NICK CAVE IS MEGA AT HOGWARTS
Dec. 24th, 2010 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogAnd other things I’ve learned at the movies this week, which I shall review for yr pleasure now.
Skyline
A movie that borrows a lot of visuals from Independence Day, District 9 and Cloverfield to tell the story of an alien invasion as experienced by a small group of annoying people trapped in the penthouse of a high-rise.
Basically it’s another sci-fi film that looks good but is short of ideas and doesn’t really capitalize on the ideas it does have (which include aliens vacuuming people up Rapture-style after hypotizing them with alien light, and the notion that they somehow need our brains to animate their bodies). It doesn’t help that none of the characters are really that interesting. The ending screams “sequel”, but if it ever gets made, I’ll pass.
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
In which Lucy and Edmund return to Narnia along with their annoying cousin Eustace to help King Caspian track down seven lords who have gone missing.
Like the Harry Potter films, yr either onboard with the Narnia series by now or yr not. Taken on its own terms, it’s fairly pedestrian Disneyesque fantasy for kids (albeit with Christian allegory). Dull, in other words. Enough said.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1
The fact that they decided to film the final book of the series in two installments is either a blatant move to milk the franchise as much as possible or an admission that the last few films failed to condense the books effectively into 2.5 hours of viewing time.
Either way, it’s hard to fairly review HPaTDH-1 since (1) it ends on a cliffhanger and (2) it only makes sense if you’ve seen the first six (or read the entire series).
In fact, the only reason I felt compelled to write a review of it at all is to highlight the film’s surprisingly gratuitous use of “O Children” by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. And how often do I get an excuse to post a Nick Cave song in a movie review post?
When you least expect it,
This is dF
Skyline
A movie that borrows a lot of visuals from Independence Day, District 9 and Cloverfield to tell the story of an alien invasion as experienced by a small group of annoying people trapped in the penthouse of a high-rise.
Basically it’s another sci-fi film that looks good but is short of ideas and doesn’t really capitalize on the ideas it does have (which include aliens vacuuming people up Rapture-style after hypotizing them with alien light, and the notion that they somehow need our brains to animate their bodies). It doesn’t help that none of the characters are really that interesting. The ending screams “sequel”, but if it ever gets made, I’ll pass.
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
In which Lucy and Edmund return to Narnia along with their annoying cousin Eustace to help King Caspian track down seven lords who have gone missing.
Like the Harry Potter films, yr either onboard with the Narnia series by now or yr not. Taken on its own terms, it’s fairly pedestrian Disneyesque fantasy for kids (albeit with Christian allegory). Dull, in other words. Enough said.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1
The fact that they decided to film the final book of the series in two installments is either a blatant move to milk the franchise as much as possible or an admission that the last few films failed to condense the books effectively into 2.5 hours of viewing time.
Either way, it’s hard to fairly review HPaTDH-1 since (1) it ends on a cliffhanger and (2) it only makes sense if you’ve seen the first six (or read the entire series).
In fact, the only reason I felt compelled to write a review of it at all is to highlight the film’s surprisingly gratuitous use of “O Children” by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. And how often do I get an excuse to post a Nick Cave song in a movie review post?
When you least expect it,
This is dF
