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Art School Confidential (2006)
Fails to finish what it started. Spoilers
As a current art student, this film came up in many conversations during class. Some said it was funny, others didn't like it, so i decided to see for myself. As the movie starts, the mood seems as though it's going to be a satire to the whole art school environment, and how things are done, and the kind of people there are at the schools. It was humorous to see the cliché art students. Although soon enough the film began to depart as it seemed it was going to be about Jeromy getting laid, and another college virgin story. But soon the film finds ground and becomes a bit of a love story, as Jeromy finds the 'perfect'.
Around this time is where the film suddenly spawns numerous plots and usually would not be seen in the same film. The murder mystery emerges of the local serial killer. This entire subplot, seemed to ruin the art school aspect of the film. As the satire of art school dwindled and the film became more and more bleak, and began dealing with the hopelessness of being successful, it seems as though the entire art school satire set up had been for nothing. By the end of the film you don't recall anything in the beginning that really helped bring a close to the film.
Over all this film was scattered and the 2nd half didn't not deliver what the first half promises the film to be about.
Final Destination 3 (2006)
lets hope death has finally set in on this series
this review will contain some spoilers.
first of, the first two were rather entertaining. the whole concept of death having its own agenda was rather interesting. the first thing that this film did not have that the first two did was a link between the two. the first film had its link into the 2nd with the last surviving character from the first. i would have been interesting to see some of the same but it probably wouldn't have been for the best.
first off the only thing that was unique and clever were the deaths of characters, usually this series can always dig up an interesting and cinematic way of bitting the dust. unfortunately there were a few things that this one did that the others did not. the first two were rather more random or spontanious w/ the deaths and such. in this one you somewhat know ahead of time how they're going to die with a few of these people.
with the upcoming remake of the classic horror film "the omen" it seems final destination has taken the concept of picture predictions. if some do recall the omen contained gregory peck with photographs indicating how those working and warning him were to meet their fate. final destination does this with every one of their victims. it isn't that much of a pest yet, with the new remake, most people without any prior knowledge of the original will think that they ripped it off of this poor excuse of enjoyment.
the acting is not top notch yet, when was it in the final destination trilogy. i could think of a few moments though int he first two where acting was rather well done, although in this one it mostly seems forced, and all the roles are well stereotyped.
one of the things i had a grudge against as i mentioned earlier was the fact that the main character within a 2 minutes of the movie already is in tears, scared because of a carnival/ the roller coaster. it really does give away too much within the first few minutes. she seems too paranoid too early in my opinion. although in the first film the main character did have a fear of flying he wasn't panicking 30 minutes before they even mention going on a plane. this film does so and it contiues and gets irritating throughout the film.
the most i can give props to in this film as i mentioned before were the unique writing for killing each and every person.
also in my personal opinion the end was a bit dragged. the last two films did always end with a cliffhanger or big blowing off finish as the previous two did but those final sequences barely pushed a minute and a half as this one goes a little far pushing around eight. the whole concept of having another vision was rather forced as i believe that there really should be only one deathexperience vision per flick.
overall its quite a dragged and another disappointing addition to finalize a trilogy.
War of the Worlds (2005)
bad writing seems to be this films downfall.
spoilers This is not worthy to have been associated with that of H.G. Wells' piece of literature. I was not that big of a fan of this summer's Steven Spielberg version, but compared to this it just seems as good as any cinema classic.
The characters feel very bland and vacant. The very little depth that is given is one of this greatest flaws. Also as the hero of the story continues to walk around his side companions during this world disaster just seem to disappear them selves. they introduce new characters very suddenly leaving you to guess what just happened to his other friend he was with. The special effects are not that bad, although it is somewhat recognizable that its green/blue screen, for a made for television film the effects are not bad quality. The writing just doesn't seem to allow the actors to show us their full acting abilities. The words are so shallow and two dimensional that you somewhat lose respect for whatever actors have participated within the film. The actors seemed to have had potential, all of them did, it was writers that gave them very common phrases that we've heard over and over in cinema, and we get weary of it.