Movie Madness

Been to see a shitload of movies more than i usually do, thanks to Fredrik and Joseph lol.

Since haven't the patience nor the proper state of mind to write lengthy, in-depth reviews of all the highs and lows of each movie at 2am in the morning (yes, i'm a vampire!!!) , i'll just do a brief summary of each and my recommendations or otherwise (in no particular order):

+ Sky High is a "family" type movie that's about the a superhero couple, who's son is about to go to superhero high school. A surprisingly good movie which ties up it's ends neatly and manages to add in alot of appropriately corny lines amd cheesy humor, recommended watch.

+ Transporter 2 is a no-brainer action flick, complete with tough, gruff and asskicking hero, evil, evil spanish villain who has a lithe girlfriend who is apparently a borderline psycho, likes wearing skimpy attire and likes wielding akimbo submachine-guns, as well as an eeeevil evil (no, i mean really, really evil. Really.) plan that seems like a kidnapping but is something muchas muchas more sinister. If you like alot of mindless no-brainer action and see-thru bras, then transporter 2 is for you or else just wait for the VCD.

+ Zorro 2 is about Zorro, married now and middle aged but still alive and kicking bandito' ass, who has to deal with "asskicking life" and "family life". Things don't get easier for our intrepid black clad hero as his equally asskicking wife, Elena gets involved with some shady characters, which naturally leads to more asskicking. Rated "OK", but did not get that "Excellente Movie" feel from this one.

+ Corpse Bride is a movie made with the painstaking art of stop motion a-la the Wallace and Gromit series (and upcoming movie), and tells the tale of Victor, the naive and rather clumsy son of a wealthy fishmonger family who screws up his wedding vows to Victoria, his bride-to-be and accidentally "married" a corpse bride. The movie has the same dark, twisted and haunting yet beautiful atmosphere we've (or at least i've) come to love in Tim Burton's movies.
Alot of tongue-in-cheek humor lifts the mood a tad and the movie has a nice pace to it, combine to make it a very nice movie which is a little sad, but definitely worth a watch.

+ Doom is a movie-nised version of the popular PC first-person shooter series of the same name, Doom 3. Its.... better than expected, but not an excellent, deep and emotional movie. Not by a long shot. Its a sci-fi version of Transporter 2, just with more mindless action, zombies, wierd-ass creatures and a demented Dr Carmack whose name everyone keeps shouting as if you were partially deaf.
The story itself, (what little of it anyway) has just a passing resemblance with the game's story, but is just adequate if you don't look *too* close. Hovers between "OK" and "Tolerable", probably worth getting on a VCD for the funny one liners alone.

+ A Sound of Thunder i, to quote the official synopsis, "When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways." In reality its a pretty sucky adaptation of an excellent short story, the movie only pulls it off at half the quality of the story.
Its a little scifi-ish considering the setting, but all the special effects in the world cannot save this movie from mediocrity. Wanna see monkey lizards? bat-pterodactyls? Big eels and ants? Killer weeds? A poorly disguised attempt at illustrating the "butterfly effect"? A Sound of Thunder is all that. VCD material.

And now, i leave you with this awesome Nirvana song:

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