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tamrawillett
Reviews
The Good Dinosaur (2015)
not for kids!!
Good lord! It's irresponsible--at the least--and reprehensible--at the most--to promote this movie as a family-friendly comedy. Anyone familiar with how Disney treats parents won't be surprised by the beginning--but that is followed by an hour of unrelenting intense and scary action with only a wee blip of calm in which to catch our breath.
This isn't to say it's a bad film--the coming-of-age trope is told in an interesting manner and the visuals are breathtakingly beautiful. But it ain't a movie for kids--it ain't a movie for me either, but I believed the commercials and trusted the Pixar name. Goodness, I saw this on TV--can't imagine how horrible it would've been to see it on a big screen. Yikes
Defendor (2009)
deserves to be seen
Touching, funny, charming, heart-breaking, optimistic--and so little known. This film is on my special list--the one with the films and books that if folks like 'em, I know I'll like the folks. (Since you asked, another such movie is Australia's "The Castle." And, since you asked, one of the books is "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell) A wonderful example of a well-acted film.
Haven't written a review for a long time, and when I tried to post it learned the minimum length is 10 lines of text. More words do not indicate a better composition--I should know, I taught English Comp at university.
Okay--long enough now.