kalin12351 Reviews

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

How is this romantic ?

[1/10 · 15 February 2009]

I see a lot of comments about romance... so a woman falls in love with someone she heard on the radio saying he missed his dead wife and decides to stalk him. And he sees her and she finds her pretty. That's love.

I mean don't get me wrong, I liked how the movie started, but Annie doesn't prove herself in any way. she has a fiancée that loves her and who has some unconvincing quirks that make him the one that must be dumped. i mean the guy does nothing wrong. Annie gets the idea that the guy isn't good for her indirectly from her mother... and what does she do ? She decides to break up and go meet a guy on a roof. and the fiancée accepts like a good little puppet, because if there were any heartbreak from his part, the movie would have went down the tube. the movie is hanging on only a thread of optimism.

Of course, us, the viewers know that Sam isn't a bad guy and that he deserves a decent relationship. Sam is sane, tries a normal way to see if he can have a relationship. I like him. But if you cut out all of his scenes Annie just seems kinda nuts. You can't see her relationship falling apart. She just falls for Sam. And that stupid movie every woman in the movie is crying about... so what ? Because somehow they finally met in a similar manner makes it lovely ? Not really, no.

A movie for romantics? Sure. Just to remember that your girlfriend who seems very much in love with you will dump your carefree, no complicated past, caring, compassionate self for a guy with emotional baggage, with a kid, who she only met. But he has a nicer name than you.

The acting didn't impress me. I actually had hopes for this movie. Shame. It gets a one because if it's a romantic movie it's crap.

Transformers (2007)

Plot outline: Come see movie, robots it has

[3/10 · 14 July 2007]

I mean like whoa. That's as far as they thought it through. That's it. Big robots, they talk, and transform into human vehicles. This is the movie. It's not a spoiler. Just the truth. If you're into big robots and big booms go see it. If you're a movie maniac you will not buy the DVD. If you saw even one episode of transformers ever in your life, you'll be disappointed. Bigtime.

What they didn't think was to give them personality. Instead they shoot one corny line after another and no dialog exists. Bumblebee could have been funny and interesting. In this movie he's just a stupid, big robot who delivers another predictable and sooo corny line at the end. All robots, Autobots and Decepticons could have had tons of personality injected in them. They had none. Their role in the movie is to create big fireworks. That's it. Optimus Prime should have been the most interesting of all, up to a majestic level, not a corny, suicidal, half-witted brute you idiots.

Anyway. The actors.... sucked. I'm not sure if it's them or the script. I'm pretty sure i hate the script so it might not be their fault. But! Shia LaBeouf should not have a lead in this movie. Or any movie. Megan Fox is the stereotype pretty but hard life girl that falls for the dorky idiot. All characters are only stereotypes and none of the actors can deliver a good performance.

The scenes are overly crowded, awfully put cut and put together. They could have been great, but it's a sudden mix of.. of... everything ! If you look at any 5 minutes of the movie you see 80% of playing characters. And they end in the worst places. I had like 20 scenes that ended before i felt i would have wanted them to end. Something nice, or cool, or adding to the plot should have been right around the corner. But no. We go to the next scene.

And the soundtrack... You know the music that comes up when heroes arrive at the scene, and they move slowly, saving the day. That's the only kind of music. And there's nothing appropriate on screen. Almost never. they hit some spots just because that music is like forever on.

See this movie with no expectations, a big bag of popcorn and don't get expect to be sucked in. Just enjoy the special effects. Those are the only things in this movie worth seeing.