Sunday, February 6, 2011

Sanctum Movie Review

James Cameron keeps trying to make the case for 3D but perhaps he should work harder in making the case for quality stories. As a producer on Alister Grierson’s new 3D film Sanctum, Cameron is essentially putting his name on the picture and giving it his stamp of approval. That’s a big mistake since the 3D highlights the shortcomings of the film’s visual effects and does nothing to make us care more about the characters and their fight for survival. At best, the 3D makes the underwater caves of Sanctum slightly more immersive, but I don’t go to movies so I can be somewhat impressed by underwater caves.

At the heart of Sanctum lies an important question that we will all have to face at one point or another: how many people have to die for a son to bond with his father? The movie centers on Josh (Rhys Wakefield) who is working on his father Frank’s (Richard Roxburgh) expedition into an unexplored cave system. Footing the bill for the expensive project is Carl (Ioan Gruffudd) although the film doesn’t bother with providing Carl’s financial-incentive. At best, Carl just wants to pay millions of dollars for his own spelunking adventure (even though Frank is the real adventurer). Carl visits the site with his irritating girlfriend Victoria (Alice Parkinson) and decides that since she and him have both climbed Everest, this big hole in the ground shouldn’t be a problem.

And then a storm hits and Josh, Frank, Carl, Victoria, and Frank’s assistant George (Dan Wyllie) become trapped. There’s also a non-white character but he gets knocked off with disturbing speed. Actually, half of his face gets knocked away, he breaks every bone in his body, and then Frank decides to end the guy’s suffering through a charming practice I have chosen to dub “mercy-drowning.” While it’s established that the cavers have knives, Frank thinks drowning is the kinder way to end this poor man’s suffering.

So we have an entitled rich ass-hole (can’t have a James Cameron movie without one of those), his shrill girlfriend, and a guy who not only drowns people as a way to end their suffering, but Frank also blames Josh when another diver drowns earlier in the film because Josh forgot to bring back-up air-tanks. The film wants us to want these people to survive.

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While Cameron may be enamored of his 3D technology, he and Grierson should have realized that if you want us to root for people to survive, make them likable. Instead, when the cave begins to flood and since Victoria doesn’t have a wetsuit, Frank suggests she takes the suit of a dead female diver. Victoria shrieks, “I am not wearing the suit of a dead-woman!” as if Frank asked her to wear the dead diver’s skin. So now we’re not wondering if Victoria is going to make it. We’re hoping that she doesn’t. It doesn’t help that Gruffudd forgot how to act and talk in an American accent or that Roxburgh decides to growl all of his lines.

But as long as the 3D works, then at least it’s a fun visual spectacle, right? It could’ve been, but Sanctum’s 3D only serves to show that this movie’s low visual effects budget. The opening scenes inside the cave look wretched as the 3D highlights the distance between the foreground and the green screen behind the actors. There’s an ugly attempt to connect the two with light bouncing off the water, but that just makes the problem worse. When Sanctum finally moves underwater and into cramped spaces, the 3D starts to click, but by then you no longer care because you’re not invested in the whiny characters and their struggle to survive.

James Cameron can champion 3D all he wants and in theory, Sanctum isn’t a bad film to get the 3D treatment. One of the major criticisms of 3D is how it makes everything look dim, but that works in Sanctum because the story dictates the limited amount of light available to the characters. It also makes sense to use 3D’s infinite depth of field for a movie about characters moving through various underwater depths. Unfortunately, the eagle-eye of 3D also picks up on the movie’s shoddy visual effects and even when it moves past the poor green screen work, we don’t really care if these losers make it back to the surface. Sanctum may have an added visual dimension, but the story and characters are painfully flat.

Rating: D

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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Top 10 Action Movies-Alltime

Hi Folks,
From quite some time i am watching all sorts of movies like Action, Romance, Thriller, Sci-Fi and lots of crappy movies and became a movie junky. Now i am going to Share some of my favorite action movies.
I hope you will like them and Please leave some comments it will encourage me to put some more favorite list.


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1) Predator- Arnie has made so many memorable action film that its debatable as to which is his best. Personally I thought Predator had a great action packed story, interesting characters, and unforgetable scenes
Predator (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Predator [Blu-ray]
Predator (Ultimate Hunter Edition) [Blu-ray]

2) Under Siege - The best of the Steven Siegal movies, and also thought Tommy Lee Jones played an awesome bad guy.
Under Siege [Blu-ray]
Under Siege (Keepcase)

3) True Lies - Another spectacular Arnie movie with plenty of memorable scenes that can be watched over and over again. It was a unique story with Arnie juggling his life as a spy and that of a husband concerned about his marriage.
True Lies

4) Kill Bill Volume one and two - By far the best martial arts action movie of all time, each individual combat scene was done the best it could have been done and some funny and interesting dialog.
Kill Bill - Volume One
Kill Bill - Volume One [Blu-ray]
Kill Bill - Volume Two
Kill Bill - Volume Two [Blu-ray]

5) Brave Heart - Like I said earlier this is the best battle movie I've seen, and even though the ending is fairly tragic it portrays the character of William Wallace and what he was able to inspire.
Braveheart
Braveheart (Special Collector's Edition)
Braveheart (Sapphire Series) [Blu-ray]

6) Terminator 2 - I've seen this movie that many times I've lost count, some of the best Arnie quotes and especially liked the opening and ending scenes as well as the motor bike/truck chase scene.
Terminator 2 - Judgment Day
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Skynet Edition) [Blu-ray]


7) First Blood - Only slightly better than the rest of the Rambo movies, manly for the plot and the way that the character of John Rambo was explained.
First Blood
First Blood [Blu-ray]

8) Speed - One of the only Keanu Reeves films I like, I also liked the part played by Dennis Hopper as the bad guy.
Speed (Widescreen Edition)
Speed [Blu-ray]

9) Bourne Ultimatum - A part from the Kill Bill movies this is the most entertaining and memorable action films I've seen in recent years.
The Bourne Ultimatum (Widescreen Edition)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Full Screen Edition)
Bourne Ultimatum (Single-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
The Bourne Trilogy (The Bourne Identity | The Bourne Supremacy | The Bourne Ultimatum)

10) Die Hard - No one plays the part of an alcholic messed up rouge cop like Bruce Willis. And while I thought that part 3 was slightly better, this one is still has to be considered in the top 10 action movies of all time.
Die Hard
Die Hard Collection (Die Hard/ Die Hard 2: Die Harder/ Die Hard with a Vengeance/ Live Free or Die Hard) [Blu-ray]
Die Hard - The Ultimate Collection (Die Hard / Die Hard 2 / Die Hard with a Vengeance / Live Free or Die Hard Two-Disc Special Editions)
Die Hard Collection (Die Hard / Die Hard 2 - Die Harder / Die Hard with a Vengeance / Bonus Disc)

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Friday, February 4, 2011

Movies to Watch Before You Die

Hi Folks,
From quite some years i am watching lots of movies, after watching thousands of (excellent,good,ok,crappy,worst)movies i thought why not watch the best of all time movies.So Last month I Decided to download the list of Best 100 Movies of all times. I googled the term but then i saw some options after doing some primary research i concluded Yahoo's Movies Editorial Staff have done some good research and debate then they came up with best of 100 movies ever built in world for all languages.So i am going with these guys.
Web address is given below and below that highlighted is the actual text in this page.
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-movies-to-see-before-you-die.html


 ""Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be called truly "essential." After heated discussions, long negotiations, and a shouting match or two, the staff at Yahoo! Movies has put together this list of the 100 films you must see before you die.
To choose the titles for the list, we considered factors like historical importance and cultural impact. But we also selected films that we believe are the most thrilling, most dramatic, scariest, and funniest movies of all time. Some of these films you've seen, and some you may not have heard of, but we believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see.""



Well i am also a bit busy fellow so i have not watched all these movies but i am watching them one by one in alphabetical order I will be posting my comments for each movie i finish after watching the movie.




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