Alter Egos

After the government cut off funding for Superheroes, the Superheroes have been kind of outcasts of the city. "Fridge" starts to have a midlife crisis when he discovers his girlfriend is having an affair, with his alter ego. "C-Thru" Fridge's friend, plans on setting him up as the villain so that the government will have reason to further fund the Superheros. Fridge's love life keeps getting more complicated when he confronts his girlfriend with a new girl he met, while being his alter ego.

Yes, the plot was that short. Total run time was only around 80 minutes, so it was kind of sped up.

I did like that this was an independent film, I'm starting to like more and more "indie" films lately, and with it being "Superhero" themed, catch'd my attention.

There was only the 2 main heroes, with 1 villain, with a handful of others only being shown on TV shows/clips. Was very small compared to some other ones.

Yet, I did like the story of it, most of it was bland and very quiet and only took place in 1 day. And if it wasn't for the story, I would of logged of netflix and went to sleep. The acting was so-so (to me) the only good actor to really stick out was John Ventimiglia who played "Shrink" the main villain in the film. The others were good, "C-Thru" I've seen in a few other films in the past, but with the others, were all novices to me. 

I give, Alter Egos; _6/10_

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Skyfall

007 is back, and better than ever!

After being on pursuit of a mercenary, Patrice, James Bond and Eve try to capture him before he escapes after stealing a hard drive that holds information of undercover agents. Patrice shoots James, but only in the shoulder, they begin to fight on top of a train, where Eve has a near perfect sniper shot of Patrice, but the two continue to fight and Eve shoots Bond instead and Patrice escapes. Assumed dead, Bond returns after a new threat surfaces that is trying to take down MI6. Bond goes back into training to see if he's able to go into field work. Not long after M clears him and Bond goes to Shanghai to capture Patrice. Again Bond fails to capture him, but then gets a new lead into the new villain, Silva. Bond tracks Silva to an abandoned island on the coast of Macau, Bond get's captured and shown who Silva is, Silva doesn't kill Bond but just want's to show Bond what it's like being on the other side. Soon Bond escapes and goes back to the underground MI6 base where they have Silva locked up. Just hours later Silva escapes the hold as Q was hacking Silva's laptop, it let Silva into the network of MI6 and led to his escape. Bond quickly went on pursuit of Silva, M and Bond decided instead of chasing Silva, let Silva come to us. Bond and M go to Bond's old house when he was a child, and rigged it for a battle between Bond and Silva.

For once I said a lot about the plot, because well, there was a lot to say. Since 2008 I was eagerly awaiting the new Bond film whenever it would be coming out, I had no idea that it would take 4 years, but it was 4 years well waited for. Skyfall is by far the most epic bond film I've seen since Casino Royale (Can't say much on the older ones as I would have to see them again).

Acting was just fantastic, was very happy that Bond and M did come back to reprise there role, and with the addition of Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, and Ben Whishaw this was a very perfect cast!

I very much loved, Javier Bardem's role as Silva. He made for one of the most ultimate badass villains. He was a very unique character and would of loved to see his past rather than just hearing it, but none the less, very awesome.

Soundtrack was also another good thing. The intro song "Skyfall"  by Adele was just amazing, and my favorite intro to a Bond film since Casino Royale. Also the music throughout the film was very epic as well, ending the film with the classic Bond theme.

I did hear that Daniel Craig was offered a contract for 5 more Bond films after Skyfall, but I don't think he signed the contract, and only is signed up for just 2 more, yet it's still early and who knows, maybe he did sign it.

I give, Skyfall _-9/10-_

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The Weather Man

Dave Spritzel is the local weatherman, trying to be in the big leagues on Hello America. While trying to be weatherman on it, his life starts falling apart, he soon learns that his father, Robert Spritzel has lymphoma and only months to live. Dave tries to reconnect to his daughter, Shelly, though every attempt seems to fail. While in New York he learns that his son was "stealing his counselors wallet" or a possibly victim of child rape. Dave starts getting more and more depressed as the weeks go on, so he takes up Archery, and finally starts to build up confidence and more well being. Yet every now and then he still get's thrown food at while just walking on the street. Dave attempts to reconnect with his wife and win her back, but fails. After he wow's Hello America, he leaves his town and moves to New York to live out the rest of his life.










I thought this film was just great. Has a great storyline, with pretty good actor's, and enough plot twist's that kept me entertained.

I did like how nothing was rushed in the film, they took there time in building up the story, and leave it on a very good ending. Most the film was dark, with some comedy mixed with it. Yet it worked very good as a comedy/drama, mostly drama.

I give, The Weather Man, _7/10_

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Looper

In 2074 time travel is possible, but soon after it's discovery it's quickly outlawed and only criminals use it to send back people to the past only to get killed by "Loopers". Loopers kill the people who come back to the past with bars of silver strapped to there back as payment for the Looper. When Joe is on a job when he encounters his older self from 50 years in the future, his future self quickly disarms and flee's in past self in search of Rainmaker, a very powerful person sent  to the past from the future to take over area's. Future Joe travels back 50 years to track down the Rainmaker and kill him before he grows up. Younger Joe is on the hunt of Future self in trying to kill is Future self.


Yes the plot was shortened as a lot of stuff happened within the 2 hour film that I didn't want to spoil for everyone.


This film was just down right amazing, I'm not that big of a fan of Bruce Willis but him in this film was perfect to get him in better movies. I must say this was the best science fiction movie I've seen in a very, very long time. For once it's rated R and not a rushed tween movie that is full of BS.


The acting was just great from all the actors, I especially loved the story, was a very solid and perfect story to fulfill my science fiction needs. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was just amazing in the film, he really pulled off a younger version of Bruce Willis, there just couldn't of been a better actor for the lead. Also good actors were Emily Blunt who played the mother of Cid, though her role was minor, she still pulled of a great job. Jeff Daniels also did a very good job at being the boss type roll.

The effects were surprisingly great, towards the end they really show off there CGI skills and I was totally impressed. Soundtrack also wasn't all that bad, giving a sci-fi kinda sound throughout the whole film, wasn't bad.

If you need a worthy science fiction film to see, then I absolutely recommend that everyone see this film.

I give, Looper, 8/10

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The Dark Knight

Finally I review of, The Dark Knight is here, with the 3rd film review coming this weekend. I only waited to review this film cause I wanted to wait till it was more closer to the release of the final Batman film. So here my review of..

After establishing himself as, The Dark Knight. Gotham criminals now fear him, except for when a new villain comes to town. The Joker seeks out Mob Boss, Maroni to rip off and take half of there money by getting them to do his dirty work. Meanwhile Harvey Dent is working his way to the top by putting away hundreds of mobsters/criminals. When Lt. Gordon tips off Batman of a new enemy Batman goes around getting clues and trying to find out The Jokers end game. When Harvey Dent digs to deep and puts away all the mobsters he and Rachel Dawes end up getting kidnapped and tied up with a bomb about to go off, Batman must know choose which one to save, willing that Joker is telling the truth. Once The Joker is set free, Batman must use all his will to hunt down and try and defeat The Joker before, two boats that The Joker rigged to explode, he must stop Joker and the boats before more blood is spilled. All while trying to stop a new enemy that he didn't see coming.



This is by far, the best Batman film....ever! Everything about this film was just amazing, even though there was one part I didn't like so much, if you can over look that one little part, it's an amazing film.

The story was just the best. Kept leaving you wonder what the Joker will end up doing. Heath Ledger played the Joker just amazing. I even loved his performance better than Jack Nicholson's, and that says a ton, as I loved watching him in the late 80's Batman film, then this came along, and wiped out the past. The one little thing I didn't like so much like was that, Katie Holmes did not return to reprise her role, which would of made the film better, but instead they brought on Maggie Gyllenhaal, which don't get me wrong, she's a good actress, I just didn't think she was suited for the role of, Rachel Dawes.

Soundtrack was also very good, so good in-fact that the day after seeing the film in theaters, I bought the soundtrack. I loved the grim tune they played which lets you know that the Joker is around. Most the other songs were very similar to before from, Batman Begins, but still very good music.

I ended up seeing this twice in theaters, and just loved it, had a great time and was almost impatiently awaiting the final installment.

I give, The Dark Knight, 9/10

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Joel Brandt is a college teacher who teaches Advanced Screen Writing, he is also a screen writer himself. One day after he gets home from work he gets a message on his answering machine, a guy is yelling for help saying this guy is going to kill him, Joel thinks it's a prank call and deletes it. A day later the person who called, was found dead near Joel. Days go on and he keeps getting more messages about people saying he needs to get there before that person dies. Joel tries to piece together who is setting this up and why. After the police get involved, they start to think it's Joel himself doing it. Later on Joel discovers an old screen play he wrote and finds out the killer is bringing to life his screen play, he just now needs to figure out who before it's to late.




I heard about this film a couple years ago and thought it would make for an interesting watch, only problem was, you can't buy this film anywhere in the US, as it's not out yet, only in the UK, only way I watched it was Showtime on Demand, they just happen to have it, so I was happy!

The acting was fair, was nothing amazing, but it wasn't anything to laugh at. I especially loved the story of the film, kept me glued to my chair. All the twists and turns kept me guessing (and failing) to discover who the actual killer was, and the ending, was just great.

I did also like the actors in the film, although I only recognized two or three actors, not that bad since the others did there part good. Again, the story was just so good.

I give, Messages Deleted. _7/10_

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Ted

When John Bennett makes a wish after seeing a shooting star, he wish's that his teddy bear "Ted" was real, as his teddy bear was his only friend. The morning after he realizes that Ted was alive, moving and talking. Although John was at first scared, he soon had nothing but love for, Ted. Soon after Ted became alive, the whole world found about it, soon Ted was on various talk shows, many interviews, etc.. Now John is in his mid 30's and still living and getting high with Ted. While Ted still lives with John, John tries to have a relationship with his girlfriend, but she thinks Ted is making the relationship hard and, John ask's him to move out. Ted finds a job and an apartment and is living on his own. Afterwards John and Ted while at a park, encounter a strange man and his son, asking if Ted is for sale, they decline. But as the days go on, Ted sees the strange man again at his home, and he gets kidnapped, and given to his son. A short time later John finds out, and is on the hunt to save Ted and save him from the strange man.




Must say, I was slightly hesitant to see this film, as I figured all the jokes would be a reuse of what we already have seen in, Family Guy and American Dad. While most the jokes were about the same, just different verbiage, they still were fresh and new, making it for a pretty good comedy.

The acting was pretty good, watching Mark Wahlberg talking to a teddy bear and getting high with him was pretty funny. A good chunk of the actors in the film were all Family Guy stars, not such a surprise. They all did a good job, but it would of been nice to see more than just Family Guy actors.

I did enjoy the story-line a lot, giving the film a nice sci-fi part and a nice suspense at the end of the film, and of course a sad scene as well, but it all worked. Seth MacFarlane can do a pretty good comedy, but I think if he writes/produces/directs/stars in another live action film, he should not do the voice, as he only has around 4 different voices, and Ted, sounded way...WAY to much like Peter Griffen, and he even did the voice's of Brian and Stewie, both from Family Guy, I wanted something new, in that sense I was disappointed. This was basically a live action version of Family Guy, where the people have different parts, and "Ted" from Family Guy is grown up. 

I give, Ted. 6/10

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The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Flynn Carsen has been a student for nearly 20 years, earning 22 academic degrees. After his professor kicks him out of college, Flynn must now look for work, he lands a job as a Librarian at Metropolitan Public Library. After he's chosen to be not just any librarian, but the librarian, he learns that he must track down The Spear of Destiny, the holder of the Spear will be the most powerful person on the world. Flynn meets up with Nicole Noone who protects the Librarian at all costs. The two find out that the Serpent Brotherhood is also after the Spear. The Brotherhood finds Flynn and forces Flynn to help them find the Spear, along the journey Flynn and Nicole must find a way to get the Spear, and return it to the Library before the Serpent Brotherhood get it, and kill them.


This was a very fun film to watch, even though it was a TNT TV film, it was still good.

The acting was pretty good, even the effects were pretty good (now of course out dated, but good). The story is what kept my interest, as all the artifacts they showed in the library were real mythology artifacts, most do or may exist. The actors in the film all did good at playing there role, Noah Wyle (to me) did the best job of all of them, as he had the title role, he played the role good.

I did see this film only around once or twice since it aired on TV in 2005, just a few weeks ago I bought the DVD online. Finding this film, was a journey all on it's own. For some reason this film, is extremely hard, if your lucky, you'll find it for a decent price, if your lucky. I just happen to find it for 15bucks through EBAY, the others I found on amazon were selling for 30-100 bucks, for just the one dvd, and they never made a NTSC box set of all three films, I had to buy all three films separate, though films 2 and 3 were cake finding, just the one film was hard to find.

I give, The Librarian Quest for the Spear, 7/10

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Men in Black 3

I did see this film last month, on my B-day even, I just completely forgot to review it, so if memory serves me, here's my review of...

Agent J and Agent K investigate a UFO crash in New York, after eating pie K may know who it is, and regrets not killing the alien that escaped from a prison that's on the Moon. The next day, something weird happens to Agent J, where he's craving chocolate milk, extreme headache's, after going in to work, he starts to wonder where Agent K is, not a single person has a clue, he soon finds out that K as been dead for the last 40 years. Agent J thinks it's a joke, but then figures out the alien used time warp, so Agent J finds a merchant that sells a Time Warp device, after falling around 1,000 stories, Agent J time warps himself to the year 1969 in order to stop the alien (Boris) from killed Agent K. Upon arriving he meets a much younger Agent K, and nearly wipes out Agent J's memory, only for the two to work together, and hunt down Boris and kill him before he kills Agent K, again.


For a third entry in a series that I loved watching, it sure took them long enough to make a third entry, but the wait was sure worth it.

The newest installment in the Men in Black series was just amazing. The acting was just great and the actors, did a great job. The effects were very good, now able to see much upgraded aliens, rather than puppets, though I think they used a cross between mechanical puppets and CGI.

The story was done very good, using time warp was a great idea for this series. Was happy that both Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones came back to reprise there role, and the addition of Josh Brolin as young Agent K, was the best part, he looked incredibly like Jones, just much younger. The actor who played Boris, Jemaine Clement did a great job at playing the lead alien villain.

I did happen to see this film in 3-D, yes I'm starting to see more films in 3-D, it took 2 years for me to see another film in 3-D since I saw Avatar. The 3-D was done so good, it looked as if I was watching a live action video game, especially towards the more CGI scenes.

I give, Men in Black 3, 7/10

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The Amazing Spider-Man

It's that time again, reboot season has arrived. This weekend I'll be catching up on the missed reviews, ended up getting to busy, anyways here's my review of...

Peter Parker is your average skater high schooler, shortly after getting beat up by Flash Thompson, he decides to go to Oscorp to figure more about what was in his father's suitcase, later bumps into Dr. Conners who finds out that he's son of Richard Parker. After wondering off into a room he shouldn't of been in, hundreds enhanced spiders fall onto Peter, which one does bite him, giving him enhanced strength, speed, climbing walls, etc. He then creates a suit after the death of his uncle, and also create webbing to fly. The hunt is on for Spider-Man to try to track down Ben's killer, only to get sidetracked and find that there's a very large lizard roaming around, he must then find out where the lizard is hiding, and who he is, once he finds out, he finds that the Lizard is planning a much worse attack than he previously thought..



Another day, another reboot, well. I can say this, it was...Supirsingly good. Was afraid that the reboot would suck, and oh yay there going back to high school rather than moving forward, we're going backwards. Yet this film worked.

Acting was very good, I really enjoyed Andrew Garfield's portrayal of, Peter Parker. Also Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy was pretty good, although the last time Gwen was on screen, she was mid 20's, now 17, Oh-well. Rhys Ifans played Dr. Conners very good, I really loved how he played the Lizard. I did look forward to seeing the original actor come back, but Ifans did a very good job. Denis Leary Playing Capt. Stacy also did a good job as well, almost slightly better than the original actor who played him in 2007. One small complaint is, the choice of actors who played Peters Aunt/Uncle. Yes there good actors, but, they could of easily found two better actors to play Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Although, I did love the choice of actors who played Peters parents, Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz, both did a very good job, though Embeth didn't really say much, it was nice seeing Peters parents finally on screen.

Soundtrack was also pretty good as-well, was a nice fresh new music to fit Spidey swinging/fighting on screen. Although one song I heard sounded a lot like one of the songs they played in either Spider-Man 2 or 3. But, Oh-well.

I did see it in 3-D, and I just loved it in 3-D, seeing lizards tail flying at you, Spidey swinging in your face was very exciting to see.

Again, I must say that this film is near identical of how, Ultimate Spider-Man is, even the parents in the film, looked like the comic version. The story is near the same as well. The costume is almost the same looking, They really should of just called this, Ultimate Spider-Man, then I would of rushed to see it, but I still did, as the trailers kept sucking me in.

But I suppose if you like Spider-Man (like me) and is looking for a new chapter is Spidey's life, then go and check out the film, you'd be surprised at how good it is, I almost saw it twice in one day.

I give, Amazing Spider-Man, 8/10

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Planet of the Apes (2001)

In 2029, Leo is aboard the USAFSS (United States Air Force Space Station) working as an astronaut who is training monkeys to go through space for the more dangerous missions. After Leo sends Pericles into space to check out a electromagnetic storm, Pericles soon gets lost into a wormhole, Leo quickly goes into a pod and goes after Pericles, only to be trapped into the same worm hole. After Leo crash lands on a strange new world, he soon finds out that the world is run by Apes, and humans are being treated and hunted like animals. Soon Leo is gathered with a few other humans and sent back to the apes town. An Ape named Ari, tries to set free the humans seeing that they should be treated equally. Leo escapes setting free a handful of humans with along with a few Apes who try helping Leo get back to a signal from his people who will bring him home. After the group is being hunted by the Ape army, a full war breaks out, leading them to the forbidden zone, only to discover that Leo was responsible for the new Ape world, and that he has traveled more than 3,000 years. Now he must find a way to get back into space and find his space station before time runs out.

I'm not the one for remakes, I'm pretty against remakes being made, since the original is almost always better, although with this film, it was fantastic. The acting was very well done, along with a ton of good actors in the film which make it a great watch.

The Apes looks more realistic than the original, since makeup and prosthetic upgraded in time. This time around the apes show and do more emotion, facial expressions, and well, completely upgraded. I did love how good the Apes looked.

Soundtrack was very, very fantastic. Giving you a jungle/suspense soundtrack throughout the film, making the soundtrack the 2nd best thing I loved about this film. Loved it so much, I might buy the soundtrack soon.

Now since this is a remake, you can't really compare, since this isn't a direct remake, it's more of a re-imagining of a classic film. There are a few of the same moments in this film as the original, but only a few, the ship's name is different, how he makes it to the world is completely different, and most of it is all new, but still fresh and new, but not trying to be better than the original, but just showing you a new version.

I must say I did very much enjoy this film, I was very hesitant to watch it since I loved the original one so much, and I'm glad I did.

I give, Planet of the Apes

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Battle Royale II: Requiem

Three years after the events of the first film, a new B class is randomly selected to partake in Battle Royale II. After the students are told the rules it's time to begin the game, only this time instead of hunting each other, the students now must find and kill, "The Wild Seven" a group of teenage terrorists run by Shuya Nanahara, the survivor of the BR three years ago. Shuya created the Wild Seven to rebel against not only BR, but all adults in the world, also started doing terrorists attacks on cities killing adults, but soon he wants to do the whole world. Soon after the students arrive at a new island, The Wild Seven go to war against the new class of BR II.


This film wasn't all that bad, it wasn't as good as the first one, but I still saw it as a worthy sequel, even a few people from the first film came back to reprise there role, which was nice seeing.



Story was, so-so. Yet it was good enough that it kept my attention for the 2hr run time. The entire basis of the first time ( in the sequel) was completely changed. Now the students must work in pairs, i.e, Boy 1 is paired with Girl 2, if Boy 1 dies, Girl 2 automatically dies, if Boy 1 go more than 50 meters away from Girl 1, they die. Also the students aren't just given random weapons that suit who they are, now there given army weapons, bullet proof jackets, ect..

Soundtrack was kind of dull throughout the film, the main song they played in the first film, was also played in this sequel, not bad, but not so original. But none the less the songs played still suited the scenes. Acting was also "OK", some of the actors were very good, mainly the ones who came back to reprise the role, and most of the new cast were good as-well. A couple of actors in it (which you'll see instantly) were a little over the top, whoa, tune it down. But if you could ignore it like I kind of did, it wasn't all that bad.

Overall, this film did an OK job at keeping a good story with enough twists and explosions to satisfy me, although it wasn't as good. If you must see this one, I'd say rent it, rather than buy.

I give, Battle Royale II: Requiem. _-6/10-_

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Battle Royale

The 3-B class of a High School is selected to participate in a very deadly game. When unemployment rates rose to 15% millions became out of work, teenagers started becoming very dangerous, enough so that the government passed a new law, stating that kids in 7th grade are required to play, "BR" or "Battle Royale". The object of the game is that, there are 42 students, while playing they all have to kill each other within just three days, or the bracelet around there neck, to know where they are and monitor them, will simply, explode. There also can only be one winner, the winner will be given much money, fame, ect.. The film mainly follows Shuya Nanahara, one of the students of the class, watching him with his friend go around the island trying to survive and trying to find any friend that won't betray and kill him.


I was completely impressed with this film, I have never seen a better, more sick twisted film before, never!

The acting was very good, all of the actors totally gave this film there all, and them some more! Giving you very real emotions.


Story-line of the film was also just fantastic (since it was based on the book of the same name) leaving you with many twist and turns, and very suspenseful, bloody scenes. This movie is based on the book, which I've read half of, and was very happy that the movie stayed true to the book with following the story, only thing really different was how the game came to be, but that's no big deal.

Soundtrack was also very good, was a nice darker tune throughout the film, also having some oddly happy sounding tunes for intense scenes, making the scene that much more, twisted.

Only around 1-2 actors looked familiar, mainly just the main actors, but that's not a problem, since all of the actors did a very, very good job in this film. This film also marks the most twisted film I've ever seen, instantly getting on my number 1 list of favorite film of all time.

Nothing about this movie was bad, which was great, it was slow, it wasn't to short so no story could develop,  acting was good. Just everything about this film was amazing. I must warn though, if you can't stand blood or killing, which this movie is nothing about, you probably won't like it.

I give, Battle Royale, _-10/10-_

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The Avengers

When Loki comes back to earth of search of a cube, Nick Fury is forced by desperation to call everyone in hopes to form, The Avengers. By near force, he gets, Iron-Man, Thor, Captain America, Black Widow, and Bruce Banner. Once they all arrive high tension is formed and not soon later, they all start fighting for really no apparent reason. Once action starts heating up, and war begins, they decide to stop, and actually help and be, heroes. Loki succeeds in using Starks tower to help open a portal into his world, to let his army into earth. Once mass destruction is happening, The Avengers start acting like a team, and start avenging the earth.




Sorry for the short plot, a ton of stuff happened in the film, that to me, is a huge spoiler, and well, I don't like spoilers. And I apologize for reviewing this film so late, I didn't feel like fighting my way to a seat on opening weekend, so I waited a week, then that week turned into three.

This film was the 1st film I was truly anticipating this year, and well, the wait was very much worth it. This film had very great acting, I was very surprised at how good it was. Kind of expected a 90minute rushed film, no, this was a 2hr 30min film, and no where near rushed. I also loved how dark this film was, seemed throughout the whole film there was a dark aurora, but it was nice to see it dark.

As expected, every Avenger came back to reprise there role, with the exception of, Bruce Banner (Hulk). He was the only one that I felt would maybe not be good, as I loved Norton's portrayal of Bruce Banner, and the hulk in 2008 film was amazing. Was skeptical about having yet another actor play Bruce Banner, kept thinking, when will an actor play Bruce more than once? But,  Mark Ruffalo adds something new, finally, we get a good Bruce. He reminded me of the 70's Bruce. I did love his performance of Bruce more than anyone's, but, I didn't so much like the design of Hulk, he looked like a more updated version of the 2003 version, and the 2008 version was so epic looking, seemed they made a watered down version. But non the less, it was still awesome.

Every actor did an amazing job, bringing new awesomeness on screen, since we first saw the first little tease at the end of Thor. Finally coming all together in a massive epic film, that will make me see it again, at least a 2nd time, if not 3rd time in theater.

If your a Marvel fan, and finally was happy all the marvel films, leading up this one movie, then see it. It was amazing in every way. I was not disappointed at all.

What I thought was also awesome, is that they confirmed a sequel just a week after if came out, Also coming out 2013, Thor 2, Iron-Man 3, and possibly Captain America 2, though, they could wait with Thor 2 and Captain America 2, until after Iron-Man 3, and maybe 2014 Avengers 2. This is all a guess, but I did hear Iron-Man 3 is coming out 2013, summer. 

I give, The Avengers, 9/10

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The Three Stooges (2000 TV Film)

Moe, Larry and Shemp are best friends trying to catch a break by doing there "Stooge" bits at local bars, eventually the three do catch break, wasn't soon after that Shemp didn't feel right about doing it, and after filming there first short, he left. Later Moe and Larry went around trying to find the third Stooge. Not long, the duo found Curly, after shaving off his hair and beard, The Three Stooges were born. The three kept filming shorts for nearly twenty years, when a stooge passes, he's quickly replaced. Soon a 2nd stooges dies as well, and a new stooge is added. Moe is getting a suspicion that there not getting paid as much as they should, and starts questioning, trying to convince Larry they should go to a different company. Not long after, the head of the company dies, The Three Stooges are no longer able to make any more shorts, and just retire. I remember seeing this on TV a very long time ago, in 2000. 12 years later, Sony finally decides to release this film on DVD, and arrives in my mailbox. This film did have good acting, although, since it was a TV made film, it wasn't the highest quality of films. Another downfall is that, the actor, Paul Ben-Victor played Moe, though he did do a good job at it, I think he would of played a better Shemp, as he look more like Shemp than Moe. Evan Handler played Larry, and out of the five Stooges they had, he was (to me) the best actor who played a Stooge. Michael Chiklis played Curly, and now, Curly is by far my favorite of the Stooges, and while his performance was good, it just didn't feel as if he was giving the film his all, plus, he couldn't nail the voice, as his voice is lower. John Kassir played Shemp, he did a fairly decent job as him, nearly nailing the look and voice. Although he didn't have much screen time, maybe around 20 minutes total. Despite the few bad things, this was a pretty good film, I liked the style on how it was made, showing Moe 10 years after he retired, and showing his life now, and going back and forth with flashbacks of when he was just joining, and the hell he went through during it all. The movie also had some very dark and depressing scenes, when ***** died and **** also died, was just very sad in the film. This was just dead on with accuracy, and if your a Stooge fan like I am, then you really should watch this. I give, The Three Stooges, _7/10_ IMDB link! My Twitter!

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When the three are left at the doorstep of a Orphanage, Moe, Larry and Curly grow up, living nearly thirty years at the Orphanage. But when suddenly they have to close it, Moe, Larry and Curly take it upon themselves to set out into the real world and try and raise money to save the Orphanage. Finally the three meet a woman promising the money if they did her job, but they accidentally made the situation much worse than before. When there hope seems lost, Moe gets a job as a contestant on Jersey Shore and makes havoc of everyone there. Once again, The Three Stooges are trying to get more money.

Yes, I tried to do the plot without giving anyway to many spoilers. Kind of worked.

I was very much impressed with the film, in nearly every way possible. First thing I was worried about was, will the actors stay true to the original? And yes, they did! The actors who portrayed them, pulled off the look, the voices, and everything that made a stooge, a stooge!

Chris Diamantopoulos play "Moe" and wow, he pulled off the look, and just nailed the voice! Sean Hayes played "Larry" he also played the part down perfect! Last but not least, Will Sasso played "Curly" and wow, this one was the one that was near identical to the original, I was very impressed with Will's portrayal of Curly.

Another great thing was the sound effects, it did sound like they used the same ones from the show and put them in the film, or just recreated them, whichever, either way, it was still as dorky as the show!

Also this film was cut into 3 parts, Act 1, Act 2, Final Act, with an intro to each part, much like the original show did, with the same intro song! Made it even more perfect. Soundtrack during it was also good, most of it being a score, still sounding good, and using the show's music during it as-well, which made it even better!

If your a stooge fan like I am, there's no reason to not see this film! The Farrelly brothers really made another great funny film!

I give, The Three Stooges, _9/10_

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Wrath of the Titans

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Set ten years after Perseus defeated The Kraken Perseus now has a son of his own, he leaves to go on a mission to the Underworld. After Zeus is trapped in the underworld by Hades. Hades forces Zeus to give up his power and give it to there father, to take over the world. Now it's up to Perseus to team up with Andromeda and Agenor to travel to the Underworld and free his father, all while battling creatures such as, Cyclops, Minotaur, Chimera, ending with the ultimate battle with Cronus.

I've got to say, this film was surprisingly good, since I stupidly read a review about it an hour before seeing it, I was a little skeptical about seeing it, but I loved the first film, so it was obvious to see the second chapter.

Everyone does return, minus the characters that died, or decided to not come back and was replaced by another actor, not such a big deal, but it would of been nice to see the original actress return. The film is set ten years after the previous film, so a lot happened in that time.

Soundtrack during the film was pretty good, reminded of the previous film. After seeing the cast list, I was almost slightly sad that only around 10 people were in it, considering the first film had a ton more actors compared to the 2nd one. The film was also a lot darker, with just a hair of humor in it, it really kept my attention good.

Also there is going to be a 3rd film, they confirmed in 2010 after the first film came out. Since the film ended how it did, I really have no clue how the 3rd film will be set up at all, it's going to be a mystery till it comes out in I'm guessing 2014.

But overall, this film was entertaining, not as good as the 1st but still a worthy sequel, if you liked the first one, go on and see this one!

I give, Wrath of the Titans, _7/10_

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Paranormal Activity Trilogy

So, I never really reviewed any of these, so I will now!

1- Katie and Micah are a couple living together, after some weird things happen, Katie finally tells Micah and he gets a camera to film the house and see if anything weird happens. As the nights go on, more weird and creepy things happen, like footprints and stomping, a fire, and even death. When more nights go on of restless sleep, the two go to a psychic to further explain it. Katie explains that ever since she was little she has been haunted. More nights go on, with the ghost getting more aggravated, the two get into a huge fight, only for the last night, to be the worst night. 


2- Kristi and Daniel have a newly born child, and after a break in. They install camera's throughout the house to capture anything out of the ordinary on camera. Days go on with nothing happening, until shadows appear, noises, and even being thrown start happening. Daniel starts reviewing the DVR and see all the things happen, but just disproves it. Kristi Notices odder things happen as-well as Ali starts seeing and feeling uneasy. As the tension of the house builds up, the entity gets stronger, and physically attacks Kristi and tournaments everybody else. Ali reads something online that has to do with, parents making a deal with a demon but have to sacrifice there first born son. 


3- Dennis and Julie are newlyweds. Dennis is a wedding film recorder. Set in the 1988, Dennis for fun, decides to put a couple camera's in the house to record anything paranormal. Julie was against it, but just gave in. Katie and Kristie are noticing odd things, and Kristie keeps in touch with her friend, Toby. More strange and dangerous things start happening, and Dennis goes to review the tapes to see if anything was recorded, and is creep'd out by what he see's. When things get more intense for the family, they've had enough and flee to grandma's house to stay. Only for Dennis to find out a very dark family secret. 


This series was great. I liked the small amount characters, the chilling story, and creepy feel this film series had. The 2nd one serves as a prequel and a sequel, the 3rd one serves as a slight sequel and more of a prequel. The effects were pretty good, considering how low-budget the 1st one was. The scares kept getting better and creepier as the films came out, with the 3rd one (to me) being the creepiest one yet. I always liked the story to the series, some twist and turns here, and creepy ghostly things happens. I thought that they would stop at 3, but, they are making a 4th one due out October 2012. One thing I hope this series doesn't turn out to be is, Saw. The Saw Series was by far the stupidest horror series ever. I hope this series, doesn't slowly turn into that. But, these films do offer some good scares, good acting, good story. If your one to check out horror films, check out this series! 

I give the, Paranormal Activity Series, _9/10_

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Watchmen

After the Comedian dies, Rorschach starts to investigate why he died, and thinks that someone is out to kill masked heroes. Everyone else thinks he's crazy until Nite Owl starts to believe him and goes off to warn everybody else. Nite Owl and Rorschach decide to team up again after years of being split up after Nite Owl quite, and try to further investigate. Dr. Manhattan is accused of giving cancer to his work buddies, and freaks out, and leaves the earth to visit Mars, where he decides to stay. Later on Rorschach goes to question an old villain, but gets framed and sent to prison. Silk Spectre II and Nite Owl go out for one last fling as there alter-ego and save people from a burning building only to decide to break Rorschach out of prison. When the three start putting pieces together, Rorschach and Nite Owl fly to Ozymandias to question him on the killing of the Comedian. Silk Spectre II gets teleported to Mars with Manhattan to discuss there relationship, Manhattan and Silk Spectre go back to earth to find that a massive bomb of some kind went off to look like Manhattan did it, they travel to see Ozymandias to question. Everyone ends up at Ozymandias place in Antarctica and things end rather violent for all of them. 

I must say, this was the best film I saw in 2009. I saw it in theater three times, every Saturday for three in a row. Yes, I loved this film. Everything about it grabbed me into a whole new world and trapped me there until the credits rolled.

The acting was by far the best, each of the actors/actress's did an amazing job and portraying a comic-book character. When I saw this only a couple actors I recognized, but I didn't care as all of them did an amazing job in the film. 

The CGI was just amazing as-well. Most of the film looked and probably was CGI but, I didn't care as it look just like it did in the graphic novel. Zach Snyder did an incredible job and bringing to life the characters! Seeing Manhattan lite up bright blue on screen looked amazing, I loved watching the behind the scenes on how they made him come to life. Seeing Archie flying in air was also pretty epic seeing, they made it look just like it flew out of the pages of the graphic novel. 

Costume Design was also incredible, with only a few differences from the graphic novel, there was almost no differences. Nite Owl's costume was a-lot different, I do mean Nite Owl II. In the film they made him look more like Batman rather than more close to the graphic novel, which was fine, it was just a big difference. I loved seeing Rorschach's mask moving on screen, looked awesome, seeing it change because of different moods and events, just like the graphic novel.

The story was also incredible watching come to life, was set in an alternative 1985. Was a very strong, solid story. Everything you watched on screen was in the graphic novel, besides the ending, that was drastically different than the graphic novel, but it was still cool watching it. 

Soundtrack was also amazing to listen to throughout the film. 2 different ones played during the film, and I loved them both. The music played dated from, 1930-1980 so a big timeline of songs. Also the score during the film was also amazing to listen to, gave a nice darker feel to the film. 

During the film, you did get to see, The Tales of the Black Freighter, which was cut up into around 6 parts throughout the film, around every half-hour. Though I did feel as if it was a slight distraction to the film, but I found a-lot of people said that to, but it was still a nice fit, and people thought that Black Freighter was a distraction even in the graphic novel, oh-well, was still fun to read it. 

Yes, this review is based on the Ultimate Cut version, with a run time of 3hrs 30mins. Made for quite the long watch, but it was still amazing. 

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The Sea Captain (yes, he had no name) was traveling back to his home to warn the village of the Black Freighter coming, along the way his ship was destroyed and lost at sea, a day later he made his way to land and used to bodies of his former mates to help the ship stay afloat. During his trip back home he fought off birds/hungry/thirst/sanity. When he arrived at the village he slowly crept into town and tried to warn his wife first, only to accidentally kill her, he thought it was a member of the Black Freighter. When he realized that he was actually going insane from being in the sea to long, he left and eventually saw the Black Freighter waiting for him to meet his final demise.

It was a nice read in the graphic novel, almost like a commercial. Voice acting was good, with a few people that sounded familiar but might of just been the one. Animation looked good, had good sound effects and good story. This story does not follow or continue the Watchmen story, it takes place centuries before it, was just another tale in the Watchmen story. Was a story in a story, but fit good.

I did mean to review this film a long time ago, I just never got around to watching it. Well, I did see it already, but wanted to watch it again to refresh my memory of the Ultimate Cut. Also, this review was intended on being the last review of 2011, I was to busy. Another thing, I did plan on making this the biggest review I've ever done, so don't get used to reviews being this big. This film had so much stuff happen in it, it was easy to keep going on and on about everything and make a huge review. 

I am very happy they did this film this good. There was a plan to make this film shortly after the graphic novel came out, but failed to get anywhere. Then in 2005 they had a list of actors to play whomever, but also failed to get anywhere. Then finally in 2007 a new set list of actors were added and the near doomed film was finally made to the screen.  To see a timeline of the doomed film and actors they chose click >here< . 

I give Watchmen Ultimate Cut, a perfect, _10/10_

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Cry_Wolf

Owen is a new transfer student at Westlake Preparatory Academy where he meets Dodger a girl who decides to show him around. Tom is Owens roommate, a couple nights into the school, Tom wakes him up to take him down to the chapel where, Dodger, Regina, Mercedes, Lewis, Randall, are waiting for Tom and Owen to play there "Lying Game". Where one of them is the wolf and they have to find out who is the wolf and one by one they get picked off. Few days later they decide to play there game with the entire school by sending out fake emails that there is a killer on the run, and staging some fake kill scenes. Sooner than they think, they start to actually die from a real killer, now they have to decide weather if it's real or a game.


Surprisingly good acting since I only recognized just a few people in it, the cast was fairly small in size, but the story was very good.

I love the story to this film, it's more of a killer version of the boy who cried wolf. Acting was good since I think for a few of them this was there first film, or one of there first.

The suspense in it was awesome, all the while trying to figure out who the killer is, but then there's so many twists and turns, your head will be spinning. The film did kind of remind of the film, Scream. Mainly for the killer suspense thriller, and teen cast.

This one is not to be missed if you like, killer suspense films.

I give, Cry_Wolf. _7/10_

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