"Disney's Bears" G
The year in the life of three Alaskan brown bears is detailed in this cute and often brithtly majestic story. Again the narrator tries to make it like bears are just like people, like they did for chimpanzees and lions. Bears do not get revenge. Big bears are only bullies because they're looking for food, not thinking things out. Skye and her cubs seem well trained for wild bears and even though they keep saying some peril will strike, it is rated G so there isn't really going to be any. In real life though, it's probably much more raw and violent if something did happen. The movie is a nice and wholesome documentary. If you're looking for National Geographic or Mutual of Omaha this isn't it. It's worth a rental.
Review by Adam Browne
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Review: "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is intense update of the Marvel mythos
Captain America: The Winter Soldier PG13
In this sequel to the first series of Avengers movies and to Captain America, the Cap is trying to adapt to being alive 72 years after being frozen during WW2 fighting Hydra. The SHIELD organization has revived him to go on missions with the Avengers, and then suddenly he and Widow are off to fight seagoing pirates on a night raid. Cap discovers that the true mission though was to steal the computer files for Widow's other plans, which he does not approve of. Then some time later, Nick Fury the director tells Cap to trust no one, and then is apparently killed in a massive car case and post chase death scene. Cap enlists Widow and a new person he met, who becomes the Falcon, to fight an enemy inside of SHIELD that may be connected to HYDRA and to a mysterious terrorist wit a robotic arm called the Winter Soldier.
The movie is too new to give a review without spoiling the ending, as the Russo brothers take on the material and make it more of a Bourne saga story with a little Clear and Present Danger, instead of a fantasy superhero movie. That asaid, there is plenty of fantasy and impossible escaping hails of bullets and explosions, right on up to the explosive decimation of a flying fleet. (It was in the trailer). It's a good movie if you like action fantasy, but if you're all about logic, gravity working a certain way, or a shield that really can't act as a boomerang, you probably won't like it.
They do briefly address the lady from the old base in the story, from the first film, who using old age makeup looks to be over 90.
Review by Adam Browne
In this sequel to the first series of Avengers movies and to Captain America, the Cap is trying to adapt to being alive 72 years after being frozen during WW2 fighting Hydra. The SHIELD organization has revived him to go on missions with the Avengers, and then suddenly he and Widow are off to fight seagoing pirates on a night raid. Cap discovers that the true mission though was to steal the computer files for Widow's other plans, which he does not approve of. Then some time later, Nick Fury the director tells Cap to trust no one, and then is apparently killed in a massive car case and post chase death scene. Cap enlists Widow and a new person he met, who becomes the Falcon, to fight an enemy inside of SHIELD that may be connected to HYDRA and to a mysterious terrorist wit a robotic arm called the Winter Soldier.
The movie is too new to give a review without spoiling the ending, as the Russo brothers take on the material and make it more of a Bourne saga story with a little Clear and Present Danger, instead of a fantasy superhero movie. That asaid, there is plenty of fantasy and impossible escaping hails of bullets and explosions, right on up to the explosive decimation of a flying fleet. (It was in the trailer). It's a good movie if you like action fantasy, but if you're all about logic, gravity working a certain way, or a shield that really can't act as a boomerang, you probably won't like it.
They do briefly address the lady from the old base in the story, from the first film, who using old age makeup looks to be over 90.
Review by Adam Browne
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