Watched your movie. It was not very good. Hope you make something better next time.
Yours
- Kennet
PS. Please don’t kill me.
Archive for the 'Moving Pictures' Category
That’s right. Morpheus is now a CSI in Las Vegas. I did not see that comming. I am happy about it though. With Grissom leaving they need some serious gravitas to fill the hole left behind and Fishburne might just pull it off. It will never be the same show again without Grissom but it might just turn out to be another show that is just as good. Time will tell.
I went to see Hellboy 2 last night and I didn’t love it. I really wanted to love it and just just because that meant getting a better deal for my money. I wanted to love it because I really love Mignola’s original Hellboy comic and after a mediocre first movie I could do with some good Hellboy movie action.
But it was no to be.
The main problem, as I see it, was that the movie was just not engaging. There were a lot of potentially interesting points; Hellboy and Liz’s relationship, the Prince trying to save his dying people or Hellboy’s struggle with finding a place in the world, but none of it ever got really real. You could see it there in the story but it never connected emotionally.
Another point that bothered me a bit was the fact that the movie felt like it had 2 very strong design directions that didn’t fit together very well. I love Mignola’s designs and I love the Pan’s-Labyrinth-style but I don’t love them in the same movie at the same time.
Also, I don’t know it is a Guillermo del Toro thing or if it Doug Jones, but the excessive hand-gesticulation that they have going both here and in Pan’s Labyrinth is getting a bit annoying (if you don’t know what I am talking about, good for you. If you want to know take a look at the Faun in Pan’s)
All in all it wasn’t completely hopeless. I just wasn’t nearly as good as i had hoped.
I considered saying something like “It’s good to see Macross back to form” or “After a somewhat dissapointing Macross Zero, I am happy to see…” but that all implies somehow that I am an avid follower of the series. I am not. I grew up on Robotech, loved Macross Plus and found Macross Zero ok but I haven’t seen anything else.
Now I am watching Macross Frontier and so far (6 episodes in) I am enjoying it. The first episodes felt a lot like a general rehash of the opening episodes of SDF Macross, story wise, which was a bit jarring but apart from that my recommendation would be that you watch it. It doesn’t hurt watching it in HD on a 40″ HDTV either.
I went through the Ultimate Bourne Collection on DVD during the holidays and I for got to post this little bit that I wrote about it: I like it. Good spy action thriller movies, if you are into that kind of thing. If you are not, this is still a very good collection of movies. The Ultimatum was the new movie in the collection for me, since I hadn’t seen it before and i am happy to report that it is almost as good as the second one. The bad thing is that there seems to be less focus on characters and story and more on all out action. There are some very good action sequences but sometimes they just seem too long.
Final Verdict: Get it before it gets you!
On a related note, the soundtracks to these movies are also very cool. Get them also.
The movie, not the city.
A review:
The last 40 minutes of watching that film I spent waiting for it to end. And I stopped watching 30 minutes before the movie was actually over.
“We found frequencies we didn’t even know exited!”
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Nyahahahaha ha ha ha ha haaa ha! Good stuff.
So, I have searched around a bit ever since I heard something about the possibility of getting the original broadcast order-dvd’s in the US and lo and behold I have found them!
Well, actually, it looks like they will be on a bundled bonus-dvd shipped with the limited edition releases of volume 2 to 4 and since I was planning on getting thosa anyway, I am happy.
What I don’t like is that axelmusic, my supplier, has added ~$15 to the price of the LE’s. But, since they are still the cheapest place I can get them, I guess there is nothing much I can do about that.
I was originally going to call this post “The Joy Of Haruhi Suzumiya” or something like that, because I just got the Limited Edition of Volume 1 and boy is it nice.
The box itself is sturdy without being bulky and covered with nice colorful artwork. There is a small hidden magnet that keeps the front closed is a work of genius and the way the inside is designed logical and yet gives subtle hints of all the niceness that it will eventually contain.
The DVD and mini-soundtrack also comes in nicely designed packaging.
The DVD itself is also filled with extra material. 3 pages of it, in fact. I haven’t watched it yet but so far the amount alone outstrips most other TV shows I have seen (granted, that isn’t that many)
My problem is that Bandai decided to release the episodes chronologically as opposed to the seemingly random way the episodes were originally aired.
To someone who hasn’t seen the show yet this may seem like a perfectly fine way to do things, but it’s not really. I tell you why twomorrow.
Or something melodramatic like that. If you watch BSG but isn’t up to date, stop reading!
Point in fact is that I really think Battlestar has lost it completely. I just watched the latest three episodes and for the first time I just didn’t care.
Balthar, who once was someone I hated for his infuriating way of never thinking about anything but his own survival, now feels like he is doing it just because that’s what he does. There is no purpose.
The Cylons seem to have lost their purpose as well. They used to be this mysterious and scary enemy that just kept coming and coming and coming. The very first real episode where they showed up every 33 minutes to the second for days and days, I thought was such a cool concept. Now we haven’t actually seen the shadow of a cylon for 6 episodes. And no, Sharon doesn’t count.
And “They Have A Plan” the intro says. That used to be a very interesting thing, but having spend alot of time with the cylons in the beginning of the season, I just don’t see it. I don’t actually believe anymore that they have a plan. But then again, I’m not sure I care either. The cylons have lost their edge. They lack purpose. They are becoming boring.
Even the apparent death of Starbuck didn’t really make me feel like the series is going anywhere.
Which was one of things I enjoyed the most in the beginning. The way things kept moving forward all the time. The feel of an epic tale of survival against an enemy that just keep coming.
Now everything is becoming bogged down in spirituality and destiny and poeple having all sorts of new personal problems that they solve or die from or primarily just get over so they are left with only the problems they had before they got the new problems…
They need to do something drastic soon, if they want to avoid going to filler hell.