In article <1179165771.499251.162870@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Terrence Briggs <mrman1mrman1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On May 14, 2:02 pm, Derek Janssen <eja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Yep: Funeral services for David Stainton's career to be held a theater
>> near you. :)
Good luck in finding any mourners.
> Harsh, but probably true. To be fair, only the first third of the
> film is awful.
Hmm. I liked the first third, mainly because I sympathized with
Lewis and
I thought his baseball player sidekick was funny. I also found the
character
design appealing in its softness. MtR is the best looking of the Disney
made
( i.e. not Pixar made ) CGI movies ( though "Dinosaur" and "Chicken
Little"
don't really provide much competition ). But the art carried only the
beginning of the movie.
I felt a big letdown from both the villain and the Robinsons
themselves.
The makers made a huge mistake in just skimming off a mention of one
personality quirk for most of the family members How about that, we
don't
really "meet" them?! Many of these quirks made the members creepy instead
of
appealing. Ick, I looked at that fat guy who cried when he didn't get his
food
and couldn't think of anything else other than diabetes, cholestoral,
trans
saturated fats, atrophy. :-P And I have to concede that Lassiter was in
the
right after all about the villain being superfluous. I assumed too much
about
his personality from his character design and looked forward to seeing
him, but
he turned out to have a completely different role in the story. In the
actual
movie, his bizarre personality just left me baffled.
BTW: The writers must've been really starved for ideas when those
two
family members suddenly switched to black and white dubbed martial arts
movie
mode. What, we walked into "Grindhouse" by mistake? :-)
The last third wasn't much better. The plot just morphed into
another
"It's a Wonderful Life" ripoff, and ( of course ) the contradictions
surrounding time travel got too confounding.
>I should add "bad movies WITH POTENTIAL".
>Terrence Briggs, tiptoing around the Transformers Kool-aid. Remake
>that one, why don'cha?
I never liked the "Transformers" TV series. But I still haven't seen
the original "Transformers Movie", with Orson Welles cast as a ravenous
robot
planet because he looked the part. :-) Hmm, I had always heard that the
"Transformers Movie" was actually pretty good, a forrunner to the
superhero
movies we now see on Toonami. I've seen the trailer for the live action
movie,
though. Forget it. There's NO way live action robots that turn into cars
will look like anything other than freaking ridiculous. And Michael Bay
is the
director. Do we need to say any more?
- Juan F. Lara
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