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Mention Monday – Gone Girl – Movie

20 Tuesday Jan 2015

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Last Week’s MM: All Things Unlimited

I’ve heard from a great many people that Gone Girl is just amazing.  That it’s a must see or a must read.  I browsed the book a little at the bookstore, but the writing wasn’t a style that jumped out at me as something I could pay attention to.  Not saying it was bad, just not for me.  I contemplated seeing the movie, but hadn’t yet gotten around to it.  Finally, Honest Trailers put up video about Gone Girl.  And, while I love Honest Trailers, I didn’t want to be biased by it, so I figured it was best to watch the movie first.  That night, I rented the movie.

All that said, I really enjoyed it.  I’m not much of a thriller kind of person, although, I’m trying to get more into that genre.  But it made me wonder what was going to happen throughout the movie, even after the part where you think they’ve told you everything.  It also made me a little uncomfortable to watch while sitting next to my boyfriend.  Hopefully he neither wants to split my head open, nor thinks that I want bad things for him.   I don’t want to go into too much detail on this movie.  There’s the possibility of spoilers, and honestly, unless I’m complaining a lot, it’s not really worth going into details.  Not that there weren’t a couple points to say ‘huh?’ to, I just don’t think that they were big enough to warrant going into.

For some reason, that movie stuck with me.  It occupied my thoughts as I went to sleep that night, and still lingered in the morning.  I think that’s the hallmark of a good thriller.  Whether it makes you think or creeps you out, the point is, it stays with you.

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Mention Monday – Moon

02 Tuesday Dec 2014

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automata, bad scifi, good scifi, gravity, interstellar, kevin spacey, lucy, mention, Moon, movie, older movie, review, sam rockwell, snowpiercer, the martian

Last Week’s MM: The Future Chronicles

I’m sure that you’ve heard of a lot of bad scifi movies.  Lucy comes to mind.  Could have been good, but, eh, wasn’t developed enough.  Same with Snowpeircer.  And I read and heard such bad reviews about Automata that I didn’t even give it a chance.  They have a lot in common: Big names, great concepts, not the best delivery.

Can you even imagine how many truly awful scifi films are made that you never hear of?  It’s a lot, I’m sure.

But the other day, my fella showed me a movie called Moon.  It was released in 2009, got great reviews, and stared Sam Rockwell and the voice of Kevin Spacey.  I thought it was so strange that I had never heard of it.

We watched it.  I looked at a trailer prior to watching, and the trailer gave away a little too much.  But, all in all, I think it was a good movie.  I’ve been into space stuff lately: Interstellar, Gravity, The Martian… so this was right in that vein.

Makes me wonder if there is any other good scifi out there that I’ve never heard of.  I’d bet there is.  Got any recommendations?  Let me know.

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Mention Monday – Interstellar

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

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Last MM: NaNoWriMo

Last week I went to see Interstellar.   This is a movie that has a lot of hype around it, and a lot of expectations.  Although, going in, I wasn’t really sure what kind of movie I was seeing.  Hard Scifi?  Suspense?  Some sort of thing about the relationships that people have?

I think that it was a good movie.  I don’t know if it was something that has to be seen in theaters.  Although, I will say that the sound adds a lot to the movie, so, might be worth it just for that.

The movie had it’s high points and not some not so great things.   I’ll admit, this movie made me cry.  Which isn’t easy to do.  And that was near the beginning.

Read on for more detailed info about the movie.  And I mean detailed.  ****SPOILERS!!****

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Mention Monday – X-Men: Days of Future Past

26 Monday May 2014

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beast, days of future past, gene grey, kitty pride, magneto, movie, movie review, questions, quick silver, review, spoilers, wolverine, x-men, xmen

When I first heard about this movie, I was both excited and concerned.  The original X-Men came out when I was in high school.  Some credit it for being the beginning of the whole Superhero movies can actually be real movies, not campy, but good.  I loved it.  X-2 was alright, and X-3, well, the concept of Days of Future Past seems to negate that movie from existence, which is likely for the best.   And then there was the Wolverine Origin movies.   Maybe it had been so long since I had seen an X-Men movie that I actually liked the Origins series, the first time around, until other people pointed out how cheaply made, bad looking, and sloppy they were.  And they were right.

Then, at long last, X-Men came back better than ever in First Class.  But with a second Origin movie trying to connect two movies that are 7 years apart (that’s almost long enough for a full reboot in Hollywood time), and 13 years from the first one, it was a stretch.  Plus, that movie was only marginally better (maybe?  I don’t remember) than the last Wolverine movie.  So, I was concerned.  I was worried that bridging the two together would result in something bad that couldn’t live up to First Class.

But I liked it!  Despite the issues I bring up.

I usually rank movies like this:

See it in theaters (which means I must really like it to pay $15)
Wait for Redbox (want to see it, but not that much, or it’s at least $1 good)
Maybe if it’s free somewhere (only sort of interested, or it was really bad)
Not even if it was Free (not interested, or is just terrible)

I have no regrets about seeing this movie in theaters.

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Mention Monday – Transcendence

29 Tuesday Apr 2014

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I saw the movie Transcendence the day that it came out.  The theater has been lacking in movies that past few months.  Now that the good ones are starting to come out, I have the impulse to see them right away.  A midnight showing isn’t too late for me.  The following review contains SPOILERS, so read with caution.   Continue reading →

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Ender’s Game the movie review

10 Sunday Nov 2013

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Saw this movie right after it came out. I’m not usually one to do movie reviews, but maybe I should be. This movie scarred my brain. There may be some spoilers. If you’ve read the book, then you mostly know what happens, although the movie takes some liberates. So I’ve warned you. Enter at your own risk.   Continue reading →

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The continuation of the Superhero’s story

02 Tuesday Jul 2013

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First, let me start by saying that I love Superhero’s.  I am a nerd.  I can debate with the best.  I understand the arguments about why the Flash and the Hulk are considered to be the most powerful heroes.  My guilty pleasure is Superman.  But the point of this isn’t to get into the specific heroes and which are the best or why.

I want to talk about what I’d like to see in superhero movies.  I know that Origin stories are necessary.  What would we think if we just jumped into the middle of a story and saw Iron Man being a jerk to a kid?  We may think that he’s a bad guy if we hadn’t already learned to love him.  Or if we saw so many in their flamboyant costumes, running around putting themselves in danger, whether they had superpowers or fancy toys.  We have to know their motivations.   Continue reading →

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