ZombieKitten said:

Treasure Buddies 4/5

This movie has it all!

Talking monkeys, a score that sounds like like Raiders of the Lost Ark but NOT!

cute camels, cat statues with glowing eyes, quicksand, mirages and puppies

Seriously, what's not to love?

Sounds waaaaaaaaay too complex for my tastes.

PurpleJedi said:

ZombieKitten said:

Treasure Buddies 4/5

This movie has it all!

Talking monkeys, a score that sounds like like Raiders of the Lost Ark but NOT!

cute camels, cat statues with glowing eyes, quicksand, mirages and puppies

Seriously, what's not to love?

Sounds waaaaaaaaay too complex for my tastes.

True it's probably a bit too highbrow

ZombieKitten said:

PurpleJedi said:

Sounds waaaaaaaaay too complex for my tastes.

True it's probably a bit too highbrow

ZombieKitten said:

Treasure Buddies 4/5

This movie has it all!

Talking monkeys, a score that sounds like like Raiders of the Lost Ark but NOT!

cute camels, cat statues with glowing eyes, quicksand, mirages and puppies

Seriously, what's not to love?

Puppies, a camel and a monkey, what could possibly go wrong?

Just glancing I thought what cute puppies, then I noticed one face looked kinda funny.

The Avengers - 2.5/5

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I saw Ted and I absolutely loved it. 5/5 stars.

3/5 I liked it. Very low budget, handheld video camera intentially, used a lot of family, Grandma Betty was so cute. Gritty and very bittersweet.

THE AMER­I­CAN DREAM cen­ters on Luis, a young man who is rejected from USC’s School of Cin­e­matic Arts and decides to attend LA City Col­lege instead. Cir­cum­stances that seem to over­whelm his pas­sage into man­hood and his devel­op­ment as an artist force him to drop out of LACC and join the Marine Corp with his best friend Ronald. Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald make a movie doc­u­ment­ing their last 36 hours before ship­ping off to Afghanistan. In their dark­est hour, they turn on the video cam­era for the last time and doc­u­ment the final moments of their jour­ney home. They soon real­ize that their dreams and promises of a new life mean noth­ing in a place called War.

Stymie said:

ZombieKitten said:

Stymie said:

I saw Ted and I absolutely loved it. 5/5 stars.

In the words of my father in law, "I no believa!!!"

Yep. i am such a Seth MacFarlane junkie that not even Markie Mark could stop me from seeing the movie.

damosuzuki said:

sextonseven said:

I felt Kevin looked too obviously evil. For a bit, I thought maybe that's just how he appears to his mother and to everyone else, he looks like a normal child/teen--which would have been interesting if that angle was made more explicit visually, having two different-looking Kevins depending on which person was talking to him. I still gave the movie the same rating you did: 3.5/5.

Right, that’s what I felt as well. Kevin’s a bad seed, mentally ill, a troubled kid right from the time he came off the assembly line. To me, that seemed so apparent from our perspective that it made it a little unbelievable that the dad could not see it, or that so many people would hold the mother accountable. Still an interesting & recommendable movie though.

I made the mistake of going to see Prometheus instead of Moonrise Kingdom this week. I felt a little obligated to go because seeing Alien when I was 11 or so was one of my formative movie experiences. I walked out of Prometheus disappointed and a little irritated, and the more I’ve thought about it the more I’ve come to hate it.

I had my biases coming into the film. I knew I hated the premise of ancient astronauts as creators of mankind. I don’t think that’s hard science fiction. I think that’s an infantile fantasy. Wouldn’t it have been so much more interesting to visit a world where Xenomorphs evolved and find out how they exist in their natural habitat, and what kind of ecosystem could co-exist with such a life-form? Personally I think there’s far more interesting a story in aliens as an evolved species than the presentation of the aliens as an unintended (or intended? Do they explain that?) consequence of biological weapon production. But that’s the movie Ridley Scott wanted to make, and I could have put my own preferences aside if the movie was a little compelling. Prometheus is all cookie-cutter plot points and some of the most wooden expository dialogue I’ve heard in a movie.

And I realize science is going to be presented softly in most movies, but why present the scientists as such clichéd characters who display no rational precision or apparent interest in being on an alien planet with actual alien life forms on it, acting without protocol or any kind of informed intelligence? Why finance a trillion dollar mission and staff it with a biologist and geologist who, when presented with an alien world and alien corpses, decide they want to run away like frightened little girls? Why would the lead scientist, upon finding out that he’s apparently infected with an alien organism, be too afraid to tell anyone, in particular the co-lead scientist he apparently loves and may have just infected? And, if the engineers planted the seed of life on Earth (when? 4 billion years ago? 500 million years ago? Who can tell?), why is their DNA apparently identical to ours? They used their DNA to plant their seed on an apparently lifeless world, yet we’ve evolved to be identical to them? No recombination, no genetic drift, no mutation and millions of years of natural selection?

In conclusion: screw you, Prometheus, you stupid, grey, dreary, elephant’s left testicle of a movie. 1/5 for the nice visuals and Michael Fassbender.

I loved both your review of Prometheus and We Need to Talk About Kevin!

Stymie said:

HotGritz said:

and a half!

Just 2.5 stars?!

ZombieKitten said:

Stymie said:

Yep. i am such a Seth MacFarlane junkie that not even Markie Mark could stop me from seeing the movie.

I loved it too, but I love everything I would love to have seen Seth Green in it too, even in the Marky Mark role

Yeah I the other Seth was in it, too.

MacFarlane made a movie about Meg.

Stymie said:

TED

4/5 stars

thekidsgirl said:

HotGritz said:

and a half!

Just 2.5 stars?!

I agree with the two and a half stars.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

1/5

For this basketball alone

Savages - 3.5/5 - Oliver Stone doing Tarantino.

Irritating voice over but interesting story.

Salma Hayek was great. She's very perceptive at one point, but I never saw it (what she was referring to) in the movie.

Take This Waltz (2012) - a married woman falls for a stranger whom turns out to live across the street from her as her life starts to feel dull. 4/5

beautiful scenery and great acting from Michelle. also, the whirl ride scene set against Video Killed the Radio Star is one of the best movie moments I've seen in a while.

Paul was cool 4/5

Anyone else liked it?

OzlemUcucu said:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189073/

Strange, strange movie with a twist I didn't see. 4/5

This is one time that the trailer is definitely NOT better than the movie.

morningsong said:

3/5 I liked it. Very low budget, handheld video camera intentially, used a lot of family, Grandma Betty was so cute. Gritty and very bittersweet.

THE AMER­I­CAN DREAM cen­ters on Luis, a young man who is rejected from USC’s School of Cin­e­matic Arts and decides to attend LA City Col­lege instead. Cir­cum­stances that seem to over­whelm his pas­sage into man­hood and his devel­op­ment as an artist force him to drop out of LACC and join the Marine Corp with his best friend Ronald. Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald make a movie doc­u­ment­ing their last 36 hours before ship­ping off to Afghanistan. In their dark­est hour, they turn on the video cam­era for the last time and doc­u­ment the final moments of their jour­ney home. They soon real­ize that their dreams and promises of a new life mean noth­ing in a place called War.

Uh, I skipped that, I believe it's too patriotic for my liking.

This cheesy crap was better than I expected. It's actually quite funny, but still just 2/5

And Changing Lanes is awesome. Samuel Jackson is playin the role of a disturbed black man, and it was thought provoking. 4/5 MUST SEE

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ZombieKitten said:

OzlemUcucu said:

Paul was cool 4/5

Anyone else liked it?

I loved it!

OzlemUcucu said:

morningsong said:

3/5 I liked it. Very low budget, handheld video camera intentially, used a lot of family, Grandma Betty was so cute. Gritty and very bittersweet.

THE AMER­I­CAN DREAM cen­ters on Luis, a young man who is rejected from USC’s School of Cin­e­matic Arts and decides to attend LA City Col­lege instead. Cir­cum­stances that seem to over­whelm his pas­sage into man­hood and his devel­op­ment as an artist force him to drop out of LACC and join the Marine Corp with his best friend Ronald. Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald make a movie doc­u­ment­ing their last 36 hours before ship­ping off to Afghanistan. In their dark­est hour, they turn on the video cam­era for the last time and doc­u­ment the final moments of their jour­ney home. They soon real­ize that their dreams and promises of a new life mean noth­ing in a place called War.

Uh, I skipped that, I believe it's too patriotic for my liking.

Naw, not patriotic, not un-patriotic. It's weird because it filmed like a young (hyper) guy on his way to Afghanstan, and ends with him being there. I'm crushing on Jamil right now too, so...

Magic Mike: 4 out of 5 stars. The actress who plays The Kid's big sister & Channing Tatum's love interest gave a very wooden performance. I thought that took away from an otherwise great movie.

OzlemUcucu said:

This cheesy crap was better than I expected. It's actually quite funny, but still just 2/5

I agree. I laughed quite a bit at Land of the Lost, but it was stupid as hell