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rayof76posted 2 days ago -
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I recommend you see...
Wanted
by Dr BloodDirected by Timur Bekmambetov of "Night Watch" and "Day Watch" fame, this is the best action film so far this year. Lots of blood in it too.
There are, of course, many similarities to "The Matrix" and even "Shoot 'em Up" but it does its job and certainly kept me interested all the way through. Fans of the original comicbook series may be whining that it isn't 100% faithful but who the hell still reads comics anyway? As a movie in its own right, there's nothing wrong with it at all.
Oh yeah, and it has Konstantin Khabensky (from the Dozor movies) in it too for a while so I recommend it to everybody.
Ignore the plot holes, enjoy the action and marvel at the special effects. This is probably the only film this century (other than "Sin City") which will manage to give you the post-movie buzz which we are forever chasing.It rocks!
posted 24 days ago -
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The Incredible Hulk
by Dr BloodAlthough I do actually recommend that you all go and see "The Incredible Hulk", there are just a few annoyances about the film that I have to share.
Firstly, the CGI. Now I know that it would be pretty difficult to create the Hulk any other way but this was really very bad indeed. In the shorter bursts the animation doesn't distract too much. It still doesn't look real but it is almost acceptable. However, in the longer action scenes, it all just looks like a computer game which spoils it.
Secondly, Tim Roth's character is absolutely ludicrous. Not only is he much too short to be a soldier (especially in comparison to the giant-like William Hurt) but he tends to lurch from side to side when he walks which also doesn't gel with any military training that I can think of. He was totally miscast and his performance was just embarrassing.
On the other hand, even though he really looks his age (40) at times, Edward Norton does a great job as Bruce Banner. He'll never be as good as the late Bill Bixby but having a top notch actor in something like this really makes a difference. It may cause a bit of a stretch of the old "willing suspension of disbelief" that he could actually get Liv Tyler as a girlfriend but she's no spring chicken now either so I think their onscreen chemistry works for the most part.
One thing that bugged me a lot though was the way that the initial "accident" that caused Dr Bruce Banner to become the Hulk was just rushed through during the opening credits. The same thing happened with the Iron Man movie in that the bits you want to see are left out with the assumption that everybody already knows the story. I think it was probably done to give the audience time to warm to Edward Norton and to save our first negative impressions of the Hulk CGI monstrosity until later. It almost worked so I suppose I should grudgingly give credit where it is due for not showing "the monster" too early.
The best thing about "The Incredible Hulk" is that it is 100 times better than Ang Lee's 2003 version. You can pretty much forget that it even exists now. There are frequent nods in this to the classic TV series which is really how it should have been done in the first place. Bill Bixby gets shown briefly on a TV screen and, apart from voicing the Hulk, Lou Ferrigno also plays a pizza-loving security guard for a minute or two. Even the haunting theme music that we of a certain generation all know and love is included.
Stan Lee has a cameo just to make sure that we all know that this is an official Marvel update and the ending with Robert Downey, Jr., as Stark promises yet another entry into the canon later on.
It will be interesting to see how the new Captain America film turns out before they launch into a full-blown "Avengers" series though.Ignore the shortcomings of the CGI and you will really enjoy this.
posted 39 days ago -
I recommend you see...
The Happening
by Dr Blood"The Happening" is a simple film with a simple plot: mankind has ruined the planet so much that plants now see us as the enemy and are giving us a warning that if we don't stop then they can (and will) wipe us all out.
The plants are releasing a neuro-toxin into the air which causes people to kill themselves rather than each other (which is a bit different to most plague-based horror films). In some ways it was similar to the vignettes in James Herbert's "The Fog".
I enjoyed it for what it was. It wasn't horror just science-fiction with an over the top "green" message. But it was no worse than an extended "Twilight Zone" episode and reminded me a lot of the "Quatermass" TV series from the late 70s. Just replace John Mills with the much tamer Mark Wahlberg and you pretty much have the same thing,
Zooey Deschanel (Emily "Bones" Deschanel's sister) was really beautiful in it and it was nice to see John Leguizamo and his deformed grinny-gog mouth committing suicide too.
I wouldn't buy "The Happening" on DVD when it comes out because I'm not much of an M. Night Shyamalan fan anyway but it was certainly a lot better than "Lady in the Water".
People are bitching about this film all over the internet. I think it's just become trendy to bash M. Night Shyamalan's films now. The only negative thing I'll say about it is that if it was meant to be a horror film then it really needed some more gory deaths. As a teenage friendly sci-fi flick with a blatant environmental message I think it succeeded even if it was a bit slow overall.It's not as bad as people would have you believe. You might even enjoy it.
posted 40 days ago -
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I enjoyed this a lot more than "À l'interieur" too when I finally tracked it down.
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