Yogi's Movie Consumption Blog

A killer tries to track down his older self from the future. This one is really an enjoyable sci-fi. It is safe to say, that all time-travel based stories need to set up a premise that the audience has to be willing to go along with. This film used simple voice-over technique and surprising imagery to describe the situation the protagonist is (caught) in. What I really liked about this film is that they've tried to avoid cliched situations. And many small, carefully designed details show that - the introduction of the 'bad guys', the way the 'forward'flashes explain the story, bold use of typo if necessary, the extremely late introduction of the woman in the story, etc. There are two or three moments that didn't quite fit in - Bruce Willis' slaughtering the baddies and the love scene seemed a bit stapled on to the whole - but thankfully these were really short. The boy was quite an amazing cast, you can really feel the anger and desperation boil...

A young woman is purposely infested by a parasite that turns her into a kind of zombie. She is then robbed of all her possessions. Relentlessly praised on the internet, I had extremely high expectations for this film. I can't say I was disappointed but the story felt a bit long and too much focused on the mystery of the woman's transformation. Things come together in the end, but I there were some stretches in the movie were I felt a bit overwhelmed by the symbolism and the dream-like sequences. One thing to notice is the camera work. The film was shot on a low budget, and the director decided to use many close-ups. There are noticeable few wide shots - which I think are the most fun to film. I noticed that I really prefer careful compositions that are a bit wider, but I can imagine the situation of this shoot. This choice of camera, quite possibly dictated by budget restrictions led to a very fast editing style, that doesn't give the story time to breathe and...

A former sci-fi TV series cast is tossed into a real world/galaxy/universe saving adventure and end up living up to their screen persona. Considering my movie watching habits at the moment, this is absolutely not the type of film I would watch otherwise, and also being deeply disappointed in popcorn and sci-fi genre flicks. Through the gointethestory monthly viewing series I got involved in reading and somewhat studying the script and also watching the online tweet session with the film. Although I did enjoy the move, I've caught myself finding it difficult to see past the not too ambivalent characters on screen. I understand from the discussions that they all have the "minimum" depth required for a good sreenplay, but somehow I felt that their inner life was too much simplified. Since the plot was not very twisted, it felt like I didn't have too much to hold on.  So when the movie was over I thought: "OK, now what?" - which means that I wouldn't r...

A group of mutants decides to bond, thanks to some upper-class funding. Basically, this is all back story. And after the mess of TRON:L I didn't expect much. But I was pleasantly surprised. This movie might be light and entertaining, but compared to all other similar movies it had surprising depth and I didn't felt (too) dumb while watching it. I somehow felt that the actors were more closely focused on delivering the physical aspects of their parts, but Fassbender and the direction somehow managed to make some rather preposterous scenes watchable, even enjoyable. Best example for this was the radar telekinetic test - this scene could have been cringeworthy, but they somehow managed to hold it together within the limits of such a film. The ending felt a bit forced with the extremely stagelike showdown on the beach, where quite a lot of characters undergo some rather sudden changes in policy. Maybe they stretched it just a little bit there. Study the satellite dish scene...

Visual effects porn - (although porn scripts are better) This film is a bizarre pastiche of great work of the VFX department and a strangely insufficient vision of the scriptwriter. I feel deeply sorry for Mr Kosinski on this one - I am pretty sure he had a more concise vision of this film that must have been slaughtered in thousands of meetings by some brain-dead executives. The bad thing is: they must believe that they were right, looking at the numbers only. What is obvious, that they could have filmed their own behinds and added some fx to that - attracting the same numbers of moviegoers. Rarely, I have felt so emotionally disconnected to ALL the characters in a movie like in this one. It was like watching the weather forecast's outtake. The "son thing" is boring, the "Jeff thing" is polarzombieexpress-like, the "Girl thing" is stupid and so on. I wish I hadn't seen this movie - it was so much better in my imagination. The original got me...

 Groundhog day meets Mission Impossible - where Gyllenhal has to relive the last 8 minutes of a doomed train attacked by terrorists. The story was quite alright in itself, the execution was professional but I felt strangely unsatisfied with the whole film. I think that except Gyllenhal's character the players (esp on the train) felt very cardboard like. Since he has only 8 minutes to connect to those people it would have been more satisfying to give them more extreme, eccentric and visual features. Some of the train passengers were quite ok, but most of them just fell flat. It might have been more interesting if Michelle Monaghan would have given a much more aggressive character - the love story came out of thin air, so she had to already be in love with the guy. It would have been much more fun if she was just about to break up with Gyllenhal's alter ego. There's not enough tension and as this is a science geektion story, so nobody gives a toss about romantic love, b...