Nov
16
The Force
Guess how many times someone says ‘The Force’ during the Star Wars movies.
Now count: Read more…
Oct
24
Worst movie EVER part 1: The Tapes
Ever watched a movie and thought it was the worst one ever? Me too. Repeatedly.
So let’s kick off a new recurring series of posts for the worst movies EVAR.
And what a nice movie to start off with. Read more…
May
31
Summer 2011 movies
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So people, which movie are you looking forward to this summer? Vote for your fave or if it’s not listed leave a comment.
And if you like, tell us why you’re looking forward to that one in particular.
Here’s all the trailers if you want to have a look.
Cars 2:
Cowboys & Aliens:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 2:
Green Lantern:
Kung Fu Panda 2:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon:
The First Avenger: Captain America:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes:
Thor:
May
26
Tron: Legacy
I finally watched this sequel to the 1982 classic Tron.
In a nutshell: epic.
Reviews I’d read along with my own fears had kept me from seeing it thus far. Let’s face it, it’s a sequel to a cult classic, 28 years later, in a time when lots of 80′s movies get raped for sequels, quick cash ins that have little to nothing to do with the original. Star Wars, Transformers, GI Joe, Terminator, Aliens, the list goes on.
Boy was I wrong. And how happy I am to be wrong.
Just about everything about this movie is perfect.
For starters the original crew is in it, playing their old roles. And they actually made good use of the fact that so much time has passed since the original. Bruce Boxleitner is back as Alan Bradley & Tron and Jeff Bridges plays the part of Kevin Flynn & CLU. Olivia Wilde makes for a nice addition in the role of Quorra.
The movie starts off with a bit of history to set the mood and draw you in. Flynn disappeared in 1989 and no one has heard of him since. Alan thinks he’s still alive but ENCOM has moved on. Sam, Flynn’s son, is their biggest shareholder but doesn’t actually do anything with it other than playing an annual joke.
But then Alan shows up saying he’s gotten paged by Kevin even though that number has been disconnected for years. Sam decides to go check it out at his dad’s old arcade, where he discovers a server farm still running in the basement. And then….
Well, watch the movie.
Needless to say it’s CGI heaven. I’d go as far as to say it’s CGI heaven in the way the original was. The architecture of the grid (the digital world) is awesome and breathtaking, the choreography of the action sequences make the Matrix look like a Youtube fanboy experiment and the execution of everything is just spot on.
But also for example in CLU (he’s the one on the right in the picture above). CLU is a program created by Flynn to be his virtual copy that can run whenever he’s not around. As such, it looks like he does all those years ago. They did this through CGI as well, and it just works so well.
(click for the big version of this picture)
The soundtrack for the movie was made by Daft Punk, whom I’ve always liked but they really outdid themselves this time. In such a way that this is now my fave Daft Punk album. By far. In a way it reminds me of Kavinsky’s Testarossa Autodrive, but where Kavinsky hasn’t been able to remotely come close to that fantastic debut, they take the feel of it and run with it, far far away to a troubled digital universe.
Oh, and they’re actually IN the movie as well.
This redefines slick. This redefines sci-fi, not so much in way that it is a giant leap forward as that it’s a giant leap to get it back on track. The whole concept of a digital grid/world/matrix is immensely fascinating and hasn’t really been explored much in a serious way. This does. And it does it in a way that opens a world of possibilities for sequels, spinoffs and franchise heaven. And for once I’ll actually be applauding it, if it’s done with the same integrity and artistic vision as this movie.
So do I have anything bad to say about the movie?
Ehm, it ends. But there’ll be more.
It doesn’t explore the vastness of the grid as much I’d like, but on the one hand that’s easily explained through the story (standalone servers, not hooked up to the rest of the world) and automagically opens up a potential landslide of options for sequels. After watching this movie, just imagine what would happen if the grid somehow went online and started spreading across the internet.
So no, I can’t actually think of a single bad thing to say about the movie.
Some Tron Legacy Wallpapers:
Jan
21
Mega Piranha
Mega Piranha is quite possibly the worst movie ever.
Some piranhas in the amazon start growing exponentially because of experiments. Enter bizarro fest, starting with a plot that makes no sense and contradicts itself quite often, to csi style camera work complete with woosh sound every few seconds for the first 15 or so minutes of the movie until they either ran out of woosh budget or got annoyed by it themselves. Obviously there’s blood in the movie as well, but whenever the piranhas chomp on someone you don’t actually see blood, you see they put a red filter over the area of the lens. Ultimate cheese. Oh, and for some reason whenever any new person enters a season there’s a dramatic black & white freeze frame with the name of the character being overlaid. Not just the major characters, no, every… single… one… of them.
At one point my mind started wandering until I spotted something from the corner of the eye making me ask “Did I just see a piranha flying by?”. I did. A piranha, about the size of a car, flying out of a window to plow into a building, chomping away at it.
Why, one might ask? Eh yeah, no idea. The movie deteriorated even faster from there up until the point where they survive a nuke. And then the brilliant conclusion is to send out men with harpoons to pierce the piranhas’ eyes. After they finally manage to succeed killing one, the others all die as well. Why? Again, no idea.
Oh and for the love of christ, if you’re going to cast a former “80′s pop sensation” for your movie to star as your leading lady, you might wanna check what she looks like before you sign the contract.
I mean… seriously. And no, they didn’t ask her for her acting talents.
May
14
The A-Team, there is no plan B
A remake of the 80′s tv hit series, without the original cast, this just HAD to suck.
But surprisingly, if the trailer is anything to go by, it doesn’t. I’m now actually looking forward to seeing this in the theater. I do hope the old guys make a cameo somewhere in the movie.
May
27
Sherlock Holmes
“Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.”
Sounds good.
Looks good too if you check out this trailer. It’s great to see someone finally making a new Sherlock Holmes movie.
Read more…
May
15
JCVD
Definitely one to watch, JCVD stars Jean-Claude van Damme as himself in what must be one of the most ironic movies ever as the whole thing is part parody/reflection of his own past as a person as well as his career in the shall we say less high profile movies.
Read more…
Dec
25
Wanted & Jumper, how the script was made
The conversation for making Wanted must have gone a little like this:
Hey dude, let’s make a movie. Ok, what about? Dunno, but I love bullet time. Alright! We’ll make a movie with a shitload of bullet time. Ehm, ok, but what about the story? Well who cares, people just want to see it for the cool effects anyway. We’ll make it about some little insignificant pisser who then discovers that his insignificant life is no longer insignificant because he has a power. And that makes him ‘special’. And so he’s all ‘whoa’, and starts using his power, with awesome bullet time.
Eh, sure, that sounds good, but what happens the rest of the movie? Well, let’s see… you know, we’ll make him get chased by some evil brotherhood that has been around for centuries, the crowds always dig that. Idiots. And so he spends the rest of the movie being chased and fighting them.
Sure thing buddy, this’ll rock!
Now for Jumper, replace bullet time with transport wobbly effect and it’s the exact same thing.
Pathetic.
Thoughts of Imbalanced Mind