After Earth Finally got to see whether the hate was deserved. It's not as bad as its ratings suggest, but not good either. It has its moments, but is hampered by a script that falls short of its goal, a bad as expected performance from Jaden Smith and a stupid decision by Will Smith to be as emotionless as possible. 4/10
John Wick, 7/10. About as entertaining a shoot em up kill em all as I've seen in a while. Kinda like the mob version of Rambo.
Interview - 2/10 I would have turned if off after 30 minutes, but my wife was watching it too. I can't really explain why it was so bad, it just was. Painful to watch. I like both the guys, Pineapple Express was great. Felt like they wrote the script and all the 'jokes' in under 24 hours.
The One I Love - 8/10 Not a typical rom com like it looks like. Pretty interesting if you are bored on a weeknight. Its on Netflix right now.
They are both good, but John Wick is better. Tombstones is really very grim and relatively slow moving. There are a lot of these types of movies lately - Taken, Jack Reacher, Equalizer, etc.. John Wick belongs right there with all of them, but Walk Among the Tombstones is more of a personal 'tortured soul' kind of protagonist, rather than the wish-fulfillment violence and retribution of the above-mentioned films. If you saw Mel Gibson's Edge of Darkness, then that is the kind of tone you have in Tombstones.
Ondine - 7.5/10 This is a "small" film, an Irish production starring Colin Farrell, who's terrific. It has an excellent supporting cast, made up of Irish actors I hadn't heard of for the most part, except for Farrell and Stephen Rea, who has a supporting role. Directed by Neil Jordan, and set in the village where he grew up and still has a home, it is a beautiful location for a film. Something strange and mysterious is going on there. See the flick to find out just what that is.
Look forward to watching both of these movies. They are both next up on my Netflix queue. Thanks for the info!
Spoiler Pretty good but it bugs me how movies are so geared to set up sequels instead of reaching a moving conclusion. Re-creating Baymax from the chip at the end was corny.
Whiplash 9/10 Brilliant work from Simmons and Teller. Got a black swan/social network feels about the movie. Your wrists start hurting watching Teller go ape **** on drums. The last 10-15 minutes is cinema at its finest. My only knack of the movie is the girlfriend storyline. Kind of pointless. Overall, one of my favs of last year.
Spoiler It's not corny when you realize the movie is based off of a comic book and that sequels are expected. And then the whole 6 in the title requires 6 characters to make sense so....
Oh man...Edge of Tomorrow on HBO tonight. Seen it 3 times now. It's hard to find a movie that's more fun than this one. 10/10
Jupiter Ascending (D-) - Aside from some impressive visuals scattered throughout, this movie is atrocious. Spare yourself.
