So this is another movie that was supposedly based on a very popular (children) book? I knew it was gonna suck and I shouldn’t have wasted my time watching it. I wonder whose brilliant idea to cast James Bond to be the centaur leader. Why him though? Every time I saw his face, I kept wishing he would put on his tux and started shooting everyone with his mini-super-spy gun.. Hahahahhaa..
The black dude who was half human, half goat really annoyed the hell out of me. He was supposedly “the protector” – someone who protects Percy from anyone who wants to kill him – however, seeing the way he fought, I was seriously in doubt he could protect Percy. Dude walked around with freakin’ forearm crutches. Come on now! How in the world would Percy Jackson be safe from the evil gods/monsters if his only protector walks around with freakin’ forearm crutches?! They never really showed us if this guy could fight, shoot arrows or maybe have some sword fighting skills or something. Throughout the movie, I somehow kept wishing he would at least be able to shoot laser from his eyes or something.
Percy Jackson is half god, half human. His dad is Poseidon, and his mom is basically a mortal human. His dad left when he was still 3 years old, because supposedly there was unwritten rule somewhere that says when a god is married to a mortal human, then he/she will not be able to stay with his/her family after the child is born.
So Percy Jackson didn’t even know anything about his dad and him being half god, half human until sometime later when he was on a school trip to a museum, one of his teachers all of sudden turned into a really fugly monster with wings and tried to kill him. He was like, “WTF IS THAT?!” Then his other teacher, James Bond (or whatever Pierce Brosnan’s character name is) showed up and said, “Well son, you are half god, half human.. And I think that monster wants Zeus’ lightning because she thinks you stole it.” Heh thanks to his mom who kept her mouth shut about this for 17 years and didn’t even tell anything to young Percy. Had he known about him being half god half human soon, at least he would’ve been prepared to face the fugly monster with wings. So basically that’s the whole plot. Someone stole Zeus’ lightning and somehow spread the word in the god’s world that some young kid named Percy Jackson stole it. Come on, seriously.. You think gods are that dumb to believe that some 17-year-old kid who had no superpowers, let alone knowing his dad is Poseidon, was able to go (or fly) all the way up to god’s world and somehow stole Zeus’ super duper lightning sword (or whatever) right under his nose… Tsk tsk tsk tsk…. Thank God I was streaming this movie for free.
I think this movie should’ve been called a journey to dreamland because it really did send me to dreamland.. Zzzzzz.. No offense to you, Mr. Tim Burton. I think you are a fine director, and throughout these years I have very much enjoyed all your movies – starting from Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow, all the way to Big Fish and Sweeney Todd.
This recent one, on the other hand, I have to say I’m not really too fond of it. It literally put me to sleep.. And I actually never fall asleep in the theater. Ever. Okay well maybe just once, a few years ago when I went to see the most boring movie ever made in the planet, Thin Red Line. The movie sucked so bad, I was contemplating on walking out in the middle of it and asking for a refund. But I’m not saying Alice in Wonderland as bad as Thin Red Line.. Oh no, not at all. The movie is much much better than Thin Red Line, but they both are equally boring as hell.
I think the only great thing about the movie is Johnny Depp. Thank God Tim Burton decided to put Johnny Depp in this movie. I couldn’t imagine what the movie would’ve been like without Johnny Depp. He really saved this one from being super duper boring. He was so buried under heavy makeup, I literally couldn’t even recognize him in the movie. But you know, I kinda felt that Pee-wee Herman would’ve been great playing the character that Johnny Depp was playing. To be honest with you, I think it would’ve been awesome if they had Pee-wee Herman in the movie.
Okay maybe I should’ve seen this movie in 3D. Had I done that, that would’ve probably changed my opinion about this movie. I decided not to see it in 3D because it was always sold out and I was just too lazy to wait until the next day to see it. Besides, I read the book many many times before when I was a kid, so I pretty much already knew the storyline. Ah well.. Such a disappointment.
Ahh another vampire movie.. What else would you expect when Twilight became box office and made a lot of money for Hollywood studios. All of sudden everyone is into vampires. There’s a new TV show about teenage vampires coming out (or maybe it already did?), the New Moon came out, another HBO mini series about vampires also came out and became an instant hit, and now… Daybreakers. Another movie about vampires again? Geeez.. What’s next? The Count from Sesame Street gets his own movie deal?
Daybreakers took place in the year of 2019, when a plague has turned half of world’s population into vampires. Humans still exist in some part of the world; however, majority of them are being farmed for their blood. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the vampires were forced to find a blood substitute. Unfortunately, their effort to find this blood substitute wasn’t as easy as they had thought it would be.
I found Daybreakers a really interesting movie because it was very original, had a good concept and I constantly found myself on the edge of my seat wondering what was gonna happen in the next scene. Ethan Hawke was awesome; he was really able to portray a vampire character who felt that he had a moral obligation to save the human race despite of his current condition as a vampire (which obviously depends so much on human blood as part of his daily meal) and his job as the Chief of Hematologist (blood expert). Willem Dafoe was also great in the movie, playing as a recovered vampire (hahaha “recovered”).. The guy is already skinnier than the rest of the casts and whiter than the toilet paper so he really looked believable playing as a recovered vampire. I loved the scene where it was showing the “human farm” (see the movie poster), and it kinda reminded me of one of the scenes in the Matrix where Keanu Reeves suddenly woke up after he took the blue pill (or maybe red?) only to find himself in a human farm operated by the “machines.”
Oh there was one particular scene in the movie which I also liked, and it almost made me scream in the theater hahahahaa.. It was when these group of vampire scientists were testing the blood substitute by injecting it into one of the test subjects (in this case, another vampire). Within seconds, he was screaming in pain and rashes showing up all over his body. One of the scientists finally injected the antibody into him which immediately made the rashes disappear. But 3 seconds later, the moment after he said thank you to the scientists, his body blew up! I almost jumped off my seat when it blew up because I didn’t even see it coming. I was like CRAP! Thank God I cursed, not screamed like a little b*tch.. Hahahahahaaaa..
After having waited for 5 long years, I finally got a chance to see Avatar, a James Cameron’s movie which supposedly is the next generation in 3D technology. I have to admit, the movie was just incredible. I mean, I’ve seen a lot of 3D movies before, but this one is literally at the top of my list. I could see the attention to detail that James Cameron put so much emphasis on in the movie, starting from the moment both characters were walking in the woods – whenever they stepped on the grass or something, the grass would light up under their feet. Little things like that really made so excited like a five-year-old sitting in the theater, watching his first movie. I felt like I was trying to open my eyes wider so I wouldn’t miss anything on the screen.
I was so amazed seeing the floating mountains, the bio-luminescences plans in the woods, the six-limbed horses (all animals in Pandora have six limbs) and the trees (they’re all weirdly shaped) in the movie. I could definitely tell James Cameron really thought everything thorough when creating the world of Pandora. Even the concept of six-limbed animals – I believe I read it somewhere that in Pandora, even though it resembles Earth, but the gravity is much lower. That’s why all animals in Pandora have six limbs in order to be able to support their weight.
The movie was pretty long – almost 3 hours. But honestly, I was so glued to my seat that it didn’t feel like 3 hours at all. In fact, I was secretly hoping it would keep showing for another 2 hours hahahhaaa.. I just loved everything about it, even the storyline – it was one of the best that I’ve seen by far.
Check out this clip about the world of Pandora that I found on Youtube.
I seriously can go on and on writing about the movie, but I feel at this point I’ve already revealed too much about it hahahaa.. Sorry peeps! Seriously though, the movie is sooo well worth sitting for almost 3 hours in the theater. In fact, I wouldn’t mind watching this again. Make sure you see this in 3D. Better yet, go to Imax to see it.
One more thing, there was a scene where two Na’vis were making out in the middle of the woods. When they kissed, I couldn’t believe they actually kissed like human. The kiss felt (looked) so real and convincing, and I didn’t even realize I was actually looking at two digitally-made characters kissing each other (NOT two people in a Na’vi costume and makeup). Too bad that particular scene wasn’t extended for a few more seconds.. I wonder if they actually “mate” like human too.
So this is another movie that was supposedly based on a very popular (children) book? I knew it was gonna suck and I shouldn’t have wasted my time watching it. I wonder whose brilliant idea to cast James Bond to be the centaur leader. Why him though? Every time I saw his face, I kept wishing he would put on his tux and started shooting everyone with his mini-super-spy gun.. Hahahahhaa..
I think this movie should’ve been called a journey to dreamland because it really did send me to dreamland.. Zzzzzz.. No offense to you, Mr. Tim Burton. I think you are a fine director, and throughout these years I have very much enjoyed all your movies – starting from Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow, all the way to Big Fish and Sweeney Todd.
Ahh another vampire movie.. What else would you expect when Twilight became box office and made a lot of money for Hollywood studios. All of sudden everyone is into vampires. There’s a new TV show about teenage vampires coming out (or maybe it already did?), the New Moon came out, another HBO mini series about vampires also came out and became an instant hit, and now… Daybreakers. Another movie about vampires again? Geeez.. What’s next? The Count from Sesame Street gets his own movie deal?
