{"id":954,"date":"2014-05-17T05:12:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T05:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=954"},"modified":"2026-03-18T20:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:56:44","slug":"flying-in-a-trance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Flying in a trance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Road runner - Fur Of Flying\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zcYxKeEI6QI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1714841\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Fur of Flying<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2010)<\/p>\n<p>As is the case with other recent\u00a0efforts involving <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wile_E._Coyote_and_The_Road_Runner\">Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner<\/a>, this 3D, CGI short feels flat compared to the original <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chuck_Jones\">Chuck Jones<\/a>\u00a0films.\u00a0 It&#8217;s too\u00a0brief and feels like going through the motions.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay as nostalgia, or a gateway to introduce children to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Looney_Tunes\">Looney Tunes<\/a><\/em>\u00a0oeuvre, but it&#8217;s a lesser entry in the series.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.FksxfptvEFHzjPPINo5KKQHaLH%3Fpid%3DApi&amp;f=1&amp;ipt=c2e542b4e0a4957d6ac1d90f4596e2705dd383b725de3e26bec29e68c5fbf994&amp;ipo=images\" alt=\"Trance (2013) - Posters \u2014 The Movie Database (TMDB)\" width=\"237\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1924429\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Trance<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2013)<\/p>\n<p>Art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) steals a painting to pay off his gambling debt, but after he&#8217;s hit by a car following the heist, he cannot remember where he hid the painting. His co-conspirator in the robbery, Franck (Vincent Cassel), sends Simon to a hypnotherapist, Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson), to help him remember, but she&#8217;s got an\u00a0agenda of her own.<\/p>\n<p>This film can&#8217;t decide if it&#8217;s\u00a0a heist film, a layered meta narrative, or a character study.\u00a0It&#8217;s too chaotic, and the seeds for the trick ending are never planted.\u00a0 The only thing I enjoyed were some of the discussions about the nature of art.<\/p>\n<p>Roasrio Dawson is forgettable and bland. I liked <em>Men in Black II<\/em> (2002) and <em>25th Hour\u00a0<\/em>(2002), but barely remember her.\u00a0 Likewise, she failed to make a huge impression in <em>Sin City <\/em>(2005)<em>.<\/em>\u00a0 She&#8217;s adequate as Elizabeth, but doesn&#8217;t possess the toughness or charisma this role required.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Cassel was a likable in the <em>Ocean&#8217;s<\/em> movies and believable as the unstable son of a Russian mobster in <em>Eastern Promises<\/em> (2007). He&#8217;s the best of the three leads, but the movie is such a mess it doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>I like James McAvoy as a young <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X-Men:_First_Class\">Charles Xavier<\/a>, but his\u00a0involvement with this film makes me like him less.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Boyle has made some really good movies.\u00a0<em>Trainspotting<\/em> (1996) is an excellent exploration of addiction,\u00a0<em>28 Days Later <\/em>(2002) reinvigorated the slumping zombie genre, <em>Slumdog Millionaire <\/em>(2008) is an inventive <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bollywood\">Bollywood<\/a>\u00a0homage, and\u00a0<em>127 Hours<\/em> (2010) is a compelling film about willpower; this\u00a0is an overindulgent piece of crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fur of Flying\u00a0(2010) As is the case with other recent\u00a0efforts involving Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, this 3D, CGI short feels flat compared to the original Chuck Jones\u00a0films.\u00a0 It&#8217;s too\u00a0brief and feels like going through the motions. It&#8217;s okay as nostalgia, or a gateway to introduce children to the Looney Tunes\u00a0oeuvre, but it&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=954\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flying in a trance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,201,390,694,868,886],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-progress","tag-animation","tag-danny-boyle","tag-james-mcavoy","tag-rosario-dawson","tag-vincent-cassel","tag-wile-e-coyote-and-the-road-runner","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14799,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/14799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}