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Rush: R30 (2005)
Very good.
I enjoyed this DVD quite a bit. Awesome live performances. The sound is tight and a lot better than Rush in Rio. There aren't as many screaming fans this time though.
My favourite song easily is Subdivisions. Very well played and Geddy Lee's singing is top notch. A lot of the songs I didn't really like before, I grew to love because of this DVD. Rush should get a few awards. I always love to watch and hear them play live. They are pretty much the best live performers out there.
Definitely a great addition to any music DVD collection. A must buy if you're a Rush fan or new to their music.
10/10 it's the bomb.
Sahara (2005)
Did they just do what I think they did?
Sahara is an okay movie. It's got all the action movie basics. A corrupt corporation, a hot chick, heroes, guns, gadgets, a world wide threat and explosions. It also has all the action movie basic flaws. A one sided story, completely unrealistic gun scenes, mediocre actors and how could that ever work moments.
Sahara starts off nicely. Treasure hunters need to find a boat and a doctor needs to figure out the cause of this mystery plague. They all get together and go on a wacky adventure. Whopee!. Apparently the plague isn't really a plague at all. A plant that specializes in disposing waste is the cause of the poisoned water supply. Oh no the heroes have to stop them from polluting the entire worlds water. Save the fishies.
But after awhile the movie starts to show its nasty side. Throughout the whole movie the heroes are being shot at by dozens of armed soldiers and don't ever get hit. HOW?!?!?. Don't ask me I didn't write this piece. They escape countless situations where anyone would be shot. Not a single bad guy knows how to operate a gun. Anyway the movie is long. Not a good long. A long where there's lots of filler. LOTS OF IT. Another thing. How come the United States Government didn't seem to think a private army with tanks and helicopters wasn't a big problem? They must have known the soldiers can't hit the broadside of a barn.
The absolute worst part of the movie was the end. The gang somehow knew that the boat they were looking for was in a hill they were just randomly driving by. Then they climbed into the boat. Which has been sitting in a sandy hill for a 150 years and use its cannon to shoot down a helicopter that was chasing them. WHAT? I couldn't believe my eyes. Did they just shoot down a helicopter with that old thing. I guess it's because one of the guys somehow figured out how to fire a cannon that old without it falling apart and hit a moving target half a mile away completely by sight and all in under a minute. COME ON!! Then out of no where a rebel army comes to their aid and with only ak's and horses they manage to get an army with tanks to surrender. I really don't think a horse beats a tank in any country. Whatever.
In conclusion, terrible movie. Don't bother. Do not support this film. See a classic like Pulp Fiction or The Godfather instead.
King Kong (2005)
Definitely not a must see
All in all King Kong is a solid movie. It has what a King Kong remake should have. Its got a big ape, a woman that falls in love with the big ape, an island, New York, some dinosaurs and people that get owned by the big ape and all the mean creatures on the island.
This time around King Kong is not a nice monkey. He maims and kills people for pretty much no reason countless times in the movie. He knocks a whole bunch of people into a cavern full of dangerous bugs and they almost all get eaten. King Kong is a jerk. Why does the woman have any feelings for him? He carries her around the jungle with such disregard for her well being I'm surprised he didn't give her whiplash. Also he brings up to the tallest building in New York. Why? So he can get shot by planes and let her watch him fall to his death.
The worst part of this movie is how unrealistic it is. I know its a movie about a 25 foot tall monkey and I know tons of people have complained how there's no wind at the top of the Empire State building. It's true. There's no reason why they had put so much effort into the CG and none into the stuff that really matters. Okay its nice that you made a big monkey look real but does that really matter when every thing else is so physically impossible? How can 7 guys get a massive gorilla onto a boat without a crane? Why does no one shed any blood when they're cut and smashed? How could a civilization make massive stone structures but no boats to get away from all the nasty creatures on the island? Some characters are also really dumb. Adrien Brody had to distract King Kong from destroying the city why? King Kong just smashed more cars and people chasing him. Then out of no where Ann Darrow comes walking up with the street lights shining behind her like a silhouette of an angel. What was Peter Jackson thinking? That was so campy. Come on Peter where are the orcs and Rings of Power? Long story short well not really short cuz this movie was an hour too long. Peter Jackson spent way too long trying to build characters that either die or have bad lines at the end of the movie like. " It was booty that killed the beast, I mean beauty that killed the best.". LAME!
However I rather enjoyed the T Rex fight scene. It was pretty cool. That's about the only reason I gave this movie a 6.
Syriana (2005)
Huh?
What was going on? K I'm 15 and have been going to movies for a long time. I've seen a lot of movies people my age would not like and enjoyed them. But then I saw this movie on Christmas night.
I understood how it was about oil companies and stuff like that but the rest just seemed overly complicated. The people I went with who are 17 and 19 didn't even get it. What was going on? Through the whole movie I didn't even realize that Bob Barnes was a CIA agent and it didn't help either that I hadn't read the synopisis before I saw it. I guess this movie would have been good if you knew about politics. The camera work in this movie was strange. It shook around a lot and made me sick. What was the cinematographer trying to do?
What confused me the most is when Bryan Woodman's son got electrocuted in the pool. No one really seemed to care that a little kid was just vaporised and also it didn't seem to make any difference at all in the rest of the movie. Then at the end when everyone was blowing up I was like, huh? Why did he die? What did he do? Why were they all in boats? Was that a rocket launcher he used to ram into that dock?
Okay if you're an average Joe or Jane this movie is definitely not for you, even if you like movie with deep plots this movie is still not for you. If you like to move around restlessly in your chair for two hours getting frustrated that you just spent money on a bad movie then yes this thing is for you.