100 Movies Challenge
We're just gonna call this my obsession with the cast of Captain America month. Cruz that's exactly what the list below demonstrates.
#25 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Considering I fell asleep during the first Captain America when I first watched it, I was very surprised by just how much I did love this film. I'm kind of leaning towards this being my new favorite Marvel movie.
#26 Rachel Getting Married
This is one of the strangest Anne Hathaway movies I've ever seen. And yet I found it oddly enjoyable. Not like it was a 'fun ride' kind of enjoyable, but I liked it just the same. Anne's character is a drug addict who comes home for her sister's wedding. The entire family is beyond messed up in their own unique ways and none of them have a healthy relationship with any of their family members, but at the end of the day, they do obviously love each other. This movie falls into the Cap America films because Sebastian Stan is in the first three minutes. That's it. LOL and he's an obnoxious little prick.
#27 What's Your Number
One of my new favorite rom/coms. Chris Evans and Anna Faris team up to help Anna's character sort out all of her past boyfriends to determine if any of them might be worth a second look so she could avoid going over 20 sexual partners - hence the 'what's your number' title. Typical rom/com, but with lots of Chris Evans being totally adorable a half or mostly naked most of the time. A+
#28 The Nanny Diaries
Evans and Johansson - I really do love these two together, but in this film...he almost wasn't necessary. It wasn't the greatest movie, but I still liked it. Scarlett was pretty young yet and she's definitely improved over the years, but most of it was pretty cute, especially the interactions between her character and the little boy she was a nanny to. Also this:
#29 Push
Evans and Dakota Fanning - AU sci-fi in which a group of people have specific mental abilities such as seeing into the future and telekinesis. I enjoyed this movie. Loved the brother/sister chemistry between Chris & Dakota, even if it felt a little rushed or easy. That would be my complaint about the film. It all felt rushed or too easily obtained. Not that the characters didn't have lots of obstacles to get over or around, but that some of the answers came a little too easy and without the audience really understanding how we got there. I think if they could have added an additional 20 minutes, they could have slowed down the process and made the film that much more enjoyable. But I suppose that's how life works - fast.
#30 The Perfect Score
Evans/Johansson again! High school students preparing for college need to ace the SATs and go to great lengths to do so. This is a fun, Mission Impossible style movie.
#31 Don Jon
This is a Scarlett Johansson film and wow! I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this movie. I'm not going to say it was a bad movie or that I didn't enjoy it, because neither of those statements are true. But I will say that it wasn't a roll that I expected to see her in. The gist of the movie is a womanizing port addict falls hard for a girl who uses her 'powers' (for good or evil) to persuade him to change his ways.
This is one of those movies that women could very well call foul on. It could seem demeaning because it is FULL of female nudity, but that's not the intention. The intention is to demonstrate how the main character (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) changes through out. I won't say I wasn't uncomfortable at parts, but overall, this was a very good, very honest movie.
#32 Xmen: First Class
I deviate from Cap for a day, to get caught up on Xmen before I go watch the new one. I am a HUGE fan of James McAvoy. First watched him years ago in Children of Dune, and he never fails to extertain. It'll be very fun to watch him play across from Sir Patrick Stewart in the upcoming Xmen. I loved seeing the beginnings of the Xmen and of the friendship between Erik and Charles. It really makes watching Xmen: The Last Stand much more of an emotional roller coaster.
#33 Jane Eyre (2011)
This isn't quite a Cap movie, but it is Marvel related because it stars Michael Fassbender from Xmen First Class. And I know I've already put Jane Eyre on here, but this is a different version. It's also not my favorite version. I had hoped it would be, but I just didn't have the same feelings watching Michael in this as I did watching William Hurt. Hurt just seemed to encapsulate the character
Of Rochester just a little bit better. I also didn't care for how the screenplay was written. They left out one of my favorite charactrrs, who was extremely important to Jane's story. That being said, I did still enjoy this very much.
#34 The Apparition
I tried really hard to watch this, cuz it's got a younger, mopping headed Sebastian Stan in it as well as Tom Felton, but dammit, I'm a big fucking pussy!!!! I got 33 minutes is and had to still pause it. I'm gonna try and finish it, but...NOT at night!
*hangs head in shame
2nd pass, I got to 49 mins. Honest guys, this is why I don't watch scary movies! My heart feels like it's going to jump out of my chest. *facepalm
Mother of God!!!!! How am I gonna sleep tonight? Sebastian Stan better fucking be worth the nightmares.
Cc. teriwithbraids nessaky
#25 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Considering I fell asleep during the first Captain America when I first watched it, I was very surprised by just how much I did love this film. I'm kind of leaning towards this being my new favorite Marvel movie.
#26 Rachel Getting Married
This is one of the strangest Anne Hathaway movies I've ever seen. And yet I found it oddly enjoyable. Not like it was a 'fun ride' kind of enjoyable, but I liked it just the same. Anne's character is a drug addict who comes home for her sister's wedding. The entire family is beyond messed up in their own unique ways and none of them have a healthy relationship with any of their family members, but at the end of the day, they do obviously love each other. This movie falls into the Cap America films because Sebastian Stan is in the first three minutes. That's it. LOL and he's an obnoxious little prick.
#27 What's Your Number
One of my new favorite rom/coms. Chris Evans and Anna Faris team up to help Anna's character sort out all of her past boyfriends to determine if any of them might be worth a second look so she could avoid going over 20 sexual partners - hence the 'what's your number' title. Typical rom/com, but with lots of Chris Evans being totally adorable a half or mostly naked most of the time. A+
#28 The Nanny Diaries
Evans and Johansson - I really do love these two together, but in this film...he almost wasn't necessary. It wasn't the greatest movie, but I still liked it. Scarlett was pretty young yet and she's definitely improved over the years, but most of it was pretty cute, especially the interactions between her character and the little boy she was a nanny to. Also this:
#29 Push
Evans and Dakota Fanning - AU sci-fi in which a group of people have specific mental abilities such as seeing into the future and telekinesis. I enjoyed this movie. Loved the brother/sister chemistry between Chris & Dakota, even if it felt a little rushed or easy. That would be my complaint about the film. It all felt rushed or too easily obtained. Not that the characters didn't have lots of obstacles to get over or around, but that some of the answers came a little too easy and without the audience really understanding how we got there. I think if they could have added an additional 20 minutes, they could have slowed down the process and made the film that much more enjoyable. But I suppose that's how life works - fast.
#30 The Perfect Score
Evans/Johansson again! High school students preparing for college need to ace the SATs and go to great lengths to do so. This is a fun, Mission Impossible style movie.
#31 Don Jon
This is a Scarlett Johansson film and wow! I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this movie. I'm not going to say it was a bad movie or that I didn't enjoy it, because neither of those statements are true. But I will say that it wasn't a roll that I expected to see her in. The gist of the movie is a womanizing port addict falls hard for a girl who uses her 'powers' (for good or evil) to persuade him to change his ways.
This is one of those movies that women could very well call foul on. It could seem demeaning because it is FULL of female nudity, but that's not the intention. The intention is to demonstrate how the main character (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) changes through out. I won't say I wasn't uncomfortable at parts, but overall, this was a very good, very honest movie.
#32 Xmen: First Class
I deviate from Cap for a day, to get caught up on Xmen before I go watch the new one. I am a HUGE fan of James McAvoy. First watched him years ago in Children of Dune, and he never fails to extertain. It'll be very fun to watch him play across from Sir Patrick Stewart in the upcoming Xmen. I loved seeing the beginnings of the Xmen and of the friendship between Erik and Charles. It really makes watching Xmen: The Last Stand much more of an emotional roller coaster.
#33 Jane Eyre (2011)
This isn't quite a Cap movie, but it is Marvel related because it stars Michael Fassbender from Xmen First Class. And I know I've already put Jane Eyre on here, but this is a different version. It's also not my favorite version. I had hoped it would be, but I just didn't have the same feelings watching Michael in this as I did watching William Hurt. Hurt just seemed to encapsulate the character
Of Rochester just a little bit better. I also didn't care for how the screenplay was written. They left out one of my favorite charactrrs, who was extremely important to Jane's story. That being said, I did still enjoy this very much.
#34 The Apparition
I tried really hard to watch this, cuz it's got a younger, mopping headed Sebastian Stan in it as well as Tom Felton, but dammit, I'm a big fucking pussy!!!! I got 33 minutes is and had to still pause it. I'm gonna try and finish it, but...NOT at night!
*hangs head in shame
2nd pass, I got to 49 mins. Honest guys, this is why I don't watch scary movies! My heart feels like it's going to jump out of my chest. *facepalm
Mother of God!!!!! How am I gonna sleep tonight? Sebastian Stan better fucking be worth the nightmares.
Cc. teriwithbraids nessaky