Friday, February 27, 2009
Movie: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Same actors, same directors & producers, bigger budget, shouldn’t have bothered. Kinda betrayed the original with over-the-top here-we-go-again action-for-action's-sake kitch. On the documentary track, Spielberg & Lucas comment that an “Indy vs. aliens” story would just be wrong – and they were right.
Movie: Return to Me
A touching tale of love lost, love found, and the painful connection therebetween. His wife dies, and his new girlfriend ends up with – literally – her heart. How he discovers & copes with this is tactfully done. Yours truly saw it a little too soon after open-heart surgery, and found other things to do in the kitchen during some scenes.
Movie: Cube 2: Hypercube
Over-talky under-informed mutation of its solid (and brutal) predecessor. Several seemingly unrelated people cope – and eventually don’t – with suddenly finding themselves in a four-dimensional maze. Unfortunately, the scriptwriter had a weak grasp of what multi-dimensional space would actually behave like, and we are subject to lots of non-sequitor bizarreness. The ending is needlessly nasty.
Movie: Jane Eyre
Grand portrayal of the classic story. Well done if you like Jane Austin / Emily Bronte sort of things.
Movie: Eragon
Entertaining adventure about a boy and his dragon vs. hordes of evil minions. First of a trilogy. Read the book instead.
Movie: Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Slightly more grown-up Disney fare, recounting the survival and rediscovery of Atlantis. Nicely done if you can follow the somewhat hyperactive pacing, and can deal with the new-ageism.
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