PREDATOR [1987] review

I may not have ever of seen the full Rated R version of PREDATOR before as I never saw poor Carl Weathers with his arm blown off before!  I have strong memories of this movie, and of it being just a pure action movie free of gimmicks with an iconic alien hunter character and Arnold Schwarzenegger being his simple best.  Some 20+ years since its release, it holds up as good, and really better, than any modern sci-fi action adventure movie, if they even exist anymore.

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TOY STORY 3 in 3D [2010] review

TOY STORY 3 is a flawless masterpiece.  A movie that is just so right in its score, in the attention to details, in its action, in its emotional moments, and in its story.  This was also my first time to see a 3D movie outside of a theme park since my childhood, perhaps it was the Creature from the Black Lagoon?  I feel the 3D genie is fully out of the bottle and one better get used to donning those 3D glasses.  Did it enhance my TOY STORY 3 viewing experience?

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24 Series Finale 8×23 & 8×24

I can remember walking into the Deep-in one Friday night, a small bar in South Korea frequented by foreigners, carrying my new Dell laptop to show people there this awesome new show I had discovered.  I said you have to hear the sounds of the show and see how they use split screens and letter boxing.  I wanted to share with others how awesome the first season of 24 was.  Now on a different continent I will once again tell how awesome 24 was, for the last time.

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LOST 6×17 & 6×18 “The End” Parts 1 & 2

We know The End.  Though at this current moment I cannot say I fully understand it.  The series finale of LOST was more a way for us to just say good-bye to all our favorite characters, one last time.

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AVATAR [2009] review

I was fated to see AVATAR alone.  I know this now.  AVATAR is a powerful environmental message exactly when the human race needs it.  It is a move that rivals the epic NAUSICAA in its organic environmental message.  It is an expression of imagination and wonder far, far greater than any movie I can remember that tried to do so.  The thing that made me most skeptical of the movie, its CGI characters, were in reality its greatest asset.  Human actors could not replicate the adaptation and harmony with the environment that the Na’vi had.  The moistness in their eyes illustrated their love for there world.  AVATAR IS A MASTERPIECE film by James Cameron.

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THE NATIONAL PARKS [2009] review

I agree with Ken Burns.  The title of his latest documentary is THE NATIONAL PARKS:  AMERICA’S BEST IDEA.  To put it simply, this documentary is mesmerizingly interesting.  In so many categories is this documentary fascinating:  history, photography, environment, politics, poetry.  This is the best film of 2009 I have seen–by far.

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PRETTY IN PINK [1986] review

I like that when you see a movie made in the 80s set in the 80s, you know it’s the 80s.  The 80s had its own look.  As did the 70s and 60s, and maybe even the early 90s.  After those times though, will we be able to say, “that is so 00s?”  This is perhaps why, especially for teen movies, classic ones like PRETTY IN PINK just cannot be replicated anymore.  This decade has no identity, no distinctiveness.  I really wonder if we will ever feel nostalgia for the 00s like we already do for the 80s and long have for the 60s?

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DISTRICT 9 [review] 2009

A movie like DISTRICT 9 would never have come out of nowhere to wow me when I was living in Japan because I had the time there to read about all upcoming movies of significance, and mostly because movies like this never get released there anytime within reason of their release in the New World.  It just stuns me that I have so quickly gotten out of touch.  Nevertheless, only one week late did I have the privilege of viewing one of the rarest things in modern existence–a gimmick free and not CGI abused thriller/thinker/sci-fi movie.  DISTRICT 9 is a top ten movie of the decade.

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