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Walking with Monsters (2005)
Science Doku has found an appealing form
I don't know in how far this show is scientifically correct. So I can't imagine ways to investigate behavior and coloring of the creatures starring in it to the detail shown. Comparison with their descendants and correlation with the plants of the period can't be sufficient. However, the form of the show is moving and convincing. The cinematography holds ones interest. Compared to earlier shows of this team the CGI and its combination with puppets is just perfect. It seems to be real. Despite the fact that the show is primarily about mans ancestors, the plot involves different perspectives too. Every creature mentioned gets enough screen time and explaining lines by the background speaker to catch the viewers interest. All in all, a 9 out of 10.
Voksne mennesker (2005)
I really like this movie
This movie is about the fortunes and misfortunes of three socially not so well integrated young people and a judge. By following the life of these four characters several features of contemporary life are illuminated. In a funny way during the first half of the movie, more serious in the second.
I like Dark Horse very well. It has lots of very different going ons, without becoming boring or hard to follow. Its creators arranged the movie in twelve chapters, probably to avoid confusing the audience with the movies richness. Through this richness of different life episodes, the four main characters are very well explored. In this, the movie has a positive attitude to live without being sentimental or uncritical.
In spite of the first part of Dark Horse taking a humorous look at the three young people, it never ridicules them. The change from the funny part to the serious one is short and fluid. Despite changing its tone this way, the movie remains coherent. The second part hasn't many lines for its protagonists to speak. Nonetheless, mostly by images, the judge, introduced in this part, is well explored.
All in all a movie deserving it to be seen by a large audience.
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Not TNG, just average sf action
This movie is pretty mediocre. It ranks even below the average TNG episode in atmosphere and direction. Despite the use of adequate CGI, there is at no time the feeling of a larger world outside the circle drawn by the actions of Picard, Data and Shinzon. In fact, by concentrating so much on these three characters, the movie becomes boring. It's essentially about the question how different Picard and Shinzon are and who is better in the end. Two egomaniacs fighting against each other, it worked in the Wrath of Khan, here it fails. Additionally Picard and Data aren't the same as in the series, egocentric and quite brutal, uninterested in the moral questions of their behavior. For instance, before they decide to make their fun ride in the ARGO, in order to check out positronic signals from the surface of an unexplored planet, they don't waste any thoughts on the civilization located on it. A civilization in an early industrial state of development. So gets the first directive, an important element of many TNG episodes, marginalized. Picard worries about the question, if Shinzon is really so much different from him. But the fate of the Remans is of no interest to him. He remarks at one point, that these unfortunate creatures were merely cannon fodder for the Romulans. That's it! finally, Picard and Data become some kind of super soldiers, infiltrating the Scimitar in the middle of the movie and storming it alone at the end. The rest of the commanding crew doesn't get enough attention. They, Riker et al, aren't present in the spectators mind for most of the movie. The wedding scene and the intended telepathic rape won't do it. TNG was a series about a science vessel with a crew taking any opportunity for expanding its knowledge. Nemesis is a movie about a battleship with a combative crew. Hopefully Nemesis isn't the the last Star Trek movie. A franchise like this one has earned a better end.