The Artist

BRILLIANT! Perhaps I am bias as I have always been a fan of old movie-black and white and silent included but this film was truly amazing. I was curious how it would translate doing a silent film with current actors/technology/settings but it was executed perfectly. This was honestly one of the best films I have seen, period. The story of a big time silent movie actor (George Valentin) who by happen stance meets a woman(Peppy Miller) and helps put her in a film as background. She slowly climbs her way to the top and becomes America's sweetheart of the talkies. All the while George can't adapt to the transition between silent films and talkies and all the while his life falls apart. He makes a movie he finances that bombs in the box office, loses all his money in the stock market crash and his wife leaves him. We follow how Peppy tries to help him with out his knowledge and his pride continually runs himself into the ground. He hits rock bottom when he almost burns alive in his apartment, then after recovering realizes everything Peppy has done and tries to put a bullet in his head. She finds him just in time to save him (in more ways then one) and wraps up with him performing in a talkie starring George Valentin and Peppy Miller and hearing his voice for the first time. There is a scene in the middle where he has a nightmare and you only hear sound effects of everything around him-still no speech. Aside from the nightmare and the final scene where they wrap the take by transitioning into sound the entire film is true to being silent. It goes to prove that all you need is a good story to have a brilliant movie. It was memorable, delightful, saddening, nostalgic, and truly inspiring. It makes you feel there is hope in an industry that has been recycling old movies and producing films such as transformers 3 where there is absolutely no story. Bravo to the people who took the courage to make a movie in a genre most people these days have never seen before, and showing the world what made those movies brilliant to begin with. I STRONGLY encourage watching this film.
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The Adventures of Tin Tin

This movie lacked direction and a clear story line. While enjoyable and visually stunning I continually lost interest through out the film. You were on a treasure hunt to find a ship, which you later discover carried a mysterious cargo which turns out to be wondrous treasure. While I thought this would be like a CGI Indiana Jones, it turned out to be more like National Treasure. One clue lead to another clue which lead to another clue and never ended. Even in the end they found a handful of treasure and a clue to find the rest. The sidekick sailor character to Tin Tin even gives up part of the time. If the characters in the movie are losing interest I DEFINITELY am as an audience. I feel as if this may have been due to collaboration issues. Perhaps Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson just couldn't agree on all aspects and flipped a coin as to the best option. I expected more than what it was. It's too adult for a kid to get and too drawn out for an adult to care. Save your money, wait for it to be put on Neflix.
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Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol

Hmm... as far as a franchise goes this one has been successful. When it comes to watching Tom Cruise do action packed fetes you would never normally see, he takes the cake. He escapes from a Russian prison with the help of a team, then breaks into the Cremline to steal tapes or something or other, before he has to trick a head hunter and nuclear extremist to both giving up the goods with neither being the wiser. This is all topped off by a fight scene in a high tech parking garage. It's exactly what you'd expect it to be. While all looking very cool it lacked in story and a clear villain-which I've hence decided to be nuclear war.  The main villain was completely forgettable, had no real background story or dialogue. It was an excuse for Tom Cruise to take his shirt off and perform extreme stunts. If you have time to kill and thats what your into, by all means watch it. If you're looking for an in depth and emotion investing story-look elsewhere.
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