Movies, Phantasy
The movie has a standard plot of a science fiction film: a madman tries to destroy the world as we know it. What renders this airplane movie charming, however, is that it makes a serious attempt to recreate how people in 1939 would have imagined a sci-fi world. At the time, German technological prowess inspired the imagination of science fiction writers.Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Movies, Comedy
Stuck in the airplane, I watched Richard Gere dance again. Dirty Dancing or last year’s sequel Dirty Dancing Havanna Nights are filled with teenage lust and broken hearts. This film is the middle aged version of the earlier dance films. Everything is cleaned up. A young women makes a bored estate lawyer take up ball room dacing because he craves some adventure after 19 years of marriage. Fortunately for the institution of marriage, dancing keeps his lust in check. The story has some surprising twists, but on the whole remains quite banal. What this light romantic comedy has going for itself is that the dancing is beautiful. If you like ball room dancing, the movie will not bore you.Shall We Dance?
Movies, Drama
I am not much of a fan of the Sci-fi genre, but this film kept me entertained while sitting on a plane. It is based on a book by Isaac Asimonov, who was clearly informed about the debates philophers carried out over the last 5 decades concerning artifical intellience. Will it ever be possible for robots to think and feel like human beings? Robots have become so cheap and so sophisticated in Chicago of 2035 that people buy them in electronic stores as cheap labor. Will Smith plays a cop who does not like robots and suspects that they are not as peaceful and moral as the largest manufacturer, US Robotics claims. The chief scientist of US Robotics is found dead after falling down 30 stories into the courtyard of the U.S. Robotics firm. Will Smith correctly believes that the apparent suicide was murder but who did it? Could robot ever turn against the human creators?I, Robot
Movies, Comedy
This film, which received an Ocscar for best picture in 1963, takes an hour to become funny for someone who is not English. The first hour is filled with dry British humor. The second hour adds drama, making it easier for me to forget that I was standing on a stairmaster, trying to lose a few pounds while watching a movie. It was fun to see Albert Finney as a young man. As many a woman remarks in the film, he was quite easy to look at.Tom Jones
Movies, Drama
The Butterfly effect was coined by scientists who discovered that small changes can have dramatic consequences over long distances (both in space and time). A hurricane in the U.S. may have been set off by the flap of a butterfly wing in Honk Kong. The film applies this idea to the life of individual people. The first third of the movie is not very exciting, but then the drama picks up as we are suddenly drawn into different possible realities. The main character has problems with memory either because of a genetic predisposition or childhood mistreatment. As he is trying to remember what happened, we are presented with different versions of the past and we no longer know which one is true. Small changes in childhood events lead to very different adult lives.The Butterfly Effect
Movies, Drama
I rented this movie because I heard that Tom Hank’s who plays an FedEx employee shipwrecked on a small island entertains you all by himself for an hour and a half. It is not true. The movie is painfully slow in large part because it has nothing significant to say. I had so much time while watching the film that I almost wrote an entire script for a another Robin Crusoe movie. In my script the stranded person, contrary what you would expect of the genre, does not get rescued but after a long life dies all alone on peacefully island. Because the person strangely enough lived out an interesting life on the island you are not upset about this end. Rather you would leave the cinema telling yourself yourself: Hey, if one can have a meaningful life all by yourself on a small island one should have a great life in the midst of civilization! Cast Away is predictable and boring.Cast Away
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