Eyes Above The Waves

Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Repatriate Kiwi. Hacker.

Tuesday 17 July 2012

In-Flight Movies

Picoreviews (including last month's trip to Beijing)

  • Wrath Of The Titans: Blah.
  • Puss In Boots: Surprisingly good. Better characters, plot and action than your average action movie.
  • The Great Magician: Good. Mixed tone, but interesting and fun.
  • Chronicle: Good.
  • John Carter: Blah.
  • Contagion: OK. Not best watched on a plane next to someone coughing.
  • The Invention Of Hugo Cabret: OK. A bit too much "look, a movie about movies, isn't this clever".
  • Mission Impossible 4: OK. Utterly generic but well done at that.
  • Salmon Fishing In The Yemen: Technically proficient, but it focuses on a protagonist whose marriage isn't very good so he runs off with a younger woman. I don't find that heroic, so I don't sympathize with the narrative thrust and the movie simply does not appeal.

Recently in theatres I've seen The Avengers (really good), Prometheus (good in every way except that it makes absolutely no sense --- what a missed opportunity), and The Amazing Spiderman (good in every way except that it's a retread of a ten-year-old movie that was perfectly good the first time around).

Comments

RyanVM
I thought Chronicle was predictable, but pretty entertaining anyway.
John Dowdell
Robert, I hope you took advantage of the in-flight time to watch these Hollywood movies in Chinese, rather than English... much more enjoyable that way.... ;) jd