Sunshine Cleaning- 7.5/10. Pretty decent movie. Mostly a drama/sad one with comedy and light-heartedness sprinkled in. The end was a little non-descript but I guess that also makes it a bit more realistic.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall: 9/10 had a very nice mix of comedy and Romance. I loved the script the plot was quite strong in this one and it is cast excellently.
What does JCVD stand for? Star Trek...AKA the USS Enterprise goes to White Castle. Its good, and im not a star trek fan, but I would never let the driver drive.
Defiance -- 7/10 -- a little "Jewy" for me... lol, j/k... Daniel Craig actually can't keep the accent in check and when he speaks he disrupts the show, a little like Kevin Costner in Robin Hood, but maybe not that bad; the women in the film are extremely beautiful; historical issues taint the story, and some cliched moments take it from being moving to ordinary.
The Night of the White Pants 9/10: Loved it, funny and very cool script again. I wish it were a little longer it is just under an hour and a half.
Babylon A.D. -- 7/10 -- from the reviews, and comments made by Mark Vincent (I will NOT call him Vin Diesel) and the people that made the film, and the fact it wasn't screened for critics IIRC, and the fact that it was a massive bomb, you'd think this would be unwatchable; in fact, it's not. Sure, it's no Minority Report--it's something closer to The Transporter meets XXX with dashes of Phillip K. Dick's futurescare--but it's interesting. Yeah, there are some parts that don't really make any sense, and the story itself is unintelligible. Taken for what it's worth, it's as good as most of the sci-fi slop that's been churned out in the last decade. It could've been better without the exaggerated action sequences. Edit--try not to think about this film afterwards. Just put it out of your mind. Otherwise it keeps losing points, like it's decaying in your mind.
Terminator Salvation 1/10, movie was garbage. It completely ruined the series. Three killed it, and number four was the fatality.
Damn, I heard the opposite on other forums. Anyway, I knew it was going to be a flop and I'm getting pretty sick of the whole Terminator thing.
I saw Terminator last night and thought it was pretty good. Granted, I've never been a fan of the series, only seen the first one, etc. IMO its a good action movie by today's standards. Dunno how it stacks up as far as continuing on the rest of the series but my general thoughts on sequels such as this one is that people who are fans have their expectations too high. They basically expect these movies to be as good as the ones that blew their minds when they were kids seeing the first one. As a non-fan of the series, I thought it was a good movie, my girlfriend did too. IMO this movie had some really nice action scenes, decent story (mostly branched off from the original series I gather). It had some corny ass lines but I thought that was kind of by design as a homage to the original 80s-ass movies as well as the fact that one-liners and corny shit like that is kind of making a comeback with Transformers and other movies I've seen lately. Some of the stuff done in the movie was utterly unbelievable but, again, its Terminator so I expect that and I buy into it. It was not a great movie. It was by no means a masterpiece. It had some noticeable flaws that I won't get into until more people have seen it. But I thought it was a good action movie and IMO I'm generally not impressed by most action scenes in modern movies. It could have been better but it was a nice movie in my eyes.
I've been reading around more, and i've heard pretty much what Run has said. I'll prob see it next week
Killshot -- 4/10 -- Elmore Leonard penned 3:10 to Yuma and Jackie Brown, two of my favourites. He also wrote the novel this film is based on, which I haven't read. I had heard that this film got cut to shit, but with Leonard, the director (John Madden, Shakespeare in Love), and the Weinstein's as producers, I figured it would still be watchable. Nope. Despite a borderline fantastic cast (Dianne Lane, Thomas Jane, Rosario Dawson, and Micky Rourke) this film is ass. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who gets about 100% too much screen time, is unbearable. Supposedly Justin Timberlake was considered for the role. For me to say I would've preferred him is saying a lot. Let's go to Prison -- 7/10 -- probably not for everyone, but I thought it was really funny.
This is England -- 10/10 -- incredible movie. Feels like a hand is squeezing your heart throughout. Must see.
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder -- 3/10 -- I liked the first ST. It was a campy tongue-in-cheek sci-fi movie with a couple of layers of social commentary done in a fun way. The sequels have both been hot garbage. This sequel--the triumphant return of Casper "I really don't have anything else going for me right now" van Dein--is shit. The (endless) dialogue is atrocious, the acting is unintentionally bad (as opposed to the intentionally bad acting in the first one), the story doesn't follow any logical progression, and the ending is ludicrous even by B-movie standards. Skip it.
