Chappie, Focus, and Cinderella

Movie Review: Chappie

This movie is about an artificial intelligence that is created to protect mankind, and the struggles he faces adapting to Earth's ways.

I have seen 2 Neil Blomkamp films. Elysium and Chappie. Chappie is my preferred film because it has more depth and a strong plot. Definitely worth seeing!!!


Grade: B


Focus:

A con man trains a woman how to con people to get she wants.


Very solid movie. Nothing really different or outstanding about this one. It was pretty generic, but it did its generic plot well.


My Grade:
B-


Cinderella

I have one major problem with this film. When your story is geared to one audience, you need to do something to engage to other audience. I have no problem with the actual story, there is just something missing.

Overall, I did not like this movie, and not because of the story, but because of the movie.

My Grade:

D




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhNshgSYF_M

Ride for The Brand: The Allen High School Movie

This is a full hour documentary into the 4 time state champion Allen Eagles. I know everyone involved, as I am myself an Eagle, My friends Jordan Pryor and Riley Christensen have shown in this awesome documentary not only the great film program we have at Allen, but also how much pride we have in our school.


Great Job to all of the Eagles.


Full Documentary:


 ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPnKOLkTcsY

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Movie Review: Kingsman: The Secret Service

Plot: A secret agent teaches a teenager how to be a spy, so that he can save the world from Valentine.


This movie is awesome!!! Matthew Vaughn is one of my favorite directors. He directed First Class, as well as Kick-Ass, and here he does another bloody violent film.

I am not going to spoil this film for you.... however, my favorite scene would have to be at the church.


Go see this one:


My Grade: A+


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JouGOzga27U

Jupiter Ascending

Movie Review: Jupiter Ascending

Plot: A man has to protect a woman who is in line to own Earth's land.

I was interested in this film because it is directed by the same people who made the three Matrix films. The best way to describe this film is to compare to: Star Wars: Phantom Menace: This movie has a whole bunch of unimportant dialogue about inheritances and land and what will happen if a certain character does a certain action. The two main characters are good, but they are overshadowed by the terrible over dramatic villain.


It isn't terrible, there is just nothing here.

My grade:

C-


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THVFkk-sEus

Project Almanac

Plot: Time Travel Movie in which teenagers travel back in time to make stupid life choices.


I don't mind time machines. I don't mind time travel films. In fact Terminator 2 is one of my favorite films ever, but this was:


STUPID

No plot in the entire movie.

Just time travel to go to a party.



This movie gets a grade of;

D: (Time travel is cool, only reason it doesn't get an F.)

American Sniper

American Sniper is Hollywood's latest biographical film about Chris Kyle. A lot of the films in this genre tend to have Hollywood influenced traits to make a movie. The studio will enhance certain traits of the person's life in order to make a engaging story.

This is the opposite: This is very grounded, real and factual, not glamorized in any way.... Bradley Cooper's best movie to date.


I absolutely loved this film, definitely worth the considerable awards mentions...

My Grade:
A+


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4tbvjoNgQ4

Movie Reviews Marathon

After months of not getting to do reviews, I finally am back to posting regular reviews of movies.

This will be brief: I have seen 10+ films since November and will provide a brief review of each one.

Mockingjay Part I: Good movie, that makes you want to see Part II, but the first two movies were better.

Interstellar: Big Grand Space Epic with a long runtime, but that doesn't even matter, because I really liked the film.

Fury: Gory restrained film that had some of the most realistic action scenes of 2014.

Taken III: Good, but basically the same movie done three times.

Big Hero 6: One of my favorite animated films in recent memory. Loved it. Possibly the most fun kids movie of the year.

Blackhat: Hacking Thriller that does what it needs to do to be a good movie.

The Wedding Ringer: Kevin Hart's new film that is rated R, that is the humor in the film.


Below is a clip from Big Hero 6 as well as Fury:

Fury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgumb9IAibI 

Big Hero 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEeBXUUOBiI


Thanks to my regular viewers of this site.