Ok so here's my deal with District 9...
It was a well made movie. The budget was small but they managed to do a lot within that budget. The troubles they may have had with special effects they disguised well with the use of cinematography.
The story, while actually quite depressing, was interesting and somewhat thought provoking. For me, it pointed out the selfishness of man and how we have to fight with ourselves sometimes in order to make the right decision...interesting.
The acting was great. The people they used were believable and entertaining. The human to alien interaction was pretty well done. There were a few times that alien subtitles were inappropriately added to for what seemed like shock value.
There were quite a few negatives...there was quite a bit of cursing and who knows how many people were LITERALLY blown up. This movie is definitely graphically violent. As bad as that may sound...that's not even the disturbing part for me...
The part that I genuinely didn't like and what ruined the movie for me was the way I felt after it was over...I left feeling really upset and kind of angry. I was really upset about it and didn't really know why. It might have been the violence or the fact that the main character was the most selfish person ever and after it took him almost breaking up a family and killing a friend to make the right choice he was "lost" in an alien society...I don't really know what it was but I left feeling very unsettled.
While it is a well made movie and carries a great plot, story line, character development, and underlined message...I would not recommend it. Mainly for the ginormous amounts of violence and because of the way it made me feel after. I wouldn't want anyone else to feel like that.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers is one of my most favorite movies...It was well made, epic, and definitely not over done. It was the perfect amount of action, good writing, story line, and acting. Having said that, I had relatively high hopes for the sequel to one of favorite movies.
Unfortunately, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen left me with a rather annoying and unknown taste in my mouth. If you haven't seen the movie and plan on it stop reading cause there will be spoilers...
While the action between the Transformer's was awesomely amazing...the less than positive elements were WAY less then positive. The writing was mediocre and the acting was less then impressive. I think that had a lot to do with the writing, I mean there is only so much you can do with lame one-liners. Entertaining characters in the first movie were borderline annoying. Tyrese for example. He only said like 10 words in the whole movie but they were all poorly delivered phrases. Speaking of stupid and overdone comedy...since when did Sam's mom drink the crazy potion and start swearing??? There is an extended scene of her accidentally eating drug baked brownies and loosing her mind on campus, which is after she potty mouth's it up in the first 10 minutes of the movie.
Transformers also had tasteful comic relief...it's sequel had distasteful comedy thrown in simply for the shock value and to make up for the so so writing. The sequel featured Sam going to college and being the key to a power source that good potentially be the key to destroying the planet...Ok the plot doesn't sound terrible and it really wasn't. It was all the add-in's, not to mention to 2 hour and 22 minute running time.
The sex factor went up from a 2 to about an 8 from Transformers to it's sequel. There were humping dogs, humping robots, sexual innuendo's and of course, Megan Fox...Fox was annoying and too over sexual. She pouted her lips endlessly and there were at least 4 extended shots of her running in slow motion (not terrible just super unnecessary). There was also the addition of quite a few transformers, one of which was a overly sexual college coed, who's tongue attached to a large robotic tale tried to get rid of Sam. It was actually a little disturbing...
On the positive side, the action was amazing. The transformer fighting was epic and superly well done. There were these twin autobots that I definitely could have done without and every scene with them in it was kind of pointless, annoying, and just filler. I also could have lived with out the tiny deceptacon, as well as, the old autobot. The old one wasn't too bad...entertaining but just a little bit too much. Not to mention that Optimus Prime isn't 2/3 of the movie is just terrible. As soon as he dies you know he's coming back but still...he IS the transformers, the biggest most epic autobot of them all and he's hardly in the movie. He does save the day with Sam's help but it's the principal of the matter...I want to see Optimus when I watch a Transformer's movie!
So here's the deal...if the movie didn't have the upgraded sexual content, unnecessary transformers, language, and poor attempts at comedic relief, it would have been equally as good as the first. If only.......
I would definitely say if you have kids think twice before you make this one a family event. While the idea is good and it wasn't like blatantly terrible...for the most part I was pretty disappointed by it.
Maybe the third will be better...or they could just kill it all like they did with Pirates but who really knows
Unfortunately, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen left me with a rather annoying and unknown taste in my mouth. If you haven't seen the movie and plan on it stop reading cause there will be spoilers...
While the action between the Transformer's was awesomely amazing...the less than positive elements were WAY less then positive. The writing was mediocre and the acting was less then impressive. I think that had a lot to do with the writing, I mean there is only so much you can do with lame one-liners. Entertaining characters in the first movie were borderline annoying. Tyrese for example. He only said like 10 words in the whole movie but they were all poorly delivered phrases. Speaking of stupid and overdone comedy...since when did Sam's mom drink the crazy potion and start swearing??? There is an extended scene of her accidentally eating drug baked brownies and loosing her mind on campus, which is after she potty mouth's it up in the first 10 minutes of the movie.
Transformers also had tasteful comic relief...it's sequel had distasteful comedy thrown in simply for the shock value and to make up for the so so writing. The sequel featured Sam going to college and being the key to a power source that good potentially be the key to destroying the planet...Ok the plot doesn't sound terrible and it really wasn't. It was all the add-in's, not to mention to 2 hour and 22 minute running time.
The sex factor went up from a 2 to about an 8 from Transformers to it's sequel. There were humping dogs, humping robots, sexual innuendo's and of course, Megan Fox...Fox was annoying and too over sexual. She pouted her lips endlessly and there were at least 4 extended shots of her running in slow motion (not terrible just super unnecessary). There was also the addition of quite a few transformers, one of which was a overly sexual college coed, who's tongue attached to a large robotic tale tried to get rid of Sam. It was actually a little disturbing...
On the positive side, the action was amazing. The transformer fighting was epic and superly well done. There were these twin autobots that I definitely could have done without and every scene with them in it was kind of pointless, annoying, and just filler. I also could have lived with out the tiny deceptacon, as well as, the old autobot. The old one wasn't too bad...entertaining but just a little bit too much. Not to mention that Optimus Prime isn't 2/3 of the movie is just terrible. As soon as he dies you know he's coming back but still...he IS the transformers, the biggest most epic autobot of them all and he's hardly in the movie. He does save the day with Sam's help but it's the principal of the matter...I want to see Optimus when I watch a Transformer's movie!
So here's the deal...if the movie didn't have the upgraded sexual content, unnecessary transformers, language, and poor attempts at comedic relief, it would have been equally as good as the first. If only.......
I would definitely say if you have kids think twice before you make this one a family event. While the idea is good and it wasn't like blatantly terrible...for the most part I was pretty disappointed by it.
Maybe the third will be better...or they could just kill it all like they did with Pirates but who really knows
Monday, December 15, 2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still was exactly what I expected it to be. Hollywood's attempt to convince the public that we are slowly but surely killing our planet...I worried that the film makers were going to take the original simple story and warp it into some kind of propaganda, which is in fact what occurred. I was disappointed by the translation between the original film (one of my favorite black and whites...) and this new special effect charged film.
As far as the acting goes, Keanu Reeves plays a great emotionless (one faced) alien. He was no Michael Rennie but what can you do? Jennifer Connelly certainly looked beautiful, but when does she not? And of course, you can't get much cuter than Jaden Smith. The chemistry between Connelly and Smith was believable through out the entire movie; right up until the part when they were suppose to love each other.
For the most part there weren't too many redeemable qualities about the movie and there wasn't anything that really set it apart from the original (besides the special effects, which were definitely pretty). Maybe I'm being harsh but I got exactly what I expected, which wasn't good things.
I would vote on "no go" and if I was recommending The Day the Earth Stood Still, I would definitely say, sit through the 1951 version, in black and white and with it's 50's special effects. I was more impressed with the original.
As far as the acting goes, Keanu Reeves plays a great emotionless (one faced) alien. He was no Michael Rennie but what can you do? Jennifer Connelly certainly looked beautiful, but when does she not? And of course, you can't get much cuter than Jaden Smith. The chemistry between Connelly and Smith was believable through out the entire movie; right up until the part when they were suppose to love each other.
For the most part there weren't too many redeemable qualities about the movie and there wasn't anything that really set it apart from the original (besides the special effects, which were definitely pretty). Maybe I'm being harsh but I got exactly what I expected, which wasn't good things.
I would vote on "no go" and if I was recommending The Day the Earth Stood Still, I would definitely say, sit through the 1951 version, in black and white and with it's 50's special effects. I was more impressed with the original.
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