Titan A.E. (2000)

Aliana: This animated space, Sci Fi, comedy is really really cool! Uhhhh............. Darn it!!! I'm getting bloggers block!! :O Okay..... Arrrrrggg!! I'm just going to type random things until I think of something. blaaaa blaaa blaaa Ga'Hooole blee bloo blah blah!!! 42, the answer to life, the universe and everything!!!! :D I like cheese!!! and no I am not crazy! My mom says to leave it at that( if your disappointed, read the blog description). :)

Rory: I got this from Netflix, because it looked like something Aliana would enjoy. Yep, she did! It's made to be appropriate for kids but also tolerable for the adults taking the kids to see it. (I guess this was in the theaters at some point? I don't remember.) It has a lot of famous names doing the voices: Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, Drew Barrymore, John Leguizamo, Ron Perlman, Nathan Lane, and Jeneane Garafalo. Basically the Drej (bad guys made of pure energy) destroy the earth, and a handful of humans (including a small boy) on ships, and one giant ship called the Titan, get away. Skip forward 15 years, the boy, Cale, has grown up- now he's looking for his father- who happened to be the pilot of the Titan. Before he left, Cale's father gave him a ring which makes a map to the Titan show up his hand. Most of the movie is about the quest to find the Titan, which the bad guys are also after too, so they can destroy the human race once and for all. The coolest parts of the movie are seeing the inside of the Titan, which is basically a giant modern ark, and when the Titan is activated- reminiscent of Star Trek's Genesis project.

Reign of Fire (2002)

Aliana: Hi! it's me again! Today I will review Reign of Fire. This movie is about England in the year 2020.... Dragons now rule the earth,and few humans remain. I'm not going to give away the whole plot,my job as a blogger is to write (in this case type) my opinion . Well, it was really good until the ending when our three heroes are fighting in the ruins of London to slay the only male dragon (thus dooming the dragons to extinction) it gets a little corny(for example the lady for some unseen reason got her foot hurt,trust me, it looks cheesy on screen), my mom actually laughed out loud at one point! And I should point out that the movie sort of zipped by without letting you learn the characters names, my mom and I can only recall the name of the main character (Quinn). One positive thing to say is that the dragons looked positively hideous!!! :O

Rory: Aliana has basically said all you need to hear about the plot. It's a strange movie in the way that it's supposed to be a post-apocalyptic action adventure movie, but having dragons as the enemy makes it feel a little fantasy. It is also a strange movie because seeing Matthew McConaughey as a half-crazed, shaved- head military bad ass is just plain unexpected, and perhaps that alone makes his character creepier. Going from this to Ben Stiller's agent in Tropic Thunder could not be more of a jump. Wow, this is the same guy? I guess this makes him a good actor? Well, this is the only different character I've ever seen him play, he's the same guy in all the other movies. By the end he gets likeable and pretty much is the stand out of the whole movie for me, despite his character's death being incredibly comedic. Aliana pointed out to me that the female leads always hurt their foot and need help getting away from the bad guys. So true. They fall down a lot too. Do you hear this directors? Predictable!!!!! BORING! Think of something new next time. Sharon Stone in Solomon;s Mines just popped into my head as the most annoying female lead who can't run or get away without falling, lots of screaming, and probably lots of limping too. I'm never going to be able to take a movie seriously who use this, unless they do it a lot more cleverly, or it's somehow adding immense depth to the character. Aliana was right also about the character development, I don't remember any names in this movie either besides Quinn. In conclusion, I'm not saying it's awful. I enjoyed watching it.