Archive for July, 2005

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Very, very good. Skill, timing, acting, story, effects… they were all there and very well done. Not to mention that the movie is just good. The cool thing about this version is that it really is a different movie from the Gene Wilder one… very hard to compare. Plot points and story remain close, but […]

Another strong animated piece from Miyazaki. The story in this one strays a bit more than his previous work and it leaves a fairly large number of questions unanswered, but it’s still very strong… especially the visuals. I’d like to see the english dubbed version at some point, just to see what kind of […]

War of the Worlds

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

Visually very strong. Story? Meh. A little too linear for my tastes. A B-story might have been a nice addition. The Spielberg Happy Ending (TM) was kinda flat and didn’t do much for me.
Overall, not bad, but kind of disappointing for what it could have been.
On an offtopic note… has anyone else noticed that there’ve […]