Kam
03-29-2007, 02:46 PM
Caught these two this week.
TMNT - you really need to be familiar with the turtles to get this. they don't do much of a backstory and the relationships are already in place with everyone, including the demise of shredder. I'm guessing this is taking place after the live action movies? i haven't read the comic in a decade plus, so i don't know where the storyline there is, but the movie just throws you right into the storyline mid-stream. at least that's how it feels.
the animation now, is pretty darn cool. it looks great, and the action scenes are a lot of fun. it's an enjoyable movie for fans of the turtles, but i could see someone who has had no exposure to them being pretty lost for the most part in this movie. they introduce characters like april and the dude in the hockey mask guy (forget his name, april's bf and the turtle's friend) with the assumption that the audience already knows who they are and how they relate to the turtles. as a stand alone movie, i'd say it fails pretty heavily, but as part of the tmnt storyline, it's good fun. marginally recommended for fans of TMNT.
The Host (korea) - highly recommended! now this was one fun movie! it's a great monster movie in the vein of godzilla and is just a whole lot of fun. i was smiling through most of the movie and just couldnt help but laugh out loud at some scenes, as gruesome and "real-life" sad as they would be, they are freakin' hysterical in the movie. basically an an american army surgeon orders his korean counterpart to dump a couple hundred gallons of formaldehyde down the drain into the han river. he doesn't care about the consequences. ten years later and those consequences take the form of a giant lizard monster thingamajig. a family owns a food stand by the han river and one beautiful day the monster finally rises and kills a number of park go-ers, and kidnaps a few too, including the young girl of the family. they are all quarantined because it it believed the monster is a host to a virus. the fam escapes and goes looking for the young daughter. hilarity ensues. along with a few jump-in-your-seat moments. I really liked it, and if it's playing around you, definitely check it out before it gets remade by hollywood in a few minutes.
peace
k2
TMNT - you really need to be familiar with the turtles to get this. they don't do much of a backstory and the relationships are already in place with everyone, including the demise of shredder. I'm guessing this is taking place after the live action movies? i haven't read the comic in a decade plus, so i don't know where the storyline there is, but the movie just throws you right into the storyline mid-stream. at least that's how it feels.
the animation now, is pretty darn cool. it looks great, and the action scenes are a lot of fun. it's an enjoyable movie for fans of the turtles, but i could see someone who has had no exposure to them being pretty lost for the most part in this movie. they introduce characters like april and the dude in the hockey mask guy (forget his name, april's bf and the turtle's friend) with the assumption that the audience already knows who they are and how they relate to the turtles. as a stand alone movie, i'd say it fails pretty heavily, but as part of the tmnt storyline, it's good fun. marginally recommended for fans of TMNT.
The Host (korea) - highly recommended! now this was one fun movie! it's a great monster movie in the vein of godzilla and is just a whole lot of fun. i was smiling through most of the movie and just couldnt help but laugh out loud at some scenes, as gruesome and "real-life" sad as they would be, they are freakin' hysterical in the movie. basically an an american army surgeon orders his korean counterpart to dump a couple hundred gallons of formaldehyde down the drain into the han river. he doesn't care about the consequences. ten years later and those consequences take the form of a giant lizard monster thingamajig. a family owns a food stand by the han river and one beautiful day the monster finally rises and kills a number of park go-ers, and kidnaps a few too, including the young girl of the family. they are all quarantined because it it believed the monster is a host to a virus. the fam escapes and goes looking for the young daughter. hilarity ensues. along with a few jump-in-your-seat moments. I really liked it, and if it's playing around you, definitely check it out before it gets remade by hollywood in a few minutes.
peace
k2