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Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
A Great Finish to TNG
While I was prepared for a flop of a film, I received a good completion to TNG that I think the series deserved. The film concluded nearly all sub-plots in Generation, and left this fan feeling good about it.
The writing for this film was not as good as many other episodes or the other movies. The main plot, though deservingly focusing on the Romulans, introduced the Remulans, the inhabitants of their sister world. Many events within the story seemed poorly conceived. Why did the Romulans not just kill Shinzon? Why is Shinzon bent on destroying Earth? While this could have been foreseeable,so that his empire will not have to deal with the Federation of Planets, within the movie its revealment as his plan seems inconsistent.
Complete with an intense final duel against a ship that outmatches two Warbirds and Enterprise-E, the movie is filled with action. Riker has a duel in an Enterprise jeffries tubes junction with a Remulan, which are hideous and frightening nocturnal predators. The saddest part being the death of Data, who selflessly sacrifices himself for the survival of the Enterprise, and in result, Earth and the Federation. Who other than Data would have been given such an opportunity? After all the years of believing to not understand humanity, he commits an action of such respectable valor to surely be role model among people of the Federation, humans especially.
Im not sure why this film supposedly received such poor reviews. It finished a great series off well.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
A Great Contribution to Next Generation's Set.
While I give this a review of seven, in plain words that means 'good'.
As a contribution to theatre, the crew of Next Generation is continuingly pleasing. As a contribution to Film and Sci-Fi in total, alright. Some parts were annoying. Such as when Data quickly generated a fractal encryption that the Borg cannot break to protect the computer, and which becomes a rather pivotal concept to the latter events that add plot twist to the film. I find it rather difficult to believe that the collective power of the friggin Borg cannot compute the solution to a problem a single android generates in under five seconds, regardless if it's Data. Why fractals? Do the Borg not understand how fractals act so that their hopeless? Not likely I say, and so poorly written.
That in addition to when enterprise goes back in time. Ill admit, the play does have some unexpectedness which was well done. There was something missing though, that I cannot quite put a finger on. Maybe someone else will do better.
The movie was a satisfying watch or someone who really just finished watching all 7 seasons of Next Generation, again. I feel just fine with the casting, and it was cool seeing Enterprise-E. The film does not add such great moments to film that I would consider it one of my favourites, and while Star Trek sure is Sci-Fi, I find it difficult for me to add it to what one call 'classic'. Although in truth, I've never liked much else either...
Lucy (2014)
Stoned thirteen year olds wrote this
This movie is a complete joke and's only value comes from special effects.
The story line is terrible. The conclusion is cheesy and is somewhat awkward. The writers stretch to create some confounding observation that would alter the viewers perception, but had no shock value whatsoever.
One is like, just number man... wooaahhhh
the fact that people put money in to making this film demonstrates how much film has become a capitalist endeavour like most other thins in our society...so so sad.
Gravity (2013)
A modern cinema thriller
Whilst the movie is visually appealing, and a moderate thriller, it does little else.
Included are an inherent contempt for the Russians. It was their folly that provides the basis for the movie. Certainly the Americans would have never been so negligent.
There are inherent Christian motifs in the film. Including the term God, praying, soul, an belief in heaven, and holy intervention, or the holy spirit. Clearly some Catholic funding in Hollywood...ever.
This movie is clearly a modern blockbuster meant more to induce culture than to stimulate thought, contribute to theatrics and directing. It provides a people who are technically adept, yet afraid to die. Aren't we all? Perhaps, with movies like this one.
The movie rightfully ended at 90 min. It had little justification to continue on. While I have been known to adore thrillers, dramas, and Sci-Fi's this is not one of them.
I would recommend it for a boring afternoon, not much else.
Contact (1997)
good sci fi
I tend to be rather skeptical when it comes to scifi. so much of it is pretentious, corny, preposterous. There are few though, in my experience that effectively convey the message of wonder. Few sci fi make the cut, by giving the user a feeling of awe in the universe, which is very important in our world, for it can be easily lost.
Contact is worth watching, just for the wormhole seen. I nearly lost it when she gets out of her chair.
there is enough drama to make it an all around good movie, but enough curiosity to make it a worth while scifi. the alien world is well put together.
The movie is better than I expected. The conclusion is worthwhile, and the path getting there was interesting.
Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
A diamond in the rough
Considering I originally thought this was a Tarantino film, I was pleasantly surprised. It is not a Tarantino film, and is in fact, a good drama/ thriller, a genre in which I have recently gained interest in.
Lisbeth Salander is a great character. the movie portrays her involvement in Mikhail (I don't know his last name) investigation on the disappearance of a teenage girl.
Through a few twists, rude and satisfying scenes, the movie captures the watchers attention. Within the drama there are insights into contemporary social and political issues, as well as historical ones.
Mindwalk (1990)
cool movie, good acting
This movie was pretty good. If you have any sort of scientific education, it probably wont be as mind blowing as some make it out to be. The international 'problem of perspective' was interesting. I guess I'm not the only one who thinks our problems stem from humans acting as though we are separate rulers o the world, and not merely a small fragment of it, wholly intertwined.
The acting was surprisingly good. each character was believable, although not entirely original.
I would suggest this movie to anyone. Everyone could probably benefit from watching it in some way.
Django Unchained (2012)
Tarantino is licking Leono's bowl clean, and claiming the recipe as his own.
I'd like to start off with pleading to anyone who has the intent on watching this film, or any Tarantino film to hold that thought and first think about watching Sergio Leone's 'Money Trilogy'. Seriously, think about it, "I am going to watch Leone's 'Money Trilogy'". Rather, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, The Ugly; since it isn't actually a trilogy.
Now, this may seem like a horrifically low budget advertisement for a set of films that were created well before my birth. Take note though, that this 'trilogy' was also created well before Tarantino started making films, and I argue that everything Tarantino seems to be acclaimed for is none other than a petty rip off of Leone's glorious masterpiece. (Of which were one was a remake of an even older Japanese film
) Certainly without a doubt, Django Unchained is a reproduction of the 'spaghetti western' style. In fact it is so much of Leone's style, that it goes as far as to replicate almost everything those films had, except Tarantino sucks, so he turns this bad-ass style into an overdone piece of Hollywood crap that, if it were a motorcycle, would no doubt begin falling apart when travelling at high-speed.
The central plot targets a bounty hunter, until half way through when it in fact targets slave's efforts at reuniting with his wife. I thought that was in poor taste, as 1) the ending was crap, 2) westerns are better off focusing on things like gold, money, or bandit's corpses, not love and riding off towards the sunset. The film also incorporates music that is so much like Ennio Morricone's compositions, except that they weren't. The tunes would have three or four notes excerpts of a piece from Money Trilogy, and swerve into another direction of much lesser quality. "Well of course, that's just what Tarantino wanted!" Yet that's just the problem, it has been done before, the music, the characters, the plot (except the love story) the action, it's all been done. Tarantino just rips off Leone. Even the way he shoots, close ups, pan outs; really though I am not familiar with the terminology, I feel confident saying that Tarantino is no good.
Aside from Tarantino's distasteful wielding of the spaghetti western, the acting in Django Unchained is, for the most part, quite good. Christopher Waltz is particularly good, his calm demeanour and professionalism is appreciated. Jamie Foxx is mediocre, certainly nothing widely credible. I found the scene where Foxx's character attempts to read rather ridiculous, as I find it hard to believe that any American Slave would have even been able to understand the phonetics of English, let alone read a letter, or whatever it was; albeit rather poorly. DiCaprio was also notably good. Samuel L. Jackson was clever and funny, although generally the same character he was in every other movie
perhaps just more suitable in this position.
Thus before you watch another Tarantino movie and go on rambling about how bad-ass he is, watch Leone's stuff. A Fistful of Dollar, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and A Fistful of Dynamite a.k.a. Duck You Sucker! They are the real classics that can't nor shouldn't be replicated in such poor taste. Tarantino continues to direct in a manner which I find corny in the sense that it is overdone and poorly imagined. Django Unchained is his statement of that.