Movie Surprises

Dec 14 2009 no comments Movies Various

Everything in the following post is the opinion of the writer, you may not feel that way about some of the subjects mentioned, let us leave it at that and just enjoy the post for what it might inspire you to do, watch, eat, boogie to, or whatever.

I’ve been going through movies for the last couple of weeks like most people go through… well, I’m trying to think of something people go through fast and all I can come up with is toilet paper, and that’s gross, so we’ll move on.

Regardless, there have been some very massive misses on the movie front with some things you’d expect to be good, at least in my experience. (see this post for another rant on bad movie experiences. )

Watchmen, for example, was a complete miss for me– I had such hopes for the potential of this film but more than anything I found myself bored with the entire thing– there were parts of it that were entertaining, and Rorschach’s character as a whole was intensely intriguing, but the rest of it felt forced and kind of drolling on for far too long (though the scene where they’re fighting in the prison was one of my favourites merely because of the fighting style). I had people telling me how utterly amazing this film was and how great the story was, and while it did have elements I thought were good, it just felt lackluster as a whole.

While I find Jack Black relatively funny, usually, I found Year One to be a massive disappointment as well. I honestly expected much more humour from a film boasting his talent, as well as all the other beautiful talent they had, but the jokes seemed kind of ‘meh’, and the overall feel wasn’t so much funny as it was waiting for it to get funny– I did chuckle a few times, but nothing that I can actually remember truly laughing hysterically at, which is what I was expecting.

Though, on a completely different subject, instead of a failure, Zombieland was probably one of the most amazing films I saw, humour and drama wise, because it had an utterly fresh concept on the whole zombie brigade thing, and the acting was fabulous, and the humour was the kind that you laughed at, but it also made you think at times– I’m tired of rudimentary slapstick comedy that just speaks blatantly of what it is. I want more movies like this, honestly, and it makes me want to see more of Jesse Eisenberg. (sans Adventureland which was also quite good.)

Though the most startling good film that no one seems to ever speak about, and that’s possibly because it was animated and not well known before, is Dragon Hunters. Let me start by explaining that the animation style is different from what you’d expect, and the whole ‘fanciful world’ is massively different from what you’d normally see in a movie such as this, but it all works in correlation with the story to make this massive achievement. The thing that truly sealed this movie into epic status, is the fact that the music, storyline, and animations all wove together to make a fully functioning, integrated world. The music was reminiscent of a mix of Chrono Trigger and Suikoden mixed together that drew emotions out of me for a film I had no idea about before I watched it.

Honestly, I can’t tell much about the story without spoiling a lot of the plot line that is just fun to find out while you’re actually watching it, but I do suggest watching it, at least giving it a shot, and I believe you will find yourself happily surprised.

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