The Room (2003)

(This is going be a long rant so unless you don’t have time, just read the last paragraph and I’m gonna go full spoilers so if you really care, then don’t read this) You’re tearing me apart “The Room!!” Now…..I can’t tell you how much this movie is bad. I mean MY GOD! This is the worst of the worst. The steepest pit. GAAAHHHH! I DON’T WANT TO WRITE ABOUT IT!! Every line misses its mark. Every character is unlikable. Even the supposedly caring mother is a terrible person. Even with the main character, Jonny, the person we are supposed to identify with, has absolutely nothing remotely good! I LAUGHED at the loop-holes, dialogue, conflict, wall-to-wall gratuitous sex scenes, characters, and EVERYTHING in between. You might say, “Dude, you just gotta let go and just laugh at the whole movie,” NO! You don’t know what you are asking for! And sadly I am supposed to dissect this whole thing which will probably give me cancer thinking about it again.

                It stars Tommy Wiseau. You probably never ever heard of that name and never knew it existed until you either watched this movie or watched a review of it. He also wrote, produced, and directed this atrocity. He has some job that is never told but apparently it gives him lots of Benjamins. He is in love with Lisa played by Juliette Danielle. She is the type of character that you wouldn’t care if she would go to rot in the deep depths of hell, but I’ll get into that later. Jonny loves Lisa. Jonny adopted Denny who is the most pointless and weird character ever put in film. In one scene, Jonny and Lisa are going to “take a nap” and then Denny asks if he can go up too….I mean wow…..Anyways, Jonny and Lisa love each other right? Wrong. Lisa tells her mother that she doesn’t love him anymore and then after she leaves; Lisa calls Jonny’s best friend Mark to “talk.” Then guess what happens! Well I’ll leave that up to you. You can probably guess it goes from there. Jonny has a relationship with Lisa and Mark but Jonny doesn’t know about it.

                The writing is the worst, most disturbing, laughable, worst acted, most stupid, and just plain bad things that gush out of the film. Let me give you an example: Johnny: [walks into flower shop] Hi. Flower Shop Clerk: Can I help you? Johnny: Yeah, can I have a dozen red roses, please? Flower Shop Clerk: Oh, hi, Johnny. I didn't know it was you. [grabs bouquet of roses] Flower Shop Clerk: Here you go. Johnny: That's me. How much is it? Flower Shop Clerk: It'll be eighteen dollars. Johnny: [hands over cash] Here you go. Keep the change. [grabs flowers and pats dog on the counter] Johnny: Hi, doggy. Flower Shop Clerk: You're my favorite customer. Johnny: Thanks a lot. Bye! Flower Shop Clerk: Buh-bye! There are no words….

                Remember about what I said about Lisa being the worst person in the movie? Well let me tell you why. Not only is she cheating on her fiancé (while still being in an affair with Jonny) she does it at a party when no one is there, she calls him while Jonny is in the bathroom. I MEAN COME ON. Dump the guy instead of just…*inhale* *exhale* And at the very end Jonny kills himself cause he figured out about Lisa so he blows his brains out (I laughed when that happened. Does that make me a bad person?) Lisa and Mark go to his apartment and then she says that now they are free to be together…….GGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! SHE SHOULD HAVE DIED! WHY DIDN’T JONNY KILL HER!?! WHY IS SHE STILL ALIVE!!???

                MY GOD, THIS MOVIE!!!! It hits everything wrong. I barely touched the surface. I didn’t talk about the Mother, the plot-holes, the god-awful accent of Tommy Wiseau all for the sake of my, and your sanity. But you know what?! You should watch. After this whole rant, I am actually promoting this atrocity of a film. Your probably thinking to yourself, “The @#$%!?”, but there is a good (bad) reason for this. As Doug Walker/Nostalgia Critic said, ”This is a movie you have to see to believe,” and I agree with that statement. In the end, I hate this movie with a passion and I think you should watch it, to hate it too.  

1/10 as a movie
10/10 as a hilarious piece of cinematic atrocity

True Grit (2010)

The Coen Brothers have done it again. That being said, let’s start with the review.

This film is about a girl, Mattie Ross, who seeks revenge toward her father’s cold-blooded killer Tom Cheney.  She then finds Rooster Cogburn who is a one-eyed, soulless, drunkard.  LaBeouf, a by the book Texas Ranger, tags along because he is in pursuit of Cheney as well, because he killed the Texas senator. An adventure ensues as they cross miles and miles to find one man and make him pay with his blood.

This remake of the 1969 film stars Jeff Bridges as Cogburn, Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross, and Matt Damon as LeBeouf. This of course is a western and like most westerns, it takes a while to get started but once it does, it really gets started. Let me talk about the acting first. Steinfeld is fantastic as Mattie Ross. She makes her character cold and sharp. She doesn’t want anything other than her killer hanged. She does not smile, laugh, cry, or feel remorse. She just wants to kill Tom Cheney. What I love about her character is that she is so different than other leading women. That also brings me to another point: Why did the Academy make put her in the category as a “Best Supporting Actress?!?!” She was the main character and you know it!!! Oh, well.

Jeff Bridges as Cogburn is also fantastic. He is not just the good guy that likes to drink a little. It’s a little more complicated than that. If you didn’t know he was a marshal, you would probably think he is a villain. When you see him with Mattie and LaBeouf, you realize that he is an unpredictable drunk mess. You don’t know how he will respond to the sentence that you say. He might curse at you, or pop a bullet through your head. LaBeouf on the other hand is a no-nonsense, from the book type person. You can see that he wants to be taken seriously and with respect by others but they just don’t.

I really liked how they portrayed the villains too. Instead of a mastermind, Tom Cheney (played by Josh Brolin) is just a part of a posse that straggled off and killed others while he was drunk. He is not a leader. He is a pathetic part of a gang who make him carry horses, nothing more. While Ned Pepper (played by Barry Pepper) is the smart leader. I love how they make him seem like a guy from another movie, but he was just brought up by what one of his men did.

So in the end I thought this was a great movie. I love how dark and sad and different  this is to other films. This is a movie everyone should see. Not only because of the great characters, but great directing, screenplay, and great acting. The end though, left me empty and cold. After you see these characters go through hell and back, I asked myself was it worth it. And that’s the big unanswered question. Was it worth it?

9/10

Total Recall (THE REMAKE)

This is the remake of the movie with the same name. So it's safe to say if you saw the original, you will probably know everything that will happen. Now before I start this review I want to say that I did not watch the original.

Let me start of by saying that the CGI in this film is gorgeous! I swear this film looks AMAZING! I love the dis-utopian future. But I'll talk about this later. This movie stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine, Bill Nighy, and John Cho. The story is about a man named Doug Quiad who is married to Kate Beckinsale and works at a robot factory. And apparently he has a terrible life even though he is married to Kate Beckinsale. So he goes to REKALL which is supposed to change your "world." It's basically a good(or bad) dream but instead of waking up, you stay in that world. So he goes to REKALL and after that happens, his life basically goes to the deep depths of hell. That's pretty much the base. The story is pretty Inceptionish.

OKAY! Now that I finished with the plot I will gush out about how FANTASTIC the CGI is. The city is the highlight of the film. I love how they made huge cities. Since if it's the future, there is obviously going to be lots of overpopulation and so they make the city have lots of layers. The bottom being the toxic, dilapidated one, and the top being the high class skyscrapers. It looks gorgeous! The action in the film is also pretty good, but there are much more chases than there are gun fights which I quite like. You don't get nail biting scenes by a big shoot out scenes. You get nail biting scenes by the main character never being safe and always delayed by someone always chasing them. You know, in some movies the main character is being delayed. For example: The main character is planting a bomb on a fast moving truck and the driver is trying make him get off so the truck is swaying and the character drops the bomb to another part of the truck. That causes suspense. This movie had a bit of that.

Some problems are that some characters are just not shown or fleshed out as much as they should. His wife is a much, much bigger villain than what the movie says that it should. You see the "main" villain about 3(random guess) times and at the final fight. You see the wife chase him, and shoot him a LOT more. Also there are 2 characters that are pretty essential with the story and they get killed off a couple of scenes after Quaid meets him in person.

Overall this was a very fun movie. It has some obvious flaws but who cares!? I think the critics looked at this movie the wrong way. This isn't supposed to make you lose sleep over the story and it's characters, it's supposed to give you a simple storyline and give you great visuals. And at the end of the day That's what we all need.

7/10

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

This is a very famous film that nobody has heard about. This might be a pretty short review for a pretty short film. Battleship Potemkin is directed by Sergei Eisenstein and stars a helluva lot of extras. This is a propaganda film about soldiers in, well, Battleship Potemkin who don't really like how they are being fed in, well Battleship Potemkin. So they say "Why the hell are we being fed rotten meat in....well BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN!" So they say make a mini uprising because Stalin was treating them like crap. The captain decides that his crew is expandable so he chooses that his loyal comrades just waste them. But wait!!! Vakulinchuk intervenes by making the loyal troops notice who they are shooting at. The loyal troops then turn against the captains and they all throw them over board. The uprising has begun.

 

I do not think this is just a propaganda film. It is a lot more than that. It is handled so well that, well it's so much more than a propaganda film. And the reason I say that is because of the reason I think this film is so greatly remembered as one of the best. The Odessa Steps sequence. This scene is shocking, and is still shocking now.   Russians killed by Russian soldiers. Families being destroyed. Kids being shot at point blank. People pleading for mercy just to get a bullet to the face. Man killing man. It very much reminded me of Schindler's List. People dying just because. No mercy, no remorse. I cannot believe this was released in 1925. I wonder how the priest in Cinema Paradiso would have reacted to this film.

 

Now after that scene (if you can even call it that) ends the movie still goes on and you wonder: How can this film top that?! Well sadly it does not. It keeps going. So you can see this film is not perfect. No film is. Hell not even the Aviator. The flaws of this movie are that some shots are just too, too, TOO slow. Now I have seen 2001: A Space Oddysey, I was not bored in that film. I was in this one. There were just scenes where nothing was happening. Minor complaint sure but for a 70 minute movie, that was just pushing it. Still a great movie though. I highly recommend this movie. A LOT!! The parts of the Odessa Steps just make you lose all faith in humanity and many shots are, well shot with class. This is a great movie and it's....well Battleship Potemkin.

 

8.5/10

 

(P.S. What the hell did the baby in the carriage mean????)

 

(P.S.S You can watch this film for free on YouTube! Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh2SuJrEjwM&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1 )

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Well....No. It's not as good as The Dark Knight. But let me tell you, it is pretty d*mn close.

This film is directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Anne Hathaway as Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Blake the "hot-head' cop who is an orphan, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as James Gordon, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate, and Tom Hardy as Bane. Now let me tell you that I will try my hardest to not tell you anything crucial to the plot in this review. If you are a purist and don't want to know anything about the film, why are you here??? Go watch it, it's fantastic. Now for those of you who don't care here is the review.

The basis of the plot is that, peace has stopped in Gotham. 8 years after the ending of The Dark Knight, crime has stopped. No crime means no Batman. No Batman means no playboy Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne stays in Wayne Manor in seclusion and also uses a cane. Surely Batman has seen better days. Then out of nowhere comes chaos and anarchy. Bane is in charge of this uprising. Joker was right. These people will eat each other. Safe to say that the story is fantastic. And the script is full of jokes that will always keep the audience entertained. Something that really stood out to me was the editing. Nolan writes scenes where ten things are happening at once and you still understand what was happening. The editor (Lee Smith) must have gone to great lengths to make the movie at it's final stage as good as it could be.

The directing is great though occasionally some scenes have a main character in focus while a battle(or something) is blurred. That bothered me because I wanted to see what was happening "back there." Other than that though, Nolan's directing is pitch perfect. Now to talk about the main characters. They of course are great. No other actors could do a better job. Tom Hardy really stood out to me though. It is not the dialogue that stood out to me but his stance. The way he intimidatingly just stands with a mask on his face. He stands as if nothing will stop him. While not the Joker he is still damn good. Another thing that bothered me though is Batmans voice. While it didn't stand out to me the last films, it did in this one. But that's just me nitpicking.

I have to say that this story was a memorable one. This one always keeps you guessing. More than the last Batman films. In the last Batman films, you knew Batman would survive. His friends might have died but not Batman himself. Since this film is three hours, and since you lose track of time while you are watching it you have no clue what will happen. Will he survive? You just don't know. I applaud Christopher Nolan with this trilogy. He preformed CPR on a franchise that desperately needed one. This was a fantastic movie. The acting was great, directing was phenomenal minus a very few annoyances, the writing was sharp, and the editing was perfect. And I didn't even talk about the action scenes. I want to give this a ten but since this a review, I just can't. In my mind this is just a little but worse than The Dark Knight but still a helluva great film.

9.8/10

Brave (2012)

Brave is another film by Pixar. They usually make great films. Usually. You probably know the two films which don't live up to the Pixar name. Cars was an okay movie to say the least but was a disappointment considering the past films. Cars 2 was just bad. Disney Pixar's Brave is the CPR of the Pixar films. And it's... okay. It's just okay. No it's not Citizen Kane but it's not Plan 9 From Outer Space. It's. Just. Okay.

This film is about a girl named Merida(Kelly Macdonald), a Scottish girl who is the daughter of a King and Queen. The Queen, Elinor (Emma Thompson), is a strict mother who is kind of portrayed as a "bad guy." She doesn't let Merida be who she wants to be. The king, Fergus(Billy Connolly), who a goofy dad and is pretty much the opposite of Elinor. The plot is Merida wanting to change her fate because she does not want to be the princess of her kingdom. All of the sudden her family gets a letter saying that 3 first born sons of 3 clans of 3 clan leaders will come so then Merida will can choose who she will marry. As you can imagine, Merida is not very "thrilled" to be married. The fantasy adventure ensues.

Let me start off by saying the animation is amazing. I didn't get the chance to see this in 3-D but hot damn did this film look good. Merida is a character that stood out for me. She seemed very adventurous and daring. I'm not sure why but I am always find that type of character. I also liked the king because he was very cartooney. He has a huge body but small legs. He was also, like I said, goofy and clumsy. This film really surprised me on the plot. It went in a completely different direction then what I was expecting. Instead of a grand epic adventure you get a movie where the main locations are a forest and a castle. It also adds a mythological sub-plot when it really didn't need to. This wouldn't be so bad but they drop half way the movie and bring it back towards the very end. It might sound that I am bashing this movie but I'll put the good stuff next. There was comedy in this film. Quite a lot actually. Kids will laugh out loud at this movie. And uhhhh.....well.....that's it.

Bottom line is that this is a kids film. Kids will love this film. I want to like this film more but oh well. You won't hate it but you won't love it. That's about it, I mean there is not much else to say. This is an okay film but you will forget about it in 1 day. Come on Pixar! Next film bring your A-Game!!!

6.5/10

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying andLove The Bomb (1964)

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb, is a Cold –War satire directed and written by Stanley Kubrick starring George C. Scott and Peter Sellers and  it was released in 1964. When this movie was released, many people were surprised on its subject matter. A satire of a conflict that could destroy humanity. Kubrick made it anyway. The story is about General Jack D. Ripper, (clever Kubrick), played by Sterling Hayden, who orders B-52 bombers to bomb Russia. This surprises Washington because they did not order this attack. Ripper took off all communications from his air force base so nobody could interfere with his attack. The only way to stop the bombers is to give a three letter code that only Ripper knows. Ripper also told his soldiers to shoot anybody in a 200 yard perimeter around the base. He does this because he thinks that the Russians are destroying the purity of our bodily fluids. The comedy just writes itself.

                The films comedy is phenomenal.  Every line, every facial expression, is done to add comedic hilarity. Stanley Kubrick told George C. Scott to over act for practicing the actual scene. Scott didn’t want to use the practice scenes but Kubrick used them anyway. This enraged Scott but if it wasn’t for Kubrick’s smart move, the film wouldn’t be as funny as it is. Peter Seller played three rolls in the film. Dr. Strangelove who is a former Nazi nuclear expert now working for the U.S., Lionel Mandrake; a British officer, and lastly the president of the United States. He plays all of these roles expertly and Dr. Strangelove is probably one of the best quotable characters.

                The movie takes place in basically just three locations. The iconic War Room, the inside of a B-52 bomber, and the inside and outside of an air force base. The film can be suspenseful in fairly comedic ways.  For example, in one scene the whole world depends on a Coca-Cola machine. It is these parts that make this film so enjoyable. And here is the kinda scary part: This all could have happened. Sure it maybe a little of a stretch but the basic idea of a corrupt general that exceeded his authority and send bombers to wipe out all of Russia could have happened.

                Dr. Strangelove is a great film and surprisingly a lot of fun. Who knew a black comedy about the cold war could have been this good. Though the ending did leave me feeling a wanting more. I guess I haven’t learned to stop worrying and love the bomb yet. 

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

The Amazing Spider-Man is of course a super hero movie starring Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy and it was directed by Marc Webb. Seriously with a last name like that it has to be good. The film is about Parker’s origin story of how he got his powers and how the disappearance of his father and THEN the death of his uncle affects him. This is the second movie that Webb directed, the first being (500) Days of Summer which is a critically acclaimed independent romance film.

                First let me talk about the characters. Garfield portrayed Spider-Man/Peter Parker materfully. When he is Peter he is a shy, outcast type kid but when he is Spider-Man he acts like he is immortal. He takes advantage of the mask in front of him. With the mask on he has no consequences. You immediately identify with him. If you had a secret identity and super powers, I think we would all humiliate and play with criminals. When his uncle (played by Martin Sheen) is shot you can really feel the emotion he is through. I mean he has no fricken clue about his father and suddenly loses his present “father.” During the scenes of him mourning his loss, you buy it, and I’ll admit I got a few body chills during that scene. You also see how it really affected him. In the Sam Reimi films you saw Toby Maguire doing his terrible crying face and then it cuts to the next scene. In this one the flesh it out a lot more. Garfield is a great crier in this movie. That might sound weird but remember Toby Maguire's crying, did you ever buy it??? In this film you definitely do. Emma Stone’s character, Gwen Stacy, is a great character.  She actually does stuff and not just get captured by the bad dude. She is unlike most female characters. She isn't just a prize for Spider-Man after she gets kidnapped. She has layers. Future filmmakers, listen up! This is what female characters have to be like. And of course the romance is great and completely believable. I mean it’s from the dude who made (500) Days of Summer.

                The villain in the movie is Dr. Connors who I gotta say is one of the few problems with the film. When I was watching the movie I had no clue why he was doing what he was doing. They should have fleshed him out more and they also should have had a scene where he was with his family. Something else that could have been better was Peter’s parents. They should have shown more of them. That would have been awesome but I’m reviewing the movie for what it is and not what I want it to be. The editing is also something that bothered me. Scenes went away way to fast and about one or two times I couldn’t keep up with what was happening. I can kind of agree why he did that, because we saw it 10 years ago, but at sometimes it seems that ten sub-plots are going at once. But on the upside, the first-person views in the film were great.

                If you can’t tell by this review I completely recommend this movie. Some people might say that a re-boot is unnecessary but I completely disagree. After what Spider-Man 3 left us, we needed to redo the story. Also some people thought that it was unneeded. I don't think that they should give it a low score just because of that. Also Marc Webb didn't copy exactly what Sam Reimi did in his movies. The scenarios change and are quite different. All in all I thought this was a fantastic movie and it was a hell of a lot of fun.  And be sure to expect a sequel as they almost completely drop the story about Peter’s parents. As the title suggest it is The Amazing Spider-Man and amazing it is.

9/10

Madagascar 3 (2012)

Now when I entered this movie theater to watch this movie I expected a good time. Just a good time. Nothing more nothing less. This movie stars Ben Stiller as Alex the Lion, Chris Rock as Marty the Zebra, David Schwimmer as Melman the Giraffe, and Jada Smith as Gloria the Hippo. This movie is about the New York zoo animals waiting for the penguins to return to take them back to their zoo. But they don't come. So they then go to Monte Carlo to try to find them and they do. In a casino. Gambling. With a disguise of a woman. And nobody notices them. As you can see this movie does not share the realistic style that other animated films use such as Toy Story. It is very cartooney, for example their is one scene where a woman runs through and breaks a brick wall without losing momentum and feeling no pain. But I digress, the zoo animals then get the attention of the gamblers and everybody runs for their lives. While all the animals, including the penguins, are trying to escape. In the meantime a animal exterminator chases them through Monte Carlo and through the entire movie. The animals then find a circus train while they are running from the cops and they then join the circus.

I loved the comedy this movie uses. It has comedy that kids will love (such as slapstick) but also have comedy for adults too. Many jokes will go over kids heads but you will get. This is great because if you are a parent watching it, you will have just as a good time as your kid does. I really liked the characters. They were all shown their flaws, fears, and weaknesses. And none were annoying in how many other animated films are. But I think the stars of this movie are the circus animals. The Russian tiger (played by Bryan Cranston) is one of them that stands out. His character really shows someone who has truly lost something. Gia the jaguar (played by Jessica Chastain) is another circus animal that I really liked. When she is on screen, you feel a sense of adventure. But maybe I'm looking too much into it. Oh well.

This movie also has some faults though. It has some things that every kids movie has. In every kids movie there is always something that the main character does that is a lie, the other characters find out, the main character says it's not what it looks like, and then is shunned for 15 minutes while he then gets redemption and everybody loves him. This movie has this, painful formula but it executes it for a very slow amount of time and also bends it a little. I am so happy that they did that  because I HATE the mellow drama that ensues at the beginning of the end of a kids film.

So in conclusion, this is a very good film, albeit a predictable one. This is a great film to watch if you want a good time and them some.

8/10

Grown Ups (2010)

Ahh, Adam Sandler why must you make such unfunny movies. You used to make hilarious films that were such good times. Films like Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, and Mr. Deeds. Those were awesome!

But! Then there came Grown Ups. This movie was directed by Dennis Dugan, who is known for his partnership with the funny (and unfunny) Adma Sandler movies. This movie stars Adam Sandler (also co-written by him), Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, and Rob Schnieder. Okay, now with a cast like that you expect (at least I did) comedy gold or at least a good time. The movie is about these 5 basketball players winning a championship of something related to basketball (the movie never tells you). Also, how come there are only 5 players. They need at least one sub. Anyways their coach dies and we see the basketball players 30 years older. Adam Sandler is a rich agent in Hollywood. Kevin James is a co-owner of a lawn furniture company (does that even exist???). Chris Rock is a stay home father. David Spade is some sort of playboy. And lastly Rob Schnieder is the weirdo in every group of friends and somehow has married and divorced a bajillion amount of times. These guys all have wives and kids, except David Spade, and to the films credit it does have quite a few characters and show what their traits and character are but it doesn't amount to much. Many characters are either unlikeable and/or underdeveloped. The children are also portrayed as stupid, mean, and ignorant. So the basket-ball players and their wives and children all stay in this log camp house thing for some reason. Something I don't get is why do they stay at the house thing? They at first go to the funeral yes, but why do they stay? I mean they would catch up with each of their lives in a restaurant or something. Or maybe go to the same house but just stay for one day and go back to their regular lives but oh well. Then the team that they played with 30 years ago somehow find them and want a rematch cause they think they cheated and the rest of the story (the little that their is) unfolds.

Where this movie fails is at the comedy. It is just an unfunny movie. With this cast I was definitely expecting a really funny movie with classic Sandler who made movies I loved but was reduced to this, and eventually much worse. I didn't laugh once in this movie. Rob Schneider's character was one I gennualy did not like. It was disgusting watching a 40 year old man french kissing with what seems to be a 60+ year old woman. I did not like this movie. Mainly because it's boring and unfunny. Unfunny scenarios. Unfunny characters. Unfunny comedy. This movie had tons of potential but failed in almost everything. And of course it made lots of money. I'm sure everyone who watched this had the same expectation as me and was disappointed for the most part. And of course they are gonna make another one which won't make any sense why they would catch up again.

3/10

P.S. My next movie is gonna be a more recent movie. Cheers!!

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

(As usual with any review, this will have spoilers.) Bonnie and Clyde was directed by Arthur Penn and stars Warren Beatty as Clyde and Faye Dunway as Bonnie. The plot is a dramatic, gritty, romantic comedy.As you can see those are very opposite sub-genres but this movie pulls it off. It is about a duo of bank robbers and murderers in the Great Depression. "We rob banks, " as they say throughout this film to their "sidekicks." Bonnie and Clyde go out and rob a few small stores, the occasional bank and sometimes pop the head of a bank manager. They are not technically "bad" people they just do what they do for the money and what little money there was. One scene where they are robbing a bank they ask a man if the which was in the stand was theirs and he said yes. Clyde let him keep it. Death in this movie is shown darkly. They do not want to kill anybody but as the intensity rises they have no choice. The "sidekicks" they get are C. W. Moss who used to work in a gas station and Clyde's brother Buck and his wife Blanche.They go and move to state to state in a circle so their crimes in on state won't go to the other. But the police act anyway and this starts the public enemy era. Bonnie and Clyde go through many typical romance dialogue but this dialogue transitions very quickly to gunfights with the law. They go around in the public nonchalantly but everyone reads the newspaper. The gunfights are intense. This movie makes you wonder if the characters you care for will die. The characters do see death right around the corner too. They are living the life where they have to flee from one place to another from guys with big guns and a lot of them. They are relieved this rather quickly but just try to forget or dismiss it but it is unavoidable. They know they are going to be killed for their actions and so do you. The questions come up when. When will they die? When you watch this movie I urge you not to see how much time is left or how far you are into the movie. This will take you out of the experience. And what an experience it is. This is truly an amazing film. This took two people that in the papers were described terrible people who will kill anyone on sight and made them seem like good people that just do what they do because they don't have money. They take money from the rich because they are poor. Some critics panned this movie for justification of criminals and at first Warner Brother's were not fans of the film. They didn't like it but Beatty had to beg for them to accept it. Good thing that they did. This movie broke some unofficial rules that film had at the time. They showed violence like non-other at the time. Not to mention it won two Oscars for Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actress which was Estelle Parsons playing Blanche (?????). What were they thinking!?! I thought she was the worst and most annoying actor there! But I digress this is truly a good/great/amazing/awesome/something. Watch this movie. It is extremely easy to find and its instantly streaming on Netflix. You can't miss this movie. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. Bonnie and Clyde
10/10

P.S. I know i'm really generous and stuff. I promise i'll have a good review about a bad movie (and give it a bad score) on the next review whenever I do it.

The Artist (2011)

[This review has spoilers, you have been warned.]The Artist is a silent black and white film made directed by Michel Hazanavicius and stars Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The Artist is about a famous silent black and white movie actor seeing the film industry change to sound instead of silence. His name is George Valentine. He meats a woman named Peppy Miller who he then invites to the world of cinema. Then the future arrives. Valentine's boss shows him a "Talkie" but Valentine rejects the "invention." You then see the fall of his career and in the mean time you see another career flourish: Peppy Miller. Miller has become a widespread success with the "Talkies." This actually happened to many silent actors. They could not evolve to the films with sound and caused many to lose their life. This movie was the winner of 7 Oscars including Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Picture. Now on to the actual review. When I walked into the theater I expected a masterpiece. I received nothing less. The style is what I think made this movie so special. But of course the story is what matters the most. It is great with compelling characters and good drama and suspense to keep it going. The interaction that the characters have with each other is charming and sometimes even depressing. Dujardin's and Bejo characters are charming and their interactions with each other are funny. A small flaw was that the dialogue cards that come up didn't give me enough time to read but that might just me.
9.5/10
Why not a 10? [KINDA SORTA A SPOILER] I am not giving this movie a ten because of its ending. If I was to make/finish this movie, I would have made it much darker and much more grittier BUT this is never the less a masterpiece. Watch this movie and even if you just don't like silent movies or this one doesn't interest you, you should still check it out. It won best picture for a reason.

The Aviator (2004)

(This is edited cause since this was my first review I made this very short so now I am re-writing it cause I didn't think it made the movie justice.)

Let me just staart off by saying this: Watch this movie!!
Now that we got that out of the way I will tell you why.

When I started this movie into my DVD player I expected a fictional romance World War II dogfighting movie. I thought it was going to be a predictable movie but appereantly was directed by Scorsese. I thought it would have thought at the end there was going to be a big battle between the two forces and the main character was gonna get killed of and the girl was going to mourn his loss. What I got was my favourite movie that I have ever seen. This is why.

This is a biographical film about Howard Hughes' high point in his life. This was directed by the always impressive duo Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo Dicaprio as Howard Hughes. The movie kicks of with Hughes filming Hell's Angels which is a World War II dog fighting film and Hughes hires many many pilots and lots of chameras. At the time this was very unordinary and extremly risky for film makers. The budget for the movie 3,000,000+ which was unheard of at the time. Hughes went to great lengths to make Hell's Angels to be as great and as can be. As he was filming the movie he had a great interest in planes and aviation. After the filming he started to make the best plane possible and if it wasn't for Howard Hughes we would not have the one winged airplane. To go farther in the story would be a disservice to you all in this great story. Oh and there is a big crucial part in the beginning that I dare not ruin for you.

Overall the acting is great and Dicaprio's acting is great throughout. You really like and identify with the main characters. It is great to see Howard Hughes enthusiasm and perfectionism go while he is making the airplanes. Hughes also has many romances throughout mos notably Katherine Hepburn played by Kate Bluanchet which, besides Hughes, I think was the most likeable character. Dicaprio is great in showing Hughes' character in showing that he does anything to accomplish what he wants done.

The script was done beautifuly by John Logan (who has done screenplays for movies such as Gladiator and Hugo) where evry line is perfect. The script is funny, emotional, epic, and every other posotive adjective ever. The directing from Scorsese is at his finest. The first hour or so is all filmed in bipack color. Scorsese did this in every scene before 1935. There is some cgi forthe planes in this movie and yes you can notice it looks... well less than believable but to hell with it cause the rest of the movie is too damn good. Also it's only use for the plane sequences which would be imposible to film in live action. Scorsese did masterfully in directing this film with positioning every shot perfectly and was edited undineably amazingly well.

Well as you can see this is just me gushing out why I loved this movie. I'm sorry but, I love this movie. I am so happy on how completly wrong I was on my hypothesis of how this movie was. It is a three hour movie but when I watched it, it felt like a morning cartoon. This movie was nominated for just about every important Oscar but for some damned reason it didn't win best picture. This is my favourite movie and I don't think this review does it justice but at least I tried.                                                                                            

∞/10

Another Movie Reviewer...

Well....another movie reviewer....this is my first blog and I love movies. I often refer it to cinema because it's a lot more classy. The cinema is more than just entertainment. It is an art of watching people act , it is a director putting two actors and recording their acting. Only a few movies can be considered art. I will be review these and the ones that you watch for ten minutes and just turn off the TV because of it's disgusting nature. I will try to write reviews once a month and please give me feedback and share your opinions on the movies(Also tell me which movie I should review next). I hope you like these reviews. Cheers!