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I disagree. There are certainly some parts of Fiedel's scores for the first two movies that fits like a glove - and nothing could improve. But I'm of the opinion that the majority of the rest is pretty unmemorable.

Indeed, the final cue, "Radio", is one of Beltrami´s more memorable themes, with a very dramatic arrangement of his John Connor theme. And the action material is also great, nice mix of orchestra and electronics.

MMkay.

Knowing

Entertaining for an hour and a half, but the ending is one of the most over the top finales I´ve seen in years. And pretentious I´d say. At least one can enjoy Beltrami´s work.

Is it worst than the Keanu Reeve's "up to date" version of the day the earth stood still? As in actually making you to throw a brick at the screen? 'Cause that movie me almost made me do that;

Yeah, partially, I mean not so obvious as Narnia but close.



Knowing is not as bad as the terrible The Day the Earth Stood Still. At least Knowing is entertaining for most of its footage. But that ending.....so over the top and pretentious it is almost funny.

Spoilers below...for anyone who cares.

Kid buries time capsule.
50 years later time capsule is dug up.
Disasters start happening and a piece of paper in the time capsule with numbers on can predict them.
It predicts end of world.
Nic Cage says goodbye to his kid and the kid gets on a space ship.
Nic Cage and whole world blow up.

Sorry, I forgot about the glowing people that "invite" you to leave earth on the space ship. You can only go if you can hear them whispering.

So the cheesy ending is that the earth blows up?

Thanks Anthony, you saved me money and more importantly a couple hours of my life

Saw last night...

Somewhere in Time
While there's not much to the story (time traveling Christopher Reeve falls in love with Jane Seymour) the chemistry between Reeve and Seymour, and the Barry score are what makes this sparkle!
Very interesting to read about how this did badly in the cinemas but was a hit on cable TV... so much that people wrote hundreds of letters for repeat telecasts.

Quarantine
aka the Americanized version of "REC"

This is not the same experience. I must say that Quarantine follows basically the Spanish movie 80%, even in names (which is stupid considering Jennifer Carpenter and Angela Vidal are not working together). It is cool for once an American movie is trying to re create as much of the original as possible, but by doing this you receive an emotionless experience. Man it is like saying a line because they know they have to say it. It is so fixed on duplicating everything, it loses a soul of its own.

The chaotic element of REC is also gone, the people that live in the building don't create a bond at all and it all feels staged. The wonderful quality of REC was it felt and looked real, here it looks pretty real but it doesn't feel real at all. There are some added bonuses (brief new scenes) and they explain more or less what is happening but pretty much, this is a weaker version. A good scare if you haven't seen the original, but a weak brother if you saw REC first.

6 out of 10, but if you want scare, realism and emotion, REC conquers all

I find it cool they are trying to use as much from the original as possible, that means they had a lot of respect for the original

But it doesn't work, this is not the same
Man, I miss that stairway scene in Quarantine

GET SMART

I was expecting a dumb ass Johnny English kind of movie, but hell this one is quite fun. Carell is actually really funny and there are also jokes I didn't see coming at all.

It is all silly but enjoyable. The chemistry between Carell and Hathaway (what a cutie ) is just good enough and the ending's cool. And Rabin's score works really well

Ah, pleasantly surprised
7 out of 10