This movie was cheesy, predictable, and didn’t explain some of the really cool parts that came up. I know they wanted to make it mysterious, but it really didn’t help when the whole movie was based on the mysterious parts. I would have appreciated a little more understanding about the aliens and how everything happened to lead up to the start of the movie. The action sequences were also incredibly predictable. The fight of the Toms was a good example; as soon as they emphasize the gunshot, you know that the girl has been shot. I suppose for some things you need to rub it in everyone’s face so that it doesn’t get lost for the noise.
This movie was ok. The plot seemed quite forced, and the characters were incredibly flat. There weren’t many points when a character did something that you wouldn’t expect, and only the main character had a redeeming moment. Even the redeeming moment was expected, and the plot point for it seemed forced. I’d say the theory of the movie, and the action sequences make it worth seeing, but the plot makes it just ok.
Nick and I went to the AMC 20 to see this movie, and on the way we had dinner at Tandori Kitchen. We both got the Chicken Tikka Masala, which was mediocre for what it was.
I saw part 1 of Atlas Shrugged a while ago and randomly noticed that part 2 was on Netflix. I decided to watch it since I liked the story in the book. I don’t want to get into the philosophy behind the book or movies, but I enjoyed the story and portrayal in this part.
Adam, Nick, Steph, Brian, Andrew, and I went to see Pacific Rim. We did the IMax 3D experience and it was certainly worth it. I can say that they didn’t let things like plot or character development get in the way of the action. I wasn’t disappointed in the least by the total disregard to logic or physics that the movie provided. The one thing I could have done with more of were fight scenes, actually. The fights happened rather slowly when they did, and the robots that weren’t the main characters died almost immediately after you saw them start fighting. I’d say you should see this movie if you want mindless violence, robots, and monsters.
We watched the Venture Brothers for much of the Afternoon and Evening. Nick was the person that was there the whole time, but a few others came and went. Riley and Rong came by for about 4 hours and hung out. Nick was nice enough to cook out and provide some dinner of hot dogs wrapped in bacon and burgers. I put orange sauce on everything and it was delicious. There were a few episodes of Venture Brothers that I hadn’t seen that were pretty interesting. I of course liked seeing the new one. The last few have had more plot than I had previously expected from the series. Adam came over and we talked about his time in Vegas, building planes, finding a place to live in the South Bay, and a little bit about companies and programming. I am going to try to learn everything I can from him. Even though he isn’t the person that I’d model my life after, he has a lot of experiences that I’d like to learn from without having to go through them myself.
This was a pretty and bad movie. The visuals were good, but everything else was mediocre at best. This movie had a large number of gratuitous 3D scenes, and nonsensical action sequences. The characters were amazingly shallow, and the character development was done poorly in the few characters it was attempted. The acting was very sub par by all the major actors, and the dialog was wholly unbelievable. The green screen scenes were far too obvious, and the lack of color fading in the background one would usually expect for seeing something in the distance made most of the pretty scenes awkward.
This movie had some good parts, but most of it was ripping apart what we had already thought of the MIB universe, and gratuitous 3D scenes. I wasn’t watching it in 3D which made the gratuitous 3D scenes that much worse. The villain was impressive and understandable to a degree, which is pleasant in any movie. The 5th dimensional being and the Andy Warhol moment were the major redeeming parts of the movie.
The movie was confusing for much of it, but I really enjoyed it. At the end I started seeing how all of it came together, as a war for human rights, and cyclical oppression and redemption. The costumes were fantastic, especially where the Asian girl was made to look Irish/English. I would be up for seeing it once more but I don’t think I’d want to see it more times than that.
We watched this movie with Candice and Brian while waiting to go to the Sabercats game. It was a really good movie, but the starting premise was lost along the way with the main character being able to talk to all these ghosts that were around the city. Then zombies come along and the ghosts are completely forgot for the next 50% of the movie. It was a decently dark movie, and in some ways surprisingly so. I really enjoyed it and the end was pretty spectacular.
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