drakesylvan Reviews

Superman (1978)

A great Super Hero Movie, However it's not perfect

[7/10 · 29 February 2012]

While still being one of the best superhero movies of all time, Superman the movie has some major flaws that no one seems to address.

Brando is at his finest in the role of Superman's father, and I'm very sad they couldn't put more of him in this movie. I'm a huge Brando fan.

Reeves does a great job as both Clark Kent and Superman, but he is dragged down by the terrible acting of his co-star as Lois Lane. Most of the time she just screams, and badly at that. Plus, she's not all together a very attractive choice for the Lane character, but she doesn't completely destroy the role, after all she is the woman who never knew Clark was Superman for something like 20 years.

The worst part is the time travel ending. Now, for those of you who don't like to talk about time travel, physics, and paradoxes, you might want to stop reading here.

What really gets me about this is that when superman goes into the past to save Lois Lane there is no mention of the other Superman who has yet to go into the past and save her. Plus, there would be no need for him to go into the past if Lois was safe. So, at best there are two Supermen now running around the world. At worst there is a paradox that leads to nothingness.

Now, even if you believe that people become one person when they go into the past and that the other goes away (poof) there still would be no need for Superman to go into the past because superman stopped the event that triggered the effect.

Thus temporal mechanics cannot explain this situation to my liking.

Overall, the movie is fine, but its a bit too campy to be called the best superhero movie.

Timer (2009)

Don't waste your timer on this movie, its will ultimately let you down.

[3/10 · 29 February 2012]

While the above review would say that this movie was somewhat inspiring, I would tend to disagree. Timer is a movie which promises to challenge the stereotype of one person for everyone, but in the end re-enforces it. There really isn't one person for everyone, and I was hoping that the movie would relate this to the audience, but the ending was flat and awful.

The main character falls for a complete stranger after having a wonderful time with a perfectly wonderful younger man. (nope, not buying it). What this says and tries to re-enforce to us as an audience is that we should all date our own age, and anything other isn't the right person for us.

Examples Her father has a timer but it isn't synced with the woman he's living with (much younger than him) Her mother and step-father both have timers and they are the same age.

She is 30 and her love interest is 22, the timer doesn't think they should be together.

She and her sister's love interest both have timers that sync and they are roughly the same age.

Their younger brother is 14 and his timer goes off seeing another 14 year old girl.

I was, for the most part, completely into this movie before the ending. It was well acted and had some great ideas. But, it turns out there is no enlightenment at all, just the same old society influenced bullshit, one person for you, the same age as you, and there's no one else for you.

Bottom line, this movie is just a huge let down. Maybe it was my fault for wanting it to be deeper and have a more meaningful ending. But no, it's just the same old crap you've seen before.

Don't waste your time with this one, it's a huge let down.