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As Comic Book Guy Would Say...

posted 14 years ago by jgm-60
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I'm not usually a negative person, but this is honestly one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Terrible, simplistic, and even worse, lazy writing, which is surprising because the woman who wrote the teleplay has Lost and 24 to her credit. Characters are one dimensional, dialog is generic, and don't get me started on the depiction of the science, laboratories, and security. It's so bad I even started noticing the lack of creativity from the prop department. Have they ever seen an actual lab?

The movie was directed by Douglas Barr. The last I saw of him he was Lee Majors' cousin in The Fall Guy.

The saddest thing is the waste of LeVar Burton.

And genuine apologies to those of you enjoying it. Nothing wrong with guilty pleasures and whatever trips your trigger and all that. Heck, I'm still watching it. I've only walked out of one movie in my entire life, so I'll see it through 'til the end.

[–] blynnpatton 14 years ago

I think it was pretty good. It moved kind of slow, but it wasn't bad for the kind of movie it was supposed to be. What I mean is it was a family movie, and so it was going to be very mild. It isn't going to have a lot of shoot them up, raunchy dialog, etc. If it did, it wouldn't be a appropriate or a family movie. That's why it was simplistic in the writing.

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[–] blynnpatton 14 years ago

Those are cartoons. This is a live action movie. Also, it was a TV movie, not a theatrical release. It was good for what it was. I didn't say it was perfect. I saw someone who said that their 8-year-old liked it. The main problem I had was that it moved kind of slow. Also, Toy story 3 was about 1 hour and 49 minutes long. The Jensen Project was less than a 1 hour and 30 minutes long. This probably the length of most made for television movies.

My niece 10 almost 11-year-old niece only likes a very few kinds of cartoon movies. She prefers movies with real people. She saw Toy Story 3, but I bet she wouldn't watch it over and over again. Really, her favorite cartoons are some of the ones that come on PBS. She also likes a few others, but mostly watches shows with live people. She's always been like this. She'll watch some cartoon shows again, but she usually doesn't watch them again for a while. On the other hand, she'll watch live action movies again, and it might be the same day or the next day.

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[–] blynnpatton 14 years ago

My niece is not a freak.

My point was that she doesn't care as much for cartoons as she does for movies and shows with real people. I was just listing some of the few cartoons she does like. She's always preferred movies and TV shows that have real people in them.
Also, she likes the Disney Channel. That's probably her favorite channel.

You mentioned Toy Story 3. My niece saw that one, but it probably isn't something that she would watch over and over again. I could be wrong, because she will watch some cartoon movies over and over.

Basically she likes movies that have kids in them or that or related to her favorite shows (i.e. shows on the Disney channel).

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[–] LiveLong 14 years ago

You're a tool. Do you own the internet? You can't tell people what to talk about!! If you don't like it don't read/reply to it. You are probably going to reply to this with some stupid comment, but I'm never going to come back in this thread so don't bother.

[–] blynnpatton 14 years ago

Some people seem bothered that I mentioned my niece. In the first post where I mentioned her, I was just trying to say that some people prefer movies with real people instead of animated things. I was using my niece as an example of how people don't all have the same preferences when it comes to animation verses movies with real people. There are probably other kids who don't care as much for cartoons as they do for movies with real people in them.

I rephrased and repeated my comment, because someone made fun of my niece. I was defending her. I was also trying to explain better about the kinds of movies my niece likes. Again someone was rude, and basically told me that I had no right to post. We can't tell someone not to post, as long as they don't use foul language, make indecent comments, or say other things that IMDB considers offensive. I didn't do that.

May, I make a suggestion. If we don't want people to be defensive, we shouldn't post rude or insensitive comments to others' posts. Most people are going to try and defend themselves at least once if we are rude to them. You can disagree with someone without attacking them or putting them down.

[–] bousozoku 14 years ago

I think a lot of family movies turn out to be low budget because no one wants to pay for the limited appeal, which is sad.

How so many good books turn into lousy movies with amazing special effects is beyond me.

I've yet to see "The Jensen Project" and at its current price, I'd pass since I missed it elsewhere. I don't mind films where language, violence, and sex aren't used as filler for a lack of story or poor imagination in the script.

It's just sad when something is given half an effort and people involved are just looking forward to wrap up.