Christ Centered Gamer

Heartless_Gentleman wrote:Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Yes, I love this movie. A lot.

A

I need it!

Burn After Reading. Again. And it was still totally awesome. Brad Pitt really makes the move for me, I must say.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Awesome movie. Great music, funny, and featuring one of the biggest ongoing gross out gags that I've seen in a long time, N+N was basically a delight to watch. It was like a cleaner, more romantic, but still exceedingly awkward, version of Superbad. With significantly less alcohol consumption. And it had a queer-core band in it... which, as such an "unknown" genre (seriously, does anyone here know what that is but me? ) of music, earned major props from me. And did I mention that the soundtrack was killer? I'd have left off, you know, Vampire Weekend, but Band of Horses? Early Modest Mouse? It was like an indie rocker's dream.

B+

Blindness

Bleh. I might have liked it more if I didn't have a bunch of twits lighting up joints behind me (I went and complained... and I ended up completely enraged, which never happens to me), and if I didn't have to leave the theatre for ten minutes because I needed to calm down.

However, taken as a film, it seemed decidedly lacking. It's not that it wasn't well-made. Blindness was a visually interesting picture with a ton of great acting, as well as great ideas. Yet despite that, it ended up feeling rather... shallow. Almost a meditation on the inherent good--and evil--in the human spirit, and perhaps the possibility of recreating oneself anew through trial. It ended on a hollow, unfulfilling note that seemed less of an ending and more of an expected resolution.

Ultimately, Hollywood killed the art picture.

C-

Constantine

It's not great, but...I gotta say, some aspects of the film are very impressive and the rest are all pretty solid. Visually, the film is just plain gorgeous. Constantine's character very much intrigues me and is one of the more interesting hero's I've seen. And Reeves plays him to perfection.

Again, not great; but certainly good.

B

Penelope. A-

It's definitely not a perfect film, but it's a nicely packaged little fairytale. James McAvoy, Christina Ricci, and Catharine O'Hara are definitely quite capable of carrying their roles.

Iron Man.

Just like Phy Ed, it's an easy A.

The Midnight Meat Train

Rarely does a horror film captivate me, but that's exactly what happened here. Midnight Meat Train, the latest from Clive Barker (who did not direct the film, but served as producer and penned the original story), is one such movie. It's about a NYC photographer who is intent on capturing the horrors of the night to film, to show people what the city is really like. And it's about what really happens to the people that disappear in the night, particular the subway train that arrives just after 2. This is a gory movie, it's tense and it's well-made. Definitely one of the few horror pictures that I pick up.

B+

Tidal Wave: No Escape

My parents and I were bored so we turned the TV on and watched this horrid disaster flick, that had a had a plot about as predictable as the Cubs blowing it in the playoffs, abysmal special effects, and a musical score that stunk as bad as my cousin's feet. At least the acting was decent.

D

iamscott wrote:The Midnight Meat Train

Rarely does a horror film captivate me, but that's exactly what happened here. Midnight Meat Train, the latest from Clive Barker (who did not direct the film, but served as producer and penned the original story), is one such movie. It's about a NYC photographer who is intent on capturing the horrors of the night to film, to show people what the city is really like. And it's about what really happens to the people that disappear in the night, particular the subway train that arrives just after 2. This is a gory movie, it's tense and it's well-made. Definitely one of the few horror pictures that I pick up.

B+

*jealous*

Penelope, again.

It's still an A-

Eagle Eye...meh it was ok.

Iron Man

I get mixed reactions from this movie.

I liked it in a lot of parts, but others really dragged it down.

For instance, the escape scene was way too short, and the final fight was way too long, and the whole movie felt too short.

B+

Aliens

Woah!

This is an epic sci-fi movie, no doubt about it.

I absolutely loved the dialog, for instance, "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?" the reply is "No, have you?"

Laugh out loud hilarity.

One can really see the impact that this movie had on sci-fi games like Doom.

A+

Ironman was a little too short. The question is how could they have made it any longer without just putting in a filler or two?

My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Most of Hancock. Now I'd say it's more of a C.
The first half is still great, though.