I know by the trailer this movie kind of looks like the usually sad then feel good crap, but its not. This was actually a very well plotted and well acted dramatic movie. This is the story of a widow who just lost her perfect husband. He’s kind, funny, and a hero, the only thing wrong with him is his best friend. His best friend is a heroine addict and he feels he can’t give up on him. The wife thinks that the guy is a scum bag loser, but after they start living together, she learns why they were friends for so long. The story is told through dramatic realism and the acting is spectacular by both Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro. It’s sad at times while at others you can’t help, but smile. The movie was predictable at times, but unpredictable at others. This was an incredibly well-done movie and it was very good. Grade: B+
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets
I’ve been excited for this movie for an extremely long time, I liked the first one a lot. I found it to be creative and fun, I don’t even Nicholas Cage and I liked the first. With the second one though, I am very sad to report that I was extremely disappointed. The sequel lacked in the creativity and entertainment of the first and didn’t make up for it anywhere. The whole movie was just Nicholas Cage trying to be funny and cool when he’s not either of those things and him having his friend hack into stuff. No cool codes or riddles to figure out. Anytime the film was even a bit creative, it was just basically copying off of the first film. The thing that really bugged me about this movie was the fact that in the first one, Gage said to his friend Riley at the end of the movie,”the next time we find a treasure that revolutionize’s history, you can make the call on finder’s fee”, well guess what, apparently the writers of the second one watched the first one just enough to copy off of it, but fell asleep at the end, because that comment was never touched back on. They also tried to end it in the same way they ended the second pirates so you’d get excited for the third movie. I was excited for the third pirates and I was happy with the result of that serias, but I’m not excited for National Treasure 3, and no matter how good the third is, I can’t be happy with the serias because it has this travesty in it. Grade: D+
The Golden Compass
When I saw the trailer for this, I was like wow, looks the same as the Chronicles of Narnia, then I saw that it was rated PG-13 and I got kind of excited. I thought it would be a violent version of Chronicles of Narnia. Then I heard rumors that the first Dark Knight trailer would be playing for The Golden Compass, so I told myself I had to see it and I did. I was extremely disappointed by this movie. First of all, NO DARK KNIGHT TRAILER!!!! Second of all, if you’re gonna make a movie PG-13, make it PG-13, there was only one scene in the whole movie that needed a PG-13 rating. Everything else could’ve been PG, that really pissed me off because there were a couple of scenes that could’ve been a lot better if they just stuck to there rating, it felt like they forgot that they rated the movie PG-13 when they were making it. The other thing that really got on my nerves was the fact that Daniel Craig only had about three lines in the whole movie and they made like he was a main character. The plot of the movie is that a girl named Lyra is trying to save her kidnapped friend from some people named Gobblers, she also has this compass that tells you the answer to any question you ask it, but for some reason she’s the only one who can read it ofcourse. Also, the entire movie, Lyra is trying to figure out what these magic particles called Dust is , so why doesn’t she just ask her stuped little Compass. The only cool idea of this movie was the daemons. Daemons are these animal companions that are always at your side, these animals are your souls and what ever happens to them also happens to you and vice-versa. This was interesting because any time someone died, their animal would disappear which added to the excitement in a way, it was also cool because you liked to see who had which animals and thinking what kind of animal you wanted. The last thing I would like to say about this movie s that Nicole Kidman did an ok job.Grade: D-
American Gangster
Maybe it was because I saw this movie only a few das after seeing a masterpiece like No Country For Old Men, but this movie just wasn’t as spectacular as I thought it would be. Don’t get me wrong, this movie was fantastic and you should see, its just not Goodfellas or The Departed. When and if you do see this movie, you’ll see that it lacks in creativity, but that’s only because it was based on absolute facts and facts shouldn’t be stretched too far. This is the story of a Drug Lord Frank Lucas who made millions off of Heroine in the 70s and the cop/lawyer in charge of catching him. Denzel Washington was amazing and this is his best since Training Day, I usually don’t like Russel Crowe that much, but in this he was actually pretty good. See the movie, but if you’re trying to decide on wheter to see this or No Country For Old Men, see that instead.Grade: A-
No Country For Old Men
One of the greatest movies I’ve seen this year. This movie will be called slow and boring, but it is by far the farthest thing from it. This movie was smart, realalistic, resourcful, and best of all, unpredictable. It was the story of a hunter who stumples upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone bad, he finds a case with two million dollars, it’s the story of this hunter, the deranged psychopath thats after him, and the narrator/sherriff whose trying to protect the hunter, remember though, there is no such thing as a clean get away. The movie was just fantastic and I beg you to go see it. There is not one thing that I could say that was bad about this film. I enjoyed this movie from the first dialogue to the last. This movie was detailed and flawlessly put together.Grade: A+This part was written about a month or so after first seeing the movie:I just watched this movie for the second time god is perfect, if you haven’t seen this movie yet I feel very sorry. I think it was even better the second time because of the more amazing detail you notice in this piece of art.
Saw 4
For a horror movie, it was creative and the writers are good at figuring out these traps and stuff, but c’mon they should have never killed the bastard off in the third one, that was soooooo stuped. So if you haven’t seen the movie yet, either yes he’s still alive or no, and somehow he’s pulling strings from beyond the grave. In the third one he dies at the end and if that were the ending for a serias, that would’ve been fine, but you can’t take away the only reasonably good actor in the movie and have the saga continue.
!!!SPOILER!!! if you haven’t seen the movie don’t read ahead
The ending sucked and with the ending of the last one I was expecting something as good as the first one, I did not get my wish.
!!!HUGE SPOILER!!!
The autopsy scene in the beginning actually is the ending after everyone dies, and there’s a completely new jigsaw. Give Me a Break. How did the detective get jigsaws body to the autopsy room and himself out of the huge metal door that the evil detective (New Jigsaw) locked. That was stuped and they never should have killed Tobin Bell off.
Grade: C-
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