By far, The Nines was the best of the bunch.
Here is a list of the movies I watched in April. As you can tell, I’ve really become addicted to renting from my AppleTV.
APRIL
Next week, a corporate neighbor of mine will be trekking up 45 miles to San Francisco to make some pretty big announcements. That neighbor is Apple; the announcement is Macworld 2008, which starts in a little over a week.
It is rumored that CEO Steve jobs will announcing some new laptop computers – and possibly a re-vamp and upgrade of his company’s AppleTV product line.
Apple TV Rumors:
How I would change AppleTV:
Then again, I usually ask for way more than I’ll ever get.
I saw this movie, I Am Legend, with Laura Straub. Rich was put off by reviews that called it a zombie movie. His loss. This was one of the best films I saw in 2007.
Move along. Nothing original to see here…
I honestly didn’t think I’d pay to see a movie worse than Spider-Man 3 this year. I was wrong.
I plopped down $10.25 to see a little gem (if by “gem” you mean load of crap) called, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (or “AVPR,” for short).
Now, I have to say despite its many, many flaws, I still found myself amused – slightly. The film almost walked the line between campy spoof humor and kick-butt action. The special effects and the art direction were top notch. The cast was good – sometimes very good.
But, the main problem was that the sub-plot of humans in danger and the dialogue writing sucked big time.
Here, the main characters that draw the audience into the theatres are the acid-blooded Aliens and techie-savage Predators. The problem, neither of these characters talk – the most noise either of these makes is a clicking growl or screech.
This means the supporting humans must have interactions and dialogue worthy enough to draw in the audience enough for it to suspend disbelief in what is a pretty unbelievable concept. That just doesn’t happen.
[NOTE: Matters don't get much better when the plot holes are so big that it's hard to follow the story because the audience is talking out loud asking valid questions such as, "now why didn't they just drive away in the tank?"]
With not-so-witty banter such as, “You’re too stupid to talk, shut up!” and “People are dying; we need guns,” screenwriter Shane Salerno is living up to his track record of writing really bad movies. He’s responsible for two other piles of bad dialogue in 2000′s Shaft remake and 1998′s Armageddon. I seriously wonder how he continues to dupe movie studios into paying him money to write.
It’s a shame.
The Alien franchise is one of the best in science fiction horror history. But now it has devolved to the level of self-aware bad camp. Sad.
Final rating: Horrible. 1 star out of 5.
(It gets the one star instead of zero for three reasons: 1. they avoid the save-the-babies for no apparent reason cliche of most horror films, 2. A laugh-out-loud scene when Daddy is telling his little girl there is no such thing as monsters, and 3. the creators put in little non-subtle but amusing nods to just about every famous horror movie made in the past 50 years.)
This is the ticket stub from the film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, that I took Rich to go see for his 39th birthday.
This is the ticket stub to the film The Golden Compass. I saw it with Rich and Laura Straub. We three liked it, but were amazed at the sparse attendance in the theatre. We also were amazed at the ticket price: $10.25 for an adult ticket. Ouch.
U.S. and Canada – North American movie box offices were dominated by Universal pictures last weekend as two of its films, a comedy, Meet the Fockers, and a horror flick, White Noise, together raked in a combined $52.6 million, more than half the $98.3 all films made over the Jan. 7 weekend, according to film tracking firm Box Office Mojo.
But Universal’s dominance of the North American box office receipts is in danger as 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Warner Brothers and Sony all have films debuting in …
For: Wikinews
U.S. and Canada – After two weekends of box office domination, Universal Pictures’ Meet the Fockers will be challenged for the top spot by horror film White Noise, also from Universal, which opens in wide release Friday.
To be considered in wide release, a film must open or play in at least 1,000 theatres throughout the U.S. and Canada. With Noise being the only new wide release movie for the weekend, it looks to take advantage of movie goers looking from a change from holiday themed film fare.
Noise is a come-back attempt for Michael Keaton, who hasn’t had a hit movie since …
For: Wikinews
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