Sunday, August 12, 2007

Premonition (2007)

Scale 0-10 0=none 10=Ultimate
Immodesty = 3
Violence = 6
Language = 7
Sex = 2
Plot = 7
Action = 5
Suspense = 7
Character Development = 5
Plot Development = 5

I found Premonition at the library. It seemed like a fun premise when I saw the previews on TV, but the previews disappeared after a short time. That didn't bode well for it and the box said it was 93 minutes or something like that, so I didn't have high hopes. Sandra Bullock is often good in movies, so I figured we could give it a shot.

It turned out it was slow. The script also had some continuity issues. Several of the continuity issues were resolved after my wife and I talked about the movie afterward. The fact that we it gave us something to do together to figure through it afterward made it semi worthwhile.

Language
There was brief profanity. But one of them was an F-bomb, so I rated it a bit harder. I was suprised to hear that ina PG13 film.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Man of the Year (2007)

Scale 0-10 0=none 10=Ultimate
Immodesty = 2
Violence = 2
Language = 6
Sex = 7
Plot = 7
Action = 5
Suspense = 4
Character Development = 6
Plot Development = 4

Immodesty
As far as I can recall everyone seemed to be clothed fairly modestly.

Violence
The violence was pretty tame for having suspense and mystery elements. There were several attacks and attempted attacks on people.

Language and Sex
I'm going to group these together because there is only one huge issue I had in these areas and it was the same thing, Robin Williams' blue standup. We have seen that he is very capable of doing clean and hilarious improv (Aladin, Mrs. Doubtfire, and to some extend Mork), but when he drops to the gutter he digs deep. There were several scenes where he was doing graphic sexual gestures and talk. All of which, I felt, took away from the plot.

Plot and Plot Development
The plot a had a lot of potential. The idea of someone running and saying it straight and not taking money from special interest group as well as the scandle with voting machine. It turned out to be mostly about Robin Williams blue comedy and less about making the plot tight and believable.

Action
There was a fair amount of action, but could've been better integrated with a good plot development.

Suspense
There was a little suspense as people were being pursuded, but pretty tame.

Character Development
We got to know the characters fairly well, but with a better plot it would've rounded them out more. The wrap up by the psuedo narator helped a lot with the main character, but the co staring characters could've been given more story.