Tropic Thunder

Does thinking Robert Downey Jr. is less hot as a black guy make me a racist?

Concession Confession: TROPIC THUNDER

Good and Plenty:
~Is it just me, or is Robert Downey Jr. fucking awesome?
~Usually Ben Stiller annoys me, but he didn't in this movie!
~Tom Cruise. I can't believe I just wrote that. But I'm completely serious.
~Matthew McConaughey also didn't annoy me! A MIRACLE.
~This movie totally made fun of itself, and Hollywood, and I love that.
~I was torn whether to put this here, or below, but the whole scene with the SPOILER ALERT head and "it's just blood flavored corn-syrup!" made me SQUIRM and slightly nauseas. Which I've decided it was probably meant to do. So kudos!
~Excellent cast ;D My brother and I highly enjoyed ourselves.

Sour Patch Kids:
~I loved the "trailers" at the beginning, but I don't think they should have led off with the rap "I like Pussy" song, because I was like "What the sweet holy hell is happening?" and my brother had to tell me, "It's the movie!"
~Ben Stiller may not have annoyed me, but he only ever plays two different characters in ALL his movies: the dumb, ego-centric guy or the sensitive guy. And he never really plays either WELL.

Mamma Mia!

Since I don't like musicals, Meryl Streep, or ABBA, I went into this movie with such low expectations that I halfway expected to be pleasantly surprised. I was not.

Despite the fact that it is a conglomeration of the aforementioned three things that I don't like, there were some fun and funny moments. These were completely overwhelmed by the astoundingly horrific thing that is Pierce Brosnan in a musical. It's hard to explain in words the pain of watching him lip sync his role. When you were little, did you ever walk in on your parents doin' it? Do you remember the burning in your eyes, the way your face wrinkled in revulsion, and the way your legs and arms churned like a cartoon character as they were unable to carry you away fast enough? That's what it was like.

Et tu, Colin Firth?

The Mamma Mia Curse

You know how Heath Ledger got SO DEEP into his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight that it KILLED him? I heard a similar thing about Mamma Mia. I heard Meryl Streep got so deep into her role as a horrible screaming flailing person with even more horrible screaming flailing eye-bugging friends and family that she killed everybody who saw this movie. She killed me. I'm sitting here writing this as a ghost.

Concession Confession: THE DARK KNIGHT

Good and Plenty:
~Christian Bale. Except, does he lisp? Sometimes it sounded like Batman had a lisp. That doesn't make me love him any less, but just sayin'.
~Okay, yes, Heath Ledger is awesome.
~Um...how creepy did Harvey Dent turn out to be? HOLY CRAP.
~On a similar vein, how creepy was his Two-Face make-up? HOLY CRAP.
~Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine are equal parts of awesome.
~I adore that Cillian Murphy had a brief appearance as the Scarecrow <3

Sour Patch Kids:
~There were at least three moments where I thought the movie was going to end and then it didn't. And then I was like, "Is this movie ever going to end??"
~SPOILER ALERT, they totally kill off Maggie Gyllenhaal's character. Which sucks, cause I like her way better than Katie Holmes.

Overall: A! I liked it quite a bit, except for the never ending ending.

Concession Confession: HANCOCK

Good and Plenty:
~The first half is fantasic.
~Jason Bateman. I sort of love him.

Sour Patch Kids:
~There is no explanation for where the superheroes are getting their powers.
~Charlize Theron annoyed me. I don't have a specific reason. Maybe she was trying to be too dramatic?
~All the good parts are in the trailer. You're welcome.

GRADE: C-. Eh. One of those movies that could have been (and should have been) awesome, but someone got lazy.

Concession Confession: WALL-E

Good and Plenty:
~Wall-E is SUPER CUTE.
~I was very happy that the humans weren't evil. Just really obese and lazy.
~The little short that played before this was AWESOME. Is there a place where you can buy all the little Pixar shorts? Cause they're rad.


Sour Patch Kids:
~I felt kind awkward watching the part where Eve is all frozen up and Wall-E is taking her around with him everywhere. However, this apparently, this didn't ook HER out later when she watched it via her own security camera.
~I had the sense there was a blaring: TAKE CARE OF OUR PLANET message, which: OKAY ALREADY LAY OFF.

GRADE: B+ I liked Kung Fu Panda better, which is a lot coming from a Disney freak. This is really cute though ;)

Concession Confession: WANTED

So, Lady Blogpants and I spent this past weekend in the Land of Movies, aka Hollywood, aka Los Angeles, and boy, did we watch the hell out of some movies! I have to agree with LB's opinion about LA: "They take movies seriously there." Damn skippy. We saw some BEAUTIFUL theaters, and in every movie we saw the crowd was really into it, clapping, cheering, laughing. It was a great experience.

Moving along: WANTED (AKA: "Mr. Tumnus Bends Bullets" as per Lady Blogpants.)

Good and Plenty:
~Good action and special effects.
~Good humor at appropriate moments.
~Morgan Freeman.
~James McAvoy.
~Bullets that bend in midair!
~A fantastic scene where Mr. Tumnus is sucked into a car. ITS FABULOUS.
~I totally saw this movie in the best theater ever, which increased my adoration of it.

Sour Patch Kids:
~Angelina Jolie is too damn skinny. Well, in this movie anyway. Not right NOW, being all full of twins.
~James McAvoy did a pretty good job with an American accent, but I heard it slip a couple of times.
~"The Loom of Fate." I shit you not.
~While the idea behind this movie is new and interesting, they kind half-assed it near the end.

GRADE: A-. I was very entertained, and quite enjoyed myself.

WALL-E

WALL-E dies.

Concession Confession: THE INCREDIBLE HULK

I'm such a slacker. I totally saw this movie with Lady Blogpants and Blogtastic, and I've been naughty and not posting.

THE SCOOP:

Good and Plenty:
~This version sucked less than the one with Eric Bana.
~The gentleman who played the bad guy, Tim Roth, was definitely creepy enough. Yowsa.
~The first five minutes (during the credits). This played very comic booky to me, which I liked. And there was no dialog. Coincidence?
~The last two minutes.


Sour Patch Kids:
~What the crap was up with Liv Tyler's upper lip? It looked weird. It bothered me the whole freaking movie. In fact, Liv Tyler bothered me in general, and usually I can stand her. I didn't even mind her in LOTR (which I realize may make me a traitor to my nerd brethren, but whatever).
~I did not need to see skinny Edward Norton (despite my like of him) naked, curled up in a fetal position, in a shower. DO NOT WANT.
~I was pretty sure my ears would be bleeding when I left the theater (amazingly, they were not, but I'm now partially deaf). The amount of noise (in the form of Hulk yelling retardedly, explosions, and a retarded sonar related scene) in this movie was obnoxious to say the least. Ugh.
~I prefer my superheroes, when they're leaping about buildings, to not DESTROY them as they go.
~"Do you want me to walk you to the bus stop?" Need I say more? I liked Lady Blogpants' response in the theater: "Oh, that's going to go well."
~I think Lady Blogpants also summoned it up when she compared the Hulk to a kid. But really, when are men not like kids? (I WENT THERE).