
The Imitation Game. Some good material here, but pretty instantly forgettable. So much left at surface level, it seemed. And they weren’t really lacking for time. Blah.

The Imitation Game. Some good material here, but pretty instantly forgettable. So much left at surface level, it seemed. And they weren’t really lacking for time. Blah.

John Carter. Easily the most teal-and-orange movie I’ve ever seen. I feel like there’s a good movie hiding in here somewhere. Overhaul the terrible dialogue, trim judiciously. It has some decent-enough swashbuckling action (and one really effective battle), and thankfully doesn’t rely on dumb one-liners or dopey comic relief characters or modern-day allegory. It’s really straightforward, for all its excess in other ways (effects, cast, milieu) Andrew Stanton directed a dud here, but at least he’s still got Finding Nemo and Wall-E on his resume…