A Good Day To Die Hard

A Good Day To Die Hard or Die Hard 5 for those who have been keeping count is the next John McClane  story and this time he is on another man hunt and he is with his son and they most stop these guys form getting some file and then it turns out there is no file. The story to say the least is a bit of a mess, but we will get to that later.

The things that I enjoyed were mainly two things. Bruce Willis you get some of his McClane like things so for that you find some enjoyment. Also the action in the film is okay, but I do take issue with the action in this film because the scenes are so long and sound guys don't make you feel like your there  awful sound effects.

Now if you notice in the paragraph above is really short. That means I really didn't like this film. I mean guys don't get me wrong I really wanted to like this film I love the Die Hard series. This film is so bad. Like I really was thinking about walking out at some points. The film is so slow and its only a hour and a half long. I don't know how the Director let this happen. You made a slow short film. WHAT!?!?!?!? The acting in the film is really bad. I have seen worse, but no one cares and it really shows. Like Willis kinda cares, but thats about it. Also I am so sick of people using shaky cam in dialogue scenes for the love of god put the thing on tripod. The DOP also tried to do some lens flares, but it donen't work at all. Its a horrible shot film. Then now to my biggest problem the script. First off the script story makes no sense. Your watching the film and for like the first 45 minutes you have no idea what your watching. Most of the movie you are just like who is the bad guy right now. Second problem the dialogue is equally as bad like mean come on give something that is good and fun to watch. I really wanted to see a fun and good and intense action film and what I got was a big mess. People I can now say that I enjoyed a film called Beautiful Creatures more then a Die Hard film. Thanks John Moore for ruining this series.

RATING
1.5 out of 5 Ticket stubs. (second to lowest rating I give)

    

Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures is a film based on the book also named Beautiful Creatures. Remember how a few weeks ago I compared Twilight to Warm Bodies. Yeah, this film has a lot more in common with Twilight then Warm Bodies. This film is about a family of Casters (not Witches or Wizards). It is about this girl Caster named Lena. Who is turning 16 and her powers I think will be there highest and be forced to be claimed by the Dark or the Light. We see this mostly through the eyes of a boy Ethan.

Now going into this film I am not gonna lie to you guys I was not expecting much. Actually I was thinking I was going to hate it, but actually it wasn't half bad. What I liked to begin with was the acting done by the whole cast. I mean the film also stars Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis. The film better be well acted. This was true. I even really enjoyed the male lead played Alden Ehrenreich. I was surprised by him. I thought he did really good. His character was really well written and thought out. Now sense this is like Twilight the girl and the boy are gonna get together. Like you know its gonna happen. What  I liked was there relationship on screen they played very well off each other. A very believable high school romance. Now what I also liked was just the over all story of the film. It was really cool and some pretty awesome scenes in it. I really liked the scene were you meet Jeremy Irons for the first time and the dinner scene.

Now this film I think a lot of problems like the pace. This is was the biggest problem with the film. It is around 2 hours long and the first 45 minutes flowed really good. I really enjoyed that part. Now the last half or so of the film I feel really slowed down. Also I think like the whole Dark caster thing really needed to be explained. Like I didn't really understand what it meant to be a Dark caster. Like does that mean you just kill everyone or like you just driven mad by power. They needed to just be a little clearer. I don't if the screen was messed up or it was the way it was shot because the night scenes in the beginning were super dark. So I not its not gonna hurt the film just a heads up I guess. My final thoughts on the film were that if you liked that whole Teen romance with that supernatural element. Your going to like the film a lot. If you are being dragged to the film your not gonna what to pull your eyes out of your head. So my rating will be

RATING
3 out of 5 stars. (this is a solid rent)

Side Effects

Side Effects stars Rooney Mara and Jude Law. The story is about how Rooney Mara is a depressed after her husband gets out of jail and she needs from help form a doctor. The doctor being Jude Law he gives some medicine that will help, but inside does some pretty bad things to her.

Now what I really enjoyed was the actually making of the film and story, but I also have to give a hit for its film making and story. I will explain this. The tone of the film is great. It hits this tone that stays its very serious all the way thought and never really goes anywhere with that which is good. Now the acting is great. I mean really good both Mara and Law can act the socks off. I really enjoyed both there performances. Now what I meant about the film making is the film is really slow. Now saying that this film needed to be a bit slow. It sets up the story and super well written. It sets up the character and what your supposed to think and then it pulls the rug out form under you. So you really got to want to ride out the slowness of the film and be okay with the switch in story. So if you don't go with the story switch your gonna be a little upset. I mean it starts off with this commentary on  drugs and then goes to a thriller. Now the cinematography in this film is so good. It is really well light and very well shot.

Also this film I feel really would have fell apart without Steven Soderbergh directing. He like I said above really knew what he was doing with this film. I really did enjoy this film as a whole piece of work. Now this film well be very interesting to see how it does at the box office because I don't think interested in seeing this. Even thought this has a lot of star power and it also has a great story. I feel like this film is going to go under the mass publics radar. I mean last night there was only three people in the theater last night. Seriously people if you want to see a slower paced film and great work of art. Go see Side Effects so I think I am going to give it a

RATING
4.25 out of  5 Ticket Stubs (I really don't like giving things that rating)

Bambi (Disney Collection)

Bambi is the reason why daughters hate there fathers for hunting. This is the story in short about a deer named Bambi who is born and this is his life story basically.

Now Bambi is a little longer then Dumbo, but I think that this movie and Dumbo are good side by side films. Like they don't have anything to do with each. Its not like a baby elephant is just gonna wonder into the forest were Bambi lives, but they both have similar stories and similar tones. They are both coming of age stories for animals. Now I am just gonna start off with I liked Bambi a lot more Dumbo. You can tell a lot more thought actually went into this film. It has a lot more side characters that are actually good. Also the main character is just better. I would also like the animation is a lot better in this film. My all time favorite scene in this film still holds up. I don't know if this is your favorite scene reader but this is mine the ice skating scene is just so freaking adorable. Speaking of a adorable Thumper oh my word I mean just look at the guy. ^ Dude is cute beyond cute.

The things that I didn't like about this film was that the over all story much like Dumbo I did not like it. Yes this film is paced better. I just really didn't like the story. Also I have problems with like some of the darker scenes. This film is super dark for a Disney movie. Now I mean Disney films that go dark do it right, but this one is really dark and doesn't really need to be. They do it to try and save some of the "story". Now even thought it has its issues still far better then some of the other films during this time period. My final thoughts just for the lovable characters of the film.

RATING
3.5 out of 5

Bullet to the Head

Bullet to the Head is the next action film done by Sylvester Stallone. The dude is 66 and can still kick some serious ass. Now the story of the movie is pretty simple Stallones pattern was killed and he wants to get revenge for the set up. He meets this cop that is also on the case and they need to team up to take the bad guys down.

What I liked about the film was that it had some cool action and the title of Bullet to the Head is a very good title for the film. Stallone was one of my favorite actors as kid. I loved Rocky and still do. I really want to revisit that movie series. He still has that I am gonna call it Stallone speech and you can't understand a word he is saying, but the film still has some really good lines. Also this film is total 80's. Now I am gonna put that in loved it, but others may not like that. So the tone of the film is absolutely perfect for the film. It has those crony one liners that don't always work, but sometimes they do. Also the bad guy played by the barbarian in Game of Thrones was so cool.  He was this huge force that you would not want to mess with and he has this sarcasm that I loved.

Now to what I didn't like about the film. The pace in the film was awful. The whole movie had a hard time to that flowed together. You could really feel in the intro of the film and the just the over all pace. The film felt really slow. Also the characters besides Stallone and the bad guy the characters were very flat and not the best. Also this film had a lot of shaky cam. I hate shaky cam. I really want directors that don't know how to shoot this style of to stop doing that. I mean Stallone can throw some punchs and you don't really get to see the full thing of that punch. This film was over all not completely awful but I would say if you want to go see a movie go see Warm Bodies right now.

RATING
2.5 out of 5

Warm Bodies

Warm Bodies this is what Twilight should have been. This is the story of a zombie named R and Julie a human and how they saved the world form the zombie apocalypse. The film was made by the Director of 50/50.  Now,  to what I thought about the film.

In the intro I said that this is what Twilight should have been. Okay I am just making a joke. This has more in the roots of ZombieLand then Twilight. A good place to start talk about the film is the tone. It is a great tone. It hits that very cool and funny tone that Zombieland hit and doesn't let it up. I really enjoyed it for this. Also I think the acting in the film was really good. I loved to the two leads a lot. The actor playing R was played by the guy who plays beast in x-men frist class (Nicholas Hoult who has another movie coming out later this year Jack the Giant Slayer). Then Julie was played by Teresa Palmer who has stared in I am Number Four by far her best performance was in this film. I also really just enjoyed the story and actually the romance of the film.  It was just a good story and very fun good movie. I would also like to talk about the practical effects. For a PG-13 zombie film they were very well done the zombies looked very cool. Also I would like to talk about the Director this guy is totally the next big thing he has had two really good films in a row now. This guy knows what he is doing behind the camera. So I can't wait to see his next film. DOP was very well done as well. It was lit the way I like with all the dark tones and stuff along that way. So it made all the sun and brighter shots look just that much better.

Now this film does have its problems. I think besides the leads some of the acting could have been better. My main actress that I didn't like was Analeigh Tipton I didn't like her. She had some odd moments that were supposed to be funny but came out stale. Also pace is not bad its just not great. I think it slows down for me just a little, but it is still a great pace just a little problem, but not huge at all. The CGI in the film was not that great. It wasn't awful but I can tell this was a lower budgeted film. The  thing that I hated the most about this film thought was the trailer. I hated the trailer to this film. It gave away so much of the action parts and even some of the jokes are ruined. So I am not going to post a trailer in this review just read my review and hopefully go in kinda blind. So after this is all said and done this is easily the best film of 2013 so far, but we are only in February. My finally rating is going to be

RATING
4 out of 5 Ticket Stubs.