Watched the Blu-Ray version of Ghost Rider 2. Having had watched the first Ghost Rider, I expected a good movie but I was disappointed.
Nicolas Cage is once again the Rider, but this time around seems like they lost a lot of budget. Just as I'm writing this I went to IMDB to check it out, and the 1st one they spent $110M while the second one they spent $75M.
The movie is about how the Devil made a deal with a woman and she bear him a child, and with that child he'll be able to be invincible if he "transfers" himself to the kid. Cage (The Rider) tries to protect the kid and also get The Rider curse lifted so he can live a normal life again.
Movie is boring, special effects are dull, and overall story line bad although the very end of the movie was kind of cool. I really should've skipped this movie and kept my 1st Ghost Rider movie memory intact. Not that the 1st one was all that great, it was only ok, but it had Eva Mendes and she is pretty fucking hot.
IMDB rating of 4.7 and my personal rating of 4.0.
Fun fact: This is my 6th movie I write about in this blog, and the 4th movie that has Ciarán Hinds in it. I swear I'm not stalking that actor. I guess he's had a good year getting parts in big movies. He was in John Carter, The Woman In Black and The Rite as well.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Safe House
Got to watch the BluRay version of the Safe House movie today. It reminded me of Training Day, which is also basically another movie where Denzel Washington plays a bad cop and a good cop is tested to his limits but remains a good cop at the end.
It wasn't awesome, but it definitively wasn't bad. Between this one and Training Day, I'd chose Training Day every time that's for sure. Same with if I'd have to choose between Pelham 123 and Unstoppable, I'd chose Pelham. I guess he's been tending to do different movies that really remind you of his earlier work.
No super complex twists, and no intriguing ending, but it was definitely worth the watch.
IMDB rating on this movie is 7.0, and I'd have to agree and place this one to the my personal rating with the same 7.0 rating. Worth watching it.
It wasn't awesome, but it definitively wasn't bad. Between this one and Training Day, I'd chose Training Day every time that's for sure. Same with if I'd have to choose between Pelham 123 and Unstoppable, I'd chose Pelham. I guess he's been tending to do different movies that really remind you of his earlier work.
No super complex twists, and no intriguing ending, but it was definitely worth the watch.
IMDB rating on this movie is 7.0, and I'd have to agree and place this one to the my personal rating with the same 7.0 rating. Worth watching it.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
John Carter
Watched the BluRay version of John Carter today. Absolutely great movie. The story is about how an Earth man ends up in Mars and how he ends up saving the people there.
The Earth man is at first reluctant to help Mars and eager to get back to Earth, but after meeting the princess of Mars he ends up falling for her and decides Mars is now his home. The chick that plays the princess is really hot in the movie and her incredibly blue eyes are just stunning. One thing about the chick that plays the princess is that in the movie she is incredibly hot but in real life/IMDB pictures she isn't all that. The power of make-up and good lighting in effect right there. Also, I'm not sure if those blue eyes are a contact or not, since in her IMDB profile pictures she's got blue, brown, black eyes, so not sure which one is the real one and which are contacts. But nonetheless, she was magnificent in John Carter even though in real life she's nothing like that.
The end has a nice twist to it, and I didn't see it coming which is always a plus. Definitely worth watching.
IMDB score of 7.0, personal score of 9.0.
The Earth man is at first reluctant to help Mars and eager to get back to Earth, but after meeting the princess of Mars he ends up falling for her and decides Mars is now his home. The chick that plays the princess is really hot in the movie and her incredibly blue eyes are just stunning. One thing about the chick that plays the princess is that in the movie she is incredibly hot but in real life/IMDB pictures she isn't all that. The power of make-up and good lighting in effect right there. Also, I'm not sure if those blue eyes are a contact or not, since in her IMDB profile pictures she's got blue, brown, black eyes, so not sure which one is the real one and which are contacts. But nonetheless, she was magnificent in John Carter even though in real life she's nothing like that.
The end has a nice twist to it, and I didn't see it coming which is always a plus. Definitely worth watching.
IMDB score of 7.0, personal score of 9.0.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Woman In Black
In this thriller/horror movie, the main guy is played by Daniel Radcliffe who's of course more well known for his Harry Potter character, and he's still got those crazy bushy eyebrows (is he descendant of Arabs or something?). I'm not exactly sure what year this is suppose to be, but considering "the locals still get spooked" by a car, I'm guessing it's around the early 1900s.
The setting is an country side British town, and Harry, err I mean Arthur, goes to make an inventory of a deceased person's belongings but the house he's making the inventory of is haunted. When Arthur starts to dig up all the papers at the house he starts to uncover why that woman has been haunting the house and why she's such a vengeful spirit. By the end of the movie he finds out why the kids in the town are dying and he then begins a race to try to save his own son from dying as well.
It's an overall creepy and scary movie, and definitively worth watching if you're like being scarred. And the movie has a sad but yet happy ending in case you're wondering.
Funny thing seeing Ciarán Hinds again today, since I've watched The Rite and he was also in it. Well, 3 movies in 1 day, I believe I'm done for today.
This movie has an IMDB rating of 6.7, and my own personal rating of 7.5.
The setting is an country side British town, and Harry, err I mean Arthur, goes to make an inventory of a deceased person's belongings but the house he's making the inventory of is haunted. When Arthur starts to dig up all the papers at the house he starts to uncover why that woman has been haunting the house and why she's such a vengeful spirit. By the end of the movie he finds out why the kids in the town are dying and he then begins a race to try to save his own son from dying as well.
It's an overall creepy and scary movie, and definitively worth watching if you're like being scarred. And the movie has a sad but yet happy ending in case you're wondering.
Funny thing seeing Ciarán Hinds again today, since I've watched The Rite and he was also in it. Well, 3 movies in 1 day, I believe I'm done for today.
This movie has an IMDB rating of 6.7, and my own personal rating of 7.5.
The Rite
Watched the Blu-Ray version of The Rite (2011) today. Great movie with Anthony Hopkins. Then again, movies with Anthony Hopkins, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage are usually pretty good. I would say always instead of "usual" if it wasn't for Cage's movie called Adaptation. THAT MOVIE SUCKED SO BAD! I freaking hated that movie with a passion. Worst movie EVER.
The movie is based on a real life account, about a guy that didn't want to become a mortician like his dad, and in his family you'd either be a mortician or a priest, so he decided to become a priest.
Four years down the line, when he's almost done with the Seminary and his studies, he has a choice to make. Either pay 100 grand for his college education that he's received in the Seminary or go to Rome for just a month to attend the Exorcist class. Once in Rome the guy that's teaching the Exorcist class tells him to meet a friend of his, that friend being played by Hopkins, a very unorthodox priest, and from there things get interesting and I won't say anything else as it would spoil the plot too much.
In the end, the American priest that goes to Rome turns out to be only 1 of the 14 existing priests in the US capable/certified to be an Exorcist. Obviously the screen writer had some creative liberty so it didn't really feel like a documentary, and it turned out to be a really great movie.
I could be a little biased saying how great the movie is considering I'm a christian but it does have a 6.0 rating in IMDB.com, which is normally the minimum rating that determines whether I'll watch a movie or not. My personal rating of 8.0 on this one.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Chronicle
Today I watched the Blu-Ray version of Chronicle.
It's about 3 high school kids that get special abilities/powers after made contact with alien technology. One of the kids is one of those kids that might as well be a Columbine killer himself, so you know him having powers would be a fucking disaster. The other 2 are normal kids.
Throughout the movie, it shows how a person would develop/nourish said powers, and what they'd do with them. Of course, the weirdo lonely Columbine-killer-wanna-be ends up being fucking craze with power and starts killing people.
It was a great movie, even if it was on that shitty 1st person Point-Of-View (PoV) perspective camera view, meaning one of the characters is always holding a camera and that's our view point as an audience. I absolutely HATE that with a passion, but the movie was so compelling and awesome that I just couldn't just stop watching it despite having that camera view bullshit.
IMDB rating of 7.1, and my personal rating of 8.5.
It's about 3 high school kids that get special abilities/powers after made contact with alien technology. One of the kids is one of those kids that might as well be a Columbine killer himself, so you know him having powers would be a fucking disaster. The other 2 are normal kids.
Throughout the movie, it shows how a person would develop/nourish said powers, and what they'd do with them. Of course, the weirdo lonely Columbine-killer-wanna-be ends up being fucking craze with power and starts killing people.
It was a great movie, even if it was on that shitty 1st person Point-Of-View (PoV) perspective camera view, meaning one of the characters is always holding a camera and that's our view point as an audience. I absolutely HATE that with a passion, but the movie was so compelling and awesome that I just couldn't just stop watching it despite having that camera view bullshit.
IMDB rating of 7.1, and my personal rating of 8.5.
Monday, May 7, 2012
And so it begins.
Since normally I can only remember anything about a movie for about a day or two, blame the amount of drugs and alcohol consumed in my teens years, I figured it'd be best if I write down the stuff I watch down so I can recommend it or not to my friends.
Sadly, I can only write anything about movies from this point forward. So many great movies I've already watched and can't remember their names, just fragments of it. Hopefully it'll also help me to remember about those movies in the future if I ever want to reminisce about a previously watched movie.
Sadly, I can only write anything about movies from this point forward. So many great movies I've already watched and can't remember their names, just fragments of it. Hopefully it'll also help me to remember about those movies in the future if I ever want to reminisce about a previously watched movie.
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