May 22, 2017
Clint: 4.4/5 stars, 8/10.
Carolyn: 5/5 stars, 9/10.
Native rating: 4/5 stars Netflix, 7.8/10 IMDB>
It’s really hard to go wrong with time travel, Bruce Willis, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I am probably fucking up by not quite rating this 5 stars like Carolyn…. But it’s just not quite as up there as, say, 12 Monkeys, another movie where [spoilers] Bruce Willis meets a younger version of himself.
LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
May 12, 2017
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Clint: 3.4/5 stars, 7.6/10.
Carolyn: 3/5 stars, 5/10.
Ouch. MAJOR DISPARITY from Clint’s rating. It’s so very rarely 3/10 different with us!
Native rating: 3.9/5 stars, 5.4/10.
I have to admit I barely remember anything about this movie just a few days after watching it, so while it entertained me… It wasn’t anything super spectacular in the story department.
It’s a good thing that they are only planning one more movie in this franchise. It’s run its course, and something to tie it all together is the only way for it to not keep getting worse.
LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1855325/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
May 2, 2017
VIDEO: MOVIE: REVIEW: Visioneers (2008)
Clint: 2.8/5 stars, 6.2/10.
Carolyn: 3/5 stars, 7/10.
Native rating: 3.2/5 stars, 6.1/10.
First off, this is NOT a comedy, and shouldn’t be billed as such. It really messes with my enjoyment of a movie to expect a comedy and not get one. Argh!
Second off, not much really happened… It felt slow.
Third off, it was not just slow, but sad-and-slow, a painful combination.
This was a weird glimpse into an alternate earth, where people literally explode from stress, to the point of it being a national issue.
Very surreal. Quite random. Lots of scenes that just don’t connect to the plot at all, and are just kind of there… But also great cinematography, highly unique situations, good actors, and overall a very well-painted picture.
Yet I didn’t like it as much as I could have. This really reminded me of Wristcutters:A Love Story in that respect.
LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0833557/
April 22, 2017
VIDEO: MOVIE: REVIEW: The Bourne Legacy (2012) [Bourne 4]
Clint/Carolyn: 3/5 stars.
Clint: 6/10. Carolyn: 6.6/10.
Native ratings: 6.8/10 IMDB.
This just didn’t hold up to the other ones.
Where’s Matt Damon?!? Why do they keep mentioning his character if he’s not going to be in it? That confused me the most. I kept wondering if the main character was simply another actor playing Jason Bourne, or was another character. It wasn’t made clear ot me. Very distracting.
And then also.. It just wasn’t very good. Barely passable to me. It seemed a bit disjointed and haphazardly put together. But it still had a good budget, and some good action. Yeah…Some.
LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
April 12, 2017
VIDEO: MOVIE: REVIEW: My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)
3.6/5 stars, 7.6/10 from both of us
Native rating: 2.7/5 stars Netflix, 5.7/10 stars IMDB.
It was a bit of a chick flick — watching this guy go through 5 women. Relationships, yada yada….
But it had enough quirkiness — including gratuitous visual quirkiness to the point of directorial masturbation [not literally] — to keep interest going.
The comedy ended, but not as early as usual, and the quirkiness survived.
It was kind of surreal — a suicide dream sequence — a lot more visual-driven than I would have expected.
The moral of the story? Life goes on. Surprising that this is a necessary message, but it is.
[And by the way… The first 4 girls were progressively less hot, until the black chick {Naomie Harris} at the end who landed smack dab in the middle of the hotness of the other 4 girls.]
LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1050002/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
April 2, 2017
VIDEO: MOVIE: REVIEW: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
Clint/Carolyn/Parthena: 4/5 stars.
Clint/Carolyn: 8/10.
Parthena: 7/10.
Native ratings: Netflix: 3.2/5 stars, IDMB: 6.7/10.
This would have been a 5-star movie if it had kept up with the comedy as strongly in the 2nd hour as it did in the first. But like a lot of romantic comedy movies, the comedy stops dead about halfway through, never to be revived.
It was still a great premise, though… Providing somewhat unique situations. The writer is the same writer as Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008), and while I actually rated this one ever-so-slightly higher… I think I enjoyed Nick & Norah more.
If the 2nd half had stayed as funny and ridiculous as the 1st, this would have blown Nick & Norah away. But it didn’t. Still good though.
This actually reminded me of The Sure Thing with John Cusack.
And oh… VERY DARK. SO DARK FOR A COMEDY. JESUS.
LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307068/
March 22, 2017
VIDEO: MOVIE: REVIEW: The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Clint: 3.6/5 stars, 8/10.
Carolyn: 4.6/5 stars, 9/10.
Native rating: 3.6/5 stars Netflix, 7.1/10 IMDB.
Carolyn to Clint: “Why aren’t you into it more? ‘Cause you’re not on your period and you’re not a chick?”
Carolyn liked it better than Next (2007) …. I definitely didn’t.
This is another Philip K. Dick-story-based movie, as we’ve been on a kick of watching those ever since a Slashdot article mentioned how much Hollywood loves making movies based on his stories.
This is best described as, perhaps, a supernatural romance. Fantasy genre — not sci-fi as it’s mis-categorized — with a bit of thriller action, but mostly romance driven.
Random IMDB comment: “It was a mind stimulating speculative film, a rather philosophical treatise on free-will versus determinism.” That may be going a bit far, but this does hint at various philosophical quandries, like that of The Matrix.
LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1385826/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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