01-01-2017, 01:46 PM
If you want the book review, go here: MPHfPC Book Review
No, I'm not merging. You can do that in your free time.
So, Tim Burton. I get the feeling that he makes movies just so he can do particular sequences and doesn't really care about the rest. In this case it was two sequences, one that seems a call back to Frankenweenie where two puppets have a knife fight (Score one for the knife fight) And two at the end where he wanted to do a Harryhausen sequence and have skeletons fight some monsters. (Sword fights!)
After that, he was out. The plot was minuscule with the majority of the scenes devoted to expository dialogue about what the Peculiar Children are and why they are in this time loop, etc And every time I tried to make sense of the time travel aspect of the movie, I got a sharp pain behind my left eye. I feel if I try at this point to explain it more, the pain will increase.
Eva Green played Eva Green. I'm still trying to figure out her appeal but she is appealing.
It looked pretty but it had a similarity to most of Burton's work. Nothing extraordinary. The plot didn't wow me. There wasn't a lot of humor. A lot of the characters had transitory motivations arising when the story required them, but vanishing when it came time to tell the main story.
I say Meh. Even Sam Jackson was a bit hammy, but that's what he does now.
No, I'm not merging. You can do that in your free time.
So, Tim Burton. I get the feeling that he makes movies just so he can do particular sequences and doesn't really care about the rest. In this case it was two sequences, one that seems a call back to Frankenweenie where two puppets have a knife fight (Score one for the knife fight) And two at the end where he wanted to do a Harryhausen sequence and have skeletons fight some monsters. (Sword fights!)
After that, he was out. The plot was minuscule with the majority of the scenes devoted to expository dialogue about what the Peculiar Children are and why they are in this time loop, etc And every time I tried to make sense of the time travel aspect of the movie, I got a sharp pain behind my left eye. I feel if I try at this point to explain it more, the pain will increase.
Eva Green played Eva Green. I'm still trying to figure out her appeal but she is appealing.
It looked pretty but it had a similarity to most of Burton's work. Nothing extraordinary. The plot didn't wow me. There wasn't a lot of humor. A lot of the characters had transitory motivations arising when the story required them, but vanishing when it came time to tell the main story.
I say Meh. Even Sam Jackson was a bit hammy, but that's what he does now.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
