OMG! This is a MUST SEE movie. AND it's a MUST SEE in 3D.
James Cameron does it again. I know people keep saying Dancing with Smurfs, but this is soooo not accurate.
This movie may have a familiar storyline but in James Cameron's quite able hands, it is new and touching and thrilling and beautiful beyond imagination.
Pandora is a fully realised planet and there is no detail missed in creating this amazing home world of the Na'vi. AND THE NA'VI! OMG! They are amazing and gorgeous and words actual escape me at this moment.
The touches that Cameron adds, the glowing plants, the clouds, the animals everything works. You BELIEVE.
The "bad guys" are real bad guys. Not evil and vengful but doing a job to the point of not having a conscience. Of course, the "Paul Riser" character (ie: Aliens) actual HAS a conscience and is bothered by it.
Stephen Lang is a very good heavy. Now, granted he always has been a good heavy but here, he gets to really put it on without going over the top.
Sam Worthington is really good. When I reviewed Terminator the other day I said I would wait to comment on Sam Worthington and now I am ready to say that I DO believe he is a very good actor. He was able to star in this movie and be a star in this movie.
His Jake Sully character is well drawn and realistic. I like the way he is dismissed as a grunt, even tho his brother had a PHD.
I like the way he bounds through the brush on Pandora like a large unruly animal and as time progresses he is lithe and capable. Granted, this version of him is advanced CGI/Motion Capture but Sam Worthington is ACTUALLY acting the scenes for the Motion Capture.
Zoe Saldana is great. Sigourny Weaver is fantastic, as always. She is COMPLETELY on form here. Everyone is very very good in this film.
James Cameron waited, from what I understand from interviews, for the technology to catch up. Well, BRAVO, Sir! This film is amazing.
We get a voice over narration from Sully from the very beginning that slowly morphs seemlessly into a video log and then into being in his head.
You feel for the Na'vi and I actually cried during scenes. I DID! Really!
It had great humor as well as thrills.
Michelle Rodriguez is great, Joel Moore is great, everybody is just great!
I know I sound like an idiot here, but I haven't enjoyed a movie to this extent since I watched Titanic! yes, I know! Another Cameron flick. BUT As the credits were rolling on Titanic I KNEW I would have to see that movie again.
And as the credits were rolling on Avatar, I KNEW I would have to see it again.
It was awesome!
5 out of 5 stars.
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01 January 2010
30 December 2009
Terminator Salvation
Come with me, if you want to be entertained but still have some questions about time travel that seem to be ignored.
Or how about, I'll be back?
Terminator Salvation is the 4th installment in the lucrative franchise. Rated PG-13 this is the first Terminator movie that doesn't have the rough language of the previous 3 and it is obvious. No spurting blood shots or F-Bombs. Now, I know I complained about the blood in Inglorious Basterds, but this movie, however, SHOULD have SOME blood.
Now, being an avid user of the F-Word (and I am not talking about Gordon Ramsey here) I appriciate it's usage in an action movie. I feel that the PG-13 rating has turned a possible gritty action film into a lukewarm trip through the future of Valium.
Sam Worthington is getting a lot of attention lately. I hear he is really good in Avatar, I will let you know what I think after tomorrow, since that is when I am going to see it. I watched him in Rogue, a little action film from Austrailia and he was ok.
He was ok in Terminator as well. Well, maybe a little more than ok. He was OK. LOL! He isn't a top actor in my book but I did like him in this movie.
Christian Bale I love. However, his version of John Conor is just meh! I think my favourite John Conor is Edward Furlong. I didn't really like Nick Stalh's version. Christian Bale kinda comes at the role from a big-headed place. "My mommy told me I am the leader of the resistance so I am super important and even if these people don't get it, I'm going to act like it anyway."
YAWN.
SPOILER ALERT FROM THIS POINT ON!!!!!!
I was not impressed nor moved by the woman who is fighting alongside John Conor to erradicate all the Terminators but falls in love with one. "I see a man" PA-LEEZE. Is it that hard to get laid in the appocalyptic future?
Steve had a realy problem with the whiteness of the peoples teeth. I noticed it, but wasn't too bothered. I understand that Hollywood likes to be realistic but not with pretty ladies. Whatever!
I did not like the way that Sky Net learned about Kyle Reese. I felt that that was a fatal flaw in the script.
What script writers and Hollywood Producers need to remember, even tho a franchise has MASSIVE $$$$ LEGS, the fans still pay attention to the storyline. (Unless of course, you are a Transformers fan! Then all you want is loud music and PG-13 tits.)
Kyle goes back in time because John Conor sends him. Kyle and Linda Hamilton have sex and she gets pregnant with John Conor. OOOHHHHHH time travel!
We never even see John put Kyle in the "return to 1984" machine.
That I felt was a terrible miss. I DO NOT want to see another Terminator film. Couldn't we have sent Reese back in time then destroyed Sky Net?
Sigh.
However, all that being said, Anton Yelchin did a VERY GOOD job of being the young Kyle Reese. I could see him being Reese as a teen.
ALSO, big kudos to the writers for Christian Bale's line "I'll be back" when Ron Howards daughter asked what to tell his men when they discover he's gone.
Now, Bale... I like this actor. Unfortunately he is still in Batman mode while filming this movie. There are too many Batman-esque whispers and looks.
I know that Bale has LOADS more in that acting bag of his than this. He was AMAZING in Velvet Goldmine and BRILLIANT in The Machinist, so I know he is able to DO IT.
Terminator Salvation was entertaining enough but it was like eating a bowl of rice, it filled me up but an hour later I wanted another film.
2 stars out of 5
Or how about, I'll be back?
Terminator Salvation is the 4th installment in the lucrative franchise. Rated PG-13 this is the first Terminator movie that doesn't have the rough language of the previous 3 and it is obvious. No spurting blood shots or F-Bombs. Now, I know I complained about the blood in Inglorious Basterds, but this movie, however, SHOULD have SOME blood.
Now, being an avid user of the F-Word (and I am not talking about Gordon Ramsey here) I appriciate it's usage in an action movie. I feel that the PG-13 rating has turned a possible gritty action film into a lukewarm trip through the future of Valium.
Sam Worthington is getting a lot of attention lately. I hear he is really good in Avatar, I will let you know what I think after tomorrow, since that is when I am going to see it. I watched him in Rogue, a little action film from Austrailia and he was ok.
He was ok in Terminator as well. Well, maybe a little more than ok. He was OK. LOL! He isn't a top actor in my book but I did like him in this movie.
Christian Bale I love. However, his version of John Conor is just meh! I think my favourite John Conor is Edward Furlong. I didn't really like Nick Stalh's version. Christian Bale kinda comes at the role from a big-headed place. "My mommy told me I am the leader of the resistance so I am super important and even if these people don't get it, I'm going to act like it anyway."
YAWN.
SPOILER ALERT FROM THIS POINT ON!!!!!!
I was not impressed nor moved by the woman who is fighting alongside John Conor to erradicate all the Terminators but falls in love with one. "I see a man" PA-LEEZE. Is it that hard to get laid in the appocalyptic future?
Steve had a realy problem with the whiteness of the peoples teeth. I noticed it, but wasn't too bothered. I understand that Hollywood likes to be realistic but not with pretty ladies. Whatever!
I did not like the way that Sky Net learned about Kyle Reese. I felt that that was a fatal flaw in the script.
What script writers and Hollywood Producers need to remember, even tho a franchise has MASSIVE $$$$ LEGS, the fans still pay attention to the storyline. (Unless of course, you are a Transformers fan! Then all you want is loud music and PG-13 tits.)
Kyle goes back in time because John Conor sends him. Kyle and Linda Hamilton have sex and she gets pregnant with John Conor. OOOHHHHHH time travel!
We never even see John put Kyle in the "return to 1984" machine.
That I felt was a terrible miss. I DO NOT want to see another Terminator film. Couldn't we have sent Reese back in time then destroyed Sky Net?
Sigh.
However, all that being said, Anton Yelchin did a VERY GOOD job of being the young Kyle Reese. I could see him being Reese as a teen.
ALSO, big kudos to the writers for Christian Bale's line "I'll be back" when Ron Howards daughter asked what to tell his men when they discover he's gone.
Now, Bale... I like this actor. Unfortunately he is still in Batman mode while filming this movie. There are too many Batman-esque whispers and looks.
I know that Bale has LOADS more in that acting bag of his than this. He was AMAZING in Velvet Goldmine and BRILLIANT in The Machinist, so I know he is able to DO IT.
Terminator Salvation was entertaining enough but it was like eating a bowl of rice, it filled me up but an hour later I wanted another film.
2 stars out of 5
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