Moby Went to See…Pixels

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Aug 112015
 

pixlogoForgive me for I have sinned…I went and paid money to see Pixels. And you know, it was not quite as bad as I was expecting.

Now to be fair, I was expecting to see a steaming pile of dog excrement, so the bar was a bit lower than normal. Let’s be honest, the reviews were brutal. But the plot was actually coherant and the movie was professionally made. The CGI worked well enough, the casting was good for the tone they were going for and all that. Disagree? Well, that’s easy enough when the plot is ridiculous. A movie this silly allows for a lot of leeway in casting.

Sure, Kevin James as the President of the US was a stretch, but so what.  I just kept telling myself he was elected by that party that will elect anyone and it just worked. Continue reading »

Moby Went to See…CHAPPiE?

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Mar 142015
 

Chappie_posterForgive me for I have sinned…I went and paid money to see CHAPPiE. And you know it was not all that bad overall.

The movie can best be described as being better in total than it’s separate parts would indicate. There’s plenty to not like about the movie throughout, but all in all I actually enjoyed it.

Of course, Spoilers!

There’s plenty of thuggery and lawlessness, and perhaps that was not necessary. Why the producers decided to make this film the way they did…I just don’t know. Perhaps there is some meaning to it, some sort of man vs machine version of moral equivalency. The movie seems to be saying that we humans are no better than machines, that we are all messed up too.  Continue reading »

Moby Went to See…Jupiter Ascending?

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Feb 122015
 

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Forgive me for I have sinned…I went and paid money to see Jupiter Ascending. And you know it was not all that bad for a sequel to The Fifth Element.

There was a sort of ‘Fifth Element’ feel to the Galaxy, or was that just me? The movie itself was alright, but again…and this keeps happening lately…I am reminded of what I don’t like about the state of movies nowadays.

There used to be art in making films. If the script was not right you simply did not go ahead until it was. It was understood that the story was the most important thing, but not so much anymore. Now it seems like it’s all about visuals and stars and money concerns. I get that movies need to make money but there used to be artists making them, artists that did not want their names on a polished turd, just to get ahead or make money. They gave a crap about their craft.

I guess what I am trying to say is that this is no Indiana Jones, but it’s not all that bad either. At least it wasn’t a sequel or something derived from another property just for the sake of a recognizable name, like Battleship or High-Ho Cherry-O.

I liked that it was original and it did feel like the filmmakers were taking a leap. I kept telling myself ‘this is Space Opera’ and that went a long way towards forgiving what at times was simply not otherwise impressive. The visuals were top notch but the aliens themselves are one dimensional, just the usual bad guys are very bad and the good guys fart lightning. Continue reading »

Moby Went to See…Seventh Son?

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Feb 102015
 

Forgive me for I have sinned…I went and paid money to see Seventh Son. And you know it was not all that bad for a sequel to True Grit.

It was a bit hard to get into though.

You know how sometimes you lose the remote and find yourself watching a low budget fantasy and think to yourself ‘if only they had a larger budget to work with and someone in it who’s name I recognized’ that it would not be so bad.

Then at some later date you see Seventh Son and realize why you don’t work in Hollywood.

The casting was off right from the start.

Enjoying movies requires that you suspend your disbelief and such, and that can be quite a chore when Julianne Moore looks a little too much like Julianne Moore. At least she got dressed up as a Valkyrie in The Big Lebowski, but here she is made to work with nothing but some dark makeup and turning into a dragon from time to time. I guess you just have to keep reminding yourself she’s some big bad-ass fantasy witch. I kept at it and eventually she seemed to be OK for the part. No, not really.

Of course Jeff Bridges reprises his role as Rooster Cogburn (True Grit), but the character himself just didn’t seem right. Again, not Jeff’s fault, he nails the cantankerous old coot. I was just hoping they would write in a new character. Continue reading »

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