Benjamin Button

Last night I rented "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," and watched it with my girlfriend. I had been excited to see this movie ever since it came out in theaters, and last night was my first opportunity to do so.

I thought that the movie was ok, not something that was worth all of the hype they put around it when it first came out. I found the acting to be really cheesy and the story line way to predictable. I found myself filling in the blanks way way before the story was told. That made it boring for me. I don't like to sit there and guess what is going to happen only to see it happen instantly. To me the only thing that was interested was the guy that said he had been hit with lightning seven different times. I found that funny but really odd, it was like the man was always there for some odd reason.

Brad Pitt did ok in his role but it really wasn't that great of one. The character never changed throughout the movie, very stagnate. Moving from place to place and some how there was only one person that understood that he was getting younger. I dont know how that could be. The jumps of ages where ridiculous. I mean really at one time he looked like he was 70 then it was 50 then he was 30 for a long ass time.

The girl got really annoying, she liked him, she hated him, she liked him, she hated him, she loved him, she let him go, only to get back with him at the end. She had no depth as an actress in my opinion, she never made me believe. for a while she never aged it was ridiculous. She looked the same until the very end when she was an adult.

One thing I really didn't like about the movie as well was the time that it was set. They put no tension in it. No one seemed to care what color skin was on the other person, they where equals. Sure there was some moments of racism but that was for about five seconds when he was on the bus with the guy. Then they had a Cherokee Indian on the tug boat that made no sense to me. They would have never allowed that in the military at that time. He would be on the front lines cause he was part of the military code that was used at that time.

They introduced characters left and right but you never got to know any of them. Such as his sister fro Queeny. I mean she had one role and that was it. I dont even know if she is the one at the end who said he is with us or not. I think it would be but her character really fells short. I never got the connection of the characters other than the love which I also thought was week.

I give this movie 1 and a half out of five starts. I would recommend people stay away from it.

Movie review on Pixars UP.

Pixar has done it again! Another great movie by the best animated shop in Hollywood. Every movie they come out with is better then the last.

Last night I went with some friends to see the newly released Pixar movie UP. Which is about a old man that befriends a young boy on his way to an adventure. They find themselves in South America trying to put the old man's house on Paradise Bluff, which is where he and his wife dreamed about going for their entire life. They meet some interesting creatures along the way, like Kevin, a local exotic bird, and my favorite Dug, a talking Golden Retriever. Dug is one of the greatest characters ever, he is the character that everyone is going to want after they see the movie.

Pixar does a really good job about invoking every emotion you have when they tell the story. I dont know how they do it but it affects all ages about the same way. It is amazing that they make you feel in the movie no matter the age.

I dont really want to say to much more about the movie because I dont want to spoil it for you. But this movie is THE must see movie of the summer. It is amazing, check out the 3D like I did and you will forget you are wearing glasses. As I am writing this I am thinking about going back and seeing it again, it was that good. That is why I am giving it the highest rating that I possibly can five stars out of five.

"I know a joke, this squirrel went up to a tree and said, 'Hey I didnt store enough nuts for the winter, I'm dead.' I hate squirrels." Dug

Origins of Wolverine review.

I must say I know a little bit about Wolverine and I feel like after watching this movie I know a little more. I thought that it was interesting to know where he came from and how everything was set in motion for him to become what we know him as. I thought the character was awesome. Jackman did a good job playing wolverine again. But he was over shadowed by the acting skills of Liev Schreiber who plays Victor Creed aka Sabretooth. He was amazing in his part, played it perfectly. Pretty much all of the actors played the roles really well. The only thing I would change was to have the person that played Remy LeBeau aka Gambit to have a cajon accent, other then that they casted perfectly. But he did a good job but it could have made my favorite character better.

Some of the graphics and sounds in the movie where ruff. There is a time that Wolverine first looks at his claws they look like shit. They look as if they didnt even spend the time to make it look realistic. It was like they just gave up on the situation or they ran out of money, or they where trying to get it out before it was really ready. Some of the sounds in the move where really off. They just made some really loud noises that didnt go with the scenes.

Other than some of the affects and sounds it was a movie that was worth seeing. It was good but not great so I give it three and a half stars. Go see it and you will be entertained from start to finish.

The New Bonnie and Clyde.

This is pretty exciting.  Hollywood is remaking the story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who are two of the most interesting criminals in American History.  Their story is legendary, they where media darlings back in the 30's.  They are America's version of Robin Hood, except they didn't give to the poor and they gave a wake to dead police men where ever they went.  

I love the idea of the remake of the movie, but I hate who they have in it.  Crappy Movie Teen queen Hillary Duff is going to play the role of Bonnie Parker.  Why?  What has she ever shown in any of her movies that she can hold her own in a role like this.  No body wants to watch her in a movie, let alone killing them with her boredom.  She doesn't even draw people to movies, why is she even in there.  

Faye Dunaway, the original actress who played the iconic role Bonnie in 1967 had this to say.

"Couldn't they at least cast a real actress."

To me that is enough said.  Hollywood GET SOMEONE ELSE TO DO BONNIE.