Tag: movie reviews
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Movie review: Premium Rush
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I found Premium Rush to be enjoyable and easy to follow, for the most part. I was expecting that the package/information being transported by bike messenger would end up involving some complicated international intrigue but that wasn’t the case at all. It was certainly something important but only to a small number of people. That kept…
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Movie review: Hit and Run
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Grade: B+ The movie is fun and hilarious and even sweet at times. It won’t win an Oscar but it won me over and that’s all I wanted. I am thoroughly impressed with Dax Shepard. I had no idea that he not only stared in the movie but also wrote it and directed it. I…
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Movie review: The Expendables 2
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Grade: D+ I really enjoyed the first *Expendables*. It wasn’t a great movie by any means but for an action movie fan it was fun. But it was fun in a serious way. There was good character development in the first *Expendables* and something the resembled a plot. *Expendables 2*? Not so much. It’s campy…
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Movie review: The Odd Life of Timothy Green
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Grade: B+ I’ve read a few reviews about this movie calling it too sentimental too saccharine and not realistic at all. Well…that’s why I saw this movie rather than The Expendables. I didn’t want to see things get blown up in my face. I have no hankering for blood baths. I *wanted* to see humankind…
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Movie review: Hope Springs
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Grade: A A charming predictable movie with great dialog and plenty of humor. Meryl and Tommy Lee were great together and believable as a middle aged couple who has lost their spark. In my theater the audience was comprised mainly of senior citizens. ( Hey, I’m in Florida and it was early afternoon.) There were…
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Movie review: Dredd 3D
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Grade: B+ Finally, a movie exceeded my expectations. Dredd was much better than anticipated. Actually, it was better than that because I expected it to suck. It was genuinely enjoyable. Carl Urban is a great Dredd. I like the vision they had for the character. Nothing at all like the Stallone version. The biggest surprise…
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Movie review : Zookeeper
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There’s nothing funnier than talking animals. I see that Zookeeper is being panned to death but they’re wrong, very very wrong……Talking animals AND Kevin James made for a hysterical movie. The kids in the theater were having a great time watching it and the parents, despite their efforts not laugh, had to give a big…
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Movie review : Horrible Bosses
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Horrible Bosses has something in it that everyone can relate to. People you hate to work with. In this case each of the characters have extremely horrible bosses keeping them down in one way or another. Over drinks Nick, Dale and Kurt hatch a plan to kill their bosses. Once they have their plan in…
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Movie review : Bad Teacher
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[ No Spoilers ] If you’re wondering if Bad Teacher really earned it’s R-rating then worry no longer. It did. In spades. It brought the raunchy as good as any movie I can remember seeing. This is one of those movies that’s hard to capture in the previews because the best parts are exactly the…
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Movie review : Green Lantern
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The power of the Green Lantern gives the wearer the ability to make anything imaginable become reality. The writers/director used their power to conjure up every imaginable cliche ever used to make a super hero comic adaptation. Wait, I take that back. There’s no side kick in this story so they missed maybe one cliche.…
