Serra
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Post by Serra on Mar 3, 2006 5:08:05 GMT -5
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Post by dim on Mar 3, 2006 5:42:48 GMT -5
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Post by TheKaiser on Mar 3, 2006 11:21:59 GMT -5
Its a negative review. But not badly written.
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Post by jackmode on Mar 3, 2006 17:03:17 GMT -5
this movie is really really really good......forget those reviews.......
.....i just got back from the movie...
....dont listen to those reviews.....
i guess this movie is like EQ....love it or hate it.....and i loved it.....
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Post by JenGe on Mar 5, 2006 0:30:22 GMT -5
Yeah...not too many middle of the roaders with this one...it's love or hate...remindes me of Starship Troopers as well...great little satire that one...
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Post by Disappointed on Mar 5, 2006 0:44:59 GMT -5
Just got back from UV and the word that comes to mind is 'silly'. The whole movie is goofy. It's funny how the attitude of a movie allows you to buy into it. The gunkatta in EQ was completely believable because of the movie's overall presence. The gunkatta in UV is completely ridiculous in comparison. Not necessarily because the choreography is any different but because in this universe it doesn't make any sense.
Watching Preston clear the lobby was completely exhilerating but watching Violet do the same... I don't know.. it had no impact whatsoever. It seems like Wimmer wasn't directing it. I know he's been upset with the studio interference in this movie and it shows. The whole thing is a mess. It's Bourne-edited with quick cuts and other shenanigans that were left out of EQ's fight scenes. The color scheme is a mess. It's a big cartoon. Also, Wimmer seems to have blown his load. Gunkatta is his brainchild and it seems to be his only real idea for the action of the movie.
The dialogue is completely awful. So completely unoriginal and just.... oh, god.. lame. I can't imagine anyone sitting down at night to write this movie and thinking "It is on!" would be a good line. In terms of dialogue, the movie was flat out insulting.
The vampire/hemophage thing is a complete waste of time. Period. It never goes anywhere. The issues of prejudice and discrimination are never touched on.
The CGI looks like it was done on an Etch-a-sketch.
I am too much a fan of EQ to burn Wimmer at the stake but I will have only a passing interest in his next feature.
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Post by Wraith on Mar 5, 2006 0:45:05 GMT -5
Yeah...not too many middle of the roaders with this one...it's love or hate...remindes me of Starship Troopers as well...great little satire that one... I'm kinda middle of the road about UV, but you might be right about Starship Troopers. I don't really like that movie (aside from the score and Clancy Brown) |
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Post by JenGe on Mar 5, 2006 0:54:00 GMT -5
...but I will have only a passing interest in his next feature. Luckily I did not do the same... When Ridley Scott directed Legend... Cameron directed Piranha 2 Spielberg did Lost World Lucas put his hand into Howard the Duck The Coens wasted my time with Ladykillers Woo made a wrong step with Paycheck Every director deserves an off day... |
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Post by -mark- on Mar 5, 2006 2:25:15 GMT -5
...but I will have only a passing interest in his next feature. Luckily I did not do the same... When Ridley Scott directed Legend... Cameron directed Piranha 2 Spielberg did Lost World Lucas put his hand into Howard the Duck The Coens wasted my time with Ladykillers Woo made a wrong step with Paycheck Every director deserves an off day... I agree there every director is gonna have an off day. Paycheck of course was a similar situation as UV, where the studio basically took the film and recut it to make a generic sci-fi/semi action PG13 movie. |
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Post by -mark- on Mar 5, 2006 2:26:12 GMT -5
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Serra
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Post by Serra on Mar 10, 2006 8:31:40 GMT -5
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Post by JenGe on Mar 11, 2006 10:40:31 GMT -5
This one though not possitive about the film does raise the issues that I have stated about the CGI being unfinished (cathedral segment.) I certainly enjoyed it more than this person did. ...a Studio cutting its losses and dumping “an unfinished motion picture” in the audience’s lap. How else could you make sense of the abysmal looking and blatantly “incomplete” CGI that was in the film? Those helicopters looked like Atari graphic templates…how embarrassing! I’ve never seen a Studio picture with the gall to present partial CG work in a released film. I couldn’t believe it (yes I should get a life). The careless narrative structure that gave me the impression that they made up the “story” in the editing room with the footage they had didn’t help to convince me that this film was Wimmer’s vision either. www.joblo.com/arrow/reviews.php?id=1049 |
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Post by -mark- on Mar 11, 2006 12:44:29 GMT -5
This one though not possitive about the film does raise the issues that I have stated about the CGI being unfinished (cathedral segment.) I certainly enjoyed it more than this person did. ...a Studio cutting its losses and dumping “an unfinished motion picture” in the audience’s lap. How else could you make sense of the abysmal looking and blatantly “incomplete” CGI that was in the film? Those helicopters looked like Atari graphic templates…how embarrassing! I’ve never seen a Studio picture with the gall to present partial CG work in a released film. I couldn’t believe it (yes I should get a life). The careless narrative structure that gave me the impression that they made up the “story” in the editing room with the footage they had didn’t help to convince me that this film was Wimmer’s vision either. www.joblo.com/arrow/reviews.php?id=1049I agree completely with what the review says and quite possibly is the thing that bugs me the most about Ultraviolot..........gah why couldn't they ahve left Wimmer alone ***Shakes fist*** Lol |
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