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Le cinquième élément (1997)
Perfect entertainment
The people who hate this movie make me laugh, if you go to user comments you'll find that no one in the "hated it" category has any actual reason for hating it (except for the feminist, but lets not get into that) The only reason people don't like this movie is because so much of Hollywood has morphed them into "ultra realism" tight wads that they can't respect and enjoy real cheesy entertainment anymore. The acting is awesome, the writing is clever, and the sets and special effects are beautiful. Relax, sit back, and let your peevish scrutinizing little brain rest for a hour and 45 minutes and you'll find that this really is a fun, energetic, vibrant film.
mad props to the director 8 out of 10
War of the Worlds (2005)
Not what i was expecting
The Opening scene to this movie is, for lack of a better word, incredible. It starts out with great potential, the characters are set up well (even though, the initial "uncomfortable" meeting of the divorced family was a little cliché) the story introduced evenly and smoothly, and the first attack scene is beautifully filmed, the first running sequence is perfect (as long as you bite your lip at the digital camera flop). Then the film starts to slide a little bit. The acting by Cruise and Fanning is spot on, and Robbins does an excellent character role, but the way the action is presented bugged me a little.
It appeared that Spielberg was trying to keep the audience on the wars effects on the family and not on the world. Its kind of a "third person limited" perspective, and that would have been fine with me in a situation where the event was well known (say like a WW2 setting) but this story is of course unknown to the audience, so the fact that we never get to see the whole picture, the devastation in its full glory, that we only see the edge of the large battles and hear glimpses of the attacks on other country's gnawed at me the whole time. I was hoping that they would reveal all that at the very end, that we would be stunned to see that the huge effect on the family was minuscule compared to the world devastation, but because that never happened I feel like I can't really appreciate what the family went through.
The Cinematography and the score was beautiful, and the effects were completely stunning but the story left so many loop holes in my head that i couldn't come out feeling entirely satisfying.
Although i must say that any movie narrated by Morgan Freeman has got a place i my book
7 1/2 out of 10
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Pretty Good, the best of the Prequels
I saw the midnight premier last night and am running on literally an hour of sleep right now. So on that note, if I don't make sense, just bear with me. Definitely the best and most epic installment of the new Star Wars film's. Lucas pushes his flashy vibrant style to the limit, pulling out all the stops on graphics, fight sequences, and gigantic dog fights.
I'll get my complaints out of the way first; Lord Grevious (the droid commander) is definitely the low point of this movie. Matthew Wood, the voice actor that plays this character, gives him a weird comical bad guy voice, like General Grevious is trying to crack a bad joke all the time. I was curious why he was so bad and then i looked up his history...he doesn't have one, never acted profesionally in his life. So how does one go about getting this role with no experience...he was the assistant sound guy. Not only that, but for some freaking reason Lucas gave him a chronic cough, making him even more comical so that he brings down every scene he's in. In fact, instead of making the droid army a powerful force of emotionless juggernauts, they take a backseat in the film and reside there as kooky little comic relief. Why? moving on, They gave R2D2 all these cool gadgets and things (in fact, he gets his own freakin fight scene)that he doesn't have in A New Hope. You'd think if R2D2 had of had those nifty rocket boosters in A New Hope he'd have just flown through the desert and never gotten captured by Jawa's and therefore Luke would have never gotten him and the entire galaxy would fall into eternal dark oblivion. Lucas! what were you thinking.
Next, Darth Vader is the "poster boy" and driving force of the Empires iron fist reign. He is an emotionless android led by the dark force of the emperor. He embodies everything that the Alliance hates. Realizing that, when Vader is finally created he ask's about his wife and when he hears she's dead he gives out a forlorn "Nooooooooooooooooo!" but in the James Earl Jones voice it's just silly. Several people laughed when this happened. Surely Lucas wasn't sitting in the editing room watching that going "oh, thats so sad", Anakin feels emotion, Darth Vader feels know emotion, cannot feel emotion, and seeing him being dramatic is just plain silly.
Now for the plus's Nostalgia, to the extreme. At one point Ewan McGregor puts on his cloak hood and goes walking into the darkness, and i seriously got goose bumps. More crazy Yoda action. Yoda is one bad man, Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) is one bad man, and Obi Wan (Ewan McGregor) is one bad man. The fighting is incredible. Definitely better than its predecessors. The Acting for the most part is very good, there's a few moments when i cringed a bit at a line or two, but other than that writing is good as well. It is sad that this is the last of the Star Wars, but it most certainly lives up to the name of Star Wars, and makes up mostly for Episode I. And while it is not a cinematic masterpiece, it is entertaining, just don't get caught up in the little "blips" i give it 8 out of 10
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)
revolutionary video gaming experience
Hideo Kojima never ceases to amaze me, besides the fact that Snake (A.K.A Big Boss) looks amazingly like Kurt Russell from "Escape From New York" in this game, the characters look and feel more realistic than anything ever attempted with video games. Since video games where invented they have been shrugged off by the other media's as inferior and childish, I have a feeling that that time is quickly coming to an end.
This game's story line had me more intrigued than I've been with any movie in a long time. The Music is spot on, the voice overs are flawless, the cinematics and action rival that of most modern films, and Yoji Shinkawa's art work is fresh and inventive. Kojima really has mastered the technique of "playing a movie" with this one.
The only real caution i can give is that the violence can get intense in area's, and the game play may be a little to in depth for newer gamers.
But if your ready to put some time and effort into it, this game is nothing short of the perfect experience.
Darkness (2002)
"Darkness" is a disgrace to Film.
Firstly, in the words of Will Ferrel "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" I keep hearing about how new and inventive this movie is. It's just like they took every horror movie since 1980 and made it into this laughably bad cocktail, and even if it where original, that doesn't make it good. I could film a bug crawling around for two hours and release it and it would get praise for how "original and inventive" it is. I am no professional critic, but i can tell the difference between good film and bad, and this is definitely like 5 notches below "Dumb and Dumberer" The acting is bland, the plot can barely hold on as the cinematography rambles through skewed "artistic" shots reminiscent of Nickelodeons "Are You Afraid of the Dark", and it simply IS NOT SCARY. The first time I saw the shadow pass in front of the screen my heart rate rose, but after it had happened FOUR TIMES with no explanation i could feel the whole audience thinking "O.K., who is he trying to fool.", and you can only make flashes of little kids scary so many times. After about the 50th scary little kid and the random naked old women crawling on the roof, i felt like i was going to vomit. The ending on the other hand is a completely different story, its like they got half way through this movie and then realized that they didn't have an ending so the director was just like "O.K. get me a scary looking snake, gross looking old women masks, and some nifty lighting effects; and whe'll pull it off as an edgy twist ending." I walked out of this film and literally demanded my money back. For those of you who haven't seen the film and intend to, I strongly advise against it, but if you feel you must than at least try to answer these questions for me:
(Spoilers)
1. Why the heck did the father move to Spain and back into a house that someone had attempted to murder him in when he was a child?
2. What was the point of all the random shots of Anna Paquin at the swimming pool?
3. Could the architect fly or something? because I'm pretty sure the bus he was on never stopped.
4. What kind of library keeps an ancient book of the Occult on tabs?
5.What was the point of the room under the stairs?
6. What the Heck did the old ladies have to do with anything?
7. what the boof was the point of the snake guarding the giant egg?
8. and lastly, What was Miramax thinking! i give this movie 1 out of 10