The Amazing Spiderman - 8/10
Really good. I just wish they'd gone with a darker tone. This movie was borderline PG.
Some cheesy CGI here and there but for the most part pretty damn good. I liked the first person shots.
What's with the lizards in NY? Everyone in the audience was questioning that one. Did Dr. Connors give birth to them or are we supposed to believe that lizards are native to NY?
Completely agree.The Not Really So Amazing Spiderman
The actors are better this time around, that's for sure, and by that I mean the acting as well. Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy is leaps and bounds better than Kirsten Dunst's vapid attempt at Mary Jane (and this time you understand why Peter Parker likes her, instead of hating him for devoting himself, as nerds often do, to the empty personality-non entity popular girl). The tone is just better all around, no denying it. The cast works.
What doesn't work is...everything else. The cast is wasted on a poorly told retelling. It's a reboot...and a reboot that doesn't really try to do anything new or tell a story on film that the Raimi Spiderman movies didn't. Besides a few scenes and instances that are obviously different, the formula is all there. You spend like an hour of screentime with geeky Peter Parker before he is Spiderman and then he becomes Spiderman and yadda yadda yadda, you've seen it already. The first Raimi movie comes to mind often here, as all the plotpoints are carried out, again.
Brave
Don't even look at the game for it. The art department for that dev should be shot, repeatedlyBrave
You... hoped it would be a 12/10?[GU]elmur_fud;2566908 said:John Carter 6/10 - No where near as bad as I had feared, but only about half as good as I hoped.
You... hoped it would be a 12/10?
You... hoped it would be a 12/10?
The Dark Knight Rises
It's good, that's all that matters. It won't have you gripped to the screen like the 2nd movie and the fun factor you experienced from the Avengers earlier in the year isn't there, but it ends the trilogy well. Based on how many comic books you've read (Knightfall, The Dark Knight Returns, and No Man's Land are direct influences) you might find yourself sitting there, as I did, with complete understanding of where it's going...and when it arrives there it's a nice feeling. It's just more truth that Batman stories are better than other comic book characters, and as a man Bruce Wayne falls from a higher place than most, only to have to rise that much higher.
Chris is near the very top as far as directors go in my book.
Who's Number 1?