Godsend
12-24-04, 04:34 AM
It’s Springbreak and I haven’t written a review in what seems like ages. So in return... wait, did I just type Springbreak? I think I just did. Eh…shows where my mind is at right now. It’s actually Winterbreak. Anyways, let’s get onto the review shall we?
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Parenthood
Ron Howard – 1989
Spoilers Maybe?
I really can’t tell you much about parenting. It’d be a lie if I told you that it’s the easiest thing in the world or even the hardest. Why? I’m too young and because I’ve never been put in that situation, until I really saw that movie. Sure I might have the done the usual babysitting here and there, but it never really hits you until you see it from someone else’s view. That’s the real kicker too, someone else’s view.
They’re cute. They’re small. They’re curious. We all know it. But they’re also hell, or that’s what Steve Martin and family show us in this breed of comedy and drama on children and raising them. I’m certain I had my laughing points and the “I wonder how many times that happens”, but never did it every come down to the boiling points. Usually in a drama I feel as if there has to be something big that makes us want to thrive for an excellent ending, but this movie didn’t really grab me in that way. Okay well it grabbed me by the ankles, but I looked down and slowly kicked it away. I wasn’t really accepting a response like that from myself either, especially since Mr. Howard was behind it all. It grabbed me in the region of “This is what really happens, like it or not”. That, I believe, is why I sat, watched, and accepted.
The plot can be easily deciphered, right? Parenthood…something has to hit you. Basically there are a couple of stories in this movie, and they all relate to parenting. Surprise surprise! There are about four or so stories in here that come to mind without heavy thinking. The one that pulls me in the fastest has to be the one that includes a divorced mother raising two teenage children, one a boy and the other a girl as you should expect. Basically through out their little category, hell is raised along with their voices. Innocent ones turn into something they were never supposed to and the curious minds continue to get more curious.
Another story involves a man who continues to leech off his father for a living. Easily the word scumbag comes to your mind, and you’re right. It’s the truth, but there is something deeper then that. It goes back to the very roots of the teachings the father had to given, and confusing the values of life. Along with this one comes a father and his low-self esteemed son, which seems to be the main story. This kind of disappointed me. I usually view Steve Martin as a funny man, but even though he tried he couldn’t get that emotional value out. Maybe for some of you he did, but he stood as a tree in the winter to me.
Throwing the other story to the dogs (I found it quite pathetic, but still gave me some chuckles), I found the dialogue of this movie to be excellent. It fit in with what seems to go in everyday life, or so I believe. Mainly because it was a giant brainstorm of all the producers and executives that gave it that zestful blend of life. I get this from the fact that it was Ron Howard who came up with the idea after having a bitter experience on airport with his children, which led into this. (I watched the movie off of TCM (http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/), which usually gives you a background) The acting was leaning towards acceptable, but sometimes rode around back to horrid. Though it was in the end that we saw the true value of acting, and family all together.
I look at this and can tell you it was no waste of my time. I was closely watching this and showing interest most of the time, because it keeps you buried in your seats. That’s the sole purpose of the movie, and it achieved that. Now to wrap it up with the always-needed rating, I present it with 4 stars out of 5.
Before I leave, I leave you with what I believe is one heck of a quote that hit me pretty hardly. Not personally though. It just got me thinking…
You know, Mrs. Buchman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car - hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming ******* be a father.
http://img155.exs.cx/img155/2947/parenthood0lt.jpg
Parenthood
Ron Howard – 1989
Spoilers Maybe?
I really can’t tell you much about parenting. It’d be a lie if I told you that it’s the easiest thing in the world or even the hardest. Why? I’m too young and because I’ve never been put in that situation, until I really saw that movie. Sure I might have the done the usual babysitting here and there, but it never really hits you until you see it from someone else’s view. That’s the real kicker too, someone else’s view.
They’re cute. They’re small. They’re curious. We all know it. But they’re also hell, or that’s what Steve Martin and family show us in this breed of comedy and drama on children and raising them. I’m certain I had my laughing points and the “I wonder how many times that happens”, but never did it every come down to the boiling points. Usually in a drama I feel as if there has to be something big that makes us want to thrive for an excellent ending, but this movie didn’t really grab me in that way. Okay well it grabbed me by the ankles, but I looked down and slowly kicked it away. I wasn’t really accepting a response like that from myself either, especially since Mr. Howard was behind it all. It grabbed me in the region of “This is what really happens, like it or not”. That, I believe, is why I sat, watched, and accepted.
The plot can be easily deciphered, right? Parenthood…something has to hit you. Basically there are a couple of stories in this movie, and they all relate to parenting. Surprise surprise! There are about four or so stories in here that come to mind without heavy thinking. The one that pulls me in the fastest has to be the one that includes a divorced mother raising two teenage children, one a boy and the other a girl as you should expect. Basically through out their little category, hell is raised along with their voices. Innocent ones turn into something they were never supposed to and the curious minds continue to get more curious.
Another story involves a man who continues to leech off his father for a living. Easily the word scumbag comes to your mind, and you’re right. It’s the truth, but there is something deeper then that. It goes back to the very roots of the teachings the father had to given, and confusing the values of life. Along with this one comes a father and his low-self esteemed son, which seems to be the main story. This kind of disappointed me. I usually view Steve Martin as a funny man, but even though he tried he couldn’t get that emotional value out. Maybe for some of you he did, but he stood as a tree in the winter to me.
Throwing the other story to the dogs (I found it quite pathetic, but still gave me some chuckles), I found the dialogue of this movie to be excellent. It fit in with what seems to go in everyday life, or so I believe. Mainly because it was a giant brainstorm of all the producers and executives that gave it that zestful blend of life. I get this from the fact that it was Ron Howard who came up with the idea after having a bitter experience on airport with his children, which led into this. (I watched the movie off of TCM (http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/), which usually gives you a background) The acting was leaning towards acceptable, but sometimes rode around back to horrid. Though it was in the end that we saw the true value of acting, and family all together.
I look at this and can tell you it was no waste of my time. I was closely watching this and showing interest most of the time, because it keeps you buried in your seats. That’s the sole purpose of the movie, and it achieved that. Now to wrap it up with the always-needed rating, I present it with 4 stars out of 5.
Before I leave, I leave you with what I believe is one heck of a quote that hit me pretty hardly. Not personally though. It just got me thinking…
You know, Mrs. Buchman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car - hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming ******* be a father.