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Best sleeper of the year! LOVED this movie! Funny, witty, creative, different. Loved it! All thumbs up, take the kids too. It has references to all kinds of bad stuff, but other than a couple of guys making out, nothing too bad. This movie has a running theme. You either get it or you don’t. If you don’t, it might make for a little aggravation. If you do get it, which it is kinda of overt and in your face, it’s fun. All thumbs up, will watch it on DVD.
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg? Someone thought this was a good idea. Kinda crazy given their combined line-up:
Think about that. With that they decided these two needed to make a cop flick. OK with that so far? I really am not going to go too far into this one, the plot is absolutely meaningless and at times inane. However, that’s not what this movie is about. This movie is all about Will Ferrell playing with Mark Walhberg. And, it works. Those two bounce off each other shockingly well. What works against Wahlberg in any meaningful role he’s done is no matter how hard he tries, he just comes across as a jerk. He’s not big or anything, so it’s not like he’s scary or anything, but he has that intensely pissed look all the time. Ferrell has that intensely annoyingly vacuous thing going. It’s perfect. Dangerous concept as both actors have been known to lay eggs, anyone remember Walhberg in The Happening? But, that’s forgotten so long as The Other Guys is on. This movie is funny as hell. All thumbs up. It’s a little adult for kids, but my seven year old enjoyed it for all the wrong reasons. I’d suggest leaving them at home, but I’m iffy on that. Some of the talk is crude, but there’s nothing visually that’d scar them other than two guys jumping off a building. Other than that, some crude behavior that would get them sent to the principal’s office, but not prison. On second thought, leave the kids at home unless they’ve already seen a Will Ferrell comedy.
This is a movie I liked a lot for no real good reason. Joey King should be a star. She stole that movie, which of course she was supposed to, but a lot moreso than I expected for a kid. My only disappointment was a I expected a lot more of the flights of imagination based on the trailer. What you see is what you get as far as those go. What you get a lot more than what you expect I think is a very engaging, pleasant young girl to spend an hour or so with. Sometimes that’s good enough for me. One thumb up.
I liked this one. I really did. Some movies move well from child to adult, this is not one of those. This is purely child stuff. It’s light-hearted, pleasant, fun. It’s creative, and a little witty. It builds a plot that is believable, and the characters are deeper than face value. I liked it. Two thumbs up.
Wow, talk about a busy flick. First of all, this is sorta The Matrix
In Inception, concepts are thrown at you faster than bullets in The Matrix. They just know this stuff. People completely clueless what is happening figure it out on the fly. You don’t have one level of sleep, you apparently have several. In case of emergency, you need a “kick”. Depending on just the right circumstances, if you got killed in someone else’s dream, you could die too. It just gets crazier and crazier. Of course, you’ve got a romantic sub-plot messing up the entire thing as well. Some movies jump the shark once, this one does it about every fifteen minutes. I loved the premise, but it gets taken too far. I would give a spoiler alert, but I really don’t know what I could possibly spoil. It’s just that inane, in a serious way.
Really, no thumbs up. There’s just too much easy action out there right now and the plot’s just not that compelling. There’s only one real question to debate about the movie and it’s really not one that engages me.
Long before Twilight hit the movies, we had another vampire/werewolf/macabre soap opera:
House of Dark Shadows
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp to begin filming ‘Dark Shadows’ movie fall 2010
I am SO THERE for that one! This has the potential to be a classic.
One suggestion Johnny and Tim. Well, OK, five or so suggestions. Think Vincent Price.
And in the meantime, until Johnny and Tim do Vincent, here’s my suggestion for the next Twilight:
Loved it. This is typical Brendan Fraser pre-Mummy humor that tries so hard to catch the early magic that it even has an Encino Man
Looking like hunting Easter eggs is sort of rained out. So, I think we’ll go check out Clash of the Titans. Will let you all know what I think about it later.
Well, now it’s later. It was kinda flat. Definitely not cheesy. Definitely not B stuff. Definitely not a classic like the original.
It’s a fun distraction, but that’s about it. The 3D was almost non-existant. The CGI was OK. The plot, well, it is what it always was with just a tad of embelishing. All in all, I’d say skip the expense of the 3D version for sure. Given all that’s out right now, don’t put this at the top of the list. If you’re out of everything else, then go see it.
So, for Valentine’s Day, my sweetheart wanted to see Legion. I did too. I didn’t mention this to any friends or anything, but I did want to see it. Mainly because of that scene above. Really, that scene is about it. You’ve got the classic Biblical Michael versus Gabriel battle going on here. You’ve got a completely bummed out God. You’ve got six billion bobble-head dead souls attacking about six people in a wooden gas station. Cute old ladies spew profanities while smiling and eating raw meat. And of course, you’ve got an Ice Man with a seriously dislocated jaw. In the end you have the inevitable ending you saw coming pretty much as soon as you made it throught the second scene. The first scene kinda sets things up, but later it makes no sense at all why. You’ve got the inevitable cliff hanger, literally, and the inevitable good-guy-gets-killed-and-returns-to-life-to-kill-the-killer scene. To have all that potential, and all those good actors and actresses, there was an unbearable stretch in the latter middle part of the movie that almost put me to sleep. Recalling it now is knocking me out.
Now, this might be giving the plot away, so don’t go past here if you want to see the movie and not have a clue what it’s about.
OK?
What I don’t get about this movie is in the Bible, Gabriel is God’s messenger telling Mary what’s going to happen to her. Michael is the angel that fights for God. In this movie, Michael tells Charlie she’s going to have a baby and fights Gabriel over the child. In the end, it’s Michael that’s apparently fighting for God. I’m guessing the peeps that made this movie are aware enough to know the significance of switching the angels, but I don’t get it. I’d be more than happy for someone to fill me in.
Also, there was more than one scene that reminded me of the original Night of the Living Dead
My boy cornered me into taking him to see 2012. I did everything imaginable to get out of it. I failed. Now, the reason I had no desire to go see this movie is because I debunked 12/21/2012 a long time ago. The Mayans didn’t predict anything, they just got bored counting. They were smarter than whoever made this movie. They knew when to quit. This movie moves at a breakneck pace for about two hours, then just pretty much stops dead in its tracks. A ship that is built to withstand the absolute most horrific and destructive force Earth can unleash gets hung up over a simple cable. It takes people several tries to remove this cable while scientists are using satellites to scan the Earth and plot a safe direction to go. They have cameras everywhere on the ship except a very vulnerable spot that just so happens to be where this cable jams the most powerful hydraulics man can build. Two tsunamis race towards the ships parked real close to Mount Everest, in Tibet. Yup folks, that’s two 30,000 foot high tsunamis. Luckily the people building the ships anticipated that the planet’s crust being ripped apart by worldwide volcanic eruptions which would create a 30,000 foot high tsunami in Tibet that they could ride safely on. And, just as oddly, although Asia is completely absorbed by the oceans, Africa is just fine. And, to wrap up the movie, the complete and total destruction of Earth only lasts one year.
Now I hear they’re planning a tv series. Until it’s ready for the airwaves, you can pass the time watching 2012: Supernova
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