Welcome Mundanes!
That's like Muggles....yeah it's derogatory...and I'm just gonna say that today's review will be littered with references to a whole bunch of other movies and series, and an ABC family show...Anyway, I'll continue on to the review!
MOVIE REVIEW: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones
Pros:
I surprisingly liked this movie, it's no Oscar winner but it was a fun movie.
I loved the Runes. I've always loved that kind of Alchemic type Rune system. and I feel like this movie did a pretty cool job of depicting runes. tho they can do anything with the runes it seems. so it can be taken to completely unrealistic heights. they need to have an obvious limit, like have a lot more recoil back on the caster. but whatever, runes are damn cool. and I always like the Celtic inspired tattoos.
Tattoos are cool
Lily Collins was good as Clary. had more personality than that one girl from Speak in that one movie with the walking Disco balls.
Jamie Campbell bower was exactly as I saw him when i was reading the book. (I read about 200 episodes of the book, so not all of it.) and he was easily the best character in the movie. I liked his sarcastic little comments and that kind of stuff.
The Effects were decent, some of the Rune and spells were very neat and cool to watch. I loved the 'stop time' spell, even though it was a wasted opportunity.
The action was decent, mostly the Vampire fight. I'm not kidding, vampires, again.
Cons:
Why do these teen girl adventure films insist on adding every random creature that's big. there are Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, shadowhunters. and a reference to Zombies. Is it too hard to limit it to just shadowhunters and demons? do you really need vampires and werewolves? I know twilight was huge but do we really need to keep beating the dead horse?
the actor that played Magnus needs a few lessons, he looked good but he isn't much of an actor.
There's a kind of issue with Simon being able to see the Wizarding world, err shadow world. Jayce does a rune so Simon can see him but can then why can Simon see all of the shadow world randomly? did someone Rune him? and How the living hell can Clary not see he loves her?
and i thought Simon was a little Asian guy?..oh, wrong series
the last half hour was extremely predictable. I was literally calling out what would happen minutes before it happened. that's happened before, last time I did that some dude had a Pen sword and his dad was Poseidon...hmmm.....
Comparisons:
I'm gonna name a series and list off how Mortal Instruments seems to steal from it. I understand some of these are just coincidences, but let's face it, this is the newest movie and most people don't care its a book first
1. Harry Potter: Muggle/mundanes, unlimited Spells/runes that they can use, voldemort/valentine showing up at the end, the wizard/shadowhunter world within our own. Werewolves
2. Twilight: 'vampires'/vampires, werewolves, teen girl in love with random scary hot guy, Obviously trying to be the next twilight.
3. Nine Lives of Chloe King, Felt like almost the exact same concept, replace shadowhunters with werecats. Asian guy with Simon, and Clary with Chloe king.
4. Doctor who: the portal is the tardis, able to take you anywhere, the sonic screwdriver/tattoo stick, and the inter dimensional riff raff. plus, there's a Christmas episode at the end.
5. Beautiful Creatures: Again, both had attractive female lead, both were coming of age, both in underground society, mothers were hiding a lot.
6. True Blood, Vampires, Werewolves, girl getting brought in by handsome bad boy.
7. Star wars: Jedi order was the shadowhunters, Valentine's side were the sith. Jayce was Luke, Clary was Leia, they still wanna do it....Simon's Han?
Final Verdict: 63
Fun movie but felt way too generic to be anything amazing.
so there's that, now off to get food, WORLD'S END TOMORROW!
That's like Muggles....yeah it's derogatory...and I'm just gonna say that today's review will be littered with references to a whole bunch of other movies and series, and an ABC family show...Anyway, I'll continue on to the review!
MOVIE REVIEW: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones
Pros:
I surprisingly liked this movie, it's no Oscar winner but it was a fun movie.
I loved the Runes. I've always loved that kind of Alchemic type Rune system. and I feel like this movie did a pretty cool job of depicting runes. tho they can do anything with the runes it seems. so it can be taken to completely unrealistic heights. they need to have an obvious limit, like have a lot more recoil back on the caster. but whatever, runes are damn cool. and I always like the Celtic inspired tattoos.
Tattoos are cool
Lily Collins was good as Clary. had more personality than that one girl from Speak in that one movie with the walking Disco balls.
Jamie Campbell bower was exactly as I saw him when i was reading the book. (I read about 200 episodes of the book, so not all of it.) and he was easily the best character in the movie. I liked his sarcastic little comments and that kind of stuff.
The Effects were decent, some of the Rune and spells were very neat and cool to watch. I loved the 'stop time' spell, even though it was a wasted opportunity.
The action was decent, mostly the Vampire fight. I'm not kidding, vampires, again.
Cons:
Why do these teen girl adventure films insist on adding every random creature that's big. there are Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, shadowhunters. and a reference to Zombies. Is it too hard to limit it to just shadowhunters and demons? do you really need vampires and werewolves? I know twilight was huge but do we really need to keep beating the dead horse?
the actor that played Magnus needs a few lessons, he looked good but he isn't much of an actor.
There's a kind of issue with Simon being able to see the Wizarding world, err shadow world. Jayce does a rune so Simon can see him but can then why can Simon see all of the shadow world randomly? did someone Rune him? and How the living hell can Clary not see he loves her?
and i thought Simon was a little Asian guy?..oh, wrong series
the last half hour was extremely predictable. I was literally calling out what would happen minutes before it happened. that's happened before, last time I did that some dude had a Pen sword and his dad was Poseidon...hmmm.....
Comparisons:
I'm gonna name a series and list off how Mortal Instruments seems to steal from it. I understand some of these are just coincidences, but let's face it, this is the newest movie and most people don't care its a book first
1. Harry Potter: Muggle/mundanes, unlimited Spells/runes that they can use, voldemort/valentine showing up at the end, the wizard/shadowhunter world within our own. Werewolves
2. Twilight: 'vampires'/vampires, werewolves, teen girl in love with random scary hot guy, Obviously trying to be the next twilight.
3. Nine Lives of Chloe King, Felt like almost the exact same concept, replace shadowhunters with werecats. Asian guy with Simon, and Clary with Chloe king.
4. Doctor who: the portal is the tardis, able to take you anywhere, the sonic screwdriver/tattoo stick, and the inter dimensional riff raff. plus, there's a Christmas episode at the end.
5. Beautiful Creatures: Again, both had attractive female lead, both were coming of age, both in underground society, mothers were hiding a lot.
6. True Blood, Vampires, Werewolves, girl getting brought in by handsome bad boy.
7. Star wars: Jedi order was the shadowhunters, Valentine's side were the sith. Jayce was Luke, Clary was Leia, they still wanna do it....Simon's Han?
Final Verdict: 63
Fun movie but felt way too generic to be anything amazing.
so there's that, now off to get food, WORLD'S END TOMORROW!
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