Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts

the Road (2009)

by D. Jacob Ryals

Planet of the Hobos

This movie is okay.  Not great, and I could definitely see people not liking this movie.  Most movies like this, there is some huge delima that occurs and the whole movie revolves around this delima.  As you watch the father and son travel they narrowly escape what would usually consume the entire plot of the movie.  They kill a scavenger and escape his buddies.  They come across a family of cannibals and escape being eaten.  They find a bank of food, and don't have to defend it.  This movie is more about showing you what complete and utter despair is.  I like the fact it doesn't take the normal turns, though the end result is a little boring.  This is not a movie that takes you on a ride or gives you some kind of experience.  This movie is meant to be thought about and talked aobut afterwards.  I didn't like the ending.  It wrapped up a little too nicely.  Some movies are like that, and I don't mind that.  It really is though like a movie with a planet full of homeless and starving people.  I have heard that the book isn't bad, so I may check it out.

Not for everybody.


Defendor (2009)

by D. Jacob Ryals



What if Rorshach had a retarded little brother.

This movie is great.  If you took the Tick, put him in Gotham City, and took away all his powers, it would be this movie.  It is a mixture of Don Coyote (with a crack smoking prostitue for Sancho Panza) and the Dark Knight.  The setting and surroundings are dark, grim, and realistic and you put this delusional character in the middle of it.  Woody Harrleson's performance is the main peice, I actually welled up a couple of times. Woody conveys the innocence of this character so well, that you start connecting with him with your inner child.  Almost the same way we did with Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump or Sean Penn in I Am Sam.  I read some reviews on this movie and the consensus was "you are going to like this movie or you aren't".  I did.  I love comix, but its not the superheroes that do it for me, its the vigilante that I like the most.  This movie went completely under my radar.  I saw it in the iTunes new releases, checked out some reviews and bought it.  Loved it.  Throughout the whole movie there are real consequences for what Arthur (Woody) does.  Some of those consequences are tragic, but its the hope and inspiration to be better that is the most touching part of this movie.