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Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
I liked it. It was fun. My spoilers might make you like the movie more.
The subplot with the country that had a landed alien craft from the previous invasion was very good, the actor and Umbutu character was scary good.
Compared to star wars recent movie, I liked that things happen on earth to give it all scale. blowing up a solar system is a yawn but destroy a city has more visceral effect as the first movie proved.
Adding the second alien was great.
All of the returning characters were good. Spinner was a hoot. Goldblum still has it. The old president was good.
The younger cast are good, but they are less differentiated than the older cast members. They blur when the action gets going.
Sure the tropes were fast and heavy. I'll let Cineramasins deal with that. The coincidental survival and meeting of all the old characters and essential new ones really got tiresome. I would have a appreciated some reason they all got together, like being called up by the president because they had fought them before. There must have been over a doze 1 in a million chance meetings and survivals.
The space craft was crazy big, and they tried but failed to impress on us that it was the size of the Atlantic. Nor was that necessary. 10 times the previous movie size would have done just fine. It's Scifi, of course, so the impossibility by today's science shouldn't bug me. But it does pop me out of the move for a movement when it's absurdly over the top. Try to adopt a "what if it were possible" attitude.
The travel and communications to the moon should have had a lantern hung on it. It was way too fast. Now, of course, the scifi explanation is the alien tech allowed this. But someone needed to warn us as or before it happens, again so we would not pop out of the movie mentally.
The queen looked a little too much like Alien.
Like the first movie, it's scifi, and bold at that. Relax and enjoy the ride.
Android Cop (2014)
It's not Robocop. It's an android, and there are twists.
Most of us cringe when we see "the Asylum" made a movie. Yet this is pretty good. Good plot, good acting, and it's NOT Robocop, it really is not. It's a new set of ideas, and well done. I really like how the Android cop solved some of the situations without using violence. I also liked the Androids attempt to follow the law.
The special effects are even good. The aircraft are interesting and unique.
The music is so so. The android cop should have been a much better shot. Three guys stand there and the Android shoots dozens of times and misses?
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Big Spoilers. It was tiresome.
Batman versus superman: I wanted to like this movie and loved the beginning, showing the ground level view of the previous movie's fight. But then it slowed down to a crawl, and then it was just terrible.
Superman goes to Batman because Lex threatens his mom, but doesn't tell batman this? They don't try and work it out? Superman's first words should have been "Batman, Lex is threatening to kill my mother if I don't kill you. Help me". Movie over, right?
Superman pushes Batman through a building and throws him down on a roof from hundreds of feet and batman isn't dead? A suit won't save you from those gees, batman is only human. Several times in the fight, Batman was dead. Obviously dead.
Didn't Superman see through batman's mask the first time and know it was Bruce? Didn't Superman know the trucks contained kryptonite? Did he trust Lex more than Batman? Did he know Batman wanted to kill him?
What a waste of Wonder Woman and did she have some sort of ray gun right at the start of the fight? No strong persona came through in her portrayal. I thought it was cat woman till late in the movie.
Doomsday looked like alien resurrection. What a waste of a complex comic character. There was no reason, no story that explained his hate of superman.
Lex was the Joker, not Lex.
Superman is dumb to jump into the pool. He should go get Wonder Woman who is trained using spears, and toss HER and the spear at doomsday. It would have taken him about 1 second. Yeah, I know, Doomsday has to kill superman. He could always follow the spear in to make sure it kills Doomsday.
I don't like the dark color pallet that DC has been using in their films. I guess they can't do the bright Marvel scheme without seeming the same. Justice League Unlimited cartoons were my favorite DC incarnation. I didn't like the comics books, though I never read the Kirby ones, which I bet were great.
I have other complaints but other reviewers have stated them well.
It was disappointing, tiresome actually. I was thinking how really long it was in the middle of the fight scene.
Di Renjie zhi shen du Long Wang (2013)
Nothing like the first film, it's all fantasy, the first was science.
The first film, the Phantom Flame was a true intellectual adventure. We start to think we are watching a fantasy, with talking deer and such, then Dee figures out the tricks and it's all science or at least science fiction. There was a strong attempt to keep the story grounded in reality. I know the fights still used all the wire stuff, but it did not seem has hokey as in this movie.
This film is just pure fantasy from the start, with phony fighting and monsters. What's weird is they had a good story with a plausible scientific plot, then they threw all this phony stuff on top of it. I found myself laughing at it several times and not in a good way.
Why bother with the logical story, if you are going to have magic all around it?
Outrageous Acts of Science: Show Offs (2013)
Terrible, stupid show. Sorry, the hosts are the problem.
These"scientists" are usually dead wrong. bike power needed goes up as the cube of the velocity, not the square, they fall for fake videos, their comments are inane. Their voices are irritating in tone and inflection. Do they ever look up the things they comment on? I have heard so many false statements by this hosts, I cannot imagine where you got them. The "music" is sickening and obnoxious.
I still watch the videos, but I skip the commentary.
Discovery seems to be heading Dumbward. 70% of folks like this show, so I guess you are heading towards the average person.
You can do that and still get the facts right.
Iron Sky (2012)
Well done, hilarious movie, Palin lovers beware.
Very good special effects, decent plot, good acting, great humor.
Starts off like an old B movie with a complicated sub plot, which I enjoyed.
These Nazi's have never seen a black man.
The Nazi scientist treats blackness as a disease and cures it by turning him white. I thought it was hilarious.
About half way through goes big space battles very well done, yet funny.
The battles are worth watching again and again.
Palin is the president and the USA is lampooned mercilessly, I think this is part of why movie gets a relatively low rating and is hated by many people.
Even the people who hate it, admit the production values are excellent.