Watched several movies this past weekend since I was computer-less.
Precious: what a fantastic movie and truly heartbreaking. Someone needs to call the Hollywood police to confiscate that stolen Oscar from Sandra Bullock and give it to Gabourey Sidibe. I mean, you've got to be joking that Bullock won over her.
Paranormal Activity: Holy crap, this scared the **** out of me. I like to take pride in the fact that I hardly ever see any trailers or watch any behind the scenes stuff on movies and only know the very basic of any movie before I watch it. All I knew about this was that it was filmed in the camcorder style and was of course about ghosts or something. I hadn't seen a single trailer or read about it at all. I watched it in complete darkness by myself in a huge and totally empty house that I was house-sitting. :lol: That... was not a good idea.
Harry Brown: Michael Caine as a vigilante getting revenge on hoodlums in his neighborhood. Sounds like Deathwish 3? Not quite as stupid, but basically the same story. It was pretty bland. I was hoping for more.
Up in the Air: BLAH! Can someone say Lifetime movie? This was nominated for best movie??? I haven't seen anything so predictable and drab in a while. Sure, it had a few chuckle moments and some good scenes, but why was this movie given such high praise? Was is just because George Clooney was in it?
Stranger than Fiction: Surprisingly good for a serious Will Ferrell movie, but still lackluster. It had great potential, but sort of fell apart. I love Emma Thompson though.
Avatar: Pfft. Dances With Wolves part 3. There were so many obscenely ridiculous moments in this movie that I won't bother right now, but I could (and am thinking about) rant for about 2000 words. Total drek. Predictable, asinine and completely acceptable for a movie with a 200k budget, not a gadzillion dollar budget and twenty years in the making. (I know it wasn't twenty years in the making)
Taken: gawd! FINALLY! A stupid movie that rocks the **** out! This movie pretended to be nothing other than itself from start to finish which was an unrealistic vigilante action movie of one bad ass motherfucker against the bad guys. Paper-thin characters and painfully coincidental moments. Expertly directed with great camera work during the action moments. Liam Neeson was great in this.
