This is 40 - 5/10
Some pretty good laughs here and there but a pretty aimless movie overall. Was a bit ashamed to be at the theater with The Hobbit showing and not having seen it, but instead going to see the above. Went with family and The Hobbit doesn't interest everyone.
Snow Buddies: was babysitting xmas eve and is good little kid fare, 9/10 for the 7 and under crowd, 4/10 for everyone else unless you really, really love golden retriever puppies.
Elf: What can I say? I'm a sucker for Will Ferrell and elves. 8.5/10
Les Miserables: 3/10. This one was a real disappointment for me personally. The singing generally sucked and as a film adaptation of a musical 90% of the film involved singing. Some actors couldn't even hit their notes correctly. Why does Hollywood insist on putting in big name actors at the expense of quality? The film would have been better off with more Broadway actors in minor/supporting roles and/or well known actors that are not necessarily A list but could carry a tune.
Super 8: Solid; really geared towards the preteen crowd but entertaining family friendly fare, although not Spielberg's finest. 7/10
Cloverfield: watched this again and had forgotten how much this movie had depicted the monster invading NYC right, only giving us glimpses until the dramatic reveal halfway through the film. 9/10
The Hobbit: 10/10, I feel this film should have been made before the LOTR series but oh well. Still top notch.
Going to watch Sinister and continue my Stanley Kubrick marathon now that school's out for winter break.
Saw Django Unchained on Christmas with some family. Quintessential Tarantino.
Not my favorite film of his, I'm partial to Pulp Fiction, but it was a great spaghetti western, and Christoph Waltz is becoming one of my favorite actors to watch onscreen. I thought Leonardo Dicaprio did a good job playing the villain, his scene with the skull is quite memorable.
9/10 for me.
Just finished watching Street Fighter from 1994. 8/10! Mainly because it was an amazing nostalgic trip for me. I loved that movie when I was young.
Amazing Spider-Man uhh idk 8.5 out of 10. They guy that played Peter Parker seemed more like PP then Toby did for sure. The movie is pretty good thou I think the reason why I give it a 8.5 instead of a 9 or 10 is because it is kinda forgetful unlike Captain America,Iron Man,Thor,Avengers,X-Men FC,
Oh my God.
Django Unchained was just..amazing.
10/10.
The amount of humor, levelled perfectly with seriousness and emotional parts were just astounding.
If Leonardo Decraprio or Jamie Foxx, or Christopher Waltz, don't win a Golden Globe or Academy Award for Best Supporting/Leading Actor, I'm flip a table.
Iron Sky
7/10
The movie started out great, got it slowly got more boring as the movie went on. It still quite entertained me trough, and the Downfall parody was hilarious.
Rocky 1-4 I will rate them all as 8/10.
Everytime I watch them I just want to get in the ring and fight someone! So pumped right now! AAAAAAH
Sinister - 8.5/10
Way too many obvious clues as to what was happening, would of preferred more mystery but that's Hollywood for you.
Chained - 8/10
I liked the concept but wasn't too happy with the ending, I sort of guessed the twist halfway through, and the execution of it was kinda poor.
Bait - 8/10
Really enjoyed this film, typical popcorn movie.
Sinister: 5.5/10, would have been better as a psychological thriller. Good premise but not so good execution.
Cold Weather: a little background on me before I review: mid 20s female with hipster tendencies living in Portland, Oregon. What is this film about? Most of it is the daily minutiae of living as a 20 something hipster in Portland, Oregon, with lots of inside jokes about Portland living and hipsters. By all accounts I should love this film. And I did, parts of it...the slow, laborious pace that is typical of a city where 20 somethings come to retire; the lackadaisical way the protagonist goes about living his life with all of his quirks and oddities. Up to the ending: 9.5/10, maybe even a 10/10.
The ending: -1000000000/10.
All in all I'd give Cold Weather a -999,999,990.5/10. Yeah, the ending really is that bad.
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I caught Seven Psycopaths yesterday at the dollar-something theater. I enjoyed it quite a bit, especially Walken toward the end, but I wouldn't call it a good movie. I give it a 6ish/10 because I like a little absurdity once in a while.
Django Unchained
9.5/10
I loved the movie, it was wildly entertaining, great performances, great story, and a great showing of the times. I am not sure how impacting of a movie it really is, but it's one of my favorite Tarantino films. It was a brilliant film and one of the best of the year and definitely worth repeated viewing to analyze the motives of each character and some of the scenes were the actions seemed questionable. Not in the mood to write a full review at the moment, so that is it.
The Grey
6.7/10
It was a really solid movie, but it lost a lot of the suspense it could have simply because of how fake the wolves and the wolf mauling scenes looked. The poetic parts worked well, but i t was also very predictable, and got very repetitive with "5 minute talk scene", "5 minute death scene" format, all of the development seemed wasted because you knew the only person who had a chance at getting out alive was Liam Neeson. Not going to go too in depth, but yeah those are my main complaints really.
I Am Legend
6.3/10
It is very rusty and although the movie is old the CGI zombies did not age well and look incredibly fake. There wasn't to much to this really that really brought it anywhere, and the ending was pretty bland in the fact I saw it coming. I don't know, it just didn't impress me, yet I can't give this movie anything below a fresh rating (6/10), because it isn't bad, but didn't really soar like it could have.
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I saw the Phantom Menace, but with Rifftrax, because that's the only way I can watch that steaming turdpile.
You should really check out Rifftrax, they are awesome. Formerly known as Myster Science Theater 3000, a TV-series they used to have.
I have two videos on my channel that have some clips from two other riffs they've done.
The Happening riff clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFmxmPf0lU8
Battlefield Earth riff clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H25cd2p_taE
Rifftrax home page, incase you've fallen in love with them already!
http://www.rifftrax.com/
Ye be warned all who enter, thare be spoilers below! Yarg!
Skyfall: 7.5/10
Not my favorite Bond movie, but its definitely up there. The problem I had with it was that the villain really wasn't that huge.Typically in bond films the villain is out to steal billions of dollars in money/items, blow up a country, or take over a place. In this the bad guy built a small criminal empire essentially to kill on old chick he didn't like because she screwed him over 15 years prior. The big blots of usual bond movies usually help carry them along, even through the slow parts. This film had good pacing, and was beautiful, but I kept feeling like there really wasn't a point during it. It seems like there was a million other ways bond could have Saved M and defeated the bad guy (who I though was great for what he was). And in the end it really was all for naught.
The Hobbit: 8.5/10
The Hobbit, imo, was fantastic. I have no idea why some reviewers and fans are hating on it so much. I had way more fun watching it than the fellowship of the ring, and the Hobbit was a prequel Tolkien wrote for kids, so of course its going to have some semi childish comic relief every so often. People comparing Radagast to Jar Jar Binks are out of their minds.
The only thing I didn't really like was the fact they used "to much" CGI. I liked what they did with the LoTR trilogy, the full body makeup and prosthetic made orcs seem more real and nasty.
Django Unchained: 9.5/10 One of Tarantino's best works.
This film pretty much had everything. Great acting, well placed comic relief and pacing, and it had great dialogue. I went in with high expectations and was actually surprised that it was better than I thought it would be. For instance, at the beginning of the KKK type raid scene when Jonah Hill's character shows up I though I was going to start groaning. It turned out to be one of the funniest scenes I have ever watched in a movie.
The only real improvement I think it could use would be a couple of sequences were Django is first learning how to be skilled with a gun. All the training scenes we see are at the end of winter when he has gotten really good. A few minutes spent showing him being bad, and then improving over the weeks leading up to the scenes where his is shooting bottles left and right would make it a little better.
People have compared Radagast to Jar Jar? That really shows how completely and utterly ignorant people are. Most of those who do probably haven't even read the book either. Ignorant clods, makes me furious.
The "too much CGI" might be sorta correct though, now that you mention it. They used it a lot more than in the LotR movies it seems.