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Gravity (2013)
Don't believe the hype...
OK,so this movie receives 10 Oscar nominations, everyone rants about how good it is and that it leaves you awestruck after watching it. As a sci- fi enthusiast you go and see it...and...surprise...it's the Avatar effect. Through the roof CGI, which cost enough money to feed half of Africa, but that's about it. Cheap character development, absolutely no story, no back story, multiple situations which I am sure Nasa would say are all 1:100000000 to survive and Hollywood sequences in which the "hero" always gets saved in the last hundredth of a second. It gets really boring really fast.
Let's get the obvious out of the way: the CGI is amazing (although not better than Avatar). Everything is perfect and visually you really enjoy it. And for those of you who think that CGI makes a movie: yes, Avatar and Gravity are the best movies of all time...(for those of you who agree, you can stop reading this and just go watch the movie).
The moment this movie begins it's just, I can't explain it any other word, SILLY. Three astronauts are making repairs on a satellite, while one of them floats around, jokes and sings with "Houston", while happily using his "gas" inside the suit to propel himself onwards (of course later he runs out of gas in a crucial situation - I guess NASA astronauts aren't really that smart...). The other astronaut is making repairs while being sick (?!) - usually you don't go out of the house when sick, but hey apparently "Houston" approves of going into OUTER SPACE (again - ?!).
So things start to go wrong: and after that the whole movie becomes a series of Hollywood "they're not gonna make it but then they miraculously make it in the last second" situations. After the 3rd situation you start to get seriously bored. You wait for it to get good, but honestly it doesn't.
There is no character development and you don't feel for the characters. You don't care if they die, because everything is so unreal and silly, that you just don't believe it. I will say the worst thing you can say about a movie: you know the whole time that it is a movie. When you watch Alien (1979), you know the alien is not real and that the chances of it existing are next to none, but you do feel scared, you feel anxiety...and that is what good film making is about. You don't experience such a feeling in Gravity (maybe a couple of minutes).
Someone on the board said it right: this isn't actually a movie. No plot, no character development, everything just happens. It's more of a documentary.
OK, I know that the whole movie is a metaphor and is representing the hero's struggle of coming to terms with a certain accident in her life, but there a couple of other such movies, which are sooo much better. This one just isn't believable.
When I heard that it received 10 Oscar nominations, I seriously lost all the little respect I had left for the Oscars. I guess a realistic depiction of water drops in zero gravity is enough to be nominated for 10 Oscars in our time. Again, don't believe the hype.
Jobs (2013)
Not what the audience wanted, but still an amazing movie
Apple is currently the highest net worth company in the world and to own any of the Apple gadgets has become a status symbol. Steve Jobs is an idol, a revolutionary and an inspiration to the millions of people who want to change the world. After his death, his legendary status grew even more (as it always does with passed away celebrities), so it is perfectly reasonable that there were high expectations for this movie. People were expecting a grand masterpiece of epic proportions about a man who many want to relate to and who many want to be.
Unfortunately, the movie took a slightly different turn and the result of this can be seen on the IMDb movie score. This movie is not an epic journey of a strange protégé who eventually achieved everything there was to achieve and was carried on the arms of a cheering crowd at the end, followed by the end credits. NO! This is a movie about Jobs - about his personality, about his decisions, about his victories and about his failures. It is a cruel representation of what you have to go through in this world to achieve the status that he now has.
It's a movie about a troubled hipster who wanted to learn and to achieve something, but hated the system into which the young are thrown into. He dropped out of College but still attended some classes, he got into fights at work because he would yell at his coworkers that they were not doing their job, he took other peoples ideas, remade them into a story and sold them with his speeches and he wanted all. He was stubborn, he always wanted the impossible and here comes the part that made him a legend: he always got the impossible out of people.
Eventually he was driven from his company, he made bad calls, bad decisions, bad products, but later came back and dominated the computer scene again. He probably had more bad moments than good, but it's the good ones that count...and it's the good ones that changed the world.
The people didn't get what they wanted...they didn't get a people's hero nor the man that was always right. And no one wants to see a movie about a man who nobody liked half of the movie...but it is how he was and you have to accept that.
Ashton Kutcher's portrayal was also quite good and it seems that all the comedy movies and series that he has done have earned him a title of a bad actor, so you will hear a lot people saying this was a miss cast. Don't believe this people: go see the movie and make up your own mind.
So don't be discouraged by the low IMDb ranking and see this movie with expectations of a great movie about a man who was an inventor, a visionary, a man who changed the world, but was still only that: a man, nothing more, nothing less.
P.s. Don't expect to see any modern products in this movie. At the beginning, you will only briefly get to see the first generation Ipod, while other products are all the ones from the era before 1996. The movie actually ends in 1996, so many are disappointed that the movie did not show the era of Ipod's, Ipad's, Iphone's and Macbook's.
Monsters (2010)
Overall an amazing movie that has you on the edge of your seat if you have the imagination
First of all, let me assure you that this movie is not as bad as the forum ranters would lead you to believe, it's not even mediocre as the IMDb ratings would suggest. It's actually a suspenseful movie that has pretty much everything: action, monsters (yes you do see them...a lot), an apocalyptic plot, character depth, moral and ethical insinuations, stunning visuals, good camera work and an excellent pacing.
I seriously don't understand people anymore. With all the forum rantings I was expecting a boring movie with absolutely no action, just two people on the road talking to each other the whole movie....but it's just the opposite: you never get bored.
Aside from the all the above facts it makes you think at the end...maybe one day our reign over the world will end. But lets leave the thinking to you. Don't expect in your face action with fake Hollywood characters and impossible action stunts. Expect a great paced "what if this happened to you" movie with just enough action to keep you going but with other goodies thrown in to entertain you. At the end take 30 minutes to think about the movie and it's (many) meanings. Enjoy this one.
Salinui chueok (2003)
Weird at first glance, but stunning after watching
As is common with many Asian movies, we Europeans (Americans even more) find them a bit weird. All the crazy fighting scenes and unusual characters met with a rather odd sense of humour. This movie is no different. But that doesn't change the fact that it is an amazing piece of cinematography.
The plot is based on a true story, a series of murders that happened between 1986 and 1991 in South Korea and the three detectives investigating the case.
The movie is powerful from the very first scene and you soon realise this will be one of those "beautiful" movies that stay with you for awhile. The music is spectacular,the scenery is warm, the characters grow on you, but on the same note, the movie stays on firm ground, giving you a sense of seriousness and realism. The 2 different poles, so rarely combined in movies in a right way, are done superbly in Memories of murder, thus making this film seriously good.
Worth watching, but with an open mind. This is not a Hollywood movie.
Source Code (2011)
A simple thriller with no mental stimulation
I am not reviewing this, because I hated the movie so much, I am reviewing it for the sake of people like me, who were fooled into thinking that this one was somewhere on the level of Inception or any such similar movies, thus looking forward to a food and movie night and just ended up in bitter disappointment.
If you are expecting a simple "time travel" action thriller, you are partly gonna get your money's worth, but don't expect this one to be great and mind boggling. It's not a movie you ponder for days, it's a movie you forget in hours.
It is my fault, since my last 2 viewings were Primer and The machinist (which is a stunning movie if interpreted right), so I had very high expectations....I did think that a 7.5 rating warranted it, but sadly not.
The plot is predictable, the "time travel" theories have no real depth, the ending is classic Hollywood, while the real shockers of this movie are the 2 actors. Not going to say which...you figure it out. I mean really shocking. In The machinist I was watching the amazing Christian Bale and in this one I was practically gritting my teeth together because of the acting...
I heard someone comparing this to Inception. Please don't be fooled. Although Inception may be boring for some at some points, this one does not even get close. I mean come on...Inception had Leonardo in it...it's in another league, trust me.
I usually agree with IMDb ratings, but this one really missed it. Don't get me wrong, it's an average action movie and lots of people, wanting just plain old fun, may end up liking it, but overall it's a movie you quickly forget.