Tag: movie reviews
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Anchorman 2 – The Legend Continues
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Grade: C Despite the fact that I hate myself for laughing at anything during a Will Ferrell movie, I was unable to contain myself – a few times. Most of the movie was rather forgettable. The humor was embarrassing, or most of the time, just not funny. However, I loved the “last battle” scene. That…
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Elysium – movie review
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Grade: C- In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a huge scifi fan. Unfortunately that means I’m really hard on scifi movies. They have to be outstanding for me to give them a good rating. Unfortunately Elysium orbits a long, LONG, way from outstanding. If you’re not a particularly big scifi fan anyway then you may…
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2 Guns – movie review
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Grade: A+ 2 Guns blew me away. The movie was so well done that I couldn’t possibly fit all of the great moments into this review. Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg were perfect. The chemistry that these two have is incredible. They brought their characters to life in such a way that it was actual…
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The Wolverine – movie review
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Grade: B- I thought The Wolverine was good, but forgettable. I doubt if I’ll ever want to watch it again, even on DVD. If I do it will be for the character Yukio (Rila Fukushima), the girl with the red highlights. She was a pleasant addition to the story and I love the way she…
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R.I.P.D. – movie review
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Grade: C- If you didn’t already guess from the previews R.I.P.D. is essentially Men In Black with dead people. Except MIB is a classic, funny movie. R.I.P.D. is, at best, mildly amusing. The audience laughed a handful of times but not very hard. And if I recall correctly the only funny bits are Jeff Bridges’…
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Movie Review – The Conjuring
The Conjuring was by far the best scary movie I have seen since I was a little girl. At one point I was wishing for my blanket to cover my head and hide my eyes with. I do not have one bad thing to say abut this movie. It was great. The entire cast gave…
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Pacific Rim – movie review
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Pacific Rim can easily be described as nothing but Monster/Robot porn. Yes, there’s a plot, and back story, and character development, but those elements are all handled with heavy handed exposition and cliches. I can’t imagine anyone walking out of the theater thinking, “What a richly developed and coherent universe they created.” But I can…
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Movie Review – Despicable Me 2
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Universal’s Despicable Me 2 is as funny and charming as the first movie. Gru has become a nice guy and content to care for the girls, but throw in a possible love interest — Lucy, voiced by Kristen Wiig — and Gru’s life begins to change. We get to see more of the Minions, which…
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Lone Ranger – movie review
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Grade: C+ This is a long, bloated film that went for campy, cartoonish thrills. In other words, it was made for kids and while it had moments of beauty, and maybe even moments of genius, it never really transcended its own wax figure of itself. The Lone Ranger isn’t a bad movie; in fact, it…
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The Heat – movie review
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We’ve seen a number of mismatched buddy-cop movies with male leads, most notably 48 Hours, Men In Black and Beverly Hills Cop. Finally movie makers have hit upon the idea that this genre just might work with females in the lead. They nailed it by partnering Sandra Bullock as the uptight FBI agent and Melissa…
