Fans of the Percy Jackson books want Chris Columbus turned into stone by Medusa and they do have a valid reason for their complaints. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief doesn’t look and feel like the literary series it is based on. To be honest, the movie felt like a junior Clash of the Titans movie. It didn’t help that the latter’s trailer played before the start of Percy Jackson.
The main man Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) is accused of stealing Zeus’ Lightning Bolt. Zeus (Sean Bean) is threatening to start a war among the Olympians if Percy the son of Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) doesn’t return his bolt. Now the fate of the world lays on the hands of a demi-god, who doesn’t even know he’s one.
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Dragon Wars or D-War is based on a Korean folklore about mysterious creatures returning to our world after every 500 years. Korean writer/director Hyung-rae Shim was tasked to bring this into the big screen but somewhere along the way there must have been things lost in the translation.
First half of D-War was slightly boring. It discusses the myth behind the dragons and the role of the Ethan (Jason Behr) and Sarah (Amanda Brooks). And just when I was about to fall asleep, an army of dinosaurs with humanoids came out of nowhere and starts terrorizing the city. I thought Lord of the Rings was inserted in the middle of the movie. They are searching for the girl but she effortlessly slipped pass them and out of the city.
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a romantic comedy inspired by Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Womanizer photographer Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) goes to his brother’s wedding. During the eve of the wedding, he manages to ruin it to the dismay of everyone, including his first love Jenny (Jennifer Garner).
Connor is visited by three ghosts during the night that showed him the errors of his ways and made him realize what true love is all about. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past used Dickens as a vehicle for the plot and it served its purpose.
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Inkheart is a fantasy movie based on the book written by Cornelia Funke, which is the first of her Inkworld trilogy. I haven’t had the chance to read the book yet but someone who did told me that there were elements from the movie that were not part of the book. So just like other book adaptations, the movie creators had the freedom to omit and substitute parts of the book.
Brendan Frasier stars as Mo Folchart, a Silvertongue who has the ability to bring out characters from books whenever he reads it out loud. Years ago he lost his wife (Sienna Guillory) while reading Inkheart to his daughter Meggie (Eliza Bennett). Since then he’s been looking for a copy of the book in the hopes of bringing his wife back to the real world.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince could have been a great movie if I haven’t read the book. I watched it in I-Max and the 3D effects at the start are amazing. I had high hopes for the movie with the Death Eaters wrecking everything in sight. But take away the 3D spectacle, teen romance, and Quidditch action, and you’ll get a story that’s just half of what’s written in the book.
If you’re not familiar with the book then you’ll probably say that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is good except for the ending. Yup, it has everything that compromises a box office hit. It has action, teen heartthrobs, and amazing effects.
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This review comes from someone who has not seen a single episode of the series. Dead Like Me: Life After Death is a total waste of my time. The characters are shallow and I’m a bit clueless as to who they are. The writer and director must have assumed that only the fans of the series would watch this movie.
The movie felt like one long show that have been stretched to fill up the time requirement for a full length movie. Dead Like Me the movie is something not worth watching. I might get hate mails from the loyal fans of the series but nothing in the movie made any sense at all. Plus the raspy, smoker’s voice of George (Ellen Muth) was annoying.
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