Dave Weigel

Some Movies

Posted June 14th by Dave.

Terminator: Salvation - Passable summer nonsense, although the series' timeline and, well, point - never all that clear - have been ground into mush by the needs of sequelization. Sam Worthington proves that not all Australians can break off the accent like Hugh Jackman or Eric Bana (whose breakout role in Chopper I'm watching right now). Up - A tear-jerker within the first 10 minutes, a sad and beautiful package of love stories that, alas, like Wall-E, devolves into an actionfest in the final act. But it does pass the "haunting" test - I am thinking about it days later. The Brothers Bloom - Aaaand here's one that fails the test. Rian Johnson's followup to Brick plays a similar trick, placing a ...