Disappointments

I haven't read the book. Well, I think it is important to mention. No, I have TRIED to read it, but I was just not interested in it. I don't really read a lot (I am talking about fiction, I have a big variety of history books). I have seen a tv-series when I was a child, but I remember it very bad. But I can tell, that it wasn't my thing. So, back to the movie itself. I can't say that I like David Lynch. It just happens, that I end up watching his movies. And it just happens that I like them. And they are not forgettable, but I have always been like "huh... This movie is good. *pause* Well, whatever..." The only his movie that I really felt for was the Rabbits. But it is a strange feelings, which I am not entirely sure about. But THIS movie... I really wanted to like it! There are a lot of great actors, and I hoped to see great visuals and symbolism, which I could think about later. And I couldn't get it. Nothing. Nothing to see and nothing to think about. The film was looking like a low budget flick. The movie is small! What do you imagine when you hear a word "dune"? Something really big, isn't it? David Lynch had to show the size. The viewer had to be crushed by the gigantic size of the dune. I don't know why and I don't really care. Sometimes I try to think why the result was bad, but in this case I don't want too. Maybe David Lynch just wasn't really interested in the movie, but being not interested isn't an excuse. Next - the symbolism and the plot itself. Symbolism was weak and the plot was rushed, with particular scenes being too long. But the worst thing - I just don't care. After watching this movie, I don't want to read the book, or watch the tv-series. And this is, I think, is the worst thing a movie like this can do - not make the viewer care. There are a lot of opinions about this movie and what I want to say in the end - I think that a big-budget remake with a director, who really want to make this movie, will be great. I have just watched this movie and maybe I will change my opinion about it in a time.

Oh boy, here we go. Alien is one of my favorite movies of all time. But I have a strange relationship with it - I love it only for visuals, for decorations and etc. Alien movies are one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. Plot? Like I care. I am literally more interested in walls from these movies, than the plot. The most memorable movies are Alien and Resurrection (only because of the final scene, when the human-alien was dying - it was horrifying and, because I was watching this movie as a kid, I was crying as loud as I could.) And I was hoping for great visuals. Besides it is Ridley Scott! I don't care a lot about Blade Runner, but it was visually great, and Gladiator is just awesome. Yes, he had problems with his movies, but nobody is ideal. And when I was entering the theater, I was hoping to see not a great, but at least a good movie. At first the movie was nice, David was awesome, but then... Let me sum up the movie - Prometheus feels like a bad remake of a horror-movie form the 80-s. This is it. The characters are not just stupid, their actions have no logic at all. Those are not scientist, those are teenagers, but very dumb. Just imagine (a little spoiler) - a geologist, who is supposed to be a professional, makes a map of tunnels, has this map on his computer and can communicate with the captain, who also has this map. And then he get lost in these tunnels. I know, that the plot needed someone to be lost there to be killed. But this is just too stupid. Oh, and he also gets high, just before being killed. I blame Damon Lindelof for this, but Ridley could at least pay attention to what he was filming. The plot could work, if the characters weren't idiots. And oh - don't you dare to say that I am too stupid to understand the symbolism of this movie. Just don't. There is an interesting idea in this movie, but its realization is too weak - the theme of this movie gets a better treatment in some sci-fi books. But I have written in the begging, that I don't care about the plot, I wanted to see great visuals! Yes, the movie was pretty. But it wasn't unique. It was as pretty as any other sci-fi flick these days. Other Alien movies were unique, more work was put in them. Oh, and when you rip-off the plot of Aliens vs. Predators, it is just tasteless.

This is a movie I just hate. I am serious. Every time I see someone saying that this movie is great, I just want to punch someone. This movie is the greatest disappointment I have ever had. Yes, it is suspenseful, Ryan is good, but when I saw the ending I have understood, that the message is so simple and it was delivered in such a primitive way. It is just sad, when a movie so blank gets so positive reviews... Let me explain mu thought - imagine a candy. The candy is... a candy. You can by it everywhere for a few cents. It isn't very good, but you can eat it. Well, nothing special. But the wrapping of this candy is very unique and beautiful. However, people transfer this beauty and uniqueness to the candy, which doesn't deserve such treatment. This is what I think of this movie. I don't want to say, that it is bad, it is just not what a lot of people say it is.

I wasn't expecting too much from this movie, to say the truth. Yeah, I like The Moon, so I thought, that this movie will be good too. The actual expectations came to me, when I was watching this movie. It was so good! It was interesting and dynamic, but it failed to deliver a proper ending, giving us something stupid, illogical and blank.

I am not going to write about this one a lot - I like this movie. Why is it on this list? Because the way the killer's identity was discovered is just lazy. They needed their plot to move on and they were just too lazy to think of something better. This is a big mistake in an otherwise incredible movie.

It is very easy to scare me. Understand? I am a very nervous person and it is very easy to scare me. I don't like this in myself, so I try to deal with this problem by watching horror movies. It helps. And I also understand, that horror movies, good horror movies, make you scared after you have watched them, because of the thoughts they have planted in your head. But there are also horror movies, that work on "screamers". They are good too - at least they do their work. But this movie - it isn't scary. It is not! Maybe I just know all the plot devices, which are used in horror movies. But no - I have recently watched Woman in Black - it is primitive, but it works. And this movie doesn't have a single scary scene. Why does everyone say that this movie is scary? I am the one who couldn't sleep normally for two years after watching The Ring (original one) and I am just confused. I don't just understand.

I like Hitchcock. His movies are good and it is always a pleasure to watch them. Well, almost always. Because not a single director can be ideal. And Hitchcock made so much movies - it is understandable, that some of them may be not as good as the others. He was just a human being. And this movie is an example those worse movies. Vertigo is just... boring. I don't even remember, what was going on there. It isn't suspenseful, interesting or memorable. I don't really know, why people like it. A lot of people say that this movie is one the best, or even the best of Hitchcock. I don't understand why.

Em... Let me explain. So, when I was a kid, I went to watch Spy Kids 3D and it was amazing. And the most amazing part was 3D itself - I felt like I actually could grab something from the screen (there was a scene in the beginning with a lot of bubbles). And then there weren't movies in 3D, at least those, which I could watch in the movie theater near my home. And then I have seen an advertisement of this cartoon. Oh, 3D! Finally! I have bought a ticket and when the movie started, I have understood, that it isn't the 3D I wanted to see. It was a 3D which we see nowadays in every movie. The cartoon was stupid, but I wasn't hoping to see something good, I just hoped feel a bit of nostalgia.