I watched "Prisoners" the other day, thought it was pretty good. Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhal (sp?), plot surrounds the hunt for two missing girls and an attempt to find the kidnappers. Wolverine goes off the deep end pretty good during the film.
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Saw the Michael Bay Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie...not a masterpiece but not nearly as bad as it's made out to be.
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I saw that over the break too. I enjoyed it for what it is - an explosion filled action movie with no reason to dissect the plot.
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I saw Night at the Museum 3 yesterday with my son. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good. And it was very distracting, in a sad way, to see Robin Williams alive again, and (his character) saying goodbye as he faced "death".
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I saw Godzilla (2014) yesterday. I liked it more than Pacific Rim.
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I finally started taking advantage of Amazon Prime Instant Video. I can play the videos on my iPad and stream them to my Apple TV, so it's just as good as any other video service. In the last few nights I have watched...
Goon - I liked the story and thought that Sean William Scott put in a hell of a performance. I really, really, really hated his best friend character, though. I'm not easily offended or put off by profanity or crudeness, but that guy was over the top. So much so that I feel it distracted a lot from the story. I know this was based on a true story, so maybe the best friend really was that crude, but I think toning him down for the movie would have made it better. 6/10
Skyfall - I put off watching this because I really didn't like the idea of Daniel Craig as James Bond. Turns out, I was justified because IMO this is the weakest Bond movie ever. Javier Bardem was was born to play super-villians in movies, but his turn in this one was weak at best. I also disliked the focus on internal politics at MI-6 as a major plot point, and the new Q is boring as hell. 3/10
Jack Reacher - I really wish Tom Cruise would stop making movies that I like. This is a pretty damned good mystery/thriller movie. It's predictable at times, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. 8/10
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit - They tried their damnedest to make an action movie about a financial analyst exciting, but it predictably fell short. I still don't understand a major plot point in the movie, i.e.
how the Russians planned to take down the American economy with a bomb on Wall Street. Everything on Wall Street is backed up on remote servers, so they'd be back up and running in no time.
3/10
Lucky # Slevin - I saw this one on the playlist, and kept passing it over because of the stupid name. It ended up being the best movie I have seen in probably the last decade. It has extremely bizarre dialogue, pacing, visuals and characters. While you are focusing on how weird the movie is, you fail to pick up on the developing plot twist. The end of the movie is satisfying provided you didn't figure out the twist along the way. I don't know how I missed this given the star-studded cast (Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Lucy Liu, Ben Kingsley, Josh Hartnett). 10/10
Bad Country - This is a decent cop drama with a satisfying revenge plot added in. For some reason, I just couldn't really get into it. I can't tell why, but I think it was just the flat performance of some of the actors. The tired cliche of local cops vs. the Feds was present, and I think the actors just sort half-assed that part of it. 5/10
The Frozen Ground - Another cop drama based on a true story of a serial killer in Alaska. I can put my finger on what dragged this one down: a completely flat performance by both Nicolas Cage and John Cusack. I cannot buy Cusack as a serial killer in the first place, but he could have sold it with an outstanding performance...but he didn't. Cage is always a crap-shoot, but he was neither convincing or entertaining as a cop in this one. Vanessa Hudgens is cute, though. 3/10
Goon - I liked the story and thought that Sean William Scott put in a hell of a performance. I really, really, really hated his best friend character, though. I'm not easily offended or put off by profanity or crudeness, but that guy was over the top. So much so that I feel it distracted a lot from the story. I know this was based on a true story, so maybe the best friend really was that crude, but I think toning him down for the movie would have made it better. 6/10
Skyfall - I put off watching this because I really didn't like the idea of Daniel Craig as James Bond. Turns out, I was justified because IMO this is the weakest Bond movie ever. Javier Bardem was was born to play super-villians in movies, but his turn in this one was weak at best. I also disliked the focus on internal politics at MI-6 as a major plot point, and the new Q is boring as hell. 3/10
Jack Reacher - I really wish Tom Cruise would stop making movies that I like. This is a pretty damned good mystery/thriller movie. It's predictable at times, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. 8/10
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit - They tried their damnedest to make an action movie about a financial analyst exciting, but it predictably fell short. I still don't understand a major plot point in the movie, i.e.
how the Russians planned to take down the American economy with a bomb on Wall Street. Everything on Wall Street is backed up on remote servers, so they'd be back up and running in no time.
3/10
Lucky # Slevin - I saw this one on the playlist, and kept passing it over because of the stupid name. It ended up being the best movie I have seen in probably the last decade. It has extremely bizarre dialogue, pacing, visuals and characters. While you are focusing on how weird the movie is, you fail to pick up on the developing plot twist. The end of the movie is satisfying provided you didn't figure out the twist along the way. I don't know how I missed this given the star-studded cast (Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Lucy Liu, Ben Kingsley, Josh Hartnett). 10/10
Bad Country - This is a decent cop drama with a satisfying revenge plot added in. For some reason, I just couldn't really get into it. I can't tell why, but I think it was just the flat performance of some of the actors. The tired cliche of local cops vs. the Feds was present, and I think the actors just sort half-assed that part of it. 5/10
The Frozen Ground - Another cop drama based on a true story of a serial killer in Alaska. I can put my finger on what dragged this one down: a completely flat performance by both Nicolas Cage and John Cusack. I cannot buy Cusack as a serial killer in the first place, but he could have sold it with an outstanding performance...but he didn't. Cage is always a crap-shoot, but he was neither convincing or entertaining as a cop in this one. Vanessa Hudgens is cute, though. 3/10
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I watched Grand Torino and The Saint this weekend... while I've seen parts and knew both movies, I think this was the first time I actually saw either all the way through from beginning to end
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Just got back from watching American Sniper.
I don't have words to describe how I felt about it.
But, we need to try to always make time for our families.
I don't have words to describe how I felt about it.
But, we need to try to always make time for our families.
