Sunday, June 04, 2006 , 6:05 AM
Napoleon Dynamite
Very unique, and hilarious. Absolutely loved the two lead characters, eternally frustrated Napoleon and his well mannered Mexican friend Pedro. Especially the way they talked. The dialogue rocked too:
Deb What are you drawing?
Napoleon Dynamite A liger.
Deb What's a liger?
Napoleon Dynamite It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.
LOL
That being said, why was there not a clearer plot? Napoleon had no real goal in this movie which made it drag in some areas. The Pedro being class president plot was only established two thirds of the way in.
6/10
, 5:11 AM
X-Men 3: The Last Stand
Even though some critics have hailed X-men 2 as the greatest comic book movie of all time, I was never a big fan of the X-Men series. The movies don't feel like movies, they feel like Season 2, EP 16 of a Sci fi TV show: i.e. a multitude of story arcs developing, with no punch.
Considering this, like TV shows, X-men 3 actually had a dramatic advantage, by ending arcs that people have been dying to see played out not just the entire movie, but for the entire series.
And that's precisely what makes this movie by far the worst of the three: these story arcs were finished in the most unsatisfying and undramatic ways. Consider the following: (Warning spoilers)
1) The love triangle between Wolverine-Cyclops-Jean Grey. (ends with: controntation? a decision? nope, one dies. Yay!)
2) Xaiver vs. Magneto (ends with: again no big confrontation/fight, Xaiver instead killed by JEAN ugh)
4) Iceman vs. Fireguy (ends with: a comical head butt!)
Instead of paying attention to fully realizing these arcs, we are given an extra dose of action (Ratner's speciality), and some useless new story arcs. (How pointless was Angel, seriously?)
However, speical mention must be given to the effects, which highlight some truly creative scenes, including one where a house is ripped into the air. It makes this movie worth seeing on the big screren.
5/10
