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 ****
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