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Quick movie reviews:
"Up": Gorgeously animated, and the part which tells you about the back-story was really sweet. My quibble with the movie is that the explorer guy clearly should have returned back to civilization to patent and mass-produce his gizmo that lets dogs talk. He would have made a vast fortune, and could hire an armada to hunt for his lost bird with the proceeds. Other than that, wonderful movie.
"Spiderman 3": When something I liked most about the movie was that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
reesei wasn't around to be crippled by bad comic book science... well, that's pretty terrible. Can I come up with anything else? It was in HD, so the picture was very nice. The particle effects of the Sandman... oh, I didn't really care about those. I mean, yes, it was good CG, but that's no longer a reason to forgive a movie's failings.(*) They tried to jam too much into this movie, including Bruce Campbell, and it didn't all fit. From the first minute, it was clear there had to be a fall from grace and then recovery, but Peter Parker spent awfully little time at the bottom of the cycle. This really didn't do much for me.
"Let the Right One In": I watched this on Netflix streaming after seeing "Spiderman 3". This is a Swedish movie about a 12-year-old misfit boy who meets a 12-year-old misfit vampire girl, and they bond over a Rubix cube. Ebert's review is pretty good. The romance is more believable than any of the relationships in "Spiderman 3", and I liked how they handled the vampire aspect -- I'd never seen a take on what happens when a vampire comes into the home without an invitation.(**) I don't recall how I first heard about it, but I liked it quite a bit.
(*) Yes, I still want to see Avatar 3D, and yes, I plan on eating those words.
(**) Why does she try it? Because Oskar is a 12-year-old boy, and thus a jerk at times, and he refuses to say the words even as he beckons her inside. Blood ensues.
"Up": Gorgeously animated, and the part which tells you about the back-story was really sweet. My quibble with the movie is that the explorer guy clearly should have returned back to civilization to patent and mass-produce his gizmo that lets dogs talk. He would have made a vast fortune, and could hire an armada to hunt for his lost bird with the proceeds. Other than that, wonderful movie.
"Spiderman 3": When something I liked most about the movie was that
reesei wasn't around to be crippled by bad comic book science... well, that's pretty terrible. Can I come up with anything else? It was in HD, so the picture was very nice. The particle effects of the Sandman... oh, I didn't really care about those. I mean, yes, it was good CG, but that's no longer a reason to forgive a movie's failings.(*) They tried to jam too much into this movie, including Bruce Campbell, and it didn't all fit. From the first minute, it was clear there had to be a fall from grace and then recovery, but Peter Parker spent awfully little time at the bottom of the cycle. This really didn't do much for me."Let the Right One In": I watched this on Netflix streaming after seeing "Spiderman 3". This is a Swedish movie about a 12-year-old misfit boy who meets a 12-year-old misfit vampire girl, and they bond over a Rubix cube. Ebert's review is pretty good. The romance is more believable than any of the relationships in "Spiderman 3", and I liked how they handled the vampire aspect -- I'd never seen a take on what happens when a vampire comes into the home without an invitation.(**) I don't recall how I first heard about it, but I liked it quite a bit.
(*) Yes, I still want to see Avatar 3D, and yes, I plan on eating those words.
(**) Why does she try it? Because Oskar is a 12-year-old boy, and thus a jerk at times, and he refuses to say the words even as he beckons her inside. Blood ensues.
