Timewaster's Guide Archive

Yes, because that's what EVERYONE said about Gollum. I'll take that bet, provided we're basing this on real critical reaction, not what people on internet fan sites are saying.

That is a rare thing, and I have no doubt that "Godzilla 2000" satisfied fans more than Emmerich's overblown epic. I gues I'm in the same category with "Godzilla" that you are with "Kong.": I've always been told I'm supposed to like it, and as a movie freak, and someone who enjoys bad movies, I have tried, but I just don't. I can't even sit through it. I think what we are both saying is that personal taste should be based on what you like, not what everyone else tells you to like.

One last thing I will still say about "Kong" is that the orignal has to be watched the same way as "Citizen Kane" - meaning that you have to appreciate what was so groundbreaking about it back then, not how it holds up now. I have a friend who refuses to acknowledge that "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is one of the great adventure movies, because he could name so many other movies that had as much action, if not more, and felt that he had seen it all before. But every movie he named came AFTER "Raiders."

"Pearl Harbor" was nothing more than a bunch of studio suits hypothisizing: what if they had to save Private Ryan from the Titanic? It featured the worst romantic dialogue I've ever heard: ("Life didn't ask me what I wanted. But I only hope that as a gaze out into the sunset, I can catch the last few rays, and send them to your heart.).  The love story was so deadly dull that by the time you got to the bombing sequence, you didn't care anymore, and the bombing sequence was played as sn action extravaganza, or in other words, for cheap thrills, which I found to be profoundly disrespectful to the real victims. Even survivors of the real bombing complained that it was nowhere near that exciting or loud. I also felt that the movie protrayed the Americans as perfect saints and the Japanese as inhuman monsters (apparently during the bombing of Tokyo, no actual people were hurt.). I hate war movies that don't portray the brutality and horrors of war. This was a Harlequin romance novel set in a WWII backdrop, and I think it was appalling.

Also, it featured Cuba Gooding, Jr, which is enough reason to hate any movie.

As far as "the Island," I do agree that it was a concept that could have been developed much better than it was. A better script and a better director, some seriosu rethinking to fix the plot holes, and they could have had one of the best movies of the summer.

Have you people seen the original "King Kong"? The trailer makes this look like an extremely faithful remake, and as a huge fan of the original, and of Jackson, I can't wait.! As far the comparison to "The Lost World: Jurassic Park," that entire movie was Spielberg's homage to Kong, right down to name of the boat the T-Rex arrives in (S.S. Venture.).

Everything about this trailer looks cool, and I for one am just excited to see Adrian Brody  finally following up "The Pianist" with something that isn't going to suck.

There was only one pairing that I thought was sudden, but I won't say which it was in order to avoid a spoiler (but I think it's fairly obvious which one I mean). But yes, absolutely, the onther ones have been building up for the whole series.