Up In The Air

Up In The Air is a 2009 film starring George Clooney, Anne Kendrick, and Vera Farmiga. The movie (which I got at the redbox) was probably the best film I've ever seen at the redbox to date (besides 'Moon')! The film was very different from anything I've seen and really opened my eyes to the job of people who help companies lay-off employees they unfortunately need to get rid of due to budget cuts. It was very humorous and even though the film wasn't trying to, it attracted me to the career for which has been mentioned. The movie itself had an excellent screenplay with incredible acting and direction! The screenplay really got you emotionally attached to the characters within the story within the first second of the movie even when they haven't introduced all of them yet! While the film brought sadness throughout the firing scenes, it also brought humor to some of them and throughout the movie tiself while the movie also just made you think of having the career of the main character and spending your whole life flying on an airplane and firing people on a day to day basis. However the screenplay wouldn't have been notably good unless their was outstanding acting to deliver it for which this film has. George Clooney and Vera Farmiga did great jobs at making the viewer become emotionally attached to their characters and the other characters around them by both character's cleverness. However I was really impressed by the director, Jason Reitman who also did films for whom I personally love, Thank You For Smoking and Juno. I personally like this director and hope to see more white collar films like this from him in the future. Overall I give this film a 5 out of 5, it's just that cleverly good and I personally believe that it along with Avatar and Moon are probably the best films of 2009, all three are must-sees so go see them!

The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker is 2009 film starring Jeremy Renner and some other actors you've never heard of because it's a low budget film. The Hurt locker which I got at the redbox was pretty good, it wasn't too impressive but it showed you what the bomb squads in Afganistan do. The film impressed me in it's excellent acting but the screenplay was just a bit confusing.Jeremy Renner in the movie showed how to be the ultimate bad boy (bad meaning good) when dealing with bombs. The Screenplay won an Academy Award however the films really doesn't have much of a story to it, mainly a whole bunch of war situations while trying to put them together to make a so called film. However other than the complex screenplay the film was pretty decent. The Hurt Locker this year beat out Avatar of the Best Motion Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards, the question is, was it really that good? The answer is 'No', though the Hurt Locker was a good film it wasn't as worthy a film as it's competitors like Avatar and others who for reasons I couldn't understand didn't have a chance like Up In The Air, The Blind Side and An Education. Overall, The Hurt Locker gets a 4 out of 5 from me, good but got really boring at times with no real plot.

Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation is a 2009 science fiction action film starring Sam Worthington (that blue guy/ paraplegic from Avatar), Common, Christian Bale, and Anton Yelchin (played Chekov in Star Trek). This film was overall a okay sequel that involves the knowledge of the first 3 movies to understand. The film itself was confusing and with poor acting and bad special effects. The poor acting, though the movie has some pretty memorable names within the movie the acting was just horrible by Yelchin, Worthington, Common and Bale. Ugh... what can I say, their emotions didn't meet their facial expressions, they poorly delivered their lines. Yes just bad acting, Sam Worthington should just stick to that James Cameron animation crap or he should just be an android in movies for all I care! Besides the horrible acting but the effects weren't worth crap either! The terminator robots were basically cheap transformers, I mean there were terminator motorcycles, helicopters, and planes, where is the big muscular guy with the Austrian accent?! Anyway the robots were very hookie and looked like junk scrap! Now to how this film was confusily written! I betcha some guy wrote this while he was stoned or something because this is poorly written with unneeded characters and the characters themselves were very cardboard and stail. Overall this was an uneeded sequel that's only worth a score of 1 1/2 out of 5, bad and should be disregarded as a Termiantor Sequel.

Moon

Moon is a 2009 independent psychological thriller starring Sam Rockwell and the voice of Kevin Spacey. Wow, what can I say other than 'bravo'! This may be the best film of 2009, literally, it was a very impressive movie that was sucessfully written, with great graphics plus the help of two great actors to give this film that 'awe' factor. The screenplay was written perfectly, most psychological thrillers like this are usually confusing and you often rewind the movie just to get what's going on. However this is not the case with Moon, it's a psychological film not too complicated to understand the storyline, not just that factor, it has many great lines and actions troughout the movie that shows that whoever wrote this is a literary genious! Anyway besides the writing, the graphics were pretty astounding as well! You really think while watching this that they actually did filming on the Moon! However not just that the robot was really cool too! The robot whose name in the movie is GERTY was voiced by Kevin Spacey. GERTY is a real huge robot that dangles from the ceiling for which has a track to move on to and fro throughout the moon base in the movie. The robot however looks very rinky dink and sloppily made compared to other robots in other movies but it has this kind quality to it that makes you look past it's cheepness and it ends up being your favorite movie robot! Anyway other than that, the acting was very superb by Sam Rockwell! In the movie he had to play 2 versions of himself, one as a tired, weak, yet intelligent astronaut and the other as a stong, physically and mentally fit astronaut who is yet a bit naive. His acting made both characters different wich hard to do these days in acting when playing the two main characters with one actor. All in all I definately without a doubt have to give this movie a 5 out of 5, perfectly made with just $5 mil dollars!

2012

2012 is a Disaster Film starring Woody Harrelson, John Cusack, Zlatko Buric and Danny Glover. 2012 was... interesting, poorly written but with astounding graphics! Even with this all-star cast the movie's screenplay and acting was a disaster! A problem I noticed that this film has a problem that a lot of great movies had problems with which is one thing that is very important not to do! It is not to kill off the interesting characters! C'mon after they kill off the Loonie Radio Host (Woody Harrelson), the cool Russian Billionaire (Zlatko Buric), and even, the President of the United States (Danny Glover), what's left to enjoy of the movie? However this is one of many problems movies face like Jurassic Park and Alien. Now let's focus on the positives, which are the movie's excellent graphics! While watching it I actually thought they had live coverage of the world ending it was so good! They really made you feel like you were there in the movie witnessing Armageddon in 2012! However graphics can only get you so far and that's why this movie only gets 3 out of 5, interesting but not interesting enough to keep you from being just a bit bored!

Michael Jackson's This Is It

Mchael Jackson's This Is It is a concert movie that stars Michael Jackson. The film is shows Michael Jackson with his concert group preparing for his 'This Is It' tour. The movie featured spectacular dancing, music, videos and graphics that make your jaw drop in total awe! The film is amazing in that you watch how awesome this concert is and you actually kinda wished Michael Jackson was still alive to perform this amazing concert! The movie had spectacular music videos made for each song in the concert, my personal fav was the Earth Song music video. This film really fascinated me and just thinking about it, if the concerts were to happen they would be the best concerts that have ever been that other musicians would soon follow that example. The music was good but Michael's voice, I noticed had gotten worse over the years but I do have to admit he sounded good for 50! Another thing, nobody ever said he was the King of Pop because he was good at singing, he was king because he was wicked sweet at dancing! Oh thinking about it the dancing may have been the best part of the whole movie, the dancing was so great I started dancing after the movie (and still am now)! Michael Jackson's This Is It gets a 4.5 out of 5, it was good but it kinda got boring near the end, however this is a definate must-see for any MJ fan.

Zombieland

Zombieland is a Zombie Apocalypse film starring Woody Harrelson and Abagail Breslin. Zombieland is one of the best zombie films I've ever seen with a lot of humor with some good zombie action! My problem with the film is that it just needed more zombies throughout the movie. What I mean by that is that it had a lot of zombies in the begining and the end but not so much the middle, however it makes up for that with a great story with a cool and hilarious cast. The film also worked out for its well rounded characters, I mean you have the lonely college nerd, the awesome redneck who loves twinkies, a hot chick who's supper bad with a little ignorant but mischevious little sister. After seeing this gut-buster horror film, i would have to give this one a 4.5 out of 5, a great zombie flick that just needed more zombies.

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 Mystery Film starring Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. This film is a definate must see, its a film that makes you question your brilliance after Holmes solves the case int he end of the film! The film really impressed me, and proved that it was Oscar-Worthy (even though it didn't win a single one)! There was no flaw to the film that I could find however I don't read the books so I wouldn't know anyway! The acting was brilliant in part of Jude Law, Mark Strong and the great Robert Downey Jr. The film's setting really impressed me to a high extent, it was a beautiful impersonation of the real England during the 1800's. There's really not much to say about this film other than a pat on the back for a job well done to whoever directed this movie. The only reason why this film wasn't as successful as it could have been was because it came out right after Avatar for whom everybody was more eager to see than Sherlock Holmes however beggars canot be chosers! My prediction though is that it will do successfully in it's upcoming DVD sales as long as they don't come out the same day as Avatar's DVD. My rate for this film would be a 5 out of 5, a great film that is a definate must-see for everyone!

A Dangerous Man

A Dangerous Man is a 2010 action film starring Steven Seagal. The film itself was okay on the most part. It was a typical Seagal DTV movie where he's some kind of retired cop or something and he ends up at the wrong place at the wrong time and in the end shoots some people, blows up crap, and falls in love with some girl. There was really nothing wrong with anything particular like the effects or acting, it was great but it was the same old, same old Seagal. I have to give this one 3.5 stars, it was great but I need something different from Steven Seagal's DTV movies.

Knowing

Knowing is a 2009 film starring Nicholas Cage and... some other creepy looking actors. Knowing is the scariest disaster movie I've ever seen! The end really shocked me to the extent that I'm very light headed right now! The whole story kinda made sense it was a little confusing but it all made sense at the end. I felt it was scientifically correct too in the facts of how the Earth will end in a... oh yeah, I dont want to give away the ending! However all in all it was one creepy movie that I would advise for people who easily freak out to the smallest stuff not to see this one! I will give this one a 3 out of 5, its okay but it really didn't impress me too much, the only thing it suceeded in is that it scared a lot about what may happen in 2012.

Avatar 3D

Avatar is 2009 film directed and produced by James Cameron and stars actors that if I named them you still wouldn't have known who they were! This movie was one that I barely was exciting for until I heard about how much it costs... an est. of $500,000,000! That factor broke the record for highest movie budget, beating Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's end at $350,000,000. I have to admit all that money was worth it because it was a awesome movie! THough the movie showed favor towards eviromental protection and peace while showing disfavor towards guns and economics, it still proved to be a great movie with a great use of animation and robotics. The animation was great making each individual NA'VI tribe member and all of the creatures in the movies along with a beautiful setting of a planet called Pandora which i wish was actually real after watching this movie. Now robotics you may think those human controlled mega-sized robots in the movie were animation but they were actually real! No wonder they spent so much on this movie! All in all I have to say this was a 5 out of 5, yeah it is an amazing movie with perfect special effects and acting. Plus I saw it in 3D, that was cool too!

Star Trek

Star Trek is a 2009 film starring Simon Pegg, and some other actors who are not as great as Simon Pegg. The movie was great, personally a great must see for any Trekkie (Star Trek nerds). Just everything was great about this movie from the storyline to the special effects and eventually the acting. I thought it was a great movie idea to have the story of Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty and everyone else's lives before and until they became who they were on the U.S.S. Enterprise. The acting was great, including Simon Pegg who played a realistic Scotty. I mean his Scotish accent down perfectly, I had my friend ask me later after me and him watched the the movie if Simon Pegg was Scottish but I actually surprised him when reveiling that he's actually British! Now thats good acting, even the original Scotty didnt have a realistic accent! Overall I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5, it was great but it didnt impress me to the highest extent.