X-Men Origins: Wolverine
I never read the X-Men comics- I never cared for the characters back stories. Since I knew nothing of it, I watched this movie not expecting anything or waiting for an event or whatever.... This movie goes back to Logan's early days when he first discovers his mutations. It takes you through his life up to the point where he had lost his memory. It gave me a better understanding of Logan and why he is... the way he is... And Scott...X-Men Origins was easily my favorite of the X-Men related movies. I thought the actors were great. I love them. Especially Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynalds. Ryan Reynalds is a fox. :)
Empire of the Sun
This movie came out in 1987. It has a thirteen year old Christian Bale. He's so adorable. It takes place in 1941 to 194...5- I think. It's about a little Brit who grew up in China. The war broke out and in the chaos of the Japs invading, Christian Bale (Jamie aka Jim) gets separated from his mommy and daddy. John Malcovich is an American... scam artist...? I guess... He takes Jamie under his wing and then they get sent to a war camp where John is the Red of the prison and Jamie is the little mascot.The movie was two and a half hours long... it seemed more like four. There were sooooooo many scenes where they would keep the camera on an unimportant- unexciting thing for at least forty seconds. Such as a birds eye view of the set... An extremely close up view of Christian Bale, John Malcovich, Miranda Richardson, Ben Stiller... ETC.... It draaaaagged... This movie could have easily been an hour and forty minute long movie... It was kind of depressing though. I might watch it again though. But I won't go out of my way to watch it.
Showtime series Dead Like Me
This show is weeeeirrd. It's about this girl, Georgia Lass, that get killed by a Russian satellite toilet seat flying from the sky and she becomes a Grimm Reaper. Every day, her and four other Reapers get a post-it from the boss reaper, Rube (Aka.Mandy Pantinkin, aka. Inigo Montoya) And on the Post-it is the name and location of the person they have to touch to remove their soul before they die. It's quite humorous but they swear a lot. If you don't mind swearing and you have access to Netflix you should queue it up. (Just to be warned there have been some inappropriate moments...)King Kong
.... Well.... Intriguing, Epic, long......The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The story was intriguing. The thought of someone being born as though they're eighty years old becoming younger as the years go by is kinda cool. But I don't know. This kind of creeped me out. It is Brad Pitt so it is dirty.Brad Pitt's a babe. But you only see him and his babe-ness literally two hours into the movie and it's only for eighteen minutes. Yes I timed it. I don't think Cate Blanchett is particularly pretty. In fact- I don't think so at all. So I didn't like her as a leading lady. Jason Flemyng had a minor role and I adore him... any who...
Resident Evil Trilogy
I loved the video games. They gave me the willies, but the movie didn't have the same feel. The story line is surrounded by a lab called the Hive where scientists preform genetic experiments and develop a virus. This and that happens and the T-Virus gets out making an vast break out of the Zombie Flu. Every thing's eating everything. There are guns and blood and a disturbing scene with security lazors... I felt as though Milla Jovavich played the same character she did in Fifth Element though, (Big Bada Boom- Chicken Good) and Mechelle Rodriguez played herself as she seems to do in every movie she's in. The first was intense- don't get me wrong, but I think I expected to much. I did enjoy it but it didn't scare me as I thought it would.
Because the first didn't hold my expectations, I held none for the second. But I was surprised to find some of it to be just as intense. I don't remember a whole lot. The T-Virus gets around Racoon City and more Zombie emurge but this time you get Ardeth Bay coming to help her along with some other "tough" chick. You know that if this was reality there wouldn't be so many attractive people surviving. In reality the survivors are scarred hairy and burly- moving on....
The third I was completely neutral. I didn't expect anything but I didn't dismiss it either. It did have one fun part with birds but there were some weird things involving clones and telepathy and some weird Jizz. I wasn't particulary fond of Ashanti or Ali Larter. But...
I did watch it like twelve time but that's just because- what else- A guy. A pretty guy. A pretty Australian guy. A pretty Australian guy that I already liked as Roran.
Anyways... that's all...
1 comment:
IF they had cut about 45 minutes off of King Kong it might have been a pretty good movie. The giant bugs though made me go huh? And the leading man was a sissy boy. Why?
The Resident Evil movies are generally problematic. I liked the first one, but it wasn't Resident Evil, and the sequels are just plain stupid. The over the top wire-fu stuff annoyed me no end.
I've seen about a half-dozen episodes of Dead Like Me, and I liked it. George is always so thrilled.
Wolverine was pretty good.
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