Movies

Movies: By Grif Warning: I will put some TV shows and that type of thing in here too. Week 17: Fast 5- I have not seen the other fast and furious movies, which I know is strange because this is the fifth. From what I could understand, there is a group of outlaws who are kind of good people. They are in some place in central America. There is a corrupt government run by a corrupt business, and the group plans to stop it all by robbing the company of everything they have. I liked this movie. It was full of action, cars, and guns. A movie most guys should like. There were a few laugh moments, but you might find it funnier, and pretty much wholly better if you watched the others. I found it great. 8.5/10 "Mission freakin' impossible!"

Week 16: Thor- If you have never heard viking lore, that takes away from this pice of goodness. Odin- the all-father. Thor- the thunder god, and Loki- the trickster. These are the most important people to know. When Thor goes off to "negotiate" with a hostile alien race, he gets kicked out of Agard and sent to the realm of humans as punishment. He can only come back if he learns to control his anger and become more responsible. Here he has no idea what's happening because he talks like an old time god and no one else really understands. This was a great movie. Not as much action as I expected, but it was huge when there was. It was a lot funnier than I expected, which I respect. 8.5/10 "I require sustenance!"

Week 15: Avatar- Avatars are a blue alien creation that you can put your mind into. A soldier must use the avatar to infiltrate the alien society so that his employers can use their ground to mine. The problem was that the soldier liked the society and wanted to live there. Now he must fight his own species for the survival of another. This was a great movie. It was about two hours long. It had amazing effects because it was and alien planet. There isn't too much action until the end, but it was great anyway. There are so many glowing plants. There isn't an exess of talking, which is just fine for this. Good action, suspence, giant blue people, crazy organisms. This is a fun movie. 9/10

Week 14: Iron man- A weapons manufacturer is captured byt a foreign terrorist group. He is told to build weapons of mass destructionj or die. Instead, he builds the iron man suit and gets out of there, He returns home and remodels the suit to be lighter and more destructive. His buisiness partner gets wind of this and fins the origional suit, which was wrecked and left in the desert. He built a prototype and wanted to be terrorist like himself because he had a suit of awesomeness. This movie and it's sequal have the same basic idea. 2/3s of the movie is Tony doing stuff and someone builds a suit and tries to wreak havok. Other third of the movie is Iron man suit fun stuff. Normall, I don't like movies that just have a bit of action at the end, but I enjoyed this. Funny, action, explosions, expensive cars. 8.5/10 "Yeah, I can fly"

Week 13: Sucker Punch- A girl's mother is killed by her father, and when she tries to stop him from abusing her sister, she is sent to the insane asylum. In here she learns to free her mind to escape the pain and from there we may lose some people on the story. Anyway, she is told to dance and free her mind while doing so. While she dances, she imagines fighting in different time periods: midevil, ww1, future. If you had a lot of trouble understanding Inception, thiss movie may not be for you, but just watch and it will all make sense. 8/10 "Don't run a check with your mouth..."

Week 12: Bleach- An anime (japanese cartoon) about a normal guy who in order to protect his family, must become a soul reaper. There are a few filler arcs, but this is a great show, full of action and comedy. It does have a few movies that I personally don't think are as good as the show. If you like sword battles and awesomeness, I think you should like this, but people generally stay away from anime and I don't know why. Along the way, the main character must face many opponentsb that try and stop him from reaching his goal, and he almost always loses. It is also about another world of hollows, lost souls who eat wandering souls and people's living souls. I know I may not be giving a very good description of this, but it is awesome. 10/10 "saigo no getsuga tenshou!" (you can find this show and any other anime I talk about on animefreak.tv)

Week 11: Conan the Barbarian- We're going caveman in Conan! Starring Schwarzenegger as Conan, the uneducated caveman. When Conan's village gets destroyed by a cult and he is raised as a slave child pulling a mill, he is content. When he grew older, he was trained to fight in the arena and learned to speak and read. When he saw the cult symbol in one of his matches, he went crazy and escaped, remembering his village and what the people who raised him did to it. This is the story of his revenge. It is an older movie, so the quality isn't very good, and speaking is minimal. It does have plenty of action though. Also starring the voice of Darth Vader. 8/10

Weeks 10: Whatever movie Beiber's in- Whatever you do, do not see this movie. I did not see it, will not see it, and laugh at anyone who has seen it. It's just sad that there is a biography about a little boy who sounds like a little girl who isn't old enough to actually have much in it. This movie was made secifically for fan girls.Rating: -10/10 (Thats negative 10)

Week 9: The A Team- A fantastic action movie starring Liam Neeson as Hannibal and some other people I don't know. It is a funny movie, but it's genre is action, unlike RED. It has your fill of guns and explosions, and some very good funny parts. It also has some radical scenes such as the team shooting out of a tank that is free fall from a plane. Pretty awesome though. The plot is similar to a few of recent movies like RED and the losers: team gets betrayed, clear their names, explosions. Rating: 9/10, this was some good stuff. "They specialize in the rediculous"

Week 8:RED- Bruce Willis is an ex-CIA agent who is being hunted by the CIA for some reason that I don't remember. He teams up with some other crazy old people to break into the CIA and find out why. It is a action-comedy. It is very funny with some good, if radical, action. The music isn't very good, it's kind of... corny. That was my main problem with it. If you like guns, explosions, and laughing at old people, this would be a good movie for you. 8/10

Week 7: True Grit- Jeff Bridges is Rooster Cogburn, the drunken lawman for sale. A liitle girl decides to hire him to find her dad's killer so she can kill him. On the way, they meet a Texas Ranger who tells tem that the guy is with a big gang and they would never be able to get him. They ignore the guy and keep going ad find him soon enough. They follow him back to his campsite where the girl gets captured. If I say an more, I'll spoil the ending. This was a good movie, but when I think back, it sems a bit long. There are some funny parts, but not enough to matter. Good for people who enjoy westerns. 7/10

Week 6: Dispicable Me- Steve Carrel stars in this funny movie about a top class supervillain who competes angainst another and somehow becomes the father of three little girls. Plot: After he is rejected by the bank to travel to the moon and steal it because he has no shrink ray, he tries to break into another person's base and steal one. He finds that the other guy really likes cookies and adopts three girls to sell him robotic cookies to steal the shrink ray. After he gets it, he contacts the bank to show him, but is rejected once again. He now has no use For the girls but is slightly attached to them. He builds a rocket and steals the moon, and then something terrible happens. This is full of laugh even though it isn't very long. 8/10 just because of the sappy parts "We're going to steal, dramatic pause, the moon!"

Week 5: The Green Hornet. This is a movie about a spoiled man who just feels like being a superhero. Plot: The head of the top selling newspaper dies of a ee sting. His son, a spoiled kid, doesn't really care. At the funeral, a statue is put up of his father. That night, he feels like doing something crazy with his Dad's Chinese machanic. He goes to the statue and cuts it's head off with a torch. On his way back home, he sees a person getting mugged and decides to help. After he knocks out one and the machanic take out six, they decide to do that every night. They fight crime while looking like criminals themselves. Opinion: Great. It's really funny with great action and a lot of explosions. It's got Seth Rogen too. Go Blue Wombat! 9/10

Week 4: Spaceballs! This is a great spin off of Star Wars. It was made by Mel Brooks who also did Young Frankenstein. Luke is Lonestar, Chewbakka is Barf the mog, Darth Vader is a midget, Jabba the Hut is Pizza the Hut, Yoda is Yogurt, and plenty of other funny characters are in here. The story is that the princess escapes her wedding, and runs away. Lonestar and Barf are sent after her for large reward, but the Spaceballs (the Empire) are after her too. Along the way, they face busted jets, overized hairdryers, and the Scwartz (the force). This movie does not star anyone famous, but is a great movie. It's rated PG, and I don't understand how. It should really be rated PG-13 because of certain things they say. They do reference other movies like Planet of the Apes. "Ludicrous Speed, away!" >4/5

Week 3: Tron Legacy. This was an amazing movie of awesomeness! The story is completely different from the origional Tron movie, so you don't need to see that first. The first Tron was slow and the graphics were terrible. I fell asleep watching it anyway. The new Tron may not have the most inracite story, but it kept you watching. The graphics were amazing, the costumes were all neon lit, and the soundtrack was by Daft Punk which is amazing. It had a small cast, but Jeff Bridges returns as Kein Flynnt which is cool. It is full of fast, flashy action. Daft Punk all the way! 5/5

Wteek 2: Kung Pow! This is an American movie dispite the name. It is a few Chinese movies with the main character switched with an American. The Chinese people's words don't match their mmouth movements either. Sometimes the words will be a few seconds off because it's funny. It's about "The Chosen One" as he adventures around and tries to find his parents' killer, Betty. This is one of the funniest movies ever made. It is completely clean but women still don't like it. I recommend this to people who like funny things. 4.5 /5 "I will call it... Toungey

Week 1: Anchorman. Anchorman is hilarious movie set a few years ago when women were being introduced to newscasting. It is about Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrel) who is forced to share the position of lead anchor with a woman. This also stars Steve Carell, Vince Vaughn, and Ben Stiller (for about a minute). Great for people with good sense of humor and not too many women. 4.5/5 "It was called, Sandiago"