Title: Avatar
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Michalle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore
Year: 2009
Genre: Science-fiction
Certificate: 12
Rating: *
I must say first that yes, this has been a breakthrough in cinema. The visual effects (aside from being jerky at times) were impressive, and Pandora is a relatively believable planet. However, I still cannot understand how exactly this film is being hailed one of the greatest films of all times?
For a start, the script. I was wincing throughout the film, it was so dire. It seems Cameron decided to add in several four-letter words just for the sake of appealing to a wider audience, when all it actually served to do was make him look like a bit of an arse, if I'm honest. Now, I am a great fan of Sigourney Weaver - she was brilliant in Alien - but here? No, her acting was absolutely appalling, her character empty. In fact, the only decent acting in the entire film was by Joel David Moore, and his part was excruciatingly small.
One last thing before I finish - never ever do a sex scene between two blue, computerised characters. It just looks wrong. Seriously.
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Monday, 3 May 2010
Sunday, 10 May 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Director: J. J. Abrams
Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Karl Urban, John Cho, Zoe Saldana, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg
Genre: Science-fiction
Certificate: 12
Rating: *****
I've never seen anything to do with Star Trek before, even though I am a lover of sci-fi. After watching this film, I am going to watch every single film and series of Star Trek, simply because I absolutely ADORE it! Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg...all are fantastic actors, and all out-do themselves in their performances in this film. The plot is great - it is extremely clever to think about someone coming back from the future and changing the past, causing that future to maybe never happen. There is a perfect balance of comedy and action in this film to make it a modern classic. One minute you are laughing, the next your pulse is racing as a fight has just broken out (and trust me, there are loads of fights). All I can do is congratulate Mr. Abrams for directing a masterpiece.
Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Karl Urban, John Cho, Zoe Saldana, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg
Genre: Science-fiction
Certificate: 12
Rating: *****
I've never seen anything to do with Star Trek before, even though I am a lover of sci-fi. After watching this film, I am going to watch every single film and series of Star Trek, simply because I absolutely ADORE it! Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg...all are fantastic actors, and all out-do themselves in their performances in this film. The plot is great - it is extremely clever to think about someone coming back from the future and changing the past, causing that future to maybe never happen. There is a perfect balance of comedy and action in this film to make it a modern classic. One minute you are laughing, the next your pulse is racing as a fight has just broken out (and trust me, there are loads of fights). All I can do is congratulate Mr. Abrams for directing a masterpiece.
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