The first National Treasure film was great, in my opinion. It had a unique and interesting story, the effects weren’t bad, and it blended some historical factoids into the story unobtrusively. I don’t think it deserved the relatively low ratings it got in places like RottenTomatoes.com.
The sequel, Book of Secrets, wasn’t too bad for a [...]
The Golden Compass, based on the book by Phillip Pullman, was a good film, though not quite as good as the book (which often happens). The pace was too quick, and the movie too short (just short of two hours). The Golden Compass is a 544 page book, with a fairly complex plot. The filmmakers cut things out, and re-arranged things until the movie moved at a quick pace and lacked important information. New Line, here’s a tip: Don’t try to cram a 500+ page book into less than two hours of film! Fantasy films can be much lunger than that. I, personally, don’t like it when movies have a running time of less than two and a half hours.
After seeing the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film (the day it came out, of course), I had the typical Harry Potter Fan reaction. “It’s-too-short! They cut-out half the good parts! WTH? And they got these parts all wrong!” After thinking about it for a couple weeks, I compiled my list of [...]
I finally saw Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End yesterday. How was it? Let’s see…
At World’s End was a lot better than the mediocre Dead Man’s Chest, but still not as good as Curse of the Black Pearl (which is way better). I’m disappointed that neither of the sequels have matched the original overall. [...]
