Paranormal Activity (minor spoiler)

So my brother kinda surprisingly took me to the one of the three midnight showing of the “scariest movie of the year” and let me tell you, as a guy that has seen alot of horror movies (and movies in general) this movie goes very high on my list. Paranormal Activity was made back in 2006 and has been trying hard to get a release date not because it sucked, it was because they had no idea what to do with the movie, they had the rights just sitting on the self. Paranormal Activity has a no big star cast and for me this makes the movie a little better for a movie of this caliber. The crowd was really into this movie and i mean REALLY into to it, nobody talked, nobody’s phones went off, nothing they had their full attention to this movie.

Side Note: Don’t worry about shaking camera work, its all pretty much balanced.(yes the movie is done like The Blair Witch/Cloverfield/[REC] style of filming

The movie deals with a young couple being terrorized by well Paranormal Activities, we then learn that Katie has had this happen to her since she was a small girl. Her boyfriend (Micah) tries to play ghost hunter and tries to help her find out what’s going on and buys a camera to record the creepy stuff that happens at night. Micah’s character starts off as cocky and starts talking smack to whatever is haunting them and even buys a Ouija board to talk to it even though Katie doesn’t want to piss it off and thinks they shouldn’t mess with it. Micah throughout the movie does stupid things but you kinda get it as he tries to help his girlfriend get through this. The two even hire a psychic to help them and tries but doesn’t really (don’t know who else to explain it).

Now let me say this right off the bat, i jumped and i was like a little girl during the night scenes cause that’s where all the shit goes down. The day time scenes give you a break of from all the cringing you do during the night scenes. Trust me, YOU WILL CRINGE or be spooked.

All in all this movie was very very good and for a guy that’s nobody has heard of and for a movie doing the whole “Demand It” market campaign (which has worked ALOT) its bound to be right up there for everybody’s favorite movie or at least one of them. I’m definitely going to see this again and rent the DVD cause the ending that we see is only ONE of the ending, yes there are two more ending to the movie (I read them if you want those ending message me).

Paranormal Activity 4 out of 5

Pandorum Review

Okay let me start off by saying, wow, this movie had me fooled. I thought it would be an okay movie but after watching it i thought it was better then i thought it was going to be. Just to let you know the TV commerical fool you, THIS IS NOT A DENNIS QUAID MOVIE!!, don’t get me wrong i like Dennis but this a Ben Foster movie. Ben is the star and is a damn good one, Quaid is a supporting character at best. So lets get to the plot

Plot: Two crew members are stranded on a spacecraft and quickly – and horrifically – realize they are not alone. Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It’s pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can’t remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission? With Lt. Payton (Quaid) staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower (Foster) ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft’s shocking, deadly secrets are revealed…and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined. Since Quaid isn’t really following Fosters character, they gave him the likes of Cung Le and Antje Traue, who are very skilled and have a the skills to survive against the monsters of the ship. Speaking of the monsters, we get to see them early in the film (not like typical monster movies where you have to wait like half way through the movie to see the damn thing). The monster movie fast and do one thing, eat and kill,yeah!!!

Note: the reason why there on a ship is to create a new civilization, apparently as all movies nowadays. The human race was destroying on own planet and the ship is sent to a new planet that we found that can live on (NO NOT MARS).

The movie does play with your fear of the dark trust me. The movie has alot of dark scenes and are full of tension. Yes the movie is a typical something is crashing us lets run and hide type of movie but there is so much more to the movie that it kept me into it. Paul WS Anderson who wrote the Resident Evil movies did a pretty good job making this a horror/sci-fi/thriller movie. Now I’m not giving that much away cause there are twists to this movie and i don’t want to give them away so I’m going to let you watch the movie to find out. So Pandorum is very very good in my opinion and actually made me jump which is hard for horror movies to do to me nowadays.

Final Thoughts: Ben Foster rules this movie and Quaid is perfect as the supporting actor and some good scares

4 out of 5

Gamer Review

Okay let me tell you this, I’m all for a good action movie (I mean come on who isn’t) and Gamer well kinda delivered that, remember kinda. The opening well for the lack of a better term the beginning war sequence we see how brutal the game is and we see how Gerald Butler’s character (Kable) is badass and how he does his thing (well kinda since his controlled by Simon (Logan Lerman) for about less then half the movie). Kable in the game that’s called Slayer is the best of the best and he’s close to beating all 30 stages and get his freedom. I have to say the camera work in the first game sequence it just ridiculous its hard to pay attention and the “clever” glitches that come here and there makes it hard to see what’s going on and its not the only place they do it. They also do it in a rave/club sequence (which we see in the trailers).

The movie is made by the guys who made Crank (good) and Crank 2 (ugh..yeah ugh). This lowered by hype for the movie but i went to see it anyway.

By the way Slayers is not the only reality game we see in the movie, there is another games called Society, which we are told by more then one person in the movie was the first in controlling people and then it evolved into Slayers (Or did it???????). Why bring up Society well Kable’s wife Angie (Amber Valletta) is a player in that game which leads into a very…well i’m just going to say it a very stupid and not needed scenes (that’s right SCENES..ugh) in the movie that i think kinda took away from it. I guess in a way they needed it but..ugh

The cameos in the movie were kinda cool like Zoe Bell(two scenes), Milo Ventimiglia (who plays the “comic relief”, his character is just dumb), John Leguizamo (three scenes), Keith David (one scene), and finally the Humanz (that’s right with a Z) resistance fighters who are fighting the use of this system of Slayers and Society that consist of  Aaron Yoo (tech greek in the movie, about three scenes), Alison Loham (Drag me to hell) which is probably the likable character of the resistance and finally Ludacris (yes he’s not in it that long) his character is just there to tell Kable what’s going on and lead him in the right direction. Kyra Sedgwick character is kinda a cameo she plays a reporter trying to bring down Micheal C. Hall’s character which i’ll get to in a minute. There other two people in the movie that have cameo’s but if you watch USA Channel on sunday’s you’ll catch it.

Okay Terry Crews’s character is a guy that killed people just to get into the game to pretty much have Kable’s fame cause Kable is the badass of the game and is known through out the whole world (seriously they show shots from archive footage from all over the world). Unlike the rest of the prison’s he doesn’t have anybody controlling him which leads to a fight between him and Kable.

There’s alot of stuff to this movie which is why i’m writing alot (sorry). Now, Michael C. Hall’s character Ken Castle the richest man in the world (its set in the future). His character is evil and well the reason why this movie is good. Props to Hall for pulling this movie off, he was perfect for the role.

Okay i’m done haha. All in all its a descent action flick that has some bad camera angles/shots and pointless scenes but look through it its okay not great but okay defeinety not a good movie to start off the end of summer/beginning fall movie season

Gamer
3 out of 5

Fall Movie Preview

Okay now that the summer movies are over this week, the fall movies start in September (these movies are movies that I’m looking forward to, so some movies, won’t be on the list:

Gamer: staring Gerard Butler and Micheal C. Hall. The movie is set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments,called “Slayers”. The movie is directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank and Crank 2). Now don’t get me wrong the movie looks okay and with Hall and Butler in the headline roles i must say i’m going to go and see it but after seeing Crank 2 I’m kinda hesitant to see this.

Carriers: Four young people speed across the Southwestern U.S. in a desperate attempt to outrun a viral pandemic. Over the course of a few days, tough moral decisions will have to be made if they have any chance at survival. The movie is made by the Pastor Brothers which i’ve never heard of but the movie looks pretty interesting. The movie stars Star Trek star Chris Pine and also stars the lovely Piper Perabo. The trailer doesn’t really tell us what the disease is but it doesn’t look like a zombie movie, maybe its the new 28 days later?….maybe

9: When 9 (voice of Elijah Wood) first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone. Upon discovering a community of other beings like him, 9 takes the lead in an effort to strike back at the machines that control the world and are bent on exterminating most signs of life. The movie is made by Shane Acker who did the visual effects for The Lord of the Rings the return of the king, not grabbing you yet? How about the movie is producered by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted and the russian cult classic film Night Watch and Dusk Watch). I have to say the voice cast like Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reily, and Christopher Plummer and the trailer i’m going to watch this.

Surrogates: Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Bruce Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others’ surrogates. Director Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3 and U-571) takes the graphic novel and brings it to the big screen. The posters I’ve seen on the streets kinda freaks me out but not enough to stop me from watching this movie.

Whiteout: U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko(Kate Beckinsale) tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months with Dominic Sena at the helm (Gone in 60 seconds and Swordfish) takes a graphic novel and to me makes it seem like its going to be a bit of a let down but anything with Kate has my money.

Pandorum: A pair of crew members aboard a spaceship wake up with no knowledge of their mission or their identities. With Paul WS Anderson as producer makes it looks like a basic run for your lives there’s something on our ship and oh lets fight it instead. But I DON’T CARE, I’m going to watch it cause it looks good and it has Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid.

Astro Boy: Well this needs no introduction so i’m going to leave it at that and this movie finish’s the September movies

Zombieland: In a world overrun by zombies, a guy described as “the most frightened person on Earth” (Jesse Eisenberg) musters the courage to lead a band of refugees on a cross-country pilgrimage to an amusement park where they think they’ll be safe. Woody Harrelson plays a zombie hunter badass teams up with Eisenberg’s character and find Emma Stone’s character and Abigail Breslin. Yes it has a weird cast and the movie isn’t your typical horror zombie movie since its done like Shaun of the Dead (horror/comedy). A see in my books

Law Abiding Citizen: Is a thriller about a man (Gerard Butler) who orchestrates a series of high-profile murders that grip the city of Philadelphia – all from inside his jail cell – after his wife and child were murdered and the prosecutor (Jamie Foxx)  assigned to his case, who gets the killer off, realizes he is the only one who can end the reign of terror. The movie looks pretty good and sees Butler in a role that I have never seen him in.

November (so say the winter movies start this month but whatever)

2012: yes the date looks familiar cause if you listen to people that is the day on the Mayan calender that the day the earth will end. So who would you call to direct this movie? (besides Micheal Bay) that’s right Roland Emmerich, the man that bought The Day after tomorrow, and Independence Day. The movie has a good cast and looks pretty good but it also looks very CGI heavy but hey we like CG.

Ninja Assassin: the movie by the masters behind V for Vendetta and The Matrix trilogy, The Wachowski Brothers along with there good friend Joel Silver bring us this classic revenge story staring Korean Pop star Rain as the lead character who well takes his revenge on well ninja’s. Looks very badass if i do say so myself so check it out.

So those are the movies i’m looking forward to so far let me know what you think and what your looking forward too (please do not fill my comments with Twilight)

Movies to Avoid: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Okay, don’t get me wrong i’m a video gamer and Street Fighter is by far one of the best video game fanchises in video game history. The first Street Fighter with Jean-Claude Van Damme and the late great Raul Julia is said to be the one of the worst video game adaptions in game to movie history (Mario Brothers anyone?….anyone). Anyway forget that Street Fighter the legend of Chun-Li is now the worst Street Fighter movie, i’m not counting Uwe Boll movies (not yet anyway).

Don’t get me wrong i was looking forward to this movie cause well hell it was a Street Fighter movie but when i first glanced at the trailer i was alittle disappointed and the fact that it didn’t have Ryu, Ken, or Guile it just made things worse. The cast was okay although i don’t personally like Kristen Kruek (she’s hot but i just don’t like her) as Chun-Li and with the rest of the cast like Micheal Clarke Duncun as Balrog, Chris Klien as Charlie (THE WORST PERFORMANCES IN MOVIE HISTORY and killed one of my favorite characters), Neal McDonough as Bison (ugh), Taboo as Vega (three scenes for a favorite character come on), the beautiful Moon Bloodgood as a cop but lets face it she was there for eye candy and the famous Robin Shou as Gen (okay).

Now the plot well there its just meh. What do i mean by that, lets start with a medellion that Chun-Li that is connected with a scoll that only is important for about five mintues (literally). Charlie who goes by his last name Nash in the movie is just the worst character in movie history, even Klien couldn’t save this movie (no one can). Writing this is making mad cause i’m thinking about the movie and what to write so i’m going to cut it down and just tell you the “best” stuff.

• Fight between Gen and Balrog was pretty cool
• Mention of Ryu (at the very end)
• Deleted Scenes (If these were in the movie it would have saved it…just barely)

Yes one good thing ONE!!! and the credits cause it allowed me to leave.  The movie is just awful so i just tell you to avoid this movie at all costs unless you see the deleted scenes along with it cause it makes it ALITTLE bit better but the movie still sucked. Just watch Street Fighter 2 the animated movie.

P.S: The Jean Claude Van Damme Street Fighter is better then this

Street Fighter: Legen of Chun-Li

.5 stars out of 5

(with deleted scenes 1.5 out of 5)

Daybreakers trailer

So when I heard about this movie i was really happy to see it and now that the trailer has come out i’m even more happy. With a cast like this and a TRUE vampire movie to be released and with a good cast and style that its in i think it will be a good movie (hopefully)

what do you guys think?

Wes Craven Angry

Trust me i don’t blame. If you don’t know by now Wes Craven’s baby Nightmare on Elm St. is being remade (with no Robert Englund Freddy). Now i wasn’t old enough or even born when the movie first came out but for all my life i will remember that Robert Englund is Freddy Kreuger.

Now the remake is being down by Samuel Bayer…you got that look on your face like who the hell is that, trust me your not the only one. Bayer is probably most well known for directing music videos and this will be his first movie (talk about pressure).

Nevertheless, Wes Craven was never contacted or told that his baby would be remade and when addressed about the situation he said this “Yes it does hurt, it does because its such an important film for me that, unfortunately, when I signed the original contract I gave up all rights to it and so there’s nothing I can do about it.I don’t even know who’s doing it and I’m not interested. It’s actually really painful to think about it. It’s the film of mine that I probably love the most, and which made the most money. The script went around Hollywood for three years and nobody touched it and I went through all my life savings and everything else to pay for it, so I had to make the deal I did. Frankly, at that time I thought it would be one movie and that’s it. I never thought it would go on and on and on.”

So there you have Wes Craven is not happy about his movie being remade. Let me know what you think.

Shutter Island Trailer

Okay I’ve always been a fan of Martin Scorsese movies and when i heard he was doing this movie i thought it was cool. So the trailer hit the other day and i swear i saw it three times to get what was going on. Not saying the trailer was bad trust me its a pretty good in my mind. Some of the things in the trailer make you go whoa, what just happened?

The movie in set in 1954 and U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) along with his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane run by Dr. John Cawley (Ben Kingsley) and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.

The trailer shows some really creepy stuff from images that seem well just watch the trailer to see cause i can’t explain it (sorry). Other cast includes Jackie Earle Haley (who makes an appearance in the trailer), Michelle Williams, Max Von Sydow, John Carroll Lynch, and Ted Levine (all of who appear in the trailer as well and seem to be all creepy)

Calling Kurt Wimmer

Okay well if you know me personally you know I’m a sucker for action movies, and if you read my other post then you know I’m a sucker for remakes too. Then I heard that Total Recall was being remade i was meh but then i was who was writing it i was so happy and giggty that well i didn’t really do anything but besides that i was happy. Kurt Wimmer is now the writer for the Total Recall movie. Who’s Kurt Wimmer? Well Kurt Wimmer is responsible for writing movie like The Thomas Crown Affair, The Recruit, Street Kings and the upcoming movie Salt.

Wimmer is also responsible for directing one of my favorite movie named Equilibrium which was brushed off by people because the The Matrix was out. For those who have not seen it i really recommend it because this movie has was really good and stars Christian Bale (need i say more haha).

Wimmer is perfect for the job of writer for Total Recall in my opinion and i think Hollywood deserves to give Wimmer back his fans affection for the screw job they gave him when they cut out alot from his last movie Ultraviolet.  Wimmer is a man that i think Hollywood has to give more chances to direct a movie.

let me know what you think.

Remake Rant

Okay let me be the first to say that their are some remakes out there in Hollywood i like (not alot but some). However, with all the remakes being made today or on the verge of being remade i feel that now hollywood is being lazy and choosing to ruin classics.

One prime example is the cult classic The Crow which stared the late Brandon Lee. Other classic movies that are being remade Nightmare on Elm St. (which is being filmed in my hometown but still come on its Freddy), The Karate Kid (meh), Footlose, Conan (which is still trying to find a director), The Thing, Poltergeist, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rosemary’s Baby, Starfighter, Evil Dead, The Warriors, you see were i’m going with this right?

I could keep going and going but i’m pretty sure if i did you’d find me and beat me silly for listing movie after movie. So i’m just going to keep going if you don’t mind haha.

Now don’t get me wrong because you know Americans (not bad mouthing or anything its for the sake of the piece people) we want EVERYTHING. So we went to J-Horror or Korean horror movies and made bad boring going nowhere movie that the fans will forget *cough* Dark Water *cough*

So companies are buying rights to already perfect movies and making soon to be probably crappy remakes. I mean its bad enough we mess up our own remakes *cough* Halloween *cough* but do we really have to ruin other countries movies too. I say this right now I LOVE [REC] and when i found out they remade it to Quarantine i was kinda effy about it and then i was the movie and then i felt like punching myself in the face for buying the ticket and watching the damn thing. The characters in Quarantine were nothing like the characters in [Rec].

Then the very popular and good Korean horror movie The Host is getting remade along with the Swedish thriller vampire flick Let the right one in is getting remade as well. It just really makes me mad that Hollywood is messing up these perfect movies and do crap remakes with the hot actor (ugh)

Off topic: Don’t you love that fact that i went from all remakes to horror remakes haha

Nevertheless, remakes can either kill or make the series (since most remakes are part of a series) like Tron, Robocop, and Predator (damn you Robert Rodriguez). But oh well.

Hopefully you liked this i would keep going but i’m pretty sure i’ll repeat myself again and again. Till next time guys take care.