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Showing posts with label albert hughes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label albert hughes. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Alpha (2018)

An American adventure directed by Albert Hughes.
A prehistoric boy is injured and separated from his hunting group. When wolves chase him, he injures one of them. Unable to bring himself to kill it, he sits with the wolf in a cave while they both heal. Now a pair, they travel to find the boy's home.
I was not very impressed. I saw this in the theater in 3D and saw no need for that technology to be used on it. More than anything else, I was reminded of A Boy and His Dog (1975) and The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986). If anything, I think Alpha should have been filmed on an older camera system, possibly even in 4:3 aspect ratio with some nice video grain. The story has been over-told. Has anyone heard of White Fang? Any of the other boy and wolf or survival adventures out there? Same with characters. The only thing done really well was aerial shots of large landscapes. The animal and human fight scenes were not that impressive. The initial buffalo hunt is there to lure you in for a lack of action in the rest of the film. That saber tooth tiger or whatever it is in the cave during the preview fights for less than 5 seconds. I barely noticed the musical score, an area which could have been highlighted in this film. This is for those who like slow pacing and sappy endings, not for fans of 300 (2006) style action. I rate this tolerable. For the first half, I was wondering when it gets good. For the second half, I was wondering when it would end.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Dead Presidents (1995)


A drama directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes.
A young black man goes to fight in Vietnam and when he comes back to America, he finds that things have changed for the worse.
This film will make even the most open minded people hate niggers. The problems that they are shown having just don't happen to white people. I had to turn it off after about an hour because I just couldn't take it anymore. I'm rating this shit (the color of their skin) and if you're white, don't watch it.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

The Book of Eli (2010)


An action film directed by Albert and Allen Hughes.
A man carrying the last bible in a post apocalyptic world runs into trouble in a town that he walks into.
The audio was bad until I found the normalizer on my media player, so I may eliminate this section of my posts, unless film quality dictates that I note it. The video was great.
check out: The surprise plot-twist. I can't tell you what it is, but it's definitely worth watching this for. In another interesting point, our brave hero feeds cat meat to a rat.
This film was bleak and epic. The characters and plot were very good. There were fights, but that's not what this movie was about. They did, however do a good job with the physical conflict scenes. I'm rating it good because I see no reason to do otherwise.