J. Edgar

Now, I don't have a crush on Leonardo Decaprio, believe me, but when I see he is in a movie I am more likely to go see it. Leonardo says he really cares a about making classic films that will still be good one hundred years from now. Clint Eastwood also had something to do with this movie as well. J. Edgar was in charge of the FBI for many years. 49 or 48 years. He made the FBI science based and a more viable power. He really did some good things and made some contributions to society. J. Edgar Hoover was a bit of a shocking movie for me. Despite his contributions, he was a sad petty little man, with a sad life, who abused his powers by blackmailing people, getting them in trouble if he didn't like them. Blackballing people, etc. He was alive when communisim was a threat inside the USA. He would acuse people or blacklist people due to suspected communism. He ruined peoples' lives and careers. He had people deported. He fired people for petty reasons, if someone was mean to him, he would try to use the FBI to destroy them. I was shocked at the movie becausd he was the main character and I am used to the main character in most movies being a hero and not a villan. I was incredulous. He said what?! He just did what?! I was shocked over and over again. He was 't likeable as a main character, and I am also used to the main character being likeable. Even as bad as entertainment has gotten, with sex, violence, shallow materialism, other bad influences... I am still used to the main character being a hero. I was disturbed by this movie, but the historical aspect of it made it worth seeing. After seeing this movie, I realized how ignorant I am and that I need to educate myself more. I also feel ignorant when I watch Jeopardy.

Mission Impossible. Ghost Protocol.

I was impressed with the witty technology of this movie, and the athletism of Tom Cruise. I was really excited by some parts of the movie because of the stunts and intelligent plot changes. The beginning of the movie and how the story line unfolded made scense and I it worked out without being off the wall or overly unbelievable. I am embarrassd to admit that towards the end I got a little confused. I understood the general gist only towards the end. It was nice to see different parts of the world in this movie. It started out in Russia, then moved to Dubai and then finally in India. In the very, very end was a US city, but I am not sure which. Overall, it was entertaining, and thrilling with a good sustainable plot. My only issue was being confused in the end. I can't really go into much more detail about what took place because the tiniest mention of any event would just ruin most of the suspense. I guess you could say they were trying to stop a terrorist. But, it wasn't a religious terrorist so it's not getting into any of that type of drama. The terrorist managed to frame the Mission Impossible team for something they actually did. I will stop there. It is a movie that gets ruined if you know much going into it.

Thor

I went to see Thor today. It was about a monarchy on another planet. It's about the Father, who was almost about to give up the throne to his son, Thor, and of course the other son gets jealous. The aliens are from Asgard, and they know how to travel to other planets by creating a worm hole. That's how earth gets involved in the planet Asgard's monarchy family drama. Just about when Thor gets to be crowned, a situation ensues and one thing leads to another and Thor ends up on earth. I don't want to give too much away.

I explain it badly, but the movie is somehow cool because it mixes science and reality with magic, legend and "dumb" marvel comic characters. Basically, the Marvel movies like Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Transformers, could easily be very lame like the power rangers, and they almost get to that point at times, but they redeem themselves by mixing real people, scientists, and just what seems like a real world, and the wonder of science in with the crazy "power ranger" characters. They mesh the far fetched with reality and it comes off as very intriguing. Altogether, I liked most of the Marvel movies I have seen, especially Iron Man.

This movie had some very good special effects and some very beautiful scenes from Asgard and outer space.  The movie had plotting and treachery and betrayal and family dramas and a lot of fighting and excitement and special powers. Then the Asgardians had an alien enemy called the Frozen Giants which added extra intrigue to the movie. It had a good plot to go with all that power ranger action effects.

The one thing that was a put off for me was that the Asgardians seemed primitive. If they are from another planet and are smart enough to travel from planet to planet, how come they still ride on horses? Why do they dress like humans from six hundred years ago? Or a thousand years ago? If they are alien, should they have their own fashions? Not human fashions from back in the day? And, it was hard for me to see the aliens as real people or to take them seriously because of  the way they talked. No one talks that way. It was a distraction for me.

It was a good movie, but somehow embarrassing for me to watch, because it's not a real drama, or thriller, a serious movie for adults. But, it was very imaginative and well done with very good visuals. I'll be honest, I am not good at noticing if the acting was good the first time I watch a movie. I'm too caught up in the movie the first time around to notice if the acting is top notch.

Taken

This movie came out last year in 2009. I didn't see it back then, but I caught it on Netflix. My co-worker who is from Albania, told me about this movie which peaked my interest. The villains in this movie are mostly Albanian. To sum up the movie, it's about evil Albanians who are trying to kidnap or have girls "Taken" and force them into a life of prostitution by drugging them.

A retired CIA agent, played by Liam Neeson finally is convinced to sign the consent form to let his teenage daughter who just turned 17 go to Paris with her friend for the summer. As soon as she lands in Paris with her friend, they meet a boy who wants to share a cab with them. He says, "Cabs are so expensive in Paris, do you want to split one?" Through this, he figures out where they are staying and he calls his henchmen to come and abduct them.

The rest of the movie is Liam Neeson shooting a bunch of slave traffickers and killing a bunch of people to save and find his daughter.

I like to read movie reviews on yahoo movies. The Users gave this film an average rating of A+, but the critics gave this film an average of a C. I liked the movie, but the complaints by the people who gave the movie an F, D, or C were all true. Yes, it was predictable, yes, it was unbelievable, yes, some of the main characters seemed too unlikeable and stupid and one dimensional, and yes, it was bad casting.

Yes, the critics were right with a lot of their complaints, all true. But, despite that, it was likable, exciting, suspenseful, and entertaining. I think that's why the average yahoo user review gave it an A+. Despite all those bad things about the movie, it didn't detract it from its entertaining aspect. This movie made me feel a lot of emotions, and it made me get emotionally involved and committed more so than the average movie. It truly was an entertaining flick.

It was predictable and unbelievable? Really? It's a work of fiction! Got news for you, most works of fiction being produced lately are unbelievable, unrealistic, and frankly predictable. That's why it's fiction! But, truth is often stranger than fiction. I saw a movie based on true story about Chanel. Very unpredictable, except for what her career choice would be, and it had a very depressing ending. We don't get the depressing endings much with our fiction do we? We get fairy tales.

RED Retired and Extremely Dangerous

I went to see this movie not knowing what RED stood for. I caught the movie during a matinee. There were a lot of old people in the audience. When I realized that RED stood for Retired and Extremely Dangerous, it made sense as to why there were so many elderly viewers there. When I saw the A Team, there were a lot of teenage boys, and when I saw Takers, which had a lot of black main characters, there were a lot of black people in the audience.

It seems people like to go see movies about themselves. I heard that Buffy the Vampire Slayer didn't get as many male viewers as female, and that the spin off from the show, Angel, whose main character was male, had a lot of male viewers.

If I made movies, to reach the widest audience, I would have characters that were young and old. I would have white, Latino, black, and Asian, male and female characters, etc. I would just try to attract the widest audience possible. But, come to think of it, Angel was a character in Buffy, but that didn't seem to help bolster male viewership. Maybe it matters most who the main character is. In that case I would make my main character be whoever could attract the widest demographic. How boring and strategic though. Losing art for business.

This movie is about a retired CIA agent, played by Bruce Willis, who leads a calm relaxing life, talking on the phone to a girl he has a crush on in a call center. Puttering around the house, having calm relaxing mornings eating breakfast. That all changes for him fast, when he is faced with people trying to kill him. He also finds a list of names through a clue left by a dead reporter. His name is on this list. Most everyone on this list has been murdered recently. In this movie, he has to figure out why they are trying to kill him, and how all the people on the list are connected.

It's an action packed movie, with a lot of investigation work on top of shooting and fight scenes. I kind of liked the movie alright, but, it didn't leave much of an impression and it wasn't too memorable. I also thought a lot of the side characters that hung out with Bruce Willis seemed weird and unbelievable as real people. They were comical though, but It would have been better if they were somehow more normal, rather than strange side kicks. It made the movie more of a joke. The main characters didn't have the fear of someone trying to kill them either. It seemed like they had fun with the circumstances and enjoyed it.

In reality, this movie was a serious matter, they were trying to kill him. "They" being the CIA he used to work for. The CIA can just go around killing people, and on whose orders? This movie showed that the CIA received their orders to kill all the people on the list from almost the top of the government. The reason to have them killed was unethical. The CIA couldn't question it though, they had their orders. Could the government be corrupt like this?

Wall Street

This movie is what it sounds like it's about. It's about someone who works on wall street. It took me into his world. I felt the joy with him as he made a ridiculous amount of money. He got a million dollar bonus! Felt amazed and prosperous right with him. I felt his pain as the world he felt comfortable and blessed in was falling apart when his firm started to collapse because the stock market dropped dramatically. I felt his pain when his boss commit suicide due to the blow of his firm being bought out 3 dollars a share. I was with him when he proposed to his fiance, who, oddly enough hates her father who was an investor, hates wall street, money and investing, but has a fiance who works on wall street.

I was very tied to the main character as if I was living his life and sharing his joys and pains more so than in any other movie I saw. It was a real disruption of my cushy life there to see that market crash. It was a real blow to see my fiance break off the engagement because she was upset that I was seeing her father; who she is purposely estranged with behind her back. I was with him and felt his betrayal when he realized his fiance shunned her father for good reason; when he realised he got robbed and lied to by the treacherous schemes of his fiance's father.

I was with him, when he realised that someone named Brenton sabotaged his firm and pushed his boss to suicide by making up rumors about their firm, and then making those rumors true. I rejoiced in his ability to outsmart his nemesis and find a way to pay back what they did to him and his firm twice!!

In this movie I was pulled into the world of the investment banker. Felt rich for an hour or so. Too bad it didn't last.

Easy A

I need to plan my movie outings more, I just go to the theater, show up, and watch whatever happens to be in my time slot. Now, I had slim pickings this time around. I was between exorcist, the Devil, and other weird Halloween movies. Now, as tempting as that sounds, I was never much for horror flicks. Anyway....

Easy A wasn't a bad movie, but it lacked dimension. It had one plot, and it stuck to that one thread like IRS sticks to your money. It got tiresome and repetitive after awhile. Yes, everyone thinks you are a whore. That's scene one, Then scene two is, everyone thinks you are a whore, scene three...they think you are a whore...what's scene four about? Still thinking you might be a whore. Pretty much summed up the plot of the movie right there for you.

It was about a bunch of teenagers in high school, it was so channel 19 abc family. I could see that movie on that channel. It's something to catch on tv.

I was impressed by the main character, or the actor that played the main character, Emma Stone. She had a strong way of presenting herself, which made the movie watchable. That's a good point, but at the same time, it seemed like she was too confident and adult in the face of all her opposition. She's a teenager, but she acted with the confidence of someone who rehearsed the parts, and prepared the lines. It wasn't real. In real life, someone wouldn't have had that kind of confidence and flare so easily. This could have been a true human story, to show the true plights of society. But, instead it was a story, or a drama, or a drop of entertainment for the movies, or abc family, and it had all the pride of an in your face production.