To a laptop near you! Will be next movie review for dun dun dun....
Brave! Starring the wonderful Kelly Macdonald as our excellent heroine Merida. Billy Connolly as hilarious as ever voicing the lead male role. With excellent performances by Craig Ferguson, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane and my favourite person in the whole world (well, he's up there) Kevin McKidd! Its an amazing movie with such an amazing script and that I watched once, went back to the beginning and watched it again.
Its a great movie, I hope you've all had the opportunity and if you haven't, I hope you crawl out from under the rock you've been habitating under and join the rest of us.
...the site keeps telling me I'm spelling movie wrong.... How wrong is that?
Shortly, with any luck, The Tourist will be out next. Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp are an excellent duo in this movie. I just loved it. It was intriguing, intricate and IMPOSSIBLY AWESOME.
"Obviously its not impossible if it just was."
Shut up alternate voice that belongs to no one and would make more sense if I was a vlogger.
So that's what is coming to you in the near future. I also plan to attempt two lists created by Rolling Stone.
Top Worst Movies of 2012: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/the-worst-movies-of-2012-20121226
10. Abraham Lincolin: Vampire Hunter (to be honest, kind of loses points just in the title)
9. The Vow/The Lucky One (Tying for worst chick flick in Hell according to Pete Travers)
8. That's My Boy
7. Alex Cross
6. Taken 2 (I'll have to watch the first one)
5. The Lorax
4. Savages
3. Cloud Atlas
2. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn- Part 2 (Please god don't do this to me)
1. Battleship (saw that coming)
We'll also visit their list of the best movies from 2012 and see where we land. http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/the-best-movies-of-2012-20121212/the-pop-spot-19691231
I am notorious (though you don't know it) for not agreeing with real movie critics. The professionals, the one's we all listen to when deciding whether or not to fork out twenty bucks to go to the movie.
And I've just put a lot on my plate, but now that its out there I feel compelled to follow through.
You know the drill, check me out everywhere that other posts say. I'd look them up but I don't have the time !!!!
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Monday, 14 January 2013
Hotel Transylvania
Movie #1
Hotel Transylvania.
Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 43% saying that while "buoyant [and] giddy-- it might be a little too loud and thinly-scraped for older audiences."
James Berardinelli (Reelviews Movie Reviews) said "Not since Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein have the great Universal monsters been subjected to such dismal treatment."
Only The Wrap shared my opinion. I laughed the whole time. Its a fantastic family friendly movie where our longtime, childhood monsters get played in a modern light.
This modern fascination with "monsters" being nice creatures is done well in Hotel Transylvania. While I'll be the first to admit that humour lacks the witty underhanded jokes that rounds off a movie for all ages, it lacks nothing in other key areas. The character dynamic, development and personalities are executed in perfect timing with the pace it needed. It addressed the timeless predicament of "coming-of-age" from both the parent and child side. Easily brings to mind the classic of daughters growing up and fathers struggling to let go.
In Hotel Transylvania, Count Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) is a widower and hotel manager planning his daughter Mavis's (Selena Gomez) 118th birthday. Her official coming of age as a vampire. Along with other classic favourites such as Frankenstein (Kevin James), Wayne the Werewolf (Steve Buscemi), Murray the Mummy (CeeLo Green) and Griffin the Invisible Man (David Spade) there is an unexpected visitor. Johnathan, a laid back, back-packing, roll with the flow human voiced by Andy Samberg.
Shocked with his discovery of Hotel Transylvania and its legendary guests, he is not nearly as surprised as Count Dracula who was assured that his sanctuary would never be penetrated by humans. While attempting to hide the backpacker, circumstances changed the controlling Count's plans making Johnathan a key part of the upcoming party.
Now, its not the Dracula that Bram Stoker brought us. Or the vampires brought to life from Stephanie Meyer. These vampires are ones that belong in front of the whole family. And while I do admit that the cartoon style left a little something to be desired, I think this movie is quirky for a reason. Its characters are quirky, its story is quirky. It works.
I give it 4/5 adorable rubber duckies and my golden stamp of approval for a family classic. You might struggle to get a moody teenager to fall in love with it, but I have it on good authority that 17 year old girls can enjoy the adorable characters just as much as a child.
Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 43% saying that while "buoyant [and] giddy-- it might be a little too loud and thinly-scraped for older audiences."
James Berardinelli (Reelviews Movie Reviews) said "Not since Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein have the great Universal monsters been subjected to such dismal treatment."
Only The Wrap shared my opinion. I laughed the whole time. Its a fantastic family friendly movie where our longtime, childhood monsters get played in a modern light.
This modern fascination with "monsters" being nice creatures is done well in Hotel Transylvania. While I'll be the first to admit that humour lacks the witty underhanded jokes that rounds off a movie for all ages, it lacks nothing in other key areas. The character dynamic, development and personalities are executed in perfect timing with the pace it needed. It addressed the timeless predicament of "coming-of-age" from both the parent and child side. Easily brings to mind the classic of daughters growing up and fathers struggling to let go.
In Hotel Transylvania, Count Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) is a widower and hotel manager planning his daughter Mavis's (Selena Gomez) 118th birthday. Her official coming of age as a vampire. Along with other classic favourites such as Frankenstein (Kevin James), Wayne the Werewolf (Steve Buscemi), Murray the Mummy (CeeLo Green) and Griffin the Invisible Man (David Spade) there is an unexpected visitor. Johnathan, a laid back, back-packing, roll with the flow human voiced by Andy Samberg.
Shocked with his discovery of Hotel Transylvania and its legendary guests, he is not nearly as surprised as Count Dracula who was assured that his sanctuary would never be penetrated by humans. While attempting to hide the backpacker, circumstances changed the controlling Count's plans making Johnathan a key part of the upcoming party.
Disguising Johnathan as a fellow monster, Count Dracula quickly finds himself in his own personal Hell as the eccentric human breaks every rule and works himself into the hearts of Count Dracula's friends, his beloved daughter and even the Count himself.
I give it 4/5 adorable rubber duckies and my golden stamp of approval for a family classic. You might struggle to get a moody teenager to fall in love with it, but I have it on good authority that 17 year old girls can enjoy the adorable characters just as much as a child.
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Introduction
So this is it. My first step towards what might be my dream.
Let's start with a little background on me,
I'm currently in my senior year of high school (2013). BIG YEAR! I know. Finding myself, going to uni, learning what I'm going to be. All that really fun stuff.
Problem?
I'm a normal teenager and have NO idea what I want to be.
Been kicking around the idea of being a journalist for awhile, I mean really? who doesn't. So, here I am!
My most powerful interest since I was a kid is movies (seriously, I was that kid).
I have to admit I'm pretty specific as to what I like and what I don't like, but open minded enough to see others points of view.
Hopefully, this is a place where you'll be able to get an idea about a movie. I'll do short synopses, my opinion and what I can see in the movie. I have some playful rating systems in the back of my mind that I'd like to play around with, do you mind?
I just want it to be fun and get my thought out there. See what people think, that sort of thing.
Also, I can't stand that stupid woman on Global BC news who does the movie critique. My only promise to you is that I WILL NOT BE HER.
She hates everything....
Here we go!
Let's start with a little background on me,
I'm currently in my senior year of high school (2013). BIG YEAR! I know. Finding myself, going to uni, learning what I'm going to be. All that really fun stuff.
Problem?
I'm a normal teenager and have NO idea what I want to be.
Been kicking around the idea of being a journalist for awhile, I mean really? who doesn't. So, here I am!
My most powerful interest since I was a kid is movies (seriously, I was that kid).
I have to admit I'm pretty specific as to what I like and what I don't like, but open minded enough to see others points of view.
Hopefully, this is a place where you'll be able to get an idea about a movie. I'll do short synopses, my opinion and what I can see in the movie. I have some playful rating systems in the back of my mind that I'd like to play around with, do you mind?
I just want it to be fun and get my thought out there. See what people think, that sort of thing.
Also, I can't stand that stupid woman on Global BC news who does the movie critique. My only promise to you is that I WILL NOT BE HER.
She hates everything....
Here we go!
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