Another Miniature Movie Review: Finally caught the third Harry Potter flick. Though all three were amaaazing movies that have probably shaped more childhoods that they’re given credit for (Let’s face it, not everyone reads books.), I still think the second was the best of the lot. The third, I dunno…kinda feels like this particular story read better than it played out onscreen. Don’t want to nitpick since they’re all great movies, and anything that makes me see Robbie Coltrane for more than his cameo role in the Haim-driven Oh, What I Night is a gooood thing.
Another Miniature Movie Review: I take it back: Friday the 13th Part V wasn’t that bad. Definitely not the worst in the series, at least. The Michael Jackson wannabe sharing a duet with his girlfriend while shitting in the outhouse is worth the price of admission alone. “Damn those enchiladas?” Plus, I’m pretty sure that said wannabe’s younger brother was played by none other than “Dudley” of Diff’rent Strokes fame. I’m sure he’d love to be referred to only as “Dudley.” There’s even a Tina Yothers look-a-like with punkish black streaks in her hair who robot dances for like six hours straight before the fake Jason finally wanders in and kills her. These are strong points for a film even devoted F13 fans seem to hate by and large.
Another Miniature Movie Review: The more foreign-based Trekkies 2 wasn’t nearly as fun as the original, but revisiting some of the chief fanatics from the first documentary makes it a worthy watch. Gabe, the mulleted kid from the original, turned out a-okay and was probably an uplifting object for thousands of other nerdy-types wondering if they’d ever get their freak off.
Posted by Matt on 02/28/2005. E-mail me!
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J.K. says that number 3 is her favorite of the movies so far, which kind of surprised me. I think as a stand alone movie it is far better than the first two, in terms of SFX, direction and acting, but as an adaptation…not so much. I think Cuaron did a really good job of capturing all the teen hormones and angst but I think he went a little too far and prematurely aged the characters. (Speaking of prematurely aging, somebody get me the number for Lohan’s plastic surgeon. Hee!) I also think Chamber (2) is the best overall.
As a die hard fan, I go in expecting a lot of details to be trimmed, but some of the omissions were just too big to ignore (as per Manimal’s post). I can let the little fannish nitpicks go (What’s with the giant clock tower we’ve never seen before? Why isn’t anybody EVER wearing their robes? Pebbles in the pumpkin patch?) but when you completely omit and/or warp important storylines it is very annoying.
Bad news, Cameron T. Apparently Cuaron’s biggest contribution to the next movie (which is being directed by someone else) was convincing them to cut it down to one movie, since they were originally going to make two. I’m look forward to more time-elapse montages and minimal screen time for the Baubaxton’s kids.
Haven’t caught the yo-yo ad yet, but I’m dying to win that Spongebob prize pack. I don’t even care about the big screen (okay, I do) but I want that DVD collection.