Here is the perfect example of a film that is gorgeous to look at but completely empty. Far less experienced filmmakers have created simple, inexpensive films that develop the characters and allow the viewers to create a bond with them, thanks to a good script which is the cornerstone of a great movie. How I wish Brad Bird had put more of the money spent on this film toward a better script to help us care about his characters and their flashy CGI surroundings.
Every bit of the budget is on the screen in this film, and it's virtually hollow emotionally. I had not one second of concern that anyone would be in any danger, and no character made me want to root for them. I can't even express how little this movie affected me. It was 130 minutes of boredom. I was yawning 20 minutes in and never really stopped, and I never fall asleep in a theatre.
The viewer never has a clear picture of what the film is trying to say, and I don't think the filmmakers did either. They must have lost control of this film early in the process or never really had a clear story plot line, unless the studio interfered post-production. The first 2/3rds of the movie all we see is the main female character running around the country until she finds George Clooney. I am a Clooney fan, and when he comes into the picture there is a little more action, but really, there is too much larking about and not enough story development. The problems are not due to the acting. That is fairly decent, but actors can't compensate for a bad script.
The Romper Room-inspired idea of sending robots out to coyly invite the "new idea" people to Tomorrowland is laughingly simplistic and done with all the solemnity of a graduation ceremony. During this scene (while I tried not to hoot in derision at the screen) I was reminded of some of the 1950s sci-fi films where the self-appointed best and brightest blasted off from a doomed planet to start life elsewhere, and leave the vulgar rabble back on Earth to die. The bone-headed writers were implying that only a select few could have an idea that might save mankind, when in reality some of the most truly innovative ideas can come from that "vulgar rabble."
Another reviewer mentions the huge wind turbines that are shown through a portal near the end; the way the film presents this suggests fans are the answer to everything. The reviewer discusses the thousands of birds that get chewed up in them each year; my thoughts exactly as I watched. It's far too trite of a scene to be in a film predicated to be futuristic and worried about life on Earth. A film about Tomorrowland should be thinking beyond wind turbines. It should be cutting edge. The film just parrots the green technology of today without coming up with any new ideas.
It's inexcusable the way the potential this film had was squandered. Thank I can't even summon up enough interest in the film to do a decent review, and it doesn't deserve it. Don't waste your money on it...I wish I could get mine back.
Every bit of the budget is on the screen in this film, and it's virtually hollow emotionally. I had not one second of concern that anyone would be in any danger, and no character made me want to root for them. I can't even express how little this movie affected me. It was 130 minutes of boredom. I was yawning 20 minutes in and never really stopped, and I never fall asleep in a theatre.
The viewer never has a clear picture of what the film is trying to say, and I don't think the filmmakers did either. They must have lost control of this film early in the process or never really had a clear story plot line, unless the studio interfered post-production. The first 2/3rds of the movie all we see is the main female character running around the country until she finds George Clooney. I am a Clooney fan, and when he comes into the picture there is a little more action, but really, there is too much larking about and not enough story development. The problems are not due to the acting. That is fairly decent, but actors can't compensate for a bad script.
The Romper Room-inspired idea of sending robots out to coyly invite the "new idea" people to Tomorrowland is laughingly simplistic and done with all the solemnity of a graduation ceremony. During this scene (while I tried not to hoot in derision at the screen) I was reminded of some of the 1950s sci-fi films where the self-appointed best and brightest blasted off from a doomed planet to start life elsewhere, and leave the vulgar rabble back on Earth to die. The bone-headed writers were implying that only a select few could have an idea that might save mankind, when in reality some of the most truly innovative ideas can come from that "vulgar rabble."
Another reviewer mentions the huge wind turbines that are shown through a portal near the end; the way the film presents this suggests fans are the answer to everything. The reviewer discusses the thousands of birds that get chewed up in them each year; my thoughts exactly as I watched. It's far too trite of a scene to be in a film predicated to be futuristic and worried about life on Earth. A film about Tomorrowland should be thinking beyond wind turbines. It should be cutting edge. The film just parrots the green technology of today without coming up with any new ideas.
It's inexcusable the way the potential this film had was squandered. Thank I can't even summon up enough interest in the film to do a decent review, and it doesn't deserve it. Don't waste your money on it...I wish I could get mine back.