Last week was better, when Lola and I caught District 9. It's up there w/ Star Trek in terms of great sci-fi films, only the shaky camera movements in D9 had me wishing that I took some Bonamine beforehand. By comparison Cloverfield looked like it was shot w/ a tripod.Nope, this week after giving my brain a rest from watching Sir David Attenborough's documentary series Planet Earth in gorgeous HD, I finally caught up w/ some older flix, but after watching them wished I never bothered getting them in 720p:
Steet Kings. There's 105 minutes of my life I could've used on Yoga had I known this badly-dialogued, poorly plotted pointless flick ended the way it did. Really should've done IMDB research. Sure, I recognized most of the supporting cast (hey, it's Aidan from SATC, Sucre from Prison Break, Dr. House and The Human Torch!), but the screenwriter also wrote Ultraviolet, Equilibrium and The Thomas Crown Affair remake. Also bleh films w/ big-name stars.
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. I'm sorry for not listening to Lola when she said this film was bad. The first scene in B.P.R.D. headquarters made me wince and weary for the rest of the cast. Save for the fight scenes, colorful set pieces, Doug Jones' hand-acting (though if you pay too much attention to his fingers it can get distracting) and "glasshole" Johan Krauss (voiced by Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane), the story wasn't all that compelling. Hellboy is basically a bully, casually killing off characters like Tim Burton's Batman. That said, I never really liked the Hellboy comic (the B.P.R.D. spinoff series are a much better read), so I shouldn't be surprised the movie adaptations never caught my interest.
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