Movie Reviews
This week I have been all about the movies...
Star TrekWasn't sure whether to go see this or not. I have quite fond memories of Star Trek over the years, and all the posters did look extraordinarily gay. However I took the plunge.
Plot: Incomprehensible. And when you do work out whats going on, it proves to be drivel.
Acting: Um, yeah. The guy playing Kirk captures that Young Zap Brannigan, thing nicely - although they seem to have cut-and-pasted in big chunks of Good Will Hunting to provide 'motivation'. The guy playing young Spock just looks like he needs a crap the whole time. Leonard Nimoy is only given expositionary lines, and phones in the most ho hum performace I've seen in a while. Worst offender is Simon Pegg who overacts like he's been taking the same pills Jim Carrey seems to be on, and can't actually do a Scottish accent.
For some reason, every character seems to have been
Mary Sue'd to destruction.
Did I mention that the plot is incomprehensible? I had thought of listing out all the gaping plot holes here, but I can't be arsed. Suffice it to say, nothing bears close examination, and its all utter cack.
Oh yeah, and what the fuck is with the little gargoyle dude that follws Scotty around?
Bizarrely I quite enjoyed the film, but I'm damned if I can work out why.
CoralineNice adaptation. the animation is flawless, and the whole thing looks gorgeous. It works really well in 3D. THey didn't even rape the book too badly (not that its a particularly good book, but, y'know...). If you want to know what all this 3D stuff looks like these days, this is a nice place to start.
Wolverine
Plot: Almost, but not quite, as incomprehensible as Star Trek.
I presume the film was produced by Harold Zoid (Emote damn you!) since the over-acting bug claims a few more victims here. Hugh Jackman doesn't really bother with any acting at all, but delivers his, by-the-numbers Wolverine. A very strange noisy film with a very flat ending. I guess it's a bit like watching Titanic, you pretty much know how its going to turn out, but still, they could have done more with it. Its about two hours long, and I don't believe that within that time Logan finishes one single conversation without the person he's talking to being shot, stabbed, blown-up, or dying some sort of hideous and uneccesary death. Yawn.
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