Sorry to those who have been eagerly anticipating my “regular” film rants (yup, all 3 of you). Haven’t been updating my blog, guilty as charged. Reasons? Well, you can say that I have other things occupying my time now (and NO, we do not have a baby yet!). Maybe some day soon I’ll post a blog on this other hobby of mine. But anyway, I HAVE been to the movies, and have seen all the hyped-about major films. So rather than going on an extended rant on films that everyone has watched and argued over a looong time ago, I’ll just comment briefly on each.
Mission Impossible 3
It’s basically a movie-length version of Alias, which is hardly surprising considering director J.J. Abrams is the creator of Alias, but instead of Jennifer Garner in kinky S&M costume we have Tom Cruise wearing latex masks. Saying that, J.J. Abrams doesn’t fail to deliver, the film’s fun and full of explosive action, though recent Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman was criminally underused as the bad guy. Certainly the best of the Mission Impossible trilogy.
Cars
I’m personally not that fond of the Disney-Pixar animated films, as compared to those generated by Dreamworks. Yes, they look really nice, the characters are cute and funny, but there’s always some sort of moral to the story to be told, which really makes parts of the film tremendously boring. Thought that those slow scenes pulled Cars down for me. Disney-Pixar should just stick to entertaining from start to end, like what Dreamworks aim to do every time as seen in the Shrek films, or even the recent hilarious Over The Hedge.
X-Men 3: The Last Stand
It was doomed to fail ever since Bryan Singer opted out of directing it in favour of Superman Returns. Action buffs and the comic geeks may like it though, as we have more new mutants and bigger action scenes than the first two films combined, which also however contributed to the mediocrity of the film from a more serious point of view.
Wednesday 5 July 2006
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