{"id":36,"date":"2010-06-07T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T11:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2010-06-07T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T11:10:46","slug":"movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m back&#8230; This post: movie reviews&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the last couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve seen some movies, and I&#8217;d like to share some thoughts about them with you guys&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.shadowcovenant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/taken-2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37\" title=\"taken-2008\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.shadowcovenant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/taken-2008-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Taken&#8221;: A ex-secret agent gets his daughter kidnapped in France and he wants to get her back&#8230; Good visuals, good acting (Liam Neeson is awesome), an interesting story (Luc Besson). The action scenes are great and the view to the sexual trafic business is scary&#8230; A suprisingly good movie. 8\/10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.shadowcovenant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/planet51-poster1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38\" title=\"planet51-poster1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.shadowcovenant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/planet51-poster1-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Planet 51&#8221;: Another very good surprise. It&#8217;s an CGI animation movie, and while it&#8217;s not &#8220;Pixar-quality&#8221; level, it&#8217;s very good (specially looking at the progress from these guys last movies&#8230; the evolution is astonishing). What makes the movie really stand out is the humor and the story&#8230; the base line is the arrival of a human to an &#8220;alien&#8221; world that seems stuck in the 1950&#8217;s, with all the mentality of the time (space invasion!!!). Some of the characters are wicked fun, specially &#8220;Rover&#8221;, the rover-like robot that was sent to the planet before the human arrived. 9\/10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.shadowcovenant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/drag-me-to-hell-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39\" title=\"drag-me-to-hell-poster\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.shadowcovenant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/drag-me-to-hell-poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Drag Me To Hell&#8221;: A horror movie with a neat story&#8230; as all horror stories, you never know how it&#8217;s going to end, and this is no exception&#8230; It&#8217;s not groundbreaking (using the same plot outline as hundreds of horror movies before), but it&#8217;s a good one to see late in the evening. 7\/10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.shadowcovenant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/book-of-eli-afm-poster-full1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40\" title=\"book-of-eli-afm-poster-full1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.shadowcovenant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/book-of-eli-afm-poster-full1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Book of Eli&#8221;: This movie was utterly amazing&#8230; the visuals are awesome (in a post-apocaliptic fashion), the fight sequences are extremely cool (they remind me of the movie &#8220;Equilibrium&#8221;), and the story is well told and interesting&#8230; I wasn&#8217;t expecting a very good movie (since lots of friends of mine didn&#8217;t enjoy it), but I was completely blown away by it&#8230; seriously, it ended and I was staring at the end-credits saying &#8220;Fuck&#8230; me&#8230;&#8221;. Really, really, really good&#8230; 10\/10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.shadowcovenant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Prince-of-Persia_-The-Sands-of-Time-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41\" title=\"Prince-of-Persia_-The-Sands-of-Time-3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.shadowcovenant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Prince-of-Persia_-The-Sands-of-Time-3-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time&#8221;: Well, this is a very complicated movie for me to say something about&#8230; I was a huge fan of the games, so the movie kind of fell short for me&#8230; My friends all loved it, but I can&#8217;t avoid the feeling that the film was lots of waste potential. So, some notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jake Gyllenhaal does a good job as Prince, but the character portraied in the movie isn&#8217;t the character from the game&#8230; this Prince is a good-hearted rogue, while the Prince in the games is an egomaniac, selfish prick&#8230; Guess that wasn&#8217;t Disney-enough&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The whole plotline is actually pretty good and solid, considering the source material (not that it is bad, but it&#8217;s as &#8220;gamey&#8221; as a story can be, which wouldn&#8217;t translate that well to movie, in my opinion).\u00a0But it&#8217;s terribly predictable and just a repetition of its self&#8230; Come on, he keeps getting the Dagger stolen from him and stealing it back&#8230; he does that about 4 times during the movie!<\/li>\n<li>The Dagger of Time effect was awesome, but badly used&#8230; he didn&#8217;t use the dagger enough, and he never used it in combat, which would have looked positively kick-ass&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>For an &#8220;entertainment&#8221; movie, it&#8217;s quite boring in some parts&#8230; I was expecting an action-fest all the time, but the movie proceeds in an erratic pace, with the action scenes taking too little of the screen-time (considering that the movie doesn&#8217;t have much more to held himself up&#8230; the banther between characters is just passable).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, basically, just loads of wasted potential, in my opinion, which is too bad, since I was really looking forward to this&#8230; 6\/10<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s it for my reviews&#8230; \ud83d\ude42 As usual, comment at will, give me your thoughts and ideas and let&#8217;s get some arguments going! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton36\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fshadowcovenant.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F06%2F07%2Fmovies%2F&amp;text=Movies&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fshadowcovenant.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F06%2F07%2Fmovies%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m back&#8230; This post: movie reviews&#8230; In the last couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve seen some movies, and I&#8217;d like to share some thoughts about them with you guys&#8230; &#8220;Taken&#8221;: A ex-secret agent gets his daughter kidnapped in France and he wants to get her back&#8230; Good visuals, good acting (Liam Neeson is awesome), an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton36\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fshadowcovenant.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F06%2F07%2Fmovies%2F&amp;text=Movies&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fshadowcovenant.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F06%2F07%2Fmovies%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}