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Mammoth (2006)
This is worth a better score
I don't understand why this movie gets such a bad rap. It's great, and while the SFX are cheesy, that's pretty much on par for a movie like this.
Summer Glau and Tom Skerritt, as well as the other actors, really do give it their best, with a completely dead-pan delivery of the most outrageously hilarious lines, while actually making the few serious moments seem believable.
I also really don't get why it's not tagged as a comedy here on IMDB. If this isn't a comedy, I don't know what is.
The story is, of course, totally absurd, but that's just as it should be.
Maybe it's just my sense of humour that's unusually sophisticated. Or not.
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
A Space Opera like any other
Not sure why people seem to hate Jupiter Ascending. It's an overindulgent epic space opera with paper-thin characters and way too many overlong action sequences laughing in the face of the laws of physics.
But that's just the genre.
As such, it's as good as any other in the same genre, and thoroughly entertaining. Mila Kunis does an excellent job as reluctant royalty and it's refreshing to see Eddie Redmayne playing pure evil rather than a brooding or fumbling anti-hero. And it throws in some humor in the mix too.
if you expect it to be any other type of movie, you'll be disappointed, but if you enjoy *any* Star Wars movie, The Fifth Element, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets or any other silly space opera, you should certainly allow yourself to like this one.
Flyboys (2006)
Probably decent if you know nothing about airplanes
I wanted to like this movie, but seeing those WWI airplanes zooming around like overpowered cartoon planes made it unwatchable for me. Watch something by someone who actually understands airplanes instead.
Ender's Game (2013)
Not perfect, but much much better than I could have ever expected
I have always assumed Ender's Game to be impossible to convert into a good movie, while at the same time longing to see it come to life on the screen. Somehow I assumed that it would be done sooner or later, and that it would inevitably fail, because the director wouldn't understand what the book is about.
Orson Scott Card (regardless of what views he holds) is an amazing storyteller. The book is full of long narrative passages and detailed, verbose dialogue, neither of which would lend themselves to be easily converted to a movie script. The book is also relatively long and contains several different subplots and subthemes.
As it turns out, the movie lacks one of my favourite subplots, and it overcomes the wordy dialogue and the narration by moving things around, and by condensing the ideas and concepts into much shorter lines, told by suitable characters whenever possible. This may sound like a recipe for failure, but for me it works just fine.
While I need to include a few caveats, like that the movie should have been at least six hours long, that the missing subplot should have been left in, and that I'll concede it might not work so well for anyone who hasn't read the book a few times, to me this movie is as good as I could have ever hoped, and significantly better than I expected.
Most importantly, everyone involved seems to have understood what the book tried to say.
Falling in Love (1984)
A true little gem for those of us who aren't afraid of a simple story well told
This is my favourite DeNiro movie and one of Meryl Streep's many great roles (but don't miss The Hours, The Bridges of Madison County and Out of Africa!). Meryl Streep can, better than most, carry a slow movie built almost entirely on moods and quiet thinking.
Still, Falling in Love could never have been what it is without all the excellent supporting actors. The way it paints the image of two very different marriages slowly falling apart without the participants really understanding what is happening is compelling, and the movie, while not exactly complex or deep, doesn't ever take the easy way out. Instead it relies completely on the talents of all the actors, to tell a realistic story of what can and does happen in real life.
The music is also excellent and at times it stands for a significant part of the movie's language.
But don't bother if you're prejudiced against romantic drama.