A nice variation on the travel back in time plot. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect after seeing the trailers. There are a few surprises along the way, that we can’t discuss without spoiling it for you. It’s not just a simple action movie, there is an emotional ride as well. It’s worth seeing, and holds value for a wider range of audiences than your average time travel movie.
8.5/10
Another variation on the old vampire storey. This one takes place in the futures after vampire apocalypse, and a twisted version of the Roman Catholic church runs society, not unlike medieval times.
Actually nothing that memorable to share about this one, other than it’s okay as vampire flicks go, but the ending really sucks. You think you’re watching just a random action/fight scene that turns out to be the climax. But you don’t realize it till it’s done, and then suddenly the movie is over, done deal. And you’re left sitting there thinking, “Huh, I guess that’s it.” If it wasn’t for the crappy ending, it would be a better show.
6/10
This is a fun teenager style movie with an 80’s theme. Well done and light hearted.
It has the typical teenager party movie plot; lead teenage boy is kinda geeky, can;t get a girl, lead teenage girl is very hot, can have anyone she wants, geek chases girl, can’t get girl, then get’s girl after making complete ass of himself. Everyone leaves happy, end of story.
100% traditional Hollywood theme for this type of movie, but it works. Good mindless entertainment.
8/10
I enjoyed this remake more than I expected. It was entertaining, the CGI effects of making Chris Evans a skinny short little guy were excellent and totally believable, and it has Chris Evans – who is simply hot!
The only thing I didn’t really care for was that it’s in 3D. For me the 3D fad is over. All it does it make motion blurry at this point. The 3D novelty is long over for me, and I’d enjoy an action movie more if I could actually see the action, instead of the 3 dimensional stuttering blur effect.
As far as putting Chris Evans face on the skinny short 99 pound body, this effect was amazing. Unlike the attempt at this sort of effect that was made in Tron2, where making Jeff Bridges a young man again did not work well, it constantly looked wrong and fake. Not so in Captain America, these guys did it right.
8.5/10
I finally got around to building my Self Balancing Platform, otherwise known as a home made Segway.
I documented the completed project in my first YouTube video.
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So I’m watching an actual NASA podcast video the other day, and the NASA hired narrator refers to the Gemini space flights as Jiminy, pronounces it like the cartoon cricket’s name. Can you believe it? How incredibly sad is that?! First it’s sad for a NASA employee not to know how to pronounce it correctly, and more so when you seem to be one of few people in the world (and old enough) to know how to.
A few days ago I received an email from the DivX organization with their usual software discount promo, half price like it seems to be every 6 weeks. But I noticed a new item, the Muvee Reveal easy video editing software.
I’ve used several different video editing suites that can be bought for under a few hundred dollars, and have never been happy with them. They are either incredibly slow, have a terrible user interface that requires hours and hours of use to get the least bit familiar with it, have poor output, will only import one or few specific file formats, can’t do HD, or simply work poorly overall.
So I thought, for under $15 with the extra charges let’s try this out without doing any research. The website gave almost no relavent info about it other than marketing BS with little specifics. But I felt adventurous and here are the results of my experience.
I imported some HD video into DivX Movee reveal taken from one of my cam corders. Right off it wasn’t happy with HD video without downloading an addon. There was no mention of this on the DivX site. Then to analyze 3 clips with a total of less than 15 minutes of video took about 40 minutes running on a 4 core CPU Windows XP computer. Every attempt to save the project to the hard drive resulted in a 1K file with no content, even though the file was growing accordingly during the export process. When it was done it left a 1K file. So I tried exporting it as SD content, and the program crashes part way through the export.
Yes the program is cheap, and as we always say, you get what you pay for. In this case I got nothing but a waste of my time and absolutely no video good or bad to use. Save your time and your $9.99 plus whatever service fees. Not only will you be unsatisfied, if you have the same results as me you will get no output at all.
In case anyone wonders, no I never contacted DivX support. I have for other reasons in the past, and the result was either no response at all, or receiving form letters with any relevance to the issue. And requests for detailed responses to me complaints were returned with more dribble. So I did not feel like wasting more of my time with DivX support for such a low priced item. Good for you DivX, you suckered me out of some cash, likely knowing it’s small enough that few of us will complain and ask for it back.
Now I must reboot my computer as the “muvee Reveal” logo to embedded on my desktop on top of all my other apps, after yet another Movee Reveal crash. Can you say uninstall? I can.
Yogi must be rolling over in his grave. Assuming Yogi Bear died by now. I mean how old do bears live for? My review is from a adult perspective, but we adults like a lot of animated movies these days. But this Yogi remake is bad. Really freakin bad. Boring as all hell, and slow, and painfully bad. It tries so hard to be cute. You feel bad for the people associated with this show. Embarrassed even.
3/10
This “movie” was shot in what feels like a TV movie or even a TV series style. With moments where you expect to be suddenly watching a commercial break. The title of this one tells you eveything you need to know about this story. It’s about S.W.A.T. team characters and a little action. That’s it. Pretty boring. All the characters are basically unknowns. It’s low budget and did I mention boring?
4.5/10
The general concept of this movie is obviously to be a remake of the old TV series. Other than that it’s not much like the original. The main character may have the same name, but he isn’t the serious, good looking, tough guy I remember from the original series. He’s a average looking, dumb ass spoiled kid with no friends, not the least bit tough or coordinated and well you get the picture. This new version of the character is the total opposite in many respects.
This movie wasn’t what I was expecting for a hero remake. I was disappointed and underwelmed. Action scenes are fine, even entertaining at times. But if you are going to remake a pop culture or classic movie, do the original some respect and at least use the same concept. If you are going to change things around and totally remake a lead character for example, then make a new movie and don’t ruin the theme and memory for people you are sucking in that cared about the original. That’s just wrong.
5/10