Thursday, March 8, 2012

John Carter Trailer Review

I'm going to have a field day when this one comes out:

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Star Trek (2009) Review - 53+ Flaws!

My critique of Star Trek (2009) on a technical basis, in 15 parts:

PART 1:
Flaw1: Spock presumed to be a complete idiot
Flaw 2: Pike presumed to be a complete idiot
PART 2:
Flaw 3: Supernova mass front way too fast
Flaw 4: Romulans presumed to be complete idiots
Flaw 5: How is Nero "the last of the Romulan Empire?"

PART 3:
Flaw 6: Red matter

PART 4:
Flaw 7: The Narada intact after 25 years after Klingon capture?
Flaw 8: Spock late to save Romulus (why?)
Flaw 9: Starfleet learns nothing in 25 years
Flaw 10: Narada sensor goof
PART 5:
Flaw 11: Obese concentration camp survivor
Flaw 12: Kirk didn't have enough time to warn Pike about trap
Flaw 13: Vulcan physically WAY too close to Earth
Flaw 14: Why doesn't Enterprise drop out of warp far from Vulcan?
Flaw 15: Why doesn't Enterprise sense debris field?
Flaw 16: Sulu presumed to be temporarily incompetent
Flaw 17: Nero the mining vessel captain knows temporal mechanics
Flaw 18: Ayel presumed to be a complete idiot (and probably is)
PART 6:
Flaw 19: Starfleet armada destroyed WAY too quickly
Flaw 20: No need for a drill to get to planet core
Flaw 21: Vaporization of rock incorrect (should have been a FAR bigger cloud)
Flaw 21: (yes I doubled up on #21 by accident) Why didn't landing party have landing gear?
Flaw 22: Narada doesn't sense parachuters
Flaw 23: Romulan union rules
PART 7:
Flaw 24: Transwarp beaming too far away
Flaw 25: CFLs hundreds of years in the future?
Flaw 26: Poor creature design
Flaw 27: Breach of Starfleet/military protocol
Flaw 28: Communication at Starfleet Delta Vega outpost not used
PART 8:
Flaw 29: Gravitational acceleration while in orbit
Flaw 30: Black hole not a black hole
PART 9:
Flaw 31: Spock didn't have enough time to save elders
Flaw 32: ...and he took too long
Flaw 33: ...and was beamed too far from his destination
Flaw 34: Spock takes time with Uhura that he doesn't have
Flaw 35: 10,000 Vulcan survivors way too few
Flaw 36: Wounded Enterprise catches up to more advanced Narada
Flaw 37: Poor Earth defense protocol
Flaw 38: Narada warp discharge
PART 10:
Flaw 39: Stellar matter disappears
Flaw 40: Hand phasor has moving parts
Flaw 41: Romulans have missiles/torpedoes but no disruptors?
Flaw 42: Nero makeup fail
Flaw 43: Beaming into water
Flaw 44: Old mechanical turbine tech in the future
Flaw 45: Kobayashi Maroo simulation cheat too blatant
Flaw 46: Narada bridge design
Flaw 47: Kirk wouldn't survive 2-story jump landing on his ribs
PART 11:
Flaw 45: (yes, I screwed up the numbers!) Parachute failure dynamics all wrong
PART 12:
Flaw 46: Romulans running away from black hole
Flaw 47: Beaming signal from black hole
Flaw 48: Explosion escaping black hole
Flaw 49: Enterprise viewscreen made of glass
Flaw 50: Antimatter explosion would have destroyed Enterprise
Flaw 51: Enterprise shaking for no reason
Flaw 52: What does "immediately"mean?
Flaw 53: Where was "immediately" gal at the end?
PART 13:
Unanswered questions
PART 14:
Fist bumps for cool stuff in the movie:
PART 15:
Ranking the Star Trek movies and conclusion:

Sunday, November 13, 2011

The Green Lantern (2011) Review

In 2 parts:
The 23 errors and/or observations:

1. Missile explosion mistake
2. Parallax essence absorption rates vary way too much
3. Horrible prison design
4. Planetary absorption rates vary way too much
5. Inept military response
6. Evade detection by making a ruckus
7. Impossible plane trajectory
8. Ejection seat misinformation
9. Superhero cliche (observation)
10. Unique unknown equipment
11. Hal Jordan may have murdered 3 people
12. Mind trick fail
13. Construct concept is wrong
14. Helicopter errors
15. Space airplane errors
16. Lantern rings designed worse than cellphones
17. Spatial error
18. Gravity error
19. Guardians sacrificing innocents?
20. This Island Earth (observation)
21. Shallow Hal of low character
22. Unemployed Star Wars rejects find new work (observation)
23. Hal asks for permission to do what he was already doing

UPDATE: I give this movie a 5.5/10. Good special effects, but they could have chopped at least 30 minutes of boring filler footage from the movie. Easily. Plus the above technical errors.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Video: Exclusive John Carpenter Intro to The Thing

"Ahead of the Fantastic Films Weekend at the National Media Museum in Bradford we asked the legendary horror director John Carpenter to record a seven minute introduction to his seminal movie The Thing (1982)."

Top 10 Mistakes In 'The Thing'

My top10 technical mistakes in the movie "The Thing" (both the 1982 classic and the crappy 2011 version):
The original 'Thing' is a 10/10 masterpiece. The 2011 prequel a 3/10 piece of runny excrement (little to no character development, absolutely abysmal cgi, lack of continuity with the original, technical gaffes, and an incredibly dull plot for a movie that we already knew how it ended).