Avatar. An awe-inspiring year- and decade-ender film that has endeared (and will) to those who have watched it, Avatar is a triumphant effort from Hollywood that broke the series of disappointments in 2009 (from Indiana Jones to New Moon). Avatar is set in the year 2154 on Pandora, a fictional Earth-like moon in a distant planetary system. Humans are engaged in mining Pandora's reserves of a precious mineral, while the Na'vi — the sapient race of humanoids indigenous to the moon — resist the colonists' expansion, which threatens the continued existence of the Na'vi and the Pandoran ecosystem. Important to absorb - the film's title refers to the remotely controlled, genetically engineered human-Na'vi bodies used by the film's human characters to interact with the natives. James Cameron (and his superb technical group) is so successful in interweaving the live action and 3d CGI that at certain points in the film, you no longer think whether its live of CGI! and that the Na'vis were live humans on prosthetics and not merely drawn. His Avatar film vision has, as the critics put in, became the holy grail of 3D (meaning the much awaited) of the film industry and will sure to set the trend by next year.
Now that the films has reaped critical and commercial acclaim, sequels will be produced in the near future (and hopefully Imax would be cheaper by then)
Rating : A (my highest)
New Moon. i was convinced to finally watch New Moon (by a former Masteral classamte), well my oneliner take on the movie : 100% agonizing and 100% non-sense. Aside from the 90's special effects (yep, its that old school), this movie is actually very very uninteresting!!!i wonder how the millions of moviegoers who watched this movie was able to sit for more than 2 hours and watch this unbearable film!!! :(
anyhow, they say the third installment (theres a third????) ) will be much better... well it better be and they should have a new director (again) for the third as this one sucks!!
Rating : C
One liner review - 90% thrill, 10%pfft.
“…like an empty cup…” goes one line in 2012 (by a Tibetan monk no less) and that’s how I watched the movie – with no expectations at all.
Although grossing a whopping $65 M on its opening weekend in the US, the movie was still panned by moviegoers and critics just the same. Did they expect to much from the film? I guess. But what’s to expect from an Armageddon-themed movie? Do we want rationale behind it (maybe just like New Moon?, hahahaha)? Did we want a moving script? Did we want another “The Day After Tomorrow” (Director Emmerich’s masterpiece on a possible end-of-civilization scenario)? I didn’t (and I don’t want to anyway) and that’s why I wasn’t disappointed.
I watched the film without thinking how great “Deep Impact” and “The Day After Tomorrow” were (and as if I was ready to compare the three together) as they have different doomsday scenarios (Comet, Global Warming / Ice Age and Crust Displacement). And this time, the attempt to further visualize what could eventually happen was very effective (and scary).
However, the main flaw, it appears, is that the director gave too much thrill (and too early) in the film and it went downhill towards the end where it lingered on the characters and their underlying heroic acts. In other words, the plot peaked too early. And as expected, the movie heavily relied on CGIs without much building on the characters. Thus we didn’t care if some of the characters died (unlike with Deep Impact where you don’t want the astronauts to die!! – watch Depp Impact and youd understand what I mean). As for the length of the film, movies that go beyond 2 hours is okay as long the characters and plot were defined and endeared to the moviegoers (e.g. Titanic, the Harry Potter series, the LOTR series, etc.) and the producers should have explored this so as not to compromise the content.
True, there were some awkward scenes in 2012 (specially at the end part) but what film hasn’t? At least, we got to see a better image of what and how the world could possibly go pfft if we dont stop shitting this planet; and this time, the movie fare was worth it.
Note : Ive read the Bible Code 2 (Drosnin) and strangely no mention of a 2012 end-of-the-world prediction
Rating : B+
Paranormal Activity -One liner review: What was the hype all about? where was it in the movie?
Now grossing more than a $100M in the US, this movie has enthralled the minds of moviegoers and
my question is WHY ???
You have to be patient watching the first half of the film as it tries to set up the ”scary” plot. This false-documentary ...type film (ala-blair witch, ala-Quarantine) falls flat to its hyped “scariest film” of the decade and “do not watch this film alone” marketing (true, I don’t wan t to watch this film alone kasi baka mahuli akong nakatulog na pala, nakakahiya) as the plot has holes bigger that the craters on the moon and the attempt to make this a believable “true-to-life” is obtuse as Erap winning in next year’s presidential election!!!
If you can waste P121 and get a “good” scare with your girlfriend or boyfriend, this is an “okay-to-watch” movie, otherwise, save up your money for Avatar.
In the end, I thank the supposed demon / ghost kasi tinapos nya ung storya hehehe otherwise eh humaba pa agony ng moviegoers. The movie offers 3 (literally only three) jumpy scenes, 2 minor scares and a stupid ending (with an “in memory” even), AND NOTHING MORE!!
i heard the g reat Spielberg chose the official movie ending out of the supposed hundreds of possible endings, well he should have not meddled with it!!Rating : C+
