AARON PAUL'S JESSE DRIVES 'EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE'

<p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgihZQSI1FsDdbVY8AiYm38keckdkJm-tRv1QMW09-W7L6hxKawmBbiOSOGQ3J6iW8D1XfpLctFbaW0PlRRaNwZ8lSToaJsdC5JKV5X_At1F34iAuhV0ZZPI6flwcnCHZgtOUOay49MdihNZ5fEP7FFIqVZjm5_Me4nfBp-_WRays9CBBKk4e-jSFHKcA/s1354/Screen%20Shot%202019-10-13%20at%206.35.07%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgihZQSI1FsDdbVY8AiYm38keckdkJm-tRv1QMW09-W7L6hxKawmBbiOSOGQ3J6iW8D1XfpLctFbaW0PlRRaNwZ8lSToaJsdC5JKV5X_At1F34iAuhV0ZZPI6flwcnCHZgtOUOay49MdihNZ5fEP7FFIqVZjm5_Me4nfBp-_WRays9CBBKk4e-jSFHKcA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202019-10-13%20at%206.35.07%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Aaron Paul and Jesse Plemons in El Camino YEAR: 2019 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman suffered so much in BREAKING BAD... just working with Bryan Cranston's Walter White alone... that it's easy to forget the particular hell he went through in the 11th hour of the last season <i>without</i> his mentor...<br> <br> Spending half of this sequel-movie decompressing mentally, physically and emotionally from having been locked up by the Neo-Nazi uncle of mellow yet sociopathic Todd (like a grownup kid enjoying his first "friend" that he can't differentiate from a favorite stolen toy), with far more screentime here than Pinkman's two living tweeker buddies, Skinny Pete and Badger... </p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

2019, aaron paul, body count, bryan cranston, crime, jesse plemons, netflix, robert forster, sequel, thriller, tv movie

AARON PAUL'S JESSE DRIVES 'EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE'

Aaron Paul and Jesse Plemons in El Camino YEAR: 2019 Rating: *** Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman suffered so much in BREAKING BAD... just wo...

YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS REVIEW OF POWER RANGERS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3d-01jQG_SGh7Yq8JdajADEhlVOBHOaqixhZoTDUutuVlRPYkPqCGx9cId80r3dH2jQox12NixNQwpk4kPElscdaKm_z8w6FxS9cUfpu3Mp7MLuSLS5Nulin1Zm0DqXyVbGH4UAXV-wXW/s1600/landscape_ustv-power-rangers-original-cast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3d-01jQG_SGh7Yq8JdajADEhlVOBHOaqixhZoTDUutuVlRPYkPqCGx9cId80r3dH2jQox12NixNQwpk4kPElscdaKm_z8w6FxS9cUfpu3Mp7MLuSLS5Nulin1Zm0DqXyVbGH4UAXV-wXW/s400/landscape_ustv-power-rangers-original-cast.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Rangers hanging at David Letterman's old Late Nite set YEAR: 2017</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not long ago, once-successful director John Landis's currently working son, Max, wrote CHRONICLE, centering on a group of underdog teenagers gaining superpowers, and one difference between that movie and this one is: these kids <i>really want</i> to be superheroes in order to save the world: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But for the mere fact of <i>not</i> using the Paranormal Activity/Blair Witch method of kids videotaping everything that the audience experiences, POWER RANGERS, like Michael Bay's TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, attempts to turn an extraordinarily dated and embarrassingly campy TV show into brooding, reluctant, ragged heroes liken to the MARVEL franchise; although RANGERS is a lot more like DC given the amount of time for the characters to finally admit — in this case, despite being told over a dozen times by Bryan Cranston's giant "big brother" face in a million-year-old spaceship — that they are in fact very <i>special</i> kids...</span><br>

2016, action, based on TV, bryan cranston, kids, science-fiction

YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS REVIEW OF POWER RANGERS

The Rangers hanging at David Letterman's old Late Nite set YEAR: 2017 Not long ago, once-successful director John Landis's curre...

BRYAN CRANSTON IN TRUMBO

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPlg2LZbKe30ZPoF3qh1zZW0ZwBfj49ndPza3y54WIh0EynmiSc7g5UEHEChjKteZvpUrNmIogQybwlTG7EUSjetEZW62OUq7CyH3FGWJ9Gj_8Xv2EcOR3lohAM2xHpWXvetq5w2vHnuQ/s1600/trumbo_nws.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPlg2LZbKe30ZPoF3qh1zZW0ZwBfj49ndPza3y54WIh0EynmiSc7g5UEHEChjKteZvpUrNmIogQybwlTG7EUSjetEZW62OUq7CyH3FGWJ9Gj_8Xv2EcOR3lohAM2xHpWXvetq5w2vHnuQ/w640-h358/trumbo_nws.png" width="640"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 2015 cast: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Louis CK, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Dean O'Gorman</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> During the first thirty minutes, it seems like Bryan Cranston's Dalton Trumbo utters the same exact lines; not a broken record, but a scratched one. Moving ahead, the best scenes occur in the middle as the Blacklisted scriptwriter keeps working in secret, using fake names or other people to take the credit while he gets a cut of the action, and surreptitiously wins Academy Awards. A closer, more suspenseful and pointed glimpse into that brilliant scheme during the 1950's, and less attention on making John Wayne look like a complete jerk or Helen Mirren's caricature villain of Hedda Hopper, and there would actually be a story about people rather than a forced agenda involving human cliches. <br>

2015, biopic, bryan cranston

BRYAN CRANSTON IN TRUMBO

year: 2015 cast: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Louis CK, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Dean O'Gorman During the first thirty minutes, it...

THE 2014 MOTION PICTURE OF GODZILLA

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ffurQEjIf289ox7UzJjwQsanL2WoZJfN_W7VLvrs94eu_Owo9QX9AV__bWAgQ1QtKFRlR7DQit5tRst1tyAJIX0cYKsFa1HbLSuFSjL0yWzNklYkZIrOzzm5hAV4-z7Fb0-eSbm8B-M/s1600/Godzilla-2014-Movie-Poster2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ffurQEjIf289ox7UzJjwQsanL2WoZJfN_W7VLvrs94eu_Owo9QX9AV__bWAgQ1QtKFRlR7DQit5tRst1tyAJIX0cYKsFa1HbLSuFSjL0yWzNklYkZIrOzzm5hAV4-z7Fb0-eSbm8B-M/s400/Godzilla-2014-Movie-Poster2.jpg" width="228" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2014 rating: ***</td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="background-color: white;">In the original 1954 Japanese film and the 1998 American reboot, GODZILLA was a giant city-stomping lizard that had to be defeated... </span><br /> <br /> Other adventures pitted the creature against way more sinister adversaries, and director Gareth Edwards begins a new chapter as if it were a second movie: Godzilla is no longer waltzing across heavily populated cities, turning humans into pancake… Like Arnold in TERMINATOR 2, the beast is now bodyguard.  <br /> <br /> The first act is like an overly-dramatized conspiracy film, and Bryan Cranston's Joe Brody has the right amount of intense melodrama... As an American scientist living in Japan who lost his wife to a nuclear plant catastrophe, and using his signature BREAKING BAD growl, he makes us believe there’s something rumbling underground, and it's no earthquake!  <br /> <br /> Meanwhile, the introduction of <i>another </i>formidable (and downright villainous) monster is like meeting a Raptor when you know T-Rex is on the way – a snack before the main course. Much of the military buildup that follows plays out like today’s extensive news coverage: Everything they see, we see, as if the movie itself were endless reels of hi-def footage till we get a bit closer to the action, witnessing first hand the rising of gigantic limbs while hearing the sound of shrieking war cries: This edgy perspective, even when Joe’s paratrooper son, Ford, becomes the central figure, gets a bit tiresome, especially since there aren’t many human characters to root for… Making Godzilla, in the midst of a somewhat evacuated Bay Area as if it were an immense boxing ring, that much more the essential hero – not only must he gain the upper claw against two nuclear-strapped adversaries (and eventually acquires the power to breath fire) but he’s the only thing in the movie that <i>really</i> works.<br /> <br /> With a title like GODZILLA, that’s a given… And since the smack-down final act is well worth the price of a ticket, there’s limitless sequel potential: Whatever form of eclectic menace threatens mankind, Godzilla, more of a reptilian badger than the iconic dinosaur from hell, surely has our back.<br /> <br /> Thankfully, we won't suffer through a prolonged barrage of unanswered questions before getting to the good stuff next time, since most of the exposition stuff is behind us now... Let's hope. 

2014, bryan cranston, creature, disaster

THE 2014 MOTION PICTURE OF GODZILLA

year: 2014 rating: *** In the original 1954 Japanese film and the 1998 American reboot, GODZILLA was a giant city-stomping lizard that h...