My Redtail Recompense

When I was a kid my dad was really into bird watching, no really bird watching. So I got him a bird watching video for Christmas when I was like 12 more as a joke but he loved it. The video was 30 minutes of, no not birds, but a guy from the 70's watching birds... and talking about it.

I owe anyone who reads this blog an apology. At the beginning of the year I recommended that people go see the movie Redtails. To be honest I would rather watch my dad's bird watching video on a loop for 24 hours rather then see this excuse for a movie ever again. I'll try to keep it as brief as possible to get my point across. The acting was terrible. I was hoping that Terrance Howard and Cuba Gooding would be able to carry it but while Howard is a great actor he's only got about 3 mins of airtime and Cuba is only seen putting a pipe in in his mouth over and over again. The rest of the acting was disgusting. To make it worse the voice-overs were ATROCIOUS!

Other than that; the plot: none, the score: terrible, the love story: straight out of screenwriting for dumb-dumbs, the action: WHERE WAS IT! AERIAL BATTLES SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR SAVING GRACE LUCAS!!, the drama: tried so hard... failed so bad, and when the main character died in the end I almost stood up and cheered. This movie was a disgrace to the Tuskegee Airman.

By way of apology I'd like to recommend an outstanding movie that sadly I underestimated. Introducing The Adventures of Tintin. 

I, like most of you probably, hadn't heard of Tintin before this. Man this movie reminded me how great Steven Spielberg can be. I dismissed it thinking it would be a cheesy kids movie but after giving it a chance I enjoyed every minute of it. This movie was like an animated version of Indiana Jones (old school, no Crystal Skull crap) but instead of a smooth fedora-wearing professor the main character is a baby-faced reporter with a white pooch side-kick (no worse than the blonde from Temple of Doom) If for nothing else rent this movie for the animation. Several times my wife and I mentioned how characters looked like real people. Not to mention John Williams made another epic soundtrack here. For a dollar at redbox I don't think you have much to lose here. It's exciting, entertaining, compelling and, for lack of better word, its just dang cool. Go check out Tintin today! Oh, and avoid Redtails like you would a Birdwatching tutorial.