Movies

Elf

Watched “Elf” on DVD. This is a good Christmas movie for the family. Fairy tales don’t come out that often, so I was looking for one for some time now. You, on the other hand, can wait until the Christmas time to watch it. It is very atmospheric. Especially from the second half of the movie.

The story is interesting – an orphan child accidentally gets into Santa’s bag with presents and gets carried away to the North Pole. He gets brought up by elves. When he gets old enough he goes to New York city to find his father and see how humans actually live.

The film is filled with Christmas spirit, love, and fairy tale. Good for everyone. I’ll give it a 6.4 out of 10. Good quality.

The Ring

Watched “The Ring” on DVD.

I have to say that I am not a fan of horror or mistery movies, although I have watched a few. “The Ring” does not stand out by any means. It is your typical average mystery movie with dark, dessaturated colors, tuned more to the blue, cyan, and green. People do behave strangely here as they do in any other average horror movie. The story is a typical one too – a girl was killed, but noone knew about it, so her ghost was pissed off and was killing people. Investigating the story was a young lady journalist who had a really weird young son. The boy was out of real, but noone pointed that out. Just one of his teachers noticed that “something” “might” be wrong with him. Yeah, right. He is a total psycho. That is what surely wrong with him.

Anyway, the movie was pretty average and so it gets a deserved 5 out of 10. If you think that I am unfair and that all horror and mistery movies are like this, than watch “The Blair Witch Project“. That was something. I use that film as a measurement.

Shark Tale

I’ve just got disappointed by “Shark Tale“. Despite all the hype around it, it turned out to be pretty boring and badly drawn animation. It had no realism like “Finding Nemo” did. Fish here were walking on two leg-like fins, used another two hand-like fins to do stuff, and had ugly faces on top of their bodies. These all loked nothing like fish. For some reason also, I don’t get it why they moved half the time vertically and half the time horizontally. Oh, and there was no water at all. I mean there was not a second with an ocean surface, and there was only a few bubles to make you beleive some liquid was involved in the environment.

First half of the movie I was thinking that I didn’t like it because I’ve already seen “Finding Nemo”, which is way better. But than I realized that it is not the reason. The real reason is that this movie sucked.

Bad animation on top of the beaten usual story is something that has no entertainment. Ok, there were a couple of jokes that made me smile, but they were by far not enough for the hour and a half. That’s a pity, it could have been funnier.

5 out of 10.

The Agency

Watched “The Agency” on DVD. I guess this is some sort of TV serials. It is about C.I.A. The one I watched felt like two parts – one about Russian general, and another one about Castro and Cuba. Nothing connects these two scenarios except for C.I.A.

The film itself was rather slow and lacks action. It is also very bad with details. Like for some reason, Russian military is using Mercedes trucks for transporting weapons.

Anyway, a 6 out of 10 is good enough. It’s not an X-Files or something.

Blow

Watched “Blow” on DVD. This is a quality film, which doesn’t bring up anything new. There are so many movies about some guy or a bunch of guys, who start low in the criminal food chain and grow up over the years, but finally end up either dead or in prison for life.

This film has it all and nothing extra. Oh, no. I am wrong. It does have something extra. It shows how hard it is for parents to deal with criminal child when they didn’t want one to be like that. And that’s about it.

Taken out of the movie industry of the last few years, this film deserves 7 out of 10. But being nothing original by itself, it is closer to 6. Whatever.