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03 May 2009 @ 08:10 pm
Review Roundup XIX  
The Day The Earth Stood Still
So Keanu was all like "What is this thing you call...love?  It does not compute."

SPOILER But seriously, that was a horrific ending.  If I understand it right, what you didn't see was thousands of 747's falling out of the sky, people's dialysis machines and pacemakers turning off, oil tankers crashing into each other and ports and people stuck down mine shafts on and on.  Six months later, when the food runs out and the plagues and starvation start and people have eaten all the other species for food and the skies are black all the time from the 3 billion fires burning every night because that is the only source of warmth and light...END SPOILER


Hitman
Well that was boring.  Also, it didn't make any sense, loads of plot holes and just really over convoluted.  Also also, very boring action sequences.

Punisher - War Zone
Now this is how you do pointless violence. 
Every action scene is just about how to more and more ridiculously violent things to criminals.  Though to be fair, the movie actually has its action climax in the first 15 minutes, this was still good outrageous fun.

Monsters vs. Aliens
Two things I liked about this.  One, the female empowerment message.  Two, the way they dealt with sense of scale.  The main heroine is 50 feet tall.  She fights a robot that is 500 feet tall.  Then she fights in a ship that houses dozens of these robots.  However, despite the interesting animation, this wasn't very funny and really could have easily cut 15-20 minutes.
 
 
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TJ TimeBomb[info]tjtimebomb on May 4th, 2009 10:41 am (UTC)
I'm with you on the Punisher flick though I like the Tom Jane one the best out of the 3 .

I actually liked Hitman...though it was a good videogame to movie adaptation.

Day The Earth Stood Still sucked... watch the original it was awesome!

Didn't see Monsters VS Aliens ... I never see these CGI kids movies ... not my thing. If it was classic cell animation then i might check it ... CGI not a chance.
 
 

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