Review
When it comes to Denzel Washington, ever since he won his second Acadamy award for acting for the 2001 movie Training Day, he’s been playing a similar way, which is when he eats up the screen and overshadows everybody he is working with. It’s slowing becoming the Denzel movie starring Denzel and a bunch of other people.
I don’t like to use the word “epic” a lot. I have been caught on occasions to use it, but it’s really an overused polyseme. Epic is supposed to be noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style. These days, the word means Awesome, kickass, or otherwise positive.
Our brains are interesting things. We can look at something from our past, and we can instantly remember the stuff we were passionate about. We can leave the radio on, and when a song comes on that you haven’t heard in a long time, you can still sing along with the lyrics, like you just heard it yesterday. A television show you watched when you were a kid gets mentioned by a co-worker, and you remember all the quirks and the catchphrases. Someone mentioned a kids movie from your childhood, and you can probably still recite some of the dialogue.
On August 24th, 2006, Pluto was demoted as a planet in the solar system. Since then, the dwarf planet has been plotting and scheming to get revenge on the planet that ruined it’s reputation, Earth. In February 1991, an N.E.S. game called Metal Storm predicted that it takes almost 500 years to execute this revenge. The planning stage is the longest, it seems.
Tis the season to be jolly. Fa la la la la, et cetera. Christmas shopping is coming to an end, and what better way to celebrate increasing the amount of debt on your credit card than to head to the theatre and watch some movies. But instead of heartfelt, romantic comedies, and Oscar contenders, and all that, we’re watching a couple of action-packed films that will wake the audience. So, let’s head in and see a double header.