Iron Man (PG-13)

This movie was amazing. Wonderful! Excellent. When I walked out of the movie, I told Jenn that for me its a 9/10 right now, and if I can't find anything wrong with it, then its gonna be a 10. Well I haven't been able to figure anything out, therefore, its a 10!

I wasn't one of the fanboys going to see this movie. Iron Man was never one of my favorite comics, or superheroes growing up (that was typically X-Men). But the hype around the movie, and my love of summer blockbusters meant I had to get out and see this, and I'm glad I did.

The action was well done, the acting, which many thought Robert Downey Jr. would not do well, was on point. I think he fits the role of the character very well, and brings a large sense of realism to the screen. Iron Man for me, feels like the same kind of superhero as Batman. A man with to much money and time on his hands, and a newfound grudge against the evils of society. And the CGI, incredible. I had read about the blending of live action with the CGI, and it really was well done.

And for those that don't know any of the storyline, but want to know something going in (because after my recommendation, who wouldn't see this movie :) ) - the basic premise is that Tony Stark (Downey Jr.) is captured in Afghanistan and to escape creates the Iron Man suit. Upon escape he perfects his creation, but as with any superhero there are always people that don't see eye to eye with their plans. I don't want to give away to much, so thats where I'll stop this.

My final recommendation, go see this movie. Its definitely no fluke that it make 100.7 million this weekend here in the U.S. Fantastic movie!

Walk Hard The Dewey Cox Story

Last night a bunch of friends got together to watch a movie. When I heard it was "Walk Hard" I was about to just go ahead and leave. I'm pretty picky when it comes to movies and this movie looked awful from the beginning. The commercials made it look like a spoof movie, similar to Superhero Movie, or Meet the Spartans. There is a fine line in spoof movies, very few have in my mind succeeded since Airplane!, and this movie looked to be one of the worst.

The trailers set you up for failure. Prop-falls, slapstick, an actor who has never had to carry a movie on his own. I heard the movie got pretty good reviews, but I never had any desire to actually pay to check it out.

The movie was very surprising. I laughed out loud on numerous occasions which is pretty good considering most lowbrow movie humor gets more of a groan from me than actual laughter. The acting was about what you would expect form this type of movie. John C. Reilly carried the movie very well, but the supporting cast really shined. Every scene had a way of throwing a cameo in, and some of them were great. The jokes were well placed without being overdone. Too many times in movies like this the jokes are written on a wall for you and beat into your head a hundred times to make sure you got it. It may have been Judd Apatow's doing, who also produced Superbad and Knocked Up, but this movie was pretty good from top to bottom.

I don't expect it to win any awards, but it exceeded my expectations enough to get 4 movie reels.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (PG-13)

Here we have a movie that probably lives up to all expectations you might have for it. I don't necessarily mean that in a negative way, but at the same time I don't mean it in a positive way.

You have a movie where two men pretend to be gay in order to scam the pension benefits system. Kevin James character (Larry) has a deceased wife whom he has been grieving over and because of this never filed different paperwork for his pension. Early in the movie Larry saves Chuck's life (since they are firefighters after all), and therefore Chuck feels he owes a debt to Larry. Once Larry decides what he wants, the gay humor sets in.

I was entertained. I laughed at the jokes both slapstick style and verbal jokes. I think Kevin James and Sandler are funny guys so I liked this combination when it came out last summer. I would recommend this as a catch it on tv movie, or borrow from a friend, maybe even spend the $1 at the redbox for it, but certainly not a full out purchase it situation.

Lucky Number Slevin (R)

So this is the inaugural post for a new blog I've decided to start up. Since I'm not very imaginative when it comes to naming things, I decided to stick with a naming convention viewers of my photo blog are aware of. The idea behind this new blog is for me to share movie reviews.

So I'm going to start with what I thought was an excellent movie. A movie that I would recommend to everyone, keeping in mind the rating. So what made this movie so good? Well it was different. Like many people I'm used to the standard movies and the standard plot lines, and trust me I watch plenty of those movies. But this movie wasn't standard. From the very beginning the movie brings you in with two seemingly unrelated murders by unknown people and then quickly jumps to the main character storyline.

In the movie Hartnett plays a character named Slevin who is tapped by two mob bosses to pay debts that aren't his. Not really wanting to go into detail about the plot because I don't want to spoil anything, I will instead talk about the aspects of the movie that made it good for me.

The dialog in the movie is great. Each character no matter how small to large is well developed. You get a sense for that character, their personality, even if they don't even speak. For me, this is one of the key elements that really sells the movie. Kinda brings you in and makes you wonder whats going on, and want more. In addition to the dialog the story itself is a good one. Its well crafted and very engaging. Since I'm not sure what else to say about the movie, I'm going to go ahead and rate it which you can see below.