Friday, 20 June 2008
My blogposts these few days has been all about movies..but whatever...
Anyways, Get Smart was a weird movie. It was something between an action movie with a comedy. As in there was more action but less humour than expected. So I felt I got lost in the movie as I couldn't decide if I was to be wowed by the jokes or the action/fighting moves.
Plus, the plot actually makes sense. And Max (in the movie) was not rlly such a 'bumbling nincompoop'. He could freakin do splits and his analytic prowess were exceptional. I thought that his success would be all based on luck and luck alone. I guess this was where the comedy part fell short of. They sacrificed humour for an action-based plot. And Max was much too serious... I expected him to be a little more goofy and crazy...
Though they could have upped the humour factor by introducing a funny bad-guy... sadly they did not. And the plot was about uranium/nuclear bombs... the kind of plot which 007 has excelled in. It should have been something like laughing bombs or evil robot Disney toys or anything more uniquely humorous. Though I do appreciate certain modern day references in their jokes.
Personally, I got attracted to the action part more than the jokes... how disappointing for a self-proclaimed comedy... or perhaps I had already laughed my ass off while watching the trailers.
Environmentalist Blogged:09:17
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Don't bother catching this semi-horror, semi-action/adventure flick cause it is really horrid.
The iconic image of Jones have been so overplayed to the extent of 'duh! ... whatever'. But perhaps its forgivable because it would be the last movie starring Harrison Ford/Indiana Jones.
The worst part was the plot, which was confusing and messed up. All I gathered from watching the movie was something about an ugly crystal skull and the city of gold aka knowledge... period.
And there always has to be these sterotypes in the Indiana Jones movies:
1. Indiana Jones...like duh!
2. Some love interest... as always
3. A betrayer
4. North Korea, China, Russia or Germany as the antagonist
5. Greed (for money or knwoledge or power)as the enemy's downfall
6. Many unrealistic close death encounters
Now that a new character has been added (i.e. Shia Lebeouf in case you didn't know), I'm sure the story wouldn't get any better.
Environmentalist Blogged:12:53
