The Podcasting Couch reviews 'Fast Five', the new instalment in the 'Fast and Furious' franchise and takes a look at their top 4 third-or-later series instalments. Follow us on Twitter: Shannon Harvey (@Choc_Bomb), Simon Miraudo (@simonmiraudo), Steve Allen (@ScubaStv) and Andrew Williams (@IntheBoxSeat) or e-mail thepodcastingcouch@gmail.com with your feedback or your own lists!
Showing posts with label dwayne johnson. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
THE PODCASTING COUCH EPISODE THREE
We're back! In this third episode of the podcasting couch, the team:
- reviews the Dwayne Johnson revenge thriller Faster
- talks about the best directors working in Hollywood today and the most expensive films ever made
- admits their Top Four Guilty Pleasure Films
Featuring Shannon Harvey from the West Australian, Simon Miraudo from quickflix.com.au, Laura Hewison and myself.
To listen, simply go to http://boxseattv.podbean.com/ or search 'the podcasting couch' in the itunes store!
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
FILM REVIEW - FASTER
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| Sorry, son. It's a starring role in the Tooth Fairy for you. |
You know how people have guilty-pleasure songs, or guilty pleasure movies? I have a guilty pleasure actor – Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. Part of it stems from me being a wrestling fan when I was younger but mostly I just find him an incredibly appealing screen presence. He’s not quite in the Patrick Swayze guilty-pleasure actor pantheon, but he’s getting there.
Wherein lies the appeal? In Johnson, you have a gregarious, cocky presence who owns the screen when given the chance to explore that side of him. (See The Other Guys, Get Smart, Welcome to the Jungle, Be Cool, Saturday Night Live). If you don’t allow that side to come out, you’re playing to his weaknesses – dramatic heft, introspection and so on. What you really need for a role like that is someone with far greater dramatic chops than muscles.
As such, in casting the sedimentary action star as a hard man on a mission who rarely speaks and has no sense of humour, the film completely wastes Dwayne Johnson. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d write.
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