Tom Cruise being every action hero he's been, except not Minority Report. This movie builds over the first hour and 12 minutes, desolate scenery, character building, world building, and you think, "Wow, this is gonna be amazing", and then it's not. I'm a big fan of sci-fi and action and I am more than willing to forgive giant holes and nods to other movies and actors phoning it in, but this was such a direct rip off of Moon with Time Machine and The Matrix jumbled in that it actually pissed me off. The last 45 minutes of the movie was a big rush to blow things up and then they pulled one of those M. Night "surprise!" deux ex machina dick moves and I ended up screaming at the screen and cursing the director, who as it happens, was also the writer, go figure. Seriously, this could have been a great sci-fi movie even with the ripping off of the other movies, but Hollywood needs to stop giving these guys carte blanche and they need to start putting money into training editors who edit scripts and the film itself. They need to stop letting these guys operate in either the vacuum or the echo chamber. It's like the author's of successful series who decide that they don't need an editor any more for publishing and every precious word or idea is a perfect flower. It's not. It's ego. And they need to check it at the gate and give us good writing again.
28 August 2013
Oblivion
Moon + Coma + The Matrix + The Borg + Terminator and the Hal 9000 thrown in for good measure.
Tom Cruise being every action hero he's been, except not Minority Report. This movie builds over the first hour and 12 minutes, desolate scenery, character building, world building, and you think, "Wow, this is gonna be amazing", and then it's not. I'm a big fan of sci-fi and action and I am more than willing to forgive giant holes and nods to other movies and actors phoning it in, but this was such a direct rip off of Moon with Time Machine and The Matrix jumbled in that it actually pissed me off. The last 45 minutes of the movie was a big rush to blow things up and then they pulled one of those M. Night "surprise!" deux ex machina dick moves and I ended up screaming at the screen and cursing the director, who as it happens, was also the writer, go figure. Seriously, this could have been a great sci-fi movie even with the ripping off of the other movies, but Hollywood needs to stop giving these guys carte blanche and they need to start putting money into training editors who edit scripts and the film itself. They need to stop letting these guys operate in either the vacuum or the echo chamber. It's like the author's of successful series who decide that they don't need an editor any more for publishing and every precious word or idea is a perfect flower. It's not. It's ego. And they need to check it at the gate and give us good writing again.
Tom Cruise being every action hero he's been, except not Minority Report. This movie builds over the first hour and 12 minutes, desolate scenery, character building, world building, and you think, "Wow, this is gonna be amazing", and then it's not. I'm a big fan of sci-fi and action and I am more than willing to forgive giant holes and nods to other movies and actors phoning it in, but this was such a direct rip off of Moon with Time Machine and The Matrix jumbled in that it actually pissed me off. The last 45 minutes of the movie was a big rush to blow things up and then they pulled one of those M. Night "surprise!" deux ex machina dick moves and I ended up screaming at the screen and cursing the director, who as it happens, was also the writer, go figure. Seriously, this could have been a great sci-fi movie even with the ripping off of the other movies, but Hollywood needs to stop giving these guys carte blanche and they need to start putting money into training editors who edit scripts and the film itself. They need to stop letting these guys operate in either the vacuum or the echo chamber. It's like the author's of successful series who decide that they don't need an editor any more for publishing and every precious word or idea is a perfect flower. It's not. It's ego. And they need to check it at the gate and give us good writing again.
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