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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
Acceptable
Granted, I've so far only seen the first 4 seasons, but I found them to be quite surprising.. I expected boring lameness with a cute vampire added for fun once in a while, but I got some rather compelling story lines.
Sure, it's not in the same league as Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica or Stargate, but it's not too far behind. There's some truly awesome episodes - Hush, Restless, The Zeppo etc. I found a lot of truly original (and good) ideas so far.
I think the show brings a lot more than superficial teen-monster-flick. Heck, had I been the high-school age when I saw the first 3 seasons, I could've used the show to deal with a lot of issues I, and my friends, had back then.
It's odd tho, seems the generation of Americans who grew up with it either love it or hate it. I find that strange. I mean, Buffy herself at least tries to tell us that there's no black and white, it's all shades of gray (well, when it comes to Buffy's friends at least). I don't love the show but I don't hate it either. I find it interesting, charming and fun.
It is, however, still nowhere near the newer sci-fi and horror shows, like the before mentioned Supernatural, BSG, SGA/SG1, 4400 or even Heroes. I do think, though, that a teenager would gain more from watching Buffy than any of the other shows I mentioned.
Tempelriddernes skat (2006)
The Da Vinci Code for kids.
My nephew got this flick on DVD for Christmas, so we ended up watching it a few days later. I was positively surprised.
The story is great, drawing a lot on the popularity of the (in)famous Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Apparently the Knights Templar were in Denmark, on the holiday island of Bornholm - and apparently they hid something there. The unique churches on Bornholm do for this movie what Rosslin etc did for the Da Vinci Code. Most of the premises for the story are based on scientific research and that wonderful "what if?" question.
It is without a doubt a kids movie, with four kids as main characters. But the story can easily be watched, and enjoyed, by adults as well.
7/10 - Great story, nice acting and an extra grade for revitalizing the Danish youth movie "scene". Thanks to Tempelriddernes Skat, we're now getting a few more intelligent Danish kids movies coming out (De Fortabte Sjæles Ø and Tempelriddernes Skat 2).
Eragon (2006)
Horrible :(
I'm a fantasy fan with a fairly open mind when considering quality. I actually enjoyed the books, and I fully intend to read the third one when it comes.
This movie, however, is a different story. However average the book was, it still had some bright sides, it had some sort of story. The movie seemed to me to be a montage, a series of separate scenes jumbled together by an intern with nothing better to do.
The book had a lot of flaws, yes, I agree to that. The movie had a gazillion more flaws though - I'd go as far as saying you have to be a rabid fanboy bordering on insanity to say this movie is anywhere close to the quality of the book (and that's not saying all that much really, since the book isn't exactly top quality literature).
There's a few bright sides though: 1. Saphira is pretty well made. 2. It's better than Dungeons & Dragons. Not much, but still better. 3. Since they cut all the characters who will become important in the sequel, we can assume no sequel will be made. Thank whichever God you worship for that.
House of the Dead (2003)
A disgrace to zombie movies
Now, although zombie movies do seem to have hit a renaissance, this one proves that not everyone can be a Romero.
The film short: Young people go to rave, get attacked by the horde of undead who seems to live on the island and die. Yay, how inventive. The undead you see are visually worse made than the undead in the Night, Dawn, Day trilogy - and I do expect better FX from a movie made in 2003. The characters are horribly made, hollow and unbelievable. We have a pre-med who, surprisingly, seems to instantly understand and work with the work of a mad scientist - the latter having spent several hundred years working on it. We of course have the classic party-girls who, without further ado, knows how to use various weapons - shotguns, pistols and automatic rifles. And of course they know how to hit with 'em as well. To take things even further, the last surviving chick just happens to be a fencer so she can duel the evil boss in the end. How quaint.
The actors, however little they had to work with, doesn't do much to make the characters alive either. Many of the lines seem stiff and read-up rather than actually spoken from a role.
Visually, the movie has a few highlights - the battle outside the house does have a few nice FX, but in general it seems somebody has been confused. It mixes a lot between low-budget, advanced Matrix-copied CGI and, in the worst cases, screen shots from the computer game.
For me, the most annoying part of the movie wasn't the bad acting, the bad story or the lack of gore. It was the endless clips from the computer game. I don't rent a movie to watch a computer game.
Nah - if you want zombie action, get the Romero trilogy, the remake of Dawn, Braindead or, well, every other zombie flick made. This one is rock bottom. I just feel sorry for the people seeing this one as their first zombie movie..
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Ah well..
SPOILER ALERT - there WILL be spoilers in this review.
I see a lot of comments telling about "plotholes in the alien and predator mythos" "wtf, predators befriending humans?" and so forth. Seems to me you haven't seen all movies to be honest :)
First things first: The Alien reproduction cycle. First and second movie: Very, very slow. Third movie we get no real idea, but it sure ain't as long as in the first two. In Resurrection, it's even faster, a matter of hours tops. Here it's a matter of an hour or two if you stretch it a little. Believable to me.
People seem to understand the Predator wrong. It doesn't "befriend" her, it respects her since she killed an Alien. Remember, it's a test of the Preds abilities, and this little unarmed human passes it. It shows the Pred as the Hunter of Honor it also was in the second movie - the image I personally like very much.
Either way, it's not a great movie - but I didn't expect a masterpiece. I wanted some cool action with my fav two ETs - and I got it.
6/10
Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
omg..
Some people say it's a landmark in modern comedy... Some people say Tom Green is a genius, who looks to provoke..
Well.. It might be.. I just don't think so..
This movie consists solely of a rabid, strange person and his weird behaviour. The jokes are old, the movie is generally less entertaining than looking at a wall and you're left with a "wtf was the POINT in that movie anyway?"..
I mean, usually, movies have plots.. some underlying theme of some sort, even the comedys... Even Ace Ventura has one.. This one don't. There is no point, no plot, no intelligent acting, no anything..
I don't know what's most scary. That Tom Green actually makes money of doing that.. uhm.. "acting".. or that some people actually seem to enjoy the movie...
Convoy (1978)
The Nr 1 from the kid years :)
As a kid I loved this movie so much, even had tons of toy trucks in convoy in front of the TV while watching the movie :)
Some 10 years later, I found it on DVD by accident, on sale (dutch texts, no Danish, so they couldn't really sell it in Denmark), and of course, to the tiny price of 30 kr (approximately £3), who could say no? :)
Anyway, with the experience of many movies behind me this time, I saw it again, and I still liked it. I admit, it isn't a supermovie like LotR, Star Wars, Matrix, Fight Club or Cube, but it got charm, more than anything else. Maybe it's just my childhood memories, but I consider this movie to be one of the few pre-80 movies I like. (I like FX ok, I admit it, I like FX and actors i can recognize from their early parts as well as their breakthroughs etc)
The actors do a good job, and the fight scene in the beginning is in my eyes one of the scenes that make me rate the movie that high. Haven't seen much like that one around, and would sure love to see Jet Li in a fight scene like that ;)
I rate it 6/10, with an extra for the childhood memories, so all in all, a 7 ;)
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
A universe so detailed as AD&D, corrupted, molested and wasted
As others have said... with such talented writers, so many stories, so many places, so many things fans would recognize...
and still, they don't use it in this movie...
I would have loved to see Elminster, Khelben Blackstaff and (especially) Drizzt Do'Urden.. but instead we get a Wayans.. No offense to the Wayans family, but the AD&D universe is not a parody, it's not a ridiculus world. And it's definetly not a world only children take an interest in. Let us all hope that LOTR can give life to fantasy movies for people with more brains than a mustard jelly... Dungeons & Dragons definetly don't...
Let's hope the creators of the movie gets hunted down by the Terrasque ;).. (for non-AD&D people, the Terrasque is sorta like Godzilla with a serious attitude)
1/10.. with hope that someone makes a movie (or 2-3-4) over the Forgotten Realms world