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Glorious 39 (2009)
Mysterious, thrilling movie with an element of surprise!!
So the movie its confusing at some point o it, at first it seemed things in a way in the middle u get a little unveiling and at the end you get a full disclosure of what the hell its going on. Great movie if you like to be surprised of things that don't look what they are, certainly something you should watch if you like WWII related movies but be aware this one has no shooting at all but yet it gives you and idea of what the rich people might have been doing at the beginning of the war. Now if u gonna spend 30 minutes on this movie you might as well stay the whole show... because the ending its just nice and nothing like you expected.
King of California (2007)
Ill take 20 of this fairy tales over 100 of the vampires and wolfs ones that had been coming out lately!!
Alright first off i don't fall for fairy tales or adventure or fantasy movies i barely dig super hero ones, but this movie has very little fantasy some fairy powder but lots of adventure and that was just the greatest mix ever!
So talking a little bit about the characters, that by the way cast was good , small and great! Alright Evan wood passing by a 15 yr old!? ill really dig on that, she has a great skin, innocent look thou she was by the time married, or about to, to Marilyn Manson thou she is on her 20s by the time she made the movie she definitely filled the role of a overgrown mature teenage girl, that honestly there is lots of reality about kids that have to grow up at such young age while being so innocent still. Michael Douglas let me say that i liked this guy so much better than many other movies he goes just right with mad, crazy, obsessed roles.
Now to the movie, well i cant tell u how many times i was thrilled on the movie, it had his ups and downs his sad and happy times, i think that that the writing was great fro the director not being out there, he directed as well which makes you get all that, that the director wants you to get! All that fantasy, all those indirect moments that you need to catch and think about after wards.
The story, i seen this before, u know the lost treasure, the buried box, the dead man chest type of movie, but this one made get so close to the daughter that i don't even have! the whole lets go and dig for gold n California was just what i needed to wake up next morning and go look for 20 geocaches!!
Anyways, the bad... well there was lots of times where Mexican music was played, so my thoughts were either the people in charge of the music don't know that mariachi has nothing to do with Spain or they just thou since its in California.. well the heck with it. The irony of the movie was over the top! but it was good it had a lot of happy moments that made up for it! uhm i read that the budget for this movie was 10million and i saw that the box office made a little bit over 1 million!! now thats a failure but honestly i think all it missed was advertising because i never saw any advertising about the movie around that time, besides your casual poster at the movie theater but, see lil miss sunshine or where the wild things are have a similar mojo to this movie and they did so much better and guess why?? because even though they had limited amount of audience, they had way more advertising than this.
I hope we can see more stuff like this from mike cahill u did great job man!
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)
Don't mind the modern life blended with merlinian magic
** might have spoilers**
So, I'm not a HUGE fan of merlin and Arthur stuff, but i guess i know a little bit more than the average person specially in America, but men i didn't know that merlin had apprentices?? well since this is Sci-fi stuff i guess anything is possible, and somewhere there i read that he actually had apprentices, because he would get tired every other century or so and then he will take a nap of decades.
Either way, movie leaving the action effects on the side, which are great on the battles between sorcerers, the story was good interesting, but well the was it was projected was a little eeh. i mean i like Jay Baruchel work i think he is funny and he can pull the classic geeky or dummy job but i felt like i was watching, shes out of my league, but since hope and LOVE was a major key on this movie i'll get over it. but his character Dave and Becky i don't know they didn't blend very good, in the end i left with the impression about they be braking up soon.
As always Alfred Molina has a great touch for villain roles, classy and just great. But what happened to him in the end?? i just saw him being attacked and pushed away.
Either way great movie if u are not so knowledgeable of merlinian stories, but also its good to see that there can be magic too on modern world n nor just on the sword and stone era.
Giving it a 7 for the overrated geek and beauty feel in love thing and for having a not so impressive fight with Morgana as it was with horvart all along the movie.
Everyday Black Man (2010)
harsh but i don't know it was kind of good
The title kinda told me watch me but don't at the same time, thinking it be your typical black/drug related type of movie. But then i watched it anyways , at the beginning i thou i was wrong and thou that it was not gonna be drug related.
Either way what kept me watching it was that i could see how a brother can get at another brother like that, i mean the whole movie twisted, the man that pretended to be someone to take advantage of the good man.
Its all a mess, i guess for the people that knows how things are u might say this isn't like reality, but close enough. but to the ones that don't know, just learn and watch.
To the director/writer i think it was great, i see its the first work u done? or at least what IMDb shows, so thumbs up! surprised it wasn't on the IFC channel thou.
Good Time Max (2007)
Pretty cool for such a cheap looking movie.
When i read the short synopsis of the movie i thou it be one of those movies that its just all about drug dealing some dud the that wouldn't't be able to get out and stuff like that, but i was wrong.
James Franco did an excellent job on this. now seeing this on 2011 after seeing all his latest movies i think that this film that he wrote and directed, made him a perfect candidate on pineapple express. But i wouldn't put that on stone since they were launched on the same year, so who knows what was first.
Short end story . this movie makes u things twice before u do them. things don't end just like u think they gonna end and u will like it.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Finally the end of this same old story is here.
The plot its great from the beginning, i hate to say "i knew so" but i knew that the man did not go to the moon just because. Thats what this is all about, having history involved kinda was the reason of having 4stars than 3 (to me)
The movie its entertaining from the beginning, however well this is a merely USA independence day movie type, just in time for 4th of July, this is where the Americans take all the credit and the Russians the blame... i wonder how the Russians took the movie message n i wonder if thats why they premiere the movie there.
SAM is the same old annoying scream like a girl guy with a slightly hotter GF if u into British accent girls with dirty blonde hair, which she seems more right to the job than the previous one... i mean this girl rocked the whole attack, runs, jumps, rescues on high heels! lets hope they didn't hooked up on real life like the passed one .. yay mate?
MOVIE: well its definitively a whole much better than part 2, however i cant really say that it blow my socks off.... it just kept me entertain enough that i couldn't skip a minute to go to the loo, so if u feel like peeing just go within the first 30mnts.
i wont comment on specific parts of the movie to avoid spoilers but:
First time i see a DODGE truck on a transformers movie...seriously... so funny enough its was only ONE! with a big logo of NASA on the door. i believe i saw a ford too but i cant put my money on that.
I thou that the last shuttle flight was next week July 8th....
I thou that the autobots could just transform into a plane and just fly away... but yet they need a shuttle to go beyond the earths atmosphere.
Boy i was wanting to go home and look for that airport firetruck for my collection of transformers but oh boy after the movie i don't want it anymore... he is such a traitor but maybe i will.. such a shame he is prolly the best transformers (to me)
The Movie its the same old, Decepticons trying to rule the world, thou this movie focused merely in USA.... i bet if they woulda try to set on a place like Africa things woulda been better for them punks... however we seen what happened in Egypt, so i don't think it will matter or maybe it would've.. whats a shame is that Chicago will get a make up after this.
ACTION LOTS LOTS LOTS LOTS... this has MORE fights MORE attacks Much MORE robots of course all from the decepticons but no matter the number the autobots will always prevail.... on the the humanity ( USA army.... )
SCREEN in this case IMAX 3D .. NICE not excellent but passable.
3D wise ill say 90% of the movie was just converted in a VERY LOW way to 3D just like my Samsung TV does at home from a regular 2D source (where u can almost see the movie with the naked eyes). However there is COOL but fewer scenes where there is that deep 3D effect specially the 360 camera scenes, but again just a few.
IMAX wise we all know that there is only a few scenes taken with IMAX cameras or that are true IMAX, i wouldn't doubt only 25% or less is IMAX however the Digital IMAX does really make up for it, as if u were to watch it on analog u will kinda notice the non IMAX content if u put attention to it. Still not any close to that AVATAR movie that we saw 2 yrs ago, but its definitively underneath it =) is it worth the Xtra $$ yes but only on digital IMAX theaters
Bottom line.....this movie will be the summer HIT no doubt about that.... its a must watch !! for kids n kids inside of an adult, best yet if u have not seen the previous ones guess what it does NOT matter!!!!!!!