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WALL·E (2008)
Lame
The 10/10 reviews here are insane. I ought to give it one star just to try to counterbalance this insanity. This movie is lame.
What do we have here? Two minimally intelligent (childlike) robots who happen into a little romance. A romance between two pseudo-children... Ugh. Roughly 75% of the dialog in this film seems to be one of these child-robots plaintively calling the name of the other robot in its annoying little voice. Too many story elements are poorly thought out.
***spoilers follow***
For example one of the little robots vaporizes the hell out of anything that moves -- while conducting a search for life. Now how the hell does that make any sense? Also there is an apparent attempt to show that the one robot is an "old design" while the other is a "new design," but shouldn't they both be about the same age? Also the first major crisis occurs when one of the robots becomes deactivated -- but the deactivation makes no sense. Finally throw in an intelligent talking cockroach and the attempt at pseudo-realism goes out the window. I am a fan of Sci-Fi concepts but this movie just makes me gag.
Replicant (2001)
Another Evil Clone Movie?
OK, I can see a few slight redeeming glimmers in this mess but only a few. Co-star Michael Rooker puts in his usual grim-faced hard-nosed performance and Van Damme makes a convincingly creepy bad guy. OK. So? Well, Van Damme's other role as the semi-psychic "replicant" might as well be played by a Orangutan. In fact you would have hardly noticed any difference in the acting. I am not kidding because that is essentially who the replicant is personality-wise. It only goes to show how obviously flawed the concept was. I am not saying it is bad acting -- it isn't bad acting when you are playing the part of a "blank slate." The whole idea here is that clones could have "psychic connections" with their "twin" and this might allow Homeland Security to use them to "sniff out" an evil-doer. Duh, wait a minute. A clone is just a twin. It makes me ill to see effort wasted on a really stupid movie idea like this one and to see it labeled "Science Fiction." These Hollywood producers should stop doing so many hard drugs. There is a ton of written Science Fiction that has never made it to the large or small screen, and certainly some large quantity of that is better material than the rubbish of this movie. This is pretty lame garbage for 2001. Maybe it was a kneejerk 911 idea?
The Specials (2000)
Dreadful attempt
I was rather shocked to see the high rating on this film. If you enjoy watching pathetic and essentially out-of-touch Kozmo-Kramer-like people wallowing around in well-deserved self-doubt and doing essentially nothing except behaving like disgruntled, talentless, unemployed Hollywood rejects -- then be sure to watch this film. The problem is the film drags and drags and it's impossible to care about these morons (Ok, maybe a few exceptions). The concept might have worked if only the special effects budget had be raised from essentially zero to something non-zero -- and if so many of the characters were not portrayed as jokers who want to pretend they have talents they clearly do not possess. The spontaneous on-stage dance scene near the end of the film was the only thing that is memorable -- one guy can actually impress you.
Deep Impact (1998)
A worthwhile Look at a Real Threat
I am rather amused at all the negative comments. Some complain about the acting skills of the lead character, some complain the film is too slow or too emotional -- or not emotional enough, or totally flawed because it needed some really bloody riot scenes... hmmmm.
"Armageddon" was a comic book adventure. This film tries to be a bit more realistic. Many of those who have posted complaints about the realism of this film are simply in need of a better science education. Certainly there are a few factual flaws but the basics are all technically accurate. What it really should bring home is the sorry truth of how little our current science could do in such a situation, because we really do not yet have the technical capabilities that are shown in this film. If such a thing were discovered by some astronomer next year, we would have _no_ real hope of surviving, because we would not have time to build anything. Nine women cannot produce a baby in one month, and so it is for aerospace. Hell, we can barely get the space shuttle to work right and we've been working on it for 20+ years, and it is a toy compared to what would be needed for this task.
Everyone hated Tea Leoni? I thought she was fine for the part. She is supposed to be an inexperienced and uncomfortable junior reporter and indeed she looks like one. So what? Someone trashed this movie because it predicts that a black man like Colin Powell could become the U.S. president. Well, I'd choose him over 'Dubya' any day.
The special effects look quite acceptable. The rain would begin a few days later. >