Thor (2011)The experience watching "Thor" is exactly like eating that tub of popcorn - it is a lazy choice, un-inspiring, fast-food flavor, nothing more than salt/grease, and taste exactly like the last time you had it - an experience built to be forgotten.
"Thor" tells a story where this blonde boyish 'god of thunder', is being cast to earth after making an arrogant mistake and power stripped; he however learnt the value of life and love and regain his power through the short journey on earth, kissed a human girl, and recovered his god-ish status.
JJ Abrams gives us a trailer for his, Steven Spielberg produced, "Super 8". Oh wait, Abrams is going the way of Shamalyaman and can never give us a straight trailer, but only tease after tease. Hopefully, this movie doesn't suck, but we can't tell based off this new teas, er, trailer. Dear Abrams, quit it with that shit. It's old. Thanks.
Next we get "Captain America". Marvel proves it can't stay away from mentioning this "Avenger" crap for two seconds. The movie looks like it could be fun, but I'm sure that twerp from S.H.I.E.L.D. will ruin it the minute he shows up. Hell even Samuel L. Jackson's appearance could make us want to walk out at this point.
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Black Swan(2010)Ballet is the last thing I would ever care to sit myself through. A carousel of pirouettes and flips in an auditorium full of penguin suits and fur vested madams seems a bit snobbish, even when I’m humbled by the wealth of talent these dancers possess. However, mix some blood gashes and hot girls making out and “Swan Lake” suddenly comes down to my level! Darren Aronofsky goes DePalma all over Tchaikovsky, whose classic ballet is turned into this year’s “Rosemary’s Baby,” with “Black Swan.”
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Black Swan(2010)Nina practices ballet real hard. Nina gets role she’s been practicing for. Nina is barely pressured to do a good job. Nina looses it because, well, who freaking knows? Her mom’s an ass and her instructor wants her to do a good job, but there isn’t a reason there beyond Nina’s own neurosis.
Needless to say this Bitter Swan was not impressed. Aronofsky’s decision to direct this in the style of ‘70s horror sounds good on paper, but all we get are some awful shot selection, mediocre lighting, and 20 too many shots of the back of someone’s head while they walk. It’s incredibly uninteresting and bores the audience. It would have been better to direct this in a beautifully shot high art style and had the horror/violence in stark contrast to the rest of the film.
