Postby Squigsquasher » Tue Feb 11, 2014 8:36 am
Well, I watched I Am Number 4. Where to begin?
Well, this DVD was a gift from my godawful school, and as soon as I tore the shrinkwrap off I knew something was wrong; it still had the red plastic security tab in it. I wonder how legitimately this DVD was obtained. I wouldn't be surprised if it had been pikeyed, as the school I'm at at the moment, Muntham House (which I only go to so I can get to Chichester College, because reasons) was infamous for harbouring a massive paedophile ring in the 70s (amusingly enough, the article is blocked on the school computers). But enough about my school.
Anyway, after we managed to tear the security tab out and damaged the box in the process, I began to wish we hadn't bothered. This film...is crap. Not unspeakably awful, not even so bad it's good, just...crap.
For starters, the acting is dreadful. Seriously, the dog was the best actor in this film. The MC was extremely generic, the love interest was boring, basically all the characters were straight out of the book of stock Hollywood cliches. The acting was wooden, the writing was extremely meh, it was just bad.
The story was just a teen romance disguised as an alien movie. As expected, the "Good" aliens were just good-looking humans with the ability to make things glow and shiny weapons. The "Evil" aliens were skinheads with gills, tattoos, sharp teeth and silly accents. Seriously, can't we have some protag aliens with 4 arms, red skin, 6 eyes and dual sets of genitalia? And maybe some villains who resemble hyper-exaggerated aryans?
The effects were, well, they were OK I guess? The creatures were pretty cool, everything else was painfully generic.
Eh, I've run out of things to say about this film. It's like a slightly less painful, version of Twilight, but with glowy aliens instead of sparkly vampires.
Hopefully I'll be able to watch The Lego Movie soon, which looks brilliant.
Here lies Squigsquasher.
2013-2017.
Oz wrote:Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha: It is rare to come across a film that I can appreciate and enjoy for its marvellous direction and execution, but can't get over how much I hate the protagonist. It's not like she is even badly written in Frances Ha, but it really made me more critical of the film. I loved the film's relentless pacing and ambitious/crazy editing - they were clearly made to mimic the protagonist's personality and how she sees the world (and it worked very well like that). My beef with the film is how the naive ending refuses to acknowledge the downsides of the bizarre protagonist and instead remains in the fantasy world she has created for herself. The film seemed to be building towards a different sort of ending and now all the tricks the film pulled seem more like the director being hip for the sake of being hip. The combination of chaotic dialogue and second-hand embarrassment can be quite overwhelming at times, but I guess the film is a fairly good portrayal of carefree and socially inept wannabe artists.
That's why I didn't say "it was bad" since it's quite obvious, that this movie wasn't made for "people like me". As far as I can tell, many RoboCop-Fans dislike the remake for similar reasons like the ones I listed.
