movies: July 2005 archives
War of the Movies
[ rakaur on Tue Jul 12 at 11:53 AM // category: life, movies, nikki, relationships ]
So, turns out the girl I liked from work thinks she’s knocked up. I just don’t win.
So, working at a movie theater I tend to see most of the movies that are out nowadays. Unfortunately, they all suck. What happened to good movies with solid character and plot development? Just as a reference point for you, two of my favorite movies are “What Dreams May Come” and “The Shawshank Redemption.”
Take “War of the Worlds,” a modernized version of the 1898 book “The War of the Worlds” by H. G. Wells (also known for “The Time Machine,” “The Invisible Man,” and “The Island of Doctor Moreau”) and a remake of the 1953 original movie. Of course “modernized” in Hollywood means “in America” and “with Tom Cruise.” They did a fairly good job maintaining the plot, but the character development was shit. Instead of following a doctor working on the actual problem, they follow a chicken shit Tom Cruise around while he pisses and moans about his stupid fuck of a son. I can only be content that they didn’t mess up the plot.
And how about “Batman Begins”? It was a decent movie, but why is it so ungodly long? Two and a half hours for a stupid comic book movie? The shitty flashback/forwards were horrible too. It took me two viewings to really get at what point in his life we were currently watching. Why do directors pull that shit? All it does is make the plot harder to follow. It would have been a good movie if it would have gotten to a quicker start. Everyone expected it to be huge, and it never even sold out at our theater. Neither did Episode III.
I don’t know if I even want to see Fantastic 4 for fear of it being fantastic shit.
-- rakaur // 2005.07.12 @ 11:53 AM
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