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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Ruined potential
This is bad movie with a stupid story! They got all of these good actors but they ruined that potential with the senseless screenplay. Everything that is happening is not predictable because it's illogical, This movie has no message or criticism and it's filled with unfunny clichés. There are several themes that ultimately have no bearing on the story, It felt like the screenwriter was unsuccessfully trying too much to write a crazy script, that is cool and young and fresh and full of riddles and funny ridiculous characters. But ultimately it is a boring movie where we do not care about the characters, or the story. This film claims to be sophisticated and funny, but it's not.
Space Quest, Chapter Two: Vohaul's Revenge (1987)
Vohaul's Revenge
Roger Wilco is transferred to Xenon of Station 4 and promoted to head janitor. When last we left Roger Wilco, he managed to pry the power of ultimate destruction from the hands of the ruthless Sarien mercenaries despite his status as a mere janitor and become the hero of his home planet of Xenon. But soon the furor over his heroics died down and Roger became yesterday's news. His hard work did get him promoted to the spot of head janitor on one of Xenon's space stations, which is small consolation as he's the only member of the sanitation staff and most of the rest of the crew can't stand him. Xenon has moved on. But even if the rest of the universe no longer remembers what Roger did, one man hasn't forgotten. Unfortunately that man is Sludge Vohaul, the mad scientist who hired the Sariens to steal the Star Generator and use it for evil. As arch-villains are wont to do, he not only cooks up another scheme to bring the galaxy to its knees. But also has his flunkies kidnap Roger to exact some payback for thwarting his previous scheme. Fortunately the bad guys forgot to gas up the hovercraft and Roger manages to escape onto the dangerous jungle planet Labion. Roger manages to escape, but realizes that Vohaul has another plan to obliterate Xenon. It's up to Roger to stop him at all costs.
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
Still unsurpassed
This movie was so far ahead of it's time. It is not your average western. It's an epic cinematic masterpiece. And it was filmed without a multimillion dollar budget, expensive CGI effects, etc... Just an incredible musical score, good screenplay and an unbelievably talented cast.
Ironically, it turns out that one of the greatest Westerns was produced in Italy, (filmed in Spain) a terrific triumph of film-making and musical composition there. That is the most evocative music and symbolism the Western genre ever had... --and remains unsurpassed.
The graveyard scene shows that the film is not about what appears to be about. This is a film about the US civil(or any) war. And the cemetery: the outcome of the war. The three main characters are only side characters in the whole story.
I really miss this kind of movies. Good story, great directing and incredible music. Not like the junk we get nowadays.
Space Quest 1: The Sarien Encounter (1990)
Space Quest
As the story begins, the Starship Arcada is under attack. The evil Sariens have boarded and are killing off the crew, one by one. The all-powerful Star Generator has been stolen, the self-destruct sequence has been initiated, and all appears lost. But wait! There, asleep in the broom closet, is our hero, Roger Wilco
the janitor? He steps out from his afternoon slumber to find his co-workers dead and strewn about the floor. Using only his wits or what he has of them anyway, Roger makes it to an escape pod seconds before the Arcada explodes. With the might of the Star Generator on their side, the Sariens are now capable of destroying entire planets. Roger's pod crash lands on the desert planet of Kerona, and from there he has to overcome traps, battle monsters, and find a way back to the Sarien mother ship before his home planet of Xenon is blown to pieces.
Over the course of the series, Roger Wilco became one of the most beloved characters in adventure games, but in this first outing, he doesn't have much of a personality. All we know of Roger is told to us by the game itself, and we're assured time after time that he's barely capable of tying his shoes, much less saving the universe. While Roger himself has virtually no dialogue in the game, the other characters can be pretty talkative. The tent city of Ulence Flats is populated with a slimy used rocket salesman, a morose robot warehouse worker, and a space-pimp, or is he just a snappy dresser with an eye for collectibles. Eventually Roger will get a ship to escape Kerona and will go the Sarien mother ship to retrieve the Star Generator and he will use it to Destroy the Sariens. After the return to Xenon Roger Wilco will be greeted as a hero and will get the most perfect award for a janitor THE GOLDEN BROOM
Terminator Genisys (2015)
The problem with Genisys
It is hard to describe how stupid this movie is, but let's use this as an example: in 1984 Sarah Connor has a time machine and wants to use it to travel to 1997 to stop Skynet from getting online at the last minute, instead of maybe spending the 13 years stopping it at her leisure. The big twist in Genisys is that when Kyle Reese comes back to 1984, as we saw in The Terminator, he doesn't find the waitress Sarah Connor but rather a warrior, raised by a good guy T-800. It's not clear why history has changed; this is one of the 'mysteries' this terrible film has left open for the sequels to answer. Anyway that's the big twist, and it's not bad as far as high concept pitches go. "What if Sarah Connor said 'Come With Me If You Want To Live' to Kyle Reese , i can almost see the studio executives getting excited over this idea. And the opening bit, a recreation of the beginning of The Terminator is almost enjoyable. But it's enjoyable in that way where you hear a bum in an alley shout "Hey that guy stole my pants!" and it reminds you of the time that exact same thing happened in a superior movie. The script is the biggest problem with Terminator Genisys - it is stupid and it is riddled with cheap, lazy callbacks to movies that have technically never happened after this reboot - but the casting is the second biggest problem. Jai Courtney is a disaster as Kyle Reese; he's wrong in every way, having none of the weary soldier qualities that Michael Biehn brought to the role. In The Terminator there was a deeply felt love story where Kyle Reese traveled across time for Sarah Connor. Their relationship in Genisys sucks, and it's made worse by the fact that Emilia Clarke is absolutely, one hundred percent terrible as Sarah Connor. This is supposed to be warrior Sarah Connor, as seen in T2, but Clarke can't sell that. Clarke is missing the steel that Linda Hamilton brought to the role.(Heck, Lena Headey was ten times better as Sarah Connor than her Game of Thrones costar) . She's simply unconvincing, and her attempts to be commanding and decisive come across as shrill. The only person doing good work in Genisys is Arnold Schwarzenegger. He's just doing his T2 thing again, but he's at least having fun with it, and that fun comes across. Even when he's doing his dead-eyed Terminator thing Arnie has a thousand times the charisma of Courtney, eclipsing him in every scene they share. Most of the running time of Genisys is either callbacks to the first two films or set pieces inspired by reminding us of those movies. This time there are two helicopters - and they chase each other! And they act like space ships, by the way, doing moves that feel impossible. There's an assault on a hospital, not a police station, but close enough! There's another T-1000 to run away from while pointlessly pumping bullets into its liquid metal body! All of these scenes - many of which involve robots shoving each other around - are boring. But most annoying is that almost all of these scenes also include terrible CGI, from the dismal de-aging on Schwarzenegger to general bad composting and phony looking CGI creations. There's a new kind of Terminator in this film (this is the only thing these sequels change up) Instead of liquid metal this one is made of buzzing nanites and it looks bad. Even the T-1000 effects look somehow worse than the ones from 1991. Genisys is always moving ahead breathlessly, so it's never ponderous, just always stupid and bad in a quick way. The other positive thing is JK Simmons as a cop from 1984 who reappears in 2017 having had his life changed by his interaction with time travelers. He's funny. There's not enough of him, but he injects the only humor that works into the movie. The script for Genisys sags under the weight of its idiocy and lack of internal consistency until it gets to an ending where Sarah and Kyle are continuously menaced by a hologram of Skynet, and they keep shooting out the projectors
again and again, so many times in a row that it becomes completely a comedy beat. At the end of the movie, as Pops and the new Terminator float in a CGI battle of meaninglessness, Terminator Genisys simply becomes a parody of itself, as if no one working on this movie could continue to take it seriously. There is an audience that will eat this up - it's fast and there are explosions and endless barrages of gunfire aimed at robots that cannot possibly be hurt by it and there are so many callbacks to the first two films that the average fan-boy could go "Hey, I understand what they're referencing!" non-stop for most of the running time. But it's bad, and I think it's objectively bad. More than that, it's a desecration of classic films, overwriting the first two Terminators and replacing them with this garbage, with a movie that doesn't understand time travel but insists on talking about it all the time, a movie that ruins the iconic characters established in 1984. The film ends on a note that feels more appropriate for an episode of a TV cartoon than a Terminator movie
Beautiful Creatures (2013)
Terrible Adaptation
There are so much things that are wrong with this movie, and i don't know who is to blame: the screenwriter, the director or the producer.
The passing of the movie is wrong. Everything happens too fast, even the dialogue is delivered fast. The book take its time with the romantic aspects because Ethan and Lena are just friends in the first two thirds of the novel, mostly because if they touch Ethan feels pain and almost died in the book when he kissed Lena.
Now, there's the matter of all the important characters that are cut out, like the best friend and colleague of Ethan's mother, Maryanne the librarian, (There is no way that Amma would ever become a librarian) and the sisters(Ethan's great aunts), their cat Lucile ball, (important character in the second book) not to mention all the casters characters in Lena's family that were cut out in the movie.
At the school, Lena breaks the glass in the classroom because the girls were praying, but in the book they called her uncle a child murderer.
No screenwriter should change the dialogue from the book, because they simply can't write better than the author of the book.
After she breaks the glass in the school, Lena is suspended in the book, but in the movie the church leads a witch hunt against her, because they want her expelled. They even held the meeting in the Church, while in the book, the parents counsel for Lena is held in the school gymnasium.
They represent all Christians like ignorant and stupid hicks, and than at the end, they decide to use the priest to explain about sacrifice.
The movie is full with stupid and needless reverences about Titanic and other movies, Amma even mentions how Nancy Reagan expelled all the casters from Washington to Gatling.
The movie won't explain like the book that Sarafine had control over miss Lincoln's body long before the event that are happening, but is leading the viewers to believe that the people of Gatling are leading there own crusade against Lena. In the book, miss Lincoln's powerful organization is the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution)which is controlled by Sarafine(in miss Lincoln's body) is making Lena's life miserable, because she wants Lena to turn dark, however, in the movie the church is doing this without Sarafine.
The curse in the movie is shown as all-powerful, while in the book a lot of Lena's female family is light by their own choice.
Lena and Ethan find out, (with some clues left by Ethan's mom) that Lena can claim herself, that a person with a strong will can claim them self, which Lena eventually does.
The ending of the movie makes no sense, because Lena makes Ethan forget everything about her, while in the book, they find out that Lena can claim herself at her 16th birthday without anyone dying.
When Lena's birthday arrives Ridley throws a surprise party for Lena at the 16'th moon with every kid from school that hates her. Link and Ethan are tricked by Ridley to leave the party, and when they come back, Lena is fighting Sarafine who has Ridley and Macon's brother Hunting by her side. Hunting stabs Macon and Sarafine kills Ethan, and despite all of that Lena defeated Sarafine because her powers are greatest at the 16'th moon. Than, she uses the book of moons with Amma's help to revive Ethan and because of that Macon dies. Lena in the second book feels an enormous guilt over this and almost becomes dark.
However, Ridley in the book is not that evil, she never kills anyone, but is loyal to Sarafine because she is afraid of her. Even when she tries to seduce Link, she will gain feelings for him, and even saves Ethan and Link's lives in the second book.
I don't think that the writer-director even read the book which this movie is supposedly based on, but simply read the Wikipedia page synopsis, and simply he based his screenplay on that article.
At the end, it's impossible for this movie to have a sequel because of the bad writing at the end. Sarafine is the main villain of the first three books and she survives this book, but dies in the movie.