Movie Reviews 2.0
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Wife and I saw Your Highness while on vacation down in Naples last week. Pretty bad movie. I at least got Natalie Portman in tight leather, wife doesn't think Franco is attractive so she was out of luck. I'd probably give it a 6/10 rating, really expected more from the guys behind the movie.
Hmmm! TRON on Blu-Ray (and scruffy ol' DVD, heh) in ~10 days! I can't wait.
Actually, I didn't think the movie was all that super great - certainly not anywhere near as original and ground-breaking as its forefather - but it was a tremendous audio-visual experience and I enjoyed it from that perspective.
I am very eager to re-experience it again from the comfort of my own home.
I was asking myself the same question if that in 3D is worth collecting in to my bluray collection. And I just couldn't get over how stupid that movie was. I actually paid to go see it at the IMAX. Weirdly enough I enjoyed it at that time but the more I think about the movie the more I get annoyed and I want my money back. Only thing good from that movie was the soundtrack by Daft Punk which I already have.
Yep watched all 3 in netflix and enjoyed them a lot!
Sex and the City 2 0/10 - Contemplating hiring a divorce lawyer after being forced to watch this one last night. There should be limits to what us married men have to endure.
I know it's been some time since the Super Size Me and Fat Head discussion, and that it isn't a movie, but I thought it'd be interesting to some.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Basically a very good and scientific, but still enjoyable talk on the issues covered in those movies. It is long but worth watching IMHO - I was quite sleepy and still managed to stay awake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Basically a very good and scientific, but still enjoyable talk on the issues covered in those movies. It is long but worth watching IMHO - I was quite sleepy and still managed to stay awake
The A-Team: 0/10. Couldn't come close to finishing it. The only other movie that bad that I've seen was The Corruptor (Chow Yun-Fat, Mark Wahlberg), and I've seen Michael Bay and/or Shia LeBeouf movies.
The King's Speech: 7/10? I can't tell if The A-Team was so bad that it's tainting everything else. Great individual performances, just didn't live up to the hype for me. Maybe it would've been different if I'd seen it in a theater, or if the story wasn't so obvious. I really thought I'd love it, considering the actors. I think The Tailor of Panama was more entertaining as a whole, if we're talking Geoffrey Rush flicks.
The King's Speech: 7/10? I can't tell if The A-Team was so bad that it's tainting everything else. Great individual performances, just didn't live up to the hype for me. Maybe it would've been different if I'd seen it in a theater, or if the story wasn't so obvious. I really thought I'd love it, considering the actors. I think The Tailor of Panama was more entertaining as a whole, if we're talking Geoffrey Rush flicks.
It gets the reviews because it suffers from the problem pretty much all Zack Snyder films suffer from - he doesn't do subtle. This kind of story needs a light touch to ensure the linkage between the dream worlds and reality is both made clear but not overly thrust in your face either. The narration especially at the end was very much in your face and the film would be considerably improved by simply ending when it goes onto the bus (revealing the bus driver in particular).
The lighter touch is in showing how the dream world links and why those particular dreamworlds were chosen. Why would a privileged young girl stuck in an insane asylum choose being a hooker in a brothel as her escape? At least the 'heist' fantasies showed the teammates as competent and working towards a goal but why the particular scenarios were chosen? Nazi steampunk zombies in WW1? Orcs sieging a castle with dragons in it? Not exactly what most women would choose and we had absolutely no clue as to why scenarios like that were. We also didn't have the linkage of where the wiseman came from - I mean we see him at the end but there is no hint that the primary dreamer ever saw him to incorporate him into the fantasy 'heists'.
It also is a little unlikable because most people won't get the whole winning through the choice of supreme self sacrifice that is the core of the films message.
This is what frustrates me a little with Zack, he has a good visual knack (even if he does over-use slow mo a bit) and generally tells a coherent story but he doesn't yet know how to do nuanced or subtle. A little more development and I suspect he will be capable of churning out classics but 'Suckerpunch' isn't one.
I'm feeling a little generous today so I'll agree with the 6/10 for Thor. A moderately entertaining movie with a few decent humorous moments but the typically uninspiring storyline which I have come to expect from Marvel adaptations (or most comic book adaptations, for that matter).
After watching the film, a few points came to mind:
1. When did Anthony Hopkins decide to retire from acting? A plank of wood would have been a suitable replacement as he clearly couldn't be bothered to emote in the slightest in his role.
2. Rene Russo must be desperate for work - she had about 2 lines in the movie.
3. 3D is shit. I'm rapidly becoming sick of watching films in dim and blurry almost-3D-ovision. It adds absolutely nothing to most films and actively detracts from others such as Thor. With present technology it is little more than an annoying gimmick.
I can't say I'm looking forward to any of the forthcoming comic book movies this year. I'd imagine most of them will be pretty rubbish.
After watching the film, a few points came to mind:
1. When did Anthony Hopkins decide to retire from acting? A plank of wood would have been a suitable replacement as he clearly couldn't be bothered to emote in the slightest in his role.
2. Rene Russo must be desperate for work - she had about 2 lines in the movie.
3. 3D is shit. I'm rapidly becoming sick of watching films in dim and blurry almost-3D-ovision. It adds absolutely nothing to most films and actively detracts from others such as Thor. With present technology it is little more than an annoying gimmick.
I can't say I'm looking forward to any of the forthcoming comic book movies this year. I'd imagine most of them will be pretty rubbish.
Imax 3d seemed real enough to me. Normal 3D is garbage.
Correct version would be...
3D at home on the latest Samsung 8000 series looks real enough...everything else is garbage.
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