Reviews
San Andreas (2015)
Wait for it to hit cable and pretend you have 3D glasses. You won't notice.
If you like special effects, cleavage and clichés, this is your movie. But, that assumes that wooden acting, predictable outcomes, stereotypical characters and bad science does not really trouble you. About halfway though the movie I was hoping the innocent extras would all be spared and only the main characters would be wiped out. Then we could have gotten the really professional special effects and pretended it was a docudrama that did not subject me to the rest of the stupidity.
My wife and I were flipping a coin for this or "Age of Ultron". I lost twice.
Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)
Performances are very good. Realistic? I have no clue. Not many of these are.....
The female leads do a very fine job with a tough script. Capturing anyone's essence in a two hour movie about a single year is, to state the obvious, not simple. Andre 3000 described his depiction of Hendrix as a bit like the cartoon character "Snagglepuss". Unfortunately, that is pretty much spot on.
I spent the entire viewing asking myself, "what is the filmmaker saying"? Was Hendrix self- destructive, damaged, tragically self-absorbed, unfeeling, a genius ahead of his time, all of the above? A single year in a life, with some poetic license to boot, makes it difficult to discern much about the totality of anyone.
But, I enjoyed the movie as a snapshot of a period and an era.