Some years, I don\u2019t get to the cinema. A couple of times now I\u2019ve actually trekked out on my own in order to catch a film that I want to watch. In one of the Planet of the Apes reboot series, I was the only person in the whole screen. You can pretend you\u2019re a billionaire! Anyway, here\u2019s what I managed to see.<\/p>\n
It wouldn\u2019t have worked as a Batman film without Lego, but didn\u2019t really need the Lego too much (one key point notwithstanding). I wouldn\u2019t have been tempted to watch this without the kids, but really enjoyed it with them.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve heard mixed opinions, but I really liked this. It told a different story, in a different way, but is still a valid story for the world. It\u2019s more of a personal story of the overall \u201cwho am I\u201d question of the original film. I liked that it didn\u2019t dumb things down, and the camouflage cloaks were not even mentioned \u2013 just taken for granted that that\u2019s what people have.<\/p>\n
Not as fun as the first film, but still a pretty good show.<\/p>\n
Better than I thought it would be. Some excellent moments of tension, like the car journey, as the characters start to realise what the audience knows. I really liked how it fit into the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and used Peter Parker as a real teenager. The only complaint I could make about it is the spider suit suffers from the Tony Stark patented \u2018magic technology\u2019, while still looking like lycra.<\/p>\n
WOW. This film is absolutely incredible. The music, the acting, the direction\u2026 Edgar Wright is a genius, no question. Some of the Easter eggs in it I\u2019m pleased I caught (I got the Halloween stuff near the end), I\u2019m sure there were more that I missed though. Wright is a real cinephile, and would have seen opportunities to put little bonuses in everywhere. It\u2019s a rare film that I want to go out and see again straight away, this is one of them. One thing I noticed that I wasn\u2019t sure about, I\u2019d like someone to confirm\u2026 It seemed to me that Buddy\u2019s gunshots were timed so much closer to the music beats than the other characters, and Bats was way off with timing. Since a lot of that could be faked or fixed in editing anyway, it felt like a deliberate choice and it would make sense since Buddy understood Baby more than Bats did. Definitely worth another watch, just to look out for that sort of thing.<\/p>\n
Very, very disappointing. The effects were good, the world and setting were incredible but the film was a total let-down. The acting was\u2026 inconsistent. Some scenes were well done, others not \u2013 and I don\u2019t think it was restricted to the CG-heavy scenes, where actors would be expected to have a hard time. The story was passable but the dialogue was atrocious.
Laureline as a character just didn\u2019t make sense. She starts the film professional and focussed, ends it as a loose cannon who ignores the rules, and no-one seems to notice the change. Maybe she was always as much of a maverick as Valerian, but the first half don\u2019t set that up at all. On top of which (spoiler alert), in a station of millions of people and human agents like Laureline and Valerian, Laureline assaults two officers and escapes arrest and yet no-one is sent out looking for her. \u201cOh dear, she got away. Guess we\u2019ll see her when she comes into work tomorrow.\u201d The worst part of the film was how much potential it had, and wasted. Big Market, the history and structure of Alpha\u2026 there was so much there that was explained for a minute and then used for a split-second in an action scene. There felt like so much more that could be done, that there was a good film in there somewhere, but the direction they took just didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
Fantastic. Amazing. Visually stunning, great story, some great nods to the original series and a far better film than Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. This new trilogy feels like a reboot of the last two films of the original series rather than the first two. Dawn<\/em> felt like the original Battle for the Planet of the Apes<\/em> as the Apes are uplifted and escape human society, Rise<\/em> happens off-screen and War <\/em>matches up with Conquest of the Planet of the Apes<\/em> as humankind is shown to be a waning species. This was so much fun. It was silly, and funny, and colourful, and just fun. One of the best Marvel films, and definitely the best Thor film. The others were fairly dull and serious \u2013 this one really played it up a bit, and being away from Earth meant it could be as big and outrageous with the \u2018God\u2019 thing as it wanted.<\/p>\n I\u2019d heard terrible things about this from critics, and great things from friends. I\u2019d say there\u2019s a bit of truth in both. It\u2019s certainly not going to win awards, but it\u2019s a really good film regardless. The dialogue is very natural \u2013 people talk over each other and get interrupted properly. I like how the Orc is not dumb, but without spending a lot of time with him people wouldn\u2019t know that. He\u2019s not stupid, but inexperienced. His intelligence is not appreciated \u2013 like the two years of Elvish he took in high school that he can remember enough to hold conversations, or the attention to self-care that he has, or the insights that his senses give him. The human character too is a great portrayal of \u201cI\u2019m not a racist but\u201d \u2013 he\u2019ll work with the Orc (but try not to), he\u2019ll be talked into killing the Orc (he wouldn\u2019t get as close to that with a human), he hates Elves when they\u2019re not around\u2026 and the wonderful display that spending time with people softens ill-feelings towards those people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some years, I don\u2019t get to the cinema. A couple of times now I\u2019ve actually trekked out on my own in order to catch a film that I want to watch. In one of the Planet of the Apes reboot series, I was the only person in the whole screen. You can pretend you\u2019re a … <\/p>\n
I really enjoyed what the whole series has had to say about leadership, ambition, and xenophobia. In both Rise <\/em>and War<\/em>, Caesar doesn\u2019t want to fight. He even manages to avoid going to war and still defends his people for the most part, in both films. Rise<\/em> was particularly good in that leaders on both sides don\u2019t want war, but are forced into it by radicals in their own camps setting events in motion that can\u2019t be stopped. It actually makes me want to go back and watch Conquest<\/em> again, as bad as that was, and look out for other little nuggets that were left behind.<\/p>\nThor Ragnarok<\/h3>\n
Bright<\/h3>\n