Well, for one I thought the new Evil Dead was one of those very few remakes that managed to stand in their own right as a very good movie. Silly of course, but that's the point of the Evil Dead franchise.
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Well, for one I thought the new Evil Dead was one of those very few remakes that managed to stand in their own right as a very good movie. Silly of course, but that's the point of the Evil Dead franchise.
Sigfried1977
Legend
I loved that movie as well. I don't think the original Evil Dead holds up particularly very well, though. It's kinda impressive as a piece of anarchic no-budget film making, but that's pretty much it.
Also, poor Robocop. Guy deserves better than a toothless PG13 update.
Also, poor Robocop. Guy deserves better than a toothless PG13 update.
Yeah, I'm totally gonna boycott that one completely, unless I hear from loads of trustworthy people that it's great... I wouldn't want to drag my quite possibly all-time favorite action movie through the mud by watching a crappy reboot.
Finally got around to watching Man of Steel today by the way. Nyyaaahhhh... Wasn't all that good, really. Don't know what all the fuss was about (except in Londonboy's case, then I DO know.
)Some minor spoilers may follow, but I'm purposefully trying to not reveal anything too important - which might be difficult, seeing as this is a braindead comicbook hero action movie!
Feels strange to hear Supes being referred to in the movie as "the alien". You never heard that in the comics - or at least not back in my day, was ages since I actually read it now. Technically it's quite correct, and everybody always seemed quite aware that he's a kryptonian, but still, he was still never really considered anything other than a human in the comics. Or the earlier movies either, from what I can recall. Maybe because he's such an insufferable boy-scout do-gooder.
*shrug*Plot... HM. Not sure what to think of it. There isn't much to begin with, and the humans win with a deus ex machina/startrek technobabble-like cop-out. Rather disappointing, but I guess the script writers didn't know how to make good ole Kal beat four+ superpowered kryptonians any other way... Also, I think it's bloody strange that Jor-El, a scientist, fights Zod, Krypton's leading military man in a fistfight and WINS, quite easily even (and Zod then cheats of course...) I guess Russell Crowe simply can't stand losing a fight!
Speaking of Zod, he's such a caricature parody of a hollywood badguy. There's nothing in him except complete and utter evil, he even says as much in the movie himself. This makes him completely devoid of character and even value as a character. Gods know that Superman Returns wasn't exactly super great, but at least there were other dimensions than simply pure evil to Lex Luthor the badguy!
The end-fight between Superman and Zod becomes nothing than a tedious, drawn-out computer generated orgy of chaos and fakery. Is there more than 15 seconds of actual camera footage of the actors in that whole sequence I'd be really surprised... This is a common issue with all of the fighting scenes by the way, they're often well done technically, but since it's all computer people moving at computer speed on-screen it looks...not very engaging. Clark often ends up face down on the pavement (or rather more like half buried in it), then after a tense camera move to really show that yes, he's indeed lying face down in the ground and not moving, he gets up and continues fighting without a single scratch as if nothing happened. Gets tedious after the 50th time this happens. Definite over-use of the trope.
Also didn't like the visual look of the kryptonian tech and armor. Too busy-looking, with too much morphy computer graphics morphing around and why did the armor and look like carved bone anyway? Don't really get that.
I think this movie's a bit flawed to be brutally honest. It's not terrible, certainly, you can watch it and still get enough enjoyment out of it to be worth the time investment if you enjoy the subject matter (superhero action movies), but is definitely sub-average for a movie of the genre. I'd rate it 4/10.
Yeah, I'm totally gonna boycott that one completely, unless I hear from loads of trustworthy people that it's great... I wouldn't want to drag my quite possibly all-time favorite action movie through the mud by watching a crappy reboot.
Finally got around to watching Man of Steel today by the way. Nyyaaahhhh... Wasn't all that good, really. Don't know what all the fuss was about (except in Londonboy's case, then I DO know.
Oi!!
Sorry but I disagree, and that's why MoS is one of 3 Bluray movies i've actually purchased. Ever. Yes it's flawed, yes it's blah blah blah. Loved it. The end. He's hot.
To be fair, the Bechdal test doesn't mean shit. The Twilight films pass them for fuck's sakes.
It may be a flawed test, but it's still pretty telling. Even movies with several strong female characters such as Avatar for example, does not pass it, simply because none of the female characters actually speak to each other. They only ever talk to other men. That's pretty fucked up when you think about it.
What's this test?
Google "Bechdel test" and find out!
Surely that makes much more sense than to keep posting on here until someone answers, therefore making googling the least appropriate solution to my problem?
Or: Just tell me biatch!
Typing "google bechdel test and find out" was quicker and easier than explaining to you what the bechdel test is (also, there's some good stuff out there including lists of movies which pass/fail which would be REALLY too much work to duplicate), but it seems you win the "biggest queen" competition here at B3D because Shifty jumped to your rescue.
Interesting stuff. I even found this very interesting article. It's like magic, this google thing!
It's not about sexism per se/only, but rather gender bias. If you fail this test, it means you don't have female characters speaking to each other (about something other than a man).
If you take your average movie, you'll have male characters talking to each other about all sorts of things (depends on the movie). You may often have male and female characters talking to each other about all sorts of things too. Female characters talking to each other...is not very common. That really is quite weird, especially if you consider more than HALF the human population are women!
Sigfried1977
Legend
Kinda nonsensical to bring up that test when dealing with a movie that's for the most part a one woman show.
I just brought it up as a small aside. It kind of spiralled out of control from there, Gravity-style... Slightly analog of what happens whenever you bring up anything feminism/gender-related on certain web forums, except the reactions are usually far, far more volatile of course. Heh.
Just finished watching "Super8" by the way. Finally got around to it. Great movie!
Not the best plot, for sure, and there's too much special effects ejaculatory BS towards the end, and The Scary Thing pretty much stops being all that scary once you get to see it, but when it all comes dow to it, it is the actors who really carry this piece. I loved them. Great casting, really. I don't care if you disagree - I think they're great kid actors. Seriously. Like in say, Stand by Me, or heck, The Goonies. Which, I think, this movie tries to emulate, spiritually anyway, to some extent.
You got your stereotype archetypes, the fat kid and the nerdy kid with glasses spouting facts all the time, the everyday kid (who's a bit emo too coz he lost a loved one), and the firebug kid... Ok, that last one maybe isn't a typical archetype, but whatever!
Oh, and yeah. A pretty girl.
So yeah. The actors make this movie, and because it's a meta-thing-whatchamacallits? ...A movie set in a movie, you have an interesting angle to come at these things from. The kid actors being great at acting badly in their own movie. Never seen this one before I have to say, even though with the exception of a couple great scenes (many of them springing out of the meta-movie-in-a-movie thing), the rest of the plot has literally been recycled from other movies off of the editing room's cutting floor. The callous grim cop widower dad, the alcoholic dad, the Big Bad Military Man, these people are all elements we've seen many times before in other movies. Even the monster is. But the kids are good, and through their performances they're enough in of themselves to make this flick enjoyable.
And yeah, regarding the monster...?
That was seriously my thought.
So in closing... Flawed, yet still very watchable. IMO. And JJ's lens flares really weren't egregious in the least I thought, I consciously only noticed a single one, at the very end before the credits. Speaking of end credits by the way, this movie has to be the hollywood movie where the largest percentage of the audience sat through them all! Awesome stuff, and quite unique.
Super8:
8/10!
Slightly analog of what happens whenever you bring up anything feminism/gender-related on certain web forums, except the reactions are usually far, far more volatile of course. Heh.Just finished watching "Super8" by the way. Finally got around to it. Great movie!
Not the best plot, for sure, and there's too much special effects ejaculatory BS towards the end, and The Scary Thing pretty much stops being all that scary once you get to see it, but when it all comes dow to it, it is the actors who really carry this piece. I loved them. Great casting, really. I don't care if you disagree - I think they're great kid actors. Seriously. Like in say, Stand by Me, or heck, The Goonies. Which, I think, this movie tries to emulate, spiritually anyway, to some extent.
You got your stereotype archetypes, the fat kid and the nerdy kid with glasses spouting facts all the time, the everyday kid (who's a bit emo too coz he lost a loved one), and the firebug kid... Ok, that last one maybe isn't a typical archetype, but whatever!
Oh, and yeah. A pretty girl.
So yeah. The actors make this movie, and because it's a meta-thing-whatchamacallits? ...A movie set in a movie, you have an interesting angle to come at these things from. The kid actors being great at acting badly in their own movie. Never seen this one before I have to say, even though with the exception of a couple great scenes (many of them springing out of the meta-movie-in-a-movie thing), the rest of the plot has literally been recycled from other movies off of the editing room's cutting floor. The callous grim cop widower dad, the alcoholic dad, the Big Bad Military Man, these people are all elements we've seen many times before in other movies. Even the monster is. But the kids are good, and through their performances they're enough in of themselves to make this flick enjoyable.
And yeah, regarding the monster...?
Oh, my, E.T., how you've grown!
So in closing... Flawed, yet still very watchable. IMO. And JJ's lens flares really weren't egregious in the least I thought, I consciously only noticed a single one, at the very end before the credits. Speaking of end credits by the way, this movie has to be the hollywood movie where the largest percentage of the audience sat through them all! Awesome stuff, and quite unique.
Super8:
8/10!
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Sigfried1977
Legend
Watched World War Z yesterday. It's basically a couple of entertaining, albeit rather tame (thanks PG13) and overtly CG looking zombie set pieces stitched together. Nothing too terrible really. That is until the utterly misjudged final act kicks in and the whole thing turns into a by-the-numbers zombie movie we've all seen done a lot better a thousand times before. Save for a couple of slight nods every now and then, both the humor and the politics from Max Brooks's book haven't made it into the film either.
The movie also feels incredibly rushed.
Conclusion: go and watch (or re-watch) the much more gripping and poignant 28 Weeks Later instead.
The movie also feels incredibly rushed.
Conclusion: go and watch (or re-watch) the much more gripping and poignant 28 Weeks Later instead.
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