Why should I care about the Aliens? -Summer block busters

 

Super 8 – Director: J.J. Abrams Writer: J.J. Abrams

After witnessing a mysterious train crash, a group of friends in the summer of 1979 begin noticing strange happenings going around in their small town, and begin to investigate into the creepy phenomenon.

Gooines without the Gooinessn, No fun at all.  No Creepy phenomenon to speak of, set the 1970’s, why, I don’t know, unless it was to capitalize on the paranoia distrust of the period - it’s always the government’s secret that hurt us. Also to use a clip from the news of the period so someone can say “íf it’s on TV it must be true” Haa… the time when it was so easy to just believe Walt Cronkite an Age of innocents like our protagonist as suppose to be, yet nothing is realized along these line.

Near the beginning of the film one character say “production value” and that is what JJ Abrams delivers. After the character says it I could not help but notice it every time it hit the screen in front of me. Very good thing too since I didn’t care about the people who occupy this world, as for caring about the Alien I was suppose to shed tears for at the end. There was no reason to no emotional attachment was given.  

Mr. Abrams is from the Steven Spelieburg school of hitting you in between the eyes to make sure you get the point and see the shot. Yes lots of “production value” . No substance, no characters to care for but requisite it happens at night so I cant see it. Thank god JJ Abrams didn’t flare me to blindness as he almost did with Star trek. 

The train wreck is the only thing to see, so, stay home and watch your old family Super 8’s at least you know and care about the characters there.

Transformers: Dark side of the moon

Director: Michael Bay  Writer: Ehren Kruger

The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it to learn its secrets. Very cool Idea. Why the US went to the moon in the 1960’s.

I did like that this time around the transformers transformed a bit slower so I could see it happen. There the movie ends for me.  A roller coaster that will not let you off. If it moves, blow it up. I was even looking at my watch becoming tired of the non-stop action. Here was a world filled with humans and aliens that I once again had not a reason to care about. Mr. Ehren Kruger’s  dialogue was there only to take us from one action scene to the next.  Not making  any sense of characters or story. John Turturro, I like, you can always see an actor “paying the rent”  filling time and space in a film franchise, to his credit he squeezes the most out of a bad script, Kudos to Mr.Turturro no Oscar nod but the bills get paid.

You want characters and Aliens to care about with an acceptable story line stay home and watch TNT’s summer fair Falling Sky’s new aliens and a world with real people in it, who you can care about.