Kategorie: Reviews

9. August 2011 / / Journey to the Planet of the Apes

Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1971

This review is part of a series of reviews Journey to the Planet of the Apes to prepare for the newest installment.
You can find all the reviews here.

Escape manages to open with the biggest “what the hell“ moment in the entire series, showing our present day (well 70s present day) earth where a ship crashlands that looks oddly familiar. Three astronauts exit, but when they take of their helmets the obvious music cue just makes it even stranger to look at three apes in space uniforms and wonder what the hell just happened.

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8. August 2011 / / Journey to the Planet of the Apes

Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970

This review is part of a series of reviews Journey to the Planet of the Apes to prepare for the newest installment.
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The sequel to Planet of the Apes has more than one problem, but the biggest is that it just looks like a bad science fiction movie. Interestingly the first movie while looking considerably dated, featuring camera movements and storytelling techniques that would not resonate with nowadays audience does not feel cheap or bad and holds our interest.

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7. August 2011 / / Journey to the Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes 1968

This review is part of a series of reviews Journey to the Planet of the Apes to prepare for the newest installment.
You can find all the reviews here.

Following a lot of movie franchises Planet of the Apes is the best part of the franchise and what came after never reached the hights of the original.

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7. August 2011 / / Journey to the Planet of the Apes

Journey to the Planet of the Apes

7. August 2011 / / Reviews

Super 8

Super 8 is a children’s movie…
I mean this in the best sense of the word…
A movie for people who thought “why are there no more movies for kids like the ones Steven Spielberg made?

Directed by J.J. Abrams (Star Trek XI, Mission Impossible III) the first teaser made Super 8 appear to be in the vein of Cloverfield (produced by Abrams), but make no mistake, it is not primarily about a monster.
It is a movie about a group of children who are spending the summer making a title giving super 8 movie when a big train accident happens.

But was it an accident?
And what the hell was in this train? A
nd why is the military sealing of the city?

What started out as a film project very fast turns into an adventurous sci fi story.

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17. Juni 2011 / / General

The Tree of Life

Terence Malick’s Tree of Life is about an American family and in between there are some shots of National Geographic.

The film has been on the radar of many Oscar-bloggers but surprisingly this is not really a typical Oscar-bait film. It is much more in the spirit of Cannes (where it won the Palme d’Or) meaning “if it doesn’t hurt it is not art”.

Thankfully I watched the movie two days before they gave the highest honour of Cannes to it so I did not know whether this movie was highly regarded or not and I guess I would have been a bit more disappointed having heard the insane praise this movie received before entering.

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10. Juni 2011 / / Reviews

X-Men: First Class


It is always good when a movie surprises you – even when some of the flaws that you feared would be in there are still there.

X-Men: First Class brings the X-Men back to its roots after the last two installments (especially Wolverine) managed to underwhelm but this time without the clawed mutant as its lead.

Helmed by director Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) First Class tells the story of how Magneto and Professor X first met and links the mutant history to the Cuban missile crisis. Contrary to many prequels this movie actually succeeds in making the backstory interesting.

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18. Mai 2011 / / Reviews

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

29. April 2011 / / Reviews

Thor

How do you sell a movie about Gods?

That was the tricky question Marvel had to answer when kicking off the summer season with Thor – a movie where the trailers have not managed to get me excited to watch this movie and seeing that posters looked a bit too campy as well my expectations for Thor were pretty low.

Maybe because of that I must say that Thor is a thoroughly entertaining summer blockbuster. It starts of with the typical “random thing happening” at the beginning before we jump into a long flashback to see where this man who has appeared out of nowhere infront of Natalie Portman has come from.

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27. April 2011 / / Reviews

Source Code

Source Code is a sci-fi movie
And by sci-fi, I mean real sci-fi not a fantasy story with some spaceships in it (Star Wars), not a fantasy story with some machine guns (Avatar), not a fast paced space western (Star Trek XI)…

Source Code is a sci-fi film meaning that it uses technology as a means of conflict and eventually reflects on our own fears of mortality by using overexagerated technological concepts (and a lot of creativity).

Because I was late to the movie and missed the first 8 minutes and because it was in french I was at first not really sure what was going on, having only read that it is about trying to prevent an explosion in a train – but I guess like most movies of this genre confusion at the beginning is intended since those movies are meant to be watched a second time to see all the hints that were already placed at the beginning.

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