Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Will update soon!

Hi!
I'm hoping to update this soon with The Eagle, Unknown, Gnomeo and Juliet, and I am Number Four. I've got midterms this week, so movie's have kinda taken a back seat. I will update this as soon as I possibly can!
Thanks for your patience!
P.S.
I will also hopefully be reviewing Drive Angry before it comes out tomorrow night, but no promises. It doesn't look that interesting.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

The Way Back: PG-13


Based on the book A Long Walk and actual events, a small group of convicts escape from a Siberian gulag during WWII. They then are forced to trek across 5 countries, over 4000 to India to finally gain freedom.
Wow! What an amazing story! I really liked this movie, although it was a little long for my taste, running about 2 1/2 hours. You have to have a long attention span to watch this movie, as you are basically watching these people walk the whole time. However, it is fascinating! All the things they had to go through, it is truly amazing.
I don't have much to say about this movie, its one of those you just have to see.
This movie is rated PG-13 because it has the 'F' word twice in subtitles. It also has some vulgar drawings by one of the escapee's.
I'd say that the age to see this would maybe be a mature 15 year-old. Mostly because it takes a little more of in interested mind to watch this movie.
This movie is worth seeing if you are mature and want to hear a fascinating story of survival.

The Green Hornet: PG-13


A rich, spoiled, playboy, Britt, who is also heir to a huge newspaper company finds himself in charge of the company after the sudden death of his father. After deciding he hated his father, he and his former servant, now friend, Kato, decide to vandalize a statue of his father and end up saving a couple being mugged. They decide to become crime fighters under the facade of being criminals themselves. Britt is known as The Green Hornet, and sets out to stop corruption not really knowing what he's doing.
This movie had good moments, but was really a crappy movie in my opinion. Yeah, it was funny, but also had a lot of really random and unnecessary language and vulgarity. I swear they just put it in there because they felt like it! It obviously didn't fit into the script or story. When movie companies do that I think it shows weak writing and creativity. Come on!
Much of the filming was also very comic-book-like. Which makes sense, since this is based off of a comic book. For me it was interesting at first, but then got old. I just don't like that kind of filming. Maybe you do, I don't know.
This movie was rated PG-13 for the excessive unnecessary vulgarity and language. Lame! It had potential, but they killed it.
I wouldn't really recommend this movie to anyone of any age... Maybe if you're a 17 year-old boy. I still wouldn't recommend it. It is not worth seeing.

True Grit: PG-13


A headstrong 14 year-old girl sets off to avenge her father's blood with the company of a U.S Marshall, said to have 'true grit', and a Texas Ranger.
All together, this was a fantastic movie! It was historically accurate, had an amazing cast, and was generally a really good movie. I don't often see movies and think they're fantastic, so this is a pretty big deal. It had comedy, action, adventure, and didn't have any suggestive scenes, which is rare these days.
Reasons why it got the PG-13 rating is because of it's excessive peril, including a guy getting his fingers chopped off, another guy getting shot in the face, and more. Its very realistic, so don't take your little kids to this one! I'd say follow the MPAA on this one and don't go unless you are 13 or older.
I'm not usually in to the westerns, and wasn't really expecting to like this one, but it is definitely worth seeing.