Movie Reviews

[ANGRYCivilian]

Terminator: Salvation
Overall, it was decent, about like the others. It wasn't as awesome as I thought it was going to be, though.

Angles and Demons
It was OK. I've never thought Dan Brown's books were as good and ground breaking as, apparently everyone else in the world, thinks they are. That may be why I thought the movie was OK and not good. There is a totally stupid part at the end of the book, that was, thankfully, left out of the movie.

Star Trek
It was good.

Underworld 3
It was good.

[Bravo57]

Monsters vs. Aliens in 3D. Pretty good flick. Had enough toungue in cheek to keep the parents interested. The boys loved it.

[39mto39g]

A little known Vietnam movie, "84 charlie Mo Pic", I liked the movie.
Ron

[ANGRYCivilian]

Drag Me Down to Hell was awesome! I have not seen a good horror movie like that since the '80's.

Lessons learned from the movie:

1. Don't fuck with Gypsies.
2. If you fuck with Gypsies and they come after you, kill them immediately; they'll put a Gypsy spell on you and you're fucked. Smash their head in with a bat or a brick tied to some rope, or run them over with a car like 32 times, with at least 10 of those times consisting of good tire to upper body and head contact, especially the mouth, including real teeth and false teeth.
3. If you're following some plan that's important...say, involving saving your life, double/triple/quadruple check that you are actually doing what you think you're doing.
4. If a Gypsy puts a spell on you, kill her entire family, dogs, cats, goldfish; burn all the houses down. Do as much damage as you can in the 3 days you have left.

Seriously, if you like horror movies from the '70's-early '90's, you'll like this one too.

[ANGRYCivilian]

You have got to see The Hangover. It's fucking awesome! One of my favorite movies of all time.

[Jenny Lynn]

Wow, all these years and I have never seen Tora Tora Tora before today while it is being aired on AMC. I'm learning things I never knew, for some reason I seem to be more interested now in what my great grandfathers, grandfathers, great uncles and father knew and saw, why was I so afraid to ask the questions I had as a kid, now I'm not but all in my family who could have answered my questions are not here to answer them, I just realized I'm now the age my parents were when I looked to them as being all knowing, funny how that works.

[rgrokelley]

Wow, all these years and I have never seen Tora Tora Tora before today while it is being aired on AMC. I'm learning things I never knew, for some reason I seem to be more interested now in what my great grandfathers, grandfathers, great uncles and father knew and saw, why was I so afraid to ask the questions I had as a kid, now I'm not but all in my family who could have answered my questions are not here to answer them, I just realized I'm now the age my parents were when I looked to them as being all knowing, funny how that works.

What I always liked about Tora, Tora, Tora, that you don't see in today's movies, is the realism. The movie was actually filmed at Pearl Harbor, 90% of the ships are actual ships (or in the example of the USS Arizona, a full scale set of the rear half the ship), and all the planes are real, not computer generated. The other interesting thing about the movie is that the Japanese part of the movie was filmed by all Japanese, including a Japanese director. Initially it was Akiro Kurosawa (Seven Samurai). The American part was filmed by Americans. They only put the two parts together in the editing room.

Jason Robards, playing General Short, was actually in the Navy at the time, and missed out on being attacked at Pearl Harbor because his ship was at sea. He saw the aftermath though. That movie was only made 30 years after the attack. It would be like making a movie about Desert One today. It was that close in history.

[Jenny Lynn]

Wow, all these years and I have never seen Tora Tora Tora before today while it is being aired on AMC. I'm learning things I never knew, for some reason I seem to be more interested now in what my great grandfathers, grandfathers, great uncles and father knew and saw, why was I so afraid to ask the questions I had as a kid, now I'm not but all in my family who could have answered my questions are not here to answer them, I just realized I'm now the age my parents were when I looked to them as being all knowing, funny how that works.

What I always liked about Tora, Tora, Tora, that you don't see in today's movies, is the realism. The movie was actually filmed at Pearl Harbor, 90% of the ships are actual ships (or in the example of the USS Arizona, a full scale set of the rear half the ship), and all the planes are real, not computer generated. The other interesting thing about the movie is that the Japanese part of the movie was filmed by all Japanese, including a Japanese director. Initially it was Akiro Kurosawa (Seven Samurai). The American part was filmed by Americans. They only put the two parts together in the editing room.

Jason Robards, playing General Short, was actually in the Navy at the time, and missed out on being attacked at Pearl Harbor because his ship was at sea. He saw the aftermath though. That movie was only made 30 years after the attack. It would be like making a movie about Desert One today. It was that close in history.

Ranger Rgrokelley, X's 2 on what you posted, thank you I was hoping you'd comment on the movie since I always appreciated your knowledge on history.

I do not understand why I and others I went to school with (born in 1969, in school fall 1974 to graduated high school in spring 1987) were not showed this movie in school, damn I remember standing up and pledging allegiance to the flag, what I hear now is that schools are no longer allowed to do this? If so, I think that stinks!!
Realism in this movie, yes I agree and I too like that is shows both sides of the war Japan and America. Anyone who has not seen this movie I challenge you to rent it, buy it or borrow it and watch it!!!

Oh I'd like to find the cowards who stole the Support our troops and Land of the free because of the brave ribbons off the trunk of my car two weeks ago here in Olympia; the jack*sses maybe it's a good thing I didn't see them take them!!



Jenny

[ANGRYCivilian]

You have got to see The Hangover. It's fucking awesome! One of my favorite movies of all time.

"She fucking beats him!"

"Uhhhm...let me clrify. That was only two times and I WAS out of line."




Fucking hilarious movie! Definitely getting added to the DVD collection....

The part with the baby at the table was so funny. "Look what I taught him. He's jackin' his little wiener."

[rgrokelley]

Ranger Rgrokelley, X's 2 on what you posted, thank you I was hoping you'd comment on the movie since I always appreciated your knowledge on history.

I do not understand why I and others I went to school with (born in 1969, in school fall 1974 to graduated high school in spring 1987) were not showed this movie in school, damn I remember standing up and pledging allegiance to the flag, what I hear now is that schools are no longer allowed to do this? If so, I think that stinks!!
Realism in this movie, yes I agree and I too like that is shows both sides of the war Japan and America. Anyone who has not seen this movie I challenge you to rent it, buy it or borrow it and watch it!!!

There are still parts of America that do these things, at least we do down in the South. Every morning, here in the High School, they do the pledge of allegiance in between the first and second periods, to start the day.

I also do an entire class on Pearl Harbor, every year on the closest school day to December 7th, the culminates with showing that movie. So, there are a few of us out here trying to educate the dumbed down masses. Its an uphill fight though.

[rgrokelley]

True Blood

This is one that RGRPuck turned me on to. I don't have HBO, so I had to wait until it came out on DVD, so I could Netflix it. Not quite a movie, but it is an HBO series. I'll give it to HBO, I think they blow all the competition out of the water with their series (Band of Brothers, Rome, Deadwood, Sopranos, Dexter) The best writing on TV if you ask me. The only one that comes close, to no "premium" channels is FX (Shield, Sons of Anarchy, Rescue Me).

The concept of True Blood is that synthetic blood is now created that vampires can drink, called "True Blood". Once it is on the market Vampires now come out of the closet. There are now Vampire rights groups, and PR firms trying to convince folks that vampires are not the evil types they have been portrayed and its all a racist stereotype. One of the problems though is that if you drink some Vampire blood, it is the ultimate high. There are now groups of folks who will hunt vampires and drain them, and sell the blood on the black market.

The show takes place in a small town in Louisiana, where a vampire returns home after a hundred years or so.

Lots of graphic sex, and violence. Good story line too.

[Bravo57]

"UP" in 3D

Took the boys, good family movie. Seeing it in 3D makes some of the parts more realistic (for a cartoon).