Movie Reviews 2.0

Lucas became a victim of his own success and started to make his movies too much according to what would be the biggest commercial success (in his mind), hence characters like those infernal ewoks and jar-jar fucking binks.

 

Remember, Lucas hated the old studio system and by that extension, any traditional authority above him -- a typical characteristic of the young movie makers in the 60s and 70s. In time, he got all the tech tools, resources and finances he lacked in the early years, so he didn't have to compromise not only with the people above him, but everybody around him. This is when he got spoiled and became "merchandiser", not an artist or bold visionary anymore. Maybe it is from the age, or the lack of risk motivation... dunno. But the fact is, that Lucas put too much effort into his means to do "magic", but very little to improve his own skills at directing it.

 

On one hand, I'm just happy that Lukas won't be directing, (or be involved in any way), on the other, I can't see Abrams style of direction anywhere near the original trilogy...

Right now, I'm picturing in my mind, star destroyers and tie fighters passing in front of the screen, only you can't really take a good look at them, because of that god damn lens flare that makes everything blurry!

 

I'm just worried it'll suck like nearly everything else Abrams has done. The best thing he's done is Fringe, and that's barely average.

I mean, he wrote Armageddon for fuck's sakes. Armageddon. Keep him away from my Star Wars(and my Star Trek for that matter), thank you.

Also, for the record, I didn't really begin hating him until after I saw his Star Trek. Then I did some research and ooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it all makes sense. Then I did some more yesterday and found out he did Armageddon.

 

He wrote Armageddon, for realz? Wut.

That's like the dumbest, worst movie ever. Seriously. Of course, the fault is not only his if he merely wrote it, there's the director, producer and actors to heap blame on as well.

And yeah, that red matter shit in Star Trek does make sense from that perspective, but the guy has also developed as a filmmaker since Armageddon; Cloverfield was pretty awesome IMO.

 

Well, he didn't actually direct Cloverfield...

 

Hm, maybe he didn't direct it, but didn't he write it? ...Produce it? I'm too lazy to look the movie up on IMDB, but I'm sure he was involved in some aspect of it, he is on the commentary track after all!

 

He wrote it... I just looked it up. I didn't know.
And the only thing I can do now, is wish I never did in the first place.




Star Trek wasn't bad... It was NOT Star Trek, but it was watchable...
But Armageddon, should be down there with Manos The hands of fate...
It's THAT bad.

 

There is a way to enjoy all of the Star Wars movies.

1. Watch all six movies. Get annoyed.
2. Watch the Robot Chicken Star Wars specials. Laugh your ass off.
3. Re-watch all six movies. Notice that the annoying parts are now hilarious.

 

I just watched all of them. Now off to watch the Robot Chicken specials

 

Lucas can write and direct, he is just not very good at it. And he got lucky (and a lot of help) on the original Star Wars.

And he likes to revise history. He claimed he had stories for 9 Star Wars movies all along, but he made Vader Luke's father while rewriting ESB.

 

There were something like 6 credited writers on Armageddon. And I think it is an incredibly stupid but incredibly good movie. Bay's finest!

 

Hmm. I liked the original Bad Boys. Didn't watch the sequel though so I don't know if it's as dumb (or at least intellectually stunted) as most of Bay's other movies.

 

Watched Tim Burton's Frankenweenie last night. I really like his stop-motion movies, although this one didn't have the same quirky-ness as A Nightmare before Christmans and Corpsebride.

The theme can be summed up as doing something for the right reason versus for the wrong reason. All the characters have names after a known character in literature, like Van Helsing and Frankenstein.

All in all it was quite enjoyable although not as good as the old stop-motion movies.

 

Speaking of Stop Motion and creepyness, I watched Paranorman last night. Fuckin' awesome film.

Also, yeah Lucas revises things a lot, but I do think he had an overall plan. I just don't think it fully materialized in his mind until after ESB was written and shot.

The main issue? He can't stop tweaking and his plan is actually kind of shite.

 

J.J. Abrams presents:

Spoiler

 

Life of Pi - 8/10

Fantastic.

Well acted, well scripted, well directed, good cgi and at times, humorous

I was a little worried with all the religion in the movie but the manner in which the main character handles it both in belief and faith really helps it not be overbearing or preachy.

The Second half of the story is a wonderfully crafted fantasy type world with amazing visuals that captivate you every time they appear. Shame the first half of the movie isn't of similar fashion.

 

I didn't think there is such a thing as Bay's finest.
More like Bay's least suck-fest.

 

It seems this thread progresses 5 pages between each post I make, and yet I still keep talking about the same movies. Sorry about this.

Anyway, I finally watched The Incredible Hulk some time ago, and it was much better than I feared. Somehow I had the impression that it would be the same origin-story as in the Ang Lee's Hulk film, but thankfully I was wrong - I totally hated that one. I found this movie more interesting than Thor and Captain America, although all of them had somewhat anticlimactic end-of-level-boss fights. Actually even the Iron Man films have a bit of the same problem.

And I've finally secured John Carter on BD, perhaps one day I will be able to make myself watch it.

 

Oh, and I watched (or rather stared half awake) first episode of Spartacus yesterday. What an utterly silly permutation of 300, Gladiator and Rome - I can't believe its IMDB rating is 8.7. The day before Game of Thrones also started from the beginning on one channel, but couldn't bother watching it for long. Sleeping is much more fun.