I officially cannot be given crap for not posting here, because, well. I just can’t. Instead of writing a few long reviews, I’ll write a billion shorter ones, starting with a few weeks ago. Here are the reviews of all the movies without sequels. I am keeping them short and assuming you have seen them as well, that just how I want to write these.
Wall-E
I liked it, but it was over hyped just a bit too much by people saying its one of the best movies of the summer/ever. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it. It was cute, and the story was well written. I have never been a fan of movies with hard core moral messages in them, but somehow the whole save the earth kind of thing managed to work, but could have been slightly more subtle. You can take the last statement as sarcasm or not, it works either way. 4 out of 5.
The Savages
So so so depressing. Depressing but good, it only made me want to kill myself a little. The ending was happy however, so there was that to look forward to. The story was slow but that worked well for the topic of dementia and old people. It had some very funny and heartwarming moments which lifted the mood when it was most needed. I liked it a lot, but I am not sure if it will be very memorable. 3.5 out of 5.
In Bruges
I love Collin Farrel. I was expecting a fast paced comedy when I picked this up, but that was not the case. It was very still funny, but in the darkest of ways. The plot has good turns but ends similar to Hamlet, this was not a good choice of movie to see right after The Savages. Overall I liked it, but I was thrown the whole time because of it being so different than what I was expecting. 3.5 out of 5.
Vertigo
This movie is on the AFI top 100 for a reason. It’s good. I think I must have confused this with another Alfred Hitchcock film, because it was slower than I anticipated, but it was well worth it. The story is very original, and something I have never seen done since so kudos to that. It’s defiantly not my favorite Hitchcock film, but it is still amazing. 4 out of 5.
Down With Love
OMG. Cute. Two of my favorite actors playing parts practically written for them personally. This is a romantic comedy that is made funny by the fact that it makes fun of itself the entire time. Everything is just one step over the top, but played off like it was supposed to be that way. I love it. I have a real review of this to post, so that will come soon. 4 out of 5, and that’s good for a chick flick.
7.11.2008
7.03.2008
Wanted
Three of my top five favorite movies of all time are The Matrix, Kill Bill, and Lucky Number Slevin. Take these movies and add together their most relevant plots, effects, characters, and meanings. Then add Star Wars and Shoot Em Up. The result will be Wanted. I was so completely blown away by this movie. Perhaps there is nothing really original or ground breaking about this film, but somehow it managed to take everything I love about movies and put them together into one.
Let’s see, where to begin. Angelina Jolie has finally crawled out of her pit (Pun SO intended) and rejoined the forces of American filmmaking, and done so beautifully. Her along with what’s-his-name-I’ve-never-heard-of playing the lead guy (James McAvoy (fine I have heard of him, he is just not that noticeable to me yet (but is now))) make the movie worth seeing in itself. That’s a lie, Morgan Freeman helped, a lot. I love good acting, and damn can these people do it. The characters in this film are easy to understand in the few seconds you have to meet each of them. They make their case for who they are and what they do, and then you suddenly find your self rooting for them when you haven’t even comprehended the last guy you met.
This movie is epic. This movie stole the epic feeling that was missing from Indiana Jones 4, and added to the epic feeling from Iron Man. Explain “epic feeling” you ask? It’s the feeling that you get after seeing non stop action for two hours that makes you want to kick someone’s ass for looking at you funny and drive your car 60 MPH in the parking lot. This movie is like adrenaline that was injected during the best line up of previews I have seen in a long time and lasted until the very end. As soon as you feel like the movie is about to rest the main character gets punched in the face again. Gun fights, knife fights, car chases, train chases, cars jumping over trains, cars jumping into trains, trains falling down deep ravines… ok well, you get the point. It’s non stop, it’s epic.
But for just a little criticism, it’s constructive, I swear. If you don’t like movies that use ideas ‘borrowed’ (I use that term loosely) from other movies you will probably hate this. The plot itself was nothing I had seen before, but like I said earlier everything else seemed to have been used before in other (awesome) movies. Again, I don’t think this is bad. The main character had to go through a life transforming journey to learn how to control his “panic attacks” to become super human and bend bullets. Add a pretty sweet twist at the end, well… Well, I don’t want to dislike this movie. I feel torn. I loved it. But the entire time I just kept noticing other movies during all the action and it got a little distracting. Perhaps this is my expensive schooling finally getting to me when I watch movies, or maybe the references were supposed to be that noticeable. I am not entirely sure. I still loved.
GO SEE THIS MOVIE. But go see this movie because I told you to, not because deep down you already wanted to. (HA, more pun intended). Four and half out of five stars, nine out of ten, 3.75 out of 4, etc. I had such a good time.
Let’s see, where to begin. Angelina Jolie has finally crawled out of her pit (Pun SO intended) and rejoined the forces of American filmmaking, and done so beautifully. Her along with what’s-his-name-I’ve-never-heard-of playing the lead guy (James McAvoy (fine I have heard of him, he is just not that noticeable to me yet (but is now))) make the movie worth seeing in itself. That’s a lie, Morgan Freeman helped, a lot. I love good acting, and damn can these people do it. The characters in this film are easy to understand in the few seconds you have to meet each of them. They make their case for who they are and what they do, and then you suddenly find your self rooting for them when you haven’t even comprehended the last guy you met.
This movie is epic. This movie stole the epic feeling that was missing from Indiana Jones 4, and added to the epic feeling from Iron Man. Explain “epic feeling” you ask? It’s the feeling that you get after seeing non stop action for two hours that makes you want to kick someone’s ass for looking at you funny and drive your car 60 MPH in the parking lot. This movie is like adrenaline that was injected during the best line up of previews I have seen in a long time and lasted until the very end. As soon as you feel like the movie is about to rest the main character gets punched in the face again. Gun fights, knife fights, car chases, train chases, cars jumping over trains, cars jumping into trains, trains falling down deep ravines… ok well, you get the point. It’s non stop, it’s epic.
But for just a little criticism, it’s constructive, I swear. If you don’t like movies that use ideas ‘borrowed’ (I use that term loosely) from other movies you will probably hate this. The plot itself was nothing I had seen before, but like I said earlier everything else seemed to have been used before in other (awesome) movies. Again, I don’t think this is bad. The main character had to go through a life transforming journey to learn how to control his “panic attacks” to become super human and bend bullets. Add a pretty sweet twist at the end, well… Well, I don’t want to dislike this movie. I feel torn. I loved it. But the entire time I just kept noticing other movies during all the action and it got a little distracting. Perhaps this is my expensive schooling finally getting to me when I watch movies, or maybe the references were supposed to be that noticeable. I am not entirely sure. I still loved.
GO SEE THIS MOVIE. But go see this movie because I told you to, not because deep down you already wanted to. (HA, more pun intended). Four and half out of five stars, nine out of ten, 3.75 out of 4, etc. I had such a good time.
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