The initial draft of this review spent 850+ words droning on about the mockumentary aesthetic of Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, going back and forth on whether or not to fault the film for abandoning said aesthetic halfway through the film. When I gave the draft to my friend and unofficial editor, her notes boiled down to this: “Why am I reading this?”
→Tags: Sci-Fi, Aliens, Edward Copeland on Film
ReviewYouth Without Youth blipped briefly on my radar when it premiered; the return of Francis Ford Coppola excited me, but negative reviews quelled most of my enthusiasm. All I knew about the film was that it involved a man growing rapidly younger while his lover raced in the other direction.
→Tags: Sci-Fi, Francis Ford Coppola, Edward Copeland on Film
ReviewIn the hands of Verhoeven, the mammoth sci-fi battle flick is one of the most astonishingly bad films ever made, a monument to inept filmmaking on a colossal scale.
→Paul Verhoeven is exactly the wrong man to have made Starship Troopers.
Tags: Sci-Fi, Satire, Violence
ReviewClick is not what I expected it to be, yet, sadly, it is exactly what I expected it to be.
For those who saw the trailer and feared the film to be one of those “you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve seen the movie” situations, rest assured, because that is not the case with Click…in a way. But the actual film isn’t that much better.
Okay, the obligatory synopsis:
→Tags: Comedy, Adam Sandler, Sci-Fi, Future, Digital
ReviewMaybe I just watch too much TV, but lately a lot of movies I’ve been watching seem to be 2-hour films with 45-minute concepts. X-Men: The Last Stand is the latest victim, because when I think about it, only one big thing—one major event, that is—happens in this film, with maybe 2 smaller things. And that’s it, the rest is just filler.
→Tags: Brett Ratner, X-Men, Action, Sci-fi, Comic
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