Change Your Image
acorbaster
Reviews
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
A New New Hope..-SPOILERS
Nice movie, solid cast, nice visuals, good characters , plus, it's STAR WARS!!! And everything would be fine if I haven't seen the movie already. As it's the same as New Hope. And everyone who has ' A New Hope' fresh in their minds is aware of this. 1.Rebels vs bad militarized guys lead by a guy with black helmet (Vader-Kylo Ren) 2.Guy with helmet is after information hidden inside a droid (R2D2- BB8) 3.Droid's owner gets caught and is taken onto a space ship. (Leia- Poe) 4.Droid escapes on a desert planet 5.Droid is found by a force- sensitive protagonist and they bond (Luke-Rey) 6.The force- sensitive protagonist finds a teammate on a desert planet (Obi wan, Finn) 7.Bad guys kill the whole settlement on a desert planet 8.Droid owner gets rescued from the space ship 9.They leave desert planet in M.Falcon and they soon meet Solo and chewbacca 10.Protagonist slowly reveals his force powers 11.Dark hologram (Emperor-Snoke)commands from somewhere 12. Father- son reveal.. 13.Finn wants to leave our group of friends as he doesn't care about the greater cause. But then he comes back to save the day (Han Solo) I just realized ; this will take too long to write everything down... In short; then they bond, team up as the resistance. And they are up against a gigantic space station that is blowing planets up. They hold a meeting in front of hologram table and they blow the station up by using x-wings and by disabling shields on the ground. Everything the same as in ' A New Hope'. Disney played it safe and I can understand why. Disney want's at least a billion world- wide. So they didn't take any chances, they used familiar stuff they knew it will work. I guess it's not easy to please everyone, especially SW fans and their expectations. When you're making a movie that has a lot of fans even before the movie is made...I guess you don't get too creative and you don't take to many risks. I enjoyed the movie, it's nice, solid, and it's star wars. But ''this feels familiar''-filling was too strong. It's almost as if around the middle of the movie you knew exactly what to expect and you just wait for the movie to roll out. It's OK to throw in stuff from original SWs. For fans, nostalgia and to get that familiar SW filling. Old characters (Luke,Leia,Han etc,), Luke's saber, Vader's helmet, recognizable ship designs..it all works well and ties you to the originals. But you don't have to do the exact same story and all the same beats of the original movie. It's a remake/reboot as much as it is a sequel.
Prisoners (2013)
153 minutes long because characters can't talk?
It's a great movie, sensational, effective thriller, blah, blah , blah. I don't want to repeat things that have already been said. I'll just say what annoys me. Most tension in this movie comes from it's characters being unable to speak. What's up with that?
1.So we got this guy, who obviously has something to do with the kidnapping of the two girls, and as it turns out, he was the one who lured them into the van. It was a sloppy kidnapping, they immediately caught the suspect, but guess what,he can't (?)speak. They said that he is on a level of a ten year old, but he behaves as he is on a level of a three year old, but still, he has a driver license(?). So we then come to all the beating,torturing and all the screaming :'Tell me where are they?' If he said: it took them to my mothers house, the movie is over. So he was so resilient to torture or simply he was to stupid to make a sentence that makes sense. The later makes more sense, but on the other hand, it makes no sense at all.
2.Then comes the priest who has a rotten corp in his basement. But he just mumbles. Like he's a 3 year old as well. He isn't able to say any useful information. Who's the dead guy, what's his name , how he came to him (or with whom, with what vehicle etc, etc..) He just can't speak intelligible.
3. Them comes the guy who steals kid's clothing, using pig's blood, hiding it with snakes. He's intelligent enough to recognize a cop, to escape him, to, at the first moment, when the cop shows at his home, fool him by saying '' I've never seen you before''. But when they need to interrogate him, he is suddenly like a 3 year old, drawing and mumbling and drooling like a completely retarded person who's unable to say one sentence that makes sense. So we still don't know anything and the movie goes on.
4.Then comes the girl that escaped, she's in the hospital, but of course, she is not able to speak. Or else she would tell us where she was held, and the movie's over.
5.And finally , when they rescue the second girl, she doesn't seem to speak as well. Or else she would tell them about hidden basement in the yard with entrance hidden under the old car. But no...
So somewhere around 80 min into the movie , I had enough. I know that they wanted that exciting, disturbing thriller, exploring moral bipolarity of every human, dark (metaphorically and literally with all the rain and pale colors). But for me this was to much and last 30 minutes was like a torture.