The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor : 3/10
pretty terrible.
The first 5 min before the credits would have made a very cool kung fu movie, but after brenden fraser shows up the movie gets pretty corny quickly. The yeti were pretty cool... and most of the special effects were well done, but I'm also not sure why they got Jet Li for a role that they didn't use him for. He's a special effect for most of the movie, and once he is on screen again he doesn't really do any fighting. bit of a waste.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army : 6/10
i'm not familiar with the books or the first movie, but i rather liked the atmosphere and visual appeal of this movie.
you can see pan's labyrinth all over the creature design... but not having any attachment to the original media I liked the look and feel. My only real gripe is that I detest the main character, hellboy is just a big jock asshole, would have preferred it if he died.
Wanted : 8/10
The movie I came to see did not disappoint. As far as big action movies go, this is the best one i've seen in a while. I'm happy that angelina's character was not very central so I could ignore her easily... no love story with her was also +. McAvoy did a fucking great job going from zero to hardcore ass kicker; believable in both roles, and isn't is supposed to have a hardcore scottish accent? Did an excellent job of hiding it. action is non-stop with mad special effects and they went overboard without crossing the line of "WTF you crazy bitches!" well wroth staying up until 3am to catch it.
About what I expected. Some really funny parts, and the rest of the film was tolerable. When you're looking for an entertaining movie while stoned, these always deliver.
Saw it with the kids. Pretty good. The best part of it was the credits that suggested a harsh post-Wall·E post-apocalyptic recolonization story. Physics kept getting in the way of enjoying the space parts too much, but it was still fun.
Good acting and unexpected plot twists... and people who speak their mind in oneliners that sounds cliche but that you've actually never heard before.
Cool movie.
also
Hîrtia va fi albastrã / The paper will be blue 7/10
Saw this one at an open air theatre, which was really nice. It's a Romanian film about the final days of the revolution against Ceaucescu. It follows a squad of soldiers and the whole thing just starts out really awesome with lots of good dialogue and proper tension and some chaotic violence, but halfway it just slows down and becomes this really gloomy introspective thing... and near the end it all picks up again and you leave the film content.
Finally got round to watching Daywatch, the follow-up to Nightwatch.
Quirky Russian horror with interesting lore reminiscent of Lovecraft in that things are almost believable and left mostly unexplained.
Could see the end coming a mile off, but the journey there was enjoyable, with suitably deep characters and a quaint Russian approach to modern fashion: odd, slightly kitschy, and sometimes blatantly "Eastern-bloc shellsuit".
A bit disappointed in the reliance on the standard, low quality DVD subtitles; I remember that when I saw Nightwatch at the cinema, the animated subtitles were one of the things that impressed me the most.
DOOM (second impression) 4/5
I still cannot help but believe that sarge is a relative of seremtan or ydnar, plus portman is a relative of drum.
Anyway, as I watch this movie more carefully, it turns out that it's a sophiscated movie than it is on the face of it.
But the teleportation and positional information are still hard to grapse though it doesn't really matter.
Plus I don't really understand why this movie is named doom just because there are monsters of doom3 appearing.
[edit:I've got it. This is a movie for doom3 promotion.
Actually I was prompted to play FPS after watching this movie.]
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28 weeks later
[former chapters] 9/10
[mid chapters] 13/10
[latter chapters] -50/10
At 1st I was really impressed with this movie but as story goes on, I noticed the brainwashing hidden intention of this movie.
This movie is trying to imprint us that the current sucker of the werld is so special.
Andy is a son of a werld sucker.
He is acting as a representative of werld sucker.
(There are so many capitalists who look like Andy.)
I really hate the last scene in which he is rescued by a *black soldier*.
I'm really angry!