A summary of 2 weeks

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.