TwittReview: “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” – Spider-Man battles Electro. Peter and Gwen try to figure out their relationship. The Green Goblin and Rhino wait toward the end of the movie to attack Spidey. Fast action, funny comments, Stan Lee. Excelsior! Grade: B+
Bad Words is a movie that really made my head spin by the end. Not because it was that bad or that the plot wast that crazy and unbelievable. My head was spinning because I really wasn’t sure how to classify this movie. Did I like it? Was it bad? Was it worth the effort to cheer for Jason Bateman’s character Guy Trilby? Who really was the “bad guy” here and was there really one to be had??? And on top of that when I was I asked “What did I think of the movie” as I’m asked after every screening….all I could come up with that Bad Words is a move with a bit of sweetness, a bit of rude and crude, and some sadness that at the end of the day reminded me of a desert. Don’t ask me how I came to this as I’m still not sure how I came to this conclusion. All I know is that Bad Words left me feeling like I had a mixture of flavors that all came together like a sweet desert and when it was over I was left wanting more.
Twittview: Liam Neeson as a US Air Marshall trying to stop the takeover of a transatlantic flight from New York to London. Edge of your seat suspense in trying to figure out who the terrorist is. Grade B
Twitview: “Grudge Match” – Raging Bull vs Rocky as DeNiro takes on Stallone in a comedy of aging boxers who come out of retirement for one final bout that was 30 years in the making. Grade 3 out 5.
TwitView: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”; Ben Stiller stars and directs an imaginative movie that when focused in life works well, and when showcasing the fantastical detracts from the story. Grade: 3 out of 5
Twittview: Homefront delivers an intense, action-packed, thriller that is bad-ass! Jason Statham, James Franco, script by Sylvester Stallone. Rated R for intense-action, language, and drugs. — Grade A.
TwitView: Thor: The Dark World — to use a comic book analogy, a filler issue that bridges two stories but still manages to have a life of it’s own. Grade 3 out of 5.
Full Review: Thor: The Dark World wants to be more in terms of a single plotted movie that involves one character and not the rest of the gang from 2012’s The Avengers. And on the surface it appears to do just that as we have Thor (Chris Hemsworth) cleaning up the messes that Loki (Tom Hiddleston) had created after 2011’s Thor as well as his role in the Chatari invasion on the non-New York side of the universe. Add to that a Dark Elf named Malekith (Christopher Eccleston) who comes out of hiding to use the power of the Aether to try and destroy all of creation and you have a movie that again wants to be stand alone. But peal back this surface and you’ll find a whole lot more. You’ll find a movie that in fact is a filler issue, a bridge, bringing together a previous issue (The Avengers) with a future issue (2014’s Gaurdian’s of the Galaxy). You’ll find a movie that expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe and shows that Earth isn’t the only planet out there any more (more so then what we saw in the original Thor movie and through the wormhole in The Avengers).
So as I do for most comic book movie movie reviews, here are The Good, The Bad, and The Geeky. Read on past the break to see what I had to say regarding Thor: The Dark World.
TWITVIEW: CAPTAIN PHILLIPS – Tom Hanks at his best! Intense, edge of your seat story detailing Captain Richard Phillips being taken by Somali Pirates in April of 2009 as he protects the crew of his cargo ship. Grade -4 out of 5!
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Twittreview: “Runner Runner” – Grade: 2.5 out of 5; Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake) a Princeton Under-grad getting entwined into the world of an online poker empire run by Ivan Black (Ben Affleck). Flat script, paint by numbers plot, felt painfully long (ironic as it is a 91 min run time).
After the success of 2012’s Argo, studios were looking for more “based on a true story” 70’s period pieces. And why not go with what has to be one of the biggest rivalries in racing history – the story of Nikki Lauda and James Hunt – two F1 drivers that started in 1970 and escalated their rivalry into what some say is the most exciting Grand Prix in history in 1976.
Ron Howard directed a very compelling and intense movie surrounding the lives of Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) and Hunt (Chris Hemsworth). Both had different styles in life and in driving but what had started rough between the two ended in friendship years later.
Everyone’s driven by something.
Chris Hemsworth
