Saturday, August 6, 2011

Movie Reviews: Trollhunter and One Lucky Elephant




Since the Blair Witch, Cloverfield is a Battle: Los Angeles, a fake documentary genre has conquered the cinema, just like a TV camera sitcom is a comedy. The strategy may be a practical solution narrators have a limited budget, or it can be a crutch to record a couple of ideas. The trick is to use the shaky cam in the service of something greater.

The movie monster Trollhunter Norway, directed by André Øvredal, opens with the corpses are popping up everywhere on the field. A trio of college filmmakers aspiring to obtain their pocket cameras and went in search of what they think is a poacher. They find a strange thin hair who lives out of a van for Team A. It also smells something. That the hunting is considerably larger than the game: trolls.

The construction is slow and obvious, but full of eccentric, comic detail - such as tanning beds and ultraviolet guns in the van, or the government behind security service, who used the bear dead as decoys. TSS has identified many species of magic - including Tosserlad, and Ringlefitch Jotnar - and details like: They were all born after a gestation period of ten to fifteen years, with a head, then quickly develop more (none of have them) as tumors. And yes, they love the smell of a Christian man.

I began to think that Øvredal could go to more aggressive style comedy Zombieland, but the film never fully commit, then falls into a lot of herky-Jerky fleeing goblins (which once seen, are the flashy-looking than you want to find the channel SyFy). What was cool and scary The Blair Witch twelve years ago (like a long shot on the floor when the guy holding the camera freaks out, or a night vision shots of walking through the forest), just do not have more, and is much more ØvredalIn his bag of tricks.

Lucky elephant

Lisa Leeman confused documentary An elephant lucky introduced the kindly circus ringmaster David Balding, who had an elephant in Africa aged sixteen years ago, and turns it into a bizarre mix of cow and daughter Balding trained elephant named Flora and created a viable business - Circus Flora - around her. She even walked down the aisle behind him at his wedding. But somewhere along the way, Flora has lost his desire for a signature tower standing, sitting, and running it: to open and close the bag with his suitcase. "It's hard to believe that I made a mistake to take the life of an elephant and merge it with mine," said Balding.

The film begins sixteen years after they found him Balding, when the now aging businessman trying to find a suitable home for the elderly Flora. Balding, as well as emotional and Animals in captivity, the process is a struggle. When you do not settle in a zoo, he acts violently, and is forced to move. Soon, the owners of the book of Tennessee Elephant making misleading statements Flora of post-traumatic stress disorder, which repealed Baldings dubious theories about separation anxiety. Managing elephant falls into a strange battle, in which each party claims to know the thoughts of animals.

This is a portrait Balding wave here, but little sense of the life of circus and how he came into the store, and virtually no recognition of the history of Flim-Flam circus ring master. Cropping a postscript of this awkward oddball Americana sketch as a call for pro-pachyderm justice, but there is too little context to justify without more argument. You can imagine Errol Morris document into a clinical obsession with animals of the conflict - a successor to Gates of Heaven. Or, Werner Herzog is an atavistic grotesque inability to tame a wild animal nature, Grizzly Mon Instead Leeman applies to sappy and light, transforming what could have been a marquee attraction at a sideshow .


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