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Review: The Hangover 2

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Two years following their escapade in Sin city, Stu (Ed Helms), Phil (Bradley Cooper), Doug (Justin Bartha), and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) are usually traveling to Thailand to celebrate Stu’s wedding to his fiancée, Lauren (Jamie Chung). Much to Alan’s dismay, they are joined by Lauren’s younger brother, Theodore (Mason Lee), a prodigy and pre-medical student at Stanford University. At the wedding reception, Lauren’s father shows his disapproval of Stu by simply comparing him to hemp porridge in his toast. At the end from the night, Stu hesitantly joins Phil, Doug, Alan along with Teddy for a beer. Seated at a campfire and roasting marshmallows, the group make to Stu and Lauren’s long term happiness.

The following morning, Phil, Stu along with Alan, along with gangster Barbara Chow (Ken Jeong – whom Alan befriended after Nevada) and a chainsmoking capuchin monkey, awaken in a dirty hotel room in Bangkok. Stu includes a face tattoo, and Alan’azines head is completely shaven. However, they can not find Teddy, only finding his severed finger.

The great

The Wolfpack is Back and this motion picture is “bigger” in scope as opposed to original. The premise of the “wild night in Vegas” is nearly pre-established in North American pop culture, nevertheless a wild night in “Bangkok” elevates it and establishes some mystery.

This movie ditches the notion that every sequel needs to give up what was appreciated about the preceding movie and instead provides for us a sequel of “more”. The particular comedic exploits of Helms, Cooper, and also Galifianakis are as fun as it ever was in this film. Galifianakis brings much more of his brand of laughter to this movie. He is just what he is, and love your ex or hate him he or she adds his brand of “funny” for this movie to, mostly, appreciable success.

THE BAD

They apparently with their fast tracked through the premise of Stu’s wedding in order to go forward to the ‘wake up’ scene in which they fight to piece together the details in the previous nights’ escapades. While it is true that the “meat” with the movie is the events in which occur after their night of partying, it doesn’t help set up the importance of Stu’s relationship with his bride to be and lessens the audience’s’ purchase of the importance of getting to this specific wedding on time.

It’s difficult to come across something unique about this video. The action, humor, timing, plus some of the jokes are all retreads involving themes and idea that were popular in the original. If you’ve seen the original then you’ll have trouble finding unique “laugh out loud” occasions to enjoy as the adventure carefully follows the chain involving events of the first movie with few differences which lack shock value of the first since they are retreading previously used jokes.

Ken Jeong. Their character received just a bit excessive exposure in this movie together with his character being elevated for you to borderline “main” character status. He was very unrestrained in this movie like the director just requested him to get “balls out” and he does. A lot. And it was really distracting.

OVERALL

I went into this movie looking to be polarized in the same way that the former movie surprised the terrible out of me with its sense of humor and shock value. This particular movie didn’t have that influence. Instead I wound up viewing this movie almost “expecting” things to happen at certain moments and they almost always did come about exactly when I expected. It’s not really that the movie isn’t funny it’s just that the film is very familiar and will sometimes be more appreciated by people that watch this without experiencing the original.

I give The Hangover Two a 6 out of 15


Theatres Making You Squint

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It appears that some theater stores across the land have been trapped in a nasty habit with moviegoers. There used to be a time where some theaters would dim bulbs in projectors thinking it would save money (it didn’t) along with the picture quality would be darker than it should be. Today, it appears that entrepreneurs simply don’t change the zoom lens when showing a 3D film- which means 2D films show up more darkly lit than they must be.

Film critic Ty Burr from the Boston Globe has composed a huge article on this latest trend with theaters:

The main difference can be extreme. Chapin Cutler, a cofounder from the high-end specialty projection company Boston Light & Sound, estimates which a film projected through a The new sony with the 3-D lens in place as well as other adjustments not made can be as much as 85 percent darker than a effectively projected film.

So why aren’t movie theater personnel simply removing the 3-D lenses? The answer is that it takes time, it is money, and it requires technical know-how above the level of the average multiplex personnel. James Bond, a Chicago-based projection guru who serves as technical skilled for Roger Ebert’s Ebertfest, said issues with the Sonys are more than mechanical. Beginning the projector alone involves security clearances and Internet passwords, “and in the event you don’t do it right, the machine will turn off on you.’’ The result, in his see, is that often the lens modify isn’t made and “audiences are getting short changed.’’

Filmmakers and film critics might discover such things, but how about the frequent joe?

Educating audiences and overcoming this inertia can be difficult. Boston ma Light & Sound’s Cutler said, “We have a tendency to walk in the door, we’ve paid our income, bought our popcorn, so we want to sit down and watch some thing. We’re loath to get up leave because we’ve put that much hard work in.’’

Generally speaking, you should be finding a bright, crisp picture, rather than the kind of picture you would get as if you were wearing 3D spectacles.

Have you seen a movie that you just had to squint your eyes to find out what was going on in the motion picture? Do you care if you do detect?


Happy Towel Day

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Right now is Towel Day. A day of recognition for the late creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to your Galaxy, Douglas Adams.

The day first came to exist in 2001 two weeks following your author’s passing, and since next carrying a towel with you in tribute of the Author’utes works.

The reference originates from an “entry” in the Hitchhiker’s Manual that outlines the most important gear.

A towel, it claims, is about the most massively valuable thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. In part it has great practical worth. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you certain across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it about the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under that beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a new miniraft down the slow heavy Water Moth; wet it for use throughout hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your mind to ward off noxious smells or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (this kind of mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); it is possible to wave your towel in emergencies as a distress transmission, and of course dry yourself served by it if it still looks like it’s clean enough.

More importantly, the towel has immense mental value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch walker has his towel using him, he will automatically think that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, jar of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, moist weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, your strag will then happily lend your hitch hiker any of these or possibly a dozen other items that the hinderance hiker might accidentally get “lost”. What the strag will think is any man who can problem the length and breadth with the galaxy, rough it, slum the idea, struggle against terrible probabilities, win through, and still understands where his towel can be, is clearly a man to become reckoned with.

Hence an expression that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in “Hey, you sass in which hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a new frood who really knows where his / her towel is.” (Sass: know, be familiar with, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really collectively guy; frood: really amazingly jointly guy.)

Well I definitely know where my soft towel is at.

Douglas Adams gave us an outrageous world of scifi fantasy and a way with words that was a thrill you just read.

Thanks for all the fish.


Megan Fox wants to play Carrie

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Remakes are going to happen. It’s not necessarily going to stop unless everybody stops buying tickets for them. We can just hope any time they do get made which it gets done right. Now despite Stephen Master himself voicing reluctance to a rebuilding of Carrie, even he or she is holding out to see how it designs up.

Rumours of Lindsay lohan Lohan in the iconic role regarding Carrie White have distributed the net, but another actress is sicking her dogs around the role.

Megan Fox.

GeekTyrant shares:

Megan is a big fan of the original and also would love the chance to play the guide. She’s 25 now, but she’s sure she could still do justice for you to teenage Carrie. She’s said people to make it happen.

I have however to see anything with Megan He in it where I enjoyed Megan Fox. Oh sure, mutant thumbs makes up pertaining to looks in a lot of ways, but it isn’t with stellar thespian ability.

I don’t mind Megan Sibel prettying up the arm of a few lead, but I honestly are not able to see her carrying a film on her own.

Especially this one. This particular isn’t schlock horror. Its terror with a mental level. This is simply no special effects cornsyrup extravaganza.


The Dark Knight Rises adds Brett Cullen As well as Chris Ellis

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With production formally underway there are still a few throwing choices to be made and it entirely possible that Nolan has chosen a few recognizable faces with a ton of encounter to help finalize his closing Batman movie.

The sea involving recognizable faces in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises has grown again. Just last week it was announced that Matthew Modine, Tom Conti as well as Joey King had joined the forged and now Variety’s Jeff Sneider, his Twitter account, is reporting that Chris Ellis and Brett Cullen have became a member of the ranks as well.

Extra points for “Lost” alum’s! They also added a note that Cullen will be playing a judge even though Ellis will be a priest. What is going on in this movie?! And where really does Juno Temple fit in with all this?! Which is Hathaway going to be a blonde or perhaps brunette?? OBSESSED Inquiring brains would like to know!


Dark Knight “Fire” Rises Virus-like Videos?

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Okay. There’s one thing that’s shown up on the web the last few days that *could be* Children of men Rises related as the a few virals do have some kind of uprising in Arkham, where the inmates are supposedly chanting Bane’ersus name. However, there’s 2 other connections to the motion pictures as well. The big question is when they are legit or not.

Movieweb has the history:

A new Youtube channel called The Fire Rises have published three short videos which show fires raging throughout Gotham City. Anthony Michael Hall appears in the final short video as the news anchor Engel, who was simply originally featured in The Dark Dark night. This third clip also leads to a Facebook Page that contains an image of Matthew Modine as Nixon.

Not necessarily Richard Nixon, of course, but “Nixon” is actually allegedly a crooked politician associated with some sort and it loosely tells one of the “campaign for Harvey Dent”. In addition, the previous film had virus-like marketing as well.

I seen the clips, to me, it’azines garbled telecasts and the inmate chant.

But Gotham burns, as The League Involving Shadows wanted it to…

Precisely what say you- fan made or even the real deal?


Transformers 3 Clip without spiders

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Michael Bay is not keeping back. No, he says that is his last Transformers video and insists that he will be going out with a bang ‘splosion. This primary clip does not display your forementioned ‘splosions and instead relies on a thing unheard of. Acting talent.

My partner and i didn’t know Pepper Potts was in this movie… but that’s not necessarily Gwyneth! This scene here demonstrates me that there’s little or no hope for acting talent because of this lingerie model. Megan Fox is, currently, far from an Oscar entrepeneur but at least I’d gotten familiar with her participation within the first 2 films. This is a brand new “bad”, and I’d fairly the “bad” I know than the “bad” We don’t. Not looking forward to this chick…


New Tarzan Flick Near The Jungle…

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It seems Warner’s is going to have a new franchise regarding Tarzan, with ‘Hustle & Flow’ helmer Craig Brewer ready to go. Screenrant swings this from the vines:

Warner Bros. was willing to revisit one of the longest-running and most common literature-turned-film franchises in Hollywood – by making a new Tarzan movie. The studio room had charged screenwriter Adam Cozad (the particular upcoming Jack Ryan machine) and filmmaker Craig Brewer (Hustle & Movement) with the task of composing dual Tarzan scripts for long term use.

It seems that Brewer were able to make an impression on studio heads along with his revamping (or – dare it be said – rebooting) of the ape guy series; he’s now reportedly a lock to write and primary the latest Tarzan flick.

There’s a few speculation that this Tarzan will be ‘darker’ along with Brewer on board. I’m unsure what they mean by that, unless it’s in 3D and you also can’t see a dadgum thing in the brilliant vibrant jungle. One thing is for sure, it won’t certainly be a character study like 1984′ersus Greystroke – because as interesting as that was, we wanted to see Tarzan fight beasts and nomadic cannibal tribes y’know?


New Deathly Hollows Pt 2 poster

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Encouraged back to the Hogwarts express! Our own conducter, Harry Potter, has seen much better days. Today we get apple iphone 4 latest poster revealed for the future box-office blockbuster and it’s available nowadays for all of your ocular perusial.

: Coming Soon

That is a lots of forehead! It looks pretty great with all the effects that they’onal done with the colors, but it still seems like most posters nowadays are derived from that poster for “The Social Network”. And doust our eyes deceiveth me? H.P. has some peachfuzz on in which chin! Good lord, From the when he seemed like a toddler while dodging the mechanisms in the life sized ‘Battle Chess’ pieces in the “Philosopher’s Stone”. Wow. This may bring tears.


New Captain America paper prints

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Now that Thor has handily smashed and also trounced box offices domestically as well as internationally abroad, it seems like a secure time to promote Marvel’s additional #1 superhero movie of the summertime that’s coming in theaters using some scant weeks. Today they release some more character posters to help revive the stalled marketing campaign for this movie.

Poor poor Bucky. Not even a character poster for the man destined to become Captain America? Poor Poor Bucky. Regardless, these are decent prints if not a little unimagined. There’s practically nothing going on but a cool present in front of a smokey track record, which is probably more than enough to find the attention of children and fanboys anywhere. I hope they have a thing more creative coming down the actual pipes as this one becomes nearer to release.