Reviews

OK, first thing is I stopped reading X-Men about 20 years ago (around issue #230?) So, I can't speak for the 'accuracy' of this story. But, as a movie script..it's weak. So, I'm to believe that Wolverine and Sabertooth are related, that they both are practically immortal, and Wolverine was just FINE with war and killing until about 100 years had past? Just a bit weak to me. And it's short! 107 minutes!? This franchise has lots of fans, they'll be willing to sit through 120 or so for a better story. Normally I don't do spoilers but I have to mention the following as examples of poor writing. 1. Wolvie is sick (with the puberty/mutant change I suppose) and then he hears a shot, jumps out of bed, runs to see his dad die, freaks out, and kills the murderer; except Surprise!, it wasn't his real dad, the killer is. oops! ..say What? 2. Doesn't anyone notice how these two soldiers are fine after battles? Even though their clothes would have holes and blood? 3. Firing Squad scene - I'd much rather have their lawyer argue that since sentence was executed, they should be free. Not their fault they can't be killed. 4. Boy! the 'Team' sure has some fast jumping dudes! Oh and that rock they went in after...uhm...why not send Teleport fella in, *pop*, grab rock, *pop*, all done! 5. OK, wife's death a fake. Why? Her objective was to goad Wolvie at Sabertooth, which in turn gives him to Stryker. Fine, Stryker is a cold SOB so is Sabertooth..she's done, DO IT for real and then she's out of the equation. Besides, Wolverine's animal senses should have detected the blood that isn't her's or something. 6. That was fast! So, presto adamantium is now in him. My he moves well for someone just made quite a bit heaver, IMO. 7. Got Adamantium bullets!? He's escaped! GIVE THEM TO Agent Zero! jeeze! he can shoot like Alvin York! but no,..

I think that's where I pretty much lost interest. But there is quite a bit more... Oh! I did forgot to mention the Scott Summers and the How-the-heck-did-he-find-out-that-ruby-quartz-stops-his-power bit.

The effects are nice and I'm a fan, so It gets a small bump.

Was looking forward to this latest offering from Pixar for quite awhile so maybe that is contributing to my disappointment. The story's heart is simple; a lonely robot doing it's job finds love(?) and struggles to keep it. Fine, I can deal with the 'robots with emotions' bit but there are too many plot distractions for me to enjoy the simple story. 1.Why are all the other WALL-E's non functional? 2. Why would they be nothing more than robotic trash compactors? 3. If everyone is gone, why is there power? 4. If all the plants are dead, then why is there air? (this is an assumption on my part, all left due to over garbage, bad air (seen in video message), but we see that the oceans are still there, so plankton should still be present, I thought I saw birds, so I'm confused as to why 'we' left. 5. Probe sent to search for plants back on Earth, even though the ships Autopilot has taken control and initially prevents the return to Earth, so why send probes at all? 6. Why the huge automated probe ship? oh, that's right Wall-e has to have something to cling to on the return...duh. 7. How did a plant live in a sealed refrigerator? 8. If the space yacht is dumping garbage, where are they getting the raw materials to survive 700 years in space in the first place?

There are other flaws, and any movie will have them, but when there are so many, it exceeds my suspension of disbelief factor and then I get annoyed.

..why would Wall-E awake and be the first robot in the movie to exhibit 'robot like' behavior?

I can only assume that Lassiter was Ex.Producer in name only, and didn't lend his steady hand to this project.

Normally I don't include spoilers, but it's difficult to highlight the bad script without actually describing what is happening. I've been 'rating' movies for 20+ years and I think I have an idea what makes a movie work, and what doesn't. SR is visually stunning, but the script, and the direction is mentally stunning as well. Yes, it is WAY cool to see just how invulnerable Supes is to bullets, but then you ask "Why do the bad guys have a Minigun mounted(?) to the building, when they have a helicopter? shouldn't they have it mounted on it?" and "Why, after shooting a couple thousand rounds into Supes to no effect, does the bad guy pull a gun and try yet again to shoot Supes?" The answer is so that we can see a bullet bounce off his eye. The script is full of stupid. Lex Luthor goes back to the Fortress of Solitude and tells the 'computer' to tell him 'everything about crystals' so, just how long would that take? After all in the first movie, the young Kal-El becomes a man in there learning about his past and the science of Krypton. Lex pops out after an afternoon. HA! And Lex's plan!! Make a new continent?! Lex is a genius, there is no way I can believe that he thinks that if he did his 'plan' he'd live to see a dime. Not to mention the global weather disaster he'd create. And if your idea is to make appealing land, would you make your land look like a volcanic wasteland located in the north Atlantic? How about nice rolling hills in the South Pacific? Other insane bits... No chemistry between Lois and Superman. His kid?? no way! the kicking in the womb would have ripped poor Lois open. (http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html) and lastly... Lex learned something by making LexLand kryptonite impregnated. In fact it affects him so well he, and some friends, are able to kick Superman's butt. Later Superman is able to PICK UP THE WHOLE CHUNK without a) Him punching thru it b) making him so weak that he couldn't pick it up. Whew.. It's just I was expecting much better.

Spoilers within... Normally I'll vote on a file, but rarely will I enter a comment, but this one has earned it. Where to start! ok, I like a good action flick as much as the next guy, but the sheer number of plot holes just made the whole picture unenjoyable. Why are so many villagers in the village with their shovels, rakes (and implements of destruction), sickles, etc. and not out in the fields? Why can't a vampire that can pick up and hurl a cow, but when a second person jumps on the legs of the first person being picked up it's 'too heavy' and they let go. Holy water sure is potent! a few drops is enough to kill a vampire (hadn't been one kilt in a hunndered years!) Why does the basin exist? If I was Dracula, I wouldn't allow holy ground/church to exist. It just goes on and on like that. I must have missed how Van Helsing was alive after so many years, I never did see much to explain that. Why can a werewolf kill Dracula and noting else can? Why can a woman take multiple falls and poundings be killed by the only bit of comfy furniture in Drac's lab(?) I think it was a particularly vicious divan. The only redeeming element in the script was the idea of drac's children and the Frankenstein 'process' tied together. Hugh Jackman tries, but we don't get enough about his character. Kate is fine, in more ways than one. The Friar and Igor were the two best characters in the movie. Drac was....a bit overdone, but I blame S.S. for that 2 out of 10.

(Spoilers ahead) When going to see a movie, oft times the audience is asked to 'suspend disbelief'. The Core asks us not only to suspend our disbelief, but to leave it in the car. My mind boggles at the amount of bad science...from a single scientist that invents the amazing laser drill and(!) a totally new material that is impervious to temperature, pressure and converts those elements into energy (but not used for an energy source until...later). A series of PRECISION blasts must be made, and in the end a lump of plutonium is 'duct taped' to the bomb, this will produce a bigger bang?? I seriously doubt it. A hole that allows raw microwave energy appears...not at the poles, where the field is naturally weak, not over the 7/10ths of the earth that is ocean, but right on top of a major city. And these suits! wow! fabric that is capable of zillions of pounds of pressure? and they pop in and out of them so easily! Too bad they didn't have them later, just swim up in your supersuit...(heck, ida never took it off!). The crew! NASA pilots?? why not deep oceanographers? closer to the environment involved. I could go on and on, and who knows maybe a list will be started on the sheer number of bad science events in this steaming heap. One more point..the scene in Rome..<Boom!> the FX department has rubble flying thru people, who then continue to live, and even run..(it was short, but I swear I saw it.) ENOUGH. Wondered why this was put out so early, now I know.