Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules

Finally a Sequel that Surpasses the Original!

 

Likes

1) Like the original the sequel has humor that is intergenerationally hilarious!

2) The 2-D animation mixed with the live action is a nice change of pace from pure CGI or CGI mixed with live action.

3) Adults will like it just as much as children, maybe more so, because the child rivalry and parent-child interaction is a flashback for many who watch it, it just makes you laugh at fond (or maybe not so fond) memories of embarrassment as a middle school kid.

4) Greg's friends are hilarious and evolving to even more awkward!

Dislikes

1) Overly predictable plot, but that is to be expected of a child's book turned to movie.

2) The fact that the high school kids were drinking soda at a party where the parents were out of town....really? Really? REALLY?!!! We all know better than that! Again child friendly film...

Favorite Scene

Red Riding Hood

Twilight, But No Vampires

Strengths

1) Imagery- One thing that Catherine Hardwicke films excel at is their imagery... Red Riding Hood is no exception to that rule...Looking solely at the poster you can see the beautiful color contrasts

2) Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried are the only reasons people saw this movie and should see this movie...their acting is well rounded with the given script

3) Always keeps you guessing who the real werewolf is.

Weaknesses

1) Catherine Hardwicke as a director!

2) Historical inaccuracies... even though it is a fairy tale the movie could have still held strong to some cultural and historical truths...often times non-fiction is much scarier than fiction, e.g. the use of the Brazen Bull, well elephant in this case, upsetting but effect and historically sound to use

3) The hair! WTF what poverty stricken village pre-17th century used hair product? If you are going to make it modern keep it all modern if you are going to keep it historical then keep it historical! No one should have a fo-hawk in this movie but there are like 5!

4) CGI problems, the wolf was way too CGI obvious... There have been successful creations of CGI werewolves before, i.e. Wolfman... but I think that they made it obviously fake looking to allow younger audiences to come in who liked Twilight.

Most Offensive Hair-Do in the Film

Really? Really! This it totally historically accurate!

Battle: Los Angeles

Independence Day Meets Cloverfield

Strengths

1) Fast-paced film that does not really have a boring moment

2) Dry comedy throughout the film that makes you laugh in times that you really shouldn't be laughing

3) Graphics...terrific graphics when they are in view...they left the images of the aliens blurry at first but it turned out well 

4) Michelle Rodriguez, need I say more...often times I find myself watching a film that I have never heard of for the simple reason that she is in it....Michelle you are such a bad ass mother!

5) Aaron Eckhart is getting outside of his bubble and I like it a lot!

Weaknesses

1) Overly Mariney...if you know a Marine you know how they can get sometimes with their egos...but they made up for it by accepting Michelle into their squad who was actually Air Force and she kicked more ass then most of the men...

2) Preachy undertone... Aliens wanted to take our water and killed to get it... Essentially what we are doing all over the world with oil and water...Most viewers won't get that though...

3) A toned down form of hyper-violence..by that I mean that the movie was obviously intended as a recruitment ploy for younger viewers, who cannot see too much violence yet...but they still managed to make it look cool...Military getting their hands into Hollywood Again?

4) Navy and Army were not trashed per say...but they were thrown to the wolves and the first ones to be wiped out...sends a negative message that Marines are #1 and everyone else is there to give them support or reload their guns when they need them to...
5) Shameless Advertisements, if I can remember whose advertising in the movie then it is too Blatant!

Favorite Line

Anyone know how to hot wire a bus?

He does he is from Jersey!

(Not Exact But Overall Theme of Quote)

X-Men: First Class

Essentially Brokeback Mountain with Superpowers...

Strengths

1) The use of actual historical events was well orchestrated... For example the cast was pulled inside to see the President address the nation and they used actual footage of Kennedy addressing the nation about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
2) The relationship between Charles and Erik was further developed... interestingly enough beyond a bro-mance they managed to turn the relationship almost into something more...
3) The graphics were exceedingly better than that of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" which looked so cheesy that it looked almost D-List... This one followed through with graphics similar to that of the original trilogy.
4) Cameo Appearances.

Weaknesses

1) Some of the superheroes were rather lackluster, Angel in particular...she is a pixie who literally spits fire balls like chewing gum, maybe that is a flob of Stan Lee's but she was rather pathetic foe...
2) Very predictable, but most viewers enjoy X-Men just to see the superpowers
3) Again I am not sure as to whose bad concept this was, Lee's or the Director's, but there was a few racist plot points thrown into the mix... I don't wanna give too much away...but it involves Darwin.... tell me what you think if you have seen it
4) Inaccurate in terms of Comic Book Series to Big Screen

Favorite Superpower

Magneto's Power Over Metal... Very Cool!

Bridesmaids

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am not "comedy kind of guy!" This movie was original and fantastic though! I may have peed a bit in the seat!

Likes
1)  The plot line may not have been overly original, but the delivery was definitely a slam dunk!
2) The jokes were fresh, but not too fresh...inappropriate, but not too inappropriate, female oriented, but not too female oriented!
3) The dry humor was to die for and the sexual references were everywhere!
4) ALL AND ALL I LOVED IT! NO BAD REMARKS ON THIS FILM AT ALL!

FAVORITE CHARACTER AND LINE

Megan: "You feel that steam heat? That's from my undercarriage!"

I Am Number Four

Jumper meets Percy Jackson and The Olympians

Likes

1) Pretty Cast.
     It was nice to see a GLEE actress outside of her comfort zone in an action film although she was the popular high school girl...Okay maybe not so outside her comfort zone lol!

2) Original Plot
     Aliens meet high school meets super powers... Sounds kind of like Race to Witch Mountain, but they pulled off some original content


3) Fast Paced
    The movie kept moving without any stopping points or stale moments.


4) Covers Complicated Plot Well in Short Time.
     For a novel to film it definitely seemed to cover the plot well to where there were no points where you were like, 'What are they talking about?'

Dislikes

1) The graphics were great, but a bit too far fetched and over the top...if that's possible....

2) The film was very very predictable!

3) The actors did not do a wonderful job of being convincing in their characterization, I believe they relied too much on the CGI and not enough on the abilities of the actors at their disposal.

Favorite Character

The adorable, mostly CGI based, puppy that had a bit of a special power!

Kung Fu Panda 2------ 3D

The Noodles Were Fresh, The Jokes Were Not!

LIKES

1) Of course with Dream Works you are to expect the best in animation second only to Pixar.

2) There is an adorable few scenes with baby Po that are just to die for, but who doesn't ooh and ahhh at a baby animal?

3) The Furious 5's characterization improved dramatically, with wittier lines and actual emotion besides fury!


4) The martial arts was beautiful to watch, when it was not extensively drawn out for filler.

5) The concept behind the plot was great, but not well executed.

Dislikes

1) Seemed too Drawn Out for what had to be established.

2) Relied too many times on Po's fat jokes throughout the movie...it was funny the first movie to continuously refer to his size, but the second go around got stale.

3) The 3D is not worth it! I can recall 1 or 2 things actually coming off screen, and I probably would have enjoyed the film more if it were in 2D.

Favorite Lines

Po ~I Just Found Out My Father Adopted Me...~

Tigress ~Your Father...The Goose....That Must Have Been Hard...~

Introduction to Blog

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,


My name is Hunter, if you do not already know me... I am a movie addict and I have a ton of movies and television series' in my collection. What I plan on doing here is reviewing some of the newer movies that have come out that I have seen both to DVD and to Theaters. As we all know 3 major things have happened to the film industry.

1) Ridiculous Theater Prices

2) The Extermination of Rental Stores

3) Outbreak of Automated Movie Rental Devices

All of these things equal to one major problem.... Less Social Interaction!!!
Yeah that's what we need in this world more social isolation!!!!


Anyway here I go...
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