tabuno
02-06-2012, 11:45 PM
What is rather amazing about this movie has to do less with the movie reviews than the quite unusual public critique of this movie. Whereas CinemaScore came in with an A-, IMDb had one of the larger gender differences as well as an unexpectedly high rating from males under 18 then quickly descending by age with almost the opposite true of females ascending in their rating by age. With a huge 52.0% 1 rating, it begs the question, how many males were forced by their female partners, especially on Superbowl Weekend, to have to suffer through this family movie?
As for the movie itself, Big Miracle is based on what apparently is a miracle itself, a true to life event during the Reagan Presidency that started in a small faraway, isolated Northern most Amercian town to become a huge international media event. The ending credit are genuinely and deliciously surprising using split screen examples of the real people side by side of the actors in the movie as well as video reels from the actual news broadcasts. The eerie parallel only solidifies the richness and evokes a deeper appreciation of the magnitude of what occurred back in 1989. Big Miracle captures its audience with the same fast pacing and editing as found in the Emmy Award winning television series "24" but without the violence and human betrayal. Perhaps on the best feel-good movies in years, this mainstream popularized family drama presents in the best manner and style possible of its genre, just like Jaws (1973) was able to put together a captivating monster horror film paying close attention to human psychological triggers to create a tension felt event, so too Big Miracle by paying close attention to a linear plot outline with emotive mini-scenes that build on each other, come together make a finely weaved full feature theatrical film for the American public, except for those more interested perhaps in football.
As for the movie itself, Big Miracle is based on what apparently is a miracle itself, a true to life event during the Reagan Presidency that started in a small faraway, isolated Northern most Amercian town to become a huge international media event. The ending credit are genuinely and deliciously surprising using split screen examples of the real people side by side of the actors in the movie as well as video reels from the actual news broadcasts. The eerie parallel only solidifies the richness and evokes a deeper appreciation of the magnitude of what occurred back in 1989. Big Miracle captures its audience with the same fast pacing and editing as found in the Emmy Award winning television series "24" but without the violence and human betrayal. Perhaps on the best feel-good movies in years, this mainstream popularized family drama presents in the best manner and style possible of its genre, just like Jaws (1973) was able to put together a captivating monster horror film paying close attention to human psychological triggers to create a tension felt event, so too Big Miracle by paying close attention to a linear plot outline with emotive mini-scenes that build on each other, come together make a finely weaved full feature theatrical film for the American public, except for those more interested perhaps in football.