We went to see the afternoon showing of “Watchmen” and I have never been so happy to step out into a warm, sunny afternoon, then I was when we left that movie. It took a lot of sunlight tow wipe that dark apocalyptic, depressing vision out of my head. It was a long, dark movie [...]
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Watchmen
Posted in 2009, Action, Overrated, Sci-Fi, Waste of Money, tagged Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Matthew Goode, movie reviews, review, wathcmen movie on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Posted in 2008, Remakes, Sci-Fi, tagged Gort, Jennifer Connelly, Keanu Reeves, Klaatu on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Riddle me this – how could they re-make this movie and leave out the best part? There is a classic line from the 1951 version (for those of you who are too young to know already) “Klaatu Barada Nikto”. So how could they remake this movie and not find a way to work that in? [...]
Doomsday
Posted in 2008, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Waste of Money, Worst of on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Huh.
Wow.
This movie almost leaves me speechless. Seriously. This one is something else. It’s like someone threw darts at movies from the 80s and then created a movie from whatever the darts landed on.
At first I thought that someone had just picked popular 80s movies like, ‘Escape from New York’ and ’Mad Max,’ but the fact [...]
Sunshine (2007)
Posted in '07, Sci-Fi, Thriller, tagged Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Danny Boyle, movie review Sunshine on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A sci-fi movie set in the not too distant future in which a team of astronauts is on a mission to the sun. Well, not actually to the sun, but very close to the sun. Close enough for them to launch the “payload” which is a nuclear device intended to re-ignite the sun and save [...]
Jumper
Posted in 2008, Based on a Book, Blockbuster, Sci-Fi, tagged Hayden Christensen, hollywood movies, Rachel Bilson, review on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People who are looking for a movie with an excellent plot and logic, should really go see something else.
Try something nominated for an Oscar, but don’t watch this.
If you don’t demand that the plot make any sense or that a movie have a strong internal logic, then sit back and enjoy the ride. Its a [...]
