Sci-f/Thriller, 105 Minutes, 2011
This movie started of on slippery footing with me because very early on it repeats the premise that we only use 10% of our brain. This inane, demonstrably false premise has to be stopped. I’m serious.
Tag: Film
Movie Review: Battle: Los Angeles
Action, 116 Minutes, 2011
I actually really liked this. Sure, it was clichéd but it was clichéd in all the right places. Aliens attack and soldiers fight them. We know this because no movie is allowed to start without a flash-forward (apparently there’s a law).
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Movie Review: Hall Pass
Comedy, 105 Minutes, 2011
Hall Pass is the latest in the long line of formula, raunchy, over-the-top comedies. Take some likable people, place them in a ridiculous situation toss in some toilet humor, work up to a crisis and end with a melodramatic sequence to prove that the movie has a heart.
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Movie Review: Rango
Comedy, 107 Minutes, 2011:
Rango can be, wrongly, lumped in with the increasingly large crop of disposable computer-animated family films. Taken this way it’s a perfectly funny, appropriate story that will entertain your family for an afternoon.
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Movie Review: That’s What I Am
Comedy, 101 Minutes, 2011
My wife enjoyed this more than I did – by a fairly large margin so take that for what it’s worth. It’s not that I didn’t like the film it’s simply that I thought it was being a little lazy at times and a little scatter-brained at others. It really didn’t know what story it wanted to tell (so it tried to tell them all) or how it wanted to tell it.
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Movie Review: Hobo with a Shotgun
Action/Comedy, 86 Minutes, 2011
As much as I’m normally a fan of the grindhouse genre and recent homages I found myself having trouble with “Hobo with a Shotgun”. It’s easy to take the simple path out: the film is meant, by loving design, to appear like the best (worst?) low-budget, over-the-top gore-fests of the early 80’s. Most people will watch a few minutes and walk away blaming the production values or the gore or both.
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Movie Review: The Kings Speech
Drama, 118 Minutes, 2010
The movie is just as excellent as you’ve probably heard it is. Excellent casting. Excellent acting. Excellent writing, pacing, set design and all the rest. Just plain excellent all-around.
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Movie Review: A Man Apart
Action, 115 Minutes, 2003
This was a pretty standard action movie. A tough, straight DEA agent goes rogue after a cartel attempts to kill him and murders his wife in the process.
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Movie Review: The Switch
Romantic Comedy, 101 Minutes, 2010
Meh.
This is the same basic, cookie-cutter, rom-com recipe that seems to draw Jennifer Aniston in like a fly to honey. Jason Bateman’s career hasn’t been doing nearly as well as his talent deserves so he can be forgiven nearly any sin at this point, but Aniston is really driving herself into a nice, comfortable, completely unchallenging rut.
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Movie Review: Thor
Action/Adventure, 115 Minutes, 2011
Good movie. Took my son, he enjoyed it as well.
I never personally read Thor (or many Marvel comics, being a DC Universe kind of guy) so I had very little background to go on, but I believe they struck the right tone here. For fans of the other Avenger movies (“The Hulk”, “Iron Man”, etc) there are plenty of inside-jokes and the ever-suffering Agent Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. is given his largest role yet.
