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Ghost Shark (2013)
Solid ghost shark flick! The best of its sub-genre, which makes it a classic!
Summary says it all but, SERIOUSLY THIS MOVIE IS MADE OF AWESOME! There's so many stupid in this one that it just became my #1 drinking movie. You should try it too. Take your friends and drink something really light!!! every time you see stupid! You can thank me later.
In this wonderful era, where we get sick-ass awesome titles like Sharktopus, Sharknado, Piranaconda and the likes; we finally get to see this pearl emerge from the very same portal. It is what we've always wanted. It is what we've always hoped for, but never dared to speak of! It has finally shown itself to us, my brethren! THE GHOST SHARK FINALLY CAME! The movie is also entertaining and every time you're about to start not giving a damn, something stupid happens. This occurs quite often so it's okay to watch once even without drinking. I'm guessing that means it's well-paced... but lets not stick to over-analyzing this gem.
I'm always a little afraid to start watching flicks of similar concepts, because there's always a possibility that it is so bad I have to turn it off. This was - at least in my case - not how it went with Ghost Shark, so that itself made the experience pretty cool. You know in our time and day one has to keep up with things, even if it means movies with funky creatures eating people, so I was gonna check it out rain or snow. I truly had difficulty deciding if the production team is bunch of level 99 trolls and intentionally packed the flick full of goofs or those were actual mistakes, but that made it even more fun to watch. 8 stars no less!
Avatar (2009)
good one! but let's talk about unoriginal then! you asked for it!
it's Cameron's avatar. awesome looking sci-fi action with a good enough story to keep your jaw from closing up due to the visuals. no originality? yeah, well give me a f**king break people. tell me a story that hasn't been told yet! TELL ME A STORY ELEMENT THAT HASN'T BEEN PUT ON THE SCREEN YET! mental states, or space-time puzzles, or character types, or atmospheres, or social critiques, or just NAME IT! what the hell hasn't been told yet??! THIS IS A SCI-FI MOVIE DUMBNUTS! you know it is a sci-fi movie! what do you want? a Shakespeare? all you idiots who pull down excellent movies like this... you just don't know where to release all your personal negative feelings about yourselves. and/or you think that if you scold a huge title like Avatar - like professional critics do... that makes you cool, cuz you know it's been told before in some previous and rather old titles, and people will see how well-versed you are.
because this is what you naysayers do. know what? get a budget like Cameron got! then make a movie half as awesome as this! then maybe i'll give a darn about what you write in your critics. The amount of work put into this movie didn't only show off in the CGI. The pacing, the way the story was told, the characters... all clichés? yeah, well... did you for one second think about standing up and leaving the room? yeah? good for you... sci-fi's are not made for your kind then. did you not? and still scold the movie? seriously guys make something better or deeper.
character development is best possible where the environment doesn't need any special explanations. in that case the movie can focus on the characters. this movie had a whole alien planet with an alien race and with a set political situation. okay it didn't have the best ever character development, but it was pretty damn decent as it was.
same goes for predictability. you can of course guess what will happen to the good guys, because the movie's atmosphere tells you that it's not gonna have a sad ending. but then in this one you have lots of them fall, and until their last breath you want them to survive. that means it keeps you interested on a personal level.
why have such a long movie? because it aims to tell as much as possible... for those that are interested in the political situation, for those that are interested in the characters, for those that are interested in the new alien world and it's fauna. lot of material in there! hell there's even a new language... unimaginative, huh? you can relate to native Americans? you can relate to lots of things, middle eastern - USA political involvement for one. know what? go live there, get wed and get tossed around like trash for being a labeled a potential enemy of your own country. have fun! unoriginal, yeah? really guys. the originality only resides in how you tell a story - not what you tell - for all has been told before. ALL! it's the way you tell it that makes a difference by now. could have been told better? write a script, have a beer with Cameron and help him make something better. even better... make your own movie! i would just smack all you naysayers up like little kids, seriously...
this one is a fun movie, even if it was only 2d. you just don't know what to pay attention to, because you are enticed by the stunning visuals all along and your limited brain capacities don't know which way they should limit themselves. for instance... arrows not breaking the glass to show na'vi desperation, then they suddenly do break the glass to show na'vi heroism? let's look at that... damn huge arrow making a crack on the windshield because the na'vi was standing on the ground, shooting upwards. final battle scene - na'vi flying in opposite direction as the human fighter - na'vi lets loose an arrow in a perfectly perpendicular direction to the windshield - arrow gets through... pretty simple concept, no? did you attend your basic physics class in elementary? no? too bad, it's pretty fun stuff, but this way you can't understand the world around you... oh well.
so all in all naysayers are understandable, but are not right. this one was a good movie. not the greatest, but a really, really good one. an enjoyable one. one i will remember. like the naysayers remember dances with wolves, for it was the first one that told the story well. but you need to appreciate a little more what you see. seeing faults of things... it's something everyone can do. even i can. you think i didn't see the faults in this movie? well i did. i'm just not stuck up enough to mention them. for all in all this movie was cool.
Break (2008)
OK for a Tuesday afternoon with a few really nice bits
May contain spoilers, if u don't like them don't read IMDb too much or just close your eyes when it spoils!
I liked a lot of things about this movie, but i also felt it could have been much more polished if the crew had worked together on it with doubled efforts.
First the cold:
Starts off with a pretty good noir-like tone! Then comes the letdown: The main character's acting looks a bit dull at the start, but then i kind of started to get the hang of his style, though i never really got to like him. Lots of pauses to emphasize the drama, yet the drama never really moved me... all this with noir-wannabe tunes in the background making some otherwise interesting scenes as dull as possible. Some acts just come out stupid with the settings, the lights, the pauses and the whole setup around them. Some acts are just simply weak and lifeless. Some of the weaker acts of the movie could've stood their ground if only the environments were more fitting (including the music, the colors, the after-imaging). Some parts of the audio mastering was like it just came off the Failboat. The color mastering was decent, but still had a slight stench of FAIL at parts - well at least it was clean, simple but nothing too creative. The pauses... oh those pauses they almost had me fall asleep. It was shouting off of the whole project, that the director (Mr. Clebanoff) intended lots of the film's aspects to be just the way he imagined them - but IMHO even cold-blooded characters should seem to be living creatures, so this heavy portions of lifeless acting really hurt the atmosphere - so, i really hope next time he keeps kicking his actors around until they incorporate breathing, body language and general basic life-signs into their overall acting. Im just typing this in hopes that he might read the comments if out of nothing else, then at least vanity - and spend even more energy in producing his next film whatever it might be... for he pulled off a few really nice things in this one.
Now of the better aspects of Break:
Madsen with his few lines and lively mimics totally kept my interest in the movie even tho he was only a minor character. So was it with Carradine, seeing him kicking @ss filling his role like the best possible person to do so. Xin... well i kept an eye on him since his urban ninja thing caught my attention on Youtube... he sure cant act yet, but his moves might carry him along a nice long road and i really hope they will. He has to learn to fully and wholeheartedly choreograph his own fights (including teaching his partners), and ways to get to a good understanding with the director and he has to learn a lot of things about having his own raws cut, because while he'll only be employed in low-budget stuff he'll need these skills in order to rise. Oh and i hope i'll see him punch faster in his next flick :) He'll be a rock star if he learns to act as humbly as needed for the big screen. Umm the rest of the crew was okay, even Matthew Jones with his seemingly thuggish and intentionally dumb acts. The girls were... also not very strong in acting, but at least nice looking. The ending broke my heart (it was so boring compared to the rather fun parts of the film) ^^
And the winner is:
The one that has the weight of the world on his shoulders, and the budget limits, and the time limits, and the coffee-intake capacity limits, and of course the magnificent ability of still not giving enough of s#&t about his own project while working his @ss off trying his best: Mistarrrrrr Clebanoff :D /applaud him you all-ignorant "gimmebackmy90minutes" crazies, for he did well this round/ - for all in all he made you a pretty decent movie with some really nice parts and some solid casts + a unique atmosphere like no recent movies -
I hope this guy gets to learn from the reflections of this work of his to make us enjoy much-much better movies than this. And this one turned out to be pretty enjoyable. I'm totally buying this DVD if for nothing else, then to FFW into the parts which i really like about this movie and show them to some friends - for it's been a long time i last enjoyed such great scenes (even if there were so few of them in a movie ^^)
See it if you have spare time for a nice and unique low-budget movie!