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Reviews
Pacific Rim (2013)
OK Action Film
It was honestly only okay.
There is nothing special about the dialogue or the acting. The story was cliché: pilot leaves military over a traumatic experience that you wouldn't know about if he didn't complain about it, gets called back into service when things are desperate, people don't trust him over being a washout, falls for & gets the girl, and saves the through badassery and selfless self sacrifice which he survives. It touches standard science fiction and giant monster clichés, such as the monsters going for important coastal cities, fighting crazy scientists, and the old veteran now commander who enters the final battle to be pivotal at holding the line.
The only thing that warrants going to the theater to see "Pacific Rim" over renting it or catching it on TV is the special effects. And boy are the special effects amazing.
I would only really recommend going to see "Pacific Rim" in theaters if you already have an interest in it. You probably won't hate it if you just want to pass the time or have cheaper than normal/free tickets.
Across the Universe (2007)
A great, almost excellent film.
This movie is my favorite musical of all times, including the nostalgic Disney movies such as "Snow White," which I watched as a small child. The coregraphics are fun, and the covers are sure to enchant youngsters into loving the Beatles.
On the negative side, the editing was not that great. The whole thing with Bono and Eddie Izzard could have cut out. There was no real point, the characters went around, pursuing their music dreams and enjoying life. The only real things this movie has going for it is the characters and music. Thankfully, that is going well enough to carry the film.
Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)
DC nails with animated movies
"Green Lantern: First Flight" is a darn decent movie, especially for a direct to DVD movie. The animation is fluid and crisp. By the end of the movie the characters felt well developed. The writing is excellent, though the plot itself is ordinary and would feel clichéd under a less competent writer and director. On the negative, I think that the entire the movie lacks due to its limited time of seventy minutes. I think at five or six minutes, too little time was spent on Earth. I felt that I had no idea who Hal Jordon was before he was a Green Lantern, which could have been fixed by following the main character for a day or even a few hours of his life. The problem with that is there is no part of the movie that the time necessary for that could be taken from. Hal Jordon would be more nervous or anxious or scared that aliens are suddenly coming to his home planet, giving him a power ring and taking him far away from the only planet he has ever been on. Over all a good movie, but it has some problems.
Speed Racer: The Next Generation (2008)
Potential wasted
This show had potential, but that was wasted. The pilot and a few of the first episodes were fine, but it went downhill from there. Some of the characters (Spritle, X, Speed, Lucy) were enjoyable, but the rest was either annoying, stupid or thought they could get away with idiotic plans. Another problem was the overall story arc, for Speed to build a gasless engine. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with the idea, I think that it would be wonderful think to have vehicles that give out less pollution. The thing is, it doesn't make such a great TV show. The show quickly moves from the long-lost son of the best car racer in the world trying to find his way in a car racing school with building a gasless engine in the backdrop to the complete opposite.
There is also the main villain of the series; a sleazy man who made his fortune in oil, with his daughter that is dating X and willing to hurt Speed to help her father at anytime it suits him. You know, if my partner was trying to hurt my brother, I would break up with them. The villain also went from trying to stop the gasless engines from putting him out of business by preventing them from being built, which is not unreasonable, to an idiot to blind by greed and a desire to put his enemies down without anyone knowing. The show did not deliver on what I wanted to see. I wanted to see the characters growing, getting to know each other. I wanted to see more of X and Speed bonding, getting to know each other as brothers. I wanted them to spend time with their uncle Spritle. I wanted to see him trying his best to balance being principle and acting as a father to his brother's two children, who were tragically separated at a young age for their own safety. I would have liked to see X and Speed to have felt resentment at their father for abandoning them and when he finally does show up, that feeling wouldn't go away quickly or easily. I would have liked for Spritle to confront him, telling him "You lost seeing your children growing up; you forfeited the right to call them your sons when you left them. Don't come crawling to me about how little they trust you, that angry looks they give you, the way they refuse to call you father." I would have also liked to see less of Speed's and X's friends, who rage from annoying to crazy to stupid.
Now let's go into plot. Speed is the son of racer Speed Racer, brother of X and nephew Spritle, and his mother is never mentioned. Speed is trying to build a gasless engine with his roommate Connor and best friend Lucy. The basic formula for most episodes is this: somebody tries to gets Speed's gasless engine or the blueprints for it, whether it by being trickery of by theft, Speed races and pulls off a trick or two, the day is saved. Another setback is the animation. I know they were on a budget, but they could have tried to do something more with it, done something aesthetically more pleasing. They could have done something like in "Batman: The Animated Series," in that series, the animation was a bit choppy, but in my opinion a nicer style in general. Nothing says "I'm just in it to collect a paycheck" more than bad animation styles outside a pitiful budget or an amateur job where recourses are limited and one must take what they have. I would have been happy with flash animation. I feel as if the characters were ever hand drawn, they were highly altered for a bad 3D effect.
Batman Beyond (1999)
Interesting
A few months ago, I saw the direct to DVD movie for this series. I then watched a few episodes an I have to say that I love it. It has characters that I find interesting, the plots are not rushed in my opinion an the animation is not CGI but drawn unlike many other shows. All I can complain about is that there are so few episodes centering around the relationship between Terry McGinnus,the current Batman of the series and Bruce Wayne, the Batman before him. Their relationship isn't fully strait forward. I also wish that it more than three seasons. It had so much potential. A real shame. Maybe someday soon they'll (any nationwide television network) show reruns in a reasonable hour of the day.