitor shows a few frames of a bright future…

They go into a sci collectibles store filled with… :  Disney and Star Wars stuff.

So when Casey and Athena the Android steal that poor mans pickup truck in Houston Texas…. Casey falls asleep until they get to New York State and the trucks windshield is repaired and the license plate switches from Texas to to New York?

A well intentioned mess I really WANTED to like but couldn’t!

Like a lot of big budget sci fi films, the animated closing credits was the best part!

I went to look for THAT online and found THIS (below) that looks pretty good:

https://mattkprovideo.com/2015/06/08/deadwood-by-the-nematoads/

“Deadwood” by the Nematoads.

Canon DSLR and Go Pro footage run through After Effects and Premiere.

http://www.nematoads.com/

https://mattkprovideo.com/2015/06/08/prison-planet-music-video/

I shot this with a Canon DSLR and edited in Premiere.

I also used a lot of Photoshop, After Effects and some Cinema 4D.

https://mattkprovideo.com/2015/06/06/winnie-and-thunderrose-book-trailer/

This is a book trailer I animated in photoshop and after effects. ( I did NOT do the pencil artwork).

Book by Herman Franck, Esq.

https://books.google.com/books?id=bP086vYLpn4C&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=winnie+and+thunder+rose+herman+franck&source=bl&ots=WkOIRIpQKX&sig=6Wig3uoHD3B4Fplt5bBFfmaDXLg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=80BzVa2VIMPzsAWXz4OACw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=winnie%20and%20thunder%20rose%20herman%20franck&f=false

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/winnie-and-thunderose-herman-franck-esq/1102630876?ean=9781426956478

An animated short I created in After Effects, Photoshop. Flash and Premiere.

I just saw THE CONNECTION.

Its a very good movie but NOT the mind-blowing masterpiece everyone else thinks it is.

Yeah its a lot smarter than juvenile c–p like ” fast and furious part __________” but those flicks, as dumb as they are- move move and move! This falls short of other gangster classics like Goodfellas or….. can I say it , “the French Connection”

And I didn’t really feel emotionally engaged with either character until the last quarter of the film

The two lead actors look too much alike, confusing me a lot. yeah you want two leads that compliment each other, maybe even be  two sides of the same coin, but you shouldn’t have to stare and try and guess which is which.

It doesn’t look like two different people. It looks like the same guy turning his dead, doesn’t it?

So much has been said about how well it captures the feel of its time period, the 70s. True, but thats not always a good thing.  Overexposed washed out cinematography, too loosely edited ( needs to be shorter).   It seems like every scene was shot with natural sunlight from the windows.  No Im not saying I want a MTV/ Flashdance barrage of colored lights in every scene but the drab look gets worn out.  Theres even a discotecque scene thats kinda blahhhh.

Think about such “new school” gangster movies that movie at a break neck pace. Simply shot and maybe even SLOPPILY shot such as Layer Cake, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Michael mans HEAT, Donnie Brasco,  and one of my personal all-time favorite movies….. Miller’s Crossing!  (Actually Millers Crossing doesn’t belong in that list of sloppily shot movies, it has some of the most cleverly composed shots and editing I’ve ever seen, rivaling anything by Hitchcock, Spielberg, Tarantino etc…)

In one early scene the main gangster has his rival shot. How could any human being possibly survive THAT MANY point blank bullet shots pumped into him from 2 or 3 feet away?

ONE should have offed him.

I posted this to youtube on May 10th, 2014.

He found a reflective vest somewhere and calls pedicabbers over and claims to be a city pedicab inspector.

At first I found him annoying then just a little eccentric and amusing. A few times he actually went into the Club Summit crowd and got us rides!  It seems hes just a koo koo in search of some attention and sense of importance.

BUT I head a rumor he somehow went too far and got arrested.