Movie Reviews 2.0

[Arwin]

I saw it a couple of days ago, 8/10 great film but so cliched like (how to train your dragon(*) also 8/10) that both came from the same book "how to make an 21st century animated film in 5 easy steps". Im not knocking both films since 8/10 is a very high mark from me. But please pixar take a bit of chance next time, Ive seen (nearly) all your films and 8/10 is the best youve rated!!

(*)just in case yes I know its not pixar, but its a pixar clone

just check ive seen all pixar films except "up"

Good that you make that qualification - I was just going to ask if you'd seen Up. Because that's really the right answer to your question! You should see it. I think it will be your first Pixar 9 or 10.

I don't think you could ask Toy Story 3 to be too different from the other ones in setup and style, except of course another rescue was perhaps a little much. They could have thought up a script where they had to find all sorts of parts all over town to rebuild a toy or something. Note: I haven't seen it at all yet. Just that's the criticism I've read most.

 

[Moloch]

Star Trek: 7/10. I liked the introduction of most of the big characters and some of them were very well acted (not the bad-guys though). I HATE ff-ing time travel. It should be made illegal to travel anywhere but forward in time. This, for me, brought an already somewhat staggering storyline to its knees. The hoops they made the story jump through to get Nimoy into the script were aweful. When I'd watched it, it felt like a waste of time and I wished I had watched the World Championship match instead, but because I watched it again for a bit yesterday I did realise that the character introductions and some of the acting was in fact pretty good stuff.

It also made me realise that I'm mentally ready for a good space game. Maybe I'll try Mass Effect 2 someday.

Stephen Hawking fulling supports this notion I suspect

 

[Scott_Arm]

I watched that Travolta movie, From Paris With Love, and it was as awful as I was hoping it would be ... hilariously awful. That movie absolutely sucks, in every way, but I couldn't stop laughing. That movie doesn't have a single redeeming quality.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

I watched that Travolta movie, From Paris With Love, and it was as awful as I was hoping it would be ... hilariously awful. That movie absolutely sucks, in every way, but I couldn't stop laughing. That movie doesn't have a single redeeming quality.

Bah, wish you'd posted that a day earlier. I just rented it to watch over the weekend.

[edit] OK watched it. Yeah, not much to redeem it, but that just had to be deliberate humor. If so it was done quite well in an over the top way. The end didn't really fit the rest of the movie though. I also couldn't stop laughing, except at the end, again because it doesn't really fit the rest. Had they carried the same tone through to the end, it'd probably have been quite good.

As it is, I'll give it a 7/10 for the first 3/4 of the movie. And a 4/10 for the last 1/4. Don't regret renting it like I was fearing after hearing your comments.

Regards,
SB

 

[RobertR1]

Predators: 7/10. The movie was great overall. The biggest weakness was having Adrien Brody playing a badass merc. Good ending.

 

[NRP]

Adrien Brody did better than I expected. He still reminds me of Pee Wee Herman though, so it's hard to take him seriously. Movie was entertaining, but I wish they would have done a little better job. I want the next Predator movie to be in 3D to really show off that cool Predator tech.

Spoiler

The serial killer guy really threw me. Didn't see that one coming at all.

 

[flynn]

It should be made illegal to travel anywhere but forward in time. This, for me, brought an already somewhat staggering storyline to its knees. The hoops they made the story jump through to get Nimoy into the script were aweful.

They had to reboot the franchise and that's the way they found to do it. It probably did upset a bunch of hardcore trekkies, but who cares

Personally I enjoyed it, and Kirk being a badass was awesome. Still don't get how Spock ended up

Spoiler

dating Uhura

, though.

 

[Arwin]

They had to reboot the franchise and that's the way they found to do it. It probably did upset a bunch of hardcore trekkies, but who cares -

I don't really buy that though ... imho they changed far too little to justify all this time travel nonsense. (Not that some of the previous movies haven't been guilty of the same crap)

Personally I enjoyed it, and Kirk being a badass was awesome. Still don't get how Spock ended up

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dating Uhura

, though.

Like I said, I liked the character introductions and the acting for most of them also. By far the best thing about the movie.

 

[MfA]

The way the chose to introduce Uhura's and Spock's relationship was shockingly bad IMO. His planet and mother is blown up, so Uhura offers sexual favours in an elevator? Seriously ... WTF???

 

[Mariner]

Bah - the whole storyline of the Star Trek film was inane and riddled with pointless inconsistencies.

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The whole story hinged on the fact that Romulus was destroyed because "A star exploded" and Spock failed to stop the shockwave/blast. Let's face it, unless it was the Romulan star itself which exploded, an inter-stellar civilisation would have had decades of warning following said explosion and would have been able to evacuate as necessary. When the whole premise of a film is based on such idiocy, what else can you expect from the rest of the film?

However, what else do we really expect from J.J. "Lost" Abrams? Internal consistency be damned!

I suppose parts of it were entertaining enough just as long as you don't think about how dumb it was.

 

[Arwin]

Bah - the whole storyline of the Star Trek film was inane and riddled with pointless inconsistencies.

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The whole story hinged on the fact that Romulus was destroyed because "A star exploded"

Wait, what?

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I'm pretty sure they used their super-space drill to drill a hole to the core of the planet, and then used the rather silly 'red matter' to create a black hole at the core of the planet causing it to implode on itself.

I mean, the storyline was silly and I gave my opinion on it, but if you managed to miss that part of the plot, you haven't been paying attention either and I don't want you on my side of this discussion.

 

[Rys]

The way the chose to introduce Uhura's and Spock's relationship was shockingly bad IMO. His planet and mother is blown up, so Uhura offers sexual favours in an elevator? Seriously ... WTF???

I thought it was really quite clear that they had an existing relationship and she was offering emotional support, not her admittedly incredible body.

 

[nightshade]

^ That was Vulcan.

Also the time travel in the movie is not in the future but rather in the past

 

[Mariner]

Wait, what?

Spoiler

I'm pretty sure they used their super-space drill to drill a hole to the core of the planet, and then used the rather silly 'red matter' to create a black hole at the core of the planet causing it to implode on itself.

I mean, the storyline was silly and I gave my opinion on it, but if you managed to miss that part of the plot, you haven't been paying attention either and I don't want you on my side of this discussion.

Duh! Fail!

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I was talking about the destruction of Romulus which pissed off the time-travelling Romulans, not Vulcan.

 

[Arwin]

Duh! Fail!

Spoiler

I was talking about the destruction of Romulus which pissed off the time-travelling Romulans, not Vulcan.

Heh whoops! My mistake. Which brings me to something I wasn't entirely clear on

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they time-travelled accidentally rather than on purpose, right?

Yes, the

Spoiler

time travel was from the future to the 'present' (hence the far more technologically advanced Romulan tech, old Spock, etc.)

. Whereas the only type of time-travel possible is from the present to the future. Time doesn't exist per se, which is a common misconception from some of the works of Einstein (though Einstein himself never made that mistake). Time is just the way we express the way we measure objects moving relative to one another.

For moving something into the future of a person you only need to freeze the movement of that person (or in this case person), let the rest of the universe move on, and then unfreeze him again. If you want to do the reverse, you need to also freeze that person, but then basically find a way to move all of the universe in reverse the exact way it moved forward for the duration of the time you want to travel into the past. You can see how that would cause practical problems but the mere fact that the person travelling back in time isn't changing back either, makes it theoretically impossible to 'turn back time' without changing history just by turning back time, so to speak. So in my humble view it is both practically and theoretically impossible to 'travel back in time'.

 

[MfA]

I thought it was really quite clear that they had an existing relationship and she was offering emotional support, not her admittedly incredible body.

How many different forms of emotional support are there to require an explicit solicitation to what he needed?

 

[John Reynolds]

I suppose parts of it were entertaining enough just as long as you don't think about how dumb it was.

Couldn't agree more. Never a big fan, but I have little if any interest in this new style of Trek.

 

[homerdog]

I saw Moon a few days ago. Sam Rockwell really delivered, and it's amazing they could pull that off on such a limited budget. 9/10

As for the new Star Trek, well as a fun summer action flick I give it 7.5/10. Would be better if the story tried to make sense.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Couldn't agree more. Never a big fan, but I have little if any interest in this new style of Trek.

Thirded, I found the new "Star Trek" (in quotes because I refuse to think of it as Star Trek) virtually unpalatable. A summer Teen movie with the trappings of Star Trek ineptly wrapped around it.

Regards,
SB

 

[aaronspink]

Wait, what?

Spoiler

I'm pretty sure they used their super-space drill to drill a hole to the core of the planet, and then used the rather silly 'red matter' to create a black hole at the core of the planet causing it to implode on itself.

I mean, the storyline was silly and I gave my opinion on it, but if you managed to miss that part of the plot, you haven't been paying attention either and I don't want you on my side of this discussion.

Oh man oh man. This just isn't your day. You managed to miss the whole fundamental reason why the whole movie actually existed?

Um, the whole thing starts when one of the stars near/of/etc the romulous homework starts to slip into nova/bh/etc and so spock comes to save the day, with the red matter he invented/found with the intention collapsing the star into nothingness, but he is too late and uses the red matter on the homework so that the supernova expansion won't destroy the rest of the galaxy which puts him/others into a timehole or something which is all...

lost be cause instead of dying along they lived together. The End.

He's JJ he doesn't need no stinking plot. Sugar baby, its all about the sugar.