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.