(26) Dorkness rising (2008)
Ok Re-read the movie title. Yes, it says "Dork"ness Rising. It was amazing. It's about a bunch of Dungeon and Dragons geeks, well... Playing Dungeon and Dragons. The goal is to have an epic experience because they have grown bored of the normal stuff. So the Main character person sets out to write the best Dungeon experience ever. They totally cheat their way through everything. There is one point where they have to wait a number of turns out for an amazing spell to be cast. They used all the dead bodies of a character that kept dying as cover until the spell came around. You totally can't do that. The one character that kept dying had the power of persuasiveness and kept persuading the women they come across in the game to sleep with him. It was really funny it could be in the middle of the battle and he just leaves with a villager. It's really funny. It's a terrible Terrible Terrible Plot, which makes it awesome! the worse the plot in these types of films the better it is in the long run. This one character who is a guy, has his in game character as a girl, and he is dressed up in a sexy red dress it's really funny. Consistently funny, but ridiculous. This totally made me laugh out loud several hundred times it was just so retarded that I loved it. Sometimes movies just hit the right mixture of horrible, bad, and stupid and it comes out cool. 5 out of 5.
(27) Planet Hulk (2010)
Planet Hulk pissed me off a little at the beginning. Marvel takes way too many liberties with their story lines in the animation movies. They however, have amazing story lines in the comics to begin with. I don't understand why you would take a perfectly compelling story that could be carbon copied to fit into a movie and rewrite it and make it worse. It sucks that marvel does this on a consistent basis. occasionally Marvel gets movies correct. Hulk VS for example is amazing. As far as this movie goes they took liberties with it and at first I didn't like it, but it grew on me. I love the Thor universe Tie in's. I thought it was a great addition to the story. The animation was good and solid. The fight scenes were great. The fantastic part of the movie was the overall story that was translated well from the comic. This is the first in a long line of Marvel Animations that actually got it right. It was really good a solid story amongst a long line of crap that Marvel puts out. It does pull away from the comic like all the rest do, however it does a better job of changing the story to have an ending. I really wanted to see some hardcore Hulk smash on the earth, but it didn't get into that. Planet Hulk was a good solid story that did a good job of changing around the story. I would still like Marvel to stop the bull crap of ruining their own stories. They won't because they are money media whores, That is the difference between DC and Marvel. I still give this a 5 out of 5, but it's not nearly as good as what it could have been. I should give it a 1, but it was good. Beta Ray Bill and Thor FTW.
(28) Alice In Wonderland (2010)
Anne really wanted to see this and had a wallpaper on her computer for this movie long before it was going to come out. It was a little borderline obsessive as far as her excitement for it. It's ok. I like it When Anne gets excited for something. So of course we went opening weekend for the film. It wasn't as packed as I expected. The movie was offered in 3D, but I'm not on the band wagon for that. We went to see it in traditional. I liked it. Lots of positive. I liked how modern and creepy they made it. perfect casting. Well, except for one person. Alice. I didn't like the person they cast as Alice. She came off a bit to huffy and puffy like an American teenager. I could just read the words "Whatever" and "Well, Duh" pouring out of her forehead. It was distracting when your heroine is a little snot and you kind of want the dragon to win instead. I liked how they made heads larger and bodies smaller and cats appear. The magic in the Movie and the story was captured. Depp was O.K. in this, but there were points when I thought for sure he was going to say a witty line about how he didn't have enough Rum or he was after a treasure. Depp tends to struggle with some parts that have him acting foolishly, He can't separate fool from Sparrow, It is understandable, annoying but understandable. Not that Depp is limited, because he isn't. I love him If he is in a movie I pretty much want to watch it. I mean look at his track record its awesome. Ok, back to Alice and Wonderland. I liked the mix in of Alice through the looking glass and the original Alice in Wonderland. The story change up and refresher was much needed. How many times can you tell a story without making a fresh change on the subject, I mean seriously. Now, that I have said some things about the movie, I will address the one thing most people seem to have a lot of trouble with. The Dance at the end. I will put the plainly as possible for those of you who have feelings towards this. It is not out of the Mad Hatter's character for him to preform a dance. Alice in Wonderland although dark and very heavily drug related is a children's story. In Children's stories, the characters are silly, not deep, silly, crazy and dare I say it MAD! Oh, did I offend you. The guys name implies that he has gone bonkers, he is a lunatic. To think that dancing is above a lunatic is to think that killing is above a solider. Dancing is not something that a mad person is going to do regularly, nor does he probably want to do it. Same with solider's and the killing. Occasionally however a solider has to pull the trigger and a crazy man has to dance. Bottom line. I liked the dance. I liked the way the movie felt and looked. I liked the story. I liked the cast. I didn't like Alice and Hathaway bugged me the way her hand stayed in the air. Although in character. The movie looses a point simply because I don't think Alice is a pro Jonas brothers stuck up little twit. I don't think Alice would use the terms "Whatevs" or "frenimes" which she does with her body language all through this movie. Next time don't cast a Hilton wannabe for a beloved character in your movie. However, just one point off for that. 4 out of 5.
(29) Gamer (2009)
Ok, I mean I really thought this one was going to be Good. I love Gerard Butler it's no lie, and no surprise to those of you have been reading this movie blog. I also Love Dexter which has Michael C. Hall in it, who is the Start of Dexter. So with these two power house actors I thought it was going to be awesome. I was Wrong. Again. The concept at first look is thought to be ok, pretty cool I guess, but it was carried out wrong. They had these cool actors, sexy actresses and awesome concept and they decided to make it raunchy instead of good. They could have gotten the point across without all of the crap they put in. There was no point in all of the constant crappy and badly put together scenes, It was like watching a skin-a-max at time. except Skin-a-max movie's spend their budget wiser. The action scenes aren't horrible, they aren't good either. The explosions are badly timed. I mean if you have enough money to put a good explosion in your film, get the timing right people. Terrible acting on the part of Michael C. Hall, Worst Texas accent of all time. I have seen better in "B" movies it seriously gave me nightmares. I thought for sure people everywhere are going to make horrible Texan Accents it was scary. Terrible Movie. I'll give it a 1 just for Gerard. He didn't do half bad. But you can't polish a turd.
(30) District 9 (2009)
This movie didn't look very good in the previews. I wasn't really looking forward to it, Anne and I both watched it just because I got it in from Netflix and I did kind of want to see it. It intrigued me. It was heart wrenching. I didn't expect that. Humans are assholes. seriously how mean and cryptic could humans get. We better not act this way if something happens like this in the future. Pathetic. You know we will though. Most people in charge are so scared to death of something changing that they will do whatever it takes to keep it kosher. So freaking crazy. The whole parent thing with the aliens was heart breaking. The main character was a douche and well acted by the actor Sharlto Copley. The story was very compelling and well told. The town was very believable, I liked how they did everything in the town and how they made is so trashy and intense. I really have to say it was one of the best Alien movies that I have ever seen. It wasn't action packed, I expected it to be. I mean there were scenes that made you say WOAH, but it wasn't that much action. It was perfectly balanced. I give it a 5 out of 5.
(31) 300 vs. 1 million (2007)
This was simply a documentary of the real story about the Spartan 300. It was good. Nothing special. It was by the History Channel. It was about an 1 and a half hours, nothing important, nothing that great or stand out performance. It does count as a movie so I put it in here. I like Documentaries they entertain me throughly. It won't be that meaningful to watch if you didn't see 300 or read 300. I think it was one of the best movies put out a few years ago, and it completely blew my mind and does blow my mind each and every time I watch it. yes, I know Gerard Butler is in it. I might be gay for him, I'm not sure. The documentary was good. It wasn't great, nothing new for me, I am a History major, and read some Greek things in college so I knew all that was said ahead of time. I like how they laid out the battle plan and told the stories of the rest of the Greeks and how exactly the Persians came to be in Greek. Very interesting and unbelievable for those of you who don't know all of that little details. Persian history is amazing. I give the Documentary of the 300 a 3 out of 5.
(32) The Evil Dead (1981)
For a Movie that's this old, I was surprised at how scary it was. They totally used the main people and the unknown to scare the crap out of you. The people were super evil. I liked the way everyone died. I like the way the zombies were actual zombies and didn't move very fast. The survivor got away very funny. The movie was ok, If you haven't seen it, you probably should. It wasn't that great and it wasn't horrible either. Nothing that important to say. 3 out 5. I liked it. It just doesn't have a whole lot of things that could have been improved. They did amazing with what they had in that time, everything was really believable and looked great when you keep that in mind. It just is what it is. And thats a pretty dang good Zombie flick and a solid 3 out of 5.
(33) The Clash of the Titans (1981)
I saw this primarily because Justan said it was awesome and that there was a remake about to come out. I have to say I dug the clamation, I liked the overall feel of the movie. I thought the story was great. I thought the action was good. Keep in mind of course that this was made almost 30 years ago. I liked it a whole heck of a lot. It was pretty successful when it came out and remains a classic. I really thought it deserved all of the credit that it got. I thought it actually held up well. The plot was fantastic, I was scared a few times, I laughed a few times. The golden Owl was awesome. The Gods were correctly portrayed. I wish however they made them a little more differential they looked really similar. Other than that I give it a 4 out of 5. I really liked it a lot.
(34) Apocalypse Now (1979)
This movie is on most critics top ten of all time list. This movie is critically acclaimed as the quintessential movie from the 70's. So with all of this being said about it I had to watch it. Marlon Brando Stole the Show, like he normally does. I would agree that this was his best performance. I really liked the feel of the movie. Martin Sheen was also very good in it. The acting was top notched all the way through, one of the best acted movies I have ever seen. This is where my praise ends. I didn't like the extremely strong anti-solider feel. I understand anti-solider movies and don't mind them overall, but there happens to be a line. A line in between making a point that the military makes mistakes and needs to be re-built and being obnoxious and disrespectful to those who gave their lives in a war. This war was the Vietnam war, and not exactly the most historically respected war at least politically. This movie was borderline making fun of the war and very disgustfully done. The movie was star packed, Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford, Laurence Fishbourne, and Dennis Hopper. I really liked the feel and way you were always scared for the characters and how it re-enforced that feeling throughout. However, The plot made zero sense. What was the point, I mean I know you could follow the drive of the movie and why they were going so deep into the jungle, but wasn't a solid story and not well thought out. It never quite gets to the explanation of how minds were lost, and why they were lost. It just wants us to except that the characters were nutty without giving us a reason why they were nutty. This really didn't go over well with me. The acting was great, story was pretty terrible. Not horrible just terrible. You should check it out if you like war movies, You might have a different experience than I did. I personally give it a 3 out 5 which is a good score overall, it was done well. It just wasn't that great of a story.
(35) The Invention of Lying (2009)
This movie I watched primarily with Cody and Sara Beth. I finished later on, I am weird I have to finish stuff once I start. So I watched this in two part. The first part being the biggest part of the movie. It made me laugh at first and I really thought it was going to be amazing. Then it turned. Instead of saying this movie is amazing and I really thing it should be the one of the best of the year it turned into me saying DO NOT WATCH THIS. I do love Jennifer Gardner and she and Jonah Hill give this movie the only 2 points that it gets. The first half an hour was alright so if you need to watch it turn it off after that first half hour. It went downhill really really fast. Ricky Gervais directed and was the main character. I don't like him. I didn't like the original office that much, I don't think he can act. I don't think he is funny. After this movie I am convinced He is going to Hell. He is a Demon. Terrible little man is he. 2 out 5.
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