projekt draco

Apart from (still) virtually tearing my skins apart thanks to the itch from the sunburn I started having earlier this week, and the seemingly never-ending web projects on hand, I’ve also watched three movies at the theatres. That should explain why I haven’t had any new entry for a while.

Let’s get on to the movies:

The Cave

A story with a good-enough plot that at least explains where the creatures that were hunting them down in the show came from, reasonably.

For most parts of it, the only excitement was contributed by the music itself only; eg. there was a swimming scene that had absolutely no exciting thought, but the music made my heart pounded hard. Thank you music crew, you did a great job.

I was kind of expecting more visual of the creatures, but alas there were barely few scenes of the monster. There were a few full body scenes, but none of them clear or long enough to make me feel good. The director had to blur the screen to make some kind of special effects that I didn’t really appreciate. I think most people who would watch this show would want to see the creature in full details, I mean that’s the wonder of such show, isn’t it?

Night Watch

A russian EPIC FANTASY trilogy.

Interesting introduction of the pending war that will be happening soon (well, in the movie of course)… between the good and the evil. I happen to be awed by the ideas of shows having all these vampires, witches and demons so this was (and still is) on my must-watch list… can’t wait for the later parts of the trilogy.

So I’ll say more when I’ve watched more of the show..

Sound of Thunder

For a movie that experienced financial difficulties in the making, let’s not pick on the computer generated images. (but honestly, those CGIs really suck) And the story could pass off easily if you’re not exactly a science freak, and don’t really care for scientific explanations.

But for me, I’m a science freak, an almost crazy over time travel person, I definitely think the plot could definitely use more works. There were many loopholes and unexplained in this story.

One of the few simplest things they didn’t explain is how the time travel is really possible and maybe they should have provided some strong(er) technical details of it.

They did not explain clearly how a butterfly that was supposed to be killed by a erupting volcano would cause such a great change in the evolution when it was killed by the visitor and brought back to the present. Granted, they did explain a little about how changes made in the past can change the present, but that butterfly will die regardlessly anyway, either by the visitor or the volcano.

Even so, why would the death of a butterfly result in the mutation of baboons and lizards? And all those funny creatures that were mutated too. So the further back into the past, the more changes the change could cause… but from a butterfly (eventually) due to die in a volcano eruption, what’s with it?

Time travel is hard to do, especially if it involves going back into the past and we’re faced with the Grandfather Paradox. Why didn’t the change take place all at once? Why would it cause ripples like the explained “throwing rocks into the pond”? There’re too many unexplained in this show and it would definitely be better if it had a stronger plot. Not easy, I know.

And if it did have a stronger believable plot, even the bad CGIs can be ignore. But too bad, it was rather disappointing though not as bad as I thought it would be when I entered the theatre after reading all the bad comments about it.

So, yes it can be better, by ALOT.

The next show on the list would be Hinokio. I hope it’s good. I think it looks good. Now what I have to do is to convince my bunch of friends to go watch it together. I know I’ll succeed!

Update: Convincing may prove to be a tough job when the response from phusion was, <phusion> wtf <phusion>u wanna watch hinokio? But I won’t stop trying!