Figured I haven't done this in a while; and I've managed to see a couple movies lately - so what the heck. Movie review day!
First and most important: Transformers
There's really not much I can say about this movie. If I had no clue what transformers were and only had the use of one of my 5 senses - this still would be worth 10 bucks to see (hear?... smell?... touch?). Doesn't matter, its brilliantly made.
By far one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Exciting, funny, gorgeous. Go see it. Now
Second: Evan Almighty
Wasn't a BAD movie. But, wasn't something you need to see in the theater. Throw it on your Netflix queue and if it somehow makes it to the top - you won't be disappointed. Its much "cuter" and less funny than I expected. There are absolutely some laugh out loud moments; which is all I guess you can really expect.
Last: Firewall
Holy Crap - what an awful movie. I put this on my Netflix queue simply because it was in HD. Lucky Me. I got to see high definition crap, which is surprisingly similar to regular crap - you're just more sure its crap. The only way to save this movie is to watch the first hour - then shut it off. Imagine your own ending - I promise you'll do a better job.
I mean, near the end you have Harrison Ford fighting a couple of bad guys in a fairly unbelievable fashion. Even if you suspend disbelief that the same guy that on the fly wrote a command line entry to stave off a hacker attempt is now also able to go toe to toe with a guy 1/2 his age, it is very hard to believe that his family which he came to rescue runs away to "safety" because since their hands are tied behind their backs they can't help him. I guess none of them played kick ball.
On top of that, after Harrison wins (really, did I ruin it for you? good, now you don't have to see it), the family comes out of the woods with their hands untied and all happy like. If I was Harrison I'd be like - what the hell guys?! First you run away because your hands are tied up, then you managed to untie them on your own and you don't come back. Screw you all - you can stay here.
Best part is the movie is wrapping up and as they go back to the car the family dog (yes, he was part of this whole mess too), barks a couple times. Now this normally wouldn't be an issue - except they used the wrong "canned" bark - it wasn't the same dog bark they used in the rest of the movie. Also the dog, which is on camera, is clearly not barking at all. Brilliant.
2 comments:
go see knocked up, best comedy of the year, as we spoke about on the phone :)
dork
I saw Transformers as well. I don't know if they could have done a better job with the Transformers myself. Now, they could have tamed down the comic relief a little. In some areas, it was a little over the top in that area but overall, it was a good flick. I think that I even tried to call but got no answer last tues to see if you wanted to go since we were going to the Lakewood 15.
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