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Get Smart (2008)
People who have seen the original Get Smart movies/series
PREPARE TO BE DISAPPOINTED. As a movie, it was funny, witty, and original (considering how few parodies are being put out for spy movies). I enjoyed it. But not as much as I would have had I not seen the previous classic Get Smart movies and series. This Get Smart movie was NOTHING at all like the originals. At all. Sure, they had the same names and numbers. That would be about it. Sadly. They tried to integrate the old inventive gadgets. They did alright. But they got everything else wrong.
Here's the blinding stuff not like the originals (if you even care): Agent 99 falls in love with Maxwell the first time she sees him. They always get along and 99 always follows Max.
Laraby is always stupid, but Max's friend. Not his antagonistic tormentor.
The Chief always trusts Max and knows that even while he's a klutz, he always comes through.
Smart...jeez, got just about everything off. He was never an analyst before he was an agent. He was/is their top agent. He was never fat. They don't give him his witty one liners either...gonna miss those.
As a movie, great. As an offspring from the original, an utter failure that makes me enjoy the predecessor that much more.
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)
I haven't even read the book and I'm SURE they f*cked it up
The sad thing is, you can't watch this movie and possibly come out of it thinking that ANY book could be that horrible. THAT being said, the movie is utterly horrendous. I'm pretty sure some youtube movie maker could do better with a handycam and ten friends. EVERYTHING about it would, sadly, most likely be an improvement upon this movie. Oh, and in case the movie producers haven't heard, find people who can ACT really helps a movie along ways. If at least the people could act, it would have made the movie sit-through-able. I downloaded the movie and I'm not ashamed to say that I began the first 10 minutes of the movie, didn't watch it for a week, got up the courage to view yet another hour and had to stop in order to let my stomach settle before finishing it. It's not even worth keeping on my hard drive. Period.