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we saw two movies this weekend. the chronicles of riddick was like a very pretty, gorgeously costumed and cinematographized (is that a word??!) but very bad soap opera. can vin diesel say more than five words at a time? and why does he always play the same character? (yes, i’m aware that this actually WAS the same character from Pitch Black). movies that are obvious vehicles for their stars annoy me. it was like listening to two hours of catch phrases and sound bites. so maybe if they’d just turned off the sound and made it half as long, it would’ve been great.
we also saw… oh god, can i really admit this in a public forum? [sigh] okay… here goes… we saw dodgeball. speaking of vehicles for stars… [ahem] but it was funny! it was very enjoyable! it was one of ben stiller’s two characters! it wasn’t the “do it. do it. do it.” guy… it was more of the lovable zero-brained idiot character, but with more of an asshole edge.
next on the list: saved.
i’ve been very sad for the past week. the appropriate people will know why. i desperately hope that it works out. i am mentally sending all my love and strength your way.
We saw The Terminal last week, not Spielberg’s best, not his worst. It had lots of good parts but there was some stuff that was pretty hard to buy into. I’m trying to drag Kat to Riddick. This would have been aided by your writing a glowing review. Alas, I’ll just have to keep dragging. 😉
Brett
lol! glowing review, my ass! mayhaps i was a bit too harsh in my previous comments. it wasn’t that bad a movie, i did enjoy it for various reasons, and the plot was at least interesting (utilizing numerous common themes from various sci-fi stories). mostly, though, like i said it was absolutely beautiful.
but the cheeseball riddick dialog… oh man, that was hard to swallow. i found myself giggling at it. “It’s been along time since I smelled beautiful.” GAG! and it was just so poorly written overall, to wit: the planet Crematoria… it’s very HOT. get it??! man, that’s a tough one to figure out!
From efilmcritic.com:“It is on Crematoria that the film’s dumbest events occur, all centering around the planet’s curious weather patterns: It is 700 degrees during the day, -300 at night. People are incinerated the instant sunlight touches them, yet for some reason, no one needs so much as a sweater at night, when it’s -300.
“Also, you can escape the deadly heat if you hide in the outcropping of a rock or in some other shady place. You’d think that when it’s 700 degrees out, it would still be, oh, maybe 690 in the shade. But no. On Crematoria, when it’s high noon and people are bursting into flames before your eyes, you’re nice and comfortable as long as the sun isn’t hitting you directly. Such egregious ignorance of the way weather works has not been displayed since … well, a couple weeks ago, when ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ came out.
“Also, it’s pretty easy to outrun the sun on Crematoria. When you see it’s about to be sunrise, and light is beginning to flood the landscape, you just have to book it in the other direction and you’re fine. I mean, you have to run FAST and everything, but it is possible. (On Earth, by the way, you’d have to be running about 1,000 miles per hour, but maybe Crematoria rotates a lot more slowly.)”
It’s not that I’m NOT recommending this film… you should just know what to expect: a bad soap opera with bad-ass cinematography.
HA!!
Ha, HA!
And again I say, HA!
: )
K2