A Few Good Men

1) Top notch stuff. Obvi I have a thing for courtroom dramas and this is one of the best. Really just solid shit all around.

2) I kinda wished they woulda developed the Demi Moore/Tom Cruise love story a little bit more too. Like it's obvi that there's some chemistry with them then they go out on that date but you never really know if it takes off after that.

3) Obvi the whole last scene is really solid. It was so solid that DB said it in a debate round one time. But the often overlooked part of the last scene is that he gets to say COLONEL like 132 times during his direct of COLONEL Jessup. Now that was pretty tight.

4) Oh yeah the line where he asks if she was sick the day they taught law at lawschool was pretty legit too.

A+

Kick-Ass

What's good tweet fans coming at you live from Uncle Dave's living room lol.

1) A lot gorier than I anticipated. Just people getting gruesomely slaughtered everywhere. Probably a good reason to stay out of the drug trade lol.

2) I'm not totally wild about these Scifi/comic movies (obvi) but this was pretty good. The ending was pretty good with that song from 10 Things I hate About You came on. One of the only bad parts of the movie was when they mentioned that horribly overrated American Beauty.

3) It's super tight when they start to gii- good for Dave. Although the alley part was kinda gross, I still enjoy the RomCom parts in movies.

4) How tight is it that the guy's name is Dave. Speaking of Dave, he thought the best part was when the chick made it rain and called that kid gay.

B+

Karate Kid, Part III

1) I've been on a Karate Kid bender lately. The third one's pretty tight because that jitsu guy from the first movie comes back with an even more jitsu friend. Don't get me wrong, this movie is tight. But holy god is the pony-tailed guy stupid. And talk about holding a grudge, this guy is really gungho about getting revenge on a retired Japanese guy and his 17 year old friend. He just needs to let it go lol.

2) The bonsai tree part is pretty stupid lol. I don't know what the obsession is with the bonsai trees.

3) Man Danielson is a ladies man in all these movies. The crazy part is they take place like within a year of each other. He moves into CA in the original one and meets that chick in like 2 seconds, gets hit on by the girl in Japan, and then makes moves the day he gets off the plane in the third one. I guess he's like Jon and just can't turn it off.

4) The scene with the heights made my feet tingly lol. I can't stand heights.

Top notch,

A

The Sitter

1) Eh, I thought it had a good setup. There was a bunch of inappropriate stuff in the first like 15 minutes, all the kids were pretty funny, and Jonah Hill was solid.

2) I guess it's just that these movies with super ridiculous plot lines get kinda out of control. I mean, I sort of understand that he'd have to take the kids to go meet his lady friend. But why would you stop to get drugs/get into fights/ generally screw around. I've never babysitted (obvi) but it can't be that hard to keep track of 3 kids for a few hours.

3) The end was kind of stupid too. Don't get it twisted, I love romcomesque endings but his line at the end of tha movie that they should just go walk because its such a great night out is pretty jitsu.

4) Did anyone notice his quasi-ladyfriend at the beginning was Meadow's friend on the Sopranos? The Sopranos rules.

For an hour and 21 minutes, it was okay

C+

Hollow Man

Wgbw, sorry for the delays again, I was actually busy this last week lol.

1) Pretty solid movie overall. I know there was that old jitsu Hollow Man movie, but obvi I'm a big fan of the newer remixes.

2) Easily one of Kevin Bacon's best movies outside of A Few Good Men and Wild Things. I don't know why he always has to play the creepy dickbag guy in movies, but I guess he's good at it lol.

3) I've never been a fan of the sexual assault scenes and this movie was no different. I don't know why they could have just audibled out of that and just made him a traditional horror villain (I just learned how to spell villain lol).

4) The only other jitsu part in the movie is why they let Kevin Bacon be the one to go invisible. I get that he was the leader of the project, and the smart guy and all, but if you thought someone was creepy and could do a bunch of crazy stuff while visible, I dunno why you think it would be a good idea to let him out on town invisibly.

Pretty solid,

B

Moneyball

1) I should preface this with a caveat: these Academy Awardesque movies will not continue to pop up on the blog for much longer. The other day Alan agreed to watch No One Would Tell if I watched this. So don't get your hopes up thinking these 'good' movies will keep being reviewed lol.

2) I obvi like a lot of sports movies (The 2008 NCAA Championship, White Men Can't Jump, Rocky), but this one wasn't quite up to par.

3) I even like the Sports documentary genre, but this one just seemed kinda slow. Like I get it, they need to struggle, implement the new system, struggle some more, and then show that it pays off. Like a lot of other movies, I think this one just could've cut to the chase a little quicker. And even the side story with his daughter was kind of boring/irrelevant.

4) I think I like Jonah Hill better in some of his other good shit like Knocked Up or Superbad. It's hard to take him seriously as some mathematics guru after seeing him in some of the other raunchy shit he's in.

Nothing to write home about,

C-

The Artist

1) What a beautiful film. Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian best described my own feelings towards the movie ""had me on my feet cheering throughout the final credits- I can't wait to see it again".

2) Actually I don't know what I enjoyed more: a) the fact that it was 'French-Romantic-Comedy-Drama', b) that there was no people talking, or c) that it was in black and white.

3) After seeing this I really think all films should go back to their silent and black and white days.

Actually no I don't. I can't imagine wanting to throw away my computer and type on some giant 1988 computer in my parent's basement that took an hour to boot up- why would you want to go back to crappier times in films?

4) Can you imagine the critics reactions at the time in the 1920s in France? They'd be like 'this is the dumbest movie ever- we were overjoyed when silent films went away!' And later generations would ask 'why on earth is this fucking movie in black and white? I thought that shit went out of style years ago.'

5) To be fair, I didn't actually watch this movie. I only watched the super long trailer that nearly put me to sleep. It would take an act of God to make me sit through an hour and 40 minutes of this.

As Petey would say, you can take this film, and give it back to the 1920s.

F

The Karate Kid

They referenced this on EBD last night and it reminded me how tight this movie was.

1) So much good shit to say about this movie, it's hard to know where to start. I've obvi got a thing for the underdog movies (see 8 Mile and The Fighter), and this one was right up that alley. Throw in some teen RomCom and this movie rules.

2) Mr. Miyagi was super tight the whole movie too.

3) The only sort of jitsu part of the movie is Daniel's lack of anger control. I mean, the kid is constantly snapping at his mom, miyagi, and his lady friend. He needs to learn how to wooooo sawwwww.

4) This movie also gave rise to one of the tightest lines in motion picture history (I'da added it to the list but it slipped my mind lol). For the bw's viewing pleasure: GET HIM A BODY BAG, YEAHHHHHHHHHH

Top notch stuff,

A+

No One Would Tell

1) Dj tanner from full house and fred savage – how could this movie get any better? Although I dunno why he’s always playing creepy roles now. He played this serial rapist in L & O SVU a few years back and now this.

2) I do have a thing for some lifetime movies- this fit the bill pretty good, but I kind of wish some of them were more uplifting. Reminded me of a less tight version of Fear but without the vigilante justice at the end. Lifetime movies are always pretty good about the life lessons.

3) I was also a fan of all the wrestling scenes at the beginning, but whoever the wrestling trainer for the actors in the movie was pretty bad, it was just the same 2 moves over and over again lol.

4) LOL @ Sally Jesse Raphael being the judge. However, it was very lifetimesque of her to give that speech at the end preaching against domestic violence. Clutch public service announcement.

Still not a fan of all the DV scenes,

C

Leap Year

1) Wgbw, I know I'm a day late but yesterday was a scenic Leap Year so this movie fit the bill.

2) The first 45 minutes of this movie were pretty bad. All they do is fight and hate each other and it just gets annoying. It's kind of weird because I really thought Letters to Juliet was a sick movie and that's got kind of the same MO. I guess the difference was in LTJ she didn't really hate him the whole time and then they were just embarking on this love story the whole time.

3) It more reminded me of the turd of a movie The Wedding Date because this movie was pretty bad too, took place in a different country, and the guy in it was just generally annoying the whole time.

4) I'm all for a predictable movie and all, but you wouldn't have to be Nostradamus to figure this one out. And most PG movies are too lame/lack any funny stuff to go too high up on the ladder.

Jitsu,

D+