TERMINATOR SALVATION [2009] review
May 23, 2009
You see, the problem is that THE DARK KNIGHT has set the bar so high for action films, that a film like TERMINATOR SALVATION, bad at any time, seems all the much worse following KNIGHT just a year later. But really TS is just a bad, bad movie. I know for Terminator fans like myself, your still going to go see it. But if you are not a diehard Terminator fan, then by all means do not waste your money on a ticket to this movie. Why was it so bad?
QUANTUM OF SOLACE [2008] review
May 16, 2009
I had bee waiting for quite some time to see QUANTUM OF SOLACE, but this was because I was hesitating to see it out of concerns of its quality. With so many known great movies out there still unseen by me, and I’m only able to see about 55 movies a year, I do not like to take risks on movies that may turn out to waste one of those 55 movie viewing experiences. Was QUANTUM a waste, I cannot say that unqualified since the spectacle on a small scale was ok, but I certainly was not impressed in even the slightest way. This movie is a shadow of CASINO ROYALE, which was not that spectacular either.
WANTED [2008] review
March 23, 2009
I thought at the least, it would be an entertaining action movie, however, WANTED was not even that. I don’t have a problem with having to suspend disbelief when watching modern action movies, but WANTED took this to a whole new level, a level that was beyond even ridiculous. WANTED is the kind of movie you get when you let the CGI department throw in any of its own wildest fantasies. Shooting the wings off of flies? Come on! And that’s the least ridiculous thing you’ll see in the first 30 minutes of the movie.
BE KIND REWIND [2008] review
December 21, 2008
I very rarely find movies boring as I am pretty careful about what I watch, as I don’t have infinite time to watch movies. So when I waste time watching something like BE KIND REWIND, it feels like a missed opportunity to actually see something good.
EAGLE EYE [2008] review
October 20, 2008
EAGLE EYE is the second pairing of actor Shia LaBeouf (FTW) and D.J. Caruso (fail). The first was 2007’s entertainingly good DISTURBIA. The best I can say about EAGLE EYE is that I’d never want to watch it again, but once is almost good action fun, almost. Really, the movie should only be for LaBeouf fans, but there is no smoking hot female co-star this time like in TRANSFORMERS and the aforementioned Disturbia to make up for the ludicrous action scenes that dot this film.
TRANSFORMERS [2007] review
October 20, 2008
I don’t know who Shia LaBeouf’s agent is, but he must have a great one because he keeps getting paired with super hot female co-stars, way out of the league the characters he plays could normally get (see DISTURBIA review). The trend continues in earnest in TRANSFORMERS, a travesty of a film that does almost no justice to my beloved toys of youth. There is a catchphrase on AICN that goes like this, “Damn you Michael Bay!” It is very deserved.
FIVE EASY PIECES [1970] review
October 6, 2008
I just referenced my despisement of watching TV shows or movies featuring characters with miserable lives or who are miserable people in my review of the new HBO drama TRUE BLOOD, and here just a few days later did I find myself watching just such a miserable movie in the form of FIVE EASY PIECES staring a young Jack Nicholson in 1970. Nicholson’s character is completely unlikable, the movie is a very short 98-minutes, is generally about nothing, and just shows misery in every scene. There is not one scene that doesn’t contain some illness.
CLOVERFIELD [2008] review
February 9, 2008
I couldn’t wait for CLOVERFIELD to open in Japan in April, so watched a not so great copy of it at a friend’s house. We were both very excited about seeing it and wanted to see it before we got spoiled. … I understand that it is supposed to be a reinvention of the monster movie. That in all past monster movies we get the macro view of things, the decisions being made by the military, the possible explanations for where the monster came from, and how it can possibly be killed. …
CLOVERFIELD shows none of that, but instead shows the view of 4 of those anonymous people on the street. And I for one, do not want to see that kind of monster movie. I like the tried and true monster movie formula. If one goes into this movie thinking one will see anything like a traditional monster movie, just forget it. What you will in fact see is a claustrophobic, shaking jogging movie. That’s all the characters do, run from one spot to another. … The one scary scene is so obvious I don’t know how anyone could possibly jump. Then after that, the characters are pretty much totally out of any kind of surprise danger. … Just huge objects smashing and being blown up that we only see pieces of.
…Perhaps seeing a better copy of the movie would have improved my liking of the movie a bit, but I doubt it would have done enough for me to not be annoyed by the constant loser remarks made by the character holding the camera. There are hot girls in this movie, but there is absolutely no reason they still should be in the movie. The men should have absolutely insisted they go with the military rescuers.
…And then the ending is just that, an abrupt end.
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