The Movie: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, directed by Tim Story
Recommendation: Broomie
Reason: He's a Chris Evans fan, and a Marvel comics geek.
So, the first Fantastic Four movie is probably best forgotten. In a real case of the sequel kicking the ass of the original, Rise of the Silver Surfer completely wipes the slate free of our sickening memories of Dr. Doom arriving at the final confrontation on a bus, and Ben Mulroney. Wanktastic Marvel geeks are going to hate it, as their precious Galactus is altered from 'retarded looking planet eating robot' to 'amorphous cthonic cloud', as well as loads of other 'inaccuracies'. I'm going to take the perspective of a DC fan and say 'suck it'. I've had to put up with all sorts of jackassery surrounding the Batman franchise-yon Marvel wankers can just deal with the 'assault on canon' the Fantastic Four are undergoing.
But I get off track-spent a little too long discussing that particular bit with Broomie I think. Rise of the Silver Surfer is a really good movie. Nothing that's going to win any awards, but for a comic book movie, it rises to the occasion. It ranks with X2, Batman Begins and X-Men, though doesn't quite reach Spiderman levels of excellence. The effects were stunning (even Galactus, you whiny fanboys), the performances were alright and the story was better than the first one. Altogether, Rise of the Silver Surfer was just all-round a better movie. It was less boring, much tighter, and Doug Jones was in it. We have a silly amount of love for that man.
From the perspective of a comics fan, I liked the movie. It had a good feel to it, it found the balance between the multiple storylines better than the first movie did, and the superpowers were appropriately over-the-top. As a movie, it's good summer fare, and that's all it needed to be.
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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
Isn't Aaliyah, I don't know, DEAD?
The Movie: Honey, directed by Bille Woodruff
Recommendation: Much More Music. Bastards.
Reason: Because it was on, and apparently I haven't suffered enough.
Shawn Desman is in this movie. The title role was originally intended for Aaliyah (but hey, WHAT WASN'T, RIGHT?). It's more important right now to focus on the fact that SHAWN DESMAN was given screen time. Enough that he was identifiable as Shawn-FREAKING-Desman, and not 'White Hip Hop Artist #3'. His other claim to fame is the theme song from...wait for it...KANGAROO JACK. Yeah, the movie that was the death knell of Jerry O'Connell's career. The one about the kangaroo that steals money from Jerry O'Connell and Anthony Anderson.
Cameos aside (and there are a LOT of cameos), Honey's a predictable movie whose major redeeming features are its uplifting message and the number of times Jessica Alba gets oiled up and dances. Neither of these was worth the two hours of my life I sacrificed to the film. Sister Act II came out a decade earlier, and it was more entertaining. And it had Lauryn Hill, not Jessica Alba as a poor substitute for Aaliyah. Not to slag too much on Alba-she takes the roles she's meant for and she gets the most she can out of them. Like everything else involving Missy Elliot from y2k through 2004, though, Honey was supposed to have Aaliyah in it. She was a good singer. She was a pretty good actress, with what she was given. But she wasn't the great gift to entertainment people seem to think she was. SO STOP WITH THE MEMORIALIZING ALREADY! Yes, tragic death. I was very upset. But Aaliyah was not the solution to the world's problems. She wasn't going to cure cancer or AIDS, she was a pretty girl with a lot of entertainment potential that was cut short.
The music in this picture was bland and uninteresting-better hip hop movies have been and will be made. Mekhi Phifer was very nice, for his brief moments on screen. I almost have to say that more of him would have improved the film quite a bit.
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Recommendation: Much More Music. Bastards.
Reason: Because it was on, and apparently I haven't suffered enough.
Shawn Desman is in this movie. The title role was originally intended for Aaliyah (but hey, WHAT WASN'T, RIGHT?). It's more important right now to focus on the fact that SHAWN DESMAN was given screen time. Enough that he was identifiable as Shawn-FREAKING-Desman, and not 'White Hip Hop Artist #3'. His other claim to fame is the theme song from...wait for it...KANGAROO JACK. Yeah, the movie that was the death knell of Jerry O'Connell's career. The one about the kangaroo that steals money from Jerry O'Connell and Anthony Anderson.
Cameos aside (and there are a LOT of cameos), Honey's a predictable movie whose major redeeming features are its uplifting message and the number of times Jessica Alba gets oiled up and dances. Neither of these was worth the two hours of my life I sacrificed to the film. Sister Act II came out a decade earlier, and it was more entertaining. And it had Lauryn Hill, not Jessica Alba as a poor substitute for Aaliyah. Not to slag too much on Alba-she takes the roles she's meant for and she gets the most she can out of them. Like everything else involving Missy Elliot from y2k through 2004, though, Honey was supposed to have Aaliyah in it. She was a good singer. She was a pretty good actress, with what she was given. But she wasn't the great gift to entertainment people seem to think she was. SO STOP WITH THE MEMORIALIZING ALREADY! Yes, tragic death. I was very upset. But Aaliyah was not the solution to the world's problems. She wasn't going to cure cancer or AIDS, she was a pretty girl with a lot of entertainment potential that was cut short.
The music in this picture was bland and uninteresting-better hip hop movies have been and will be made. Mekhi Phifer was very nice, for his brief moments on screen. I almost have to say that more of him would have improved the film quite a bit.
-43/365 down, 322/365 to go
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