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Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Just a great action movie with believable characters
This movie, even without any "really hot" star, is one of the best movies I've seen in some time. The premise is that the World is under attack, but instead of trying to show us that entire process, the movie has us see this crisis thru the eyes of just one American Marine platoon and it's soon-to-retire Sergeant. The action is almost like a documentary, which gives it that "you're in the middle of it" look. The language and actions are totally real and correct for the military, just as they would have been done, and you start to care about the characters.It is pretty non-stop, but it's at a pace that isn't overwhelming. A well made, well thought out movie........and it was made mostly in New Orleans!
Prometheus (2012)
This movie was a real disappointment
I pre-ordered this movie, so I was somewhat excited to get it. I had seen the very first Alien movie in a theater in 1979. Shortly after I bought my first VCR and ALIEN was my first VHS tape purchase. Back then the movies cost around $100. Big money! I now have a 54" LCD screen and Blu-ray player and sat back one back night preparing to be enlightened about the unanswered questions of the first Alien movie and much more. Well.......the digital and photography was beautiful. But the characters would have been more at home on the reality series "Storage Wars" than a $130 million dollar movie! The aliens, or they call them the engineers, apparently came to Earth before "Man" began; about 55 to 85 million years ago, and spread their "seed" (DNA) into the air and water and wala, here we are. They confirm this by doing a DNA sample on a 2,000 year old dead alien/engineer and our DNA and his DNA is an exact match.......What? SPOILER: They are 10 feet tall albinos' with no body hair and seemingly identical facial features. Did none of the writers know that Earth scientists have dug up many prehistoric man and have already showed where we came from? And it wasn't 10 foot albinos. The producers of this movie appeared to hire 15 grad students with a minor in theatrics and put them in separate rooms and told them to write 5 minutes of the movie; that's all, then they stuck all those pieces together and made the final movie! The unconventional crew of the first Alien movie was believable because it was just a mining vessel; like an iron/oar ship on the Great Lakes. The Prometheus ship was a trillion dollar scientific adventure and barely one person was believable as a professional.There are so many idiotic scenes in this movie that I can't even enjoy it for the digital effects.
Shattered (1991)
Starts out good, then stupidity steps in
This movie reminds me of a 1970's Columbo TV movie. It was on cable one late night and I "taped" it to watch later. The beginning premise is intriguing about a man who has selective amnesia after a terrible car accident. But you start getting suspicious right away because his wife didn't even strain her ankle in this accident in which their car crashed thru a rock wall and plummeted down a very steep hill, bouncing and crashing over and over again. There's some suspicion added about his wife committing adultery, and maybe even himself. Then's there's Bob Hoskins as a quirky pet shop owner and private eye who Merrick had apparently hired just before the car accident, though he can't remember that. But stupidity starts to rear it's ugly head as one scenes has Merrick (Tom Berrenger) and his wife visit the crash site/demolished car they were driving.....the car was still crashed upside down on a hill by their SF home. Apparently the police don't get involved in near fatal car accidents in San Francisco.They just leave the car where it came to rest. Yeh sure. Spoiler alert: Now the ending sequence of events of this movie would have you believe that Merrick wasn't really in the car, because Mr. Merrick had already been shot to death by his wife, but that it was Merrick's wife's lover; Jack Stanton in the car; and that the surgeons unknowingly reconstructed Stanton's face so that he looked exactly like Merrick's face. Yeh sure; that's believable. Guess the two of them had identical blood types, dental records, height, body shapes, color of eyes, speech, color and type of hair, not to mention things like DNA. Yeh, this would have been a movie for Detective Columbo, but nothing more.