This is the exact type of movie I would have LOVED as a kid. And frankly, I still do. Nature run amok. It's a great theme for a movie, whether it's done in absolute seriousness (like "Jaws," "Jurassic Park," or "Tarantula") or in full-on goofy campy mode (as in "Evolution," "Eight Legged Freaks," or this movie).

Piranha 3D is exactly what it sounds ( Read more... )

While "The Expendables" has some really fun action sequences (particularly whenever that fully-automatic murderous shotgun shows up), my hands down favorite scene is the one near the start where we have Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bruce Willis all on screen at the same time. Their dialogue is priceless! And it's just cool seeing ( Read more... )

Salt is an unusually good movie. I went in expecting not much more than an action movie, and while it delivers quite well on that front, it actually has a pretty cool storyline and, perhaps even more crucial, a really cool character. I can certainly see Salt turning into a franchise similar to the James Bond or Bourne movies, but with a bit darker ( Read more... )

I saw Inception last night, and still can't get it out of my head. I'll be seeing it again tomorrow, I think. Go see this movie before you learn too much about it from friends; the trailers, for once, do a MASTERFUL job at selling the movie without really revealing at all what it's about.

Best movie of the year, hands down. Not gonna say much more ( Read more... )

The original [REC] was remade into a VERY faithful adaptation here in the states called Quarantine. Both of those movies are actually really good. I prefer [REC] because the explanation of what exactly is causing the strange rabies-like contagion that takes over an apartment building in the middle of the city is a lot more... mystical, I guess, ( Read more... )

Going to see Predators was a bit strange for me. Because Predator landed squarely in that zone of "Now I can watch R-rated movies on the VCR" and it happened to be one of the movies I owned, and as a result I watched the HELL out of the movie. As with other movies in that category, like Alien, Aliens, John Carpenter's The Thing, Re-Animator, ( Read more... )

"Knight and Day" is the type of movie I probably would have normally not seen in the theater, had I not been trying to see 53 movies in the theater this year. And as it turned out, it wasn't that terrible at all. It was actually pretty entertaining, although it suffered a little bit from the "show all the good parts in the trailer" syndrome... with ( Read more... )

ALSO. Paizocon was really fun, although kind of frustrating since it happened on the same weekend my sister, whom I haven't been able to hang out with for 2 years, was in town for more or less the exact same amount of time Paizocon was going on. So I only had about 3 hours to hang out with Stephanie. Which was lame.

But Paizocon itself was quite fun ( Read more... )

So... I went into "The A-Team" expecting a goofy, silly, movie with fun characters, fun action sequences, and creative "A-Team" moments where the team rigs some sort of crazy contraption to get the job done. In other words, something akin to the original show.

While they did a pretty good job capturing the characters... the action sequences were ( Read more... )

Last movie of SIFF was Cargo, and it broke my record of rating movies either a "3" or a "5" for the festival by being interesting and well made but not being daring or creative enough to live up to its intriguing setup-a cargo ship delivering materials to a distant star to aid in building a remote station to aid in the evacuation of earth has some ( Read more... )