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Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I’m a huge fan of the Harry Potter books, but not so much of the movies, not that I think they are horrible, I just don’t think that it’s possible to make a really great Potter movie, so I can’t really blame the crew, or anyone else. The reason I think this is because when making a HP movie you automatically lose all the small things that make the books so brilliant, i.e. the small details, the sub storylines, and the surprising endings, that don’t really work when the movies are only about 2,5 hours long. In my opinion it would’ve been more interesting if they had made the books as high quality mini-series, maybe in a narrative way so you know more about what Harry’s thinking, since that’s how the books are written. Anyway, when I watch the movies I do it with most of this in the back of my mind, so I don’t end up bashing the movies senseless because they suck compared to the books.
I’ve just watched the newest installment, the Order of the Phoenix, and I expected less than the previous movies since the fifth book is my least favorite: it’s very long, and even though there are a lot of interesting parts with Umbridge, she’s not exactly the coolest villain one might imagine. It actually met my expectations, nothing extraordinary, as expected they left a lot of things out, but I was pretty satisfied with it. Especially the fact that they’ve made it a lot darker than the previous ones, it wouldn’t have surprised me if they had made it more children-friendly to make more money. The beginning was very cool, by far the best in all of the movies, very dark and almost scary, and since the same director will be making the Half-Blood Prince I’m calmer about it being dark enough, just like the book.
I’m very close to rating it with a 7 because of the mood-change, but it wasn’t that great, so it’s going to be a 6/10. Now I’ll just wait anxiously for Saturday, where I’ll receive the last book!
Recent Movies
I’ve spend this week at a holiday house with some friends, and naturally we saw a lot of movies.
Army of Darkness (1992) (8/10)
This… is my BOOMSTICK! Another cult-hit, and my favorite Sam Raimi movie.
Epic Movie (2007) (1/10)
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Hannibal Rising (2007) (6/10)
Didn’t expect much from this movie, I was just hoping they would show how Lecter became the cold-blooded psycho he is in a proper way. Unfortunately they didn’t, when Lecter was a kid, during World War 2, his family was killed and German soldiers occupied his house. They were starving, so they boiled and ate Lecter’s sister. That’s more or less the traumatic experience that’s supposed to be the reason that Lecter turned into a cannibalistic killer. Just doesn’t seem believable.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) (9/10)
A classic, I don’t know how many times I’ve seen this masterpiece but it’s just as fun every time.
Scarface (1983) (9/10)
Another classic and another great movie, with one of my favorite anti-heroes in the shape of Tony Montana.
Slither (2006: 6/10)
I’ve written about Slither on my blog before, it’s a fun horror-comedy flick, although this second viewing was a bit harder to get through without yawning too many times.
Review: Transformers
I never played with the Transformers toys, I was more of a Turtles-guy myself, and I’ve never seen the cartoon so I felt kind of indifferent when the movie was announced. My anticipation grew when the trailers started to emerge, the CGI looked incredible and even if the story, acting etc. sucked, I would hopefully still get some nice action. I saw the movie yesterday, and I got what I expected.
It’s a mediocre picture at best, I liked the opening with the story about the war and the cube though, and the fact that it was Sam’s (Shia LaBeouf) great-great grand-father who had seen Megatron, encased in ice, was neat, although I initially had a bad feeling that Sam would be a part of the story by sheer coincidence, fortunately he is the protagonist because his relative found Megatron. I also liked the beginning of the movie with Sam going after Mikaela (played by Megan Fox, who is one of the hottest actresses I have seen in a very, very long time, by the way), even though it was filled with clichés. LaBeouf actually does a great job, he’s not the best actor in the world, but his frantic behavior fits nicely into the movie, and he’s pretty funny.
Then the action started and it was cool! The first scenes with Barricade and Bumblebee was incredible, I especially enjoyed myself when Barricade roared “Are you LadiesMan217?” because he sounded pretty cool, and well, it was funny. As expected the CGI is impressive, and most of the action sequences are fascinating and exciting. In some scenes, especially with transformers in melee combat, it became confusing. It was hard to distinguish the robots from one and other.
Now, to some of the bad parts. First of all the movie had some ridiculous and unnecessary subplots, especially the one with the analyst Maggie Madsen (Rachael Taylor) and hacker Glen Whitmann (Anthony Anderson: God, I hate that guy). Maggie is a top-notch analyst trying to decrypt an audio-message from the Decepticons, even though she’s in a building with some of the best sound analysts in the world, she is certain that “only one man can break the code”, and this world-saving guy is Glen Whitmann, a fat geek living at home played by the very annoying Anthony Anderson. Typical cliché of a computer hacker, it’s probably one of my top five worst movie clichés in the world. He doesn’t even have advanced equipment, he just loads the message into his desktop pc and boom, a few seconds later he has broken it. One may think that Transformers are able to decrypt their messages a little better, but apparently not. Now Maggie and Glen are the only persons with the key to saving the earth. Meh.
Another stupid sub story is that of Megatron being held capture in the Hoover Dam since 1934. And apparently all major technological breakthroughs, such as the automobile, came from the technology found within Megatron. It’s just an unnecessary plotline that isn’t very believable. How did they keep him frozen down when transporting him from the North Pole? How did they know they had to keep him frozen? There are also a lot of small weird scenes that don’t really make sense, like Whitmann connecting old computers to send a morse code, the Autobots choosing to go to a crowded city with the cube, even though they want to protect humans, etc.
Transformers: 6/10.
Review: Epic Movie
I wouldn't say this movie is bad, because I wouldn't even consider it a movie. It's more like a series of horrible sketches, sacrificing everything from continuity to dialogue for the sake of satire and humor. Unfortunately those parts of the movie are more horrific than the rest. I can't describe how bad this picture is. Don't watch it, ever.
Epic Movie: 1/10.