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Stormbound is the sixth movie in the Mythica series. The previous story kind of ended with the previous one – Godslayer. Therefore this is a new beginning of sorts. There are new characters and a new storyline, even though it connects a bit to the old one. I think it’s more out of necessity than something that adds to the story. It feels cheap and an excuse to build on a story that no longer...
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is the fourth newer movie about how humanity lost its grip on the world and how the apes rose to domination of the planet. I have seen all the other of course, but I’ll be damned if I can remember every detail about them. I can’t. What I do know is that they follow a logical path. First Ceasar, the ape who finally said NO, is subdued. Later...
Dune: Part Two is more or less a direct continuation of the first part. A second part that I was looking forward to seeing when I saw the first one. I felt that the story was only half told when the first part ended. As I said when writing about the first part I’m a fan of David Lynch’s adaptation of the story and I know that isn’t a popular view. People say it’s incomprehensible...
The Secret Kingdom is a fantasy tale from 2023. It’s quite classic if you think in terms of Narnia, Bridge to Teranithia, or even Where the Wild Things Are. At least as I remember them. We have children or youths discovering a land that is not exactly like ours. Many things happen there that cannot be explained by ordinary means. It’s a story, a tale a legend. In the case of the Secret Kingdom, a...
I will refer to this movie as Metalstorm although its full title is Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn. Pretty long title that seems unnecessary to wear my keyboard down with. I should have realized that it was a movie for acquired taste when I saw that Charles Band was involved in it. Not that every movie he has touched over the years is awful but they’re kinda like “special”. With that said, I like to...
I really tried to like Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage but I just couldn’t. I’m a huge fan of Fantasy movies and Sinbad regardless of form or shape usually cannot fail. But this modern tale, which does have sequences in it to homage to the great Ray Harryhausens stop-motion effects and feel for composition just doesn’t work for me. The acting is totally uninspired, the effects are sometimes pretty good and sometimes like an homage as...
The main plot in Guardians of Time is about four cousins together at a mansion. There, they discover a hidden door which in turn leads to another hidden door and soon they are in an enchanted forest. Sound familiar? It should if you even grew up in a cave. This seems to be as much theft of the Chronicles of Narnia as it could be. Rest assured, that is not the only story, or movie...
As the title of this movie, Rebel Moon Part One – A Child of Fire is somewhat long and clumsy. I will refer to it as only Rebel Moon Part One in the text. I think this makes sense because if there is a part one, there should be a part two later, right? That ought to be enough to distinguish them from each other anyway. Star Wars I know I’m not the only one...
When I first saw the cover art for The Phantom Empire I was totally blown away. This got to be a highly entertaining film! It just seems so all over the place that it has to be funny. Maybe not deliberately so, but it’s still funny. Well, there are a few scenes in the early parts of the movie, in fact even before the movie really begins the humor is evident. There’s no chance in...
If you have been following me or this blog you know that The Island at the Top of the World should be right up my alley. It’s an adventure movie that seeks out a lost civilization. Much like an adventure movie like Raiders of Atlantis or Atlantis the Lost Continent. If you take Atlantis out of the equation it’s really just like the same thing. Some scientists discover something that is lost and unknown to...
7 Adventures of Sinbad is what I call a typical hangover movie. It’s actually quite lousy in every aspect; some digitized montages are downright dreadful, but it still has a certain charm that appeals. It doesn’t matter if you doze off or look away for a moment, and the Blu-ray edition undeniably offers entertaining picture quality! The best of both worlds for a hangover. Entertaining enough but still not interesting enough to keep 100% focus...
7 Guardians of the Tomb is described like this on IMDb. “An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Chinese Emperor from 200 B.C. unearths a two-thousand-year-old nightmare, a secret that should have remained buried.”. That’s what I had to go on when choosing to see this movie. I was under the impression that it was about this secret society of guardians, sacrificing everything for the sole purpose of keeping a secret. We have all seen...
