The Frighteners
definatly a Peter Jackson - Zemeckis Co-up.
It blends with the childfriendly persons and tone of Zemeckis with Peter jackson twisting scary atmopshere and dark humor. It works a bit, but it isn't a masterpiece.
3,5/5
X-Men
Interesting, not bad but not unbelievable.
3,5/5
X2
Now that we have estableshed the characters in the previous film, we can get into The X-Men
The movie really got me hooked on some characters (Not Wolverine though). It's another great example how sociaty reacts on stuff that is differant, Magneto feels sorta that way when he was in the Nazi death camps. I would love to see a decent origins film out of that.
For the rest the movie was differant and is the best X-men movie to date.
4/5
X Men: The Last Stand
Why a differant director I don't know, it was decent, although some holes in places but a good enough ending of a trilogy.
3/5
Ben X
Last time I was really moved by a film like this was "Dancer In The Dark", wich is my all time favorite movie. Ben X is about a teenage boy called Ben who is authistic, wich in results in him being picked on in school for being differant than the other students, it sounds like a sad already been done before movie, but this one is really realistic. I know what it's like being picked on for being a bit differant, and the character Ben truly showed what he was going trough, and I recognized those feelings of being picked on. I could understand what he was going trough, if you are never picked on you can't understand Ben.
Ben also is lost himself in an online computer game where he can be someone, I also can relate to that, I remember feeling like nothing until I found this Brickfilm online community where I could feel like being part of something great, being importent and recognized for something your good that while people just look trough you. This film definatly enters as one of my all time favorites.
If you can get emotionally into a movie, you'll cry like a baby at the end.
5/5
-Darkman