Day: May 14, 2010

E.T.: The Extra – Terrestrial is a movie that many people told me was very good. I watched it for the first time this week and I thought it was very good and defiantly deserved the praise given.

E.T. is about a crazy phenomenon that shows a space shuttle full of aliens that lands on Earth, but in a rush has to leave Earth but accidentally leaves one of their people on Earth. The plot shows how E.T. the alien that was left finds friendship with a boy named Elliot and his sister and brother, and his journey home.

This movie is a very good movie. Even though this movie was made many years ago, it definitely is a must see movie for people of all ages. The ang\les of the camera really helped with the tone and mood of the movie. An example being when the cops were searching for anything around where the space shuttle had landed, the angles of the camera helped give the affect that they were rushing and searching for whatever they could find.
The acting in the movie is very well done. I am honestly not a very big Drew Barrymore fan and most of her movies I think about her as a person, and not her character. But in this movie I had a delightful shock part of the way through the movie when the realization that the little girl is Drew Barrymore. I thought the little boy Elliot did a rather good job, but the mother bothered me a bit.
Overall I think the movie was very good and definitely deserves the praises. I would probably give the film 8 Grace Points* because I enjoyed it a lot but it is not my type of movie, and didn’t make me very excited about having watched it.

* Grace points are how many cookies I would give the director/people in the film. If I liked the movie a lot, they get a lot of cookies, but if I don’t like it, then they might very little cookies, or I might even steal cookies from them (as in negative points).

J.J. Abrams, who brought us such films and TV shows as Armageddon, Mission: Impossible III, Cloverfield, and Lost, recently directed and produced Star Trek in summer 2009. He is personally one of my favorite directors – he’s funny, creative, and knows when to be serious. However, when my friends dragged me to see Star Trek in theaters, I wasn’t expecting much because I’m more of a Star Wars guy. It was the second day the movie had opened in theaters, and there were still a good number of Trekkies dressed in detailed costumes. I was expecting to see a very cheesy movie. I was in for a pleasant surprise.

Not only were the special effects and actions sequences beyond breathtaking, but the script was brilliant. There was a great balance of humor, drama, and love. The cast was wonderfully chosen, showcasing great up-and-coming actors as Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Saldana. The score to the film was nearly perfect and composed by Michael Giacchino, a favorite composer of mine (he has also composed the score to Lost).

One thing I especially love about the film is that you don’t need to have an obsessive knowledge of the Star Trek universe prior to watching it. This film focused on how the original Star Trek crew came together. It shows us an alternate reality, in that a black hole changed everyone’s lives. This made all the characters seemingly different than how they were in the TV series, which must have been refreshing to longtime fans. I give Star Trek five out of five stars because it was an amazing film overall. And when all the Trekkies in the audience gave it a standing ovation at the theater, it was the perfect end to an awesome night.

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Hey, y’all. Just saw Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked, to you kids in the UK). It’s pretty interesting.

It’s 1966. British people in power (not Parliament, just a few people in power of a local government) hate the newfangled Rock and Roll that’s so obviously corrupting everybody in the entire area horribly. So it’s banned from the airwaves. A ship anchored to the coast begins to broadcast 24 hours a day, making the people happy. Which is what they want. A kid is sent onto the boat by his mother to learn how to stop being rebellious (his godfather is on the boat). This leads to all sorts of hilarity, and… well, I can’t say much more without utterly ruining it.

Anyway. I thought that much of the filming was good, the music was all right (I’m not a great fan of music from that era), and some of the background music was great at keeping tension strung really tight. There’s also some great comedic moments, which I’m not going to ruin.
What I didn’t really like was the music itself. That’s just me, though, because again, I’m not a fan of 60’s music. Just something that bugs me a bit. Anyway.

That’s the review. Pretty good movie, I’d recommend it.

So… we need a title for the Putt Putt doc. It has to be something pretty cool because it’s flying out of Jason London’s screaming mouth (courtesy of Pat Flynn). We are putting together a rough cut for Allen to look at. I feel like the basic skeleton is finally coming together and we just need to find and add some more b-roll. This doc won’t be perfect but I think it will be pretty okay. And it’s going to be on a legit DVD that thousands of people will see! Kinda cool stuff. 

Alright boys and girls it’s Fishfactor Flex here, your friendly neighborhood superhero fanatic. It’s time for me to review the newly released blockbuster, Iron Man 2. And what a movie this was. It had action, romance, and a hell of a lot more action.

The story starts out when Tony Stark realizes that his magnetic heart gadget is slowly poisoning him and killing him. He needs to find a new way to keep the shrapnel in his body from damaging his heart. Tony’s company is on the up and up while Justin Hammer’s company is just plain terrible. Hammer realizes believes that he can make a better Iron Man suit so he recruits the help of a Russian named Ivan, who will later become one of Iron Man’s arch enemies Whiplash. Ivan is supposed to be making Hammers new suit but instead is fixated on getting revenge on Tony for his families wrong doings. He makes electrical whips that tear through virtually any material and even severely damage one of Tony’s suits early in the movie. One of Tony’s good friends, Colonel Rhodes, played by Don Cheadle and Terrence Howard in the first movie, tries to help Tony when he slips into a slight depression. Tony decides to throw a party and get drunk while wearing the Iron Man suit and Rhody can’t do anything but put on one of the prototypes to stop him. They get into a fight and Rhody eventually leaves with the suit, he appears later with weapons galore attached and a new paint job. He is now War Machine. Rhody and Tony need to work together at the end to fight off whiplash who creates a bad@$$ suit of his own.

I thought the movie was fantastic and I liked it better than the first one which was also amazing The only problem is is that the last fight lasts like 2 minutes and I would have liked to see a lot more fighting between Iron Man and Whiplash. But that being said the movie was great and I would give it a 4 out of 5 stars. Gotta go see this one.