[Closed] Recent Viewing Part III

Hellboy 2

Perhaps the silliest film ever made!? Yet bizarrely, hugely entertaining.

Wanted

Also very silly. But I needed some trashy action film to take my mind off other things and it fitted the bill. And there's always Angelina.

So it's worth seeing? I thought Herzog had lost his mind remaking this?

Yes it is. I don´t see it as a remake of Ferrara´s movie but a surrealistic version of it.

What a score as well!

Okay okay okay, I'm sold!

Haven't seen that one yet. The trailer looks fun, so I might check it out.

Peter

^ What he said!

-Erik-

I absolutely love Elfman's score on album, but for some reason it seemed just a bit too campy in the film. I don't think he quite got the right tone in the way that Beltrami did.

No Country for Old Men

An excellent film, really, in all respects. Very strong acting. There's not much dialogue, but some of what's there is sizzling. ("It's a mess, ain't it?" / "If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.")

Anyway, when the film first came out, I had no idea what it was about. My wife doesn't like any film with any violence in it. We were at the cinema and saw the poster and I said "oh, those guys made Big Lebowski, it's probably a comedy". She still hasn't forgiven me and proclaims it to be the worst film ever made.

"You can't stop what's coming. It's not all waiting on you. That's just vanity."

Such a fine fine film.

Very good indeed! Home and Food, Inc are depressing eye-openers on how we're destroying the eco-system.

Creation

I'd heard mixed views about this picture but went to see it last night and was really quite impressed. Although it is partly fictionalised (when I asked Richard Dawkins if he'd seen it, he told me that he liked it but was disappointed with some rather blatant inaccuracies), I enjoyed the film as a piece of drama. It is beautifully shot, incredibly well acted and there are many touching scenes, one in particular when Bettany's convincing Darwin observes 'Jenny' the orangutan at the London museum. Young's score is an absolute delight, one that I'll definitely be purchasing soon.

***1/2

AVATAR - 3D

At last, i saw this movie in 3D. Hmmm.... good but not impressive. I should certainly give credit to visual effects and art department for presenting Pandora planet to us so beautifully. But even now, i don't like this movie. Of course, there are some good moments, especially action sequences are quite breathtaking but that's not enough. It clearly shows that Cameron was completely focused only on to show off his new technology to the whole world. Cameron was so meticulous when he was making Titanic 13 years ago, he concentrated on all departments including music too. But in Avatar, he focused on Visual effects and forgotten about script and characters and score is also not good.

There are few things i noticed which i think that doesn't make any sense at all. First of all, Jake uses wheelchair where he have to push himself move further. Come on, at present, we have lot of advanced wheelchair for many handicapped people. Its look awful when he pushes his own chair, that too, in the year 2154. So, there won't advanced tech wheelchair.

And score, what a piece of crap? total running time of movie is 2hrs 40 minutes, in that, 2hrs 10 minutes just nothing, in fact, But Horner really shines in last few minutes of the movie. That's all. All others are just rehash of his entire career. If anybody pinpoints about Jake's first flight, i say Jake first flight is no where near to the Flight of the Griffin from The Spiderwick Chronicles. I can't even now believe that most of the critics around the world rated this score as very high. This really makes me very very angry. Damn!

Hmmmm... there will be sequels. Damn! i believe i won't show any further interest on Avatar and its sequels. In fact, i don't raise my expectation level so high. If Cameron is going to deliver the same piece of crap, then

I can see your point but the fact is Cameron should have given fair explanation through one of his characters and convince the audience that why he is using old type of wheelchair even in the year 2154? whether its for exercise or some other purpose. I don't agree with that kind of assumptions.

I like when sci-fi's don't go overboard by thinking that everything should be made super advanced. I'm sure 200 years from now we'll still be using the good ole teaspoon, and not fusion powered coffee mugs that stir automatically when they measure varying fluid densities via bursts of gamma rays.

I also liked that the human vessels basically worked like helicopters. In almost all other sci-fi's there's an unexplained hover-technology that has the vessels floating in the air without making a sound. This made it seem much more realistic than most sci-fi's. Of course the ridiculously unrealistic year 2154 is still laughable, but over-estimating scientific progress is something all science fiction movies seem to do.

Peter