Basically: It was pretty bad. Not a fan of this movie at all, just a huge fan of the three stars.
Story: Three guys, each have a uniquely awful boss. They hatch a plan to solve their problem. Hilarity ensues?
Actors: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis
Win: There were a couple pretty funny jokes, the three individual stars are hilarious. (It just doesn't show in this movie)
Fail: Just not really a funny movie, really low brow, but to be blunt, if you saw this movie you probably didn't expect a whole lot.
Verdict: Fail.
Confused: Jamie Foxx...was actually kind of funny
Basically: It was far better than I expected. Quite good, shot interestingly, nice action, intriguing story.
Story: Guy takes drug. It makes him awesome at everything. Take a guess if he wants more.
Actors: Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro
Win: The fight scenes are done very well, they are above average for todays average action flick. The story kept me on the edge of my seat. They used this cool camera trick zoom effect thing that, when they used it, really helped propel the movie. I laughed a good amount.
Fail: At points I wasn't completely sure why the main character was doing something, not everything was completely clear to me. The movie seemed to dwell on some aspects too long, and skip over others, leaving the viewer out of the loop.
Verdict: WIN
Confused: The ending...what, was, that?
Basically: While the action was cool at times, the story was so flat and cheesy that my mind was elsewhere.
Story: A marine decides to retire, unfortunately, the day he hands in his retirement papers, aliens invade. He is called to duty. How inconvenient.
Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Ne-Yo, Bridget Moynahan
Win: Not much. Some cool action scenes, also I think there was one intense moment. I think.
Fail: Majority of the movie. Even the aliens weren't that cool. Every moment had some super cheesy action conversation. It was disgustingly cliché. There were sections of the movie, that if showed on there own, viewers would think they were watching a spoof of an action movie.
Verdict: Fail!
Confused: Ne-Yo was in it...?
Basically: You will get goosebumps, multiple times, especially if you see in theaters. Amazing.
Story: Based on a true story, Mickey Ward is a rising boxer from Lowell, MA. His ex-boxer, crack addict brother is his trainer. Can Mickey pull his brother and family out of despair, with his boxing skill? A story of family, fighting, redemption and triumph.
Actors: Mark Whalberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams
Win: Everything about this was a win. Christian Bale steals the show, but all the actors do a fantastic job. The way the fights were shot make you feel like you were really watching fight night on HBO. You will connect with the characters. Must see. Will win Oscars.
Fail: Not, really, anything. But if I have to say something, it is slightly formulaic. (But so are 95% of movies today)
Verdict: WIN!
Confused: Did anyone else notice that Conan O'Brien's sister was playing one of Mickey's sisters? Im not kidding, look it up. (She looks exactly like Conan)
Basically: Messes with your mind, very dark, intense, scary-ish. Very good.
Story: The NYC ballet company is putting on Swan Lake, and fragile, shy Nina Sayers gets the part of the Black and the White swan. She is perfect for the White swan, but through her quest to perfect the part of the Black swan...she changes.
Actors: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis
Win: Great directing by Darren Aronofsky. Amazing acting by everyone. You are always on the edge of your seat. This is the definition of a Psychological Thriller. Everything worked together, the sound, the music, the dancing, majority of this movie was flawless. If you like being gripped by movies, watch this. It's intense.
Fail: Probably scarier than you're expecting when you walk in the theatre. Not many moments for the audience to take a breath (possibly a good thing)
Verdict: Win!
Confused: Possibly too much mind boggling?
Basically: It was pretty good, not amazing.
Story: Sam Flynn's father was sucked into a video game world, Sam goes in to the world to save his father. Everything is made of glow sticks.
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen
Win: Really cool acrobatics and fight scenes, and light bike scenes. Really cool special effects, costume design, set design, everything has that cool Tron look. Amazing soundtrack by Daft Punk. Main actor does a good job.
Fail: Too many aspects of the story were unexplained. Many potentially cool moments were ruined by super cheesy lines. Story kind of lacked in general.
Verdict: Meh.
Confused: Is it just me, or is it kind of creepy that a 60 year old Jeff Bridges is living alone with 20 year old girl?
Great! I loved this movie. Some words come to mind when I think about this movie: Thought-Provoking, Intense, Emotional, Hilarious, Realistic, Thought-Provintentionaristic. I made the last one up.
The actors are so great, and believable. It's hard to explain but there was always this sense of realism, i'm not sure if it was the actors or the script or the story or more likely a mix of all of them. YOU MUST GO WATCH THIS MOVIE!
I haven't seen such an intriguing movie in a while. It deals with very current issues, and the issues were dealt with tastefully. The movie was artistic. The movie was funny, even with all the drama going on they manage to insert hilariousness. You will be thinking the whole movie, and afterwards. Mark Ruffalo is amazing. Julianne Moore is great. The kids were "Alright." Just kidding, I had to say that but the actors the played the kids were amazing. Especially Mia Wasikowska, who (see Alice in Wonderland review) was the only thing I liked about the recent Alice in Wonderland movie.
Anyway I can't rave about this movie enough. Amazing. Fantastic.
Thought-Provintentionaristic.
This movie was really fun to watch, Yes it is another "Michael Cera" movie meaning he plays basically the same character (Awkward Kid) with the same goals (Get Girl), but he pulls it off well. So I did love this movie, but whether or not this was intentional, it seems like there was a very target audience intended for this movie.
I really loved the story, it didn't go by too fast or too slow, the characters are great, plus the very fun style with the whole video game theme was really cool. What made the movie great was all these factors tying together. If you think you might like this, give it a try, because, just, do. This review would have been more in depth but I waited way too long after watching it to write this. Bye. Oh and I love the actors in this movie, not even counting Michael Cera they are all really great and even Jason Schwartzman at the end. There are some things I didn't like about this movie, I just don't remember them.
So this review sucked. But Scott Pilgrim did not. Go watch it!
Sucked. So Predictable. Cookie cutter chick flick.
I Like Katherine Heigl a lot, Josh Duhamel not as much, but this movie was really awful. It's one of those movies where you know exactly what's going to happen as it happens. I really don;t need to say what was bad about it, because I could just say everything. But I'll say anyway.
In a movie this bad, usually the actors chemistry saves it from being completley awful. This is not the case with this movie. Think about it like this, in some tv shows or movies, the actors look like they are having fun, and they make you think, oh it would be cool to hang out with that group of friends, or it would be fun to third wheel a date with that couple. I actually would have been happier had the two main characters never met. That bad. Im just gonna end it there.
I Loved It! So good! Best movie I've seen in theaters in WAY too long. Oh and go see it if it's still out!
Ben Affleck was so great, Jeremy Renner was even better, and really all the acting (with one exception which i'll talk about later) was great. Boston/Charlestown was shot really nicely, it could have been better but I was satisfied. The story was solid, the action was great, and I really liked the characters. Just a really good movie. It was even funny at some parts.
The only gripe I have was Blake Lively, I haven't seen her in anything else, but she was sub par in this. her acting wasn't awful, but it sort of took me out of the experience. But thats it, I really loved it.
Sorry this is so short I just have nothing to say. Go see it.
WARNING: I am the only person (I know of) that didn't like this movie.
But yeah I really didn't like it. I can totally see the appeal, it's well written, the characters are interesting, and I will give it this: It's pretty funny. But there a lot of things I didn't like about it, and in the end it just failed to entertain/intrigue me like I expected it to.
Harvard is a really cool place, and it absolutely wasn't done justice in this movie. I am aware that they weren't allowed to shoot on campus, so it was a challenge for them to capture the Harvard feel, but its such a nice campus, with so many interesting areas, I think they could've done that better. I was really looking forward to see how they shot all the campus areas, and i just didn't it. And maybe I'm only saying this because I've spent so much time on the Harvard campus, but still.
That being said, the movie really dragged on for me, I kept waiting for it to get more intense, but it never really did, the pace was the same throughout most of the movie. Basically, it is about a socially akward kid creating the biggest social interface on the planet. It's pretty amazing if you think about it, and the movie didn't really capture that amazing feel.
I do find it really cool that the two twins in the movie were played by the same actor, that's really cool to me, a feat in editing and shooting, and I absolutely give them props for that, because I had no idea. Anyway, I am really ragging on this movie, and it wasn't awful, but it absolutely didn't live up to the hype. So. Yeah. The trailer was sick, and made me really want to see it. So I saw it and didn't like it. The end.
I had high hopes for this movie, and long story short: I was let down. I love Angelina Jolie, and she did really well in this movie, but besides her there really wasn't much to it. In the first 5 minutes of the movie I correctly predicted the ending of a movie, which you should never be able to do. In my opinion.
There were too many unnecessary plot points, and not enough core story. Also the characters were barely developed, beyond their backstories. Oh and there was no closure, a lot of movies have me feeling like it hasn't really ended, this was one of them. However the action scenes were great, and sometimes thats all a movie takes to entertain.
Unfortunately I think SALT was going for more, but failed to achieve what it was going for. Heres the premise of the story: She is set up. But it gets way more complicated, which I usually love, but not here. It just wasn't pulled of well. Don't see it. Unless you are in love with Angelina (like me)
Damnit! That's what I thought when I walked out of the theater. Let down. Will Ferrel is one of the funniest human beings on planet earth. This movie did not show that off. There were a couple times where he was his hilarious self, but for the most part, it just didn't live up to his "Step Brothers, Taladega Nights" movies. I mean, those movies you are laughing so hard its sometimes difficult to breath. I had no difficulty breathing during The Other Guys. Im really sorry to say but just don't see it. Unless you've really wanted to see it, or you have a bunch of friends over and there is nothing else, this movie is totally not worth it. Sorry.
I have been hearing people talk about this movie for a really long time and also been seeing people reading the graphic novel, and I am really glad I finally saw it. Obviously Nicole Kidman was amazing, I mean crazy, to understand what I mean you really need to see this one. The thing about it is its completely action packed, awesome fight scenes are all over the place, but it also has a very philosophical side to it. This blend of components allows it to be really entertaining, the ending is satisfying, and it's even funny at some parts. The only thing I didn't like, (and this is just my opinion it's not a mistake or anything) I didn't like the intense imagery used at some parts of the movie, I think they were trying to make references to past events and they could have made it more subtle. basically they should have trusted that the audience would have figured it out, they didn't need to shove the idea in our faces. You'll get what I mean when you see it.
I'm going to keep the synopsis short because I don't like to give away too much, but basically it takes place in London, in the future, and the government isn't in good shape. And one guy doesn't like that. But it gets deeper you learn backstory the characters etc.
Great movie, really entertaining, also has a good message and makes you think. A lot. About society and stuff. Very good. If you need something to see, see this.