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From Walmart for $9

Bought these today from Circuit City for 60% off.

$16.00

$8.80

And one cd.

Watched Meet Dave yesterday.

It's actually an ok movie.

Hopefully this won't give too much away.

Early in the film a small orb crash lands on Earth. This Orb was sent to Earth to absorb all of the salt from the worlds oceans to save their home planet. The crew starts to change after their contact with humans. A mutiny happens aboard and 'Dave' gets taken over. Eventually the Captain retakes command just in time to prevent the orb from absorbing the salt from the oceans. They leave Earth in the end.

As with comedies, it's a hit and miss. Some jokes work and some don't. It's also strange to hear Murphy in his un-typical Murphy voice. I think the best performances are by Elizabeth Banks as the boys mother and by Austyn Myers as her son. The visual effects are very good.

Is it a life changing movie? No. But it's also not as terrible as some made it out to be either. On a scale of 1-10, I think I would give it a 6.5.

I don't know if I should ask this, but here it goes.

Who had final cut rights in regards to the film?

I know Spielberg does. But I would doubt that this director would have final cut for such a low budget film.

If he didn't then that is why the studio could force edits regardless of what the director wanted.
I am sure that this is why in the past a director would want his name taken off a movie because the studio cut the film not to his liking. In other words 'Alan Smithee'. But I think they can't do that anymore.

Now I'm not defending what Weinstein did, but the studio likely had the right to edit the film. They/he looks at the money aspect and not the "art", so he felt the cancer story didn't fit and could affect the box office.

So it's nothing really new in regards to the studio butting in. I even think this happened to Orson Welles as well.

Yeah, my tax refund got deposited this morning.

Now I can go out and start to try and pick which new tv to buy. I only have room for a 32 inch.

I'll take my time and decide which one because I don't want to rush out and buy one and get a crappy one.

Kind of funny that little boy just goes right up to Vader without a fear at all. While all the adults "act" as if they are scared for their lives.

Those guys who dress up like that and go out in public have more nerves than I do. I would be embarrassed to even go in the front yard dressed up like that.

Don't know if that one guy in that uniform made it himself, but he sure has a large cod piece.

I am very sorry to hear that about your cat.

My family has owned many pets throughout the years. It's never a good sign when they start to refuse to eat. I've seen where a few times they start to eat again and it looks like they maybe improving, but then they just stop eating and drinking and it's not long after that that they pass on.

So I know what you're going through.:(

I really liked another film that had a very limited release as well.

Southland Tales only opened up on 63 theaters and made $123,428 in it's opening weekend. Which in it's second weekend dropped -69.7% and only made $275,380 in the U.S.

While it's interesting to know how much a film makes at the box-office it certainly doesn't determine which films I'm interested in seeing. There are many films that are blockbusters or hits, but I'm not like sheep and blindly go and see a film because many others went to see it.

My thoughts on the 2 that I recently watched that I bought recently.

Dragon Wars: Is kind of like two movies in one. First you have the Chinese part where the 'Evil' guy and his Dragon army attacks a village in search for a young woman with a special birthmark on her shoulder. Why are they searching for her, because she is somehow going to transform him into a dragon.

Then we are in modern time U.S. where a young male reporter is the re-incarnated protector of the birthmark woman from the Chinese part of the movie. Well the Dragon army appears and starts to search for the re-incarnated birthmark woman. Eventually the two meet and try to escape the Dragon Army. Eventually they are caught.

Now somehow they are transported to some other worldly place and she is about to be sacrificed so that guy can be transformed into a dragon. The protector escapes and prevents that from happening. The good Dragon appears and she (birthmark woman) emits some sort of glowing ball of energy from her body which goes into the Good dragon and the two dragons battle.

My thoughts:
Fairly good visual effects. Adequate acting. But the story was disappointing to me. The poster art and even the ads led me to believe that the good/evil Dragons was battling each other in the U.S. city, not this boring search for the woman story. Really only two good battles, the first one in China and the Dragon attack in the city. Just not enough battles or even action in it.
How exactly does this Dragon army appear after 500 years? Dragons are roaming around in the suburbs and a major city with nobody hardly noticing them at all. The military only does battle once in the city and gets wiped out far too easily and is never seen again.
Sure it's well made but the story left me disappointed. If I had to rate it right now on an A to F scale, I would say a C-.

Zoom:
Bought this because of Tim Allen.
About 80% of the film is about Tim's character training and "babysitting" these new children with super-human abilities. A few cute sequences, but fairly predictable as well.
All this leads up to is a battle with Tim's characters brother is a bad guy and has been in another dimension all of these years. To put it short, they defeat him, he changes to being good and they form a new Superhero team.
Again, the fx was good, but for a Superhero type of movie it was kind of boring. Kind of like X-Men light for kids.
I've seen the other film similar to this called 'Sky Kids' on cable and I think that one is better than Zoom. Again a disappointment for me. I would give it a grade of C.

Correct.