Terrible Plan! Movie Reviews

What I liked: Exciting movie about a submarine. Lots of explosions and very intense. The action on the screen played well, I felt invested in the characters and really didn’t know what was coming next. All around a good action flick. Put me in the mood for Hunt for the Red October. Despite the similarity we are not actually fighting the russians in this movie. That was a point of some confusion in the group I watched it with. What I didn’t: I had trouble telling which scruffy sailor was which. Was that the captain who just drowned, or a buddy, or a bad guy? The body count was intensely high. I have decided I never want to be a submarine sailor. Or any kind of sailor for that matter but certainly not a submariner. Too many gruesome ways to die. Finally, much like Gravity, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Murphy had a field day on this one. I think that every depthcharge deployed in the Atlantic theater was dropped in this movie. While fun and exciting for the duration of ...

What I liked: it's the Jack Ryan character, he's pretty cool. That's really all this movie has going for it. Oh and the old school hacking. That was fun. What I didn't: it was boring. Boring boring. It took me three sessions to get through it. If I turn on a movie while folding laundry or grading, it has a good 30-45 minutes to get me interested enough to keep watching, that should be more than enough to get past the plot set up to the for stuff. If a film can't grab me in that time, there is a problem. Blah blah evil president, corrupt spies, bad guys. Been there, seen that done better. Also this is medium in Ryan's career, he is acting director of the CIA, should he really be running around asking under machine gun fire? I mean I like me some good explosions but maybe after all this time in  the CIA he would have meet at least one friend who is trustworthy and could come on adventures with him. If there is no other trustworthy decent agent in the CIA...

What I liked: The heroes are grad students. What could be better? And it was funny, I laughed quite a bit. The animation was impressive as always with a pixar film and I especially liked the imaginary city of SanFranokyo very cool. The montague scenes were cool and I liked the sound track What I didn’t:Regrettably, this is not a very quotable movie. I doubt I will get much mileage out of it. Also it presents an interesting conflict of interest: If your advisor turns out to be an evil super villain you should probably arrest him, but if you do you will likely never finish your degree. and all your work will be seized as evidence Who should watch this: People who love Pixar, which is everyone. Note: it was darker than some pixar films and dealt with hard topics like loss and revenge. Would I watch it again: Yes * turns out there are two quotable lines that I have used several times since.

What I liked:The makeup and costuming were well done. And as I may have mentioned recently, the only thing better than a good movie, is a movie that inspires a good rant. What I didn’t: If you are going to make an entire 2 hour movie about strategic political maneuvering, at least one person in the movie has to have tactical ability or at minimum a plan. The distinct lack of a good plan was readily apparent. For my own future reference, when starting a revolution, step 1: hire a plan maker so that I do not: 1) construct an 85 story underground bunker accessible only by wet slippery stairs 2) constantly play the opposing side’s propaganda demoralize my own citizens 3) assemble a special forces strike team composed entirely of civilians 4) have a medical staff made up of teenagers 5) disregard my weapons and run directly towards or away from enemy forces 6) come up with a really terrible cheer and fight song. In an unrelated point, we find out that the population of district 12 was...

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What I liked: The scene going after the mob boss was pretty cool. The warehouse was pitch black, the bad guys had one kind of night vision, robocop had another kind of night vision, and the camera could see in normal color by the muzzle flashes. A cool sequence but not for anyone with epilepsy. The robocop cycle was cool but not as cool as the batcycle. What I didn’t: In the 2 hour movie there were approximately 15 minutes of cool robocop shooting stuff. The rest of the film was a larger than life attempt to examine issues of consciousness, choice, media, security, and privacy. While all of these are important issues it made for a very long boring movie when you are expecting to see explosions. Other important points: Who hired the evil corporation’s publicity crew? Clearly they were not doing their job very well because all of the things that the company was upset about with robocop were the things that would be a hit with the public: pausing to consider before shooting, being a f...