I joined PeerFlix a couple of weeks ago mainly to get rid of DVDs I regretted getting, and hopefully, I can exchange them with something I wish I’d gotten. Against my better judgement, though, I got “War of the Worlds“. I read reviews and they all said the movie sucked. But I had to see it for myself.
What a mistake.
The movie sucked…
Well, coming from a special effects and 3D background, I have to give it to Steven that the effects are great in the movie. But the plot, story, logic, ending… sucked, sucked, sucked and sucked. I think I am going to avoid Steven Spielberg films until he can remove that sappiness from his ass and starts making movies with decent plots and endings. “A.I.” suffered the same fate when he got too sappy with the ending. The movie could have ended and stayed decent when David gets trapped at the bottom of the ocean. But NO, Steven has to reunite David with his mommy for 24 hours and kill her off for good using Alien technology.
Now I just got to get the rest of the movies on my list, including “Sign with your Baby Training Video“.
Speaking of movies, Grace and I watched “PTU” (Police Tactical Unit) again the other night. It’s easily among the best of the best Hong Kong films, especially those with the Hong Kong police force as their underlying themes. Johnnie To never disappoints. Even crappy scripts can turn into gold with his magical directorship. While we are on the topic of Hong Kong films, “Infernal Affairs” (more about it here) is also an excellent movie though its subsequent sequel and prequel weren’t quite as tightly written and directed. Like all good movies, prequels and sequels never live up to the excellence of the original release of the film (with the obvious exception of “Lord of the Rings. But then that trilogy doesn’t really count because Peter Jackson cheated by making all three movies in one go with creative editing). Yet others will say that the “Godfather Trilogy (more here) should also be excluded. But I say, “whatever, dude”. To see an A-Z list of trilogies Hollywood ever made, find them here.