Year One *

Had big expectations for this one - the previews certainly looked funny - but not point watching more than that
A ~er-ehm~ comedy where Jack Black plays a modern caveman and is kicked out of his village for eating forbidden fruit - he does stuff, none of which is overly funny - there are a few laughs but as said, watch the preview and you'll see them all

1 out of 5 stars

alex

The Hangover ***

Pretty funny but started a bit too slow to get many more stars - a Couple of guys on a Las Vegas bucks night try and remember what they did the night before so they can find their buddy and get him back in time for his big day

The funny bits were very funny - just not enough of them

BTW -fair bit of language in this one - don't watch it with Mum in the room!

3 out of 5 stars

alex

Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4) *****

Bruce Willis is back in his best role as McClane and trouble just finds him - no other option for poor 'ol John but to blow everything up in his effort to save the day

Fantastic movie!

5 out of 5 stars

alex

Fast & Furious (2009) **

Thought this would be better - had a few beers ready to go on this one, Lisa was out, very high hopes - but it was a fizzer

some good car race scenes, but overall the action to boredom ratio was all out

Why wouldn't you jsut watch Death Race? much better for muscle cars and adrenaline


2 out of 5 stars

alex

Transformers 2 ****

Some said it was over animated or too much computer generated graphics - I thought it was lots of good fun - these are the same people that wathc Die Hard and complain that he didn't die every time he falls of a 20 story building and a truck softens his landing - if he died, would there be a movie???? - Get over it, its all good

anyway, based on the 80s (??) kids cartoon, the transformers hit the big screen and cause lots of damage

if not for the poorish acting, this would have had full stars

4 out of 5 stars

alex

The Day The Earth Stood Still ****

This one was pretty good, jsut can't remember much about it - watched it soem time ago but remember i enjoyed it - sorry - I'll watch it again some day


4 out of 5 stars (from memory!)

alex

Slumdog Millionare **

If not for the hype, I wouldn't have watched it althought as the story SLOWLY unfolded, it start to get better - the subscripts were very annoyingly small

About some Indians and their way of life and trying to find love in there somewhere

good luck

2 out of 5 stars

alex

Minority Report ****

I don't know.... something about this story intrigued me. Tom Cruise is a policeman in the near future where a team is put together to prevent crimes. This is done by using 3 special (genetically modified?? mutated??) people who see the future. At least 2 forsights must match and the 3rd is the Minority Report

Anyway stuff happens in it, obvioulsy, the failsafe system shows cracks and Cruise must save the world as they know it!

Was quite good although Lisa didn't really enjoy it

4 out of 5 stars

alex

Hancock ***

I enjoy most of Will Smith's movies - this one didn't do much for me - about a superhero who struggles to come to grips with the fact that he should be using his powers for good as expected of a superhero
he ultimately engages supprot from a PR manager and works to get his life in order

coould have been a good story - jsut missed the mark for me

3 out of 5 stars

alex

Gran Torino ****

I enjoyed this one - Clint Eastwood plays the typical patriotic old Yank - he's seeing life in his neghbourhood change as he ages and although scared, we sense that he's seen worse over his years - all the same, he takes it upon himself to bring justice to his local town and finds an unexpected friendship with his asian neghbours along the way

4 out of 5 stars

alex

Australia ***

hmmm - would have gotten another star had it not dragged for so long

an aussie drama - quite good for an aussie flick i might add, about life during the war - there's porbably some deeper meaning but it was a long time ago and the movie just k e p t o n g o i n g!!!

3 out of 5 stars

alex

Death Race ****

A fun movie with car races and crashes - objective is to race to the death - the winner gets a free pass out of prison - the cars are modified with weapons and armour - of course there's baddies that are rigging the race

but JUST maybe they'll still make it....

4 out of 5 stars


alex

Why Another Blog?

Simply, we watch movies - some are junk and we don't even get through them to the end - but we forget....
- we then foolishly watch them again!

GRRRRRR.......

Of course the opposite is true too - the good ones are equally forgotten


Alex