Fantastic Four

Well... I wrote about Fantastic Four in July. I just went back and read what it had to say. It wasn't great. Well, guess what? It wasn't that great the second time either. Here's how bad it was -- I fell asleep after 20 minutes into the movie, woke up, tried to watch some more of it, got 20 more minutes in, and had to shut it off. The DVD shows just how bad the camera work is.

The really bad costumes add a little something to it, as seen below.





The only thing that is okay is the special effects.




Or, at least, some of them. The rest of them suck. It's not a great description of the movie, but it really did suck. Last time I gave it a 5/10. This time I really can't go higher than --3.5/10

Office Space: CE

I haven't really posted anything about movies lately, so I thought I could maybe play some catch up.
I watched Office Space: Collector's Edition the other day. I'm not too sure what to say about Office Space. It's just Office Space, you know? A classic is just a classic. It's funny to me that I call it a classic even though it was only made 6 years ago.



Each time I watch this movie there's something different I find hilarious about it... a new favourite part with each viewing. It's kind of nice in a way. The very first time I watched it the part that was funniest was the part that hit closest to home. In the beginning when the camera is on Michael Bolton and he's singing along to Tupac (it is Tupac, isn't it?) and the black guy walks by, so Michael lowers the volume and quickly locks his door. That was funny to me because I was listening to a lot of rap about then, so I could understand where he's coming from. :)

The second viewing I thought the best part was Milton and his mumbling. He's a hilarious character, unbelievable at times, yet we all probably know someone pretty close to his make up.

I don't remember exactly what my third-viewing favourite was, but I know that that time Milton drove me crazy and I wanted to hit him. I found it stupid and pointless. Well, subsequent viewings each had their best parts, and Milton didn't drive me crazy as much as he did that second time.

The last time I watched this movie, which was about 5 days ago or so, the best part had to be "The Bobs". It might just be that I am a huge John C. McGinley fan since he's been on Scrubs, or that it was actually funny the way the two Bobs went back and forth, talking about Michael Bolton, the real one, and their love for him. Funny stuff.

It must just be the mood that I'm in while watching this movie that makes me like a different certain part each time. One thing, though, that has remained constant through each viewing, is my dislike for Joanna. I don't know what it is, but I really can't stand Jennifer Aniston. Every movie that she does is terrible. The funny part about that is that I loved her in Friends as the character Rachel. She was funny, witty, and she played the role well. It might just be that I can't seperate her from that role. I'm probably expecting her to be that character no matter what I see her in. It's really too bad.

So, overall, I'd have to give this movie a --8.5/10. It would have scored higher if the role of Joanna had gone to someone else.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

From VH1: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ended its first weekend with a bang.

"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" hit #1 on the box-office top 10, earning more than $101.4 million. That opening weekend beats the three previous "Potter" films and follows just behind "Spider-Man," "Revenge of the Sith" and "Shrek 2."

I saw this on the weekend. It was good. No, scratch that... It was really good. I think I've progressively liked each of these movies as they're released. I have watched the last ones over and over on DVD because I think they're just that good. I highly recommend this to anyone with even an inkling of curiousity. It's well worth it. --9/10

Doom

Doom: An epic game turned abysmal, steaming pile of celluloid? You tell me. On one hand, Karl Urban did a wonderful job... Well, as good as one could in a movie like this. On the other, Dwayne Johnson did not give his best performance to date.

Doom was probably one of the first games I ever played on a PC. Well, the first FPS game, that's for sure. I played the sequels and they were also good. This movie, though, maybe wasn't. Just before it started I told myself not to expect much. And I didn't. But from the beginning it seemed as though I had seen the show before. It took about 10 or so minutes to figure out that this is the exact same movie as Resident Evil. Now, it's not identical, and if I point out how similar it is it would ruin it for anyone actually wanting to watch it, but it's pretty close. I, of course, played Resident Evil also, and don't remember it being the same story as Doom. I guess that REvil copied Doom since Doom came out first, which is a shame, since REvil the movie was so much better than this.

It might be that watching Milla Jovovich run around killing zombies is better than watching Dwayne Johnson run around killing chromosomally challenged humans. Of course, everyone lives happily ever after in the story which annoyed the hell out of me. Why can't someone make a movie where everyone dies? Or the exact opposite happens to what you expect. The bad guy wins. The alien take-over succeed and the pitiful Tom Cruise character you've been rooting for actually dies, and the aliens, after eating all the dead humans and terra-forming our planet, live happily ever after :) That would make me happy. I'm sure Tom Cruise wouldn't take a roll like that, but I sure wish he would. I know there are probably a few movies like this out there that I can't think of at the moment, and I'm sure they didn't make one cent in the theatres because the viewing public needs the hero to save the day, but just once, just once, please? --4.5/10

EDIT: I was browsing and found this link. It appears that my views on REvil are shared by at least a few others.