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Jun
Thoughts: The 5th Wave….of disappointment!
Posted June 9, 2016 by Prateek in Reviews. Tagged: 2010s, abandoned building, abandoned bus, abandoned car, abandoned house, accidental killing, action heroine, air force base, airfield, airplane, airplane crash, AK 47, alien, alien contact, alien infiltration, alien invasion, alien parasite, alien race, ambush, anti hero, anti heroine, apocalypse, armored car, army, Assault Rifle, attack, avian flu, axe, bangkok Thailand, Bare Chested Male, barefoot, based on novel, based on young adult novel, basic training, battle, battlefield, Beating, begins with a flashback, behind enemy lines, Betrayal, Blood, Body Landing On A Car, body snatching, Bomb, booby trap, brainwashing, bravery, brawl, broken leg, brother sister relationship, brutality, bullet wound, bunk bed, bunker, burial, bus, camera shot of feet, campfire, campsite, car accident, car crash, car fire, card game, cat, catfight, cell phone, chaos, Character Repeating Someone Else's Dialogue, Character's Point Of View Camera Shot, Chase, cheerleader, child exploitation, child in peril, child soldier, child with a gun, close up of eyes, colonel, combat, coming of age, commune, convenience store, corpse, courage, critically bashed, crucifix, Death, Death Of Child, Death Of Father, Death Of Mother, Death Of Wife, Deception, destruction, detonator, digit in title, disarming someone, disaster, disaster film, disaster in new York, disease, disguise, disobeying orders, dog tag, double cross, drone, Dystopia, earthquake, eavesdropping, electro magnetic pulse, electromagnetic pulse, end of the world, escape, escape attempt, evacuation, exploding airplane, exploding building, Exploding Bus, Exploding Car, Explosion, extinction, extraterrestrial invasion, fade to black, family relationships, farmhouse, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, Fear, female doctor, female fighter, female soldier, female warrior, fictional war, Fight, fight the system, fire, Fistfight, flare, Flashback, flood, following someone, forest, Freeze Frame, Friendship, full moon, gas mask, gas station, giant wave, Good Versus Evil, goth girl, Grenade, Gun, Gunfight, held at gunpoint, helicopter, helmet, high school, high school soccer, high school sports, high school student, high school teacher, Homelessness, hope, hostage, human alien, human body as an alien host, human extinction, human versus alien, Humanity, humanity in peril, Husband Wife Relationship, hypodermic needle, infiltration, infirmary, initiation rite, injection, journal, kidnapping, kiss, knife, knife fight, knocked out, lake, leg wound, london england, loneliness, loner, Loss Of Father, loss of humanity, loss of innocence, loss of loved one, Loss Of Mother, Loss Of Wife, Love, Love At First Sight, Machine Gun, man fights a woman, manipulation, Map, mass death, mass extinction, massacre, mercilessness, mexican standoff, military, military training, mission, Montage, moral dilemma, mother daughter relationship, Mother Son Relationship, Murder, natural disaster, necklace, new york city, news report, No Opening Credits, nonlinear timeline, number in title, nurse, offscreen killing, ohio, one woman army, open ended, outbreak, owl, pandemic, paranoia, party, photograph, Pistol, pistol whip, Police Officer, post apocalypse, power outage, premarital sex, presumed dead, punched in the chest, Punched In The Face, quarantine, race against time, reference to spiderman, refugee camp, reluctant hero, rescue, revelation, revolver, rifle, sabotage, school bus, search, search and rescue, Self Mutilation, Self Sacrifice, sergeant, shooting range, Shootout, Shot In The Back, Shot In The Chest, Shot In The Head, Shot In The Leg, Shot To Death, Shotgun, single father, single parent, skinny dipping, sleeper agent, Slow Motion Scene, sniper, sniper rifle, soccer, soccer practice, social commentary, soldier, space ship, spacecraft, spaceship, strangulation, subjective camera, superhuman strength, surprise ending, Surveillance, survival, survivor, suspense, suspicion, swimming pool, target practice, teddy bear, teen angst, teenage boy, teenage girl, teenage heroine, teenage love, teenager, tent, text messaging, threatened with a knife, tidal wave, Title Spoken By Character, tough girl, Tough Guy, tower bridge London, tracker, tracking device, Tragedy, training, trip wire, tsunami, two way mirror, u.s. army, ufo, underage drinking, unrequited love, Violence, virus, visor, Voice Over Narration, warfare, warrior, water, widower, wood chopping, woods, world domination, x rayed skeleton. Leave a Comment
If there is anything to prove that our future is bleak, it is watching our next generation grow up. Right from their music (that God awful Beaver and his donkey braying!), to reading horse shit like Twilight, the future is clear and it is depressing. All forms of art will soon die and their collapse is imminent, and future historians will probably pin down this decade as the trigger of our civilization’s cultural collapse.
However I digress and that too, is because I have just seen what can only be classified as the pivot in our cultural downfall and it takes its roots in the wormhole that is young adult science fiction. From the genre that gave us masterpieces like the Divergent series, the Maze Runner, I am Number four, Eragon and many such ‘gems’, comes yet another mind blowing crap fest; The 5th wave. The movie is based the first book in the trilogy written by the ex –IRS collector Rick Yancey. The book was a big hit (sigh) and having not read the book I will refrain from making assumptions here.
Seeing that this is a review, I shall delve into the basics and try and explain to the best of my ability how this movie goes. Average high school girl crushes on boys, aliens come, mommy dies, Army takes over, brother is captured by army, daddy dies, girl fights to get her brother, aliens are good guys, army is bad guys, Colonel (or is he a General?!) dies. Girl kisses alien. Ka-BOOM! (Everything explodes).The End!
There I saved you a couple of bucks!
The saving grace in this movie would be Chloe ‘Grace’ Moretz (see what I did there,:)) as the lead. She does a decent job of acting like the confused sap of a teenage girl, who crushes on her class boys, loves her family and dotes on her little brother. Alas, she has dropped a long way from her kick-butt-first-ask-questions-later avatar of Hit Girl (Ref: Kickass), but well, a girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do! So here we see her in a pretty different role, albeit not a good role, but she does a decent job in it.
The rest of the cast, not so much!
As with all Young Adult Sci-Fi movies, the visual effects were something that could make or break them and somehow I think this one broke. J. Blakson (Director) is pretty new to the scene of movies (I believe it is his 2nd foray as a director of full length motion picture) and on the bright side, he can only go up from here. But he has a long long looooong way to go up, and even then he might just make the tail end of the average director’s herd.
The story of the movie is flat, and there is nothing (and I do mean nothing!) interesting about it. It is so predictable, that you feel you have already seen this movie earlier. And of course logic takes a back seat here, I mean it deals with an alien race which can cause earthquakes and tsunamis and spread viruses and yet need children to kill adults as a way to take over the planet. Most inefficient bunch of morons I’d say. Heck! Paul and ET had a better chance of taking over our planet and don’t even get me started on what would happen if the aliens from Independence Day saw these guys and their attempt.
The movie works well on one level (assuming we have the attention span of a goldfish) and that is some of the individual scenes (very select few) work well on their own. If it weren’t for the bad writing, the gaping holes in logic, the horribly developed characters and the completely unnecessary romantic “tension” crow-barred-in the movie, this has the potential of competing with some of the better B-Grade flicks like Sharkando, or Megashark vs Crocosauraus or even Humshakals.
However for a majority of the roughly 112 minutes, there were instances where I was hoping to stick the straw from my coke up my nose and flood my brain with the cola!
Much like the 5 stages of dealing with grief, there are 5 waves depicting the demise of our culture here and these are:
- The decline of the music industry
- The death of Literature
- Twerking
- The remorse of seeing our youth icons
- This movie!
In the end, if you are not a girl aged between 11-15 years old …. Or you are Jaden Smith, you should definitely avoid this movie like the plague.
Thoughts!
9 Jun
Thoughts: The 5th Wave….of disappointment!
Posted June 9, 2016 by Prateek in Reviews. Tagged: 2010s, abandoned building, abandoned bus, abandoned car, abandoned house, accidental killing, action heroine, air force base, airfield, airplane, airplane crash, AK 47, alien, alien contact, alien infiltration, alien invasion, alien parasite, alien race, ambush, anti hero, anti heroine, apocalypse, armored car, army, Assault Rifle, attack, avian flu, axe, bangkok Thailand, Bare Chested Male, barefoot, based on novel, based on young adult novel, basic training, battle, battlefield, Beating, begins with a flashback, behind enemy lines, Betrayal, Blood, Body Landing On A Car, body snatching, Bomb, booby trap, brainwashing, bravery, brawl, broken leg, brother sister relationship, brutality, bullet wound, bunk bed, bunker, burial, bus, camera shot of feet, campfire, campsite, car accident, car crash, car fire, card game, cat, catfight, cell phone, chaos, Character Repeating Someone Else's Dialogue, Character's Point Of View Camera Shot, Chase, cheerleader, child exploitation, child in peril, child soldier, child with a gun, close up of eyes, colonel, combat, coming of age, commune, convenience store, corpse, courage, critically bashed, crucifix, Death, Death Of Child, Death Of Father, Death Of Mother, Death Of Wife, Deception, destruction, detonator, digit in title, disarming someone, disaster, disaster film, disaster in new York, disease, disguise, disobeying orders, dog tag, double cross, drone, Dystopia, earthquake, eavesdropping, electro magnetic pulse, electromagnetic pulse, end of the world, escape, escape attempt, evacuation, exploding airplane, exploding building, Exploding Bus, Exploding Car, Explosion, extinction, extraterrestrial invasion, fade to black, family relationships, farmhouse, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, Fear, female doctor, female fighter, female soldier, female warrior, fictional war, Fight, fight the system, fire, Fistfight, flare, Flashback, flood, following someone, forest, Freeze Frame, Friendship, full moon, gas mask, gas station, giant wave, Good Versus Evil, goth girl, Grenade, Gun, Gunfight, held at gunpoint, helicopter, helmet, high school, high school soccer, high school sports, high school student, high school teacher, Homelessness, hope, hostage, human alien, human body as an alien host, human extinction, human versus alien, Humanity, humanity in peril, Husband Wife Relationship, hypodermic needle, infiltration, infirmary, initiation rite, injection, journal, kidnapping, kiss, knife, knife fight, knocked out, lake, leg wound, london england, loneliness, loner, Loss Of Father, loss of humanity, loss of innocence, loss of loved one, Loss Of Mother, Loss Of Wife, Love, Love At First Sight, Machine Gun, man fights a woman, manipulation, Map, mass death, mass extinction, massacre, mercilessness, mexican standoff, military, military training, mission, Montage, moral dilemma, mother daughter relationship, Mother Son Relationship, Murder, natural disaster, necklace, new york city, news report, No Opening Credits, nonlinear timeline, number in title, nurse, offscreen killing, ohio, one woman army, open ended, outbreak, owl, pandemic, paranoia, party, photograph, Pistol, pistol whip, Police Officer, post apocalypse, power outage, premarital sex, presumed dead, punched in the chest, Punched In The Face, quarantine, race against time, reference to spiderman, refugee camp, reluctant hero, rescue, revelation, revolver, rifle, sabotage, school bus, search, search and rescue, Self Mutilation, Self Sacrifice, sergeant, shooting range, Shootout, Shot In The Back, Shot In The Chest, Shot In The Head, Shot In The Leg, Shot To Death, Shotgun, single father, single parent, skinny dipping, sleeper agent, Slow Motion Scene, sniper, sniper rifle, soccer, soccer practice, social commentary, soldier, space ship, spacecraft, spaceship, strangulation, subjective camera, superhuman strength, surprise ending, Surveillance, survival, survivor, suspense, suspicion, swimming pool, target practice, teddy bear, teen angst, teenage boy, teenage girl, teenage heroine, teenage love, teenager, tent, text messaging, threatened with a knife, tidal wave, Title Spoken By Character, tough girl, Tough Guy, tower bridge London, tracker, tracking device, Tragedy, training, trip wire, tsunami, two way mirror, u.s. army, ufo, underage drinking, unrequited love, Violence, virus, visor, Voice Over Narration, warfare, warrior, water, widower, wood chopping, woods, world domination, x rayed skeleton. Leave a Comment
If there is anything to prove that our future is bleak, it is watching our next generation grow up. Right from their music (that God awful Beaver and his donkey braying!), to reading horse shit like Twilight, the future is clear and it is depressing. All forms of art will soon die and their collapse is imminent, and future historians will probably pin down this decade as the trigger of our civilization’s cultural collapse.
However I digress and that too, is because I have just seen what can only be classified as the pivot in our cultural downfall and it takes its roots in the wormhole that is young adult science fiction. From the genre that gave us masterpieces like the Divergent series, the Maze Runner, I am Number four, Eragon and many such ‘gems’, comes yet another mind blowing crap fest; The 5th wave. The movie is based the first book in the trilogy written by the ex –IRS collector Rick Yancey. The book was a big hit (sigh) and having not read the book I will refrain from making assumptions here.
Seeing that this is a review, I shall delve into the basics and try and explain to the best of my ability how this movie goes. Average high school girl crushes on boys, aliens come, mommy dies, Army takes over, brother is captured by army, daddy dies, girl fights to get her brother, aliens are good guys, army is bad guys, Colonel (or is he a General?!) dies. Girl kisses alien. Ka-BOOM! (Everything explodes).The End!
There I saved you a couple of bucks!
The saving grace in this movie would be Chloe ‘Grace’ Moretz (see what I did there,:)) as the lead. She does a decent job of acting like the confused sap of a teenage girl, who crushes on her class boys, loves her family and dotes on her little brother. Alas, she has dropped a long way from her kick-butt-first-ask-questions-later avatar of Hit Girl (Ref: Kickass), but well, a girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do! So here we see her in a pretty different role, albeit not a good role, but she does a decent job in it.
The rest of the cast, not so much!
As with all Young Adult Sci-Fi movies, the visual effects were something that could make or break them and somehow I think this one broke. J. Blakson (Director) is pretty new to the scene of movies (I believe it is his 2nd foray as a director of full length motion picture) and on the bright side, he can only go up from here. But he has a long long looooong way to go up, and even then he might just make the tail end of the average director’s herd.
The story of the movie is flat, and there is nothing (and I do mean nothing!) interesting about it. It is so predictable, that you feel you have already seen this movie earlier. And of course logic takes a back seat here, I mean it deals with an alien race which can cause earthquakes and tsunamis and spread viruses and yet need children to kill adults as a way to take over the planet. Most inefficient bunch of morons I’d say. Heck! Paul and ET had a better chance of taking over our planet and don’t even get me started on what would happen if the aliens from Independence Day saw these guys and their attempt.
The movie works well on one level (assuming we have the attention span of a goldfish) and that is some of the individual scenes (very select few) work well on their own. If it weren’t for the bad writing, the gaping holes in logic, the horribly developed characters and the completely unnecessary romantic “tension” crow-barred-in the movie, this has the potential of competing with some of the better B-Grade flicks like Sharkando, or Megashark vs Crocosauraus or even Humshakals.
However for a majority of the roughly 112 minutes, there were instances where I was hoping to stick the straw from my coke up my nose and flood my brain with the cola!
Much like the 5 stages of dealing with grief, there are 5 waves depicting the demise of our culture here and these are:
In the end, if you are not a girl aged between 11-15 years old …. Or you are Jaden Smith, you should definitely avoid this movie like the plague.
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