Tag: movies

Fantastic Four 2 of 5 stars. Action with no action. Should’ve stayed in the 60s mileaux. Although Jessica Alba is hot.
Dark Water 2 of 5 stars. Boring. Not scary and the story is predictable.
Wedding Crashers 3 of 5 stars. Funny, but thinking it over it is just not that great.

Tom Cruise is a good actor. The Steven Spielberg’s version War of the Worlds not so good.

I wondered why make a remake anyway when it is so like the 1950s version.

I hated the fact that what was added to the story was the father healing his family and saving his imperiled children. It did not help that Dakota Fanning was one of the kids in danger. Everytime she was threatened I was rooting for the aliens.

Same lame virus ending.

2 of 5 stars.

Oh, yeah, I forgot. I saw Lords of Dogtown last week also. Shows how memorable the movie was.

Watching it I kept waiting for one of the skaters to pop a backside kick flip 360. Alas, they were still sidewalk surfing. I loved the pool scenes. Jay Adams must be one fucked up dude. The actors were second rate.

3 of 5 stars. It made me want to skate.

That title should properly be George A> Romero’s Land of the Dead. Yes a new movie from the zombie master himself. And to distinguish this one from the other copy cats, the zombies return to their slow ways. If you ask me that is more scarier.

“Look a zombie!”

(minutes pass)

“Raarrr”

I don’t understand the appeal of zombies. Are they scary? If they’re as slow as Romero’s version. I think I can run away from them and I do a 5.5 forty! The movie was alright, but nothing special.

How come we have to have a zombie revival everytime some nut Republican is in the White House? Is it because we are all mindless scum to have put them in power?

3 of 5 stars.

I was first in line for Herbie: Fully Loaded, because I am a fan of Lindsay Lohan. And that goes way back to when she did The Parent Trap and Life Size. She’s a much better actor than the other teen divas her age. She also so over.

As much as I wanted to love Herbie, it was a terrible movie. It got good reviews in the NY Times an Baltimore Sun, but I think those were written by people who brought their kids.

NASCAR ruined Herbie. I just could not believe that a VW bug can compete in that race. Plus the wacked out hijinks of Herbie do not make sense in a race that goes around in circles. Climbing up buildings or flying through the air is perfect in a rally race. Wall riding the fence at a NASCAR race not so much. Lame. Damn you NASCAR why did you kill the soul of Herbie.

Lindsay was okay in it. Catch it for that, but don’t think too much of it.

2 of 5 stars.

I was never a big Batman reader when I was actively reading comics. Perhaps, it was because I was a Marvel guy and always thought of DC Comics as the home of the SuperFriends cheese. I never even read Crisis on Infinite Earths until the late 90s.

Well, I caught Batman Begins last Wednesday. Let me tell you, I don’t even know what issue was this story line from. It certainly is from the post Frank Miller/Dark Knight Batman. Was this Detective Comics? Or Batman proper? Or maybe it is Year One? Am I getting this right you Batman fans?

Anyway, I liked the movie. Less campy than Tim Burton’s version. More dark and realistic which gave it a different tone.

Problems occured when the action was filmed too close. I could not understand what was going on. Also, Katie Holmes should stick with being Dawson’s girlfriend. She was too light and unserious for this film.

3 of 5 stars.

Let me just say right off the bat, the reason you should see this is (if you’re male or as a female into this type of thing) that Angelina Jolie is real hot in this. For me, I never really found her hot. I mean she is very smoking, but she was never my type of woman. Plus, the weirdness with her brother and being Billy Bob Thorton’s ex was a turn off. Except seeing her in this. She was hot. I think it was the fact that her cover was some sort of IT/helpdesk worker. Where are these hotties in x1861? Anyway when she wears office wear, smoking!!

The movie overall was not bad. I am giving it a high rating because 1) Angelina Jolie 2) Doug Liman, the director. I am a fan of Doug Liman. Swingers. Bourne Identity. I definitely noticed his style throughout this flick.

I originally wrote this movie off. The trailers and television commercials seemed to show the entire thing. Married couple with a mediocre marriage are hired to kill each other. The try, they fail, they gang up on those who want them dead, and fall in love all over again. Yes and no. I was pleasantly surprised on where the story went. Taking twists I wasn’t expecting. I like that it challenged my original idea and made me like the story.

4 of 5 stars.

Last weekend was Memorial Day weekend signifying the beginning of summer. And that means the steady ramping up of movie watching. I love the summer movie block buster season. It’s like a whole new sport and every week a different game is on to watch.

First up this summer (not counting Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith) was Madagascar. Boring. I have seen lots of movies and this was the first one that bored me. Not very funny. Story was “ho-hum.” Animation was mediocre. After watching the Incredibles, this movie has sent the CG animated movies back a generation. It was nothing special. I can only recommend the penguin scenes and the monkeys.

2 of 5 stars.

Tonight. I caught The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. It felt awkward to be in a theatre with teenie boppers, and I usually don’t considering I have seen She’s All That and Mean Girls in the theatres, alone in a crowd of very young girls. Why have a movie entitled traveling pants and not have the four protagonists wear them all the time? I expected the girls to have their story told while each one wore the pants. Not so. Early on the eponymous pants were brief in their appearance. Later they started playing a more prominent role, but by then I was disappointed. The movie was a tear jerker. The women and girls in the audience were crying. I was laughing. If I was more girly, I might have found it good. I am too much of a guy to have liked this movie.

2 of 5 stars for making me feel creepy.

I didn’t have a review to Revenge of the Sith so I’m gonna put up the beginning of an email exchange regarding episode 3 that I had with some friends.  It’s just the beginning because we began to diverge.  Lots of thoughts about this movie….

 

 

[BEGIN REVIEW]

 

Yikes.  Was it good or bad?  Two thumbs up?  Two of four stars?  You’ve read a lot into the movie.

 

Yes, I did see it this weekend.  I saw it twice in fact.  I might see a third time (sound sucked in both theatres which didn’t cause it justice).  I’ll give you my ranking first I haven’t thought what I want to say in a review.  Initially, I gave it 3 of 5 stars, but on second viewing 4 of 5 stars.  It got better when expectations dropped, although they were low to begin with.

 

As per items in the movie that bothered me (or not).  Hopefully Wyman, you’ve seen it, but if you haven’t SPOILERS ahead.

 

Lucas is too much in love with technology, CG FX.  My major complaint was that it was a busy movie.  Every scene needed something moving.  Even the slow or close up scenes.  Not one frame was not cluttered by a CG effect. 

 

I did notice how cheezy Darth Vader’s suit looked after all the geegaws of the original trilogy.  It did look 70s.  Yet, it was thoroughly satisfying to see.  In fact, the blockade runner of Senator Organa when we were inside it, it was bright and made me remember the opening scene of episode 4.  I liked the old timey look of the things that had to be done to match continuity of the later episodes.  Very nostalgic. 

 

Yes. The Jedi suck.  They can’t sense the Darth Sidious when he’s in the same city, yet they can sense the death of Jedi the Universe over?!  There are only a few Jedi who can kick ass, but each Sith Lord is match for twenty?!  Can you get any lamer than the Jedi who go to arrest Darth Sidious?  I mean take a swing at the guy why don’t you, although Mace Windu had him if not for that lamer, Annikin.

 

The acting.  Bad.  No one will get an Oscar (TM) for this.  In my mind, it exposed Natalie Portman as not as good an actress we thought her to be.  There were only two who may leave unscathed, Ewan McGregor and Ian McDiarmid (sp?).  I thought Ewan did an admirable job as a young Obi-wan Kenobi.  He evoked manners of the older Ben Kenobi, Sir Alec Guinness, that I saw him growing to be that guy.  The first trilogy was all the Emperors and McDiarmid (sp?) captured it all.  Over the top!  He was chewing scenery left and right that he was brilliant in this.  He was the one actor who embraced the idea that this was a campy movie.  Lucas was too serious, but the emporor sure didn’t play it as such.

 

Overall, the movie was a fitting denouement of the Star Wars cycle.  I was glad to have it end.  What was amazing is that it neatly wrapped up both trilogies.  Was Annakin “the one” to bring order and balance to the force?  It did not look that way at the ending of episode 3, but taken into larger context of all 6.  Yes he was.  He was the one who killed the emperor.  He was the last of the Sith and also last of the old Jedi order.  (Yes. Luke was a Jedi, but one that was self trained).  I liked that the movie neatly segued into the 4th episode.   It was good, but thank god its over.

 

(Man why’d you have me write so much)

 

[END REVIEW]

Don’t have the wherewithal to write a full review so here’s a quick rank.

Sahara. 3 of 5 stars
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. 3 of 5 stars.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. 4 of 5 stars the second time through.
Monster in Law. 3 of 5 stars. Much funnier and better than I thought.