knightm7 Reviews

Megamind (2010)

Not for "Innocent Children"

[7/10 · 12 November 2010]

The movie is funny and exciting, but strangely I fell asleep during it.

I don't write these reviews, and I don't feel so strongly about you knowing my opinion of this movie to write one.

But it has a line that should not be in any movie marketed towards children. I don't care if it is rated PG, so is The Incredibles and it has no lines I hope get taken out of future releases of it.

Megamind has such a line. And if it isn't taken out of the movie, I will not suggest parents take their kids to see it.

American society has agreed upon certain mythical creations to be portrayed as fact, and it is up to the children to move from believing to disbelieving when they are ready. It is not up to Dreamworks or Jonah Hill to decide it is time to educated my child, and the millions who see this movie. Had I read the reviews I am finding now I would not have taken my son to see this movie. And if Dreamworks does not take out the line "{This toothy character} isn't real, and {that mascot for Jesus' resurrection holiday} isn't real, and the queen of England isn't real," I won't rent the movie, I won't it, I won't recommend it. However, if my son takes this opportunity to say, "Daddy, is there really no . .." I'll be happy to boycott many more Dreamworks productions.

That's all.

Space Mutiny (1988)

This is by far the worst movie I have ever seen.

[1/10 · 3 January 2005]

And by this I mean totally devoid of a SINGLE redeeming quality. I watched it on the MST3K compilation which also had a made-for-PBS stinker starring Raul Julia called Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, which my wife disliked, but I compared to The Matrix in idea and which predated The Matrix by many years, so I defended its spirit if not its quality (which was humorously questionable). After watching Spacy Mutiny (which I could tell was going to be a Star Wars rip-off just from the title, never mind that the "sexy" main characters names were Ryder and Lea) I told my wife that as far as compared to that ridiculous movie, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank was smart, thought-inspiring, and heartfelt. **I HATED SPACE MUTINY**! Of course, the "worst movie of all time" would be a few seconds (or a few hours) of a camera pointed at a pile of s*** still steaming, but nobody spent hours editing it, planning it, casting it, designing costumes, lights, set, directing it, choreographing the dancing aliens. People did this work for Space Mutiny, and none of it made this movie more interesting than a movie about a steaming turd. I was most impressed by all the work some programmer from Digital put into the special effects, and by special effects I don't mean the space fighting scenes (which were apparently stolen from Battlestar Gallatica), but the computer graphics (out of an early eighties home computer)which actually followed the plot of the movie better than the editor of the movie, who put scenes of a woman in the film after she was shot and killed by Calgon the incessantly laughing bad guy, five feet away from the "nightclub in space" where people danced with hula-hoops. I also was impressed by some of the stunt men, who threw themselves off of extremely high railings in interesting positions; too bad the particular fight they perished in (appently the climax of the movie) was horribly staged, the music was insipid keyboard noises, the main characters were in plain view and consistently shot at and missed from mere feet away. . . (I'm just stunned at the ineptitude of this film.) It was released in 1988, but couldn't have been made later than 1983, so I don't know how or why it was released. Having only seen the Mystery Science Theater version, I am assuming that there was a few sex scenes cut, otherwise the psychic-alien-sexy-women-dancing-with-plasma-balls Balarians were, so. . . unnecessary. . .(Shaking my head in disbelief). I recommend any MST3K video. Its just that I thought I was watching the last MST3K episode, cause I didn't think anything could get any worse, so they must have saved this one for last.

I'll Do Anything (1994)

Irony Incarnate

[3 December 2004]

This is a movie about making movies and standing up for your beliefs and not having to bow down under the pressures of audience expectations and studio involvements, and it had musical numbers which were cut and writers come in to dumb it down because of audience expectations and studio involvements.

But I found all that out after I first saw the movie and thought it was great entertainment. I love Nick Nolte, he's so grave and gruff and depressed that I hope he doesn't kill himself cause I really like everything he's done, even The Hulk, and especially Affliction and that Martin Short with a kid movie. Joely Richardson is gorgeous! Julie Kavner and James Brooks are great. I highly recommend this film, and hope to see it again soon on DVD with all of the deleted scenes.