movie review

Daybreakers

2010-10-02T21:43:00.002-04:00

I watched the movie Daybreakers and I liked it.
The dvd had plenty of extras such as commentary on the movie and a video about how they made the movie.
It is a vampire movie but not like Twilight, its an actual vampire movie.
The dvd gets 90 out of 100 points.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreakers

The Last HOuse on the Left.

2010-08-31T22:30:00.004-04:00

I just finished watching the movie The last House on the Left. I liked the movie but I was disappointed in the dvd as a whole. I would say that the movie was worth watching if your into scary movies. The movie is based on a Wes Craven movie of the same name. I give the dvd 75 out of 100 points, but the movie by its self I would rate as 80 to 85 points out of 100.
This is a link to the wikipedia page of the newer version of the movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_House_on_the_Left_(2009_film)

This is a like to the wikipedia page of the original version of the movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_House_On_The_Left

choke, donkey punch, and zombieland

2010-08-25T22:04:00.001-04:00

Yesterday I finished watching the movie Choke. It is based on the book by the same name. The book was written by the guy that wrote the book Fight Club which was also made into a movie awhile back. Anyways, I liked the movie Choke. I would give the movie Choke a score of 85 with 100 being the best. I rented the movie from the website that I have mentioned numerous times already. The dvd as a whole was really good. The extras on the dvd were really good, whereas in the past some of the dvd extras that I have watched were not very good. If I didn't read the book awhile back then I probably would of given the movie a higher score because I liked the book better and you know that I am going to compare the movie and the book together. But anyways, I liked the movie and I would recommend that you go see it...But I wouldn't recommend that my parents go see it.
Below is a link to a webpage about the movie Choke:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke_(film)

Before I recieved the dvd for the movie Choke I received the dvd of the movie Donkeypunch. Donkey punch is about a group of English college aged girls on spring break on the Spanish Mediterraen coast. They meet these English guys who are part of a crew on this big expensive yacht. I guess you would say it is a thriller movie. I really should take the time to explain these movies a little more instead of just posting a link to a different webpage that explains it for me. Anyways, I liked it. I think I liked it a little more than choke, and it had really good extras as well. I would rate the dvd as a whole 90 out of 100 points. Choke doesn't really have any violence in it but it does have nudity and sex...Donkeypunch is like I said a thriller movie so it have pretty much what you would expect it to; sex, drugs, and violence.
The link below is a webpage about the movie Donkeypunch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Punch_(film)

Zombieland is a movie that I watched on the netflix website so I can not really comment on the total content of the dvd. Zombieland is a zombie movie staring Woody Harleson, he was one of the guys that stared on the tv show Cheers. I think that is what the tv show was called. Anyways, I liked the movie. It wasn't really violent and it wasn't really that scary either. It was fun. I give the movie Zombieland a score of 80 out of 100.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombieland

Pandorum

2010-06-05T22:09:00.004-04:00

Awhile back I watched the movie Pandorum on the netflix website and I really liked the movie.
There have problably been many other movies with the same basic plot of this movie, but like I said I liked this movie.
Basically, the movie takes place in the future where things have gotten so bad that the human race has to go to other planets to start new settlements.
Just read the wiki page, they do a better job at describing what happens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandorum

I give this movie an 80 out of 100 rating.

Casino Royale

2010-03-05T22:39:00.002-05:00

I just finished watching disc two of the James Bond movie 'Casino Royale'.
It was released in 2006 or 2005 and its about the first book by Ian Fleming by the same name as the movie.
I believe the book was writen in the 1950's but this movie doesn't actually take place in the same time frame as the book is writen.
I liked the movie so I think I would like to eventually read Ian Fleming's books, but I have such a long list of books that I want to so I may never get to these books.
Anyways, I liked the movie and I felt that the dvd's were well put together so I give the dvd's of 'Casino Royale' a score of 85 out of 100.
The movie is about James Bond when he first starts out as a "double o" agent, and he of course is called oo7.
I have never seen the James Bond movies, although I have heard of them, so if your new to the James Bond movies then I would recommend this one.
On a side note, I just started watching the cable tv show 'Rescue Me' and I actually really like it.
My only complaint about it is that there is sex but you don't see the Real nudity.
I have also started to watch the new cable tv show Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
I kind of have mixed feelings about it, I like it but I also kind of think its a little bit corny.
Some of women that they have on that show are very attractive, and they show lots of sex and violence.
Both of the tv shows I have been watching on netflix.

Avatar and No Country for Old Men

2010-01-05T22:22:00.006-05:00

I just finished watching the dvd, that I rented from netflix, of the movie 'No Country for Old Men'.
The movie by its self I would rate as 85 out of 100, but the dvd as a whole wasn't as great.
The dvd was really good, but it wasn't really great.
The dvd contained the movie, some trailers for other movies, and three "real" extras.
The trailers for the other movies were included in the extras section but those weren't really extras, they were advertisements so I didn't really care if they were there or not.
Besides that, they were advertisements that I essentially paid for because I paid to rent this dvd...I paid to watch the movie, not commercials.
Anyways, the "real" extras weren't all that bad, but there wasn't enough of them.
The first extra was probably 20-30 minutes long and it was pretty much just a basic "making of" documentary that you pretty much expect to see on a dvd.
And then the other two were under ten minutes each and they were worth watching but I wouldn't stay up later just to watch these extras.
As far as extras for a dvd go I expect, but don't always watch two things.
The first thing would be a making documentary of the movie, that would involve brief interviews with the main people involved.
I'm not saying I want to see interviews with the catering people although that could potentially be funny or at least very awkward, I want to see the cast and the directors and producer people.
The second thing I want to see on the extras part is commentary of the movie with the people that I just mentioned.
Now when I first started renting dvd's I wouldn't watch the commentary because I thought it would be boring and I was usually pressed for time, but now I still feel the same way sometimes but most of the time when I watched the commentary I feel that it was worth the time...but sometimes I just find it so boring that I stop watching the commentary altogether.
And if it was a movie that had a lot of special effects then I want to know about that sort of stuff too.
And what I would like to see in the extras part of a dvd that I hardly ever see is interviews regarding the movie with the stars of the movie.
There was not a commentary track for the movie, although the extras that were on the dvd were really good so I give the dvd of 'No Country for Old Men' 75 out of 100.

On Christmas day I went to see Avatar with my aunt (one of my mom's sister's) and her family and my mom and little brother.
It was my first time seeing a movie in 3-d with the weird glasses.
I also had never gone to the movies on Christmas day but apparently its one of the movie theaters busiest days.
The movie was amazing, there were several times were I had a hard time holding back tears.
I remember reading something about, or maybe it was even an interview that I saw on tv with one of the actors and they said that movie wasn't just about action and science fiction but it was also a love story, and I think they were right.
It wasn't just about a love story between the two main characters but also it was a love story between the "blue people" and their planet.
I don't know if the movie was just available in 3-d or if you could see it in regular movie theaters, but I would suggest that you see it in 3-d...don't bother with the regular one.
I give the movie Avatar a score of 98 out of 100.
I would of given a higher score but I hate going to the movie theater because I can't just hit pause so I can get up and use the bathroom and/or get a refill on my pop.
Also, I can't wait to see dvd because I'm curious to see all the extras that they include.

the perfect witness and mr and mrs smith

2009-11-26T23:02:00.006-05:00

I just finished watching the movie 'The perfect witness, the ungodly' on the netflix website...
It was released in 2007 or 2008 and the people at wikipedia haven't even heard about it so I am going to have to tell you about this great movie instead of just posting a link to the wikipedia page of the movie like I normally do.
Its a horror movie and there is some nudity, drug use, a rape scene, and of course violense.
This guy, who it turns out is a former drug addict, is amaeture video person who starts tracking a killer so he can do a movie on him and then just by dumb luck he actually catches the killer in the act and video tapes it.
The killer catches him and chases him down the street but doesn't catch the guy.
The guy that is trying to make the movie is named Mickey.
So Mickey then trys to blackmail the killer into doing interviews for his movie, and the killer goes along with it until he captures Mickey's mom.
From there Mickey gets into trouble...
I don't want to give away too much of the movie because I think it is actually worth watching so I give the movie a score of 90 out of 100.

I really liked the movie 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith'.
But I didn't like it as much as I liked The perfect witness so I give the dvd of Mr and Mrs Smith a score of 80 out 100.
Now that I think about maybe there is a second dvd for the Mr and Mrs Smith movie, in which case I would have to change the score.
The movie its self is really good for an action movie.
I have seen Brad Pitt's movies before so I know that he is a talented actor, but I think this is the first time I have seen Angelina Jolie in a movie...
I was really surprised by her acting skill.
But on the other hand this was an action movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._%26_Mrs._Smith_(2005_film)

01/05/2010...I first wrote this awhile ago for and for some reason I didn't publish it right away.
The movie 'The Perfect Witness' was a really good movie and I would recommend it if you like suspense/horror movies, but I would like to change my opinion about the Mr and Mrs Smith movie.
I don't remember how much extras were available on the Mr and Mrs Smith dvd but I do remember that there was at least two commentary tracks that went along with it and I think I only watched one of the commentary tracks, or maybe I watched all of them...I don't really remember.
But now that I have seen some other movies since then I would rank Mr and Mrs Smith lower than what I first ranked it, maybe 75 or 70 out of 100.
Keep in mind also that the movie 'The Perfect Witness' was just the movie without any extras because I watched it on the previously mentioned website.

everything is illuminated

2009-11-21T23:19:00.004-05:00

Last night I watched the movie 'Everything is Illuminated' on the netflix website.

I am really curious to see what kind of extra stuff they have on the dvd, so after I view the dvd you can look forward to my review of the dvd.

I really liked the movie so I give it a score of 90 out of 100.
Here is a link to a wikipedia entry regarding the movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Is_Illuminated_(film)

walk the line

2009-11-16T21:55:00.002-05:00

Last week I finished watching that Johnny Cash movie that came out awhile ago.
I liked the movie, it was entertaining but the movie seemed to centered on Johnny Cash's love affair with June Carter and his drug addiction.
I don't know for sure but I would like to think that there was more to the man in black than just that.
I mean, he was around during some very turbulent times and the movie pretty much ignores those times.
Anyways, I watched the movie all the way through without the commentary and then I also watched the movie with the commentary but I only got half way through because I became bored.
I liked the movie but there just wasn't enough interesting extras on the dvd so I give the dvd a score of 75 out of 100.

Quarantine

2009-11-02T23:13:00.003-05:00

I just finished watching the movie Quarantine on the netflix website.
I don't think it was really the scariest movie I have ever seen but it was really entertaining.
I watched the movie because I didn't get a chance to watch any scary movies on saturday which was Halloween night.
I give the movie Quarantine a score of 80 out of 100 because I thought it was a really good movie.
Here is a wikipedia entry about the movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(film)

Blood Diamond

2009-10-26T22:56:00.002-04:00

I just finished watching the movie 'Blood Diamond'. I thought it was a really good movie and it came on two different dvd's. The first dvd had the movie and a commentary on the movie and the second dvd had documentaries about what it took to make the movie. I think this is Leonardo di Caprio's most recently movie, and I think he was very convincing. Like I said before, I thought it was a really good movie, but part of me feels that there could of been more two the second dvd. I mean if your going to package it as a two dvd set then I kind of would of expected there to be a lot more, but I feel that both dvd's are worth the time so I give the two dvd set of the movie 'Blood Diamond' a score of 90 out of 100.

The Shield

2009-10-13T21:13:00.006-04:00

I have finished watching the second season of The Shield.
I have also finished watching the third season of Lost.
I also watched the movie Cold Prey.

The second season of The Shield I watched on dvds from netflix and I really liked it. I think the first season I rated as 100 out of 100, but I think this season was really good like the first season but I am only giving it a rating of 90. A rating of 90 is still really good...The reason why I think I rated the first season so high was because this was the first real edgey cop show that I have watched...I liked it because it was new.

I have been watching Lost on the netflix website for almost a month now and I really like it. I haven't seen the dvd's for Lost yet so I don't know what extra stuff is included but if I were to rate Lost up to the end of the third season then I would say that it is really really good and I give it a score of 100 out of 100. Lost could of been better on a cable channel because then they could of shown nudity and sex, but none the less Lost is a really great show to watch.

I also watched the movie Cold Prey on the the netflix website. It was a really good horror movie. I think its a Swedish movie and you can tell that its a foreign film, or at least foreign to me, because its dubbed in English. When the actors talk you hear english but it looks like the actors weren't talking in english. The dubbing though is done really well so that part of it doesn't hurt the movie at all. Anyways, I give Cold Prey a score of 90 out of 100.
I'm sorry its actually a Norwegian movie.
The Norwegian title of the movie is Fritt Vilt which literally means Open Season.
Below I posted a link to website with more information about the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritt_Vilt
There's also Cold Prey 2 which I haven't seen because it hasn't been released internationally, but I looked it up in wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Prey_2

Dead Girl

2009-10-03T19:43:00.001-04:00

I just finished watching the movie Dead Girl, that I rented from netflix.
I guess you can kind of say that it is a zombie movie and I rate it 75 out of 100.
If you're into the zombie/horror movie thing then I would recommend that you watch this movie, but if your not into that sort of stuff then this movie really isn't for you.

the shield

2009-09-06T22:25:00.002-04:00

I just finished watching the first dvd of the second season of 'The Shield' and I was disappointed because it didn't include commentaries on each of the four or five episodes that were on the dvd.
Only the first episode had a commentary on it, but it did include audio for each episode in like three or four different languages so I am half tempted to try and teach myself Portuguese by watching the dvd in Portuguese.
No, I was only trying to be funny.
I'm really not that ambitious.
I liked the first part of the second season of 'The Shield', but like I said before I like to see more sex and nudity when its a cable television show that I'm watching.
I also starting watching the first season of the show 'Lost' on the netflix website and I was very surprised by how good it was.
It was so good in fact I'm going to go put 'Lost' in my queue now.

Little Miss Sunshine

2009-09-02T21:02:00.003-04:00

Last night I finished watching the movie 'Little Miss Sunshine'.
I liked it so I give the dvd of 'Little Miss Sunshine' a score of 80 out of 100.
Last week when I realized that this was the next movie that I would recieve in the mail I began to dred getting the mail because I automatically thought that this was a movie that I wasn't going to like.
When I first signed up for this dvd service I first selected the movies that were voted to be the top one hundred movies and this movie was on that list, otherwise I probably would of never of rented this movie.
But I am really glad that I did rent this movie because like I already stated I really liked this movie.
The dvd was actually two sided on one side was the widescreen version and on the other was the big screen version.
I assummed that each version was the same movie but just in different formats so I didn't bother to watch both versions on my laptop.
The dvd also had to two commentary tracks for the movie, one of them featured the two directors or producers, I forget what title they gave themselves but they were husband and wife as well.
The other commentary track featured the two directors and the writer of the script.
And the dvd also included featured some music video by one of the bands that had their music in the movie and it also included two or three alternate endings, but no real interviews with the stars of the movie.
And of course the other stuff that you would consider standard for dvd were also included, you know different languages, scene selections, and the trailers to other movies.
If the dvd would included interviews with the cast of the movie, a making documentary sort of thing, and more deleted scenes then the dvd would of gotten a higher score in my book.
But either way I would suggest that you watch this movie because if I were rating just the movie instead of the movie and the other stuff on the dvd then I would say that this movie is one of my new favorite movies.
I think this link will be helpful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_miss_sunshine

book reviews

2009-08-27T21:27:00.008-04:00

Since my last book review I have actually read several books.
I mentioned the book called Pygmy and the book about the painter and sculptor Michaelangelo already but I didn't really give you a score.
The book Pygmy was unique.
The story was about these middle school age Chinese students that come over to live in suburban America.
But the Chinese students are actually Terrorists, but of course the American families don't know that.
And to make the story seem even more authentic its written from the point of view of the main character who recieves the nickname Pygmy, with his broken English and all of his misunderstandings of the American culture.
I give the book Pygmy the score of 90 out of 100.
The book about Michealangelo was really interesting as well, but I would only read it if you were interested in the time period because I felt at times it was long winded and it goes into a lot of the technical aspects of the art.
I give this book a score of 70 out of 100.
I also read the first two books that the tv series True Blood is based on.
I think the author's name is Charlaine Harris and the name of the first book is 'Dead until Dark', and the second book is "Living Dead in Dallas'.
I really liked both of the books and I found that after I kind of got into them it was difficult to stop reading them.
I give both of those books a score of 93 out of 100.

the shield, first season.

2009-08-27T21:23:00.002-04:00

The dvd's for the first season of The Shield were pretty good as a whole.
I think I already mentioned the stuff that I expected to see in the dvd's of a movie or tv show and The Shield pretty much had them all.
I give the first season of The Shield a score of 100.

2009-08-11T20:28:00.002-04:00

Last week I finished the book 'Pygmy' by Chuck what's-his name, he wrote the book 'Fight Club'.
I liked it but because of the way it was written I think it was difficult to read.
I also finished reading the book about Michangelo Bounoroti earlier this week.
I am pretty sure I already mentioned both of these books on this blog so I'm not going to bore you with the details.
The website address that I posted below can give you some details about the book Pygmy.
The website that this web address will direct you to is where you'll find the details, the web address its self won't actually give you any details.
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/books/pygmy

The Shield

2009-08-03T20:39:00.005-04:00

I finished watching the first dvd to the first season of the telivision show The Shield and I have to say that I liked it.
It wasn't as graphic and violent as I thought it would be but it still wasn't that bad.
I'll give my final opinion within the next couple of weeks or so.
Here's a website to reference regarding the show:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shield

True Blood, first season.

2009-07-26T11:38:00.004-04:00

I just finished watching the dvd's for the first season of True Blood, and I liked it.
I watch a lot of movies and tv shows on the netflix website which doesn't include any extras that I would like to see come with the dvd's.
I pretty much expect to see several things on the dvd's.
One of those things would be a 'making of video' which wasn't included in the dvd's of this tv show.
Also I would like to see interviews with the actors and/or directors of the movie/tv show, which wasn't included in the dvd's of this show.
And the last two things that I would like to see included on the dvd would be audio commentaries and footage or scenes that were edited out of the final cut.
There were audio commentaries included on each dvd of this show but there wasn't an audio commentary on each episode of the show.
But there wasn't any scenes that were edited out of the final cut of the episodes included in the dvd's.
But there were some interesting little bonus features that were included on the last dvd of this season that gave me some insight into the world of True Blood.
If I were rating these dvd's just on the episodes themselves then I would give a rating of 100, which is the highest rating.
But since I'm rating the dvd's as a whole then I give the first season of True Blood a rating of 95, which still is really good but I would of liked to see some more extras.
This is a good website to give you more information about the True Blood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Blood

the great masters of the italian renaissance

2009-07-06T22:51:00.002-04:00

I rented the dvd that I mentioned above from netflix.com and I just spent the afternoon watching it.
I think my time could of been spent in a more entertaining way, but if your studying the renaissance and or painting then maybe you might want to take a look at this.
I am not really looking forward to watching the rest of these dvd's, but once they arrive I will watch them none-the-less.
I shouldn't really imply that this dvd was worthless or that I didn't learn anything or that I wasn't at least a little bit inspired, but I am implying that this dvd was boring.

2009-07-04T23:36:00.001-04:00

To all of my american readers I say, Happy fourth of July!
And to everyone else, happy saturday.

New rating system.

2009-06-30T22:36:00.004-04:00

From now on the rating system will be as follows:
The highest score will be 100.
The lowest score will be 0 (zero).
This way I can differentiate the movies and books I really really really like from the ones I really like.

For example, I really really really like the tv show Californication so I give it a score of 100.
And, I liked the dvd that I just reviewed, Pollock, so I give it a score of 90.
And I give the dvd's of the first season of Torchwood a score of 60, although I would of given it a lower score if it weren't for a couple of the episodes that I really liked.

Pollock

2009-06-30T22:31:00.002-04:00

I just finished watching the movie 'Pollock'.
I watched on dvd from the website that I have already mentioned.
The movie Pollock is about the American Painter Jackson Pollock who became famous during the early 1950's.
It was a really good movie and dvd.
If you are an artist then I would suggest watching it for sure.
I give the dvd five stars out of five stars.

Californication and Torchwood

2009-06-26T23:20:00.002-04:00

Californication is my new favorite tv show, but as of right now I am only able to watch it on dvd or on the netflix website because I don't have cable.
I finished watching the first season of Californication on the netflix website and I really really liked it.
I give the first season of Californication, as seen on the netflix website, six out of five stars.
Earlier in the week I received the final dvd of the first season of the British tv show Torchwood.
I of course receive dvd's in the mail from netflix as I have stated many times in the past.
The last dvd of the first season of Torchwood was actually really disappointing because it was just all of the extras that were already included on the other dvd's.
Overall, I think Torchwood was okay.
Although some of the episodes were really good, but they weren't all good enough.
I give the first season of Torchwood on dvd three and a half stars out of five stars.
I am really looking forward to the next season of Californication...where as with Torchwood I could take it or leave it.

I am considering changing my grading scale from out of five to a one hundred point scale...