| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avatar - PG-13 | An monumental achievment. James Cameron proves yet again that he can balance storytelling and special effects to deliver an original film unlike anything you have ever seen before. A true epic masterpiece!!! | December 20, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Invictus - PG-13 | November 26, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon - PG-13 | November 26, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Terminator Salvation - PG-13 | This is one of the biggest dissapointments of the Summer. Despite some really good SFX and a breakout performance from Sam Worthington I found myself to be very bored. I think director McG was a bad choice to handle this franchise. And I never thought I'd ever say this but...I think Christian Bale was the wrong choice to play John Connor. | November 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Road - R | November 26, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Blind Side - PG-13 | Overly sentimental, yes, but still uplifting and enjoyable. You may even shed a tear or two. Definitley worth watching. | November 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Angels & Demons - PG-13 | I found the timeline to be very hard to believe in this film (all the things that happened and distance traveled within the one-hour time frames between murders was a real stretch). Also, the sun is shining as if it were noon time at 9:00 pm. And as the book took place before "The Da Vinci Code" and the movie happens after it, the continuity of the Robert Langdon character is flawed. At the end of "Da Vinci" he has clearly found some amount of religious faith as he kneels and prays in the last scene. But in "Demons" he makes it a point that faith has not found him. A decent but still unfulfilling movie. | November 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Michael Jackson's This Is It - PG | A true must-see for any Michael Jackson fan. This film reminds you of the true artist and talent that MJ was. | November 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Couples Retreat - PG-13 | Despite some laugh-out-loud moments I was disappointed with this. If you've seen the trailers than you've seen most of the funny parts. I was also hoping for an edgier, R-rated adult comedy as well. | November 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Men Who Stare at Goats - R | November 26, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Disney's A Christmas Carol - PG | I have no interest in seeing this. I have a real problem with a film that has most of its promotional push based upon how the film was made (i.e. Motion Capture) instead of the story that it's telling. But then again, how many times and how many different ways can you tell the story of Ebenezer Scrooge? Maybe the animation is the only selling point they have. I think I'll watch "Scrooged" instead. | November 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire - R | November 26, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| 2012 - PG-13 | If you like big explosions as well as world landmarks destroyed onscreen then this one is for you. Lots and lots of destruction. And it's okay that millions and millions of people are dying because (SPOILER ALERT!) the dog survives! | November 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Old Dogs - PG | I dunno why this is getting such bad reviews. It was funny and cute. If you want to laugh go check it out. You will be amused. | November 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| H2: Halloween II - R |
I was disappointed in this. I wish they had stayed a little closer to the original sequel and set it in the hospital (which it looked like they were going to do; I like the first ten minutes) instead of making Laurie Strode a wildchild party animal and having Dr. Loomis whoring himself in the national media to promote a book on the events of the first film.
The town of Haddonfield has even metamorphasized (in a year's time, mind you) from a quiet family suburb to a loud, grungy shitburg populated with whores, hillbillies, and perverts. It was more like "redneck cinema" or something pretty damn close to it. When these people died I didn't care. Michael Myer's visions of his younger self in the clown mask as well as his mother dressed in white alongside a white horse (don't ask) are just ridiculous and only seem to serve as a way for director Rob Zombie to allow his his wife to reprise her role from the first film. The role in which she DIED! Dimension has "Halloween 3-D" in preproduction for next summer, without Zombie attached. I guess they can't do any worse than this one. |
August 30, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Hurt Locker - R |
This is quite possibly the best war movie I've seen since "Full Metal Jacket," though it seems to be less about war than any other. There are no grand battle scenes and no swelled up music score to manipulate emotion. The suspense starts with the very first scene and never lets up. Kathryn Bigalow, one of the most underrated action film directors ever, uses mostly hand-held cameras, thus putting the viewer right in the middle of the action.
Jeremy Renner is amazing in the lead role of Staff Sgt. William James. With this one film, he has gone from frequent character actor ("What movie have I seen him in?") to a potential Best Actor Oscar nominee. His love for war is scary. He thrives on the thrill; it's his natural high. He seems more at ease when diffusing roadside bombs in Iraq than choosing a cereal while at the supermarket in civilian life. One of the more intense scenes involves a desert shootout. There is no fast moving action; no loud music score or quick editing. We are there with the soldiers, as they take cover from terrorist snipers a few miles away across the open desert. The standoff lasts for hours as both sides wait patiently for the best shot. James and his team battle the insurgents as well as heat, fatigue, thirst, and flies. This is truly a great film, destined to become a classic. It deserves a wide audience. Hopefully it doesn't get lost in the multiplexes among the Harry Potters and Transformers. |
July 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - PG-13 |
Let's begin by saying that "Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen" is solid entertainment from start to finish. With that, I have to say the story was far from flawless.
For starters, to include a premise that the government has entered into a partnership with the Autobots but has kept it secret from the public is...well, quite frankly, stupid. The first film's climactic fight in L.A. (OK, Mission City...L.A. isn't a one hour drive from Hoover Dam, now is it?) was seen by thousands of people, as was the opening battle in this one. Not to mention the hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. How does any government keep that under wraps? And what was the deal with the "human" Decepticon? Huh??? And I thought Bumblebee's voicebox was repaired at the end of the first movie. So why can't he speak now? And can't the piece of Allspark that Mikaela has bring Optimus Prime back to life instead of trekking all the way to Egypt to...well, I lost track of the plot by that point. Maybe the biggest problem I had was in the actual "transforming" of the robots. In the first movie the special effects were drop-jaw amazing. In this one it was more like "been there, done that." I guess after being blown away by the first "Transformers" I had bigger expectations for the second one. It's not a huge loss for me, though; I was getting tired of nitpicking all the plotholes and points of idiocy in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" so this gives me new fodder. Here's to hoping the third installment will be better. |
July 5, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Public Enemies - R | Michael Mann proves once again that he is one of the best American filmmakers working today. Although light on action, the story delivers as does Johhny Depp in another Oscar-worthy performance. And as in all Mann films, the visual style and camera work by cinemotographer Dante Spinotti is amazing. The look of 1930's America is captured flawlessly. With the exception of one scene toward the end (where Depp's Dillinger purposely wanders into the Chicago Police Department) there isn't a single wasted frame of film. One scene in particular where the recently sprung Dillinger waits at a red light is one of the most intense you will see all year. | July 5, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Push - PG-13 | July 5, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Land of the Lost - PG-13 | This flawed film is a testament to letting actors ad-lib and improvise, especially when the script is so bad. Will Ferrell and Danny McBride make the best of a bad situation with sometimes funny bantor, but the movie as a whole seems to play like a 90 minute Saturday Night Live skit that should have only lasted about 6 minutes at the most. Kudos to Matt Lauer for providing the only real humor during the opening and closing scenes. Director Brad Silberling is known for his more serious fare ("City Of Angels") and seemed out of his league here with no way to interpret the source material. Of course, the source material was terrible to begin with so maybe any director would have had the same problem. | June 7, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Hangover - R | Funny from start to finish and not afraid to go for broke with a hard "R" rating. | June 7, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Obsessed - PG-13 | June 5, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - PG-13 | June 5, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| X-Men Origins - Wolverine - PG-13 | June 5, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Dance Flick - PG-13 | June 5, 2009 | N/A |
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