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A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
beautiful!!!
Wow, I can't believe reviews saying the boy was a bad actor. He is perfectly natural and adorable. Also, the color was magnificent, gritty, yet vibrant. Black and white would not have added anything to the colorful market days and red neon nights. This is a real gem and I highly recommend seeing it. I'm confused why it's considered a fantasy though, since nothing happens that couldn't happen in real life. This film really gives you a sense of place and time, and you feel you know these people and that they are real and a tight knit loving community so different from modern times. There is so much wit, wordplay and attention to detail. It's the little things that make it so nice, like the man watching ballet on the TV while the wrestling match is going on. This film is compelling and utterly charming. I highly recommend it.
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
The cinematic equivalent of eating fast food for three hours
Let me start with the good points. This movie looks amazing and you can see where the 165,000,000 dollars went (not to feed the hungry or educate the poor, but I digress). The intricate design of the machines and the enchanting backdrops are visually stunning. It was fun to look at. What I found irritating was the pacing and the editing. A good movie has ups and downs, rising tension, climaxes, unexpected twists, and some kind of emotional involvement with the characters. This movie came out of the gate at full speed and never stopped for three hours. I couldn't keep up. It was exhausting and mind-numbing. I actually came out of the film feeling dumber somehow. The dialogue was one cliché after another and felt totally unnatural. The main character was kind of a jerk. There is also a blatant bud light commercial midway through. Oh yes, and of course the bad guy is motivated by love of God and country, and other thinly veiled partisan left wing clichés. Also,whenever the Transformers made some kind of heroic pronouncement I was reminded that this whole franchise is based on toys for small children, but then an 'F' bomb would be dropped or the camera would pan up a scantily clad hottie, and I would wonder who this movie was exactly aimed at. Not me apparently. I could care less about these machines or the token two dimensional humans who appeared for brief moments between the robots fights and explosions.