Fast & Furious

When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner (Walker). But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmanuever him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what's possible behind the wheel.

This is the movie that should have been the sequel to the first one. Is a good movie in terms of quality and what not? Absolutely not. Is it a good movie in terms of action, popcorn movies standards? Absolutely. The racing scenes are awesome. There's a bunch of badass characters doing crappy acting and delivering horrid dialogue. Its just a fun ride like the original was.

I'd recommend this movie to anyone who enjoyed the first one or these kinds of movies. You won't be disappointed unless you are actually looking for a movie of excellent quality. If that is the case - why in the blue hell would you be going to see this anyway?

Dragonball: Evolution

Dragonball Evolution is adapted from the manga created by Akira Toriyama; the work was also turned into a Japanese anime series that played all over the world. It tells the story of an alien sent to destroy Earth, who has a change of heart and decides to join the humans in their fight against various aliens and bad guys.

This movie was retarded. Every facet of this movie was crap. Granted I'm not a fanboy and never watched anything to do with Dragonball, but I couldn't imagine fanboys enjoying this movie too much either. Its yet another cartoon/video game adaption that might have been acceptable if it were the late 80s/early 90s, but is a total waste in this day and age in terms of effects and what not. This is straight up garbage that is meant to take advantage of the kids and fanboys who love Dragonball.

I wouldn't recommend anyone wasting their time with this. Its just a blatant waste of time.

Miss March

Miss March tells the story of a young man (Cregger) who awakens from a four-year coma to hear that his once virginal high-school sweetheart (Alessi) has since become a naked centerfold in a men’s magazine. He and his sex-crazed best friend (Moore) decide to take a cross- country road trip in order to crash a party at the magazine’s legendary headquarters and win back the girl.

This was some of the most horrid 8 minutes of film I've ever seen. I decided to give this movie a quickie litmus test while working the booth over the weekend and after 8 absurd minutes, I already know that I will never be watching the remainder of this film. Here's a brief review of what I saw. Friend broke other friend out of hospital and said they had to get out of town because of a problem with his girlfriend. He had bought her a stripper pole for their 13 month "boning" anniversary. She danced on the pole, got excited and decided to "please" the guy. While "pleasing" he showed her how he had also put in a strobelite. Turns out that the girl had epilepsy and bit down as part of her seizure. The only way he could get her off was by stabbing her with a fork. This all actually happened. Turns out that her brother was a firefighter so there was a car chase with the two idiots and two fire trucks. At this point I left. Never to return. I actually spent more time trashing this movie in this review then I did watching it.

I would never recommend this movie to anyone. Its another envelope pushing sex comedy that is probably one of the worst movies ever made.

Watchmen

Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching the Watchmen?


I loved this movie. The action and look of it were awesome. The characters were very well done and even though the movie was 3 hours long - I didn't feel it as much as I thought I would. That being said . . . . . I could totally see people not liking this movie at all. This is so not a mainstream movie. This is also about as far as you can get from a "family" comic book movie. The violence is beyond extreme. There is a lot of completely unnecessary sex and nudity in it (including numerous shots of a blue floppy dong, people!). This is a thinking man's, made for adults comic book movie. Its also not made for the generation that they are targeting with the ads. The best part of the movie is its lineage in time. If you aren't familiar with the 70s/early 80s history - you will not be able to appreciate the best parts of the story. As far as the legitimacy of the adaptation, I never read the graphic novel so I have no idea. The only real problems I had with the movie were that the lead actress was horrendous and there was a whole bunch of overdone scenes that took place on Mars. I found myself getting very annoyed during the scenes because they could have just been normal conversations in a living room as far as I was concerned. Besides that, this movie is bonafide, thinking man's eye candy.


I very strongly recommend that people check out this movie . . . . . as long as they have the warnings I've written about above. To go in to this wanting a mainstream Iron Man/Dark Knight type movie going experience could easily lead to you thinking this is one of the worst things you've ever seen.

Coraline

Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning) is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door and discovers an alternate version of her life on the other side. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life and the people in it – only much better. But when this seemingly perfect world turns dangerous, and her other parents (including her Other Mother voiced by Teri Hatcher) try to trap her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination and bravery to escape this increasingly perilous world – and save her family.

This movie is just plain weird. Seriously. Its like a demented acid trip. Even stranger is that this kids movie couldn't possibly be less for kids if it tried. I have no clue how any kid could remotely get in to this movie. Its also heavily advertised as being a great 3D experience, but I see no real need for the the 3D whatsoever. Even though I'm ranting - the movie isn't absolutely horrible. Its watchable for adults, but it is just so damn weird.

I wouldn't really recommend anyone rushing to check this out. I would also not recommend this movie as being that escape type movie to take the kids too. It won't work.

The Haunting In Connecticut

The Haunting in Connecticut charts one family's terrifying, real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits, when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the dead, returns to unleash a new kind of horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family.

I thnk this is one of those movies that suffered from me having too high expectations. This movie looked creepy as hell in the preview. I mean the preview alone was scaring the hell out of me. So I was pretty psyched to see this. Unfortunately, the movie was no so scary. It came together really well at the end surprisingly. Usually with recent horror movies, I like them at the start and they completely screw the pooch at the end. This one was kind of opposite. I liked how it all tied up but it felt like it was taking forever to get there. I was actually pretty damn bored during the first hour of this. I think that the level of boredom I had really diminished whatever creepiness/scariness there might have been.

I wouldn't recommend that anyone rush out to see this. It wasn't absolutely horrid and ended up being pretty decent but it took too long to play out.

Knowing

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead.Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule’s contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As John further unravels the document's chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve Ted and his son. When Ted's attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place. With the reluctant help of Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne) and Abby Wayland, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, Ted's increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster—and the ultimate sacrifice.

This movie started out really, really good. It had a good premise and was playing out quite well. Unfortunately, it hit a major boredom wall for me about 40 minutes in and there was still an hour and ten minutes to go. This movie ends up being a Close Encounters type sci-fi movie. I wasn't really expecting that and really lost all interest in where it was going. WW on the other hand, is really in to these types of things and loved it. I guess that this is one of those movies that

I would recommend people checking out only if they are in to the prediction type sci-fi stuff. WW really liked it. I can't put my personal stamp on it though.

The Unborn

Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) hated her mother for leaving her as a child. But when inexplicable things start to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only spiritual advisor, Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can make it stop.With Sendak's help, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany—a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born.

This is another one of those PG-13 horror movies that rests its head on random but incredibly creepy visuals to carry the movie. Its in the same pool as The Grudge, The Ring, etc. and has the same "Huh?" story. The visuals in this one were pretty high on the creepy scale compared to other movies like this to come out recently, but it wasn't near the expectations that were set by the kick ass trailer for this movie.

I'd lukewarmly recommend this movie. I wasn't that in to it but WW (the most avid of scary movie fans) enjoyed it so I'm sure other fright fest fans will enjoy it as well.

Push

The Division, a shadowy government agency, is genetically transforming citizens into an army of psychic warriors—and brutally disposing of those unwilling to participate. Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a second-generation telekinetic or "mover," has been in hiding since the Division murdered his father more than a decade earlier. He has found sanctuary in densely populated Hong Kong—the last safe place on earth for fugitive psychics like him—but only if he can keep his gift a secret. Nick is forced out of hiding when Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning), a 13-year-old clairvoyant or "watcher," seeks his help in finding Kira, (Camilla Belle), an escaped "pusher" who may hold the key to ending the Division's program. Pushers possess the most dangerous of all psychic powers: the ability to influence others' actions by implanting thoughts in their minds. But Cassie's presence soon attracts the attention of the Division's human bloodhounds, forcing Nick and Cassie to flee for their lives.With the help of a team of rogue psychics, the unlikely duo traverses the seedy underbelly of the city, trying to stay one step ahead of the authorities as they search for Kira. But they find themselves square in the crosshairs of Division Agent Henry Carver (Djimon Hounsou), a pusher who will stop at nothing to keep them from achieving their goal.

This movie could have been awesome. It had a pretty decent premise of a government agency churning out pseudo-xmen. Unfortunately, it played out pretty crappy. You can pretty much tell just from the lameness of the power having classifications. The Screamers . . . . . well they scream and can hurt your ears. The Sniffers . . . . well they sniff and can track you. The Pushers . . . . . well they push you to do what they want you to do. You get the drift by this point, right? How can you have a great sci-fi type premise and then be that lame with power titles? Seriously. Anyway, this movie also provided us with the worst performance of Dakota Fanning's career to date. Hopefully this is just a blip and won't be the start of bad to come as she gets older in terms of acting ability.

I wouldn't really recommend this movie to anyone. Its definitely not worth the money and would pretty much be a waste of time to go to the theater and what not.