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Transporter 3
You know, Crank 2 might have ruined Jason Statham movies for me. This movie was pretty reasonable, but not, you know, totally bugfuck insane. This wasn't even as insane as the second Transporter movie (you know, the scene where he flips the car and uses a crane in mid-air to remove a bomb) and while this movie does have a fight scene where Statham inexplicably removes his shirt, it can't compare with the sheer homo-eroticism of the first Transporter's topless, oil-drenched, bicycle factory fight. Not that this was a bad movie, Statham did fight a gang with his jacket, a Mercedes with an Audi, a car with a BMX and a train with an Audi.
3:10 to Yuma
So, I am not sure I buy Russell Crowe's motivation during the last 10 minutes. That really kind of ruined what was a pretty damn good western for me.Franklyn
So, that was a really long way to go for so little at the end. You can't be odd and unexplainable and steampunk for two hours and then give an
explanation that really doesn't add anything to the story in the last five minutes. In that respect it is sort of the anti-Usual Suspects.Dark Star
Progenitor of the Slacker-in-Space movie. Basically what would really happen if you were stuck on a
ship for years with four other people, equipment constantly breaking, running out of vital supplies, picking up aliens just for kicks, everybody (the crew) and everything (various computers and bombs) going slightly insane. This was released three years before Star Wars, so with no further research, I am going to call this movie as the originator of the "dirty future" concept, the antithesis of the spotless future of Star Trek and a concept that really made Alien so vital and fresh a few years later.Moon
Sam Rockwell is a powerhouse actor in this movie as he essentially is the only character in the entire movie (the computer talks). Rockwell deals with sickness, loneliness, boredom, desperation, denial and mystery and does it all against himself, bringing across concepts without having to exposit them, acting without explaining everything verbally. Excellent.
The Hangover
Just almost exactly as funny as the trailer.
Alien Vs Predator
This movie is what I am going to call an iceberg movie. The concept that everybody came to see, and the title even, the two aliens species fighting each other, only take up the tip of the movie about...10 minutes? Maybe less. The movie is about 2 hours long, so we spend the rest of the movie, the bulk of the
iceberg, being introduced to a useless and boring cast of dozens and having them explore a stupidly dark pyramid and being killed by that pyramid in dark ways or off screen or what have you. Very boring. The opposite of this movie is say Freddy Vs. Jason or even the sequel to this movie, AVP: Requiem, where the characters in the title start killing people about 7 minutes into the movie and don't stop until the final bloody minutes.Show Off