A few movies seen.

[melchar]

I've seen a coupla movies lately.

Saw 'War of the Worlds' and was pleased that they kept & read the 1st & last paragraph from the book - and kept the ending of Wells' story. I'm not impressed by Cruise as an actor, but there were a few scenes in which he did a very good job [especially the 'brushing dust off' scene]. However IMHO the character he portrayed in the flick was a moron who was unable to explain fact one to anyone - and came across as borderline autistic. Movie worth seeing once at matinee prices.

Saw 'Fantastic 4' and wasn't expecting much. Was pleasantly surprised because they got the main 4 principles right. Good special effects and a decent job with the costuming. However I was SO disappointed with the Doom portrayal [as just another evil corporate dolt] that it rather spoiled that portion of the film for me. [like whenever he was on screen.] The over-marketed product tie-ins for the movie also annoy heck outa me. Another movie worth seeing once at matinee price.

And I saw 'Madagascar' - a movie I had NO interest in seeing and had NO hopes or expectations for. I went because Trey wanted to see it and I wanted to watch movies with him. So I munched popcorn and wasn't very impressed by the beginning of the story, the 4 main characters were endurable - but then the penguins showed up and the movie took off. I was amused by the zoo breakout. The penguin piracy was great. And then the 4 main characters end up on Madagascar and the lemures showed up and I just dissolved into giggles. I LOVED the movie. There were a LOT of sf film references [once you got to the lemures] - and ... I just had the BEST time watching that film. Worth seeing at full price at least once - and I plan to buy the DVD [and possibly inflict the video on my mom as an Xmas prezzie].

All in all, pretty good. No movie I felt was a waste of my life viewing and one that was WONDERFUL. ^_^

Comments

[trolan.livejournal.com]

I tend to agree on 'Fantastic Four' Not a bad film, but definitely matinee fodder. Main things that annoyed me were some painful continuity problems: "Do this, and see what's over there, as we can't!" *cut* "Wow, glad you did that, and now we're all over here" Uhm.. how? Normal movie silliness. The other entertaining bit was the fact I ended up seeing it with Jim M. and Shaun T. from bigger.net days after crossing paths with them in the mall, and also saw a boojum scurrying up the upper tiers looking for someone. Weird confluence of people.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

[nods] Yeah, there were some definate problems - and some annoying semi-teleporting characters. [as in - 'hi there, you can see I have to be waaaaay over here right now AND in a glowy machine - but here I am like 90 seconds later in real time, punching you ina face'].

I did like that they did the character interactions pretty well.

The convocation of fellow friends at the matinee sounds like it was fun!