Takeaway: I just don't understand how you can put $300 million into a highly speculative project involving a more-or-less wholly new way of making film and then fail to come up with a better name for a key plot point than "unobtainium."
Papa Dragon is ok and makes sense. Unobtainium is not and does not. What scientist is going to discover some new material (presumably some kind of metal ore?) and call it "unobtainium"? If you have to name it, and if you have to name it something that ends in "ium", you're going to give it a descriptive name like "Pandorium" or "Xenium" (from the prefix "Xen" which means outsider or stranger).
And that's only one example of the questionable writing - the dialogue was generally ham-handed and filled with action movie clichés.
I'm not saying it was a bad movie necessarily. I liked it. It was a good action movie. But the writing wasn't very good, and that keeps it from being a great movie in my mind.
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And that's only one example of the questionable writing - the dialogue was generally ham-handed and filled with action movie clichés.
I'm not saying it was a bad movie necessarily. I liked it. It was a good action movie. But the writing wasn't very good, and that keeps it from being a great movie in my mind.
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"I was hoping you'd say that"
"You were? That's kinda creepy..."
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Uhhh, actually, yes you pretty much did.
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