So, to get started let's just get this off of my chest right up front; I‘m not really reviewing anything here. Unless stated otherwise I’ve not seen any of the movies in this ‘Preview’. I am really just thoughtlessly passing judgment on films that are scheduled to open this week and that I haven’t researched at all (not even a little bit). All of the film information in these previews, including the plot summary, has been pulled from the Opening This Week page of IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/nowplaying/). In this week’s installment we are taking quick looks at: Did You Hear About the Morgans, Avatar, and Crazy Heart – amongst others…
So... are we good now? Good. Can we get started? Excellent. Follow me to after the jump...
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Director: Marc Lawrence
Stars: Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott
Studio: Columbia Pictures
The Plot: In New York City, an estranged couple (Grant and Parker) who witness a murder are relocated to small-town Wyoming as part of a witness-protection program.
The Republibot Take: How many times can they make this movie before the general public finally catches on? I mean not this exact movie but movies exactly like this. It is like they only have one central plot per situation. Boy meets Girl, something slapsticky happens to tear them apart and boy and girl struggle heroically to be back together. Boy and girl are together but it isn’t working, boy must win back the love of the girl, something slapsticky happens that gives him the chance to win her back.
Uggghhh… Is life so homogenous that this is the only way that true love works – meet cute/re-meet cute?
I hate film romances like that – my favorite romantical movies of all time are: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Truly Madly Deeply, High Fidelity, She’s Having a Baby, and Serendipity.
Sci-fi Quotient is at about a 1, just because there has to be some kind of fantastical element in there somewhere, otherwise how perfectly awful will it be.
Avatar
Director: James Cameron
Stars: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
The Plot: A paraplegic former marine (Worthington) accepts a unique mission that sends him to the planet Pandora, where, through a connection to a remotely controlled biological body, he learns the way of the indigenous Na'vi people. His link to this world puts him in direct opposition with his orders to infiltrate the Na'vi and remove the barrier between them and the precious ore desired by military and corporate interests.
The Republibot Take: I am seeing this at the mid-night showing tonight, but I should go ahead and write the review now because I have already made up mind – it is going to be mind blowingly awesome with regard to the CG, the 3D is going to make me nauseous, the Na’vi character designs are going to make me chuckle throughout the movie, the acting is going to be stiff and the story is going to suck out loud. If I have a chance tomorrow and into the weekend to bang out a review that I think is worthwhile I will try to post it for all of you my dear readers (or is it reader?).
Sci-fi Quotient is an impressive 9.25 – why not a 10? Well because of the 9
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Comments
27 December 2008
1 min 34 sec
But, yeah, it's true. Thing about Cameron is that he's *always* shown wilful disregard for the budgeting process (To quote R2). He deliberately shoots scenes that he knows full-well he's never gonna' use.
24 July 2009
1 day 1 hour
"He should have just made it a cartoon and saved 250 million."
Every time I hear about the budget this thing had, I wonder why Cameron didn't just throw his hands up at some point and say, "F__k it, let's just do the whole thing in CGI -- it'll save us a fortune on sets."
2 January 2009
22 min 19 sec
I posted the contest out to Twitter - if you wanna start a thread here on the site too for the contest, that would be cool - I am working on my review of the movie after lunch when the paying part of my day lightens up some.
23 December 2008
1 hour 12 min
Great idea, though, R1... in fact a twitter review contest would be awesome.
Problem is, I'm completely unprepared for such a thing.
I really need to have some shirts printed up or something.
27 December 2008
1 min 34 sec
I'm inelligiable, of course, but there's my six-word review.
Do write a review of Avatar if at all possible! Be as snarky as you like.
Jeff Bridges does occasionally amaze me. I didn't care for him too much in "Lebowski," not because he was bad, but because that movie just felt so scattershot to me, and even though he was pretty funny, "The Dude" was just such a stock character - a bumbling, kind of stupid stoner ex-hippie who doesn't realize he's bumbling or stupid - that having him play an ineffectual detective...eh. It was ok. I've never gotten the obsession with that film, either. Presumably it's just because it's the least challenging of the Cohen Bros. films that's actually funny (As opposed to "The Ladykillers," for instance, which is even less challenging, but not a damn bit funny)
27 June 2009
33 min 49 sec
Avatar Pocahontas in space how original.
Is that mean enough and it has the advantage of being true. One of the questions I read in a UK review of Avatar was if American audiences wanted to be lectured on the way we treated the native tribes of North America which is what Avatar is really about.
It is going to suck all the oxygen out of the room from the other movies opening this weekend. It will probably be a hit most people will not get the meaning that Cameron is going for and love all the high tech weapons and sexy kitty aliens which has a anime feel to it. He should have just made it a cartoon and saved 250 million.