j-davidc13
Iscritto in data mag 2010
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This is an amazing series. Creepy, atmospheric, populated by interesting characters and a very intricate plot that unfolds bit by bit. Great performances, especially by Scott Glenn and Sissy Spacek. One of the best King-inspired shows ever.
Prometheus stole fire from the gods to grant to humans, and for his crime he was sentenced to have his liver devoured over and over for all eternity.
If you keep that in mind, you'll get a lot more out of Prometheus, Ridley Scott's much-anticipated return to the world he created in 1979's Alien.
Originally billed (and still very much recognizable as) a prequel to that classic sci-fi horror film, Prometheus is a lavishly produced, beautifully filmed and well-acted movie. It has outstanding performances from Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, and (barely recognizable) Guy Pearce.
Archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway (Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green) have discovered ancient pictograms all over the world showing alien figures pointing to a star pattern, a pattern recognizable in a distant area of space, possibly a map leading to the creators of the human race. With funding from the Weyland Corporation, they mount an expedition to that region, to seek out these beings, and maybe learn the origin of mankind itself. What could possibly go wrong?
Ridley Scott is still very much the great filmmaker we remember, able to keep you glued to your seat and biting your nails as the plot unfolds. The first half of the movie really lives up to your expectation, building suspense and then reaching a point where you really feel like it's about to take off into serious horror.
But that's exactly the moment where the movie spins off its axis, with disparate plot threads falling off into unexplored plot holes, and the thrill ride screeching to a halt so the movie can pontificate.
The problem is that the film, as written by John Spaihts and Damon Lindelof, although a chronological prequel to Alien, doesn't feel like a sci-fi movie, rarely feels like a horror movie, and is dissimilar in tone to Alien in almost every way. Scott, Spaihts, and Lindelof have given us mythology where once we had menace, gods in place of our favorite monsters, and turned one of our favorite thrill rides into a somber meditation on mortality, sacrifice, and selfishness. The movie suffers from a slow pace and an anti-climactic finish, and lets its desire to retell Greek myth overwhelm its natural function to make a cool as hell movie. It's good, but it's not as good as you want it to be.
But there's always hope. Hell, maybe James Cameron will direct Prometheus 2.
Game over, man. Game over. (See more of my reviews at clarketaculargeek.wordpress.com)
If you keep that in mind, you'll get a lot more out of Prometheus, Ridley Scott's much-anticipated return to the world he created in 1979's Alien.
Originally billed (and still very much recognizable as) a prequel to that classic sci-fi horror film, Prometheus is a lavishly produced, beautifully filmed and well-acted movie. It has outstanding performances from Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, and (barely recognizable) Guy Pearce.
Archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway (Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green) have discovered ancient pictograms all over the world showing alien figures pointing to a star pattern, a pattern recognizable in a distant area of space, possibly a map leading to the creators of the human race. With funding from the Weyland Corporation, they mount an expedition to that region, to seek out these beings, and maybe learn the origin of mankind itself. What could possibly go wrong?
Ridley Scott is still very much the great filmmaker we remember, able to keep you glued to your seat and biting your nails as the plot unfolds. The first half of the movie really lives up to your expectation, building suspense and then reaching a point where you really feel like it's about to take off into serious horror.
But that's exactly the moment where the movie spins off its axis, with disparate plot threads falling off into unexplored plot holes, and the thrill ride screeching to a halt so the movie can pontificate.
The problem is that the film, as written by John Spaihts and Damon Lindelof, although a chronological prequel to Alien, doesn't feel like a sci-fi movie, rarely feels like a horror movie, and is dissimilar in tone to Alien in almost every way. Scott, Spaihts, and Lindelof have given us mythology where once we had menace, gods in place of our favorite monsters, and turned one of our favorite thrill rides into a somber meditation on mortality, sacrifice, and selfishness. The movie suffers from a slow pace and an anti-climactic finish, and lets its desire to retell Greek myth overwhelm its natural function to make a cool as hell movie. It's good, but it's not as good as you want it to be.
But there's always hope. Hell, maybe James Cameron will direct Prometheus 2.
Game over, man. Game over. (See more of my reviews at clarketaculargeek.wordpress.com)
Ever see the Tom Cruise movie Risky Business? Yeah, me too. Great fun, isn't it? But did you ever get to the end and think, "No way." Yeah, me too. Ever wonder what might happen if a party really did go out of control like that? Yeah...me too...
Currently grabbing headlines for it's inspiration of a string of costly (and, in one recent case, deadly) teen parties, Project X attempts to answer that question. Three high school kids decide to throw a giant, "epic" party to capture some fame, propel themselves to legendary status at their school, and hopefully get laid.
Produced by Todd Phillips and directed by Nima Nourizadeh, the film continues in the tradition of other Phillips films (such as The Hangover) by throwing the most despicable behavior in the universe on screen and using it as fodder for laughs. Unlike The Hangover, the laughs don't come nearly as often, which is far more unforgivable than anything done by its characters.
If you can choke down the stupidity, the teen sex, the drug abuse, the abuse of animals, and the never-ending cavalcade of absolute and unbridled misogyny, Project X does have its cinematic rewards. It is mildly funny, in its over the top zeal. And it does cause jaw dropping reactions as the scale of the chaos is pumped up past the point of no return and into the stratosphere. Plus, the found footage filmmaking method gives it an extreme verisimilitude (for the most part), resulting in a feeling that you are seeing something insane actually happening in this suburban neighborhood.
But the really egregious error the movie makes is in trying to spoon feed you some Pablum and make you think everything's okay. That's not the answer we wanted, and it's not even an answer that makes any sense. It's what one kid deplores in the movie as "bitching out", and though the movie expects its protagonists to be better than that, it has no problem doing it itself, leaving you to go home feeling cheated and unfulfilled.
Screw it, just rent Risky Business and watch that instead. At least you'll laugh more.
Rating: 2/5 Recommendation: Wait for cable. And read more of my reviews at clarketaculargeek.wordpress.com!
Currently grabbing headlines for it's inspiration of a string of costly (and, in one recent case, deadly) teen parties, Project X attempts to answer that question. Three high school kids decide to throw a giant, "epic" party to capture some fame, propel themselves to legendary status at their school, and hopefully get laid.
Produced by Todd Phillips and directed by Nima Nourizadeh, the film continues in the tradition of other Phillips films (such as The Hangover) by throwing the most despicable behavior in the universe on screen and using it as fodder for laughs. Unlike The Hangover, the laughs don't come nearly as often, which is far more unforgivable than anything done by its characters.
If you can choke down the stupidity, the teen sex, the drug abuse, the abuse of animals, and the never-ending cavalcade of absolute and unbridled misogyny, Project X does have its cinematic rewards. It is mildly funny, in its over the top zeal. And it does cause jaw dropping reactions as the scale of the chaos is pumped up past the point of no return and into the stratosphere. Plus, the found footage filmmaking method gives it an extreme verisimilitude (for the most part), resulting in a feeling that you are seeing something insane actually happening in this suburban neighborhood.
But the really egregious error the movie makes is in trying to spoon feed you some Pablum and make you think everything's okay. That's not the answer we wanted, and it's not even an answer that makes any sense. It's what one kid deplores in the movie as "bitching out", and though the movie expects its protagonists to be better than that, it has no problem doing it itself, leaving you to go home feeling cheated and unfulfilled.
Screw it, just rent Risky Business and watch that instead. At least you'll laugh more.
Rating: 2/5 Recommendation: Wait for cable. And read more of my reviews at clarketaculargeek.wordpress.com!