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Treasure Planet (2002)
Underrated and Forgotten
While this movie isn't as good as some of Disney's best animated lineups, it was definitely underrated and unfortunately so.
The movie presents a lesson in the value of a fatherly figure, and develops the characters through the complex self clashing in doing what you want vs doing what is right.
The side characters are in the story to help proceed everything, but honestly they lack the necessary connection and importance to make the viewer really care about them. The main character has some development at the beginning, but because the plot kicks off so quickly, it's just assumed we'll see his development throughout the rest of the movie. It's hard to care for the character at the beginning, but it's assumed we accept his perspective from the unfortunate events that happen to him early on.
The antagonist honestly makes for the rest of the movie, and is definitely the best element to the story. His clash between his personal bond with the main character and his true intentions of stealing the treasure and the map for himself creates this back and forth play by play from the start to beginning. We hate him and like him at the same time. As a kid, it was hard for me to grasp this somewhat complex theme since it was so different than what I was used to. However, as an adult, I really found this to be the best part of the movie.
The comical parts seemed to be a bit forced and slightly annoying. There were some good elements and bad elements to it. As the movie reached its climax, the robot on the last planet was cringy and annoying. Other than progressing the plot, his presence was completely unnecessary and took away from the movie as a whole. Major downside. The morph was obviously playing to the cuteness of the character, as well as the pseudo dues ex machina in a couple scenes. He benefited the story, but he also hurt it. For the sake of the movie being meant for kids, I am neutral to his role.
Overall, the movie was well done and underrated. For a younger audience, it was probably less entertaining because the characters were boring overall. However, for a slightly more mature audience/adults, one can greatly appreciate the theme and morals of the story while appreciating the art and animation that went to create the movie for what it was.
Gravity (2013)
Terrible movie all around
As a movie, I don't expect this to be realistic or believable by any means, but this movie fails on any and all facets of fictional entertainment on the settings and the characters.
Putting the inaccuracies of the science aside, I came in expecting to have some gripping edge of your seat survival space thriller with dire situations and suspenseful moments only to see 90 minutes of Sandra Bullock floating around with Fire Extinguishers.
The movie offers no real character build up, and the choice of using George Clooney and Sandra Bullock was probably done so to advertise an otherwise terrible storyline with no room for redeemable acting. Never mind that they unceremoniously "killed off" Clooney's character in the first quarter of the movie (and whomever else was in the flight crew, but their roles didn't matter and were all wasted potentials).
We're left with 3 quarters of the movie and there's only one character alive. At this point we know she either survives (which is obvious) or she dies at the end, making the entire plot and everything she does a waste.
Graphics weren't special. Cool, they're in space. I've seen better graphics in filler movies like The Day After Tomorrow or Avatar. Grossly overrating the one thing potentially redeemable in this movie that other movies do better does not making this movie worth watching. One of the worst "sci-fi thriller" pieces of trash in the last decade.