Since it's been so long since I've done any reviews and I prefer to do them immediatly after watching, due to my horrible excuse for a memory (I explain it as a photographic memory, there's just no film in my camera), I figured I do a bunch of really quick reviews on movies that I've seen over the past few months. This includes a few made for tv movies. . .
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Theatre - I really liked this movie! I excitedly came home from vacation, called my dad to see when we were going to watch it and was horribly dissappointed to learn that he had no interest in seeing it. This was quite surprising as this is a typical movie that we would go see together. Anyway, called my friend, went and loved it (I'm still telling my dad he made a bad choice). If you liked the Harry Potter movies I think you'll like this one too. If you want details, sorry, it's been too long but just trust me on this one.
Sherlock Holmes - Undecided - From what I saw, I was really enjoying it. Then the film melted and we never got to see the end. Really disappointing. If you've seen the end, don't tell me. . . I'll get to it sooner or later. Hopefully sooner.
Shutter Island - DVD, Maybe Cable - It was an interesting twist and if you like just the idea of suspense thrillers where you're trying to figure out what's going on, then you'll really like it. Maybe I just put it as low as I do because I'm not that big on that genre of movie, but for what it was, it was pretty decent. I just wouldn't pay $10 bucks for it. I'd do a $1 redbox, but there's probably others I'd pick before this one.
Legion - Cable or Broadcast Network - I was tricked. Or my brother was tricked by deceitful ads into thinking it was cooler than it was. Here's my take on it. Take "From Dusk Til Dawn" change the setting from a bar in the Mexican desert to a diner in the middle of a US desert (don't remember the state), change the vampires to angels that look more like demons and change the premise of fighting for survival through the night to fighting to protect a baby whose death would mean the apocalypse. And there you have Legion.
Alice In Wonderland - Theatre or DVD - I would only say theatre because some of the images would be better large so you can take it all in, but I didn't even do the 3-D thing and it was still good. I mean, its Alice in Wonderland meets Tim Burton. . . how can you go wrong?
Clash of the Titans - Theatre - Again, I mainly say this because the images are so huge it helps to have the big screen. I also saw this not in 3-D and thought it was just as good as I would have if it was 3-D. (I really think 3-D is just another way of making us pay more money for things). Epic battle scenes, good creation of the legendary creatures that he battles. . . some deviations from the original movie's details (and lacking the delicious cheesiness of the original, which isn't necessarily a bad thing), but overall pretty decent as far as epic ancient battle movies go.
Riverworld (Sci-Fi Channel original movie) - Maybe the plane rating. . . or never. . . hard to give a definitive rating on this one, so I'll tell you why and let you decide for yourself. SPOILER ALERT: In order to tell you why it pissed me off so much, I have to give away the ending. If you want to give it a shot, I'll recap everything then tell you when I'm about to spoil it so you can stop reading: Decent story (based on a book series) about people throughout time waking up from death on this world of rivers. Different patches of land divided by rivers on a planet 10x larger than Earth. You die in Riverworld, you just keep coming back (they call getting out of a difficult situation by choosing to die and come back where ever and when ever you land the "suicide express"). Some blue alien people are in charge of Riverworld and they're divided into 2 factions, 1 wants to destroy it, 1 wants to save it, so they use hapless victims of their experimental planet to play out their desires by pitting 2 guys against each other and using their love of some woman to play them. Funny characters along the way (Mark Twain was hi-larious) and it kept me interested. However, it was 4 hours long!!! Here's where the SPOILER is: If I'm going to watch something for 4 hours, I don't want to finally have the big battle happen, get the partially happy ending then realize that it's just going to keep happening forever and ever and ever. Remember, they die and keep coming back? Yeah, well they're still the same people with the same memories every time!! Lame ending. And it was just the final scene that pissed me off as much as it did. Anyway, you decide from here. . .
Beauty and the Briefcase (abc family original movie) - Yeah Broadcast Network movies!!! - I love cheesy movies. Love them!! This starred Hillary Duff (love her), the guy from Kyle XY, Jaime Pressley and some other guy that I recognize from something else. The premise is: she's a fashion writer trying to get a piece into Cosmopolitan magazine when they assign her a peice infiltrating the business world of NY finance in order for her to find her "magic man." I have to admit that the beginning was a bit annoying with the constant comments about "men in suits" but I hung in there and the cheesiness did not disappoint. I especially liked that she had to be told she was in love before she realized it. Ridiculous!! If you like absurd family friendly/pre-teen or teen oriented movies, you'll like this! Okay, there are not many people that fall into this category, and generally it means you'll watch just about any movie having a love story, but whatever, we all have our vices!!!!
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