Friday, February 11, 2011

Wolverine: Chasing The Phantom

Wolverine has always been the most popular X-Man. He was shown a lot in X-Men 1-3 and even given his own movie X-en Origins: Wolverine. Now they've already made a sequel to it!



In Wolverine: Chasing The Phantom director decided to go a really weird direction with the series. It portrays the super hero mutant as an actual wolverine. The film starts out with this narrator saying "Wolverine has been branded with a hell of a reputation, but who really is this demon of the north?" So I figured it'd follow more of his back story, but it doesn't. It just shows him running around in the snow eating animals and stuff. 

Who do you think the villian is in this movie? Sabertooth? Magneto? That pterodactyl guy? No it's a bunch of weird hunters that just stalk him and follow him around taking notes and stuff on what he's doing. Who the heck are these people??? They're refered to as "researcher" characters (remember them from the comics? no didnt think so) and they just ramble on forever.

There's a weird plot point where they put a radio collar on him and track him from a helicopter. YUour probably thinking this is where the big fight scene is where wolvering takes his clwas out and starts cutting stuff up. Nope! They just watch from a safe distance and make observations on what he's doing. What the heck??

Whos the Phantom? There's no phantom in this movie. This is the weirdest comic book to movie adaptation I have ever seen. I've never been so confused. I was surprised at first to see a Wolverine movie had been made with out my knowledge but after watching this pile of trash I'm not surprised. Marvel was probably ashamed of this pile of trash and just dumped it on DVD with no promotion hoping no one would find out about it. What a waste of time. This movie deservers my lowest score possible, ** two stars

Friday, February 4, 2011

Sanctum (2011)

There are many mysteries in life. The one i'm currently pondering is why the heck do i even bother to go see movies with James Cameron's name on them?? 

But I did it again! Even the guy who tore my ticket asked me if i was sure about this and told me I was free to go see any movie and he would not. I decided to stick with my choice and strutted to the theater. I attempted to sit next to an attractive lady (trying to be living dangerous) but her boyfriend pushed me onto the ground and suggested I sit someone else. I agreed and moved to the front row. 

This movie wasn't at all what I was expecting! I thought it was going to be a cave explorer adventure movie, but it turns out it's just about this sick seriel killer who tricks people to come into this cave so he can murder him! I'm going to have nightmares tonight! Luckily the film makers decided to skip character introductions and character development so I didn't care about anyone dieing!

So there's this millionare and his trophy wife who go down in a cave to drink wine with this crazy murderous australian, his sun, and some of his buddies. The australian wastes no time and starts slaughtering people. He takes this lady down under water and rips her mask off and watches her drown. The he grabs his buddy and shoves him under water and watches him drown. What a weird guy!


After that he switches on the water or something and makes it so the millionaire and his sun can't leave through the exit so they're forced to follow him through all these traps and stuff. It was then that I realized that this was a "Saw" rip off. What the heck? I've been tricked!!!

The weird killer guy places the millionaires wife into a trap (or "game" whatever he calls them( where her hair is caught in the ropes and she has to cut her hair off to survive. What he didn't tell her was that the rope holding her up was mixed in with her hair! So she died!

Now it's just the weirdo killer, his sun and the millionaire. The millionaire finally gets scared and leaves so the two go chasing after him. The millionaire pops out and finally kills the Australasian strangler and swims away. The sun chases after him through the water but he drowned so the sun just leaves and thats it!
What a trick! I thought i was going to see a cool cave adventure story but i saw a "Saw" rip off set in a cave. Thanks a lot James Cameron!!! Hopeyou enjoy getting my lowest review possible, ** two stars!!! jerk