After seeing this movie, I think people will be surprised by it. The critics seems to be a little harsh on this movie. If you look at the actual viewer ratings (rotten tomatoes), it’s actually in the mid 70’s %. That should tell you something. The movie has great special effects (hey street fighter take notes). There are some corny moments, but there are some great moments as well. There’s a little scene where it is inspired by Beauty and the Beast. A little homage to the classic.
As far as story goes it’s pretty generic. I”ll kind of go and say it’s very similar to the first Percy Jackson movie, but with a teacher student aspect. I thought the pacing of the movie was done well too. There wasn’t a scene that was too slow that lost my attention. For the 90 minutes of the movie I saw, it kept me interested. Also for the soundtrack, they should really stop using mainstream music in it. It really makes a movie dated fast. This movie may not be for the critical, but for those that go to the movies for enjoyment.
The Transformers crew has now closed off half of Chicago’s North Michigan Avenue. It seems like every tourist and local shoppers were out tonight just watching the crew set up the street for the weekend shoot. Crashed cars are being set up throughout the street. All the movie props were being stored at the vacant lot south of the AMC River East theaters. It’s pretty unbelievable that Michigan Avenue is closed for the weekend as it’s the most busiest/crowded street in all of downtown. The movie studios must have paid millions to close down the retail stores.
It’s pretty hilarious. I think Street Fighter movies should be like this. Take things litely and not too seriously. Loving the actions words when they are fighting. It’s very 60’s Batmanish. The story seems pretty hilarious as well. This might actually do well, better than Kick Ass, if the rating of the movie is PG. Catch it sometime this August and while your at it read the comic book as well. Oh yeah, Did you see the reference to the Mario Brothers? Genius.
Well you film in the heart of the city what else do expect. Here are some videos of what people have caught during the filming of Transformers 3. Gotta say that Semi Truck looks freaking clean even with all those debris. I’m still surprised that they allowed people to shoot video. They also had the people just one block away from the shooting. Crazy I say. Now here are videos that people took during filming (action sequences).
Head on over to Gizmodo to view some of the cars they had.
Lots of explosions on LaSalle Street happened this past Saturday. Expect to see the same street where Batman flipped Joker’s truck in Michael Bay’s Transformer 3! Check out Optimus Prime’s Trailer! It looked smaller in person than on the screen. I couldn’t take a picture of the actual truck because it was near the crash scene. Below is also a pic of a 4×4.
It’s seems all over the world film studios just can’t come up with original content. In the US, you have studios doing remakes of horror flicks, superheroes, cartoons, and foreign flicks. In Japan, the usual thing is come out with a manga. Then create an anime. Then a year or two later come out with an anime movie or live action movie.
So well you guessed it, we have another manga/anime coming to life. Don’t worry it won’t be Westernized and it is being made fully in Japan. Following in the footsteps of Casshern, Death Note comes the live action Gantz. I’ve never seen the anime or manga, but supposedly it follows more with the manga. The great thing about the movie is that it looks freaking awesome. You got characters wearing suits and it doesn’t look ridiculous on them like you would see on Power Rangers, Ultraman (reboot the guy it’s about time), and what not. The special effects are looking mightly well too.
In a few years I believe we’ll start see consistent quality of heavy influenced foreign movies that will rival even the best US blockbuster. Oh, the only bad thing about the Gantz movie is it’s released date. It won’t be released until 2011 in Japan and sure won’t be released internationally 6-12 after that. Let’s enjoy the trailer for the time being.
