A movie about the rescued miners in Chile seems like a no- brainer when it comes to cinematic storytelling. Survival stories are naturally rife with conflict and human triumph. But when everybody knows the ending how do you make it count? The 3. 3, a would- be feel- good movie that aims to tug at your heartstrings, is not the answer. The mountain caved in on top of itself, trapping the men in a small refuge. They had enough food and water to last only so many days, let alone enough to subsist 3.

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Mario (Antonio Banderas) must keep his fellow miners from breaking into violence, while Lawrence (Rodrigo Santoro) must scramble the forces of the government to retrieve the miners with the pressure of the entire world watching. The men spent over 6. Just because certain plot turns are expected from a keen audience, whether the Titanic is going down or, say, in another survival story that James Franco is going to cut his arm off, it doesn't mean that the proceeding time is merely setup for the predictable.

Even plot turns that are predictable can be wholly satisfying if the storytelling earns the payoff. Therefore, while the world knows that the 3. It needs to make the scene count, and the best way to do so is to get us emotionally invested in these men as they struggle with their fears. That is the film's biggest failing. It was expected that 3.

The characters fall into rather one- note territories, from the Guy Who Feels He's Let Down His Miners, the Guy Who Feels Burdened as the Leader, the Comical Relief Guy, the Old Guy Close to Retirement, The Young Guy with a Baby on the Way, the Recovering Addict with Trust Issues, and the New Guy (a. The Bolivian). Even though the cave- in occurs about 1. It's as if The 3.

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Garnering substantial screen time are the minister of mining and his team of engineers and Maria Segovia (Juliette Binoche), an empanada- vendor who becomes the face of the anguished family members. These factions vie for screen time but they never truly present much more than what is on the surface. It's a lot of pacing and brow- wiping. I'm puzzled at how little the movie makes use of the miners' family members. Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015) Watch Online. This seems like a story made for flashbacks to help tinge the struggle with heavier dramatic weight and irony.

The problem with The 3. Digging through the bed of rock is arduous but it's nothing terribly unexpected from a technology standpoint. It doesn't help that The Martian is a recent hit film and a superior survival story, at least in its telling. The focus was tighter and Matt Damon's character was beset with conflict after conflict. He was an active participant to lead to his survival.

In contrast, the miners are left to hold onto their sanity and hopes while they wait for extrication. That struggle can be illuminating on the psyche and how people can pull together in times of extreme distress, but that's not this movie. Sure, they pull together but it's mostly the occasional inspirational speech from Mario and the reliance on the emotional push of James Horner's score (his last in life). The movie relies on easy sentiment to fill the many gaps of its characterization. As the men pass around their daily ration, a squirt of water with some tuna inside it, the men fantasize a feast of their favorite foods delivered lovingly by their family members. It's an exquisite visual detour that succinctly communicates the desires of the men and their mental defenses.

It's powered by a lilting musical score that makes it feel like a divine moment of relief for these weary men, and it's visually playful without going over the top or losing the emotional truth. Then, just as succinctly, it transitions back to the dreary reality with as much skill as it began. It's a terrific moment in an otherwise safe and sappy movie, and the artistry hints at the more visually poetic and psychologically probing movie that could have been. Going back to 1. 27 Hours, Franco was literally stuck between a rock and a hard place but director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) opened it up as a movie. The 3. 3 is just too inert. Now I know that English is going to greatly improve the movie's mass appeal at the American box- office (though that didn't seem to make a dent), but it harms the movie's authenticity.

On the contrary, I could forgive the white- washing of transforming the Spanish family into a white clan of Brits in the 2. The Impossible but that was because their struggle was powerfully and universally felt and unrelated to ethnicity, which also assists in the argument of why change their ethnicity, but I digress. With The 3. 3, the struggle is so specific to a nation and its people that there is some degree of authenticity lost in the actors speaking English in a multitude of accents meant to approximate Chilean.

It's also a bit strange to watch actors of varied backgrounds playing Chileans including a Frenchwoman (Binoche), an Irishman (Gabriel Byrne), and the warden from The Shawshank Redemption as the president of Chile. These are small things but when packaged together, and with the movie's reliance on easy sentimentality, it's hard not to feel like The 3. TV movie writ large. It's effective at points and its heart seems to be in the right place, even giving each real- life member of the titular 3. The problem with The 3. It feels like a disservice to their story and the compromises hobble its artistic latitude.

It feels far too impersonal and rote, which are crippling attributes for a feel- good true story. It's not fair but I fondly recall Mc. Farland U. S. A. If you want to know more about the Chilean miners, skip this movie and read the book.

If you want a feel- good movie that genuinely makes you feel good, then skip The 3. Mc. Farland U. S.

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It moves to Nov. 3 date, will now move up to July 6, 2. Marvel’s “Inhumans,” meanwhile, has now moved back to summer 2. Captain Marvel” moves back to Nov. Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company said in a statement: “Spider- Man is one of Marvel’s great characters, beloved around the world. We’re thrilled to work with Sony Pictures to bring the iconic web- slinger into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which opens up fantastic new opportunities for storytelling and franchise building.”“I am thrilled to team with my friends at Sony Pictures along with Amy Pascal to produce the next Spider- Man movie,” said Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. The Culver City- based studio was recently the victim of a massive cyber- attack by North Korea in what devolved into a financial and publicity nightmare. And just last week, it was announced that Pascal — its veteran exec and face of the studio — would be stepping aside.“I have always wanted to be a producer,” she said at the time.