10 Cloverfield Lane 2016 5 out of 10 (SPOILERS)

10 Cloverfield Lane  2016  5 out of 10

SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT

10 Cloverfield Lane was a cool concept and the movie itself was interesting,  however it failed for me to a certain degree.   In fact the ending kind of ruined the film for me.  It could have been an 8 out of 10, but I didn't like how it turned out.  It set itself up like an M Night Shyamalan movie that was going to rely completely on a big twist at the end of the movie.  The story is about a woman that after getting hit in a car accident wakes up chained to a bed in a bomb shelter with two men.  Her main captor/rescuer (depending on what you believe) claims that the outside world has come under a chemical attack.   John Goodman does a great job as survivalist Howard that demands respect from the 2 people he has in his shelter.   The woman (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead) doesn't believe that the chemical attack is real and desperately wants to escape.  The acting is great --but the issue with the movie is the plot.   You can't have it both ways and the movie does just that.   I think the movie needed to decide one way for another which way it wanted to go.  

The movie should have you guessing whether there has really been a chemical/ alien attack is real or whether Howard is just a crazy killer.  Instead it gives you clues that the attack is real......then gives you evidence that Howard actually kidnapped and killed a missing girl ---then gives you more evidence that the alien attack is real.  It turns out both are true and I feel that is a cop out that took away from the movie for me.  A much better twist would have been to have the other character that was in the bunker turn out to be in on it with Howard or to have it be that Howard was just a strange guy that happened to rescue her.   Instead they make him a killer and .....the alien attack is real.   I feel that the film makers not making a choice to go in one direction or another takes away from the alien attack.   The alien attack being real at the end isn't a surprise....they have already gone out of their way to prove that it was real.  If you want me to suspend my disbelief---you can't have Howard be a killer and there is an alien attack going on at the same time.   It should have been a surprise until the end as to what was really going on.  Instead it just became so unbelievabl

  

Check out the Facebook page here

https://www.facebook.com/SuperFantasticTerrificPodcast/

Check out the Podcast Here

http://www.superfantasticterrific.com/

Why I hated the Star Trek Movie blog (Spoilers in this rant)

You don't just glue a horn on a white horse and make a unicorn......

I had low expectations going in ......it was  Mother's  Day and my mom is a Star Trek fan so I took her out to see the new movie that everybody seems to love--

I personally thought it was  a complete bastardization of the original trek (which is still the best)

I have no complaints with the cast of the new film
 I liked the cast (with the exception of the REIMAGINED Kirk) Bones was especially good...

It was The plot  that I thought was just weak and had holes you could drive a truck through......I know they were trying desperately to make Star Trek hip and grab it from the hands of their dwindling nerd fan base......But what was killing Star Trek wasn't Trek itself---it was pumping out one poorly written movie after another.....Somehow Trek was surviving despite bad movies......

After I pointed out my disdain for the  movie on a friends facebook status ----He pointed out that it was a reimaginging  of Trek.  And yes it was to a certain extent.......A REBOOT If you want to call it that..  But it really wasn't....The makers of the movie chickened out of actually doing a complete Reboot....and instead included Spock Time traveling....  from the original Star Trek universe ....It was an alternate universe.....that frankly sucks....and was a completely unoriginal concept compared to some of the Battlestar Gallactica quality social issues and Sci-Fi that the original Campy series tackled........Time Travel seriously ---That is all they could come up ... with....Time Travel.....They have only used that in about half of the crappy Star Trek flicks.......alternate  universes  ----I didn't know I was watching Stargate  or Sliders  or have a dozen Next Generation episodes that already covered that ground...
They should be able to come up with something more original then Time Travel......The original Series did ..The Original series despite its cheap sets and monsters was actually Relevant and had good quality Sci-Fi writers and story lines......Now all we get is Baby Kirk with missing his daddy issues and  Spock being bullied as a child.....Now all we get is boring retread ideas and concepts  and Star Trek  Death Star Planet killing machines taking out plants like Alderan  ...Come on--give me some new and original

Let's just leap through the completely unoriginal Time Travel concept once again we haven't done that before

 I haven't left a Trek movie this ticked off since the Star Trek III the Search for Spock......"My dad tells me that we...  were friends" indeed.......Tell the stupid Trek writers to start writing Sci-Fi like some of their good episodes and to stop being lazy and doing F---ing Time Travel flicks....This isn't called F---- Time Trek....Lazy bastards......Any 2 episodes of original Trek and or any Next Generation episodes with Q are better than this lame REBOOT....I'd like to Reboot JJ Abrams in the face.....This movie made me want to stop watching LOST as well....If this is his Trek movie than the LOST finale is probably going to be as Bad as Chris Carter's X-Files cock up ending

It was like watching some body's lame alternate universe Fan fiction bullshit come to life.....I'm far from a Trekie ---but if it pissed me off this much some of those basement dwelling Star Trek pajama wearing geeks with the taped on ears must be crying and wetting themselves over this crap

I don't want to see 150 million dollars worth of fan fiction....I'd rather watch Galaxy Quest than this unoriginal premise......F----ing Trek Death Stars blowing up planets.

The script was just a mix of bad time travel, Alternate universes,,Homages to other Trek movies and Star Wars....There was absolutely  nothing new or original about it

As I sit on the bridge Kirk must be rolling around in his grave on that lame Nexus planet  from another crappy Trek movie Generations   (that had Time Travel elements) Where he died so weakly fighting Malcolm Macdowell and falling on the rocks.....Oh Wait that Trek move sucked too....I'm actually missing the Borg..

Hey Time Travel and alternate universes that hasn't been done before NOT............Renegade  Romulans  that is something fresh and new NOT...... 

Where is a good Gorn throwing fake rocks when you need him ???



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89OOUC9gRA&feature=related


 

If they just wanted to do a new cast so be it but don't bring back original Spock and try to explain it as a Time Travel Alternate universe.... ---Just reboot it --don't try to have it both ways

Movie Flaw:  The  original Spock came from the original time line where things had happened differently.....He wouldn't have known Kirk would end up on Hoth (i mean the Ice Planet) --because in his time line that hadn't happened......Just a flaw in the writing similar to some of the flawed time travel writing that made the end of Generations so lame....Then (Obi Wan)  I mean Spock sends Kirk off on his own.

So basically there is Wrath of Khan and the movie with the Borg  (First Contact)  that were good the rest of the Trek films NOT SO MUCH  --and don't give the one with the Whale Bullshit....

I'd rather watch any 2 random episodes of The New Battlestar or the original series then this Trek movie ever again...

Nero I know Khan and you sir are no Khan.

"He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before I give him up! "


Beam me the F--- out of here

Here are my thoughts on all the Trek Films

http://bradgeekness.blogspot.com/2012/07/aside-from-wrath-of-khan-which-was.html