After watching the show, I didn't quite understand why some critics didn't quite like the movie. Wolverine may not be the character I like best in the X-Men cartoon series, but he sure is one hell of a compelling character. Hugh Jackman isn't one of my favourite actors either, but I thought he played the character with dignity and a touch of compassion. It was very interesting to see how the character of Wolverine evolved from young - I had always thought that his only mutant power was self-healing, but apparently he was born was "claws" too. It was also interesting to watch the external factors that drove his character to finally agree to be experimented upon by William Stryker, who is also another very compelling X-Men character.
The movie was also full of action and also introduced how Cyclops was brought to Professor X's school. I loved the end bit where Patrick Stewart had an appearance as the Professor, albeit uncredited. :) I also liked the irony of how Wolverine strove to have an ordinary life with an ordinary woman, who in the end, turned out to be really not so ordinary afterall.
The movie left off with a host of potential sequel storylines and I'm really looking forward to the next Wolverine movie already.
Truth be told, I haven't really watched any really fun or good romantic comedies since Four Weddings & A Funeral... it's really not easy to make one, I think, without having the ending come off as cliche. But with Sandra Bullock helming The Proposal, it's hard not to watch it...
The story's rather typical - A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada. Sounds like "Green Card" and a host of other movies... and the ending's also fairly expected - of course, the couple in question would end up falling in love after getting to know each other better! So, what's so watch-able about The Proposal?
For starters, the scenery of Alaska... haha!!! They fly there to meet his (Ryan Reynolds) family and she, a bona fide city gal, had to endure all kinds of country-roughing in order to convince him to keep his promise to marry her. The scenery's pretty damn amazing for sure. For another, Ryan Reynolds is really a very very nice piece of eye candy, very worth watching... but his boyish good looks makes him look half a generation younger than the nearing-50 Bullock, which was quite a shame, as she looked extremely hot and good for her age. If I looked like that when at that age... I'd be over the moon! Haha!!! Besides the lovely couple that saved this otherwise staid script, some little moments and subtle nuances in the movie also prevented this movie from being graded as dreadful. At least, I would give it a C+.
Seriously... what do dinos and the Ice Age have in common? Nada! But that sure didn't stop the scriptwriters and producers from having hell of a fun time producing the 3rd movie. Manny, the Mammoth, and his new wife are expecting a baby; Diego the sabre-toothed decides to leave the tribe to seek out his own fortunes after realising he's becoming soft and... old; and Sid decides, of all things, to pick up 3 dinosaur eggs to start his own family!!! Thus starting the whole journey of the female T-Rex, in her bid to find her babies, ended up bringing all the dino babies and Sid into a totally different world buried under all that ice.
The tribe had to reunite, and under the leadership of a weird weasel, journeys out to save Sid. It's not easy to make sequels, especially when the 1st one becomes unexpectedly good and well-received (think Bourne Identity). But Ice Age 3 was still a whole roller coaster of fun, guffaws, jokes and sweet moments, perfect for a family outing for both adults and children to enjoy together. Nevermind that dinos don't exist in the Ice Age - the imagination of the writers know no bounds and the addition of a female squirrel - Scratte - to fight with the original male one for the acorn was just simply a tad too... chuckle-inducing. Nevertheless, the movie makes for a good afternoon of relaxation. Definitely worth watching!
I'm a great fan of the Harry Potter books, having read each and every one of them at least 5 times... But I've never been satisfied with any of the movies... any! And I'm definitely not very satisfied with the latest either. Every time I finished a Harry Potter movie, I'd leave the theatre feeling as if there's something missing, something not quite dealt with...
I didn't like how the director dealt with Katie Bell's accidental brush with a cursed necklace - the 3 who witnessed the entire situation behaved as if they already knew what was about to happen. I also didn't quite like the ending, which was the most crucial of the story. The crux was that Harry was immobilised in the book, thus explaining his inability to fight off Draco and lack of attempt to save Dumbledore. But in the movie, he was hiding at a lower level from where the exchange between Draco and Dumbledore was taking place... the way the entire scene was dealt with left much to be desired indeed.
I had always wondered if the HP movie franchise would have been much better if handled by a Hollywood company instead... the storytelling would probably have been much more interesting, the action sequences more compact, etc... Oh well... I had stopped going to the theatres for the HP movies since the 3rd one... and I am fairly sure I wouldn't be spending money on the last 2 movies (of the last book) as well.
