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Inception (2010)
One of the Best Movies Ever Made
The movie actually makes sense. Cobb basically explains most of the points at the beginning and exposition scenes were perfectly done.
The dream conversion at the beginning was perfect. He's being dunked so the entire building is flooded. The cafe explosions were awesome had a perfect dream like effect of anti-gravity as was the whole city being turned upside down. The anti-gravity hallway was amazing.
The score capture your attention at every turn.
The movie has some of the best set pieces I've seen in the last decade, the acting is superb and Nolan's diction is above reproach. Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy were great.
There are many ways to interpret this movie. Either everything happened exactly as it appears or Cobb is still in the dream at the end.
Or the entire movie is Cobb's dream. The characters, while probably based on real people, are projections in his dream. That's why Cobb is the only one who's subconscious spills into every dream. Everything also resolves around Cobb, even when he's not around every conservation loops back to him. Saito parrots Cobb's "take a leap of faith" and Michael Caine tells him to "go back to reality" as through they're trying to tell him he's filming, one of Saito's goons goes down when shot like he's a projection, Cobb struggles to fit through a wall like its closing in and Saito is able to make a murder charge disappear with a phone call.
Of course that might not to true at all. Nolan has created a paradoxical type of art with no true solution. It was just as likely to be real as Cobb's kids have aged in the real world when he returns and the top goes wobble. But really it doesn't matter, Cobb has accepted his reality.
In all this is one of the best movies ever made.
Tomorrowland (2015)
Under-appreciated
George Clooney and Hugh Laurie are great. Nix's big speech was awesome.
The look of Tomorrowland imagined by people in the 60s is awesome. It has cool pieces of technology like the time bomb and freeze gun and there was an awesome robot fight. The basic plot and theme are solid, feed the right wolf by acts of compassion, giving and love and don't feed the wrong wolf of greed, self servitude and hate, though they may come across to some as too preachy. The ending was brilliant where people from different cultures are invited.
Some of it is a bit derivative (Baymax style safety suits), the adult Frank Walker looked creepy for his love for Athena and film is little too meta once you realize the movie itself is sorta feeding the wrong wolf since its also about the immediate threat of an apocalypse but it does show the future can be changed by being optimistic that people can work together to change things.
The robot Athena was cool and it was a shame she died. The film succeeds in being different to the trend of Dystopian movies we've been getting recently by shown that change is possible.
Fantastic Four (2015)
Could have been great but was screwed over
Other than Toby Kebbell and Tim Blake Nelson, the performances are all great and it also has great special effects and captures the body horror very well but the good points pretty much end there.
The movie wastes time by including unnecessary scenes of Reed and Ben's childhood, even if Owen Judge was great as a young Miles Teller. Had the movie started with the science fair (which was also lame) we'd have still been able to understand Reed was trying to invent a teleporter. It was also hard to believe that a kid as smart as Reed would still be in public school. And the technology such as 90s computers was way out of date for 2007. The depiction of Ben Grimm's brother was all wrong. He was not abusive in the comics. And if Ben was born in 1986, wouldn't he have been 21 years old in 2007?
They should have just started with Reed being accepted to the Baxter Foundation. It was hard to believe Reed's 5th grade teacher was still around and it made no sense for him to be disqualified for a working teleporter or for it to not be considered real science.
Sue's Doctor Doom line was cringeworthy. It was pretty obvious that the line was written in a version of the script where Doom was called Victor Domashev and it would have served a nod to the comics but in the finished film it doesn't work so well. Apart from Kate Mara's wig, they did do quiet well with the reshoots.
The team getting drunk (a ripoff of the Fly) and deciding to go into the other dimension themselves was dumb. Doom's speech about how the people who built the Apollo spacecraft didn't get any glory was all wrong. In real life, Wernher Von Braun, a key figure that made the Apollo 11 mission possible was very famous at the time, making appearances on television during the 50s, 60s and 70s. Apollo 11 was also built by thousands of scientists, not four teens, hence why the astronauts got most of the fame and the astronauts were very vocal about how grateful they were to the scientists for keeping them alive during their journey. And since Reed and Victor are both scientists, they should have known this. Another problem is the company would be unlikely to even acknowledge them as being the ones to go through and they would likely be fired or possibly even go to jail.
And they should have bought Sue along with them, it made little sense for her to somehow get powers without going with them and if feels wrong to not have all the Fantastic Four going to them when she went with them in the comics (instead of Doctor Doom). It also takes a whole hour just for the Fantastic Four to get their superpowers. This should have happened during the first 15-25 minutes of the movie.
Cutting to a year later was another mistake as we don't get to see how the group cope with their powers or see them actually learning how to use them. They put in unnecessary childhood scenes but left out the part where they test out their powers. The anger Ben feels to Reed is also not really resolved. Well Miles Teller and Kata Mara play their parts well, they both lack chemistry for their relationship. Reg E. Cathey gave the best performance in the movie.
Michael B Jordan does the best he can but Johnny Storm was poorly developed. It makes no sense for him to blame his dad when the group were the ones who got drunk and use and used an untested machine for the sake of artificial glory. He also suddenly starts acting like a jerk to Ben for no reason at the end. It just comes out of nowhere and feels artificial rather than him being a likable jerk who does care about his friends. In fact, the Fantastic Four all appear to hate each other with only Ben having any finish to be angry at Reed.
Making the Storm siblings an adopted pair made up of two different ethnicities was progressive in showing a multi-racial family but making it so that the Caucasian Sue is the studious, responsible sibling in contrast to the African-American Johnny's delinquent characterization feels like a step backwards.
The weakest aspect was Doctor Doom. His reasons are not really explained beyond thinking everything on Earth is horrible and he just loves the desolate world of Planet Zero for some reason. It doesn't help that the main villain does not show up (I'm not counting his pre- supervillain identity) until the last twenty minutes. They should have brought him back during the first act. He was also too overpowered and his defeat relies on him forgetting he can just push people back and explode their heads Scanners style. While the last act has amazing visuals it takes way too long to get to this point. The big energy beam are also ripped off the Avengers and the end scene was ripped off Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Basically, the whole movie was just a first act in case it was popular enough to get a sequel that isn't happening. We get brief glimpses of what this movie could have been but the studio screwed it up. I probably would have given the sequel (or a crossover with the Avengers) a chance but thanks to the scripting problems, chances are they'll just reboot in four years time.
Pixels (2015)
Written by a 12 year old
This script must have been written by a 12 year old. Its every kid's fantasy come to life. The world is under attack of aliens and president Kevin James calls his best friend Adam Sandler. It turns out Adam is the hero video games always said he was and spending all that money at the arcades prepared him to be that hero. Meanwhile Josh Gad gets to yell at a bunch of soldiers who would just knock him out in real life, gets with a video game character and has Q-Bert kids with her. Its pure wish fulfillment.
Adam Sandler shows that he can be funny when he wants to be and this is probably the best he's been in a long time. Josh Gad is great to watch for the reasons I mentioned above but Peter Dinklage is the best thing about it. They have also decent performances from Brian "Lets Blow Up Google" Cox and Sean "If I say Its A Beer Commercial, Its A Bloody Beer Commercial" Bean.
The concept and effects were amazing, they have real life versions of Centipede, Tetris, Pac Man and Donkey Kong. They pay a lot of attention to detail, they not only get the mini-cooper ghosts the right colour (which would have been enough for me) but also use the right names on the license plates.
There are some plot holes, it makes no sense Eddie Plant would have been able to get away with using a cheat code under the eye of thousands of people at a tournament, the movie does not even try to explain how an arcade game cheat code could be used in a real life car, Pac Man does not have cheat codes and it makes no sense for there to be cheat codes for the ghosts when Pac Man is normally the player character.
I also think Lady Lisa should have been introduced before the finale (maybe she could have been the reward for defeating Pac Man) as there is not much development for her (I don't think she even had any lines) or her relationship with Ludlow and the subplot is sorta just scrammed into the last few minutes. However I would not go as far as calling Ludlow's obsession creepy, its probably just SJWs trying to find something wrong where there isn't. Its also a shame the dog from Duck Hunt didn't get shot (which people must been wanting for the past thirty years).
The credits were cool, showing arcade games of the movie's events.
In all, the movie is a fun ride.
San Andreas (2015)
Not all that terrible
Brad Peyton clearly went through a list of disaster clichés trying to do the opposite (car doors locked, all the boat heading to the giant wave instead of only the main character making the right choice). He was trying to do something different within the confines of a summer blockbuster but he still fell into some of the tropes and sometimes even rips off other disaster films like 2012 and Volcano. The scene where Carla Gugino flees to the top of a crumbling building is amazing.
Despite being 29 years old, Alexandra Daddario pulls off the teenage girl heading to college pretty well. Plus, we get to see her in a tank top. Paul Giamatti also sells as Dr Lawrence Hayes and Dwayne Johnson shows us he's become a pretty decent actor with a great sense of comic timing.
Ioan Gruffodd's character just suddenly changes halfway through a scene. The Taylor brothers both had annoying voices. The older one sounded like Hugh Grant. It was also unrealistic for the laser pointer to reach far enough to attract the Rock's attention.
The special effects in this film are spectacular and the cast is excellent but the storyline is not so great but its one tension packed scene after another.
Terminator Genisys (2015)
Flawed but not as bad as people say
It starts off great. Jason Clarke is an improvement on Christian Bale as we finally see the leader John Connor was meant to be. The CGI is also the best seen yet, showing us amazing flying spider robots at the start of the film. We are also shown why people have to be sent back naked, though Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles already showed their own explanation.
The T1 Terminator looked exactly like Arnie in the first film. The whole thing is very faithful to the original until the T1 is interrupted by the Guardian and we see an awesome Arnie vs Arnie fight.
Emilia Clarke is badass as Sarah Connor and even sounds a little like Linda Hamilton. While some believe she was too young to portray Sarah, the character at this point actually was 19 years old in the original Terminator, people just miss that because Linda Hamilton looked a lot older in the first film. Emilia was a more believable 19 year old.
JK Simmons also sells it as O'Brien, an police detective who encountered the Guardian, Sarah and Kyle in 1984.
There are some flaws. I can accept that the T-1000 has an ability to resurrection other Terminators with its liquid metal. In Terminator 2, the T-1000 is never presented with a dead Terminator ally to revive. However, using part of its own body as a tracking device made no sense. If it could do that, surely it would have happened during Terminator 2.
While T-3000 was even more badass than the T-1000, I don't see why it needed to be John Connor. Making him a Terminator was a mistake. They should have instead made Byung Hun Lee the T-3000, sending him to 1973, dropping the T-1000 together. That way we all the new abilities make more sense, we don't have the main villain not appear until halfway through the film. The T-3000 lasting from 1973 to 2017 would be have made it a more credible threat and seem less like a coincidence than John Connor happening to turn into a Terminator.
Another problem is the mystery behind the Guardian Arnie plays in this film. We never have any clue on who sent him back or why, creating a mystery that has no form of resolution. Its sorta just forgotten about. It also made no sense for him to turn into a T-1000. If it was as simple as putting part of its body in liquid metal, wouldn't Skynet have just turned all its T- 800s into T-1000s?
Jai Courtney was also a terrible choice for Kyle Reese. He was good as Varro in Spartacus, a villain in Jack Reacher and in Divergent (his character in that film was meant to be a douchebag) and looks like he might be good as Captain Boomerang in Suicide Squad, he is just terrible as a leading man.
People who go to Terminator films expecting anything more than time paradoxes, Arnie one liners and robots fighting each other should probably stop watching Terminator films. Its a shame the film bombed, I would have happily watched these characters continue the Terminator saga.