'Reviews'에 해당되는 글 81건
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2009.12.27
To Live
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2009.12.23
Avatar
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2009.12.13
The Blind Side
I know exactly how Zhang Yimou's movies would go.
But almost every time (of course, not all the time), he impresses me.
From the title alone, I knew exactly how this movie would go.
Unfortunate events of characters, but people holding onto their lives.
That was exactly it.
But Zhang still makes it work for me.
My only one problem with the movie. C'mon! Gong Li in the movie grows old up to like 60 years old woman.
Draw some wrinkles on her.
But she still played the role perfectly.
It's a known fact that she began being in Zhang's movie because she was sleeping with him, but she still can damn act. Also, at that time, at her age, I don't think it's a role she'd play if she wasn't serious about her acting.
Rating: 4.5/5
Oh, this movie needs a post-script. That's right. It's about China and the commies. Commies suck. I hate commies, and China is still full of commies, apparently. They didn't allow this movie to be shown in China and they didn't allow Zhang to make movies for 2 years after this movie. Yeah, that sounds like a commies' work right.
Posted by 【洪】ILHONG
Honestly, I wasn't 100% into the movie.
For one, I read too much about the movie (although not those spoilers). I read a lot about its technology and ideas where the movie seems to be borrowing from.
And another... I was worried about JYK's eye (to watch something intensely for 3 hours) and her dinner.
But I still watched the movie from the very beginning till the end.
...and I am sorry. It didn't meet my expectations.
First, Cameron copied too many things from other great minds, especially from Miyazaki (WSJ article had pointed out this prior to my viewing, and I confirmed it was true).
Hallelujah Mountain was just like Castle in the Sky. The whole idea of Eywa and the connection between Pandora forest and Na'vi was just like Mononoke Hime. There were other Miyazaki resemblances.
Na'vi actually looked like one of the game characters I saw. Was it WOW? I am not sure where it was, but I definitely saw one that looks alike in the game trailers.
I can't believe I am saying this, but Titanic to me was more impressive as a movie than Avatar. Sure, Avatar got the best visual technology embedded, but I am writing this as a movie viewer, not a regular geek who gets high on anything techy. I know right now, Titanic feels like one of the crappiest movies ever, but when I watched that movie for the first time, I was awed. With Avatar, however, I was not awed or felt nothing except with the visuals.
The theme of the movie, which was centered on the importance of nature and humanity is not a new theme and is exploited so much better by the movies and animations that Cameron is borrowing from.
But still, very good. Not awing, not hella impressive, but just plain very good.
I wanna try IMAX 3D version to maximize its technicalities. I heard people would get nauseous with all the high altitude scenes. I sure would want to try. Maybe I will go alone to Sony Metreon for the biggest IMAX scene in the upper Bay Area on Sunday or so. There is one right across my neighborhood, but the IMAX screen is smaller than Metreon's.
Also, this movie might not be as big of a hit as Titanic was. Everyone, literally everyone could watch Titanic and enjoy it. I don't think elders of at least 65 years would pay to watch blue people for 3 hours. So, I don't think this movie would break the box office hit number of Titanic. That's my guess. I could be wrong, of course.
If you are into action epic movies, you might give 5/5. But I always need some emotional fulfillment in every movie to give 5/5.
To me, this movie was never intended to be 100% action movie, and it was not 100% drama either.
So, I was supposed to expect some emotions flowing from the movie, and I felt nothing.
It was entertaining, it was giving me goosebumps at times with the views, it was exciting, but still felt something was lacking.
4/5
Posted by 【洪】ILHONG
Michael Oher story dramatized, I guess.
I felt like the movie was trying to juice out emotions than let it flow from the movie to the viewer.
...and those rednecks are horrible indeed.
Glad I am in California... Glad I am in the San Francisco Bay Area, most of all.
Tried too hard that it felt cheap.
And the commercials saying it's the best performance of Sandra Bullock is all bogus to me.
2.5/5
Posted by 【洪】ILHONG
