is actually not a bad actor and he was in some good movies. But yeah, I guess you're right. 

It was bad even for a Tom Cruise movie. 

Cruise was good in Valkyrie. 

Ricky, the drones, the architecture and the ship design are nothing new. We've seen this many times already. Odyssey 2001? Portal? Yeah, they were nice, but simply not realistic. Nothing that relies on some form of propulsion would fly like this. Is there no inertia anymore on earth after the war?

IMO the visual style of the computers was, as usual, idiotic because they were basically unusable. They did look good though.

One thing that stood out positively though was the sound design. I really dug the sounds the drones were making. 

Is it worth it as a shallow, pointless, cheesy but stylish sci-fi spectacle?? 

It really isn't. It falls flat even in that category. Also, the music is highly annoying. 

 

music's by m83, was hoping it would thus = qualiry 

The music might actually have been nice, but I wouldn't know because it's blasting at deafening volumes. What I don know is that it's overdone for this movie. It distracts from the scene rather than support it. 

sounds like it has the same issues. 

Justfied Season 2 - step down from season 1, but still pretty good.

Breaking Bad Season 4 - best season I have seen to date. Last 4 episodes are killer.

Luther Season 2 - Even better than Season 1, Idris Elba totally carries this show.

True Blood Season 4 - Worst season of tv I have seen.

Game of Thrones Season 1 - One of the best seasons of tv I have seen.

Parks and Recreation Season 2 - One of the most consistently funny season of tv I have seen.

Louie Season 2 - Hilariously wrong but in a genius kind of way.

Dexter Season 6 - the worst season fo Dexter I have seen to date.

Chuck Season 3 - Still fun, although formula is starting to wear out. 

Justified S2 - really? I thought it was even better than 1, and possibly the best season so far.

Breaking Bad S4 - totally, keeps ramping it up, wouldn't have thought it could be better than S3, but it was.

Luther S2 - I love the outlandish crime scenarios, like the one that starts at the gas station with the guy acting weird, props to the writers for creativity and, of course, Idris Elba rules.

GoT S1 - it's hard to compare seasons since every season is based on one giant overarcing story that's already in books, and the episode numbers reflect that (ie s2e1 is called "episode 11") - but overall Game of Thrones is probably my favourite show right now and I can't see anything challenging it. Shit just keeps getting better.

Haven't seen the others but may get into Dexter one day. 

Justified s2, what was really noticeable to me was how disjointed the main story was from week to week stuff. In s1, it seemed to be interwoven much better with the week to week stuff. In s2, sometimes when they did the week to week stuff and then went back to the main story, no time seemed to have passed (at least in the context of the main story), when obviously it actually had.

Also, check out Louie, it should be right up your alley. 

Life of Pi - definitely see in 3D. Story/Plot not entirely convincing (althoough I imagine I would have the same issue with the book) but everything at sea is astonishing storytelling.

Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1936) - very fun old school action adventure. Warning, politically incorrect. 

Is it really good? Several people have suggested it to me, but I tried to read the book a couple years back and had to put it down within the first 50 pages due to complete boredom. Somehow I didn't get into it. 

depends how much you value story/plot because I had some major issues with that aspect which I *think* might stem from the book.

But as an exercise in storytelling, particularly visual storytelling, its pretty amazing for the 2/3 of it set in the sea. And like Hugo, probably not as exciting visually in 2D so watch in 3D if you can. 

that has an emphasis on things like atmosphere, visuals or whatever as long as the plot isn't stupid. But I have to say that overly abstract movies don't always work for me. "Inland Empire" was the only movie I ever walked out of (even though I enjoyed other Lynch movies).

I'm not sure if its comparable, but "The Thin Red Line" has always worked on many levels for me which did not have anything to do with the plot. The plot is fine, but really not that interesting. It's the ideas being presented together coherently with visuals and music that completely support them that make the movie interesting and enjoyable. Can't say that about Malick's later movies though. "The New World" was crap, and "The Tree of Life" was interesting and well made, but left me unmoved. 

is the only movie I have really hated in the last 5 years :)

Plot isnt stupid, but its one of those may or may not work for you plots overall. It didnt really work for me overall.

And I wouldnt really compare it to a Malick movie, although I guess if it is comparable it might be to Tree of Life in the sense that it has a very long well made section that is very interesting (or so I found) but is bookended at each end by sequences that make the plot/story of the whole movie more problematic. But if plot/story isnt paramount to you, then you can still enjoy the movie because of the main section. 

Personally, I really enjoyed Life of Pi. 

It was just an example of a movie where the ideas and the atmosphere are more important than the actual plot. 

sorry that whole post is meant to be about Life of Pi except first sentence (so really comparing Malick to Life of Pi). 

don't be dissing tom cruise, he's awesome 

Some of what I've seen lately:

Started watching The Amazing Spiderman last night. What is this shit? I love everything superhero, but this just feels like a teen drama. And for the love of god can we not do a superhero movie that isn't another retelling of their origin story. The main actor was a complete tool (since when was Peter Parker an arrogant, cocky little shit?) and Emma Stone with her hooker outfits just didn't seem right. Perhaps the dark knight movies have me expecting too much from superhero movies lately. I never really liked Tobey Maguire or Kirsten Dunst either, but they so far did a better job in Sam Raimi's Spiderman.
7.2 on imdb is too high. Although... I haven't seen it all yet.

Afro Samarai. Okay, good animation. Lead character is too unlikable, I actually found myself rooting for the bad guys, especially in the movie. Samuel L Jackson was the Jar Jar Binks of the series.

Devil May Cry anime. Great! I wish they made more. Animation was fantastic, Dante looked great and the voice acting was perfect. Unfortunately there were too many stories contained to one episode, instead of a main story arc which didn't really develop until near the end of the series, but when it did, it was great. Last 2 episodes I loved.

The Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes animated series
Great as well. Certainly the animation can't be compared to what comes out of asia, that's just no comparison, but the story was great. The way each episode would kick off a different story for each of the main avengers, which would return to that story later in the season, all to be tied together at the end. S1 was all about Loki. S2 about the Kree invasion. Then Galactus topped off an awesome series finale. Great, I just wish the animation was a little better.

The two Avengers animated movies are another story though... complete rubbish, childish script, terrible animation (budget korean warehouse crap). Not worth watching. 

but all stills of Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy look exactly like the comics. 

more like the NOT amazing spiderman, ha! Yeah it's pretty average. Pretty much the same direction as the tobey maguire films, and not as good. Actually it's better than spiderman 3, but so is putting your balls in a hot waffle iron and closing the lid.