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Leeloo in the past
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Charliez Theron being a badass
Showing posts with label sci-fi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sci-fi. Show all posts
01 August 2020
13 May 2014
Elysium
Good Will Hunting lifts weights in District 9 before making Contact with Jodi Foster channeling Jack Nicholson in a Few Good Men..
29 November 2013
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.
18 August 2013
Europa Report
Ignoring people's paranoia gets everyone killed.
Well done science. NASA was a consultant and they used actual footage and it was beautiful and amazing and scary. Interesting premise, good cast, fantastic photography. There were holes in the plot/story, but there always are in movies. I want to watch this again.
05 April 2013
John Carter
Too much CGI
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actors talking to air
I'm all for sci-fi CGI in moderation, it's great to show vast spaces (though Hollywood used to paint amazing vistas and background using painters and set designers...) and things flying and to make monsters look massive, etc, but when it replaces people, so that the actors in the film are talking to air, when the actors aren't getting the feedback of the give and take of saying lines to another person, it is noticeable. The nuances of body language, inflections and tone get lost and make for a wooden film. The actual live sequences between real actors like Carter and the Princess are full of life, but when they turn to talk to the CGI, their eyes don't match up, their gestures are stilted, and their timing is off.
These are things that viewers notice mostly on an unconscious level, they may not realize that is why they aren't liking the movie. It's not that the acting is bad, per se, but that the CGI is.
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actors talking to air
I'm all for sci-fi CGI in moderation, it's great to show vast spaces (though Hollywood used to paint amazing vistas and background using painters and set designers...) and things flying and to make monsters look massive, etc, but when it replaces people, so that the actors in the film are talking to air, when the actors aren't getting the feedback of the give and take of saying lines to another person, it is noticeable. The nuances of body language, inflections and tone get lost and make for a wooden film. The actual live sequences between real actors like Carter and the Princess are full of life, but when they turn to talk to the CGI, their eyes don't match up, their gestures are stilted, and their timing is off.
These are things that viewers notice mostly on an unconscious level, they may not realize that is why they aren't liking the movie. It's not that the acting is bad, per se, but that the CGI is.
22 February 2013
Dredd
Un-campified future cop movie. Kept waiting for Stallone, Bullock, or Snipes to show up. except that was "Demolition Man" so I was very confused. Then I forgot and enjoyed the movie.
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