Movie Reviews
Alice in Wonderland: A Movie Review
Apr 21st
No matter how much you want to like this movie, you’re going to be disappointed. Like everyone else, I had high expectations for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. They were not met.
Tim Burton must have felt like the rabbit in the story, because it looked like he was in a hurry to finish the story in the shortest amount of time possible.
It’s not that the screenplay wasn’t going anywhere. It went from point (A): “Alice (Mia Wasikowska) falls down the rabbit hole” to point (B): “Alice fights in a battle against the evil queen”. What happened between those two points was really confusing.
The characters, just like the screenplay, kept zig-zagging from one end of Wonderland to another.
The producers probably insisted on keeping the movie under a 2 hour duration.
Lewis Caroll’s Wonderland is a heterogeneous world filled with a multitude of eccentric characters. Within this complex environment, fitting a story in a short time frame (1h48mins to be exact) can be a perilous endeavor. Read the rest of this entry »
Avatar: A Movie Review
Jan 24th
All that was missing were the odours and the mosquito bites.
Avatar is a masterpiece. I can’t remember the last time I felt like this after watching a movie. That time was probably after watching Star Wars for the first time, and that was a long, long time ago.
Avatar made such an impression on me that I had to catch my breath at the end of the movie.
Set in the year 2154, the story takes place on the planet Pandora, where a human colony is attempting to harvest precious metal ressources worth billions of dollars. The mining company encounters a few glitches. Read the rest of this entry »
Disney’s Christmas Carol: A Movie Review
Dec 29th
Did we really need another helping of the classic Dickens story from Hollywood? The answer is an enthusiastic yes! Disney’s version of A Christmas Carol exceeded my expectations by a long shot.
What I anticipated to be another family-friendly Christmas flick is in fact a thrilling ghost movie, to the point that I actually jumped in my seat a few times during the screening.
You can take your kids to see it but I would definitely not call this a kiddie movie.
We all know the story by heart, but here’s a quick recap anyway: in 1843 London, Ebenezer Scrooge is an old, stingy businessman who has no interest in partying or helping those in need (two things the rest of us normally do around Christmas time). Read the rest of this entry »