The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street is the next film by Martin Scorsese, personally one of my favorite directors. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill as the main two roles. The film is about a stockbroker named Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio) who is to eventually become known as the the wolf of wall street. It is mainly about the crazy adventures he has on his rise to riches.

This film is easily one of the most puzzling films of the year for me next to Man of Steel. There is definitely a ton of good in this film. DiCaprio is on fire in this role, just incredible. It wasn't like the Great Gatsby, where I really didn't see a character, just DiCaprio.  I saw exactly who DiCaprio was trying to show, Belfort. Then, Jonah Hill equally kills it along side of DiCaprio. I honestly got lost in Hill's character because of how amazing he did. The perfect casting for him. Now, the screenplay of this is film is amazing. This film is easily one of the funniest movies I have seen all year. The conversations that these people have are amazing and became the highlight of this film. The script felt very Tarantino-ish however. Possibly because of all the talking and the over the top characters.

My problem with this film is Martin Scorsese. Very rarely will I say I have a problem with the director. I really enjoyed his direction and it felt like one of his films with push ins with the dollies and well used moving cameras. I have a problem with the tone of the film. When I walked out of the movie, I was stuck like I didn't know if Scorsese wanted me to feel bad for these guys or if he wanted me to hate them. I felt like the tone was all over the pace. It has the same problem as in Pain and Gain (I know I just compared Michael Bay to Martin Scorsese). The person that the film was about was a really bad person but it was made into a comedy so I have no idea what to feel about this person by the end. Also, the run time is a 3 hours long and the last 45 could almost be cut from the film. The actually ending of the film felt very sloppy to me.

With all that being said, this just missed the cut for one of my favorites of the year. I really enjoyed the film because the writing and characters are just so damn interesting along with all the side characters in the film and the style it had.  I really want and need to see it again. So with that I am going to give it a

RATING
3.25 out of 4 Ticket Stubs.

My Top 10 of 2013

Now since this is my top ten films of 2013 this is all my personal favorite films. This means even thought I didn't give it a perfect rating it still may out beat other movies. Also I didn't see everything. So sorry if your favorite film isn't on the list.  I will also post the rating out of how many ticket stubs I think the movie deserves because I didn't do full reviews of all them. Also since this year I changed the way I did my Ticket Stubs system I will try and rework them for what it is now. I am so going to say I am sorry for not being as good this year as I was last year school kind of killed me so 2014 will be better promise.

1) Prisoners 4 out of 4
2) 12 Years a Slave 4 out of 4
3) Mud 4 out of 4
4) Gravity 3.75 out 4
5)Star Trek Into Darkness 4 out 4
6) Frozen 3 out of 4
7) American Hustle 3.75 out of 4
8) The Wolverine 3 out of 4
9) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 3 out 4
10 )The Conjuring 4 out of 4

Movies that just missed the cut
Side Effects
The Place Beyond the Pines
Pacific Rim
The Hobbit: Smaug
The Wolf of Wall street

Movies that I missed this year, well the ones that I really wanted to see but didn't didn't get a chance.
Captain Phillips
Her
Rush
Blue is the Warmest Color
Lone Survivor
Secret life of Walter Mitty
Dallas Buyers Club
Inside Lleywn Davis

American Hustle

American Hustle is the next film done by the Director of Sliver Linings Playbook and The Fighter. If you were to combine the cast of those two movies you would get the basic cast for this film. It stars Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Bradley Cooper in the main three roles. It also stars, my gir,l Jen Lawrence in a supporting role as well Jeremy Renner in a supporting role.

This film has a style all of its own. I loved the tone of this film. It was funny and it had moments where I was on the edge of my seat much like last year's Argo. David O. Russell basically took some pages from Martin Scorsese's playbook and applied them thought out the film. He also had his own style all over the film as well. It really worked for the film and I enjoyed it so much. The acting was so great. All the leads and all the actors did amazingly well in this film. The acting alone should get you in the door. Now that being said my two favorite actors of the film were Lawrence (was that a surprise people) and Bale.  Bale to say the least was amazing. He put on a hell of a show and did so much to his body for his role. Then Lawrence just steals every damn scene she is in. There was a moment in the film where Lawrence and Bale are arguing and I forgot who both were and just got lost in the scene which was easily one of my favorite scenes of the year. Something else that was amazing in this film was the writing. Some of the best lines of the year were in this film and I also loved the story.

Now my one and only fault is in the middle. I feel like it loses it focus and starts to slow down a lot. In it's defense however, it does pick right back up at the start of the third act. The film is a great ride and really funny. It is easily one of my favorites of the year. I don't want to get into spoilers but here is my final thoughts. If you like a Goodfellas feel mixed with a Sliver Linings Playbook feel then this is your film.

RATING
3.75 out of 4

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug is the follow up to the first movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected  Journey. It stars a ton of people. I mean, to list the cast would take about half of the review. It is directed by Peter Jackson of course, and follows the same journey to the lonely mountain to get  back the Dwarfs' home.  If  you read my first review of The Hobbit I thought it had a lot of issues that needed to be fixed. Did they fix them? Well lets get to the review.

Peter Jackson did a really good job of fixing a lot of problems from the first film. I actually really enjoyed this one. The pace issues were gone in this film. The action and story actually move at a very good pace and you don't feel like your just watching filler like you were in the first part. They fixed a lot of the CGI problems that I had with the first one. I felt like they used more practical effects in this film and then the CGI that they did use was very good. It felt like I was actually looking at a real thing instead of a CGI image. The acting for the film was good on all accounts. The story of course was still very good and very enjoyable. This was the hobbit movie that I have been waiting to see. The action was a lot better and very cool. Also they bring back some of the darker tones. Nowhere as dark as the LOTRs but it is a little darker then the first which really fit this movie. Also Smaug was one of the coolest looking CGI creations I have ever seen. And with the powerful voice of Benedict Cumberbatch behind him he became a very memorable character. 

I am going to get to the elephant in the room. There is a lot of added stuff in the film that of course is not in the book. So with that, if your a fan of the book you have been warned. Keep this in mind Jackson and the studio wanted to make this into 3 movies out of a 310 paged book. So I think they are going to have to add a few things. I personally who have never read the book thought all the added stuff was good and fun. Also even with the pace of the film being fixed you are still very aware that you're in the theater for about 3 hours. So remember, if you don't like long films this is one is not for you. So with that all said and done my rating for you guys is this 

RATING

3 out of 4 Ticket Stubs

Frozen (2013)

Frozen is the new animated Disney film, not the Adam Green horror film. The film stars Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell in the Princess roles. The story is about a coming of age queen that basically has the powers of ice and snow.  The film is a return to the classical way Disney films are made with the songs and the magic of Disney.

To start off, the film is a musical with a grand total of around 10 songs. All of them are good. I mean, I enjoyed every song that was played in the film. My personal favorite of the film is "Let It Go". I have that song still stuck in my head about 3 hours after the film. The animation in the film was perfect. It was gritty and it added a great layer to the film. The pace and the tone were great. It was very fast paced and it hit that great classic Disney tone. That Disney tone is one of the hardest tones to hit and this team of people hit like a hammer to a nail. It really is just impressive in it of itself. The pace is fast but works for the film and keeps you from getting bored. The voice acting and the characters themselves were very good. My favorite character, Elsa (Menzel), was great and really brought life to this film. Another great character was Olaf. He comes into the film and just pushes this film from good to great and turns it to an instant classic.  The overall theme of the film, love, works very well into this film.

My problems with film are very few. My biggest problem of the film is that the songs all feel very unbalanced. The beginning of the film  is jam packed with songs, just one after another, and it's almost like stepping over into Le Miz. Then, it just stops for a long time and eventually brings it back for one song. It just really took me out of the film. My other problem, which is just a personal one and may not apply to everyone, is the fact that I really wanted to see more of Elsa. She is in the film a lot and is one of the main characters of the film, but I just wanted a little more like one more song from her or another scene. That being said this easily my favorite animated film of the year. With that being said I am going to give it a

RATING
3.25 out of 4 Ticket Stubs

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Catching Fire is the next in the Hunger Games series and it's going be 4 films long and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth. There is also a huge slew of side characters with great actors in their roles. The biggest difference between this film and the first is that the director from the first, Gary Ross, has fallen to the new man in the chair, Francis Lawrence.

With that new man in the chair, we get a much different feel and a little bit of a different tone. The first thing that you will notice all shaky cam is gone. Instead, we get a great looking and well shot film. A lot of dark night photography and it all looks great. I mean, I have seen better but still much better than the first film. Now, the tone has changed but only ever so slightly. The first one is so dark and serious with very little humor and this film puts a little more humor into the film than the first one. I think the humor is both good and bad. They had the perfect amount of humor in the film and all of the jokes work and hit well with me. I think the pace of the film is amazing. It is close to two and half hours and it really doesn't feel that long in the theater. Also, I really enjoyed all the acting. No one is bad in the film. There are a few stand outs. One being Hutherson (I bet you thought I was going to say Lawrence). I liked him in the first one. In this one, I enjoyed him even more than in the first film. He seemed to have lost many of the teenage attributes of his character so I really enjoyed him and his character. Lawrence on the other hand was amazing like she always is. For example, she hits so many emotional moments in the movie and does it with grace and perfect timing. One of my favorite moments is the very ending shot and shots in the tubes (you'll see what I mean when you see it).

Now, my biggest problem with the film is this I really wanted to spend a lot more time in the Capital. I loved the Hunger Games part. It is action packed and very well done but the story that I want to see is the is revolt against the Capital. It is a very minor problem and it has nothing to do with the writing of the film just the way the books are done.  Also, the film has so many themes that it is trying to get across to the audience is just a little too much. All of them are done simultaneously and their is too many of them. Maybe pick and focus on just that one at a time could make it better but I really don't know. Not taking much away from the overall score of the film but it was just a minor thing that I noticed. Overall, this is easily the best action movie of the October, November, and December season so far. Don't miss it.

RATING
3.5 out of 4

Thor: The Dark World

Thor: The Dark World is the sequel to Thor. It stars all the people from the first film and is directed by Alan Taylor.  The story of this film is simply. The dark elves have come back form the deepest parts of space. They come to destroy and put the world back into darkness using the Aether.

What this film had going for it was the director and the cast of Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston. I loved Hiddleston in this damn movie. I mean I almost thing he really saves the film for me. The man truly loves the role and you can tell. Then Hemsworth really is Thor. It will be really hard to ever replace that man. Then there play back and forth was so prefect and well timed. I mean every time Loki (Hiddleston) is on screen he just kills it. You actaully really care for his character in the end of the film. Also the direction by Taylor works so well you get that super fantasy and epic feel from his background work Game Of Thrones. The action which there is a lot of comes fast and hard and very well shot. I also thought the pace that he set in for he film worked over all.

Now this film has a few really big problems. I biggest problem with the film was the tone. Its not like it is a dark tone and it just didn't work but it was the villains. Like the villains were this super sci-fi bad guy. Like there were moments when I was swear I was watching Star Wars. SPOILERS DO NOT READ HERE ON IF YOU DON'T WANT THINGS SPOILED. I WILL PUT READ HERE FOR NO SPOILERS.  The moment when a star ship comes flying in and starts to shoot lasers at the the home base and almost destroys it. Really took me way out of the film and if you get pulled out of the a Thor movie it must be something that is really out of place. READ HERE. Now there are other problems with the film as well. Like I said above the back and forth between Loki and Thor is amazing and perfect.  I wanted so much more of it. Like that was the moment in the film that I realized I was watching a comic book movie and it felt so good, but it comes and goes sadly.

My final thoughts are this Thor: The Dark World is a good action film for Nov. I think if you enjoyed the first you will really enjoy this film and if you didn't like the first one. You may like this one better. It isn't the best Marvel movie but it is still a good time at the movies.

RATING
2.5 out of 4 Ticket Stubs

12 Years A Slave

12 Years A Slave is a true story seen thought the eyes of Solomon Northup. The man was a free man in the in New York. When he joins a group of man to make some money. When he wakes up caught and about to be sold back into slavery. The film stars a lot of people. The main two actors in the film are Chiwetel Ejiofor (really happy I don't have to say that name aloud) and Michael Fassbender. The film is directed by Steve McQueen.

I am going to start off saying this movie is acted so well. I mean really well almost every person nears the praise that they are getting. Not just Fassbender and Ejiofor, but all the actors to me did amazing. They all weren't actors to me they were the characters they were trying to be so for that I gave my highest praise. Fassbender was not on screen that man is my favorite actor in right now he has not done a bad job in any of his films. That man can act and will be doing so for awhile. Now Ejiofor was equally as amazing as Fassbender was. There are so many times where the shot was set up were it was just his face and you got to see the real emotion on his face and feel with the character. The credit for that goes to McQueen and Ejiofor.  McQueen has made more art house films in the past. Like Shame and Hunger. I have never seen Hunger but I have seen Shame and that was one of best movies of that year. Now with that being said the art house isn't completely gone McQueen's style is felt all over the film, but it is more held back as it were. I think this really help the film a lot it was able to focuses on the story it was trying to tell and emotions it wanted you to feel.  McQueen sets up some amazing looking shots. Some of the transitions were just amazing as well. The editing was just perfect all the shots last the perfect amount of time.

The pace and the tone are perfect to say the last. I will admit that the pace is slowed down at times, but it really didn't bug me that much. Like it doesn't happen many times and I also saw this film at a later time so that could have effected the pace of the film. Now also the violence in the film is hard to watch. McQueen really wanted you to see the brutally of it and he shows it with no remorse. It made for a much better movie and set up everything so well. This film is easy one of my favorites of the year. Please if you have the chance go see this piece of Art.

RATING
4 out 4 Ticket Stubs.

Ender's Game

Ender's game is based off the book written by Orson Scott Card. The film is centered around Ender Wiggin and the world that he lives in. The world he lives in is earth in the future after a massive war with the evil alien race. So the military fearing the fearing of another attack by the them start to enlist this very gift kids to train and fight for them in this war.

Now to begin. I think this film is a really well done science fiction tale. It creates a great world and a very cool enemy. I also think the films action is really well done. It has really great moments. I really enjoyed like the 30 of the film. It was really good and set up for a get end of the film. Another really strong part of the film was the acting done by the main two. I thought Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield did a great job. Ford was super intense in the film. Then Butterfield I really enjoyed as a main character. He was clam and cool and just all around good character. I will get more into the characters in a little bit later on in the review. I also really enjoyed the way it was shot and the tone of the film that in credit to the director of the film Gavin Hood. I also liked the score to the film it created very hardcore and moving moments all at the same time.

My problems with the film is the pace. All the problems really go back to the pace of the film which is super odd. Like you can tell this is based off the book and they are moving really quickly thought the book to get to the end of the film. The only thing is the film is slow. I really don't know how Hood pulled that off. Like it was a slow film with a lot of fast and no breathing scenes. It made no sense to me in the theater.  Also since the pace of the film was so sloppy that you really don't get to know the characters. Then only people you care for is Ender and Graff (Ford). Also Ford really doesn't have much of an arc in the film maybe it is extended in the later books of the series, but I don't know the books.

I think this film is okay and is still a fun time in at the movies much like I thought Carrie was. This was better then Carrie. Which i saw just was unable to do a review. I think if you want to watch it go ahead. Its not you are going to walk of the theater mad you saw it, but if you aren't a fan of this type of film run fast.

RATING
2.5 out of 4 Ticket Stubs.

Carrie mini review.
If you wanted to see Carrie and ever saw it go see the new one. If you have seen the old one it is better so just stick with that.
1.5 out of 4 Ticket Stubs.

Princess Mononoke (The Ghibli Archive)

Princess Mononoke is held to be one of the best of the Studio Ghilbi films. I read online that it was supposed to be Hayao Miyazaki's last film back when he said he was going to retire. What the film is centered around is a Prince Ashitaka the last prince of his people who gets cursed defending his village from a cursed boar. He must leave his village and try and find a cure. When doing this he comes across forest gods and village that are trying to kill each other and thats the story.

Well to begin I am going to say this all the Studio Ghilbi films look amazing. This is like the Brave (be it a lot better) of the Studio Ghilbi. It has a lot of stuff work with like the landscape and the people it greats to create. It has great shots of mountain sides and it also has some really epic looking battle scenes. Now when it comes to the story this is a very good story with a really big and completely obvious message.  It isn't really much subtext to the theme of film. It is nature is good and man is good we need to work and live together and have no war. Miyazaki did a great job of balancing the two stories understanding were both sides come from. Now I will admit you feel more for the forest spirits like the humans are in the wrong, but that could be different from each viewing or who is viewing it. The acting in the film was good. I mean I enjoyed everyones voice, but I don't thing anybody brought anything to the role but it is still good. The tone of the film is amazing. The tone that is set by the film is this dark but very fantasy like world were everything has weight to it. The soundtrack is amazing. This my second viewing of the film. I really enjoyed it this time around. I thought it thought way to highly of itself. Now this viewing it wasn't as bad and a lot better.

My real only problem with the film is the pace. It is really action packed and really well made I think some scene just drag on a little. Not too badly, but sometimes I was like alright I get it lets move on please. I think if you are a person who things down on Anime or any from of Japanese film making this film should prove that it can very adult medium. This film can turn someone who things its just kid stuff to someone that is the total opposite. I mean this won the best Japanese film of the year at there "Oscars". I think more films need to be made like this.

RATING
3.5 out of 4 Ticket Stubs

Studio Ghibli

This intro is for those who don't know about Studio Ghibli. Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation studio. Created by the great animator Hayao Miyazaki. Most people have heard of a lot of these films due to the fact disney took them a ported them to America. They have many of there films dubbed. So all of this films are Japanese influenced. Now I am going to do what I did with Disney Collection posts. I am going to watch and revisit some of them. A lot of these I am going to be seeing with fresh eyes it will be really cool. I am going to try and find all the dubbed ones and only those I won't go and back and watch it again subtitled. Some aren't dubbed and those are the films that I will review with subtitled. I am just going to watch them randomly, but I will try and keep them in order. So with all that being said look out for the first review which will be Princess Mononoke.

Gravity

Gravity is a space thriller. It is about a crew of astronauts that are working on the Hubble telescope. When a ton of space junk comes and hits the ship and the telescope sending the astronauts in a bunch of trouble. The film stars really only two people George Clooney and in the main role is Sandra Bullock.

First off the film is CGI masterpiece. Guys I am not kidding when I say I could tell what was a CGI effect or a built set. It is also helps that this film is amazingly shot. The opening shot of the film is one of the longest takes in have seen in a awhile. Like the director Alfonso Cuaron loves to do this and it works so well for the movie. This movie is really his master piece like he is the star of the movie. Like I don't think this movie would have worked without this director. He was set a tone in one shot. Easily my favorite opening shot of the year so far. The shot goes on for about 20 minutes but it was amazing. This is one of the most tease films of the year. I was on the edge of my seat for the whole movie. Now the acting by Bullock and Clooney was very good. I really enjoyed them you really felt for Bullock because I mean who would want to be in this situation. Clooney felt like a old and awesome old astronauts. I also loved the music for the film. It was beautiful score and very good use. Which leads me into the point about sound it is soundless for parts which just draws you in more and more. I also say go see the movie in IMAX and 3D this is what it was made for spend the extra money.

My only complaint is hard to explain but I will try to explain the best I can. So the writing in the film is good, but I feel like it couldn't be used that well. There is so much in the film going on with the action that the great and awesome writing can really show up for the great parts. There is like one scene of character development  and they needed more and I wanted more.  Everyone needs to go see this movie much like Prisoners.

RATING
3.75 out of 4 Ticket Stubs.

Curse of Chunky

The Curse of Chucky is the 6th. That's right sixth movie in the child's Play/ Chucky series. The film stars the voice of the Chucky (Brad Dourif) who has played him in all six of the movies.  Which makes me happy as a fan. The film is set about 4 years after last Chucky movie ( I didn't know that by watching the movie thank you Wikipedia). It is centered Nica who is mailed the Chucky doll. When crazy things happening because of the evil doll.

Now this movie was supposed to be return to the roots of Chucky which is a horror movie. This is awesome for the true Chucky fan. Which I am I have seen every single Chucky film is that a good thing. No its not a good thing at all. What this film does well is actaully what they set out to do and make a over the top horror film. In the old style of horror. A good old Slasher film. I personally love all types of horror films. I think this why I like B movies so much. Now this a slasher film you have to know what your getting with this film. Lots of blood and over the top deaths along with some odd and goofy humor. It gives you all of that.

Now what the film fails at is being a very fresh and just all around good movie. This film is made for the fans for Chucky and has a lot of call backs to the first set of films. I loved it but most people won't really care. It is a enjoyable film if you like slasher and 80's movies like me, but if your in the majority your not really gonna like this film. It does have some really good and creepy ass scenes in the beginning of the film and actually is able to keep a lot of tension thought out the film, but it isn't very scary like some better VOD horror movies out there.

RATING
Fans 3 out of 4 Ticket Stubs
Everyone Else 1 out of 4 Ticket Stubs

Prisoners

Prisoners stars Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and a lot of other people. This film is about a child abduction of Jackman's kids and Terrence Howard on a one thanksgiving night. The film is Directed by Denis Villeneuve, and shot by the great Roger Deakins. The total runtime of the film is about 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Well I first want to talk about Roger Deakins to those who don't know I think he is the best working Cinematographer working today. No matter what this guy touches if he is just a consultant or is the actual person working on the camera shot. The film looks amazing. This film looks amazing he use this grey look to the film to create this cold atmosphere. The film is the best shot film of the year next to possibly Mud. Now the director Denis Villeneuve was one of the many shinning stars in this film. This film is tease all the way thought. Ever time I took a breath I swear it was at the end of a super intense scene. He used the great writing done by Aaron Guzikowski. Villeneuve lets each scene play out and breath and get more tease. It was very cool and awesome thing done.  The writer plays into stereotyped films but shades light on these characters which we have seen so many times before.  The dialogue in the film is so good and felt so real. Now this leads me into the characters and the story of the film. The characters are the best part of this film. Loki (Gyllenhaal) is a great character because you can tell that he doesn't want to fail these two families. He will not sleep until he sees justice done. Gyllenhaal performance is amazing I mean he really is amazing and does a great job as this character and I loved him in this. Now Keller Dover ( Jackman) for how good Loki was Keller Dover the best and most intersecting character. You want him to find his kids but he does things that your not sure is the right thing. The film is so good at this and it keeps asking you. Would you do this? How far would you go to find your kids? Then Jackman's acting in the film is insanely good. When both Gyllenhaal and Jackman are on the screen together it is magic. Jackman needs a nod for the performance in this film as well as Gyllenhaal.

I really have no complaints on this film. I think this is one of the best of the year and is my personal favorite film of the year. Prisoners just barely bets out Mud for my favorite. Everyone needs to go see this film. I could go on and on about this film. I didn't  even talk about the pace and the tone (both are perfect). Please go see this film

RATING
4 out of 4 Ticket Stubs

Riddick

Riddick is the third film in the Pitch Black series. Now first off I have never seen the other films so this is coming from somebody that has no knowledge of this series and how it starts. Here is the story in short it is about a man named Riddick (Vin Diesel) has been left on this no named planet to die.

Now this movie was almost three different movies in one. It starts off like I Am Legend. Then it goes into this cat and mouse game with a bunch of mercenaries and then finally ending in with Riddick and the mercenaries fighting together to get off the planet. I really enjoyed the first two part. My liking of the film got less and less as the film went on really. Like when he is on the planet the film is really good. The director was really good at showing the passing of time and was able to keep the tension of the film going. With some pretty cool action scenes. When the mercenaries get there again the tension still there and cool scenes, but the film you can tell is starting to slow down. It was beginning to lose its edge. Then finally by the end of the film I really felt out of the film. Also the film you can tell had a lot lower budget compared to other films. Not saying that the whole CGI thing look awful, but I will say that the motorcycle bike thing that he drives didn't look that cool. Like I think they were trying to make you thing that it was going really fast but it looked like that it was going at a crawls pace. So it came off really funny to me.

So on a whole the film had some really cool scenes. I feel if the film had a more focused script and had a better pace this film would have been a hell of a lot better. So on a whole if your a fan of the Riddick series I say see the film because it does deliver on making Riddick a Badass again, but if you just starting out or you don't like action films what for a dvd/bluray disc.

RATING
2 out of 4 Ticket Stubs

The World's End

The World's End is the last in the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost films. It is about a bunch of all friends coming back together and trying to complete the golden mile. The golden mile is a pub crawl of 12 bars ending at The World's End. Now when the group all get back to there home town they notice something is different about there home town and madness begins.

Now this film I have been hearing a lot of good buzz around this film and plus I really enjoy the other two films them being Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. So I was expecting something just as good as those two films. Now that being said this film really delivers on a lot of that. This is film is very witty and very funny. I was laughing all the way thought this film. Which is pretty hard to do. Also I really enjoyed Edgar Wright directing style. He was is really good at combining films that don't really belong together. So the tone was actually really good and very well done. Also he was able shoot some of the action scenes really well and they are like is blend of shaky cam that isn't shaky cam it was odd but cool. Now another thing that I really liked was the acting. All the people in the film were great. I mean they all understood what this film was going to be and gave it there all. The actors really do knock this film out of the park.

The script is the only real thing that is like double edged sword in this film. Like the writing is so good. Like the characters that they create are so good and so well realized and just all around fun to watch on screen that when the (spoilers for the rest of the review sorry it needs to be talked about ) Robots come into the film it feels out of place. Like I would have been fine with this film if there was no action and it was a Dramdy. It would have just held its own. So I think the film forgets what it is trying to do and loses some things but I still very much enjoy the film and I am going to give a

RATING
3.25 out of 4 Ticket Stubs

Kick-ass 2

Kick-ass 2 is the follow up to Kick-ass. So if you ever saw the movie Kick-ass you need to know what your expecting when you go into this film. You should know this film is R-rated so your going to get over the top comedy and its going to be super violent. Now my biggest fear for this movie was I loved the style and tone the Director Matthew Vaughn brought to the first one. So I didn't think his style would be placed into this film because he was just a producer on this one. So lets go to wait I thought about the film.

The acting in the film I found just like the first one done very will and pretty amazing. Chloe Mortez is once again the best and most fun of all the characters. She has really grown up in this film and she has a very cool arch for the film. The boy who played Kick-ass did very well and did a good job in this film as well. Now the wild card in this film was going Jim Carry and I very much enjoyed him in the film and it was a lot of fun to see him in something good again. Now the scripted by Jeff Wadlow who also is the director in this film. I thought his script was actually the best part of the film. It felt like a mix of the movie Super and The Avengers. He had a nice moral and a good theme thought out the whole film. He was also able to make very funny moments. With some really well shot action.

Now my biggest problem with the film is the fact that Vaughn wasn't there. He was there as a producer so. Some of the style and tone is there. The only problem is you can only do so much as a producer. Wadlow does his best job to recreate it but I think he fails. So I think if Vaughn was the director and he had the same script the film would have been much improved. There is also a pace issue at some points I feel is that it is a little too long. It could need some of the fat trimming. Now maybe this is just do I didn't find the direction good because the scenes it would be hard to trim this fat because it was a important fat. So I think this film is going to be a mixed bag for a lot of people and not everyone will enjoy this film. So for that I am going to give it a

RATING
3 out 4 Ticket Stubs

          

Elysium

Elysium. The film is the follow up to Neill Blomkamp who was my pick to direct the next Star Wars movie and after seeing this it just makes want to see his version more. Now what the film is about is about a earth in the next hundred years has become so over populated and polluted that the rich had to leave the planet. So with them needing a place to stay they built Elysium which is a space station with all this amazing stuff. Like clean air and nice lands and the most important thing free health care for all. I am not just saying health care that we have today but health care that can cure you if your face is blown clean off as long as your brain is still working. The film stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster in the lead roles. Along with Sharlto Copley who is Blomkamp's Johnny Depp.

Now what I really liked about the film was this Blomkamp has a perfect style of film for this. This guy is a master of visual effects like they all look so great on top of good use of effects. He paced this film perfectly and the tone is also perfect. This film would not have worked without Blomkamp at the head of the film. This could have easily fallen apart. Now the acting in the film by the two leads were great. I mean Matt Damon was perfect in the role of Max and Foster I think was great not as good as everyone else but still very good. The one that steals the show in my mind was Copley he plays most likely the best villain of the summer. He is ruthless and crazy and tough as nails. He is everything you want in a villain character. This man sure can act and has a huge range. There is a lot of shakycam that comes with the Blomkamp style but its not bad and actually adds to the film. It helps you get sucked into the film. I makes you feel like your with Mr.Damon being shot at.

Now this film does have its fair share of problems. I think the biggest issue I found in this film was the script. The script needed to be more developed and need just in general more. Like this film needed to be to be a two hour movie not an hour and half. This film doesn't really let you get sucked into the characters and the story. It was far to focused on the symbolism and social problems of today to be a effect message. Like if they would have attempt to make the story and the characters better I feel that the message would have been a bit more impactful. Now with that I am going to give this film

3 out of 4 Ticket Stubs

 

The Conjuring

The Conjuring is the next horror film done by James Wan (Saw and Insidious). The film is about a house in Rhode Island. That is expecting a lot of odd things going in the house. So the family of 6 (that's a lot of kids) enlist the help of the Warren's a pair of ghost hunters.  This film is also based on a true story.

So the first person I would like to mention is the director James Wan. This man has behind behind some of the best horror films past decade. I really haven't hated any of his films.  This man has only have gotten better. This film has some the best just scares in a film. Also the film has some the best paced scares and just tense moments. By the third act of the film I was just on the edge of my seat not knowing what is going to happen. The tone of the film is perfect. Like it has some great old film call backs and feels a lot like the poltergeist. I also want to touch on the story and the acting that was done in the film. The acting in the film was top notch. All the actors in the film cared about the project and really wanted to see that the people that they were portraying with justice.That leads me to the way the story was told. I can tell that everybody just wanted the story to be told and done with serious intentions. Which really surprised me because most horror films just want to scare you. This really just wanted to tell the story  that just happened to be very creepy.

Now the only thing that I can say about this film that is bad. Is the fact that it is very scary. The reason I say this because it freaked the shit out of me. So if you are just freaked easily you will leave the movies crying. The reason why this film is rated R is because it is just very scary. So I am going to give this film  a

RATING
4 out of 4 Ticket Stubs. (one of my favorites this year)

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger is the next attempt of a big action series for Disney. It stars Armie Hammer as the lead role and then Jack Sparrow in white face paint as Tonto. Now I was never the biggest fan of the Lone Ranger. I was always a Zorro kid but that just me saying that I really don't hold this close to my heart and I don't know much about the characters and there long history. 

Now This film to has a lot of problems but you know how I do these reviews. I like to talk about the good first. The good in this film is that I think the film was shot very well. I really like the directors style  the director by the way is Gore Verbinski. He is has made some really good films in the past those being The Ring american remake (that I still can't watch to this day), Rango, and the Pirates of the Caribbean (the first three) movies. His stamp and style are all over this film. You can really tell they were going for the same over the top and fun tone that was the first Pirates movie. So also didn't hate all of the actors in this film. I thought William Fichtner was a good bad guy and actually really enjoyed his character. Also the film leaves with a real good taste in your mouth. The last I would say 15 minutes when the actual Lone Ranger theme kicks in is when the film gets great.

Now to the bad. I hated the story and the pace of this film. This film is about 2 and half hours long. It really only need to be a hour and half at the most. This film had the worst pace I have seen a long time most likely since The Hobbit. It was so slow and really didn't go anywhere. The story and script were  a pace of work. The story and then lines were not interesting. Like the story has been done before and done a lot better.  The lines none of them memorable and all the characters the made are not very likable. That leads me into both the characters of the Lone Ranger and Tonto. I really didn't them. Hammer's Lone Ranger was the not likable. He is just a dick of a character plus he is kinda a wimp for most of the film. Then Tonto was just Jack Sparrow in face paint which I knew and was afraid that Depp was going to do. He really needs to get away from that character. I mean I love Depp but do something else for christ sake. This film is already being called a box office flop. I would have a hard time finding anybody really I would recommending it to. I would say wait till the last 15 minutes gets put up on YouTube and you won't miss much.  

RATING
1 out of 4 Ticket Stubs