Cultural Affairs, February 2014
Even by the standards of early year movies, the start of 2014 has been full of a stunning array of must skip movies. I will include in that list the surprise sensation of February, the Lego Movie, Surprisingly good reviews, robust box office indicative of strong word of mouth, and if I hadn't been attending with a friend I would have walked out after ten minutes, or retreated to a quiet corner to read on my iPad while the film played, Thus was just another boring superhero movie with overlong fight scenes, only with Legos. Even at the end, the movie didn't have any charm for me. Everything is not awesome. Non-Stop on the other hand was a nice action movie. Liam Neeson lends gravitas and depth to the role of an air marshall being framed for a remarkably clever feat of airplane crime. The movie is never terribly believable but is always just plausible enough that I was willing to buy in. I have no idea how the bad guys got at the pilot, or now they fond...