Time Spent Watching Movies

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

October is Coming


 And then winter.

Hello reader(s).  Its almost time for just about the only month that I make posts anymore to begin.  Movie watching this summer was possibly at an all time low.  The World Cup dominated my afternoons and I got super into The X-Files at night.  Sprinkle in a few video games and boom, we have a hiatus. 

On the other hand, I have been going hard watching movies for the past month or so there are a few things to discuss at least.  I’ve pretty much only watched movies released in the last two years.  There is no real reason for this but you could say I’m pretty current.  Here is a quick break down of the movies I’ve seen recently (you’ll notice a lack of horror because I’ve been saving up for October).  I made a list of all of them which you can see here http://www.imdb.com/list/ls075412166/ . On to the reviews

Movies to Watch and Then Re-Watch

The Raid 2

It has been a little while since I watched this but I’m adding it to the blog because it’s the best movie of the last two years.  Sure there are movies with better acting or plot but nothing gave me a viewing experience like The Raid 2.  The first movie was great for strictly action but the sequel added more of a storyline to the movie.  I can’t wait for the next one, especially if Tony Jaa is going to be in it.

Into it start to finish

Blue Ruin

Blue Ruin was one of the best indie revenge movies that I can remember.  It looks beautiful and the main actor does a good job leading it.  There are some really tense moments and we get to see what Buzz from Home Alone looks like now.

Ida

Ida was Poland entrant to the Oscars and just missed making the final nominations.  It’s shot in black and white and is again, very nice looking.  Certainly not a happy movie with a happy ending, Ida is a well told and acted story.

Snowpiercer

Snowpiercer is an action movie that takes place on a train with some amazing looking sets.  The ending is so-so but this was a highly entertaining movie.

Calvary

I got hooked on this from the very first scene.  It’s a dark movie and yet feels very lighthearted at the same time.  Mad Eye Moody is a really good actor.

Stoker

Stoker is the first American movie by the South Korean director who made the Oldboy and other vengeance movies.  The script isn’t as good as any of those but it’s well acted and wonderfully scored.

Worth the Watch

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Another Wes Anderson movie.  Loved the sets in this one.  Fiennes was great but I needed more plot.  Some large actor’s characters didn’t really add to the movie and felt like they were written in just to have them in the movie.  Middle of the pack Anderson movie for me but still good.

Only Lovers Left Alive

9/10 times I would never watch this movie because of the title alone.  I mean, come on.  But I liked the director and gave it a watch anyway.  Like his other movies, not a lot of things happen and when they do it takes a while for it to happen but the cinematography and music is top notch.  Tilda and Loki were great and drove the movie.

The Last Stand

The first hour of the movie was very meh and I was ready to put this lower.  Then the final shootout began and totally redeemed the whole movie.  One of the best shootout’s made recently and worth watching the movie 100%.  Will probably be watching this one again just for that.

22 Jump Street

Literally the same movie but I’m ok with that because I loved the first.  I’ve seen a few people say they liked 22 more but it had a few less laughs for me.  Ending chase was the best/funniest part.

Decent enough movies (they were good but you don’t need to kill yourself to watch)

Joe

Watched this for Nick Cage and he does a good job acting here.  This isn’t The Wickerman Cage.  Pretty good indie drama here.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best part of this movie is the locations.  It made me really want to visit Iceland.  Didn't care for the daydream sequences.

Maleficent

I thought this movie was going to suck but I enjoyed it.  Angelina was great, Copley not so much.  Could of used some more songs (can’t believe I said that but Sleeping Beauty was a favorite).

Bad Words

I generally don’t like Bateman but this movie was really funny.  Another one that I thought I wasn’t going to like but ended up enjoying.

Enemy

I could rant on and on about this one.  Really, really cool premise.  Built up well and there were at least 10 different twists that could’ve ended the movie really well.  Unfortunately it ended with the most obvious one in my mind and a fairly unoriginal one at that.  Producer and I were very disappointed.  A lot of film people say the ending was great but I just can’t see it that way.

We’re the Millers

Similar amount of laughs as Bad Words.  Pretty  good and fun comedy. 

Jodorowsky’ Dune

Documentary about what could’ve been a groundbreaking movie but was never made.  How about you just make it now?

Godzilla

Needed more Cranston and Watanabe, less Kick-Ass.  Had high hopes and ended up being just so-so.

Divergent

The cool and hip parkour teens made me cringe a little in the beginning but I ended up liking this better than Hunger Games.

Filth

Movie is just James McAvoy being a dirty cop.  He does a good job, especially when he goes crazy.  Worth the one-time  watch for me but only watch if you’ll think you will like it.

I Know That Voice

Documentary where voice actors finally get some camera time.  Pretty cool seeing how things are made behind the scenes.

Neighbors

Pretty funny but not the same amount of laughs as the previous two comedies in here.


Watch at your own Discretion

The Rover

The tone and cinematography were great but I just had a hard time getting into it because both of the main characters weren’t very likable.  Still like Guy Pierce.

Draft Day

An of  course unrealistic depiction of a general manager’s coming and goings on the day of the NFL draft as well as an unwanted romance storyline.  I’m a guy who has been a part of a virtual gm game that takes months online so I did like the behind the scene’s parts of the movie.  Still hate Kevin Costner.

The Amazing Spiderman 2

Spiderman will always be my favorite superhero but this wasn’t my favorite movie of his.  Like the first, Garfield and Stone were really good but the story line was so-so.  Not feeling the villains in this one either.  Preferred the first movie.  That’s all.

The Zero Theorem

The setting looked like The 5th Element mixed with 12 Monkeys, which I liked.  Waltz was good like always but the story just isn’t there.


Didn’t Like It

Thor: The Dark World

Better than the first but that still makes it the second worst Marvel movie. 

Transformers: Age of Extinction

You know how I feel about Mark.  He makes anything watchable.  Movie was waaaaay to long and had terrible dialogue.  Tucci losing it in the elevator gave me douche chills.

Transcendence

The actors are all very good and the premise is interesting enough so you have to wonder where it all went wrong.  Some of it was the script and some of it was the directing.  So like 2/3 of what mainly make up a movie were what went wrong.

Million Dollar Arm

Very boring and I love baseball.  Didn’t like Hamm in this but that might have just been because his character was a d-bag.

The Monuments Men

Perhaps the least dramatic drama I have ever seen.

Locke

Even if you are a Tom Hardy superfan like me, you can’t defend this movie.  I was alright with the storyline of Hardy just talking on the phone in his car the whole time as long as it turned into something meaningful.  He was just chatting.

Nymphomaniac Vol 2

No I am not confessing that I watched a nudie movie to you.  Another one of the things that I have this summer is enroll in an Online Scandinavian film class at the University of Copenhagen (for free of course).   Super legit right?  The director the professor was the biggest current fan of was Lars von Trier who made the Nympho movies.  I saw another one of his, Antichrist, and didn’t like it at all.  Looked nice but the rest was bleh.  Same story here with Nymphomaniac.  Definitely preferred 2 to 1.

Game of Assassins

Ok so this was a bad movie but I didn’t hate it.  That is simply because I like movies where they show people in hell.  Does that make me weird?

Need for Speed

You don’t need me to tell you this was bad.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Very basic spy movie.  There are countless better so I would say watch one of those.  Kevin Costner.

Child of God

My first James Franco directed movie and maybe the last.  I just got bored.  The main actor did a pretty powerful job and the cinematography was good but that was it.  Pass on this.


Really bad Movies

Sabotage

If you want to watch a recent Arnold movie, definitely pick The Last Stand instead.  The dialogue and just the way characters were written to act was very frustrating.  Action sequences weren’t all that amazing which makes it even worse.

Space Station 76

I feel like this was made just show they could show people in space wearing clothes from the 70s.  Big time zzzzzzz.  Nothing memorable happens ever.

300:Rise of an Empire

I knew this was going to be bad but it exceeded my expectations.  Go outside and watch cars drive instead.  Or weed your front garden.  Anything but watching this.

Nymphomaniac: Vol 1

See Vol 2 but with less plot and more D and B (dick and balls).  Not for me.


All Time Bad

Identity Thief

I’m pretty good at finishing movies.  The times I have stopped watching one can probably be counted on one hand.  I made it maybe 30 minutes into this.  Not a single laugh and none in sight.  Characters were acting frustratingly stupid.  Melissa McCartney does nothing for me.  You hear that Melissa?  Nothing!


Wowza that took a long time.  Mostly because it was long but also I can’t stop playing this http://www.clickerheroes.com/.  Goodbye random 5 hours of your life.

-Onto the horror!

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