G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) piano sheet music

When I think of G.I. Joe, I instantly think of good guys fighting bad guys in cleverly instinctive ways using absurd weapons and vehicles to make the battle more exhilarating. The film series does just that, but that’s all it does. You’re in the theater watching the opening credits and the big word hasbro pops up on the screen. All fantasies you wish you could see are drained right their on account of the movie being derived from a collection of toys. After a brief introduction on all statutes of the plot are revealed, the G.I. Joe’s are quickly betrayed by their own U.S. government under presidents orders (or so you think). As far as what is really going on, I can’t say due to spoilers. However, with the help of a few extra hands and some quick thinking, the Joe’s face off against several arch rivals and save what presumes to be, the end of the world.

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Evil Dead (2013) Sheet Music

You can always tell when a movie poster claims that said movie is “the most terrifying movie you’ll ever see” that it will not be remotely scary and this is 100% the case. At no point in this movie does anything scary or creepy happen; there is also zero tension. There is however buckets of blood and some rather imaginative gore. Frankly by the end I just stopped caring… actually I never cared from the start.

First of all, I actually have no problem with this remake because it isn’t really a remake, the characters and the story are a little different; there are nods to the original which were nice and not over done too. My main gripe with this movie is the bland characters; I didn’t care about any of them and I couldn’t even tell you any of their names. In the original Evil Dead, Ash played by Bruce Campbell became a true icon of horror and he was just such a likable protagonist you had a blast along with him.

The original movie was cheap and the effects were crap but that was part of the charm. It was little moments which I loved like the bench banging against the cabin in a creepy fashion and the girl suddenly saying the cards as she is slowly revealed to be possessed. That scene messed me up for life but there isn’t anything like that in this movie. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to see the same movie but I do want to care about the characters and to actually have even a small measure of tension would be nice too.

I did love the music score though which was atmospheric and gets really epic and choral in the blood drenched finale. Oh.. and the finale, the REAL finale after the end credits, earns the movie an extra star. That was a stroke of genius and really lifted the film for me.

It’s kinda bad how desensitized you can get to violence; all of this horrific stuff is happening on screen and I found myself bored; all the gore in the world doesn’t mean shit if the bland leads aren’t likable. The performances were OK but there was nothing memorable about the dialogue and it was generally pretty forgettable.

Overall, I had no expectations for this movie and went in with an open mind so I can’t say I was disappointed. It has buckets of gore, a decent score and the best post credits sequence in years. Gorehounds will love it.

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Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience Sheet Music

Steven Spielberg’s financial windfall from the 1975 summer release of Jaws laid the foundation for what has since become known as the “summer blockbuster.” Unfortunately, a byproduct of that success was the untimely demise of a brief golden age in hip, sophisticated-yet-downbeat artistry practiced by auteurs like Hal Ashby, Michael Cimmino and Francis Ford Copolla.

Certain critics from the chattering class never forgave Spielberg and waited crouched in the shadows — daggers drawn — for the boy wizard to slip up (even as his groundbreaking hits kept piling up throughout the 1980s.)

In 1993, with flops like 1941 and Hook to console them, Spielberg’s distractors waited for the unveiling of the much-hyped, mega-budget monster mash Jurassic Park with a mixture of dread and anticipatory glee.

The old critiques that Jurassic Park was a triumph of marketing versus cinema, or that it was nothing but an overly elaborate funhouse, washed away in the tidal wave of box office profits and applause. There has been a constant stream of noisy, CGI-laden “event” movies that have followed in its wake. Now, the hit that made computer animation a must-have during the summer, has been spiffed up with today’s buzz-worthy gimmicks.

Seeing it again through modern, albeit bleary eyes (too much time behind 3D lenses), simply confirms that Jurassic Park is a better breed of moviegoing thrill ride.

The “aw shucks” enthusiasm gets tired, but the characters, both human and reptile, are still richly rendered — led by Jeff Goldblum’s sharp, seductively funny chaos theorist Dr. Ian Malcolm. His memorable monologues are fueled by the probing intelligence of author Michael Crichton, whose book of the same name was the basis for the screenplay.

Crichton, a physician by training, had an uncanny knack for distilling complex scientific principles into digestible popcorn bites. Kiwi character actor Sam Neill was an unusual choice for an action star, but his brainy paleontologist, turned reluctant father-figure, anchors the movie with heart and precision. And, while the storytelling is as fluid and thrilling as ever, there are reminders that the movie is now 20 years old, like the cigarette perpetually dangling from Samuel L. Jackson’s mouth, as he works on computers less powerful than your average smart phone.

The then-revolutionary computer-animated dinosaurs are starting to show their age too, and being blown up to IMAX 3D exposes their cracks. Still, the quality of the animation, and the brilliant use of actual puppets, including the actual, gigantic animatronic T-Rex in the close-ups, makes these creatures the stuff of nightmares — and of movie magic. Metro Times

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