This movie has got to be the end all to disaster
movies! Get ready to shake, rattle and
roll as you go on a rollercoaster of craziness with this movie! A 9.0
earthquake has struck California along the San Andreas fault and all h@ll has
broken loose! Buildings are collapsing,
explosions, tsunamis, cats and dogs living together! (had to throw that in for
all you Ghostbusters fans!) But the fault has opened up and it’s swallowing
everything whole and we need a hero to save the world! Dat da da
daaa – in comes our hero – Duwayne Johnson
to save humanity or at least his ex-wife and daughter. In all seriousness – don’t take this movie
seriously. It was so over the top - I mean really
– can a boat get enough power to crest over the top of a tsunami? If you’re looking for a movie that’s full of
CGI effects and a whirlwind of crazy stunts – this is the one. I didn’t mind going along for the ride though because overall, it was fun and worth 2 hours of my time.
Southpaw
It was nice to finally watch a movie that felt like a real “movie” to me! Jake Gyllenhaal plays a champion boxer that
is on top of the world and then out of nowhere, has a tragedy suddenly tear his life
apart. After losing everything important
to him, he must find a way to deal with it all and make his way out of the
depths to which his life has sunken. It
reminded me of the Rocky movies with him having to overcome some obstacle to get
back on top, but felt more realistic with the real-life things he had to get
past and work through. There was a lot
more blood, language, and violence than those movies, too, but that seemed to
make it a stronger movie rather than take away from it. I guess I would call the movie this
generation’s Rocky. It was definitely
worth watching!
Pixels
I loved this movie! It was silly, but it
was just so, so, SOOOO ridiculous that it was funny! If you don’t worry about how unrealistic it is,
it’s a blast! The Earth is being
attacked from space by aliens using code from arcade games of the 80s that was
sent out in a capsule back in the day. The
only way we can fight them is with people that know how they think – the arcade
game champions from 1982, of course!
They were the unpopular nerds and geeks when they were gaming, but now
they have the chance to save the world!!!
It’s like all of the arcade games have come to life and need to be
beaten in order to win the battle. It
was great seeing Pac-Man, Centipede, Galaga, and Donkey Kong again, among others
from that time. I’ve been pretty
disappointed with Adam Sandler’s movies lately, but I really enjoyed this one!
Jurassic World
I was very excited to see this movie! I
still remember watching the first Jurassic Park movie when it was
released back in 1993 – 22 years ago!
Wow, has it really been that long?!
While this one doesn’t compare with the original – not even close, it
was at least entertaining – and better than the other sequels for sure! And even though I liked all of the original
actors in the series, it was fun to have Chris Pratt being the “hero” in this
one. The story has a new theme park being
built on the site of the original Jurassic Park – with new attractions and even
a newly “created” dinosaur – the Indominus Rex.
Don’t they know you shouldn’t do things like that? Maybe they don’t know what else to do with
the series, but it felt like they were trying to recreate the original movie a
little bit with newer, improved computers and technology – and thinking they’d
learned their lesson from the first time around, but, of course they hadn’t and
aren’t as bright as the original creators of the park. It did feel a little bit “dumbed down,” like
many movies these days, but I still enjoyed it and liked being transported back
in time – even if it was only 22 years back…
Jurassic World
As I watched this movie it had a familiar feel to it like I
had seen it before – oh that’s right – I had seen it in the Jurassic Park movie! It’s been over 20 years since
Jurassic Park but this movie was like a throwback to it. I’m sure in some respect, it was giving props
to the original movie; which in itself was great. There was nothing like it at the time. Jurassic World on the other hand just seemed
like a second rate movie compared to the first.
Everything felt familiar to me even the storylines. They created bigger,
meaner dinosaur’s, they escape, kids are lost in the park, the dinosaurs come
and wreak havoc everywhere and we know in the end the guy is going to get the
girl. Not to say this was a bad movie –
it was decent. But I guess nothing still
compares to the first and most of the time, the best of the movies.
Everest
Wow! This movie was INTENSE! It’s about the true-life story of a group on
an expedition to the top of Mount Everest.
The struggles for these people range everywhere from just trying to
climb to the peak all the way to actually surviving the trip. And if that wasn’t enough, they have a huge
storm to deal with that hits just as some of them are beginning their descent. Watching the movie, it seems almost insane to
think of a person wanting to put themselves through this kind of torture and
abuse just to say they hiked Everest! I
thought the producers did an amazing job of capturing just how hard this
journey was – from the photography and camera angles to the climbers and their
families and everything in between.
After watching this film, I have a whole new appreciation for the people
who have made this climb, along with those who have never made it back. This is another one that hasn’t been released
on DVD yet, but was such a good movie, I just needed to tell the story.
The Martian
I know this one is still in theatres, but just felt like posting about it with
all the hype it’s been getting. First
off, I did like this movie. A lot. I thought Matt Damon did a great job as an
astronaut left stranded alone on Mars. Besides
just needing to figure out how to survive, he had to try to find a way to make
contact with NASA and possibly be rescued.
In doing all of this, he was incredibly resourceful! Especially for being the only one on the
planet for a very, very long period of time.
I guess I’d say my only “issue” with all of it is that I was thinking I
would feel a little more “despair” or times of hopelessness through the movie –
maybe like the film Castaway, only on Mars. It
seemed more upbeat than I thought it would be, which isn’t a bad thing, just
not quite what I was expecting. I’m sure
he had his down moments, but maybe that wouldn’t have been as fun to watch as
him trying to grow potatoes and listening to disco music that was left
behind. There was a good balance, but
just felt like it could have been a little more intense overall. I really did like it – just more in a “fun”
disaster-movie kind of way…
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)