Fall Movie Preview Spectacular! Part 3

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

Release Date: November 16^th

Directed by Bill Condon; Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner

At last, our long national nightmare comes to an end. Twilight ends, the hype dies down, and teenage girls may finally have a chance at discovering empowering and intelligent films and literature, instead of this puritanical misogynist garbage. And lest you think me unfair, I have seen these movies, and I have read the first book. I have done my research. And this is easily one of the laziest, most blatantly contemptuous cash-grab franchises in film history. I don’t care if they do have an Oscar winner at the helm. Condon makes no difference. These movies are awful, rotten to their core, and I cannot wait for them to return to the shadows from whence they came.

Anna Karenina

Release Date: November 16^th (Limited)

Directed by Joe Wright; Starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law, and Aaron Tyler-Johnson

If I may play Oscar prognosticator for a second, I think there’s a very real chance Keira Knightley may win Best Actress this year for her lead role in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina. Knightley was a tremendously deserving nominee for Pride and Prejudice, her first collaboration with the director, and both she and Wright have only gotten better at their respective crafts since then.

That means Karenina is one of the key prestige films to watch out for this season, and as with all of Wright’s films, I suspect there’s more than mere pedigree beneath the surface.

He has a wonderful sense for character, a deft hand at relating thematic subtext, and, of course, a tremendous eye for visuals. All of that will serve the film well, and Knightley may have her meatiest role to date playing one of literature’s most well known characters. I’m very excited to see what she does with the part, and with no major competition to speak of (not, at least, among roles the Oscars care about), this could very well be her year.

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obloodyhell

}}} about America’s greatest President

Many would take issue with that. While certainly a great man, he did defacto destroy States Rights, which were a singularly important part of the foundation of this nation and its controls over the Federal government. We’ve been working for the last 50 years to restore some semblance of that control, and mostly losing ground. That States Rights were seriously flawed in terms of the notion that they were not constrained by the Consitution, they were still valid at their heart. I don’t believe Spielberg will touch on those things at all, and that will be a strong weakness to this film.
obloodyhell

The truly wretched part about Twilight is that it, along with “True Blood” is an exercise in “Vampire Chic”, the notion that Vampires, which are explicitly evil, have no emotions other than the blood lust (much less a desire for, or interest in, “sex”), and pretty much cannot, as Vampires, be “good guys”. This started, within reason, with Joss Whedon’s Angel (though you could argue it started with Anne Rice), but Angel wasn’t a vampire in the strictest sense. His soul was returned to him by a curse, and that tormented him all the time, he now SAW the evil he’d done, and felt the pain and suffering of all those he’d tormented. He wasn’t a true vampire any more. The same cannot be said for those in True Blood or Twilight (or even Underworld). They aren’t going to be compassionate or understanding or loving or caring. That’s not what a “vampire” is.
Tangibulla

Crappy click-bait website, and second-rate, self-indulgent reviews. Get a job!