This movie is so bad, I feel sorry for the actors who have to be identified with this mess, but it's not the acting. The writing, the overly used villain stereotype, the overly use hero stereotype, the mind numbing toddle-level storyline, and the bad CGI, how could this be an American film? It tries to be Pixar Disney, but it doesn't come close. The writing is very bad to build a movie. Children will get stupid watching this film. I'm curios how a writer could come up with such... stupidity in a world much more educated. This movie seems to be the hopes and dreams of many untalented and uneducated people who should have taken several courses in movie making, story telling, writing, and animation. The 1960s Hanna Barbara Films were much better thought out and written. I could give this movie some empathy if it had been made under some Latin-American sweat shop by impoverish people unable to afford education higher than a 3rd grade, but I'm suspecting that this movie was made by people who could make a movie, and did, but they possessed neither the skills, talent, or education.
Reviews
10 Reviews
Fake education
26 May 2015
Warning: Spoilers
How does the producers of this "education" know a white woman created farming, the planting of seeds, sowing of land, caring of crops?
How does the producers of this "education" know that Stone Hendge was a church?
This "education" makes too many claims and qualify these unsubstantiated claims with snippets of video interviews of intellectuals that may or may not be making the same claims.
This is not educational! This is all flash and trash for ignorant uneducated uninterested people who want to learn history from an MTV-type formate of all show and no substance.
How does the producers of this "education" know that Stone Hendge was a church?
This "education" makes too many claims and qualify these unsubstantiated claims with snippets of video interviews of intellectuals that may or may not be making the same claims.
This is not educational! This is all flash and trash for ignorant uneducated uninterested people who want to learn history from an MTV-type formate of all show and no substance.
The Dinosaur Project
(2012)
Fun that doesn't offend
17 November 2013
Warning: Spoilers
It's a fun movie. The lead is an Indiana Jones complete with the hat. The cute son who wasn't allowed on the trip I knew was going to sneak aboard the helicopter, and I knew the helicopter was going to be brought down by pterodactyls. The hot supermodel blonde doctor was casted for her ability to wear a tight tank top in the Congo. Too bad they killed her off fast, I thought they were going for the slow motion Baywatch effect. That would have been fun. Even the Blair Witch-like filming was fun.
If I were attacked by a flock of man-eating "anything" in the middle of he night, I'd probably wouldn't run into the forest towards the river because predators hunt at the waters edge, but it worked out for them, and while on the river I realized that everyone on this "project" was going to die, it was just a matter of time and how.
It's like the first jaws. It's kinda fun. It's actually pretty good.
If I were attacked by a flock of man-eating "anything" in the middle of he night, I'd probably wouldn't run into the forest towards the river because predators hunt at the waters edge, but it worked out for them, and while on the river I realized that everyone on this "project" was going to die, it was just a matter of time and how.
It's like the first jaws. It's kinda fun. It's actually pretty good.
Walking with Monsters
(2005)
Too many artistic liberties
13 November 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This is not an educational documentary because it takes too many liberties with behavior that this pseudo-documentary doesn't explain why they claim the things they claim. Perhaps if this "documentary" explained why they claim the claims that the claim, it would be more credible; otherwise, I resent this cartoon passing itself off as educational.
Also: it's funny how feminist this series is. It's like the producers went out of their way to prove a point. I'm not sure I know what their point was, but it seems like if you were male in that era in time, or in that era in this series, you'll be eaten, outwitted, or out lucked by a smarter, more powerful, or more evolved female. One of my kids pointed it out when they were guessing how the drama would end, which ever creature was referred to as a "he" is the one who'll get eaten. Well, that's pretty much a sign of our times. Gotta do what sells.
Also: it's funny how feminist this series is. It's like the producers went out of their way to prove a point. I'm not sure I know what their point was, but it seems like if you were male in that era in time, or in that era in this series, you'll be eaten, outwitted, or out lucked by a smarter, more powerful, or more evolved female. One of my kids pointed it out when they were guessing how the drama would end, which ever creature was referred to as a "he" is the one who'll get eaten. Well, that's pretty much a sign of our times. Gotta do what sells.
AE: Apocalypse Earth
(2013 Video)
Too familiar
12 November 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This movie would have served as a Star Trek TNG movie. There were too many familiar characters. The android TIM was/is Data in every way... Or they should have changed that android character completely, and I don't mean turning him into a hologram like in Star Trek VGR or a robot like Star Wars C3PO. For this movie to work, this was the most important change needed.
The bikini clad jungle girl should had been naked, I know she practically was, but it would have made more sense.
The "chameleons" were too much like Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator. I understand the low budget, but too many things are too... lets just say .. unoriginal. Even if they gave to chameleons a hue, or an aura. SOMETHING!
The movie was actually pretty good if you overlooked the poor quality CGI and the complete ripoff on Star Trek's Data, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator, and the original The Planet of the Apes' ending, but I liked it. Do NOT take this movie seriously, nor expect too much, and you'll be surprised its actually something from Asylum.
The bikini clad jungle girl should had been naked, I know she practically was, but it would have made more sense.
The "chameleons" were too much like Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator. I understand the low budget, but too many things are too... lets just say .. unoriginal. Even if they gave to chameleons a hue, or an aura. SOMETHING!
The movie was actually pretty good if you overlooked the poor quality CGI and the complete ripoff on Star Trek's Data, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator, and the original The Planet of the Apes' ending, but I liked it. Do NOT take this movie seriously, nor expect too much, and you'll be surprised its actually something from Asylum.
Dinosaur Revolution
(2011)
Too much "artistic privilege" makes it just a cartoon pretending to be educational
17 October 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This cartoon is as educational as Spongebob Squarepants.
This program is dangerous as it masquerade as something educational, but it's pure cartoon taking extinct creatures and creating a Disney/World Wrestling Entertainment-type drama.
This entire program is based on iddy biddy tiny bits of actual facts (i.e. giant raptor) and piling on so much artistic/entertainment privileges like color, mating behaviors, family scenarios, close misses, surprise twist endings, "color flashing" etc... It's just a cartoon with little or no educational value.
This show is what the WWE is to wrestling. Not real, not educational, just fake.
This program is dangerous as it masquerade as something educational, but it's pure cartoon taking extinct creatures and creating a Disney/World Wrestling Entertainment-type drama.
This entire program is based on iddy biddy tiny bits of actual facts (i.e. giant raptor) and piling on so much artistic/entertainment privileges like color, mating behaviors, family scenarios, close misses, surprise twist endings, "color flashing" etc... It's just a cartoon with little or no educational value.
This show is what the WWE is to wrestling. Not real, not educational, just fake.
Disney is for girls
24 December 2012
More and more Disney is becoming the LifeTime Movie network where girls are built up and anything male is reduced to insignificant bumbling fools and incompetent evil doers. Disney is insisting on teaching the younger male generations that they a insignificant and irrelevant.
Ever since the Lion King, when the feminist network protested the celebration of a male lead character, Disney has been overcompensating by making string after string of LifeTimeNetwork-type shows and animation.
I understand that this is a business, so I understand Disney wanting to appease feminist, girl-empowering, women's coalition, women's studies groups because they are the ones who are ready (well financed) to organize a large media protest. All I can do is keep Disney out of my house. Time to use Parental lock on the Disney Channel.
Ever since the Lion King, when the feminist network protested the celebration of a male lead character, Disney has been overcompensating by making string after string of LifeTimeNetwork-type shows and animation.
I understand that this is a business, so I understand Disney wanting to appease feminist, girl-empowering, women's coalition, women's studies groups because they are the ones who are ready (well financed) to organize a large media protest. All I can do is keep Disney out of my house. Time to use Parental lock on the Disney Channel.
Good fairy tale, good acting, good action, nice scenery, occ. comical,
20 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers
It started out pretty good, then they got to India, and then the pretty boy prince met the charming savage I still clung to hope, and when they got to the spoiled rich princess wanted to run away to be a music teacher, I still clung to hope, but when the Roman prince started to whine about marrying for love, I couldn't watch anymore.
I've been to south Asian countries where poverty is everywhere. Surrounded by so much poverty where it's common to regularly miss meals and live in squalor, it would be unlikely that anyone of wealth would leave willingly. Many times woman seek to marry for any man with a job, even if its a farm worker. Doctors and lawyers can barely make a living because hardly anyone can afford their services, an Asian princess would know this.
In both Asia and Europe, it was common to marry for economics or duty. The concept of marrying for love came into existence around the 19th industrialized century.
It was a nice fairy tale. Good for people who want a Disney-type fairy tale with no basis in reality or history or facts or human nature.
I've been to south Asian countries where poverty is everywhere. Surrounded by so much poverty where it's common to regularly miss meals and live in squalor, it would be unlikely that anyone of wealth would leave willingly. Many times woman seek to marry for any man with a job, even if its a farm worker. Doctors and lawyers can barely make a living because hardly anyone can afford their services, an Asian princess would know this.
In both Asia and Europe, it was common to marry for economics or duty. The concept of marrying for love came into existence around the 19th industrialized century.
It was a nice fairy tale. Good for people who want a Disney-type fairy tale with no basis in reality or history or facts or human nature.
Before the Dinosaurs
(2005)
It's a great science fantasy, but not science
16 December 2012
Well, I wish this "documentary" didn't take so much "artistic liberties".
Basically this "documentary" takes scientific evidence and throws in a lot of fantasy to tell a story. It's fun to watch, but aside being very gender passive aggressive, it makes too much unfounded assumptions.
Parents should not mistake this for educational, this is basically a fantasy cartoon loosely based on science.
OK, not enough lines to comment... I'll try to add more lines... I do think this "documentary" is good to demonstrate evolution and how things evolve. The CGI is excellent! The narrator is great!
Basically this "documentary" takes scientific evidence and throws in a lot of fantasy to tell a story. It's fun to watch, but aside being very gender passive aggressive, it makes too much unfounded assumptions.
Parents should not mistake this for educational, this is basically a fantasy cartoon loosely based on science.
OK, not enough lines to comment... I'll try to add more lines... I do think this "documentary" is good to demonstrate evolution and how things evolve. The CGI is excellent! The narrator is great!
Midnight Chronicles
(2009)
It's like water to a dehydrated fantasy fiction fan.
2 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This was less of a movie and more of a TV pilot for a series that wasn't picked up. With this in mind... It was a pretty good "movie".
The idea was great, the acting was mixed, the scenery, costumes, and props were great.
The close references to LOTR Tolkien, "free races, orcs," and Tolkien-like names of places were too ambitious. A B-movie should never associate itself with Tolkien because they will always be compared and always fall short. This movie could have stood better by itself because it was a pretty good "movie".
The lead "Mag", the mayor, and few others were very good actors,the female lead lacked bimbo-appeal, while the elf seemed more like a Vulcan relative of Mr. Spock of Star Trek. His hesitation with the drunken soldier in the alley proved himself to be completely useless, but this Was an editing's issue.
In the end, well the "movie" just ended. It gambled on the series being picked up. I'm disappointed that it wasn't. This was the first B-movie that wasn't a pain to watch. It was actually very good.
The idea was great, the acting was mixed, the scenery, costumes, and props were great.
The close references to LOTR Tolkien, "free races, orcs," and Tolkien-like names of places were too ambitious. A B-movie should never associate itself with Tolkien because they will always be compared and always fall short. This movie could have stood better by itself because it was a pretty good "movie".
The lead "Mag", the mayor, and few others were very good actors,the female lead lacked bimbo-appeal, while the elf seemed more like a Vulcan relative of Mr. Spock of Star Trek. His hesitation with the drunken soldier in the alley proved himself to be completely useless, but this Was an editing's issue.
In the end, well the "movie" just ended. It gambled on the series being picked up. I'm disappointed that it wasn't. This was the first B-movie that wasn't a pain to watch. It was actually very good.
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