Overview
From the creators of “Finding Nemo” and “Cars” (as stated on the box) comes the movie Wall-e. I love “Finding Nemo”. “Cars” is okay. With Wall-e, I’m STILL trying to figure out the point to that movie was. Basically the first third of that movie was the robot running places doing stupid (okay, I guess it could have been mildly amusing) stuff. Yawn. Then he finds this plant and he puts it in a shoe. And he watches this old movie. THEN starts the ACTUAL movie. Enter Ev-e, space flight, and the amazing hover chairs.
Synopsis (spoiler alert)
Similar to “Eagle Eye” and “I Robot”, wall-e is a movie in which the robots take over the humans. Similar to “The Matrix”, they take over the humans by putting a computer screen in front of their faces (thus, capturing the minds). The presence of a computer screen in front of these human’s faces is similar to the way some teens text. They will go around, their phone will beep and then they have their face glue to the screen, and will miss anything going on. The end result is predictable, the go back to earth, the best character(the cricket) is STILL safe, and the people learn how to walk (even though they shouldn’t be able to after living their lives in those chairs, their legs wouldn’t be able to hold their body weight). Then all the people are amazed and happy, even though they will all die soon because they won’t know what to do. (I may be under estimating humans… maybe, but we can be pretty pathetic)
No moral stuff was brought into play. It was a Disney/Pixar production, so it was clean.
The movie was full of stupidity, and is good for younger audiences, just not for me. I would pick “I Robot” over Wall-e every time.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Paul Blart, Mall Cop
Overview
With parts similar to the movie “Get Smart”, Paul Blart is a guy who is looking for a woman who will love him as him. He runs into Amy, one of the kiosk workers, and it’s love at first site… when a group of thugs break into the mall, and take some people (including Amy) captive, Blart is still inside the mall. He ends up giving the police the information they need, and… well… no spoilers! :)
Plot?
Limited. The first 30 minutes and a minute before the credits are about as much plot as we get.
All “twists” aren’t really twists, as this movie is VERY predictable!
There are no complex characters.
COOLNESS FACTORS! :{)
Paul Blart riding that segway scooter… :)
The hair extensions
The tattoo
Moral Stuff
Well, the whole drunk scene
The love he has for his daughter, mother, and job
Lack of respect from the guy in the wheel chair and the lady with the handbag
Seriously? Not EVERYONE has a cell phone AND can text using said cell phone(yes, I think that should be under moral factors)
Not as dirty as the commercials make it seem
Stupid Stuff
Has anyone red the whole movie plot? Or lack thereof? It was a stupid movie in my opinion, but I watched as two kids cracked up repeatedly during the movie, so I guess it’s probably just not my (X-men, Lord of the Rings, Eragon) style.
With parts similar to the movie “Get Smart”, Paul Blart is a guy who is looking for a woman who will love him as him. He runs into Amy, one of the kiosk workers, and it’s love at first site… when a group of thugs break into the mall, and take some people (including Amy) captive, Blart is still inside the mall. He ends up giving the police the information they need, and… well… no spoilers! :)
Plot?
Limited. The first 30 minutes and a minute before the credits are about as much plot as we get.
All “twists” aren’t really twists, as this movie is VERY predictable!
There are no complex characters.
COOLNESS FACTORS! :{)
Paul Blart riding that segway scooter… :)
The hair extensions
The tattoo
Moral Stuff
Well, the whole drunk scene
The love he has for his daughter, mother, and job
Lack of respect from the guy in the wheel chair and the lady with the handbag
Seriously? Not EVERYONE has a cell phone AND can text using said cell phone(yes, I think that should be under moral factors)
Not as dirty as the commercials make it seem
Stupid Stuff
Has anyone red the whole movie plot? Or lack thereof? It was a stupid movie in my opinion, but I watched as two kids cracked up repeatedly during the movie, so I guess it’s probably just not my (X-men, Lord of the Rings, Eragon) style.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The Dark Knight
General Info…
Well… for those of you who don’t know, The Dark Knight took place after Batman Begins, and is, in fact, a Batman movie.(now that I’ve got the obvious stuff out of the way) It is Dark, as the title states, and it is very intense and it will pull you into the movie. The Joker (more on him later) is not your typical crazy insane person. From the very first scene of the movie, he is completely intelligent, plots well, and pushes Batman to the limit, toward that line he doesn’t want to cross; murder. Heath Ledger died after this movie of an overdose of prescription drugs. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/bio ) I think this in unsurprising due to the intense, disturbing villain that he plays and had to put himself into.
Joker
Joker is not stupid. He himself says he works for Chaos. If you have a plan, he will try to mess it up. One of the things about Joker is his whole “you wanna know how I got these scars?” routine. He gives 3 different stories. The first one is the most creepy as it happens right before he kills someone. He is in most of the scenes in the movie. My theory on Joker is that he not crazy, he is insane. If anyone has read the book “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, I think Joker is insane the same way Renfield is. He is an interesting character, and easily the creepiest in the movie.
Two-Face
Two-Face became what he is when he got gasoline on the side of his face and a time bomb went off. Batman got him out, but not far enough away to stop the fire from hitting his face. He refused to get skin grafts, and ends up with a pretty messed up (but cool looking) face. Anyone he talks to, he leaves their life to chance, and does kill a couple people. He dies when he threatens to kill Commissioner Gordon’s kid.
General Overview (SPOILER ALERT!)
The movie starts with a bank robbery planned by Joker. He sets off the alarm on purpose before he even gets into the vault. Throughout the robbery, all the characters, except the bus driver (Joker) are killed. The first view of Batman is at a parking garage. He gets ticked at a couple of fake Batmen (the ones using guns), and encounters some dogs. Throughout the rest of the movie, Joker sends cryptic threats (via the body of a dead Batman or “Harvey” “Dent”) He kills (or almost kills) many people including 2 boats with over 30,000 people on each. At the end of the movie, Joker is going to jail (where he will be for as long as HE chooses to stay), Batman is on the run (he needs to become the bad guy for awhile to save the city), Rachel who just got engaged to Harvey Dent (before he became two-face) dies in an explosion caused by Joker) and Harvey Dent is dead after almost killing Commissioner Gordon’s blond son. Note: not a complete summary, simply the parts I chose to underline.
COOLNESS FACTORS!!!! <3
Two-Face looks like he’s ½ a Terminator with that face of his!
That whole using cell phones to make a map… enough said
When they brought Joker into the scene… there were a couple cool moments.
Moral Stuff
Swearing including the use of f*** once.
Evidence of intercourse when Bruce Wayne leaves his party to go into his “panic room”.
What movie doesn’t have some sort of lie?
The two boats with the 30,000 people each…
Batman and his killing line.
Putting a cell phone inside someone? That’s just weird. Therefore, I’m putting it here.
Joker in a skirt. ‘Nough said.
Stupidity Moments (SPOILERS)
Seriously? With the whole hostage thing, why did everyone assume the clowns were the bad guys? With Joker being a criminal genius, why did no one think, “The clowns are in plain sight. What idiot does that? I thought Joker wasn’t an idiot!”
Why o why o why o why, did Batman put the cell phone map in front of his vision. Why not just let Fox guide him. Stupid Batman, almost getting himself killed for x-ray vision!
Well… for those of you who don’t know, The Dark Knight took place after Batman Begins, and is, in fact, a Batman movie.(now that I’ve got the obvious stuff out of the way) It is Dark, as the title states, and it is very intense and it will pull you into the movie. The Joker (more on him later) is not your typical crazy insane person. From the very first scene of the movie, he is completely intelligent, plots well, and pushes Batman to the limit, toward that line he doesn’t want to cross; murder. Heath Ledger died after this movie of an overdose of prescription drugs. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/bio ) I think this in unsurprising due to the intense, disturbing villain that he plays and had to put himself into.
Joker
Joker is not stupid. He himself says he works for Chaos. If you have a plan, he will try to mess it up. One of the things about Joker is his whole “you wanna know how I got these scars?” routine. He gives 3 different stories. The first one is the most creepy as it happens right before he kills someone. He is in most of the scenes in the movie. My theory on Joker is that he not crazy, he is insane. If anyone has read the book “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, I think Joker is insane the same way Renfield is. He is an interesting character, and easily the creepiest in the movie.
Two-Face
Two-Face became what he is when he got gasoline on the side of his face and a time bomb went off. Batman got him out, but not far enough away to stop the fire from hitting his face. He refused to get skin grafts, and ends up with a pretty messed up (but cool looking) face. Anyone he talks to, he leaves their life to chance, and does kill a couple people. He dies when he threatens to kill Commissioner Gordon’s kid.
General Overview (SPOILER ALERT!)
The movie starts with a bank robbery planned by Joker. He sets off the alarm on purpose before he even gets into the vault. Throughout the robbery, all the characters, except the bus driver (Joker) are killed. The first view of Batman is at a parking garage. He gets ticked at a couple of fake Batmen (the ones using guns), and encounters some dogs. Throughout the rest of the movie, Joker sends cryptic threats (via the body of a dead Batman or “Harvey” “Dent”) He kills (or almost kills) many people including 2 boats with over 30,000 people on each. At the end of the movie, Joker is going to jail (where he will be for as long as HE chooses to stay), Batman is on the run (he needs to become the bad guy for awhile to save the city), Rachel who just got engaged to Harvey Dent (before he became two-face) dies in an explosion caused by Joker) and Harvey Dent is dead after almost killing Commissioner Gordon’s blond son. Note: not a complete summary, simply the parts I chose to underline.
COOLNESS FACTORS!!!! <3
Two-Face looks like he’s ½ a Terminator with that face of his!
That whole using cell phones to make a map… enough said
When they brought Joker into the scene… there were a couple cool moments.
Moral Stuff
Swearing including the use of f*** once.
Evidence of intercourse when Bruce Wayne leaves his party to go into his “panic room”.
What movie doesn’t have some sort of lie?
The two boats with the 30,000 people each…
Batman and his killing line.
Putting a cell phone inside someone? That’s just weird. Therefore, I’m putting it here.
Joker in a skirt. ‘Nough said.
Stupidity Moments (SPOILERS)
Seriously? With the whole hostage thing, why did everyone assume the clowns were the bad guys? With Joker being a criminal genius, why did no one think, “The clowns are in plain sight. What idiot does that? I thought Joker wasn’t an idiot!”
Why o why o why o why, did Batman put the cell phone map in front of his vision. Why not just let Fox guide him. Stupid Batman, almost getting himself killed for x-ray vision!
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