Monday, July 23, 2007

Movie : Harry Potter 5 in IMAX 3D

I had the fortune to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on an IMAX screen, and the last 20 minutes or so were in 3D. The movie was pretty good, considering they had to cut about 85% of the book out to make it fit. It's a shame that Sirius, Lupin, Ron, Hermione, Snape, Malfoy, etc. didn't have much screen time at all.

Here's my impression of Harry Potter in this movie:

"Grrrr. Grunt." *Kicks Something* "Grrrr."

But I don't think I gave too much away.

Recommend? Yes! Especially in IMAX 3D. It made me smile and bounce my legs.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Movie : Alien

Gosh, I hadn't seen this movie until last night. Half a century old and still pretty good! There were tense moments. And moments I thought afterwards "I have seen this parodied 100 times over the course of my life and this is where it came from." It was like watching the President Lincoln assassination!

Recommend? Yes, very much! But it was nothing like watching the President Lincoln assassination.

Monday, July 9, 2007

Movie : Transformers

The pros: cool robots, I liked the kid, Jazz danced like in the cartoons.

The cons: lame political humor, shakey-cam, and what was up with the hacker people in the middle of the film that just disappear from the movie in the end?

And... um, it's silly, but I want a beat-up yellow classic Camaro now.

Recommend? Yeah, it's fun.

Friday, July 6, 2007

Movie : Flightplan

Whoa, a surprisingly good movie! Jodie Foster's daughter disappears on a big airplane, but maybe she's imaginary! A little bit of corniness, maybe a tad overacting at parts, but I imagined this movie would be a bore, and it wasn't.

Recommend? Yeah, surprisingly I do! Don't let excruciating mommy facial expressions through you off though.

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Movie : Lord of War

A movie about an illegal arms dealer. A GOOD illegal arms dealer. Good as in he's good at it.

Recommend? Well, I'm sure everyone can guess how a movie about an illegal arms dealer will end, but this one kinda tricked me. It's a pretty good movie.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Movie: Transformers

I went to see the Transformers movie. I went expecting it to be terrible, and so I was actually not too let down when it turned out to be kind of funny and to have robot fights. There were too many silly human plotlines that had no point. The US Army was prominently and beautifully featured even though it did absolutely nothing in the context of the movie. It is very clear to me that I should join the Army and buy a Chevrolet.

Recommend: The robots looked excellent, and so were the transformings. There were almost no Transformer conversations; maybe a total of 45 seconds of Transformers talking to Transformers. This means that there were no arguments between Starscream and Megatron; the Decepticons were pretty scary, but when they all said "Hail Megatron" in unison, it was in some foreign Transformers language, which is too bad.