The Author of this post is Cheryl Martinez
I am sure that you have probably seen the incredibly sad reports on the news about people who had suddenly died in their homes due to carbon monoxide poisoning. I recently saw a particularly sad story about a family of 5 with three little kids who had no heat in their house. They decided to bring in a natural gas style heater and placed it in the living room where they all slept together on the couches around the heater. They didn’t know it but the heater was putting off dangerous carbon monoxide. Unfortunately they didn’t have an carbon monoxidedetectors and they all perished in their home that night. This is a very sad story about a very preventable thing. I had an alarm system installed by home security Colorado and they actually installed carbon monoxide detectors all over the house. Now when I go to bed I never have to worry or wonder if there will be a problem because I know the alarm system will wake us up if there is a threat of carbon monoxide.
Friday, January 20, 2012
RED TAILS
As George Lucas announces his retirement, we are delivered his latest failure, Red Tails. The film is the perfect example of his absolute disregard for realistic dialogue, likable characters, and fluidity in film making. Although he's not the director, his heavy hand can be felt all over this absolute mess of a movie. It really hurts me to say that. I was praying that Red Tails would be a return to form for the man that brought the World War II dog fight to space in 1977. Unfortunately, this movie is a poor example of how a war movie should be done. It's all effects laden luster that lacks the grit necessary to make a great war movie.
The casting of Cuba Gooding Jr. and Terrence Howard almost guaranteed some worthwhile acting. Sadly, they both fail under the lead of an inexperienced puppet director that is obviously having his strings pulled by Mr. Lucas himself. Once again, the performances are wooden and without any emotion. This is the exact same problem that reared it's ugly head in the Star Wars prequels. I was literally have flashbacks to the dreadful line delivery in The Phantom Menace. Several times I found myself grimacing at the absolute disrespect for the audience and I actually considered walking out. This is how bad this movie is.
Of course the best part of Red Tails are the extremely detailed graphics and sound design. But, it's what we expect from Lucasfilm. There is nothing ground breaking here. The dog fight scenes are entertaining at best but we're never given any edge of your seat action. Instead, it just trudges along with battles we've all seen time and time again.
Red Tails is a film that Lucas has wanted to make for years. This was his pet project that he was hoping would be a high note before his so called "retirement" from blockbuster film making. At this point, I have lost almost all respect for the man and truly hope he keeps his greedy little ewok paws of the next Indy film. As much as I hate to say it, I think that Red Tails is almost a slap in the face to the real Tuskegee pilots.
The casting of Cuba Gooding Jr. and Terrence Howard almost guaranteed some worthwhile acting. Sadly, they both fail under the lead of an inexperienced puppet director that is obviously having his strings pulled by Mr. Lucas himself. Once again, the performances are wooden and without any emotion. This is the exact same problem that reared it's ugly head in the Star Wars prequels. I was literally have flashbacks to the dreadful line delivery in The Phantom Menace. Several times I found myself grimacing at the absolute disrespect for the audience and I actually considered walking out. This is how bad this movie is.
Of course the best part of Red Tails are the extremely detailed graphics and sound design. But, it's what we expect from Lucasfilm. There is nothing ground breaking here. The dog fight scenes are entertaining at best but we're never given any edge of your seat action. Instead, it just trudges along with battles we've all seen time and time again.
Red Tails is a film that Lucas has wanted to make for years. This was his pet project that he was hoping would be a high note before his so called "retirement" from blockbuster film making. At this point, I have lost almost all respect for the man and truly hope he keeps his greedy little ewok paws of the next Indy film. As much as I hate to say it, I think that Red Tails is almost a slap in the face to the real Tuskegee pilots.
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