Toy Story 3
Lets face the facts! Most three part (or more) movie series end up finishing on shaky ground. The latest Shrek movie has failed to inspire what the first two movies had, the last Aliens movie was nowhere near as good as the early ones, The Matrix had its two sequels scrapped in production because everyone knew they would be so crap and the less said about the Predator movies the better. So in light of this, with 10 years since the last movie, what can we honestly expect from Toy Story 3? Is this movie really that good?
Five Things I Can’t Stand In Movies
We have all been to the movies right? Well, I went to one recently and as I am checking out the snack, drink prices, choices, I finally get to my choices , the popcorn person comes up and asks what I would like so, I proceed to tell them. She asks if I want butter on my popcorn she asked do you want light butter, regular butter, or extra butter or extra , extra butter I am like, "please just through some butter on it and call it good it is not that hard, it shouldn't be a multiple choice sat test or something it is just popcorn." So she put the butter on there and I proceeded to my seat and then, got to thinking about…
The 5 things I am sick of seeing in movies: 1st, Movies being made out of TV shows. OK yes there was one TV show that made it in the movies and it was Star Trek. But how all the other shows should have stayed just that, they were fine for a half hour to an hour but not 2, or 3 hours ,and that is even if you stay with what the people can relate to, and the main story line, and not changing it so that buy the time you have a movie it ends up being nothing like the show and not worth putting on film .
The 2nd thing I can’t stand to see in movies. Is the putting a movie out that has no real story.It just tries to wow you with special effects, and in doing so they think if the they are cool enough you will forget that you just paid for a movie that has no story, and no real entertainment value what so ever other than visual stimulation, they just get to show off what they can do with a lot of money, time, and no imagination for story. Then there's putting a movie out to make money off the actor/actress’s name. I mean you can see that they had a script they were not sure of how well it would sell so they grabbed a well known name that they knew would generate money.
The 3rd thing that isn't cool in movies is making movies out of video games. I mean for real Mario brothers no real story line and street fighter the games are cool but nothing a movie should be made out of. And WTF was with Double Dragon? People that make these movies think that just because the games sold well, then the movies should do just as well they obviously didn't think that through, and really look at the so called story lines, and in a lot of cases it is kind of hard to see certain actors/actress’s in roles that are not right for them or just bad acting and a sorry script.
So I Saw Avatar
In 3D, It looked glorious, although as has been mentioned the plot was about as thin as an anorexic who has been run over by a steam roller. Still, I give thanks to the dedicated computer wizards who managed to do such a splendid job.
Two grumbles. Firstly, with movie 3D, there is one focal point, and everything else is relative to this (Either forground or background). If you focus on something other than the designated focal point, it can mess with your head. However, this is inescapable at the moment.
Second. Unobtanium. Seriously. WTF.
I dunno, maybe I am being uncharitable, but i imagine this movie is only good for a couple viewings until the copious amounts of cheese kill you. Unlike Zombieland, which is an awesome movie.
I give Avatar a 7 out of 10. 8 for being gobsmackingly beautiful to look at, and -1 for not having zombies.
berga, out...
The Lovely Bones
So, today i saw the movie, The Lovely Bones. I saw it in place of Sherlock Holmes, which is a choice i sort of wish i didn't make but the girl i was watching it with wanted to go shopping first so we saw TLB which was on later, and as my father said once, "always side with the p..." *ahem* I digress.
So, for those of you who don't know, TLB is an adaption of a book by Alice Sebold that was written in 2002. While I haven't read the book, wikipedia's synopsis is detailed enough the indicate that a reasonable amount of fudging has been done to the story to get it to the big screen. This ultimately lead to the feeling i got from the movie, which is that it should have been either half an hour shorter or half an hour longer. Many of the scenes felt either not fully explored and added in a shotgun fashion, or else they were padded with much intense staring and people looking like shifty hoodlums from Hindley Street in Adelaide.
The most redeeming factor of the movie was easily the special effects. The CG scenes were beautiful, and on the big screen even made me forget I was sitting next to a hot lady friend. If that doesn't say 'this CG is awesome', then I don't know what does.
So, I give TLB a score of 5.5 out of 10.
7 for the movie, -1 for not having zombies, and -0.5 because the popcorn i bought was totally the stuff from the bottom of the machine and was filled with burnt bits and crunchy stuff 
Oh yeah, the guy who plays the bad dude does a real good job of acting like a freaky psycho pants guy, so props for that.
Peace out, Berga
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Just watch the movie today. I loved it. The lead character reminds me a lot of myself when I'm feeling good. Other than that... Uh... Not much else to report. I would write a longer description of the movie, but eh... *Shrug!!*
Avatar – When Words Fail To Describe A Movie
I could have started this post by telling you how awesome this movie is, but that wouldn't be enough. I could have started it by telling you how incredible the special effects are, but that would fall short to the real thing. And to think James Cameron waited 10 year to make this movie. Did his money from Titanic run out? Maybe not, but he has proven again that he is, indeed, the king of the world. You even forget you're looking at computer-animated actors, and that the dialog is kinda stock (not bad), but none of that matters.
Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang, Avatar is made to blow you away.
So, how can you describe Avatar? Well, it's Pocahontas + Aliens + Kashyyyk battle + 3-meter-long elves - spirituality + Ana Lucia from Lost + Bravehart + Matrix + bugs that look like dragons + Hartbreak Ridge - a too-simple script + 3D without exaggerating + The Cavern Of Zion + Awesome technology from the future + Epicness.
Drag Me to Hell
So, I watched Drag Me to Hell, shortly after it made it onto DVD. Now, I've got to tell you that I'm a big fan of Sam Raimi's early work (read: Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, and Darkman). I even like some of his main stream works (read: only Spider-Man really). I thought that this movie would be his grand return to his roots of "camp horror." While the movie is a return to camp horror, it's far from a triumph.
The movie opens at the turn of the twentith century in Pasadena, California. A truck erratically drives up to a mansion and two hispanic workers take their son into the mansion. Inside, a hispanic mystic, name really unimportant, tries to exorcise the black goat demon Lamia from the boy. The exorcism goes awry, and the boy is dragged me to hell. Flash forward to the turn of the present century. The main character, a twenty-something woman whose character I care so little for that I can't even remember her name, works as a loan officer in a crappy McBank. She's played by one of the worst actresses in terms of skill this side of Fran Drescher, though she does look vaguely like Shawn Johnson. She's trying to get in good with her boss to get an assistant manager position at the bank, competing with an asian ass kisser. In all honesty, that is all I can remember for the "plot" of the film.
The entire film is a contrieved pile of crap; marred from the start by poorly contructed and inserted CGI effects; and plagued by poor acting, poor writing, and poor casting. No one in the film seems to believe or care about their character, which translates into poor performances by some sorry B-list actors. The writing team of Sam and Ivan Raimi, the writing duo behind the fun camp movie Army of Darkness apparently completely forgot how to write a damn movie since then.
Now, I'm not going to say that the movie is all bad. Not wait, that exactly what I'm saying. The cinematography might have been good, but the entire movie just makes me want to shoot someone rather than have to watch it again.
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