Star Trek: "The Paradise Syndrome"

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Title: Star Trek: “The Paradise Syndrome”
Year: 1968
Network: NBC
Episode: the third (of twenty-four) from season three; 50 minutes
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Margaret Armen
Starring: William Shatner
With: Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Sabrina Scharf, Rudy Solari
Music: Alexander Courage (theme); Gerald Fried
Cinematography: Gerald Perry Finnerman
Editing: Bill Brame
I saw it: on video and TV several times, most recently a couple days ago (have on DVD)
Synopsis: amnesiac Kirk shacks up with American Indians in Space

My reaction
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Characters: I like how Kirk is very quick to point out that he doesn't know how to save the day, but he never makes any objection to being a god.
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Subjective Rating: 6/10 (Okay, ). I like the Spock-in-command-of-the-Enterprise parts quite a bit. Some of the rest of it can be a little painful to watch. Oh, how Star Trek loves its cultural superiority.
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The Golem

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Title: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam
Year: 1920
Length: 85 minutes
Directors: Carl Boese & Paul Wegener
Writers: Henrik Galeen & Paul Wegener
Starring: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück
With: Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch, Hans Stürm, Max Kronert, Otto Gebühr, Lothar Müthel
Music: Aljoscha Zimmermann
Cinematography: Karl Freund, Guido Seeber
I saw it: on video (rented from Greencine), yesterday
Synopsis: a rabbi uses dark magic to create a guardian monster

My reaction
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Special effects/design: Although, I'm tempted to take a point off for bad font.
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Subjective Rating: 5/10 (Indifferent, ). Typical German Expressionism: great sets, horrible over-acting, comically simple characters, and boring to watch.  I guess you could say that this is to Frankenstein what Nosferatu is to Dracula - except that no one in their right mind would try to argue that this is better than Frankenstein.  Also, it's difficult to watch a movie about persecuted German Jews without seeing it in a post-WWII context (I don't know whether that's good or bad for the film, but at least it provides something to think about while you're waiting for the inane romantic subplot to play out).
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Winnie the Pooh

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Title: Winnie the Pooh
Year: 2011
Length: 69 minutes
Director: Stephen J. Anderson & Don Hall
Writers: Stephen J. Anderson, Clio Chiang, Don Dougherty, Don Hall, Brian Kesinger, Nicole Mitchell & Jeremy Spears, with Paul Briggs & Chris Ure, based on the books by A.A. Milne & Ernest Shepard
Starring: Jim Cummings
With: John Cleese, Bud Luckey, Craig Ferguson, Jack Boulter, Travis Oates, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Wyatt Dean Hall, Tom Kenny
Music: Henry Jackman (score); Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Zooey Deschanel (songs)
Cinematography: Julio Macat
Editing: Lisa Linder
I saw it: in the theater, yesterday
Synopsis: Eeyore needs a new tail

My reaction
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Special effects/design: Granted, pretty much all the design work was done in the 60s, but they deserve credit for not messing with it.
Acting: Very expressively animated. And casting Bud Luckey as Eeyore is brilliant.
Music: The songs aren't as good as I expected, given the She & Him involvement, but they're never at all annoying (which is really saying something, for a modern Disney movie), and some are fun.
Subjective Rating: 10/10 (Favorite of my favorites,  [edit - 5/4]). As good as the original shorts - not quite as pure and innocent (they even force in some (not-too-obtrusive) pop culture references), but hilarious. The best movie to come out since Wall-E.
Objective Rating (Average): [edit - 3.8/4]

The Ballad of Nessie

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Title: "The Ballad of Nessie"
Year: 2011
Length: ? (a few minutes)
Director: Stevie Wermers
Writer: Regina Conroy, Kevin Deters & Stevie Wermers
Starring: Billy Connolly
Music: Michael Giacchino
I saw it: in the theater, yesterday
Synopsis: the Loch Ness Monster searches for a home

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Subjective Rating: 9/10 (One of my favorites,  [edit - 5/4]). Very sad. It's supposed to be in "classic Disney" style (ie, it looks a lot like Sleeping Beauty), but classic Disney animators were never this expressive. Every detail of the character animation is so perfect, it almost makes Pixar look like amateurs.
Objective Rating (Average): [edit - 3.5/4]

Shutter Island

2010 Leftovers Marathon, part 10 of 13

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Title: Shutter Island
Year: 2010
Length: 138 minutes
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Laeta Kalogridis, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio
With: Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley, Ted Levine, John Carroll Lynch, Elias Koteas, Max von Sydow
Music: non-original music
Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker
I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), yesterday
Synopsis: a US Marshall investigates an isolated institute for the criminally insane

My reaction
Concept:
Story: I'm not sure if Scorsese gives it away or if it was the trailers, but five minutes into the movie, I knew how it was going to end. This story does not work if you see the twist coming. And, contrariwise, if you don't see the twist coming, the rest of the movie would probably seem all the more tedious and cliche-ridden.
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Dialog: Some is great, some is terrible.
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Cinematography: It tries very hard, and often ends up looking like crap.
Special effects/design: CG does not replace locations, people. Not unless you're making a cartoon.
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Music: Martin Scorsese Presents The Twentieth Century. A bit too heavy-handed, and its variety is jarring enough that it took me out of the story a few times (not that I mind being taken out of this crappy story). But it's such good music, I've still got to give full points here.
Subjective Rating: 6/10 (Okay, ). It's like he made a huge list of things he liked in other movies, and just strung them together. I would have given it just a 5/10, but the song over the closing credits is good enough to make the other two+ hours worth sitting through.
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