Mad Fast Reviews

Saw 3 movies on airplanes.

Mad fast reviews:

I am Legend Will Smith in your typical end of the world type movie. Cancer vaccine turns people into vampire zombies. Will Smith hunts deer in New York by running after them. Will Smith gets chased by zombies. Mini spoiler alert: dog dies. Will Smith saves the day. If this sounds similar to countless other 'last man on the world' movies & books it is because the I am Legend movie was adapted off a 1954 novel of the same name (except set in California). Interestingly, I am Legend the novel is classified as "the first modern vampire novel". Read the book. Better yet, read, "The Last Canadian" by William Heine published in 1974. 5/10

Cloverfield Bunch of twenty-somethings capture a monster invading NY on a handi-cam. Creativity is not Cloverfield's strong suit. Comparisons to King Kong, Godzilla and Blair Witch are easy to make. I enjoyed the army men vs. the monster battle and the movie had decent action without (too many) corny lines. Not scary per se. The plot was filled out a bit with the monster's "spawn" which appear whenever the twenty-somethings need to run just a little bit faster. Obvious ending telegraphed from about 25 mins into the film (and implied within the first minute). Lady beside me on the plane kept watching my screen rather than her own (she was watching The Other Boleyn Girl). Decent showing 7/10

10,000 BC I watched this because I had heard how bad it was (9% fresh). I don't mind suspending disbelief (i.e. monster comes up from the ocean and razes NY as in Cloverfield) but when something is quasi-historical it should be quasi-historical, not some parts historical and others like whatever. Let me count the inconsistencies: Movie is called 10,000 BC but uses things which come from thousands of years later - metalworking wasn't mastered until at least 3000 BC, domesticated horses about 4000 BC, first non-hunter/gather civilizations roughly 4000 BC (i.e. created cities), first boats created in 3000 - 4000 BC, use of triangular sales happened in about 1600 AD, the use of woolly mammoth power (in Egypt??) to construct the Pyramids (in 10,000 BC?). Either call it 3000 BC or just say it was on a distant planet. Crap like this bugs me the same way people accept the movie Titanic as historical fact. 2/10 (couple points for decent fight scenes).