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The Raven (2006)
This was a joke, right?
This movie is so bad that I can't help but suspect, wrong though I may be, that the ten-star reviews are either from studio plants or friends of the guy who made this turkey. I liked some of the background music, but I deplored everything else. It's not even put together like you expect a movie to be. I think that was supposed to be edgy and art nouveau, but it just came out being jumbled, childish, and annoying. Scenes would contain very little dialog and jump from one shot to another of just random whatever stuff, and there are other scenes the drag on and on with nobody saying anything or doing much of anything significant to the point of making the viewer fight off sleep.
Eventually we get a very vague idea of what is going on. A figment of the main character's imagination came to life, raped her, then she killed him, but he came back being a supernatural being and all and starts killing and dragging off to who knows where without a trace everyone the main character knows. And the fact that the character, named Lenore, is in some way never explained Edgar Allen Poe's Lenore is somehow supposed to be relevant. The things that are supposed to connect everything just cause the whole thing to make even less sense, and the ending is just moronic. The crazy-slasher guy is about to kill her but Edgar Allen Poes comes along and saves her and supposedly redeems her so she can just go and live her life (what about all her friends who were killed, huh?), but then the crazy-slasher guy comes back again and kills her to supposedly take her to hell with him.
The script comes off as if it were written by a thirteen-year-old. Make that written by a dumb thirteen-year-old, as there are a few smarter teenagers who can write stories way better than this one on fanfiction.net. Perhaps this cinematic effort was intended as a joke of some sort? From now on, I'm staying well-clear of anything that appears to be straight-to-video.
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Jake is yummy!
Jake Gyllenhaal (pronounced JILL-en-hawl, for those of you from Minnesota) was hot and fantastic as Sam. My only complaint is that the camera should have given us a better look at him in underwear! [DROOL!]. Sam was just as good-looking as the preppy pretty-boy who almost won over the woman in whom Sam was so interested. The special effects were great and the story of how ordinary people dealt with this global catastrophe was gripping.
It was interesting that the Vice-President looked exactly like Dick Cheney and it was more or less implied that he was the one who was really in charge all along. The President, who looked vaguely Dubya-like, even seemed to defer to the Vice-President at one point. How like real life!
At the end of the movie, the Vice-President went on TV and said that we were screwed up to think we could keep treating the planet and using its resources up the way we have been. As a result, Rush Limbaugh and his ilk are upset that this movie is fueling the fears of the "environmentalist whackos". Maybe Rush could give us some of his drugs to calm us down! :-D