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Wildlike (2014)
Powerful Film
Saw this at Austin Film Festival. Wildlike tackles a very difficult topic with great sensitivity. Powerful filmmaking. Beautiful imagery. Concise, strong writing. Great acting.
Ella Purnell (MacKenzie) strikes a wonderful balance between troubled teen and innocent victim. I really appreciated the subtleties of her performance. But the character that brought humanity and hope to film was Rene Bartlett played by Bruce Greenwood. Greenwood creates a quiet, modern-day hero, not one with superpowers and a cape, but a common man guided by his principles and integrity.
In a wilderness as remote and vast as Alaska, Wildlike never gets lost.
Godzilla (2014)
A Disaster of a Movie.
No need for any spoiler alerts here, there is nothing to spoil. After watching Gareth Edwards' film, Monsters, I had high hopes that Godzilla would go beyond the formula and the clichés. It is a soulless film that does not garner any emotion. In a few scenes it attempts to mimic the suspense and drama of Jurassic Park, but even fails at that. It is fraught with so many problems, I can't begin to list them all. Even if the screenplay had a chance at one point, my guess is that too many studio execs and too many focus groups destroyed any hope for originality. No suspense. No emotional connection. No reason to see this film, unless you want to study what not to do. From shallow, one-dimensional characters that nobody cares about to inconsistent special effects, it really is a disaster of a movie.