Bee Movie

Jerry Seinfeld and Renee Zellweger Star in this snooze movie.  Yes, I felt sleepy while watching this.  I am not the audience this movie was looking for, it was meant for my almost two year old daughter.  If this movie came straight to DVD, I think it would still be a dull movie.

The movie, in a nut shell, is how one bee can't change a system.  Wow, how anti-democratic.  The main character does not like the life of bees and he finds out that human's are stealing bee honey.  HE sues and wins.  Then all the bees get their honey back, since they don't have to work, all the flowers in the area die.  

The bee learns he was wrong trying to change things and the happy ending is that all the flowers get pollenated.  Sometimes it is good not to change a system, other times it is bad to let the status quo continue.  This movie, should be taken as a fun kids movie, but I can't.  I did not like it nor the underlying subversive political message. 

Bee Movie is a bad movie.

Goya's Ghost

Goya a Spanish painter meets a girl.  He paints her picture.  She gets accused of being a Jew and is put to the "Question", a Catholic form of water boarding and told she will be on trail for her confession.  She is raped by another main character and bares a child.  Goya feels that he is responsible for the girl after she gets released from the Inquisition...

Okay now that you understand the story, you know what I could follow this but it lead you  in a fashion of where... what... how?  But history or historic adaptations are not linear.  Sometimes I felt bored watching this movie, other times I was wiggling because I was uncomfortable.  Who wouldn't be when watching the girl being hung with her arms behind her back screaming in pain?

Natalie Portman plays the girl, Ines, she also plays her daughter Alysia.  The daughter was conceived by the rape.  Javier Bardem was the monk, turn revolutionary, and Stellan Skarsgard played Goya, all of the performances were stiff and hard to watch.  

This was worth watching once.  It was a bad movie, but worth watching that first time.  I did not like this one.

10,000 BC

Okay, I reviewed Star Gate yesterday, so here is my review on 10,000 BC.

There was something I could not wrap my head around when I watched this movie in the theater.  It was familiar.  Then I figured it out.  This was the prequel to Star Gate.  I mentioned that in yesterday's blog.  Once I realized this, the movie made sense.  This movie was about the war between man and RA. 

Okay, I know that is a stretch.  But since the writer/ director was the writer on Star Gate, the similarities were very coincidental.  A monster was kidnapping workers to build a pyramid in 10,000 BC.  The pyramid had to be built for the alien to land in Star Gate and the alien in Star Gate needed slaves.  The people in 10,000 BC won.  The people in Star Gate won after 10,000 years of waiting.  

Well, if you are a fan of Star Gate then you will enjoy 10,000  BC.  If you are a history fan, you won't.  Since I am of the Star Gate ideas, I thought 10,000 BC was a good movie.

Star Gate

I decided to watch this movie after seeing 10,000 BC.  My review for that movie tomorrow.  

I wanted to watch the first pyramid movie that was written by the Director, Roland Emmerich.  Something about star gate was in 10,000 BC.

Star Gate starts as a simple movie but builds to epic levels.  The hero, Daniel, is just a mild mannered scholar who helps lead a military cue on another world.  What got my attention was the history that Daniel read on the walls.  That history in my opinion was the movie 10,000 BC.

I love watching Star Gate which spun off into a successful television series Star Gate SG-1 and Star Gate Atlantis.  

It is a good movie, staring Kirk Russell and James Spader.

The review on 10,000 BC tomorrow.