Very much flash over substance.  Lots of Michael Mann's stylistic camera shots.  Plus a score that often overwhelmed the already stilted dialogue.  And an almost laughably under-reacting Chinese government to help set up the Outnumbered Heroes Outsmart the Evil Bad Baddies.  And their quest to manipulate the tin market.  I mean seriously the ( Read more... )

Silver Linings Playbook:  Its like Benny & Joon but with grief induced bisexuality and compulsive sports betting.  Also I did not recognize Chris Tucker throughout most of this movie...

After Earth:  The roommate refused to give up the remote or to not finish watching this.  For that he will be forever damned.  Just SO MUCH incompetent ( Read more... )

Man, did I have to tap out on this one damn quick.  The "cute" kid was a super-obnoxious brat in need of a serious Time Out.  The mom was having some kind of dead-husband inspired midlife crisis involving dating a 2o-something and neglecting her kids.  And the sarcastic teen girl lead was..just dull.  And that was in the scant twenty-thirty minutes ( Read more... )

Oh man, this thing was just crazy stupid.  But its got Bill from True Blood as Val and Katherine Heigl who looks like 14 in it and Ron Perlman and Warwick Davies who has an eyepatch and an awesome moustache.  But its still sooooo bad...

Iron Sky: Well the people behind this had an interesting high concept. Secret Nazi Colony on the Moon. And they built some excellent looking sets and models and Space Nazi costumes. Pity they didn't spend anything on competent script writing or actors with even a glimmer of talent. Ok, they had Udo Kier. But fucking hell was this a steaming ( Read more... )

Sooooo dumb. I mean I probably could have just moved past the giant piece of stupid at the very start with a single eye-roll, but I swear the movie couldn't go 10 minutes without tossing out some new piece of logic breaking "cleverness". Or terrible dialogue. Or really just overall bad writing. I mean Colin Ferrel, Bryan Cranston and Bill Nighy ( Read more... )

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A tolerable movie, even enjoyable at times. Depp's vampire anachronism bits were pretty good. Of course in the final act everything comes apart as minor twists are just tossed in from nowhere. The bit with Michelle Pfiefer's character's daughter especially irks me. Irks me soooo much...

Hanna is a teen-age girl who's been raised in the sub-arctic woods by her father. Trained to be an elite espionage agent. Until she's ready to go out and so he has her get picked up by..um I'm not sure. The CIA maybe. So she can kill Cate Blanchett. Which is about the last point when any of the plot points really make much sense at all. After ( Read more... )

Hey, a teen-age Christian Bale. This might be interes..*musical number starts*..something to run far, far away from...