julie-1 Reviews

Hulk (2003)

Coma inducing boredom!

[13 July 2003]

This film is unbelievably long and dull. The VERY long intro into how Banner becomes the Hulk is filled with cheap soap opera facial close ups and backed by the most BORING dialogue. When the film arrives at a point where something should happen, it's comical! The hulk is neither sympathic and to be pitied (as the story would like the audience to feel) nor is he frightening. (as the history of the character portrays) The poor special effects made me think of Shrek. Not even an angry one, just a "special" poorly animated Shrek. The story is so long and drawn out that it's not even interesting! The transfers between scenes are distracting and over used. The special effects are not special at all.

The ending was a relief! I wanted to walk, but my husband wouldn't join me so I sat in torture through the whole thing hoping that an ACME safe or anvil would fall from the cinema roof and put me out of my misery. I tried to sleep, but the noisy action sequences kept waking me up.

The Princess Diaries (2001)

What a total waste of time.

[15 December 2002]

This movie ranks as 1 of the 2 worst movies I've had to waste 90 minutes on. Cute? Charming? How? In what way? There are dozens of ugly duckling turned swan movies. This one is not only riddled with the cliches of any and every other movie of that genre, but the acting is TERRIBLE! Who could possible believe that this girl was anything but an actress playing a part. ugh! If I had seen this at a cinema I would have walked out. Now I know why it got such terrible reviews in Europe, it well deserved every single one!

Avalon (2001)

Sleeper....

[3/10 · 1 October 2002]

It made me sleepy. The constant repetition of everything (scenes, music, scenarios) made me very tired. So tired in fact, that I fell asleep through most of the middle of the film. The only point of the film that I truely appreciated was the opera, and that was ruined towards the end by bad editing during the opera house scenes.

Hannibal (2001)

Not very suspenseful, thrilling, or horrible. *snore*

[23 February 2001]

If you take this film at its base categorization, it fails miserably.

It is neither suspenseful, thrilling, and where exactly was the horror in this? The make-up is overdone to the point of being silly "comic book villain" style. Was that the point? The gore scenes reduced the audience to laughter. There are countless continuity errors (not even taking into account those between "Silence" and this sequel) It's mostly silly and hardly believable. I quite often found myself close to falling asleep.