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Tian jiang xiong shi (2015)
A pleasant theme but poorly executed.
West meets East and instead of fighting they decide to be bestfriends because of a weather event.
Every scene is terribly overacted, some of the cuts are so bad that you don't know what is happening anymore.
A Bollywood style dance number in the middle of the movie that is wildly not necessary.
36 nations working in harmony is more of a fantasy than Lord of the Rings.
Peng Lin is a treasure and has some fantastic scenes and probably the only one not overacting.
Fight scenes are fantastic.
Overall the theme of we should work together regardless of background is admirable, but unfortunately soo unbelievable it takes away from the movie.
Annihilation (2018)
This movie is like an onion with its many layers to peel...
...only to find there are just more layers of onion.
Annihilation is a film that presents a reality and never explains it, the onus is on you to work out what it all means. For many people this will be an enjoyable and challenging experience, and others will feel like they just sat in on a 2 hour Biology and Psychology lecture.
The Movie Annihilation follows former military soldier and current scientist Lena (played by Natalie Portman), and four other throw away characters of various backgrounds. The group ventures into the shimmer to gather data and determine a way to stop it. As the movie progresses an adventure of scientific proportions develops that provide information and additional questions to both the characters and the viewers. The adventure climaxes to an ultimately satisfying scientific but not exciting ending.
I left the theater satisfied but a little disappointed, I really enjoyed the atmosphere and the little hints of information that kept me thinking through the movie. What I didn't enjoy was that some of the fundamentals were missing.
We had supporting characters we knew so little about that when they died or moved on we didn't care.
Mutation happening mostly in the form of adding flowers to walls and antlers and skin etc.
Too many flashbacks (sometimes the same one as before only longer).
The movie cannot decide if it wants the atmosphere to be about wonder or tension and flip flops between the two over 2 hours.
Too hard to believe they had been working to discover the shimmers secrets for years and had literally zero information about it, other than it was increasing in size. Really no one thought to maybe stick their arm in and take a scoop of dirt?
In the end I enjoyed the film and would recommend it to someone looking for a little bit of a thinker. Was it a deep movie? The self appointed movie intellectuals on IMDB sure think it is.
The Mist (2017)
Don't make this show political, it is trash regardless of your politics.
Fourteen minutes in and I had to pause Netflix and take an evaluation of the characters. You have the following stereotypes in no particular order:
1. Conspiracy theorist 2. Meathead cops 3. Small town backwards citizens 4. Ultra liberal family struggling against number 3 5. Woman fired for daring to defy the system. 6. The handsome star quarterback. 7. The awkward gay? friend who just cant fit in. 8. The junkie with a hard exterior but a gooey centre who is going to detox half way through the event.
None of these characters seem like real people and several episodes in I can only root for the quarterback.
The story: The story should be that the mist shows up and the town has to band together to survive it. Naturally there will be different factions and ideologies and there will be friction. Much like in Walking dead the greatest threat is ourselves. This is only partly the case, too much of this show centres around the pre-event rape and her friends quest to hold hands with a boy. There is room in Hollywood to share a lot of different stories, there are too many different stories here for someone just looking to enjoy some horror.
This show does too many things poorly when it should have just tried to do one thing right.
Hollow (2011)
I want to give it a 1 because they paid people to rate it a 9 or 10.
Please look in the comments section of this movie and you will see proof that people were paid to rate this a nine or ten.
This is not a good movie, and lets go over why it is not good.
Found footage film where nothing happens until the last ten minutes.
No ones phone works, what a surprise...
No one is really friends and are easily turned against each other.
People go off alone and get attacked, everyone knows this has happened, one person goes looking for them. This process repeats until everyone is dead.
There are lots of opportunities to leave, no one tries to leave.
Tree is evil and is well known for hundreds of years, yet no one tries to chop it or burn it down, or hire contractors to get rid of it.
For some reason no matter what is happening someone picks up the camera and films...OMG I am being killed, better setup the camera so someone can watch this later.
Its just not good, its not the worst movie I have ever seen but its as boring as your parents vacation pictures until the last ten minutes.
Divergent (2014)
Probably not for adults of either gender.
First I want to say I have no problem with a female protagonist, there have been quite a few movies like that lately and I have watched and enjoyed several. I do though notice how willingly the book/movie writers deviate from strong women characters to "isn't it great to have a boyfriend" characters. I assume this is for the younger audience who haven't had their idealism beaten down by the actual dating world.
So lets get to the good and bad points of this movie:
- The relationship pacing in this movie was good.
- The faction idea is awful, people in factions grow to distrust other factions, its human nature (think of how countries distrust each other, religions and even different high schools in the same city or cliques in the same high school).
- The idea of the factionless is awful, so now you have a group your are actively oppressing, yup that wont cause problems.
- So they don't allow divergence but they don't check for it until you are a certain age and then they just kill you? And no one seems to have a problem with that?
- Dauntless are taught to be brave though taking huge risks and possibly suffering death and are constantly chastised for either being a coward or too reckless, which one is it? Think of the knife throwing scene or the zip line scene or the initial jump into darkness.
- Reckless soldiers are bad soldiers, think of the armed forces in your country, they are nothing like these guys yet they are tasked with the same job.
- They seem to have a few types of guns, most of them silly looking but they don't have any other type of weapons which I thought was odd.
- I assume the factionless can have children, can they join a faction? If not then they are going to start multiplying. The dauntless are going to really cause a problem here by throwing out semi trained young men and women who can reproduce and have military training.
- Why does that train seem to be wherever they need it to be? and does anyone else besides Dauntless ride it?
- "Why does everyone keep saying that to me?" BANG! I laughed at that.
- Chances are that people in different factions are going to fall in love with each other, they seem to be in close proximity enough for that to happen, how is that dealt with? What if a baby comes of that?
- Mind control drug works on the soldiers for hours yet works on the old lady for like 5 minutes just so they can have a scene where she realizes what she has done. Also who wouldn't have backups?
- I might have missed this but where are your skilled labourers falling under? Like your electricians or computer engineers etc.
- What purpose is there for having all that mind control drug in the control center?
- Son meets father that beat him which results in half a second of awkwardness then its over.
- Tris wants to take it slow which I think is a good message for younger women, I didn't realize from the movie alone that this was only because she has intimacy problems.
- Faction over blood: NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN, can you imagine siding with the people you picked carrots with over your family?
- Four turns down a promotion to leadership twice but appears to have the same job as Eric in leadership any ways.
- There is a relationship between Tris and the Old lady where she seems to think that Tris is special, Tris does get a lot more attention than anyone else does from this woman yet that comes to nothing.
Seriously I could go on and on and on but these things killed my ability to suspend disbelief like I was able to do for Hunger games, and when you cant suspend disbelief those two and a half hours that this movie is really really drags on (sort of like this review).
Chugyeokja (2008)
Does well but doesn't quite make it.
First let me say I enjoyed the movie, the main characters grow and the movie progresses in an interesting manner. I recommend watching this movie. I feel though that I should touch upon some things that I noticed that people aren't bringing up.
This is a very very cookie cutter Korean film, it is nothing like a Hollywood film and that is attractive and probably why it is getting so many 10/10.
1. slapstick comedy and bumbling sidekicks in a suspense/thriller movie. You cant keep suspense up forever because the audience gets numb to it, but that doesn't mean you need to alternate between suspense and dumb & dumber every time.
2. The unwilling hero at odds with the police is far too common. The character grows from abrasive to lovable as the move progresses.
3. Everyone is broken, there are no winners just people who lose more than others.
4. The little girl in distress to tug at our heartstrings.
None of these things make a movie bad, in fact they may all make a movie better but its when you keep seeing this formula that you start realizing you are just watching the Korean cliché of a Hollywood movie.
Being different than the west is expected but being a formula that the Koreans are used to does not get you a 10/10. Being a formula doesn't make it a bad movie either. The main character is great, the little girl does a great job as well. The story of how he is caught is interesting and the fact that they didn't need to wrap it up in a happily ever after is much appreciated.
Other than some minor plot holes this movie doesn't fail me in any other way than making me suspiciously aware that I have seen this all before.
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
Jack struggles against the giants while I struggle to stay awake
How many times am I going to have to watch a story where two paper thin characters from different walks of life fall in love after working through a problem that thrust them together?
A princess and a peasant meet and fall in love? Never seen that before, save some innovation for the rest of us guys!
Oh and then one of the bad guys plans to marry the princess so he can be king? Am I watching Aladdin? I kid of course, I would have much rather watched Aladdin.
I get that this movie is based on a child's story, but that doesn't mean it has to be bad and it certainly doesn't mean it has to be two hours.
Also guys I think I know why the giants are mad, there isn't a single woman among them.
Prometheus (2012)
Much like my last relationship this was disappointing
I wanted this to be good, I wanted it so badly to be good it I was willing to write off science things that didn't make sense.
Now don't get me wrong this movie wasn't terrible, I enjoyed many aspects of the story, the visuals were great and I was curious as to whom the engineers were. The problem is that there were many things I couldn't ignore that kept happening through the movie.
1. The scientists were more dumb than the audience.
- Getting scared and getting lost even though you have the map. - Going on a long trip without even knowing why they are going. - Taking your helmet off just because the air is breathable. - Trying to play with what appears to be an albino space cobra. (Listen if it looked like a cute little bunny I would understand the mistake).
And on and on and on...
2. The story stopped making sense at its convenience.
- Lets not keep an eye on the staff we have trapped in the alien structure. - Lets experiment on someone in the ship rather than going back to Earth and figuring out what the alien substance is. - Oh Peter Weyland is on the ship, why is that kept secret? - No one is shocked to see the bleeding woman in the ship? - Why did the Engineers send us maps to their biological weapons facility? We can presume at that point they liked us.
and on and on and on and on.
To sum up Prometheus: Its like when you watch a horror movie and someone runs up the stairs to get away from the monster, suddenly I don't care if the idiot lives anymore, I may even be cheering for the monster at that point. When people act in a way that you do not think is reasonable the movie loses its tension, its emotional connection, and the immersion. This is what Prometheus does for me, a bunch of idiots on a starship meet an idiot from another planet and together do idiotic things until credits.
Run Fatboy Run (2007)
Funny but follows an obvious formula
1. Man leaves Woman 2. Man wants Woman back 3. Woman becomes engaged to a seemingly perfect Man. 4. Man attempts to prove his love for Woman/that he has changed 5. Seemingly perfect man screws up in a big way 6. Woman falls in love with Man again 7. Happy Ending.
The formula here should be obvious to anyone who watches movies. The movie is not fall of your chair laughing funny but funny enough to keep you entertained and deserves a watch.
Harish Patel is very funny as both an angry Indian man and as inspiration to Simon Pegg to keep running. His daughter played by India de Beaufort was very attractive and I am hoping she is not a one dimensional actress.
Ever Since the World Ended (2001)
A little hit and miss
Perhaps having never lived in San Francisco I am missing some cultural revolution in progress there, and perhaps that will be reflected in my following comments:
1. The adults miss the old world so why was there no migration? 2. Why does no central government still exist? 3. Why is there no current fear of the plague 4. Why have they not created their own government? Even if they do not pick a leader some strong charismatic person may pick themselves. 5. We have one African American and one Native American and everyone else they speak to is white, thats not a realistic ratio. 6. Everyone is so clean including that fellow who lives in the wilderness(good thing all the hairdressers survived). 7. You are teaching about art? How about engineering, health care,farming etc.. 8. There is such a lack of worry for day to day life there is a guy who dedicates his time to a conspiracy theory. 9. The city is in pristine condition, I would think that a city in the grips of fear would look more like a disaster zone. 10. No one seems to have suffered any trauma except one guy and he seems to have come to terms with it.
Of course all these things can be debated.
Sometimes it feels like the moral of the story is that people learn nothing. They do so many things that are inconsequential to long term human survival that I do not have any faith in the group as a whole.
Dan in Real Life (2007)
See this with your 15y/o girlfriend
How do I start? This movie is listed as a comedy and there were a couple of times that me and my friends chuckled a little, however it was in no way a comedy.
I am sure the daughters rantings were supposed to be funny, but instead teaches you to hate young teenage girls if you hadn't already. The amount of "Like omg!, thats totally funny" that came from my movie theatre made me want to off myself. This made me believe that this movie was for preteens and not for adults.
Steve Carell's interactions with Juliette Binoche are at first cute in the bookstore, however when he returns to his parents home to find her there its all very painful for the rest of the movie. Marie strings him along for the whole movie which results in him basically betraying his brother. At the end of the movie everything wraps up so nicely so everyone can feel good that it was obviously uninspired and very boring.
Every single interaction between Dan and his two oldest daughters are painful, its almost as if they just met. All they do is fight in the least funny way possible. I didn't laugh once when his daughter was crying about how much she loved her boyfriend, was that supposed to be funny? I couldn't wait until those scenes were over.
It seems that the point of the movie is that 13y/o girls are right to fall in love in 3 days because thats exactly how the would works, that is true love. And I am sure we are all surrounded by working relationships that started at age 13.
One last thing i would like to add is that the family loves Marie so much that when there is a confrontation between brothers they basically stay out of it. Instead of hating Marie they wait to see how this will play out hoping that she will stay in the family somehow.
If you are a borderline vegetable and you hate kids you will love this movie. It has everything you want. No humour, a father who forgets about his kids after a day with a woman, and the nice ending where everyone is happy so you don't have to think on your way home.