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Friday, January 22
Creation
Missed Conception
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Can't figure out what's more baffling, the fact that there really hasn't been a film made to this point on how Charles Darwin came to pen his game changing book On The Origin of Species or that when one finally came to the surface it would deal a lot mo with his family's health and soul issues than a bunch of turtles on the Galapagos Isles (i.e. what we assume mos peoples would rather see). The regal Beagle ship and said adventure do make a few brief bon voyages in Jon Amiel's cinematic adaptation of Darwin's great-great-grandson's bio on him, but as the title of said bookie-book suggests, there was more to Darwin's life and work than observing and reporting in nature, as he apparently did a lot of observing and reporting in an environment closer to home... namely in his home!
Paul Bettany plays Darwin, and while he pours his usual intelligent demeanor and passion into the un-intelligently designed (get it?) role, apparently someone didn't put enuff passion into making Darwin's receding hair look quite right on Bettany's noggin. That's hactually juss one of numerous misfires that keeps Creation from breathing life into this creation tale about the creation of a book about creation!!! One big ole obstacle in Darwin's life, and in turn in the movie, is his deeply devout wife (played rather unconvincingly here by Bettany's own wife Jennifer Connelly). She cannot eggcept the path his work is taking him down, herspecially in regards to their faith and that's the Catch-23 CD is stuck in. Quite the conundrum, yet we didn't personally care about these personal conflicting conflicts that conflicted Darwin. Add to all that an endless haunting by his deceased daughter (a toothy Martha West... btw, don't you hate it when reviewers use the word 'toothy' to describe an acting performance when all it really means is that the actor's teeth stick out more than mos other peoples do????) + Darwin's own battles with swine and wine flu and you've got one creepy and ad nauseum nauseous family drama that would excel elsewhere if it were not a story about Charles Darwin and his book to end all other books of Eli!!! We want more turtles!!! Nature, not nurture!!!
You Filthy Old Soomka: Darwin totally loved himself some tits & ass. the word 'ass' appears 6 times in his On The Origin of Species, while 'breast' gets love times 5
Verdictgo: Sum Merit But No Stinking Badges
Creation slightly devolves in limited release starting today, where jeepers worth a peepers Soundtrack For A Revolution sings along
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed...
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