It's pretty much the same as the first movie, yet slightly lower quality in every way. Fine to watch on DVD, but don't pay money for it. Watch the first movie again and enjoy knowing you've already seen the sequel
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Seventh Moon
(2008)
Unwatchable-literally
23 June 2014
Someone is a fan of shaky-cam (or just couldn't afford a steady cam). But not content with annoying the audience with shaky cam, nonsensical jump-cuts were added to not only make the audience nauseated, but annoyed as well. Half the movie is close-ups of people's faces and the other half of the movie is too dark to see anything. Very bad.
The story itself is nothing special. I was looking forward to it because I learned all about "Ghost Month" in Taiwan. The 7th lunar month is when spirits from the netherworld can come and cause mischief in our world, thus all the burning stuff to placate those spirits. It was more annoying than scary, interesting, or suspenseful.
The story itself is nothing special. I was looking forward to it because I learned all about "Ghost Month" in Taiwan. The 7th lunar month is when spirits from the netherworld can come and cause mischief in our world, thus all the burning stuff to placate those spirits. It was more annoying than scary, interesting, or suspenseful.
Prometheus
(I) (2012)
When it wasn't boring, it was busy making no sense
13 June 2012
Warning: Spoilers
I wanted to love this movie. Instead, I got something that had some aliens in it, but neither the humans nor the aliens did anything logical except the mindless aliens. Charlize Theron's character did absolutely nothing in this movie. I'm being quite literal when I say if you took her out of the movie, there would be no changes at all.
Can't write much more without spoilers so ***SPOILERS*** OK, so it turns out the Engineers that created humans decided to wipe us out. Instead of doing something that makes sense, like crush us like the insects we are, they decided to create Xenomorphs/Aliens to destroy us. Not only is this dumb, because it'd make the planet uninhabitable to them in every conceivable way, it ends up destroying all by one Alien Engineer. It's funny, there is even a picture of the Xenomorphs as we later know them in Alien/Aliens, but they never appear this way in this movie. So where did that picture come from? That's just one example of how poorly done this movie is.
There's a robot, who is of course evil. However, he's not really malfunctioning or programmed to screw everyone over. He just does it because...no reason. He does it because the plot needed something to happen, I guess.
Then the one surviving Engineer is revived and doesn't miss a beat trying to destroy Earth. Does he care he's been asleep 2,000+ years? Does he care that everyone else is dead and that his bioweapon is uncontrollable? Nope, superior, genius life-forms don't need logic, knowledge or order.
There's not really much to recommend this movie. The acting is good, and the story is interesting, but most of what happens makes no sense. It happens because it supposed to happen, not because it makes sense to the plot or motivation of the characters.
Can't write much more without spoilers so ***SPOILERS*** OK, so it turns out the Engineers that created humans decided to wipe us out. Instead of doing something that makes sense, like crush us like the insects we are, they decided to create Xenomorphs/Aliens to destroy us. Not only is this dumb, because it'd make the planet uninhabitable to them in every conceivable way, it ends up destroying all by one Alien Engineer. It's funny, there is even a picture of the Xenomorphs as we later know them in Alien/Aliens, but they never appear this way in this movie. So where did that picture come from? That's just one example of how poorly done this movie is.
There's a robot, who is of course evil. However, he's not really malfunctioning or programmed to screw everyone over. He just does it because...no reason. He does it because the plot needed something to happen, I guess.
Then the one surviving Engineer is revived and doesn't miss a beat trying to destroy Earth. Does he care he's been asleep 2,000+ years? Does he care that everyone else is dead and that his bioweapon is uncontrollable? Nope, superior, genius life-forms don't need logic, knowledge or order.
There's not really much to recommend this movie. The acting is good, and the story is interesting, but most of what happens makes no sense. It happens because it supposed to happen, not because it makes sense to the plot or motivation of the characters.
Fire and Ice
(1983)
Nice visuals, flat story
15 March 2008
I first saw this when I was around 7. I remembered what I believed to be a vague outline of what took place. Turns out now, 15 years later, that I remembered everything with great accuracy because it seems the writers never got beyond making an outline to the story. There is no plot to this movie/cartoon. There is no character development, no back story, no character arcs, nothing. The good guys do things because they are good, while the bad guys do things solely because they are bad. One unintentionally hilarious part is when someone who you would think to be important dies and nobody cares in the least. They just shrug their shoulders and move on. There's barely any dialogue either. If you cut out the fight scenes and the running scenes, you lose 70% of the movie.
Watch this because you want to see some good animation and for no other reason. Or if you like to look at scantily clad hot cartoon chicks (or scantily clad hot cartoon dudes).
Watch this because you want to see some good animation and for no other reason. Or if you like to look at scantily clad hot cartoon chicks (or scantily clad hot cartoon dudes).
Tin Man
(2007)
Not bad, but not good either
5 December 2007
While it's not bad per se, Tin Man has a lot of problems. For one thing, Zooey's acting is pretty bad at parts. It's like she just showed up and read the lines without putting any feeling in them. It also tries too hard to make connections with the original Wizard of Oz. The place is called the O Z (outer zone) but nobody explains why (is there an inner zone?). The show is called "Tin Man" despite the fact that he is a secondary character. It makes as much sense as calling it "Cowardly Lion". There's even a part of the show where a character falls through a frozen lake, but in the next scene the character is on top of the frozen lake. Bad continuity. Most of it seems dragged out for no real reason, but the climax is rushed and there are a lot of loose threads left hanging.
However, it's fairly original and enjoyable. The characters are likable and the special affects are good. If you have some free time and want to watch something fairly original, then check it out. But don't go out of your way to watch it.
However, it's fairly original and enjoyable. The characters are likable and the special affects are good. If you have some free time and want to watch something fairly original, then check it out. But don't go out of your way to watch it.
Warrior of the Lost World
(1983)
Worst Movie Ever
8 October 2007
I have seen "Manos Hands of Fate" and "Lazerblast" and just about every MST3K lampooned movie. This is the worst one. The main character (the Paper Chase guy, Ginty) can't act. When he isn't mumbling, he's just wooden and emotionless. The actions of the characters don't make any sense. Seriously, MST3k makes bad movies into funny-bad, but they couldn't save this one. His "supersonic motorcycle" isn't much better than a regular cycle and certainly doesn't go that fast. And the apocalyptic world he lives in looks no different than our world today (trees and grass and all that good stuff). I couldn't even laugh at the badness because it looked like the creators tried to make this one bad.
The Astronaut Farmer
(2006)
Follow your dreams, at the cost of what matters.
20 March 2007
This is a story of man with a huge ego. He wants to launch a giant rocket into the air with himself in it so he can....I don't know, brag? He treats his family terrible. Rather than letting this be a family dream, he takes it upon himself to do this alone. He ignores the stress he puts his family through, and pretty much tries to destroy them financially. The government has good reason to stop him, but they are portrayed as people trying to keep the man down. Even when events transpire that prove the government correct, where he could've potentially killed people it's treated like almost nothing.
The moral of this story is that you should put yourself at risk, ignore your family to the extent of ruining them financially and emotionally crippling them, and do things that could potentially kill your neighbors in the pursuit of your 'dreams'.
The moral of this story is that you should put yourself at risk, ignore your family to the extent of ruining them financially and emotionally crippling them, and do things that could potentially kill your neighbors in the pursuit of your 'dreams'.
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