Okay, fine. It isn’t really.
This poster is actually just the product of my not getting enough sleep after the Star Trek Into Darkness midnight premiere.
I made it and decided to post it, because I thought maybe someone else out there might think it’s funny, too.
For a “romantic comedy”, this was pretty depressing at times.
I loved the soundtrack, though. Then again, I was already a Sun Kil Moon fan.
I don’t usually like Jason Schwartzman, but his character was harmlessly quirky here. Or maybe I was too distracted by Claire Danes to notice.
They bookended the movie with inventive camera movements, but they gave that up in the middle in favor of over-saturation.
Enough stuff to take a point off for, but my days of listing every single small thing are long gone.
I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d watch this again, but two years ago, I would never have imagined a scenario where I’d be writing a daily blog with over 1,000 (super cool) subscribers…So you never know, right?
When rebooting a series, is it possible to be too faithful to the originals? Yes. Yes, it is. Star Trek gave them a clean slate, but they’re using it to trace.
Then there’s the whole matter of the Deus Ex Spock-ina…
Everyone was less of a caricature of the original cast this time around. They all brought their own personal touches to the characters.
I noticed the lens flares a lot more with this one, mainly because I knew to look for them. They don’t bother me, though.
This one had nothing that I saw. Then again, I’ve been wrong on two of the two new movies I’ve seen this month, so perhaps I’m wrong here, too.
I avoided trailers and advanced footage as best I could. Based on what little I did encounter, I thought going in that this was going to be “The Dark Knight Rises…in space!”, but happily that was not true.
I wrote this review about 6 months ago, so read it at your own risk.
It does a good job of staying true to, and paying tribute to, the originals, and it accomplishes a “soft reboot” in a creative way that fits the series.
I had no idea the bad guy was played by Eric Bana until about the third or fourth time I saw this.
As for the main crew, they all do decent jobs of imitating the original actors of their respective roles, no matter how obnoxious some of them may be.
The whole thing where Kirk’s hands got huge was kind of cartoony, but it wasn’t a bad effect (especially since it wasn’t CGI).
The Nokia phone panel in the car was kind of strange, but it was only there for a second.
While it’s a little more action-centric than the originals, it’s still a fun watch.
They re-imagined so many aspects of the Mario universe in creative ways here. Too bad the movie got too dumb for its own good several times, though.
Then again, it was never meant to be taken seriously anyway.
I’ll never be able to look at Fisher Stevens the same way again.
At least they got the Luigi / Daisy thing right!
Every scene had tons of things going on at once, most of which weren’t important to the plot. It occasionally got distracting.
The puppetry was great, though.
Obvious video game things aside, Mario used a bottle of Evian water to fix the van, and the Bob-omb was wearing Reeboks for some reason.
Super Mario Bros. doesn’t exactly lend itself well to a movie format, but since it’s one of the most popular video games of all time, a movie was inevitable.
Sure, it was cheesy and stupid, but it’s the good kind of cheesy and stupid.
After a while, it felt like they were bashing me over the head with all the Greek stuff. I get that’s the premise of the whole movie, but there’s such a thing as too much.
But, then again, it was a whole lot funnier than I was expecting.
So many crazy supporting characters. Without them, this movie wouldn’t have been nearly as fun.
I got no complaints.
I guess I better take a point off for all the Windex.
This is a movie I’ve wanted to see ever since it came out, but I have no idea why. I’m happy to say it wasn’t a disappointment.
Tonight, on “Movies That are Inexplicably Rated R” Theatre…
This kind of movie doesn’t have much of an overall plot. It’s several small plots all connected to each other and connected to a location.
As such, there aren’t any of the small plots that were bad or left unresolved, so I have nothing negative to say.
Still not a fan of Julia Roberts, but all the other characters were great.
Plus, it’s interesting that Vincent D’Onofrio, a guy I’d never heard of a few months ago, is popping up in so many movies I’m watching lately.
I guess I better come up with a better reason to give a 3 here than “Annabeth Gish”…Then again, this is my blog so I can write whatever I feel like, right?
Most of the movies from around this time look the same anyway.
Even though part of the abundance of Coke and Miller Lite in this movie was due to them filming in real businesses, there’s just so much of both that they can’t completely be coincidence.
Sometimes the Rewatchability score is a question of whether or not I think the average person would enjoy sitting through it more than once. Sometimes it’s a question of whether or not I specifically would want to sit through it more than once.
Today it’s the latter, and the answer is “…Maybe?”.
This movie works well for the most part if you think of it as an unofficial sequel to The King’s Speech.
It was a relatively happy, friendly movie up until the last half hour, then it took a strange, somewhat drastic, turn in tone.
I kept getting Eleanor Roosevelt and…that other lady who wasn’t the main character or the Queen…confused.
Things got incredibly dark and hard to see for a while right around the same time the plot changed (as mentioned above).
This isn’t exactly a product placement issue, but I have nowhere else to put it…
What was up with those weird hot dog buns? It’s like they smashed the hot dogs into the side of the bun without opening it.
I went into this movie prepared to be a little bored. I spent the majority of the movie being pleasantly surprised. I ended the movie a bit disappointed and unimpressed.
I’m comparing again, but this version is more…poetic?…than the 1970′s version, which seemed to be more of a no-frills telling of the story.
I don’t usually discuss the soundtracks of films, but I took a point off for it here because, while I can appreciate anachronisms when used correctly, the music here didn’t fit at all. It kept knocking me out of the world that the rest of the film was trying so hard to pull me into.
Even though he looked like Peewee Herman for most of the movie, this kind of role is perfect for Tobey Maguire, and Leonardo DiCaprio made a pretty good Gatsby.
It took a while for the visuals promised in the trailer to kick in, and once they did, they left me with sort of a “this is it?” feeling.
Then again, maybe that’s because this movie was designed to be seen in 3D, and the late-night premiere at the local theater was 2D only.
Perhaps some of the billboards shown in Times Square were of real companies that existed long ago, but even if that’s true, it doesn’t matter.
EDIT: It has come to my attention that I am not good at finding products sometimes Moet champagne is everywhere in this. Since I am only human know next-to-nothing about champagne, I missed it.
The 1920′s is my favorite decade (if I had to pick one), so this is one of those movies I knew I’d probably enjoy before I even walked into the theater, and it will probably only get better with a few repeated viewings.
Today’s post title from one of the deleted scenes…because I know you were wondering.
It’s been several years since I read the book, and I still remember several things they left out or changed, but that always happens during the book-to-movie transition.
If it wasn’t for that emotionless robot of a kid, I’d have given a 3 here, too. This movie is full of actors that I’ve come to enjoy after sitting through hundreds of movies for TIWAM.
This movie is built around the visuals: Quick cuts, cutaways, freeze frames, some pretty cool opening credits. Things change so much and so quickly, it’s almost an extension of the main character’s fast-talking ways.
Not as much as you’d expect in a movie like this, actually.
I originally saw this movie about a year after it came out. I hated it, mostly because I really enjoyed the book…and I didn’t watch many movies back then.
Now that I’ve seen it again, I’m recommending it to approximately 1,000 people all at once.