LOL. That acting was bad. I actually liked some of Shyamalan's movies no one else liked, like the Village. I mean the Twist was stupid beyond belief, but it was so out there it blew me away. But he does seem to get worse with every film, no doubt... Unbreakable is his best in my eyes. I think the one moment where the Happening all fell apart is when Mark seriously advised everyone to 'run from the wind'. LOL, I CAN'T TAKE IT. HAHAHA.
The problem with The Village is by the time he made it everyone had figured out that he was going to go with the twist ending every single movie. Knowing that you can figure out what the twist was going to be halfway through it and just wait for it to happen. Unbreakable was by far his best movie, The 6th Sense doesn't hold up after you've seen it. If you want to see the absolute worst cyberpunk movie of the 90's try and find a copy of Tom Clancy's Netforce. The movie has all the horrible tropes you'd expect from the genre include the main character talking to his dead partner through virtual reality. His partners avatar gives him long winded patriotic speeches and cryptic information on his "website" which uses various American monuments as backdrops for no apparent reason. He can interact with the avatar without the stupid VR gear but it insists that he "come over to his website" every time he tries to grill it for information. It's so bad I believe the studio or maybe Clancy himself tried to bury it, it's not on Netflix and you can't even find any clips on Youtube. Still, I highly recommend Strange Days. It's about an illegal device that can record and playback people's memories where memory discs are copied and sold by underground dealers like drugs. I also recommend the short lived show Max Headroom. Once you get past the titular obnoxious disembodied head it's actually a really great show that represents a very short period of time in the 80's between the rise of cable and the rise of the home computer.
Although I knew a twist was coming, I never saw the twist coming from the Village at all. That being said, most movies I don't see the twist and yet everyone else tells me it was 'like totally obvious, man' but then in 'The Usual Suspects' that film with the twist apparently you aren't ever supposed to see coming (although they gave away it had one) I managed to guess that twist pretty quickly, not exact details but at least the gist. So I found its 'incredible ending' kinda sh*tty. LOL Netforce sounds incredible! And okay, you've sold Strange Days to me...
recently watched a little bit of Sky Line on TV - I can't believe that it actually was a Theatrical Release. I mean I have seen TV shows from the 90s with better special effects and storytelling. It was awful just awful. Also had the displeasure of watching Black Swan - which was not nearly as surreal or engaging as it was made out to be, and it is very easy to see why Portman actually won the Academy Award. Still it had a few moments that were genius - they were just few and far between.
So many questions have been raised by selina Kyle/Anne Hathaway picture. It's hard to know what stage of the movie it is. If it's late on it may confirm my belief that she will aid batman. But she may also be stealing it from him or bane so who knows.
"Wanted" was a little better than I expected it to be, but I still lost interest halfway in and excused myself out of the family room. Ip Man 2 was pretty awesome though.
Yeah Wanted was decent - but I enjoyed it more for Danny Elfman's new rock song "The Little Things" than anything else. It's almost as good as if there were a new Oingo Boingo album... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQMjx3KAXQ
Rise of the apes was pretty good better than I thought it would be it actually makes a lot of sense with the earlier films and even makes you kind of root for the monkeys. Can't really say to much otherwise I'd ruin it but I thought well done.
Did you shout "GET YOUR STINKING PAWS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE", "IT'S A MADHOUSE! A MADHOOOOOOUSE!", "YOU CUT OUT HIS BRAIN YOU DIRTY BABOON!", "YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! GOD DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!" and "SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE OF PEOPLE! IT'S PEOPLE!" at various points during the film? If not then you wasted a golden opportunity. Superman: The Man of Steel - So they've already remade Hulk, X-Men and Spider-Man already and now it's a reboot of Superman? Can Hollywood not go more then five years without rebooting a dying franchise anymore? If Warner Bros. and DC had any balls at all they'd have Paul Dini working on a live action Justice League already. I'd even take a Flash or Wonder Woman movie at this point rather then another Superman rehash, five movies and only decent one was Superman II. The Dark Knight Rises - I'm fairly certain Selina Kyle is going to come around to Batman's side by the third act. I don't think the bike is really proof of that but it would certainly make a lot of sense storywise. Forgoing the Catwoman persona entirely is a risky move but it makes a lot of sense in Nolan's version of Batman. Each film has had two villains, one with and one without a mask. The weird 3D glasses with the lights on the side don't really count, they seem a bit goofy but it's a step up from the huge orange goggles in the comic.
Did you watch it in the U.S.? Idk if it had a different name in another language but here it's Captain America, I really loved it by the way.
Off to watch RotPotA for the second time in 24 hours (first time was with friends, now it's with family) Absolutely loved the movie!
http://hadthoughtaboutit.blogspot.com/2011/08/westworld.html Here is my newest film review for anyone who is interested. Also watched the first Trancers movie but I didn't bother reviewing that because honestly, I really enjoyed it, but it could have done with some exposition because it basically had none. Also, God, I forgot Helen Hunt used to be babe. Is it worth watching the sequels or should I just leave it at one?
Trancers 2 feels a lot like the first movie. In Trancers 3 Jack Deth is sent back in time to wipe out the original Trancers which are military supersolders. In Trancers 4 & 5 he winds up in a magical medieval parallel universe where Trancers are shapeshifting vampires. I would stop after the third one. I'd check out Futureworld too simply because it's completely insane. Two reporters are sent to uncover a conspiracy at the rebuilt theme park only to discover it's now being run entirely by robots. It has a dream sequence where one of the characters dances with the Yul Brenner robot from the first movie that inexplicably has nothing to do with anything. If you manage to make it all the way through it does have one of my favorite end scenes of all time though.
I will watch two and three at some point then And I heard Futureworld was awful. But then I didn't enjoy the first one as a whole, so maybe I'll like the sequel.
When most people think about futureworld they usually focus on the fact that it doesn't make any sense and is radically different from the first movie. It's sillier then Westworld, a lot of things don't line up or simply seem to be thrown in for no reason. It's the type of movie you go "WTF did I just watch" after seeing it for the first time. I'd never claim it was a "good" movie but I enjoyed it enough to import the Italian DVD (Mundo Futuro!) before it became available on DVD in the states.
Well to be fair, the first one made little sense and was really silly, if it gets any crazier than the first my head may explode. Haha. I'll get around to watching it eventually, like the Trancer's sequels, I'm sure. http://hadthoughtaboutit.blogspot.com/2011/08/cherry-2000.html - for anyone interested this is my new review on Cherry 2000.
