Road, The
The Road is one heck of a depressing movie. Turns out that’ll happen in a fairly realistic depiction of the end of the world. The visuals (the grey, dreary visuals) of this mysterious end time was very well done and … Continue reading
The Road is one heck of a depressing movie. Turns out that’ll happen in a fairly realistic depiction of the end of the world. The visuals (the grey, dreary visuals) of this mysterious end time was very well done and … Continue reading
If we’re talking borrowing from other post apocalyptic franchises, Book of Eli is more Fallout than Road Warrior – it’s about scrounging out a life, looting, searching, surviving – encounters with waste wanderers and small craphole towns trying to create … Continue reading
The rebooted Star Trek is certainly a good movie. Worth seeing. Good movie. Kind of wish it was better though – but as far as Trek goes, it’s probably the 3rd best (behind 2 and 4). Excellent casting all around … Continue reading
Knowing stars Nicolas Cage as a guy who discovers a series of > numbers that foretell disasters and how he has to deal with this knowledge. It’s directed by Alex Proyas – the guy behind Dark City and I, Robot. … Continue reading
City of Ember is about an underground city where the remnants of humanity live and have lived for hundreds of years – to the point that everyone has forgotten that there is an outside world. But the generator running the … Continue reading
So… yeah… Starship Troopers 3 came out – another direct-to-dvd sequel. The 2nd flick was alright – basically something you’d see on Sci-Fi Channel (but slightly better) but it was clearly made on a super low budget and really just … Continue reading
A Sound of Thunder is based (loosely) on the short story by Ray Bradbury. It’s really quite dumb and some of the FX are just kind of quaint and silly and 5 years old… but they are ambitious, I’ll give … Continue reading
The Island is yet another winner from the suddenly pseudo-intellectual wiz-kid Michael “I’m not a hack and this proves it” Bay. According to EW at the time, there was a great script that Spielberg gave to Bay for some reason, … Continue reading
I’m mixed on War of the Worlds though I’m largely positive. Here’s some thoughts: 1. Don’t take the kids. It’s one hellishly brutal movie emotionally and physically (the death rays are just gob stopping). There’s very little humor – it’s … Continue reading
T3 is the difference between a great director and an OK director. A good script and a weak script. Great cinemicrography and ok cinematography. In other words, it’s ok. Its disappointing but not unexpectedly so. Lots of things explode a … Continue reading