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The Miracle of the Cards (2001)
Far from the truth.
Boy gets cancer, mother sees divine sign, boy get miraculously cured.
Bull. I like how they change all the facts to fit a sermon. Great propaganda for the weak-minded. The cool thing about this film is that it turned me on to what really happened and to thank John Kluge and Dr. Neal F. Kassell, M.D. whose resources and years of training really were the true heroes. Not some made up invisible man, written by ignorant unidentified authors, thousands of years ago.
As a follow up to the story, the Shergolds have moved and request no more mail as it is now automatically sent to a recycle plant.
Pacific Rim (2013)
Yeah OK....
Pacific Rim is basically what the previews have shown. Nothing beyond that. It's a combination of Colonel Shikishima of 'Akira', the technology and look from 'XCOM Enemy Unknown', with the gritty set designs of 'Martix Revolutions'...and the bad acting of 'Starship Troopers'. I found myself yawning, a lot. If you want a sense numbing sci-fi depiction of robots vs monsters, go ahead and pay the money, don't forget a pillow for the other 80% of the movie with boring human interaction and uninteresting back-story. So now that I have done my little criticism, I just hit preview and IMDb wants at least 10 lines to finish my thoughts on this film. There. There now is my 10 lines. Buy!
Too Big to Fail (2011)
Too Nice to Be Believed
This is just like one of those big disaster films from the 1970's, except it's all speculation, just like the high price of gas.
This shows, in name, the who's who of Wall Street at the time of of the biggest financial crisis since the great depression. It's fiction. Sadly it blames the American people for "having a lack of confidence" in the preposterous circumstances of those who pull the strings find themselves in. This obvious and carefully scripted propaganda, for the "heroes" of the enormous investment banks, just shows how the government of the United States (yes, your's and mine) panic and force billions of taxpayer dollars to save the innocent and vulnerable firms who have NO CONNECTION WITH THE FED WHAT-SO-EVER (wink wink, nudge nudge). Example: brushed over with dental floss is Hank Paulson's connection with Goldman Sachs, which received the largest bailout in history and still is the biggest string puller in Washington. Missed from this story is the blatant corruption, the absolute ineptness of the SEC, and the lack of any regulation from Washington.
Paul Giamatti is possibly the only reason to watch this farce since he steals every scene he is in with a subtlety of Lawrence Olivier. It amazes me, when everyone else is screaming "the sky is falling", Paul expresses the message of doom like a soothsayer predicting the end of the world.
Now I can see why Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote this glossy "gee we are innocent of everything" bull the way he did. I wouldn't want to be an outsider with my informants, especially when they pull the strings in Washington and Wall Street. Rock and a hard place anyone?
Bottom line: Who can't believe that Goldman Sachs manipulated and orchestrated the downfall of two of it's biggest rivals while leaving a wake of financial despair and destruction of the middle class?
If you don't, then I have some beach property in Utah I would like to sell you. So do some online research and connect the dots. HBO should have made it non-fiction instead and call it "Conspiracy"...but that was already taken.
The Wolfman (2010)
"If I were the candlestick maker.....
...I would be RICH!" Very good special effects but definitely not as scary as American Werewolf in London (walking on the moors)but the attacks on helpless, and even armed humans, was better than Underworld. As far as storyline goes, the flashbacks are a little confusing unless you just tell yourself "Hey this is an alternate universe where it's 1891, the days are almost as dark as night, eastern European gypsies have set up a wagon train in the upper england countryside, the asylum is NOT a bed and breakfast, and the local candlestick maker is the richest man in town." Well OK, the acting was great, the sets impressive, costumes first class. So why do I feel towards the end of it all like I want to just get up and leave? I think it's because I don't relate to the characters much. No sympathy at all to any of the them. Overall there wasn't the campy special-effect horror movie expectation like Van Helsing and I give it a solid 7...but this won't join my DVD collection.