4815162342 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 We made it to Year 10, finally. More details on Review Events coming later this week. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 2, 2015 Author Share Posted August 2, 2015 I'm going to do these in the order I read them, so it won't be set up by month. Timmy's Winter Vacation It's dumb, but it still hits the mark of being wholesome family entertainment. Suitable for families with younger kids, everyone else will kinda just roll their eyes. C Ophidophobia Needed a lot more tongue-in-cheek comedy, it doesn't quite embrace the weird enough. And the Indiana Jones parody schtick just falls flat. Had potential to be a loopy cult classic but the schlock is just too schlocky without being that funny. D+ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 (edited) I actually tried to remake Ophidiophobia after writing it in January, but I only got about halfway through before I gave up and stored it on a cloud I lost access to. That version embraced the silliness a lot more and went to pretty absurd places, but I thought it would have been too much for most people here, so I went with what I had. Plus the budget would have been a lot bigger given some of the sequences I wrote. I think of re-using some ideas in another film though, this time without the horror angle and a much larger budget to play with. Edited August 2, 2015 by C00k13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 2, 2015 Author Share Posted August 2, 2015 It felt like an odd compromise, which meant it kinda failed at both 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 2, 2015 Author Share Posted August 2, 2015 Moses It's a rote and simplistic version of the tale that also veers into lesser-known or accepted pieces of the Exodus tale as well. The casting is somewhat good (Ben Kingsley as old Moses) and somewhat poor (Joseph Gordon Levitt as middle-aged Moses). Plus you have Moses suddenly aging 40 years before crossing the Red Sea, when the 40 years of wandering happened AFTER the Ten Commandments were passed down. I think the film tried to be incredibly faithful and earnest, but it's done so in a rather bland way. C-/C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 The Good, the Bad, and the Mechanical "Good, Bad, I'm the guy with the Mecha Suit" The Good, the Bad, and the Mechanical is the follow-up to the delightfully weird GB&Dead. This film, aside from a few running gags, plays things a lot more straight than its predecessor, which while making for a more consistent and clean plot and progression, does lessen some of the enjoyment factor. The film had a cool idea of Cowboy Robots but kinda just slides into standard vanilla tropes and plot ideas with the concept. But really the film lacks the same wickedly funny edge of the first one. It's still fun and has its strong oddball moments, but you could say that the franchise decided to go more conventional to expand its grasp. It'll probably pay off. Bruce Campbell remains solid as the frontman and Harry Dean Stanton continues to amuse in his cameo drop-bys. B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Part 2 Me: Objection! Film: OVERRULED! Me: Well Played B+ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 (edited) Two Lonely Zookeepers The film kinda just whimpers out with a spiral into the characters losing and then nothing coming out the other end other than slacking around drinking milk (the film loves to show Elgort drinking milk). Tom Cruise gives his role a good effort, but nothing really goes anywhere for anyone other than his one scene where his daughter verbally fatalities him. In most films that'd be a big first act or mid-film spark to get the drama going, but here it kinda just happens near the end and then we then see him in the final scene with Elgort. The film just lacks focus and drive. C The Disappointment see the title D+ Edited August 6, 2015 by 4815162342 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 The Executioner Yeah, it's your standard Statham movie. Action is well-handled but everything else is paper thin. C+ 1989 It's a competently made concert doc. If you like Taylor Swift, you will like this. Otherwise, it's just there. B- Daisy Lemonade Cute little family film. Nothing too interesting or strong, but it has a sweet heart and a nice set of themes and family fun. B-/B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 MST3K: Expedecade My Expedecade Review: The Movie Russian Roulette Sharkovsky needed to have a moat with sharks in it. Missed opportunity. C+/B- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 8, 2015 Author Share Posted August 8, 2015 On a Mountain Starts off with a cool action ambush setpiece and from there just becomes almost interminable with less plot and character than See Spot Run C- The Cube Not bad, but hard to keep up interest for 90ish minutes. C+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 9, 2015 Author Share Posted August 9, 2015 That Was a Long Time Ago Not particularly remarkable. Goes through the motions with some standard romance film tropes. Not bad, but not for anyone beyond those it is directly aimed at. C+ The Call of the Revenant Hokey action horror with blood, guts, and fun. Makes me wish I hadn't forgotten about my plans to make Wolfenstein sequels. B- Black Friday Could have been something amusing and chilling if it wasn't just a slavish copy of an Internet story from an overhyped website. C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorschach Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Black Friday Could have been something amusing and chilling if it wasn't just a slavish copy of an Internet story from an overhyped website. C Yeah, I had virtually no time to make an actual story (since I was on vacation) so I ended up C&P the story to at least have a release in the trimester. It's a shame. It would've been great to have made a story on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 9, 2015 Author Share Posted August 9, 2015 Rhino Riders Uh...once you get past the "wait...what?" of a concept, it's a fairly standard sports movie. Kind of generally ok. C Second to Singapore Basically a different version of Pineapple Express with the same cast and crew involved. Funny and a solid time, it does fall prey to some substantial holes, such as Seth Franco being able to fly a helicopter out of nowhere. B-/B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 E.S.P. Three Supergirls and a Dancy E.S.P. is noteworthy as the only major spring animated offering. It's also noteworthy for being pretty darn good. The film does a great job of establishing the characters of Jack and the girls and the slow bond that forms between them. The final act is kinda rushed and relies on a lot of gotcha moments and characters appearing in the nick of time to convey a stream of fast-paced thrills, but the climax with Jack struggling through the twister vortex to reach Elle and calm her down is aces. B+/A- Jurassic Knights " thanks to <insert chekov's advice here>" Come on Ruk, you can do a little better than that. Fun and eventually disposable and unremarkable film outside of Dino Cavalry. C+/B- Heads or Tails It's a Statham movie with an extra bit of wry humor, thanks to the inclusion of Rockwell. Fine, nothing remarkable, nothing bad. C+ Kensington Greengrass is a docudrama master, and with a cast of unknowns and a threadbare plot, he still gets a fine outing out of the proceedings. Imagine if more work had been put into making us care beyond procedural thrill. B- 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 Ciaphas Cain Urban's gotta Urban. Eva's gotta Eva. The character names can be quite amusing. And the well-choreographed action and vivid costume/set/creature display needed to take a breath here and there to actually explain the world to the audience. B Note: In the future Ruk, it would be very helpful if you included running times with your films. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted September 30, 2015 Author Share Posted September 30, 2015 The Dresden Files: Fool Moon A little too twisty and bendy in the middle, the film still plows gleefully along with RDJ's hardboiled manic paranormal detective delivering great gusto to Shane Black's clever style. B+ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted October 1, 2015 Author Share Posted October 1, 2015 Peter and the Starcatchers Mark Ruffalo as Smee is definitely one of the stranger stunt castings for a small role in this game. It's a fairly competent film that doesn't fly up in ambition or style, but gets the stuff needed across for the families. B- The Departure Well....this film kinda builds and builds and then kinda just deflates for some sudden shock value and them abruptly ends in an attempt for cool ambiguity and cliffhanger. Doesn't quite work. C+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Guess The Departure can be filed under unique ideas that didn't pay off. I really feel like the film needed 20 more minutes with the ending it had. It's not like Extrasensory where the swerved ending is vital to the film's thematic structure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted October 4, 2015 Author Share Posted October 4, 2015 (edited) All Kinds of Bull I can imagine people saying the film is "all kinds of bull." It's a slow-moving drama that's essentially a one-man show. Brad Pitt sure tries his hardest to act as big as possible, and the movie just doesn't click. There's some foundation for a good movie here. C- Loony Ben Amusing at times. Not bad. C+ Edited October 4, 2015 by 4815162342 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
