No summer lovin' for summer movies
Prompted by Mr. Hat i’ve decided to do a quick recap of the movies we’ve seen on the big screen this summer and sadly it was not a pretty sight
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It’s been a while since the lord of the rings movie trilogy ended but I still can’t shake the feeling that maybe my sense of summer entertainment has been spoiled for life.
Headlining this summer was one big movie and a bigger disappointment: Superman returns. The 5th installment of the Superman series was directed by Bryan Singer director of the superb the usual suspects and his comic adaptations credentials include the entertaining X-MEN 1 & 2.
There are several problems with Superman including a VERY weak cast lead by Brandon Routh as a soporiferous Superman, a disastrous Villain by Kevin Spacey and a plain embarrassing Parker Posey. I can’t really say much about the plot except that superman returns to earth to find that Lex Luthor wasn’t convicted and Lois Lane is a single mom who doesn’t feel that the world needs superman (all documented in a Pulitzer Prize article). I totally agree with Lois, he should have stayed in Krypton rather that mortify the human race with this 3 hour train wreck.
Surprisingly better than superman was X-MEN 3, this movie was mindless entertainment with some super action and the always reliable Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen.
If you need your Comic Book movie fix go see that one.
The Da Vinci Code: The Da Vinci code movie would certainly please the fans of the book because just like it, its Mediocre, entertaining at parts and all together too long.
Maybe my favorite movie of this summer was the second part of pirates of the Caribbean. Maybe it’s that i am a sucker for pirates and that I spent a part of my childhood reading Books by Emilio Salgari and Alejandro Dumas. POTC Dead Man’s chest plot involves Davy Jones from the flying Dutch man fame collecting a debt from Johnny Depp's captain Jack Sparrow ...HIS SOUL BUAHAHA!
I can’t even start to describe how amazing the effects of this movie are...so I won’t but Davy Jones and his crew are worth the Theater admission alone.
This move like its predecessor heavily relies on Johnny Depp’s character. He provides Solid comic relief as well as Action hero and romantic lead. Now that I think of it Jack Sparrow is the Indiana Jones of the I pod generation. And that parallel applies also to quality and sucees...Im proud of me.
If you are going to see one movie this summer makes it POTC.
Two movies I liked but were somehow disappointing are PIXAR’S CARS and Woody Allen’s Scoop.
Before CARS I absolutely adored all Pear movies, I like Cars a lot but perhaps PIXAR’S proven success formula just got a little tired. Talking about formulaic Scoop feels like more of the same after that great movie that was Matchpoint. Still in my eyes Woody can do no wrong.
All left to do is wait for those pesky Snakes on a Plane
Prompted by Mr. Hat i’ve decided to do a quick recap of the movies we’ve seen on the big screen this summer and sadly it was not a pretty sight
.
It’s been a while since the lord of the rings movie trilogy ended but I still can’t shake the feeling that maybe my sense of summer entertainment has been spoiled for life.
Headlining this summer was one big movie and a bigger disappointment: Superman returns. The 5th installment of the Superman series was directed by Bryan Singer director of the superb the usual suspects and his comic adaptations credentials include the entertaining X-MEN 1 & 2.
There are several problems with Superman including a VERY weak cast lead by Brandon Routh as a soporiferous Superman, a disastrous Villain by Kevin Spacey and a plain embarrassing Parker Posey. I can’t really say much about the plot except that superman returns to earth to find that Lex Luthor wasn’t convicted and Lois Lane is a single mom who doesn’t feel that the world needs superman (all documented in a Pulitzer Prize article). I totally agree with Lois, he should have stayed in Krypton rather that mortify the human race with this 3 hour train wreck.
Surprisingly better than superman was X-MEN 3, this movie was mindless entertainment with some super action and the always reliable Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen.
If you need your Comic Book movie fix go see that one.
The Da Vinci Code: The Da Vinci code movie would certainly please the fans of the book because just like it, its Mediocre, entertaining at parts and all together too long.
Maybe my favorite movie of this summer was the second part of pirates of the Caribbean. Maybe it’s that i am a sucker for pirates and that I spent a part of my childhood reading Books by Emilio Salgari and Alejandro Dumas. POTC Dead Man’s chest plot involves Davy Jones from the flying Dutch man fame collecting a debt from Johnny Depp's captain Jack Sparrow ...HIS SOUL BUAHAHA!
I can’t even start to describe how amazing the effects of this movie are...so I won’t but Davy Jones and his crew are worth the Theater admission alone.
This move like its predecessor heavily relies on Johnny Depp’s character. He provides Solid comic relief as well as Action hero and romantic lead. Now that I think of it Jack Sparrow is the Indiana Jones of the I pod generation. And that parallel applies also to quality and sucees...Im proud of me.
If you are going to see one movie this summer makes it POTC.
Two movies I liked but were somehow disappointing are PIXAR’S CARS and Woody Allen’s Scoop.
Before CARS I absolutely adored all Pear movies, I like Cars a lot but perhaps PIXAR’S proven success formula just got a little tired. Talking about formulaic Scoop feels like more of the same after that great movie that was Matchpoint. Still in my eyes Woody can do no wrong.
All left to do is wait for those pesky Snakes on a Plane
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