[wtH] X-Men 3
Ever since the CG genre hit the screens (as far as I can remember probably Jurassic Park started it), we've been served movies like Matrix and Spider Man 1 which managed to mould the wonders of CG with decent storylines.
But just like how Steven Seagal and Jean Claude movies marred action movies in the 90s, the recent CG-heavy movies are simply crap. Special effects aside, their plots are nonexistant and one dimensional.
Which is why I've avoided CG movies like a plague - even the heavily promoted X-Men 3. Let's say there are 16 characters and 90 mins of action time to squeeze them in.... with the exception of Wolverine who will hog the screen from start to end, each character has an average of 5.5 mins to display their powers during the duration of the "storyline". If you've seen v1 and v2, you should know what I mean.
So, I spent the day watching "Nixon" instead. It was one long, painstakingly dry political commentry-failed artistic gumbo show, but heck at least there was an attempt to make the viewer empathize and revile Nixon at the same time.
BUT that was until I just found out Kelsey Grammar played "Beast". Now .... Frasier in a blue furry suit? That I gotta see ;)
But just like how Steven Seagal and Jean Claude movies marred action movies in the 90s, the recent CG-heavy movies are simply crap. Special effects aside, their plots are nonexistant and one dimensional.
Which is why I've avoided CG movies like a plague - even the heavily promoted X-Men 3. Let's say there are 16 characters and 90 mins of action time to squeeze them in.... with the exception of Wolverine who will hog the screen from start to end, each character has an average of 5.5 mins to display their powers during the duration of the "storyline". If you've seen v1 and v2, you should know what I mean.
So, I spent the day watching "Nixon" instead. It was one long, painstakingly dry political commentry-failed artistic gumbo show, but heck at least there was an attempt to make the viewer empathize and revile Nixon at the same time.
BUT that was until I just found out Kelsey Grammar played "Beast". Now .... Frasier in a blue furry suit? That I gotta see ;)
posted by keensoon at
Sunday, May 28, 2006
2 Comments:
I thought Hopkins was brill in Nixon.
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Anonymous, at 9:57 AM
I thought he had flashes of brilliance but overall twas a bland impersonation.
For the other cast members, Chairman Mao was terrible as hell, but Kissinger was well played.
The whole Freudian angle about his mother and his 2 brothers who died prematurely of TB was plain weird.
There is a really cool German show you need to watch when balik - it's called Downfall. It's about Hitler's last days that shows him already in the last hinges of a slow and steady madness. Magnificently potrays a man slipping into delirium and you feel the desperation eating him up. Excellent stuff.
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keensoon, at 8:08 PM
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