Mass Mini Reviews

As one can tell I'm not super good about updating this blog with my reviews. It's not that I haven't seen anything recently, it's just that nothing I've seen has inspired me to write about it. But, I still feel bad about not keeping up so here are a handful of smaller reviews on the movies I've been watching recently.

Alice: The sci-fi original mini series. It was good, just as good as Tin Man however Tin Man had it's fair share of issues too. Overall this mini series didn't hold up, it was entertaining yes. I enjoyed watching it yes but the same formula was there and I can't help but wonder if the people at Sci-fi have daddy issues, because in both Tin Man and Alice the main female lead has some serious father issues that hold up the story. The plot in general got so over done with story line after story line. Note to filmmakers: If you think you need to add in more story lines, don't! Just go back to the writing board and make one really good story line. Not five. I rated this *** 1/2

The Matrix: Yeah, I'm a little behind on this trend but in my defense when this film came out I was spending my weekends at the mall or seeing whatever horrible romcom was just released. I finally sat down and watched it, it really isn't that good. This is another example of having a great, brilliant, amazing idea for a film and then handling it horribly. The idea and theory of the Matrix is incredibly interesting but all this film focused on was Neo, who was played horribly by Keanu Reeves. Why anyone would have thought he'd be good is beyond me. The film spent so much time with Neo and convincing him that he's the one, when really I was like eff that. I don't care if Neo is the one, tell me more about the Matrix. How is came to be, what's it's purpose? But I didn't get any of that. Rumor is there is more in the animated shorts they did but I don't feel like searching those out. I don't have faith that they could handle the theory right when they did such a poor job in the film. While, I do understand that given the time this film came out and what it did for special effects. Not once did I say anything against those. It did great things for those but everything else in this movie was so cliche. The plot was straight up Sci-Fi/Action Movie formula. *** plus a 1/2 a star for influence.

Thor: I'm a big fan of superhero movies because they are entertaining and while I'm not familiar with Marvel lore, I really enjoyed Thor. They did a great job of making it a character based movie and not just setting up next summer's The Avengers (which was exactly all last summer's Ironman 2 did). The film introduced us to Thor and his story while adding in a few sprinkles of what we can expect for next summer. The weakest part of this movie was Natalie Portman. The woman just won an oscar and her performance was lackluster. She phoned it in. There was nothing oscar worthy about her in Thor at all. **** Bonus points for Hawkeye's cameo too.

Breaking Upwards: A sweet indie film about breaking up and how it's hard to do when you care so much about the other person. It's really good and one of those films that during the viewing you end up shaking your head and going "yeah, I've been in that relationship". I don't have too much to say about it besides that it really is a sweet little indie film. *****

So sorry about neglecting this blog. I will try to be better but expect much shorter posts rather than the rather lengthy ones I've done in the past.