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).

Monday, October 24, 2011

The Thing From Another World, 1951

The original 'The Thing':

The Thing 2011, 1982 Review

Hope you all enjoy this as my first installment (in 5 parts) on this blog (posted under the copyright fair-use exception of copyright law for education and critique, but mostly education):