Back to the Future (1985)

The most overrated film ever made. Definitely not worth the hype.

I always regard the eighties as the weakest decade for movies.

"There are of course the kind of complications that usually follow from time travel."

Weekend movies are made just to make us have some fun while we watch It.

This one is about time travel, time travel to the past.

But there are of course the kind of complications that usually follow from time travel.

Science Fiction = Fiction based on scientific facts.

Flux Capacitor and time traveling dogs are hardly supported by science!

This film is not science fiction. It is fantasy. Science fiction should make some attempt at plausibility.

It's 1955 now and we note that the state of the town is rather better in most respects. No garbage on the streets.

"It was irresponsible for a film to show such potentially fatal activities as skateboarding on the back of vehicles."

J. Fox tried to look ultra cool, but he couldn't.

He is constantly on the move, frenetic and frantic, forever running to or from one thing or the other, and shouting "Doc!" a lot.

You can't help thinking someone as boyish and short could never really be so cool.

Christopher Lloyd was cool but not properly utilized!

The thrill of this movie for me begins when Marty travels back in time.

Teenage girl who will become his Mom falls for him.

The movie Back to the Future (1985), allowed me to live this fantasy.


Pros:
+ The famed Delorean automobile... he was driving away at a heightened rate of speed in the automobile.
+ Biff gets everything he deserves.
+ Anybody who hates this movie probably hates babies and laughs at people when they're a few dollars short
+ If Sigmund Frued saw this movie he'd be foaming and frothing at the mouth

Cons:
(-) I was annoyed by the background music.
(-) Marty's continual, idiotic 'slip-ups' with 1985 references in 1955 give me a headache and make me wonder if he's not mentally defective.
(-) "Marty's" father (Crispin Glover) was a disgusting wuss.
(-) The close relationship, between mother and son, was a little over the top for me.
(-) Lloyd's overacting could also grow irritating for some.

Summary:
I like this movie okay.

Overall the idea of going back in time was awesome! However, the whole idea of my mother being attracted to me was very creepy. I believe that many of the movie goers would agree with me.

Not something that I would really want to have in my DVD collection.

The Watchmen

"This movie is about a bunch of washed up HUMANS with no powers."

"B u t i t m a k e s n o s e e n n n s e !!!"

"Watchmen" is a very bad movie, and I am one of the few people who have the guts to say it!

I consider myself a very open-minded person, I can enjoy over the top violence, gore etc. but this???

After watching 300 my expectations were ridiculously high but I did not expect this from Zack Snyder.

A boring plot that moves along like your Grandma's childhood memories.

I've never been to a movie that spent this many hours being bad.

There were all these silly side sub plots that totally confused the storyline! The movie jumps around way to much, doesn't have a solid plot line, bored the hell out of me!

There were just too many plots happening all at once, very very very long introduction.

The plot is dizzily boring and confusing.

"never-ending series of meaningless dialogues"

The book may be very good (friends tell me it is), but I can verify that the movie is awful.

Events and character choices just didn't make sense to me!!

It is a constant and never-ending series of meaningless dialogues

I just could not wait for the impending nuclear holocaust because then I would be able to go home. And I'm actually a very peaceable person...

I really don't understand people who are saying they will watch this over and over!?

I don't dislike Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel or Leonard Cohen.

I cared less about the blue penis

the giant blue Smurf who's genitalia seem to make their appearance with ever increasing frequency for no apparent reason.

The constantly flashing big blue penis was already quite disturbing/distracting in itself, but not as much as the script itself.

The "heroes" allow millions to die because they are too crappy at being heroes

 

The movie does not manage to make me feel connected to any of the characters. This is the main weakness to me.

The Comedian is the only one I loved straight away but he dies within 5 minutes.

I found myself caring only about Rohrschach.

'Rorschach'. The only character that you actually felt anything for.

The one shining light in this movie was the performance of Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach. Of course he sounded like a conservative so they had to kill him off before the movie ended.

Nite Owl is a geek. He's the kind of classmate who's name you wouldn't remember after 1 year.

Silk Spectre II was horrible. All she does is have sex with the guys without too much of a pause between them.

"Worse than Shakespeare!"

It amazes me how much emotional baggage these people in their stupid costumes can carry around with them.

a bunch of boring people who think that they can save the world.

it has hardly any plot to speak of! Both my girl-friend and I vented our anger about this fact after the screening

Silk Spectre II's life was a joke and so was this movie.

The rescue scene followed by the sex scene just about sums up the whole film - it was just non-arousing, boring and pointless.

Recall that extra homework you got after behaving badly at school? Well, I at least do, and this movie is it. Worse than Shakespeare written on paper, if that means anything.

The only time I paid attention was when someone's bone popped out or someone's arms got chopped off.

PS.
I found more than 150 reviews with 1/10 rating at IMDB. I only had the time to study 50 of them.

Planet of the Apes (1968)

"roam free, roam naked"

Simply awful! It doesn't deserve even one star! 5/10

Yoke who falls into a time zone and comes out nude and cursing

"Get your stinkin' paws off me you damn dirty ape!"

shouting all the time


Astronauts land on a planet where apes are in charge

Charlton Heston's pants come down a few times


The world is being invaded by apes, but this movies portrays the invasion so poorly that it's hard to know Earth is being invaded.

'Planet of the Apes' just kind of ends at one point, nothing really happens... "You Maniacs! You blew it up!" ...and you wonder, what happened


There were a bunch of seqeuls... and then there was a remake

the first time I ever remember feeling depressed.

The Phantom Menace (1999)

"This is set somewhere in space."

I become increasingly frustrated with comments on how this new Star Wars doesn't stand up to the originals.

Most underrated Star Wars movie...possibly movie ever!!!

How some fail to appreciate it is the larger piece of a puzzle is disturbing.

Who can deny the excitement of the light-saber dueling, the thrill of the pod race

This is my favorite out of all of them. Why? Cause the story is the beginning of a saga that started first before... It has the beginning!

Set before the others, and confusingly made AFTER

Acting:

Liam Neeson is simply the whole movie Darth Maul's evil look might've been a publicist's dream but Qui gon jinn is the heart of the movie and Ewen Macgregor simply wonderful as Kenobi. The movie never earned all the basing it got it's about as wonderful a time

Darth Maul is such a cold, merciless villain

his motive is to wipe out the Jedi

For one thing, Darth Maul has a double bladed (duel bladed) lightsaber. And I thought it was nice to see an update on the lightsaber formula.

his motive is to wipe out the Jedi

The interaction between Jar Jar, Qui Gon, and Obi Wan was splendid entertainment at its finest!

Anakin is such a cool person because he is a great podracer

when Jar Jar got his head stuck in the pod race electrical line, I was laughing out of control.

He embodies the people in our society who may not be gifted mentally... If you slam Jar Jar, then that should tell you something about yourself as a person.

George Lucas is not racist. The guy who did Jar Jar's voice was given the job because his voice was ideal for the character.

lets face it we need the Gungans because a lot of the time the Naboo are just boring humans.

impressive 3-D shots... you could also see Jar Jar's tongue stick out of the screen in one shot. My eyes did strain a little bit at times

bad acting? I fail to see it

Plot:

This film and it's story has a lot of action and plot!

Most of the critics couldn't even figure out what the *phantom menace* was.

This is the more "adult" side of the Star Wars galaxy.

Makes the world of the original trilogy seem cartoonish

We can see at last see the "old" republic and how it worked and functioned

Viewers also complained about the complexity of the plot with all the politics....my thoughts are that we need to be informed of the fragile and crumbling centre of the republic

vote of no-confidence! How many adults even know what that is? (Hmm... maybe this explains the low ratings.)

I was able to follow the story just fine

Let me let you in on a fact here. Senator Palpatine and Darth Sidious are the same person!!!! ...If you miised out on this major plot point, then you entirely missed out on the point of the story.

The epic story sweeps you along to the greatness and deepness of human imagination.

Effects:

This has better special Fx than IV, V and VI

This time though the Empire are using robots! OMFG!

creatures,swordfights,adventure,heros,magic (although called Force) and amazing effects.

You need to see the rest of the film

(there are almost zero special effects, but that just underlines how good the visual effects must be).

special-effects directing is MUCH harder than directing for dialog.

I think this film should have received several Oscars.

10/10 Shits all over Star Trek.

Thank you Mr. Lucas!