The Walking Dead Season 3
All you zombie fans have no fear – The Walking Dead Season
3 is now out on DVD! I have watched this
AMC series since the first season and each season gets bigger and “badder” than
the last!! All your favorites continue
on their quest for survival but this
season also brings some unexpected deaths of favorite characters that you
either love to hate or just loved. I
believe this is still one of the most thrilling series on television. Rick and his crew continue to struggle with
life and death situations and none of characters are the same people they were
in the first season. The writers
continue to evolve their characters with deeper emotions and situations that
they have no control over. Never fear, there
are still lots of zombies for the eye to behold and as for me - I can’t wait
for October to continue my journey with the characters.
Tyler Perry’s Temptation
I try to like Tyler Perry’s movies because for the most
part – the family oriented ones always have a good message in them. But they always seem to fall flat for me and
this one was no exception. The story is
of a husband and wife, Judith and Brice, who have been married since high
school. They have created a home and a
life for themselves and everything seems to be in place as it should be. But Judith finds her life restless and their
marriage a little stale. In her office
one day walks a good looking billionaire, who flashes his smile and seduces her
with all the charm, attention and words she’s needing to hear. This is the start of the temptation and
seduction of a married woman. Tyler
Perry’s movies come across very strong in his convictions but almost to the
point of shoving it down your throat and I hate to say that – because they are
generally, stories of morality. The message
of the movie shows how adultery can hurt a marriage and the sad facts of a
broken home. But it also has some really
cheesy lines and at times falters in the acting and the emotions it wants you
to feel. It wasn’t a bad movie but it
was just too much clichéd lines and acting that I’ve already seen.
Summertime
It seems like the summertime always brings a down time for new DVDs that come out. The producers are pumping up the action at the theatres to peak your interest in the latest blockbusters and there are some great summer movies to go see on the big screen. We are always looking for new things to watch and sometimes – there isn’t much that fits our interest. But never fear, new items will be coming out by the handful in August and September. So until the next DVD comes out for us to blog about – keep enjoying your summer!
A Good Day to Die Hard
I
was NOT impressed with this movie! This “felt”
like a 5th movie in a series – and one that needs to just hang it
up! The original Die Hard movies are
classics and this didn’t compare at all.
John McClane was like some cheesy version of his former self. And he can somehow survive almost ANYTHING
and come up pretty much unscathed – some of what was fun in the originals was
how beat up he got. Who doesn’t remember
him going across that broken glass with his bare feet? There wasn’t even anything worth remembering
in this one. You’d think that being in
Russia at Chernobyl and things blowing up all over would be exciting, but
you’d be wrong! Bruce Willis was like
some side-kick almost the whole time and finally turned into “John McClane”
about the last 15 minutes of the movie – other than that, he was trying to be a
dad and connect with his son he’d lost track of over the years and spouting
one-liners he was hoping would catch on. He even throws in his famous "Yippee-ki-yay"
toward the end as if that’s going to save this movie! It didn’t!
This was just horrible!!!
A Good Day to Die Hard
You know – some things aren’t better the 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th time around. Take for example – the latest Bruce Willis movie in the Die Hard series. It was just a lame movie all the way around and a sad excuse for a Die Hard movie. Bruce Willis is still a great actor – but this movie didn’t need to be made. Like Eric said, there wasn’t John McClane in this movie. It just seemed like Bruce was walking through his role. It felt like a sad attempt to hold onto something that was great in the 80’s but now just seems old and out of date.
Identity Thief
I want to like this movie better than I did.
It’s not that I didn’t like it, but I’d say it was just alright. I was expecting it to be a LOT funnier - but
it wasn't as dumb as I was thinking it might be, either. There were definitely some stupid/over the
top scenes - and quite a bit of language - but there was also more story to it
than I was expecting. The movie made me
feel sorry for Melissa McCarthy’s character, even though she’s the bad person
who stole the identity of Jason Bateman’s character. Even he felt sorry for her after awhile. It was much more emotional and touching than
I thought it would be. Maybe it just
wasn’t quite what I was expecting? Depends
what mood you're in, I guess!
Warm Bodies
This is a quirky movie. When I first started watching it – I didn’t think I was going to like it. I’m use to “real” zombies that look and act like death - so I thought, how am I ever going to like this movie?? But I did! I was genuinely surprised by the story and that I did get involved in it. This isn’t a horror flick, even though there are some elements of “scare” in it, this isn’t an “eat your brains and shoot them dead” movie even though there are some elements of that, too. It’s a love story – a zombie that turns back into a human love story. That is the premise of this film. Our zombie, R, who lacks any remembrance of his past, narrates the story from his point of view. Even though he’s a zombie, he can still feel and think and care – but he just can’t express himself. A group of young people looking for supplies for their city set out in the dead world and along the way, R and his friends run into them and well – let’s just say – not all of them make it. But there is a certain girl that does – her name is Julie. How does R know this? He eats the brains of her boyfriend and his memory becomes R’s. Yep, he kills the boyfriend and saves the girl. From there, we follow the two as they find themselves learning about each other - a corpse and a human?? That is unheard of! But the love story continues as R saves Julie and Julie saves R and the whole world of the undead starts to change. It’s the power of love that begins the change back. It’s a different movie but if you sit back and go with it – you might like it more than what you thought you would.
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