Me and my mates decided that we should watch movies specifically from the year 2005, and at first we regretfully started with a John Carpenter adaptation named "The Fog".
While great atmosphere and cinematography, this piece of film has incredibly rubbish writing. The characters are uninspiring and the dialogue is very...undesirable. We shafted it halfway because no one was paying attention to it, in fact we were just making fun of it the whole time. For a horror movie is sure is horrifyingly terrible!
A few days later we decided to give
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D a go because we wanted to have a good laugh remembering some repressed childhood memories!
And in retrospect...it wasn't
that bad as some folks say, but they are still correct in assessing that it was not as good as Robert Rodriguez' Spy Kids trilogy.
This one's quite held back by its lackluster storytelling, it only gets "interesting" near the end when the villains reveal their motivations, which by the way George Lopez steals the show with his role. He goes full on Senator Armstrong with a singular quote that I'm sure some of you remember.
The central theme around dreams was wasted on punchlines and bad puns unfortunately, not much else to say about that (Other than Klonoa did it better
).
It looked to me that this movie was made as a sort of CGI benchmark for the company that produced it, especially given the emphasis on 3D techniques like making several objects shoot towards the camera to accentuate the effect. This seems important given the trend with 3D movies was waning on those years.
I personally think most of the CGI dream world sequences were pretty neat for what they were, I particularly noted how consistent the placement and movement of the actors were in most of the angles and shots. Most of the time. Though it is hardly an improvement over the comparable Spy Kids 3.
Though yeah those are my thoughts, ain't movie nights sweet?
Quote from: SerialDreams on April 11, 2024, 06:40:35 PM
Yeah! 
It's on YouTube and everything.
I didn't know this was a thing and I am not sure if I should be amused or terrified. I might just check it out.
