Christopher Nolan finished his Batman Trilogy in a grand yet divisive fashion and broke the “three movies curse” of comic book movies. And between two fantastic Batman movies he gave us one of the best constructed Sci-Fi movies in recent years. So the question is:
What will be his next treat?
This summer we had an immensely hyped film which posed as a Science Fiction film yet eventually it turned out to be all pretense and not that much Sci-Fi substance. Does Looper suffer the same fate?
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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A decade ago and almost 30 years after the hilarious Battle for the Planet of the Apes Tim Burton decided to start a project he perfected with Alice in Wonderland: to take a great original movie, remove everything remotely interesting and give us a horrendous adaptation in name only.
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.
A man wakes up on a strange planet ruled by apes
Another man fights telekinetic mutants and blows up earth
A group of apes travels backwards in time
and becomes celebritiesThe child of the timetraveling apes leads an
army of ape butlers to enslave humanity
Four movies, one continuing story have led and prepared us for:
A schoolbus shooting at apes!
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.