movie review
Reviewing the best science fiction movies from the past, present, and future.
My Review of 'Lucy'
I've wanted to watch the movie Lucy for quite some time and it's been out for ages. I just never got the chance to. I believe it was on Netflix soon after it had exited theaters. I remember being very excited about that and put it on my watch list. Sadly, I never had the opportunity to watch it and it was removed from Netflix not too long after. Recently, it's been placed back into the Netflix rotation and I decided I wasn't going to wait for it to be removed again.
By Brian Anonymous7 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Rememory'
I finally saw Rememory on Amazon Prime. Or maybe I saw it a while ago, but forgot to review it. As Todd, a middling-minor character in the movie aptly notes, "the mind forgets things for a reason." No, Rememory wasn't that bad, but it wasn't as good as it should have been either.
By Paul Levinson7 years ago in Futurism
'Alita: Battle Angel' Is a Flawed, Yet Massively Entertaining Film with Incredible Action
Many months ago, I tried to attend a screening for two upcoming movies: One was Dark Phoenix, and the other was Alita: Battle Angel. I showed up early, but they filled up and I waited on line for an hour and a half for nothing.
By Jonathan Sim7 years ago in Futurism
'Pacific Rim: Uprising' (2018)
The illustrious mega monster scene has had better days. Gone are the rubber suits and the cheesy building explosions as they have been replaced by pure CGI overload. Asia definitely corners the market when it comes to grasping our fantasies with the larger-than-life monster and machine world. But Pacific Rim: Uprising was a pleasant surprise. I never did see the first one, but after watching the sequel, I will certainly be adding it to my queue.
By Michael Grube7 years ago in Futurism
The Retrospective Series: 'Attack the Block'
It started out as a nice idea to focus on Joe Cornish's debut feature as his latest film, The Kid Who Would Be King, hits US cinemas. Unfortunately, it seems the two are destined to share the same fate as The Kid Who Would Be King grossed $10.8 million worldwide... from a $59 million budget. Back in 2011, Attack the Block earned half of its $8 million budget. Cornish has the talent, directing two critically-acclaimed features and penning Adventures of Tintin and Ant-Man, but he can't seem to get the audience he deserves. Are the masses conditioned to only pay attention to franchises and event movies? People cry for originality in cinema, yet here we have a filmmaker creating original films only to lose money.
By Gavin Spoors7 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Anon'
Andrew Niccol's Gattaca in 1997 remains one of the surprise all-time best science fiction movies, surprise because Gattaca was Niccol's first. His follow-up, The Truman Show in 1998, was even more lionized by some, but I didn't like it nearly as much as Gattaca, which was stunning in its mix Brave New World totalitarian life and the yearning for space travel. I've seen some of Niccol's subsequent movies, but I honestly can't recall them.
By Paul Levinson7 years ago in Futurism
The Retrospective Series—'Looper'
When it comes to films deemed 'unloved,' there are worse cases than Looper. It was universally praised by critics and it did surprisingly well at the box office, especially considering the film's modest $30 million budget. In conversation, however, no one seems to have even heard of Looper. When talking about Rian Johnson the only topic on hand is obviously that space opera everyone loves to argue about.
By Gavin Spoors7 years ago in Futurism
My Experience Watching the 'Star Wars Holiday Special'
Let me tell you something about Star Wars fans: we rarely agree. I mean, we've agreed that A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi are all great movies. But some of us like the prequels and others don't.
By Jonathan Sim7 years ago in Futurism
My Review of 'Passengers'
Passengers is a story about an interstellar spaceship occupied by 5,000 passengers going from Earth to populate a new planet across the galaxy. The problem is that the ship will need to take something like 100 Earth years to get to the new planet. In order for everyone to get there without dying of old age, they were all frozen and put into a state of deep sleep.
By Brian Anonymous7 years ago in Futurism
