It was with a heavy heart that I go to see the Order of the Phoenix. My heart is heavy because this is the bell… this movie is the bell and it tolls for thee, Mr. Potter. A couple of weeks after this and… well… yes. The last book. The end.
Still, good movie. It was rather like a ninja fight with wands at the end. It is very much a filler though. Just bridging between IV and VI, but it does it with a lot of style. When I grow up I want to be a wizard. And a pirate. And a ninja.
So I saw it. It's really rather good.
Yes it's overly American. Yes it makes no sense, and yes, terrible teenage romance is just... wrong in my action movies.
But there are a lot of giant robots smacking the shit out of each other, so fuck you nay-sayers.
Even if they kill the token black-guy. You know what I mean.
So I saw it. It's really rather good.
Yes it's overly American. Yes it makes no sense, and yes, terrible teenage romance is just... wrong in my action movies.
But there are a lot of giant robots smacking the shit out of each other, so fuck you nay-sayers.
Even if they kill the token black-guy. You know what I mean.
Last night (Monday 23rd April - 6:15 for a 6:45 start my ticket is what is pictured!) I had the privilege to attend the Australian premier of Spider-man 3. No stars at ours (bar the local celebrity reviewer or two, which I was quite excited to see as I enjoy our local movie show). It was at the George Street cinema in Sydney, and it was packed with eager people, looking forward to the first big summer (winter for us) blockbuster of the year...
And they enjoyed it. There was a smattering of applause at the end, but that smattering reflected exactly what I thought of the film. It was... Enjoyable. OK. That is it.
First, it's way too long. For a light movie (which it clearly attempts to be, no matter the themes of revenge, personal development, etc) it labours the point quite a lot. I think they are trying to ram home the change in characters, yet they seem to assume they need to appeal to the lowest common denominator in the audience to do this. Yes this person is behaving incorrectly, but you don't have to show me the same thing again and again. I think I got where you were going to with the first cheesy montage.
And there I hit the second point. The cheese factor. Now I've been a comic web-head for over ten years. The comics themselves do not shy from the cheese factor, so I can appreciate that in this movie. Over all this movie appeared to embrace it's comic-roots far more than the others... It's just that the cheese factor was so overwhelming at points it was embarrassing to be a member of the audience . I don't like feeling uncomfortable in films, so didn't really appreciate this.
Finally (at least for the detractions of the movie) the use of the Sandman is largely redundant. He looks fantastic, usually, but this film did not need two bad guys. I understand their inclusion to assist in completing Harry Osbourne's journey as the Goblin, yet feel that Venom should have been enough of a threat to do this. The modification of the back story, shoe-horning the Sandman into Peter's life proves to be a catalyst for an event or two, but it's nothing that could not have taken place with slightly more intelligent plotting. The worst result of the inclusion of the Sandman is that we get such a small amount of Venom time. This is such a shame.
There are some positives. The introduction is clever. The montage during the opening web credits showing images of the first two films is clever, well edited, and reminds all of us of what has come before. Very clever.
The effects are top notch, with Venom being particularly brilliant.
Bruce Campbell's Spider-man role was his best yet, and drew the greatest audience laugh and a flurry of whispers. As did the obligatory Stan Lee appearance. It's great to see even the non-comic-geekery people recognising him now.
Over all the film is enjoyable. It could serve as an adequate end (or break point) to the franchise. It just has the Batman Forever/Ewoks in Jedi feel about it. Shark is about to be jumped, or just has been, and things might never be the same again.
My biggest disappointment with Pan's Labyrinth is that I can't watch it for the first time again.
Go watch now.
What a complete piece of shit. Seriously the movie was the most hideous piece of crap that I've ever had to sit through. I'll never, ever get those precious minutes back. I'll never, ever be able to sit quietly and read this book without seeing some stupid fucking c*nuts running around ruining a story.
Here's some other fried gold to go with my musing.
The book, on the other hand...
No matter what you say, Captain Jack Sparrow is GOD.
I'm sorry, but that's all there is to it.
So this was fun. Long fun, but fun. In fact I'd say it was STUPID fun. Go see now. Even if it is a little scary for the kiddies (who'll either love Davey Jones' men, or wet themselves. Either way I'm happy).
This had better be the case:
Found here: X3 rocks?!?!?! Please Let It Be So!:So the reviews poor in. I'll let you know how it was when I go. Probably on opening night.
Hey folks, Harry here... Here's the moment we've been waiting for......
This had better not be the case-
Found here: SPOILER - Maybe X3 Doesn't Rock?!?!?!? Another X3 Review!!:
Merrick is a mutant...
Val Verde just sent in a different ta...
A quick one, because I am tired, and it's been a long day.
The Last Stand was good. Not excellent, not amazing, just good.
Acting was pretty terrible, but I guess it's hard to identify with goddesses and freaks. The script was worse, and there isn't a great excuse you can have for that, because you've had 40+ years of writing X-Men. Someone can clearly get it right.
What brought it together was the way it deal with the Phoenix saga in a reasonable way. I think I liked the movie because I was so fucking sure that they would fuck it up, it was a pleasure when they didn't.
Skipping over, the Phoenix was good. A nice goddess thing happening, without spoiling the story. They deal with the power of professor X in the same way again though. It'd be nice if they could figure out how to actually use him for once. I guess you can't have everything.
Overall enjoyable. Go and see it, I'll have to see it again because, well... it's the X-Men.
And for fucks sake, stay until the end of the credits. If you enjoy a movie, you should always do it as a sign of respect. You should do it no matter what here.