Vidor wrote:"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is getting poor to bad reviews, but I still want to see it. Maybe because it's the only summer blockbuster this year that isn't a sequel or a prequel or a reboot.
Yeah, the bad reviews almost threw me off from going, but honestly, it was a lot of fun.
Agreed. The movie was somewhat predictable at times (especially towards the end), but was a lot of fun. Tons of violence and gore, but not Saw-esque gore where it's horror movie-like... More like the fighting/gore that you would see in something like 300 or The Immortals.
A nice fictional twist in what would have otherwise been a historical biography of Lincoln.
I'd say it's probably my second favorite movie so far that I've seen this summer behind The Avengers.
agreed on all accounts for both comments. Except I liked prometheus better than AL:VS. One thing to keep in mind going in, is that despite its ridiculous premise, it is in absolutely no sense a comedy nor was it intended to be, i know a lot of people got that impression somehow (see: reviews where it "took itself too seriously")
I heard madagascar 3 was really good. Very surprising but the review i heard was absolutely raving.
I'm not sure if I buy the "Humans killed Jesus which eventually influenced the biomatter and now there's monsters" angle, but it does a very good job of going over the symbolism, and I understand a lot more having read the post and the comments. Like Thrill, the thing that sticks out to me is why the artifacts would point to LV223. The theory I like best is that there are factions of engineers. Some which seed life with biomatter, and others that destroy life by weaponizing biomatter(and creating monsters as a side effect). The artifacts are a warning from the seeders about the destroyers, rather than an invitation to come visit.
I'm late to the Prometheus game, but I did just seen it. Very mixed feelings.
Overall, bottom line; I'd love to see another but not in the same way I want to see DKR this summer.
I'm all for suspending some disbelief in these typs of moves. (Mr. Scott. 1/2 Billion miles from Earth gets us just past Jupiter.) Now, once I suspend disbelief of sending two lovers on an unbriefed critical mission 35 light years away (anyone who's ever seen a movie or worked in a restaurant/retail knows you don't send two people [expletive] each other. Ever.) I'm now supposed to believe a drop of biomatter in to Holloway's drink is enough to impregnate a previously barren woman enough to create a new "4th" species before it face rapes the previous "1st" species to create the "5th" species?
I think the ideas behind Weyland and Shaw (and her faith) are actually pretty astute and sparkk intrigue. I do think every person in the expedition acts the total opposite a trillion dollar company would choose to act. I also don't quite buy that Vickers is 100% totally purely sex-bred. Vickers could be the 'real' daughter, but she srealizes it as well
There was a lot I buy and thoroughly enjoy. But 90% of the bio in it killed me. And I'm a CS man.
I thought the opening scene was more about a 'sacrifice'. So the albino man we see on Earth was started as an 'experiment' and drinks so that unbeknownst to him - they deemed the experiment a failure and hope to end that
DNA". Once they realize his DNA ended up spilled in to the life giving fluid we enjoy "water" survived, they worked to determine a way to destroy that "mistake".
Saw "Brave". It was good, but I have to agree with the reviewer who said it wasn't all that Pixar-y, and could have been made by Disney's in-house animation studio (or maybe even Dreamworks on a good day).
All I can say is that it seems bizarre to me that people regard choreography of any sort as something proprietary that can be copyrighted. Heard a while back that people were saying Beyonce had "plagiarized" dance moves. Crazy.
Vidor wrote:Saw "Brave". It was good, but I have to agree with the reviewer who said it wasn't all that Pixar-y, and could have been made by Disney's in-house animation studio (or maybe even Dreamworks on a good day).
In fairness, a lot of earlier Pixar stuff is overrated. Monster's Inc, Bug's Life, Finding Nemo - those are all cute kid's movies, but they weren't quite the masterworks they were made out to be. I'd argue there'a couple Dreamworks movies that are better than that bunch.
