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- For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world – Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they've ever encountered before.
- The action invasion part of this movie was awesome. Even though it seems like they always kept the aliens kind of blurry because I guess that would have cost too much money to enhance, the fight scenes were intense and kept you totally into what was going on. Unfortunately, the spots with no action were just plain brutal. There really was no story. The movie stared off mid battle and then went back 24 hours so they could say how they got to that point. They tried to develop a bunch of characters that you just don't care about and beat the living hell out of a ridiculously lame plotline that the staff seargant apparantly got soldiers killed on a previous mission. They should have just kept the movie down to a random alien invasion with as little talking as possible and a 90 minute running time. Instead it's 2 hours 15 minutes of decent action and pointless fluff that really takes away from it.
- I would lukewarmly recommend people checking this out. Again - the action is bada$$ but the rest of the movie is incredibly lame.
- Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect...and bait.
- This was literally Twilight inside the Red Riding Hood story. Same acting. Same cinematography. Same storyline. The guy that played Bella's dad in Twilight also plays Red Riding Hood's father. It felt like a spinoff. I was actually expecting a vampire to show up and fight the werewolf for Red Riding Hood's love. I get it. It is what it is. There's a built in core audience for this so why not make it. The one thing I can't figure out for the life of me is why in the blue hell Gary Oldman was in this. Is there really nothing else out there for this phenomenal actor? So sad.
- I would only recommend this movie to the Twilight crowd. Honestly, anyone else will see it as a total fluff piece not worth your time.
- Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are best friends who have a lot in common, including the fact that they have each been married for many years. But when the two men begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate) take a bold approach to revitalizing their marriages: granting them a "hall pass," one week of freedom to do whatever they want...no questions asked. At first, it sounds like a dream come true for Rick and Fred. But it isn't long before they discover that their expectations of the single life--and themselves--are completely, and hilariously, out of sync with reality.
- This movie had some good laughs. I think I just wanted/expected more. It wasn't necessarily bad. I just think it could have been much better. You pretty much have seen the movie just by watching the trailer. And of course there are two textbook Farrely Brother moments where they have to completely blow your mind with the "did that just happen" moments. I saw the second one kind of coming and still wanted to die after watching it.
- I would lukewarmly recommend people checking this out. Its not as funny as it could have been but not the biggest waste of time for you either.
- Big Momma is back - and this time he has big backup: his teenage stepson Trent (Brandon T. Jackson). Martin Lawrence returns as FBI agent Malcolm Turner and as Turner's deep-cover alter-ego Big Momma. Turner is joined by Trent, as they go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and as hefty coed Charmaine, they must find the murderer before he finds them.
- Is this seriously a movie franchise now? This has to be one of the most insulting things Hollywood has ever churned out. There are three of these!?! Don't get me wrong, I admittedly enjoyed the first one. I figured that there would be a second one. But a third? There is now a Big Momma trilogy? Really starting to believe in that 2012 end of the world stuff.
- Would I recommend people seeing it? OF COURSE NOT!!! Its the same story with two guys dressing up as women. I laughed once.
- Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross's (Hailee Steinfeld) father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.
- This was yet another of those movies where I loved the performances but wasn't nearly as thrilled with the movie as a whole. There have been so many of them this year. Jeff Bridges was awesome and the Hailee Steinfeld kid was amazing. It was a little bit rough at first because to be honest, I don't really speak "Western". It was kind of a foreign language for a while there before they got off on their mission. The story dragged at parts and was just kind of there at others, but the performances made me really like the movie. Not sure if that makes sense because I'm kind of baffled by it myself.
- I would definitely recommend people checking this movie out simply for the acting. I don't think it's nearly as good of a complete movie as everyone has made it out to be but the acting was great across the board.
- In Just Go With It, a plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.
- I am in total and complete shock at how much I loved this movie. At this point, Adam Sandler movies are all the same. At this point, Jennifer Aniston is the biggest sham of all the actresses because she really has done NOTHING outside of Friends except get dumped by Brad Pitt and milk the living $hit out that. However, this movie trumped both of those things. This was easily the best Adam Sandler movie since his early ones. I still consider Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy to be classic comedies but it grew very old since then. I enjoyed 50 First Dates a couple of years ago but even that seemed a little forced. This one didn't. I laughed my a$$ off. He was great. She was great. Their chemistry and playing off of each other was great. The kids were great. Shocking. Totally shocking.
- I never thought I would say this, but I fully recommend that everyone check this one out. It is easily the funniest movie to come out in a long time and you find yourself rooting for the desired outcome.
- Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team--including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)--are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?
- This movie was pretty decent visually inside the caves and what not with the 3D. Outside of that - this movie had nothing but lameness. Lame acting. Lame action. Lame suspense. Lame amount of gore for a R rated movie. It was truly downright painful.
- I wouldn't recommend anyone bothering to watch this. It was such a complete waste of time.
- Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) is living the American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward (Chris Cooper) and Gene McClary (Tommy Lee Jones) jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law (Kevin Costner) which does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps the realization that there is more to life than chasing the bigger, better deal. With humor, pathos, and keen observation, writer-director John Wells introduces us to the new realities of American life.
- This was a great character drama looking in to corporate America and how people make a living in today's world. The four male leads all put in great and realistic performances. It made me despise big business even more than I do already. I didn't think that was possible.
- I would recommend people checking this movie out . . . . . especially with the way things are at present time with unemployment and what not. It's not a must see by any means but is a quality and enjoyable watch.
- Drive Angry 3D stars Nicolas Cage as Milton, a hardened felon who has broken out for one last chance at redemption. Hell bent on stopping a vicious cult of fanatics who murdered his daughter, he has three days to stop them before they sacrifice his infant granddaughter beneath a full moon. Milton must use his anger to go beyond all human limits in order to save his last connection with humanity. He's joined by Piper, a young waitress who liberates her ex-boyfriend's cherry red muscle car in order to help Milton. Now, the two of them are hot on the trail of the charismatic Jonah King and his murderous followers. King will throw every one of them faithful under the wheels of Milton's turbo-charged Black '71 Challenger, to fulfill hist destiny and unleash hell on earth.
- This movie is a lock for one of the worst of the year. I made it exactly 7 minutes in before I stopped paying attention and 18 minutes in before I didn't even want it as background noise while doing things around the house. Imagine one of those atrocious schlocky Grindhouse type movies . . . . . .with Nicolas Cage. This movie makes blind and deaf people blessed.
- No - nobody should ever see this. The fact that people paid 3D prices to do so makes me want to slap every one of them upside the head.
- The greatest love story ever told, starring... garden gnomes? Gnomeo & Juliet showcases both classic and original songs by Elton John and features the voices of James McAvoy and Emily Blunt as Gnomeo and Juliet, who have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and thrilling lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?
- I really enjoyed this movie. Its silly, but a pretty good satire of the Romeo & Juliet story. Its VERY tongue in cheek. There were equal parts humor for kids and the adults. It honestly made me want to get gnomes all over my backyard.
- I would definitely recommend checking this movie out. For those of you looking for something to do with the kids - this is the perfect choice for both you and them. For those of you without kids - it's still really damn funny.
- John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him. Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his guardian Henri (Timothy Olyphant), John is always the new kid with no ties to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected, life-changing events—his first love (Dianna Agron), powerful new abilities and a connection to the others who share his incredible destiny.
- I understandably had really low expectations for this movie. I think that helped me be able to somewhat enjoy the movie as the decent sci-fi story that it was. I heard someone describe it as Twilight with aliens instead of vampires. Easily the best possible way to describe it. The acting was horrible and so was the script, but the trick to a good sci-fi movie is to either make you believe in the other world or the existence of stuff like this in our world for that brief amount of time the movie is on. This movie achieved that. The good action and good sci-fi story trumped the other glaring shortfalls of the movie.
- I would lukewarmly recommend people checking this out. I enjoyed it but had really low hopes for it and could see most people not liking it.
- Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But when his mentor and close friend Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, Bishop is anything but detached. His next assignment is self-imposed - he wants those responsible dead. His mission grows complicated when Harry's son Steve (Ben Foster) approaches him with the same vengeful goal and a determination to learn Bishop's trade. Bishop has always acted alone but he can't turn his back on Harry's son. A methodical hit man takes an impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born. But while in pursuit of their ultimate mark, deceptions threaten to surface and those hired to fix problems become problems themselves.
- This movie is exactly what you would expect from the trailer. It's like an 80s action throwback with lots of fighting, explosions and shooting. Jason Statham is pretty much a smaller version of Arnold and Stallone at this point and the movie could have easily been called Transporter 4. All of that being said, I enjoyed it. I always have liked movies like this. I'm a big fan of ocassionally going to the movies and just not having to think and enjoyeing some serious ass kicking. This one was even kind enough to throw in some twists and turns to the story that ultimately doesn't matter but someone has to get screenwriter credits.
- If you are an action fan - you can't go wrong with this movie at all. If you are not - you shouldn't touch this movie with a twenty foot pole.
- Inspired by true events, The Rite follows skeptical seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue), who reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he's in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil's reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.
- Another January snoozer. This movie looked like it might be creepy enough to be enjoyable. I have a hard enough time getting in to exorcist movies because it's pretty much the same thing over and over again. This one was no different and all of the creepiness from the trailer was just really good editing. The only time I jumped was when a cat jumped past a window. Outside of that - no scares at all.
- I wouldn't recommend anyone bothering to go see this. Its not worth your time or money.
- A psychological thriller about a deranged college freshman (Leighton Meester) who becomes obsessed with her new roommate (Minka Kelly).
- This is essentially an extremely weak remake of Single White Female in a college setting. It's exactly what I expected and it's exactly what I got. There really isn't much more to be said about this.
- I wouldn't really recommend anyone bothering to go to theaters to watch this. You would be much better off watching Single White Female or any television show on the CW instead of this.
- Paramount Pictures is developing a 3D Justin Bieber biopic that will hit theaters on February 11, 2011. The movie will include performances from his current concert tour.
- I will say never.
- As in . . . . . . I will never be seeing this movie. You are on your own with this one and thank you in advance to my wonderful friends that will be taking Stinka to see it so that I don't have to.
