Before I begin yeah I had a very bad day when I wrote this review. I had lost my job, the White Sox Spanked the Red Sox in the playoffs, and my families college homecoming the home team lost...to add to it a girl I was trying to date had told me she just wanted to be my friend. No revision to the rating I'm just letting you know that it had been a really bad day when I wrote this one and it reflected in my work.
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Fever Pitch
First off I saw the previews and it caught my interest a little. Being a Red Sox fan espicially. Thus me and mi familia rented it and well it was charming.
Drew Berriemore plays a big time excutive and Jimmy Fallin plays a school teacher. They meet when Fallin brings a groups of students to observe someone who has put their know how of mathamatics to good use and have become successful. From their it is an interesting serious of events as a relationship between the two unfolds. Then she learns Fallin's little secret. He is a Red Sox fan. A die hard Sox fan in fact. He has Season Tickets that allow him to go see them from some of the best seats in the house. Seats that you must inherit to own. They are that valueable. This starts out okay as Berriemores character becomes more and more intersted in the Red Sox world. Then she starts falling behind at work. As things start to spiral downward Fallin decides for the first time in Eleven years he is going to miss a game. This happens to be the game were the sox came back and scored 8 runs in the ninth inning beating the evil Yankees 8-7. Berriemores character leaves him and he realizes just how much he cares for her.
The sceenwriting is very good, but does have it hokey moments. Still some of the lines in it are perfect. "By days end he had become one of the most pathetic beings in existance: A Red Sox fan." It has a great deal of charm and character to it and creates a perfect combination of Baseball for the guys and romance for the ladies.
The directing style is decent and also adds it flair to it, but still is not the greatest in the world. Nuff said there
The former Mrs. Tom Green as always adds her flair of humor and good acting and unlike Fallins first movie Taxi he also hits the nail on the head. The side characters also create a humorous atmosphere.
I highly recomend renting Fever Pitch and deciding for yourself if you want to own it. I give it *** out of **** . It is a good watch
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
My Completely UnBias Review
I know that we as reviewer should have an unbiased opinion of what we see. This all being said I had a hard time learning how to do that. Serenity was the first big lesson I had in order to force myself to learn how to do this. Then again I gave it two different rating and I still stand by them.
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Serenity
Okay the movie that I have been going on in my blogs about for a very very very very very very long time came out and I just got home from seeing it. Serenity. I am about to give as unbias review as I can, but keep in mind I loved the show, Firefly, so this is going to be tough. The movie starts six months after the last episode of Firefly, and you can quickly pick up that it is still the same story. In the movie Captain Malcom Reynolds...huuuum wonder were I got that name for myspace...is leading his band of smuglers and outlaws through space. What he soon realizes is that the sister of the ships docter is more than she seems, aside from the fact that she is a little crazy and a psychic. She is a living weapon. Now Mal and his crew must try and both protect River, the docs sister, from the Alliance and the canabalistic Reavers. "This should be interesting" "Interesting how" "My god my god we're all going too die"
The writing and directing in this movie is perfect and pure Joss Weadon. He directed the TV show and the shows of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. You can tell it is his style right off. The characters are numersous in personalities and all have the humor that is known with Weadon's style. The plot to the film is excellent and the direction shows that. Just how he does the angles, shots, perspectives and fell prove that.
The acting is espcially great. These were all TV acters and they got their shot on the big screen because their show was canceled. The acter who plays Mal is espcially good, and Jayne, another character, adds some of the most humerous lines in the movie. Because I loved the TV show the one major problem I found was that some of my favorite characters had to take the side seat and were not used as much as I wish they were. I also thought that the movie made more sence to me since I saw the show on DVD, however, I believe that a Firefly virgin could walk in and still enjoy the film.
This film is almost completely perfect in my view. The characters are well acted and brought out, the directing shows that Fox is slamming there heads on the table not hiring Weadon to do X-Men 3, and the writing adds a great flavor to the fire of coolness this movie has working off of it. For the first time ever I am going to give a movie to ratings on my four star skale. For the Firefly virgin I give Serentiy *** out ****. For the faithful of the series who watched and loved the series whether during its original run, DVD, or it's rebirth on SciFi channel I give it **** out of ****. This is an awsome picture. Go see it NOW. why are your reading the rest of this go NOW. I SAID GO! It is worth paying the full price and then some. Don't believe me. I might be going to see it again in a week.
42
Yeah this is one that I look at now and think I was half a star too generous. Don't get me wrong I love the movie, and I really love the books. I really and truly do just once again I revise my review so now as opposed to what I said before *** out of ****
Monday, September 19, 2005
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxie
Yes I did not get to see this in theaters. I was pissed about that then and I am pissed about it now. First it is good. WIth only a few slight changes from the book it is very good. So lets begin.
Arther Dent does not know it, but the world is about to end. He being like all humans and thinking that he is a member of the smartest speices on the planet thinks he has life figured out. In reality humans are the third smartest and the second smartest, Dolphins have known a long time that the world was going to end and have tried to worn we stupid humans. That of course turned out to be futile so they all left. Arther is saved by his best friend who hitches a ride on a space ship taking him along for the ride and on an advernture that will lead to what might be the ultimate answer to the universe. (Its 42 by the way the answer)
The directing in the movie was awsome. IT is not one dimensional leading to ultimate camera angles and a very alaberate look to it. It gives it a very brilliant creative look to it in fact, almost as if you were seeing the book in your head.
The writing is of course very brilliant. Douglas Adams wrote most of it before he died of a heart attack, so any changes to the book were ones he chose to do. It is extremely imaginative and funny.
The acting is what shines above all. Most of the actors are nearly unknown. Several of them I have seen in movies before and was impressed with there work then. They in fact are what bring out much of the comedic elements. Espicially the voice actor for Marvin the robot. Marvin, I almost forgot about Marvin. Brilliant. That was a part of the book I feared would be lost and done incorrectly, instead he steals the show in many of his scenes. Then again could anything be more funny than a manic depressent robot? I think not.
All and all this is a very good movie. Buy, not rent, buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is one of those movies that does not have to be watched before hand to know whether or not you'll enjoy it. I give this movie ***+ out of ****. BUY IT!
Monday, September 19, 2005
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxie
Yes I did not get to see this in theaters. I was pissed about that then and I am pissed about it now. First it is good. WIth only a few slight changes from the book it is very good. So lets begin.
Arther Dent does not know it, but the world is about to end. He being like all humans and thinking that he is a member of the smartest speices on the planet thinks he has life figured out. In reality humans are the third smartest and the second smartest, Dolphins have known a long time that the world was going to end and have tried to worn we stupid humans. That of course turned out to be futile so they all left. Arther is saved by his best friend who hitches a ride on a space ship taking him along for the ride and on an advernture that will lead to what might be the ultimate answer to the universe. (Its 42 by the way the answer)
The directing in the movie was awsome. IT is not one dimensional leading to ultimate camera angles and a very alaberate look to it. It gives it a very brilliant creative look to it in fact, almost as if you were seeing the book in your head.
The writing is of course very brilliant. Douglas Adams wrote most of it before he died of a heart attack, so any changes to the book were ones he chose to do. It is extremely imaginative and funny.
The acting is what shines above all. Most of the actors are nearly unknown. Several of them I have seen in movies before and was impressed with there work then. They in fact are what bring out much of the comedic elements. Espicially the voice actor for Marvin the robot. Marvin, I almost forgot about Marvin. Brilliant. That was a part of the book I feared would be lost and done incorrectly, instead he steals the show in many of his scenes. Then again could anything be more funny than a manic depressent robot? I think not.
All and all this is a very good movie. Buy, not rent, buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is one of those movies that does not have to be watched before hand to know whether or not you'll enjoy it. I give this movie ***+ out of ****. BUY IT!
When I started finding my groove and a revision
Yeah, about this point I found the format for reviewing that I wanted to do. It would be a thing I tried to follow for the next few years to come. This review is as you can see for Red Eye and I have one little change to make. While I still give it *** out of **** I will say that I find it even more enjoyable now and a better movie...just not enough to give it a star or half a star boost. Okay thats it enjoy
Monday, August 29, 2005
Truley I am a movie nut. So on friday I was going to go to a concert. Unfortunatley for me I got the wrong day and missed it. Really got to look a bullitens a lot more carefully...Anyway, becaue of my mistake and being hyped up about doing something on my mundain and boring night off I decided to go see a movie. Being a Wes Craven Fan I went to see Red Eye. Thus now I must review it.
The synopsis is Rachel McAdams is Lisa, a Hotel Manager catching a flight home from her grandmothers funeral. When she meets the charming Jack Rippner (Jack the Ripper reference inserted here). Jack is one of those guys you cannot help but like. He stands up for a poor flight attendent how is trying to calm down a man complaining about the Delay in the flight. He buy's Rachel a Bay Breeze at the bar. He even helps a both Rachel and another lady with there bags. He is a just a nice guy. Charming even. So was Tom Cruise's Character Vinncent in Collateral. And just like Vinncent, Jack is a sociopath. This is made obviouse when he tells Rachel what he does. Assinations and Esponage. Rachel realizes he's telling the truth but thinks he's still one of the good guys. CIA, military, you know that kind. He's not and proves it when he terrorizes Rachel by telling her that if she does not move the new Homeland Security to a differnt room so that he may more easily have him kill. If she doesn't do this, her father will be killed. What follows is an edge of your seat
thriller that has nothing but great excitment.
Now those of us who have watched some of Wes Cravens more recent movies (cough) CURSED, know that he has not been up to the Standards from Last House on The Left and The first Nightmare on Elm Street. This movie which shy's away from the horror and moves toward the relm of thriller is exactly what he needed. The directing in it is spectacular. The flow of the pace and the leave with very few slow points and keeps you attention all the way through.
The Screenwriting, though hokey sometimes, is excelent. McAdams is a heroine that you can root for and Cilliam Murphy (playing Jack Rippner) is a villlian that you can't help but both like and hate. They're performances are well worth noting and look for them to go further in they're career.
There are some down points. parts of the ending just didn't feel right. Though few and far between there are slow points. And there is a backstory to Lisa that I wish they had gone into a little bit more. In fact, a lot more. This however would not really phase the normal, movie goer.
All and all this is a very good movie. With great Directing and Acting and a decent script this is worth spending the 6.50 for. I highly reccomend that you go see this at least once in theatres. I give it *** out of ****. Go see it. It is gooooooooooood.
Monday, August 29, 2005
Truley I am a movie nut. So on friday I was going to go to a concert. Unfortunatley for me I got the wrong day and missed it. Really got to look a bullitens a lot more carefully...Anyway, becaue of my mistake and being hyped up about doing something on my mundain and boring night off I decided to go see a movie. Being a Wes Craven Fan I went to see Red Eye. Thus now I must review it.
The synopsis is Rachel McAdams is Lisa, a Hotel Manager catching a flight home from her grandmothers funeral. When she meets the charming Jack Rippner (Jack the Ripper reference inserted here). Jack is one of those guys you cannot help but like. He stands up for a poor flight attendent how is trying to calm down a man complaining about the Delay in the flight. He buy's Rachel a Bay Breeze at the bar. He even helps a both Rachel and another lady with there bags. He is a just a nice guy. Charming even. So was Tom Cruise's Character Vinncent in Collateral. And just like Vinncent, Jack is a sociopath. This is made obviouse when he tells Rachel what he does. Assinations and Esponage. Rachel realizes he's telling the truth but thinks he's still one of the good guys. CIA, military, you know that kind. He's not and proves it when he terrorizes Rachel by telling her that if she does not move the new Homeland Security to a differnt room so that he may more easily have him kill. If she doesn't do this, her father will be killed. What follows is an edge of your seat
thriller that has nothing but great excitment.
Now those of us who have watched some of Wes Cravens more recent movies (cough) CURSED, know that he has not been up to the Standards from Last House on The Left and The first Nightmare on Elm Street. This movie which shy's away from the horror and moves toward the relm of thriller is exactly what he needed. The directing in it is spectacular. The flow of the pace and the leave with very few slow points and keeps you attention all the way through.
The Screenwriting, though hokey sometimes, is excelent. McAdams is a heroine that you can root for and Cilliam Murphy (playing Jack Rippner) is a villlian that you can't help but both like and hate. They're performances are well worth noting and look for them to go further in they're career.
There are some down points. parts of the ending just didn't feel right. Though few and far between there are slow points. And there is a backstory to Lisa that I wish they had gone into a little bit more. In fact, a lot more. This however would not really phase the normal, movie goer.
All and all this is a very good movie. With great Directing and Acting and a decent script this is worth spending the 6.50 for. I highly reccomend that you go see this at least once in theatres. I give it *** out of ****. Go see it. It is gooooooooooood.
My FIrst Negative Review
I really don't need to say much more on this one.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
THE DUKES OF HAZARD
Growing up I love the TV show and highly enjoyed the charm and the comedy of it. Even after reading about 30 bad reviews in a row I still had some hopes that it would be a fun movie. Boy, did I get a pretty big disappiontment.
To start out with, the charm of the original series was not there. It was completely gone. It was instead replaced by oh not too subtle sexual inuendows, in fact it was not Subtle at all. Sean William Scott who played Bo yells at Johny Knoxville who played Luke "Luke Duke! You man whore!" when one of Lukes girlfriends goes chasing after them with a shotgun at the end.(I did laugh there) Don't get me wrong. I put them in my own screenplays, but it was not at all appropriate for a movie that parents who grew up with the series would drag their kids to see. The amount of drug use also stole away from the original series charm. Once again I have no problem with Drug or Alchohol use in movies, and the sale of moonshine did stay true to the original show, but the amount of weed that almost the entire Duke family consumed in the movie was pathetic. They through it in there for the cheap laugh.
The acting was not too bad. I am a Johnney Knoxville fan and was happy to see him put up a pretty good performance. Sean William Scott did an okay job as well. Surprisingly enough, and no it is not becasue she weres a bikini, Jessica Simpson is the one who stole the film and did a better job than any of them playing the part of Daisey Duke and still staying pretty true to the character of the original show. Burt Reynolds on the other hand did not do such a good job. Normally I like his work, but when it comes down to it he is no Boss Hogg. Willie Nelson, in my view, should stick with singing and never act again. If you actually do want to see a decent movie with him in it and him not doing a bad job, I recomend you pick up a Western called the Red Headed Stranger.
The plot is as follows. Boss Hogg plans on turning Hazard County into a strip mine. To keep people from coming to the town meeting to object to that plan, he scheduales the meeting around the Hazard Coutny Race. Bo and Luke find out the plan and go through rediculous measures to keep it from happening. Basically a petty attempt to emulate what would be a plot for the original show and they really don't do a great job at it. In fact they really do a sucky job at it.
There are good points to the movie. One of the parts were I actually laughed a little and the charm of the original show let its head be shown was when the Duke Boys tried to open a safe by dragging it behind a tow truck. The narator simply says "I would not want to be that safe about now." Bo even drags Luke who is hanging on to the safe at one point around with Luke shouting "No Bo! No!" Bo lying and saying "I thought you said 'Go Bo! Go!'" To add to it the car chases are excellent and are rather enjoyable, and seeing Jessica Simpson in a bikini is never a bad thing to see.
To sum it all up it really does lack the charm of the original show and is not really something I would take a young kid to see (PG 13 actually does mean 13 on this one). The plot is pathetic, but the acting from Knoxville and Simpson do shine out. There are fun and even moments that do reflect the shows original charm, but not enough for me to recommend paying 6.50 to see. If you have to see it on the big screen wait for the dollar theater. If you just want to see it rent it. I give it ** stars out of ****
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
THE DUKES OF HAZARD
Growing up I love the TV show and highly enjoyed the charm and the comedy of it. Even after reading about 30 bad reviews in a row I still had some hopes that it would be a fun movie. Boy, did I get a pretty big disappiontment.
To start out with, the charm of the original series was not there. It was completely gone. It was instead replaced by oh not too subtle sexual inuendows, in fact it was not Subtle at all. Sean William Scott who played Bo yells at Johny Knoxville who played Luke "Luke Duke! You man whore!" when one of Lukes girlfriends goes chasing after them with a shotgun at the end.(I did laugh there) Don't get me wrong. I put them in my own screenplays, but it was not at all appropriate for a movie that parents who grew up with the series would drag their kids to see. The amount of drug use also stole away from the original series charm. Once again I have no problem with Drug or Alchohol use in movies, and the sale of moonshine did stay true to the original show, but the amount of weed that almost the entire Duke family consumed in the movie was pathetic. They through it in there for the cheap laugh.
The acting was not too bad. I am a Johnney Knoxville fan and was happy to see him put up a pretty good performance. Sean William Scott did an okay job as well. Surprisingly enough, and no it is not becasue she weres a bikini, Jessica Simpson is the one who stole the film and did a better job than any of them playing the part of Daisey Duke and still staying pretty true to the character of the original show. Burt Reynolds on the other hand did not do such a good job. Normally I like his work, but when it comes down to it he is no Boss Hogg. Willie Nelson, in my view, should stick with singing and never act again. If you actually do want to see a decent movie with him in it and him not doing a bad job, I recomend you pick up a Western called the Red Headed Stranger.
The plot is as follows. Boss Hogg plans on turning Hazard County into a strip mine. To keep people from coming to the town meeting to object to that plan, he scheduales the meeting around the Hazard Coutny Race. Bo and Luke find out the plan and go through rediculous measures to keep it from happening. Basically a petty attempt to emulate what would be a plot for the original show and they really don't do a great job at it. In fact they really do a sucky job at it.
There are good points to the movie. One of the parts were I actually laughed a little and the charm of the original show let its head be shown was when the Duke Boys tried to open a safe by dragging it behind a tow truck. The narator simply says "I would not want to be that safe about now." Bo even drags Luke who is hanging on to the safe at one point around with Luke shouting "No Bo! No!" Bo lying and saying "I thought you said 'Go Bo! Go!'" To add to it the car chases are excellent and are rather enjoyable, and seeing Jessica Simpson in a bikini is never a bad thing to see.
To sum it all up it really does lack the charm of the original show and is not really something I would take a young kid to see (PG 13 actually does mean 13 on this one). The plot is pathetic, but the acting from Knoxville and Simpson do shine out. There are fun and even moments that do reflect the shows original charm, but not enough for me to recommend paying 6.50 to see. If you have to see it on the big screen wait for the dollar theater. If you just want to see it rent it. I give it ** stars out of ****
A REVIEW I STILL STAND BY
This will get me a lot of flack and a loss of views for saying this, but here goes. I still stand by a lot of what I said in this review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I really do believe it is a great movie and a more true adaptation of the book than the original. All of this being said I do prefer the original movie. I do give it a few negative jabs but i will say I was caught up in the hype of the time with it.
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Saturday, July 16, 2005
So last night made a trip to Dairy Dream, and then went and picked up my ticket for Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. To start this review off Tim Burton does it again. The movie has the dark bleached feeling to it combined with bright and vibrant colors. The scenes flow very well and there is hardly a dull moment. Key word hardley. There are a few, several in which you are wondering when will this pick up. Though these as I mentioned before are few and far between. The writing is very well done and stays much closer to the book than the original movie ever did. There are changes and modernizations to it, but they add a certain charm to it. In short Ruld Dold would be very proud. Johnney Depp is the perfect Wonka. His habbit of picking up bizzare rolls served him very well in this sense. He portrays the perfect sense of Humor and Darkness that appears in almost all Burton films. Christopher Lee also has an appearence in the film as Willey Wonka's father. This adds to the humor as you find out that the chocolate master came from a family of Dentists. Though not in the book it does add more humor to the film. And now the Umpa Lumpas. How could I not right a review on this film without them. They are the greatest source, next to Depp, of humor. Very Dark and Very Dry Humor. They sing in this movie as well as the original, but they more closely resemble the ballads found in the book. Burton has a winner in this one and from the previews I look foward to seeing his next movie that greatly reminds me of the Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride. I give Charlie and The Chocolate factory a *** out of ****. Highly recomend going to see it.
Back to a smaller format
This is when I tried the shorter format per movie after I did the massive reviews. This one isn't that bad, but It is a long way away from where I am now.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Last of the Mohicans review
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Last of the Mohicans review
Yes it's hardly new. Yes it was made back in 1992, but you must remeber I am the guy who will review any movie made, whether it was made Today or in yesteryears. This was on Encore today so I decided to watch it. It is one of those movies that you forget is good until you watch it again, then you remember just how good it is.
The movie is during the French-Indian War and revolves mainly around the Character played by Daniel Day Lewis (who by the way is one of the greatest kick ass actors of all time) named Hawkeye and the woman he falls in love with as he and his adopted Father and Brother (The Last of the Mohicans) protect her, her sister, and a British Officer while escorting them to her fathers fort. The villian of the movies is name Magua. He is brutal. The pure savagery of the character is perfect. He is the guy who you want to see die. To put it bluntly he make Souron from the Lord of The Rings novels and movies look like a nice guy. Lewis delivers a wonderful role as Hawkeye. He is the perfect balance to Magua. The natural leader and hero. Though his views on the war going on around him were don't bother me i won't bother you, he also has the views of you mess with innocent people and I'll kill you, which he does. The directing and the writing are supperb. Micheal Mann does and excellent job at both. The way the films moves and sounds as well as the quality of the lines cannot be argued. The film moves at an excellent pace even when it seems slow. The action is realistic, so realistic in fact that I wonder what it must have been like to be in a 1700's battle during a war. People dieing around in a a straight line that you yourself must stay in and help maintain. The hand to hand scenes also take on a quality of there own. No one seems to rember that Indians had Martial Arts skills of their own.
This has always been one of my favorite movies and for good reason. It rocks. With wonderful action, great directing and writing, and a butt load of truely wonderful sequences the film earns it's **** out of ****
The movie is during the French-Indian War and revolves mainly around the Character played by Daniel Day Lewis (who by the way is one of the greatest kick ass actors of all time) named Hawkeye and the woman he falls in love with as he and his adopted Father and Brother (The Last of the Mohicans) protect her, her sister, and a British Officer while escorting them to her fathers fort. The villian of the movies is name Magua. He is brutal. The pure savagery of the character is perfect. He is the guy who you want to see die. To put it bluntly he make Souron from the Lord of The Rings novels and movies look like a nice guy. Lewis delivers a wonderful role as Hawkeye. He is the perfect balance to Magua. The natural leader and hero. Though his views on the war going on around him were don't bother me i won't bother you, he also has the views of you mess with innocent people and I'll kill you, which he does. The directing and the writing are supperb. Micheal Mann does and excellent job at both. The way the films moves and sounds as well as the quality of the lines cannot be argued. The film moves at an excellent pace even when it seems slow. The action is realistic, so realistic in fact that I wonder what it must have been like to be in a 1700's battle during a war. People dieing around in a a straight line that you yourself must stay in and help maintain. The hand to hand scenes also take on a quality of there own. No one seems to rember that Indians had Martial Arts skills of their own.
This has always been one of my favorite movies and for good reason. It rocks. With wonderful action, great directing and writing, and a butt load of truely wonderful sequences the film earns it's **** out of ****
Saturday, October 30, 2010
More is Better
So this was new format I tried and decided not to do again. Why? Too much freaking work. This was when myspace, still, was one of the blog sites for we noobs, and well yeah I had to rewrite this one and I think a second attempt just like it much later on all over again. Not easy. So here is my first, and I think only attempt to do this.
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Sunday, July 10, 2005
How ironic is it that I have four reviews and one of them just so happens to be the Fantastic Four. No I didn't plan this it just happened. so lets get started
War of the WorldsOkay so lets get down to it. First movie on the review block is War of the Worlds. First of all wow! This is a kick ass movie. The directing is awsome, but then again what else would you expect from Steven Spielberg? (Okay witht he exception of A.I.) He proves in this that his isanity stage in A.I. is over. (I give that *+ out of ****) The writing is very good, almost nestalgic to the book, the radio show, and the original movie. The FX in are out of this world, to the point of making you believe that the Tri-Pods are real. Yeah thats right CGI looking real. It is that good. Now one of the big parts, the acting. I don't always agree with what Tom Cruise has to say or what he does (okay almost never) but his performances are very rarely bad. This is no exception. He is, once again, awsome. Showing the very good character acting that he always seems to let out in his movies. Dakota Fanning does a great job as well. Her dry dead pan I'm a little girl humor lightens the movie at points when it desperately need lightening. Let's not forget the actor who is in it the least amount of time in Tim Robins. I have only seen to bad Tim Robins movies in my life. One I cannot remeber the name of and the other was Erick the Viking and even in those two he still did a pretty good job. In War he pulls off the part that has made him famouse rather well: the crazy guy. The paranoid insane guy who lost every thing when the aliens attacked and was not about to let them get him.
War of the Worlds is non-stop action and non stop intrigue with very few slow points and very many gernuinely great sequences. It gets ***+ out of ****
Dead Man Walking
This is one that you can pick up in your video store. It stars Sigorney Weaver and Sean Penn. The movie is about a nun who is consuling a man on death row awaiting exicution in the next several days for murder. During the film what seems to me to be a very good look into the death penalty system and the degrading quality that it leaves on people. The films is very dark and not happy at all. The addition of flashback scenes both fictionalized and realistic in Weavers characters mind of what Penn's character has done adds tot he emotion of sorrow and pain that the film portrays. The movie ends with Penn's character confessing his sins to Weaver of what he has done and finding the redemption that he has been seeking. I give it *** out of ****.
The Apostle
What do you get when you have a movie written, directed, and starring Robert Duvall? You get The Apostle, and Indie film that was payed for pretty much completely by Duvall. He plays a minister who discovers his wife has been cheating on him with his assciate pastor, has stolen his church from him, and now wishes to leave him. In a fit of rage and insanity Duvall, who has tried to do the Christian thing and turn away and forgive, slams his associate in the head with a baseball bat. He starts his run from the law and redicates himself by a self batism declaring himself The Apostle. Leaving a mega church to start a small church which in a matter of months grows, saving and helping those that most have turned there backs on, and eventually saving his close friend that has let him stay in his home while he was doing his ministry we see his character greatly evolve. In the scene were the police are leading him away he says to his friend, "Your going to heaven son, your going to heaven and I'm going to jail." We see how he has truely changed. Duvall's directing style is wonderfully done as is his script, a script that he had been wanting to do for years but no one wanted to risk doing it. Paying from his own pocket and making it without the interfearence of any studio is what adds to the creativness and greatness of this movie. This has been around for some time I recommend renting it or catching it on IFC. I give it *** out of ****.
Fantastic Four
Does Fantastic Four get the perfect four stars? Dear sweet Christmas no! This is the most recent of the movies scene by me, last night in fact, and I must say that it is not bad, in fact it is good, but there is no Comparison to the original Superman, the Spiderman movies, the X-Men movies, or Batman begins. Nor is it at the end of the spectrum that Batman and Robin exists, followed by Superman III and IV, or for that matter the atrocity that was Captain America made in the 1990's. It is right there in the Middle with Daredevil, Punisher, and (though I diss this movie to no end it is not as bad as I let on) The Hulk. It was worth paying 6.50 once to see and waiting for it to go to the Dollar Movies or to Video before I see it again. First lets go with the story. It was not that close to the Comic book. To start with the mistakes lets go with Victor Von Doom or Dr. Doom. Doom in the comic books became Dr. Doom before the Fantastic Four were the Fantastic Four. In the movie he became Doom in the Cosmic storm that created the FF. He recieved his powers the same way. In the comic his powers where a combination of Magic and Technology. In a very dry attempt to promote love interestest into the movie, the had Sue Storm (played by Jessica Alba) and Reed Richards (don't ask me his name now...) fall for each other in the movie. In the comic they were already engaged when they went on there mission. Almost completely ignoring the already existing love interest that existed between Alisha and Ben Grim (Micheal Chicklas) aka The Thing that is the more interesting beauty and the beast romance, they simply turned it into a side story. There are upsides to this movie however, it is funny and very amusing at points. The Effects of the film are awsome and the acting by the Members of the Four is not to bad, especially by Chicklas. His emotion is that of what I remeber from the comic book. Alba doesn't do to bad of a job either and the fact that there is a scene were she strips down to her underwear while invisible and then reappears in the middle of a crowd both getting a laugh and giving the fan boys what they want helps out. The directing is not bad either. Not great but still decent. I recommend going to see it only once if your paying 6.50 to see it and waiting to watch it later either at the dollar movies or on dvd. Like I said is it the worst hero movie I have ever scene, no. is it the greatest, deat god in heaven no. It is just good and in the middle. All and all I give it **+ out of ****.
War of the WorldsOkay so lets get down to it. First movie on the review block is War of the Worlds. First of all wow! This is a kick ass movie. The directing is awsome, but then again what else would you expect from Steven Spielberg? (Okay witht he exception of A.I.) He proves in this that his isanity stage in A.I. is over. (I give that *+ out of ****) The writing is very good, almost nestalgic to the book, the radio show, and the original movie. The FX in are out of this world, to the point of making you believe that the Tri-Pods are real. Yeah thats right CGI looking real. It is that good. Now one of the big parts, the acting. I don't always agree with what Tom Cruise has to say or what he does (okay almost never) but his performances are very rarely bad. This is no exception. He is, once again, awsome. Showing the very good character acting that he always seems to let out in his movies. Dakota Fanning does a great job as well. Her dry dead pan I'm a little girl humor lightens the movie at points when it desperately need lightening. Let's not forget the actor who is in it the least amount of time in Tim Robins. I have only seen to bad Tim Robins movies in my life. One I cannot remeber the name of and the other was Erick the Viking and even in those two he still did a pretty good job. In War he pulls off the part that has made him famouse rather well: the crazy guy. The paranoid insane guy who lost every thing when the aliens attacked and was not about to let them get him.
War of the Worlds is non-stop action and non stop intrigue with very few slow points and very many gernuinely great sequences. It gets ***+ out of ****
Dead Man Walking
This is one that you can pick up in your video store. It stars Sigorney Weaver and Sean Penn. The movie is about a nun who is consuling a man on death row awaiting exicution in the next several days for murder. During the film what seems to me to be a very good look into the death penalty system and the degrading quality that it leaves on people. The films is very dark and not happy at all. The addition of flashback scenes both fictionalized and realistic in Weavers characters mind of what Penn's character has done adds tot he emotion of sorrow and pain that the film portrays. The movie ends with Penn's character confessing his sins to Weaver of what he has done and finding the redemption that he has been seeking. I give it *** out of ****.
The Apostle
What do you get when you have a movie written, directed, and starring Robert Duvall? You get The Apostle, and Indie film that was payed for pretty much completely by Duvall. He plays a minister who discovers his wife has been cheating on him with his assciate pastor, has stolen his church from him, and now wishes to leave him. In a fit of rage and insanity Duvall, who has tried to do the Christian thing and turn away and forgive, slams his associate in the head with a baseball bat. He starts his run from the law and redicates himself by a self batism declaring himself The Apostle. Leaving a mega church to start a small church which in a matter of months grows, saving and helping those that most have turned there backs on, and eventually saving his close friend that has let him stay in his home while he was doing his ministry we see his character greatly evolve. In the scene were the police are leading him away he says to his friend, "Your going to heaven son, your going to heaven and I'm going to jail." We see how he has truely changed. Duvall's directing style is wonderfully done as is his script, a script that he had been wanting to do for years but no one wanted to risk doing it. Paying from his own pocket and making it without the interfearence of any studio is what adds to the creativness and greatness of this movie. This has been around for some time I recommend renting it or catching it on IFC. I give it *** out of ****.
Fantastic Four
Does Fantastic Four get the perfect four stars? Dear sweet Christmas no! This is the most recent of the movies scene by me, last night in fact, and I must say that it is not bad, in fact it is good, but there is no Comparison to the original Superman, the Spiderman movies, the X-Men movies, or Batman begins. Nor is it at the end of the spectrum that Batman and Robin exists, followed by Superman III and IV, or for that matter the atrocity that was Captain America made in the 1990's. It is right there in the Middle with Daredevil, Punisher, and (though I diss this movie to no end it is not as bad as I let on) The Hulk. It was worth paying 6.50 once to see and waiting for it to go to the Dollar Movies or to Video before I see it again. First lets go with the story. It was not that close to the Comic book. To start with the mistakes lets go with Victor Von Doom or Dr. Doom. Doom in the comic books became Dr. Doom before the Fantastic Four were the Fantastic Four. In the movie he became Doom in the Cosmic storm that created the FF. He recieved his powers the same way. In the comic his powers where a combination of Magic and Technology. In a very dry attempt to promote love interestest into the movie, the had Sue Storm (played by Jessica Alba) and Reed Richards (don't ask me his name now...) fall for each other in the movie. In the comic they were already engaged when they went on there mission. Almost completely ignoring the already existing love interest that existed between Alisha and Ben Grim (Micheal Chicklas) aka The Thing that is the more interesting beauty and the beast romance, they simply turned it into a side story. There are upsides to this movie however, it is funny and very amusing at points. The Effects of the film are awsome and the acting by the Members of the Four is not to bad, especially by Chicklas. His emotion is that of what I remeber from the comic book. Alba doesn't do to bad of a job either and the fact that there is a scene were she strips down to her underwear while invisible and then reappears in the middle of a crowd both getting a laugh and giving the fan boys what they want helps out. The directing is not bad either. Not great but still decent. I recommend going to see it only once if your paying 6.50 to see it and waiting to watch it later either at the dollar movies or on dvd. Like I said is it the worst hero movie I have ever scene, no. is it the greatest, deat god in heaven no. It is just good and in the middle. All and all I give it **+ out of ****.
My Fourthd Review
Sweet buttery Jesus what was I thinking. At the end of this review I say that this is not better than the Matrix. Yeah...I was a fool then. Don't get me wrong The Matrix is a bad ass movie, but Equalibrium, in my humble opinion, was so much better.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
In the future city of Librium feeling is illeagle. To ensure this is possible Father, the facists leader of Librium, issues promium, a medicine that dispatches all feeling, to be given out to the public. To ensure that this medicine is enforced and that those who have rebelled are brought down The Gramaton Clerics were created. They can sense emotions even before someone might know that they are having them. John Preston is the most highly decorated and highest ranked cleric...and he has beung to feel.
This is the premace for the movie that I have been bringing up time and time again on the blog. Just imagine the martial arts of Kill Bill and the Matrix, the unbelievable ariel movements of The Matrix, and the idea of an opressive criminal system of Minority Report. Yeah that's Equalibrium or in lamens terms Kick Ass. Christian Bale plays John Preston, a dark and brooding anti-hero/hero, (he gets a lot of those doesn't he?) the highest ranked cleric, who after he discovers that his partner is feeling and then kills him, remembers his wife, who was arrested on sense crimes, starts to have emotions of his own. The movie you would think with the Kill Bill/Matrix/Minority Report discription would be action packed. Not as much as you would think. Instead there is a psycological ideal to it as you watch Preston go from Father's Weapon against the resistance to the Champion of the Resistance. Yes there is action and dear god it is pretty. I never knew that guns and martial arts could go together, but they do. Unfortunately it can be slow. So slow that I do not recommend watching it when you are really tired(I dozed off and had to rewind 30 min of the movie, then again I don't sleep that well so...). I recommend being a little awake when you start.
As always Bale does it again. He manages to catch your attention early on and keep it. He makes what was already a medocer movie into a pretty good movie. Taye Diggs is in the movie and makes an excellent villian. Being the self serving and self promoting cleric that wishes to only further his career by catching Preston in the act.
In conclusion the movie is good. very good in fact. It has very beutiful action sequences, martial arts with guns, psycological strong points, and a very good anti hero/hero depending on your perspective. Does it have it's flaws yes. It can be slow, and it can seem a little over done on the stressing of emotion sometimes, in fact maybe one time, and though Diggs makes a good villian, his acting was not the greatest in the world. Is Equalibrium the greatest movie ever? No. Is it the worst movie ever? Dear sweet Christmas NO! It is a very good movie and is very entertaining. If you are into some good action sequences, psycological moments, and a dark story, then this is for you. If your are looking for non stop no plot I like movies that have no plot then step away from the computer slowly. If you are looking for the movie that is better than the Matrix, go see Batman, or rent Pulp Fiction. Though not better than the Matrix, I would say it is damn close to being as good. I highly recomend that you at least give this movie a rental with a **+ out of ****. It is pretty good
This is the premace for the movie that I have been bringing up time and time again on the blog. Just imagine the martial arts of Kill Bill and the Matrix, the unbelievable ariel movements of The Matrix, and the idea of an opressive criminal system of Minority Report. Yeah that's Equalibrium or in lamens terms Kick Ass. Christian Bale plays John Preston, a dark and brooding anti-hero/hero, (he gets a lot of those doesn't he?) the highest ranked cleric, who after he discovers that his partner is feeling and then kills him, remembers his wife, who was arrested on sense crimes, starts to have emotions of his own. The movie you would think with the Kill Bill/Matrix/Minority Report discription would be action packed. Not as much as you would think. Instead there is a psycological ideal to it as you watch Preston go from Father's Weapon against the resistance to the Champion of the Resistance. Yes there is action and dear god it is pretty. I never knew that guns and martial arts could go together, but they do. Unfortunately it can be slow. So slow that I do not recommend watching it when you are really tired(I dozed off and had to rewind 30 min of the movie, then again I don't sleep that well so...). I recommend being a little awake when you start.
As always Bale does it again. He manages to catch your attention early on and keep it. He makes what was already a medocer movie into a pretty good movie. Taye Diggs is in the movie and makes an excellent villian. Being the self serving and self promoting cleric that wishes to only further his career by catching Preston in the act.
In conclusion the movie is good. very good in fact. It has very beutiful action sequences, martial arts with guns, psycological strong points, and a very good anti hero/hero depending on your perspective. Does it have it's flaws yes. It can be slow, and it can seem a little over done on the stressing of emotion sometimes, in fact maybe one time, and though Diggs makes a good villian, his acting was not the greatest in the world. Is Equalibrium the greatest movie ever? No. Is it the worst movie ever? Dear sweet Christmas NO! It is a very good movie and is very entertaining. If you are into some good action sequences, psycological moments, and a dark story, then this is for you. If your are looking for non stop no plot I like movies that have no plot then step away from the computer slowly. If you are looking for the movie that is better than the Matrix, go see Batman, or rent Pulp Fiction. Though not better than the Matrix, I would say it is damn close to being as good. I highly recomend that you at least give this movie a rental with a **+ out of ****. It is pretty good
My third attempt
This was my third attempt to review a movie through my text...I started getting a little better at it and hopefully all three of you who reed my blog will agree
Monday, June 20, 2005
Monday, June 20, 2005
For those of you who have visited my site you know I like Robert Rodreguez. For those of you who have read my blog you know I like Robert Rodreguez and Indie Filmes. What a coincedence Rodreguez's first film was an Indie. Yes El Mariachi.
This is the first of the films in the Mariachi triology, Desparado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico are the other two, and is made up completely of unknown actors. When I say completely I mean it. None of them had ever really appeared in any motion picture. The closes thing any of them came to was appearing in some of Rodreguez's short films. Some had a little acting experience, others like Peter Mardequet (I think that is his name) had none, and it does not show at all. This movie was made for $7,000 and was raised by a combination of Rodreguez allowing medical experiments to be done on him and his short film Bedhead going through the film festival curciut. (Bedhead is on the DVD and is actually very enjoyable and extremely funny) Once again if you think a $7,000 dollar movie would look like crap, you would be wrong. It looks like he spent top dollar on it. The effective lighting, cut away and back film style, and creative Camera angles contribute to this. Did I mention that the entire film was done in almost one take. Yeah that's right, almost every shot was done in one take. Uno. Un. Once. Once again, it does not show. They figured out exactly how to shoot around mistakes through creative means and made a better movie because of it.
Heres a quick plot synopsis. Azul is a very bad man living in prison and making a living with a cellular phone and a few loyal men. His old partner Moco is a sadistic and greedy man and sends his boys to the prion to kill Azul...It doesn't work. Azul leaves the prison and picks up his guitar case full of weapons. When I say weapons I mean a MAC 10, .45 pistols, Sawed of shotgun, and grenades. Yeah he is fully armed. On a highway the mariachi trys to hitch a ride, he doesn't succeed. When he gets to town he is cast aside by every singal bar who claim that the way of the mariachi is dead. Because of his guitar case and the fact that he wears all black, Azul wears nothing but black as well, Moco's men confuse the mariachi for Azul.
This is an exciting movie filled with action, adventure, and romance. It's Rated R for violence, some language, and some sgestive content. I give it *** out of ****. Rent or buy it. It will be worth your money
Friday, October 29, 2010
My Second Review
Second verse same as the first
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Batman...
Current mood: 
amused
Okay as of yesterday I saw Batman Begins and I must say this: It is awsome. Christian Bale is at his best. He is the greatest Batman since Michel Keaton, possibly better. His acting is at a level that I have not seen it at since I saw him in Equalibrium(Haven't written a review on that yet but I will later for now I rank it as **+ out of ****, maybe *** out of **** I'd have to rent it again). He doesn't make me think he would be a good Batman he makes me think that He is Batman. Dear God he did a freaking good job. I have said this about him before but I will say it again American Psycho I thought was one the suckiest horror movies I had ever scene, but I watched because Mr. Bale was just that Good in it. Dark and Brooding Characters are his Speciality. Katie Holmes also did a very good job. Showing her Katie Holmesness throughout the entire film and giving the esscence of what she can do in movies was fully there. Morgan Freeman, I have yet to see Morgan Freeman do a bad job in a movie yet. He showed his dry humor througout the entire film and did an awsome job. Micheal Cain...It's Cain for crying out loud, playing Alfred! How kick ass is that? He did an awsome job. Mr. Liam Neson sid a spectacular job playing Raj Alghoul. Bale, Holmes, Freeman, Cain, Neson...all in the same movie...nough said. The movie starts out smooth and continues that way throughout the entire thing. The plot is unbelieveable, which is exactly what it should be for a hero film making you think outside of the box. I say unbelieveable because I don't see much of this really happening and it reminds me what it was like back when I went to Food Lion and Bought Batman comics off of the shelves. The Dialogue is smooth and well written. The Directing is dark and gritty, possibly more so than Tim Burtons in Batman and Batman Returns. The camera Angles are out of this world and that makes it even more awsome with the fact that there is little to know CGI in the movie almost all if not all the stunds were done by stunmen and Christian Bale himself. The Batmobile, which when I first saw it I did not like, turned out to remind so much of what it was and still is in many ways in tthe comic. Despite a few points were the movie is slow and maybe a little too unbelieveable(key word maybe) I thought it was worth the price of admission and then some. I give Batman Begins ***+ of ****
My First Reviews
This double, and short, review was written during my senior year of high school on myspace. Please Excuse the suck.
Sunday, May 22, 2005
Dear GOd I have been gone from my sight way to fricken long
Current mood: anxious
Yeah...So I have ben gone and not updated my site for god knows how long. Let's see what have i go to say...Oh heres something last two weeks I have seen two kick a$$ movies and well i must admit that they are very fricken good. First one is Million Dollar Baby. I saw that one last Friday or Saturday (I'm pretty sure it was Sat.) but dear God I know now why it won the best picture award. Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank rocked and deserved thier oscars as well. I haven't seen Ray yet so I really don't know if Clint Eastwood got robbed or not (though right now I am leaning toward yeah he got screwed). he did however get the best director and picture award so I don't think he is complaining to much. it is about a girl who wants Eastwood to train her. At first he does not care to but eventually he does it any. It goes from classic Rockyesc underdog story to this girl will be the champion to dear go I want to take a shot of cyanide because it's so sad but so good. I highly recomend it I give it a **** out of **** start (this * means starts this means + half a star) The second film I saw on Friday night and it was Episode three. All I have to say is after two semi good movies that were far from the original Star Wars Trilogy standards George Lucas got it right. I am not going to say much plot whys but I will say that is starts will a sweeeeeet space battle and goes to a very nice peek a total of 5 lightsaber battles. Oh yeah can we say Chewbacca? Yeah he is in it to but you don't know for sure its him until close to the end. Like I said after two movies that I found to be alright This one rocks, even though it is still not quite as good as the original trilogy. I give ***+ out of ****
An Intro
This blog will be dedicated to movie, book, television, and anime reviews. I will start by posting my old ones from way back in my myspace days and a few more recent ones from my facebook days. Hopefully I get a little bit of a following simply because I would like to be able to give out a good opinion. Until then enjoy.
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