Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Based on the failed June 28, 2005 mission "Operation Red Wings". Four members of SEAL Team 10 were tasked with the mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shahd. -
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch and Taylor Kitsch.
Is this really necessary?
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The 10 WORST movies of 2013
My picks for the 10 WORST movies of 2013:
10. Paranoia - Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford, and Liam Hensworth, in some thriller about two competing technology companies, had some twists and decent performances from Oldman and Ford, but ultimately... forgettable. i watched this one recently and am struggling to even remember the ending.
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9. The Lords Of Salem - Rob Zombie's movie about witches. Good music, great cinematography. Incoherent and dull as shit script. His wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, who usually is universally panned as an actress, gave a fairly good performance in my opinion. Unfortunately the movie is all about style and not substance.
8. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - A comedy about magicians starring Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey. There are funny parts in this movie, mostly involving Jim Carrey as a Criss Angel-like character. Alan Arkin has some decent lines also. However, Carell's, Wonderstone character is so obnoxious and unlikeable, it isn't that fun to watch. Squandered potential.
7. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters - Movie could have been so much better if it decided what genre it wanted to be, it would switch from jokey to serious and back again, and neither way worked efficiently. I liked the look of the witches and other certain things, but i couldn't recommend it.
6. White House Down - It's no secret that I'm a sucker for action movies, and usually Roland Emmerich ( Independence Day, 2012) movies are a guilty pleasure to me. However, since we'd already seen Olympus Has Fallen already do this story a few months earlier(and much better) this jokey mess was instantly forgettable. I DO remember being fairly annoyed by Jamie Foxx, as the President of the United States, bitching at a terrorist for messing up his Air Jordans. Channing Tatum was ok in it and James Woods, is always gold to me, but this movie was dull and generic to me and that's not what you want in an action film.
5. R.I.P.D - A movie cut from the same cloth as Men in Black, however, not anywhere near the same class. This movie somehow makes Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds dull. I can't quite put my finger on what went wrong with this, but it stinks.
4. The Family - A movie about a mobster starring Robert DeNiro, directed by Luc Besson, the man who directed The Professional/Leon and The Fifth Element, what could go wrong? Well, apparently everything, The trailers painted it as an action movie/black comedy, that unfortunately, didn't have much action or anything that funny for most of it. Exactly one bit I found mildly amusing, DeNiro watching and discussing Goodfellas at a film festival. Sounds funnier than it actually is.
3.Texas Chainsaw 3D - Started off interesting, showing footage of the original 1974 film in 3D (done very well, release a version of that!) goes into a prologue that takes place right after the first film, still ok. Then it jumps ahead an unspecified amount of years incoherently and the movie turns to shit, by the end of it, Leatherface decided to stop trying to kill and teams up with a girl who is a relative and just had her friends all hacked up with a chainsaw, to live happily(?) ever after in the original house apparently going to team up and kill people. She's very forgiving.
2. Grown Ups 2- I will admit, I like the first Grown Ups movie, Adam Sandler is not immune to a turd, and this one is a pretty big one. Rob Schneider wanted too much money and is nowhere to be found, or mentioned. Instead they have Nick Swardson (who's apparently going to be in every AS movie from this point on) playing a riff on Schneider's character. The first movie, Sandler and his high school pals, come back to their hometown to go to their JR. High coach's funeral and have a great weekend catching up. The 2nd movie, they have all moved to their hometown, but it's not specified why the rest of them other than Sandler moved back, they all just quit their careers and picked up all their families and lives and left the big city to move to the Podunk town that they grew up in. ummmmm.....ok? Could you pretend to have a plot at least, the first one was flimsy enough but it was funny seeing all the comedians together in one film having fun. This one, I couldn't tell you one flipping scene in the movie let alone any one thing that I laughed at. TERRIBLE
1. A Good Day to Die Hard. The absolute worst film of 2013 is the hardest pill for me to swallow. As maybe the biggest fan of the Die Hard series EVER, (I really enjoyed the last one, Live Free or Die Hard even (shameless Kevin Smith intrusion/cameo notwithstanding) the thing was action packed.) This turd was the biggest disappointment I have seen in years. Bruce Willis, has been one of my favorite actors from clear back in the Moonlighting days. I saw Die Hard 11 times in the theater the summer it came out. The way he sleepwalks through this thing taking a paycheck disgusts me. He isn't John McClane in this movie, he's McClane's son's sidekick the entire movie. He follows him everywhere and rarely shows any ingenuity that John McClane is famous for.
The one liners are freaking terrible, "I'm on vacation!!!!!" is repeated ad naseum by Willis. First off, you aren't on fucking vacation, you went to Russia to try to get your son out of prison or so you thought, face it, you didn't really have a plan. So let's just scrap that stupid ass line.
The one decent scene in the beginning of the movie is a chase scene involving Willis driving an enormous truck, hitting pedestrian drivers all over the place, with him yelling out a "sorry, ma'am!" out the window. he eventually rolls the truck about 10 times, climbs out, without a scratch on him or any sign of a limp, then is immediately hit by a car while standing in the road, rolls up the windshield and then down the pavement, STILL no scratch or limp!! I don't believe Willis gets ANY blood on him the entire movie until about 3/4 of the way through and I believe even THEN it is his son's blood that'd been cast off on him. If there's one thing you can usually guarantee in a Die Hard movie even in the PG-13 one, was that McClane was going to be bloody as hell and have scrapes and cuts all over him....not this movie.
There are I believe 3 actors in this movie I recognized and one dies about 30 min in, the rest of the cast is filled with leftovers from Steven Seagal's last five straight-to-DVD movies shot in Hungary. Not even the main villain is someone recognizable. If you take one thing from this list, heed my words, do NOT watch this movie, it will just make you crave ANY other Die Hard Movie. Not one redeemable quality in this movie. I tried to watch it as a spoof of a Die Hard movie the second time I watched it, nope, it still sucked.
10. Paranoia - Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford, and Liam Hensworth, in some thriller about two competing technology companies, had some twists and decent performances from Oldman and Ford, but ultimately... forgettable. i watched this one recently and am struggling to even remember the ending.
9. The Lords Of Salem - Rob Zombie's movie about witches. Good music, great cinematography. Incoherent and dull as shit script. His wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, who usually is universally panned as an actress, gave a fairly good performance in my opinion. Unfortunately the movie is all about style and not substance.
8. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - A comedy about magicians starring Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey. There are funny parts in this movie, mostly involving Jim Carrey as a Criss Angel-like character. Alan Arkin has some decent lines also. However, Carell's, Wonderstone character is so obnoxious and unlikeable, it isn't that fun to watch. Squandered potential.
7. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters - Movie could have been so much better if it decided what genre it wanted to be, it would switch from jokey to serious and back again, and neither way worked efficiently. I liked the look of the witches and other certain things, but i couldn't recommend it.
6. White House Down - It's no secret that I'm a sucker for action movies, and usually Roland Emmerich ( Independence Day, 2012) movies are a guilty pleasure to me. However, since we'd already seen Olympus Has Fallen already do this story a few months earlier(and much better) this jokey mess was instantly forgettable. I DO remember being fairly annoyed by Jamie Foxx, as the President of the United States, bitching at a terrorist for messing up his Air Jordans. Channing Tatum was ok in it and James Woods, is always gold to me, but this movie was dull and generic to me and that's not what you want in an action film.
5. R.I.P.D - A movie cut from the same cloth as Men in Black, however, not anywhere near the same class. This movie somehow makes Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds dull. I can't quite put my finger on what went wrong with this, but it stinks.
4. The Family - A movie about a mobster starring Robert DeNiro, directed by Luc Besson, the man who directed The Professional/Leon and The Fifth Element, what could go wrong? Well, apparently everything, The trailers painted it as an action movie/black comedy, that unfortunately, didn't have much action or anything that funny for most of it. Exactly one bit I found mildly amusing, DeNiro watching and discussing Goodfellas at a film festival. Sounds funnier than it actually is.
3.Texas Chainsaw 3D - Started off interesting, showing footage of the original 1974 film in 3D (done very well, release a version of that!) goes into a prologue that takes place right after the first film, still ok. Then it jumps ahead an unspecified amount of years incoherently and the movie turns to shit, by the end of it, Leatherface decided to stop trying to kill and teams up with a girl who is a relative and just had her friends all hacked up with a chainsaw, to live happily(?) ever after in the original house apparently going to team up and kill people. She's very forgiving.
2. Grown Ups 2- I will admit, I like the first Grown Ups movie, Adam Sandler is not immune to a turd, and this one is a pretty big one. Rob Schneider wanted too much money and is nowhere to be found, or mentioned. Instead they have Nick Swardson (who's apparently going to be in every AS movie from this point on) playing a riff on Schneider's character. The first movie, Sandler and his high school pals, come back to their hometown to go to their JR. High coach's funeral and have a great weekend catching up. The 2nd movie, they have all moved to their hometown, but it's not specified why the rest of them other than Sandler moved back, they all just quit their careers and picked up all their families and lives and left the big city to move to the Podunk town that they grew up in. ummmmm.....ok? Could you pretend to have a plot at least, the first one was flimsy enough but it was funny seeing all the comedians together in one film having fun. This one, I couldn't tell you one flipping scene in the movie let alone any one thing that I laughed at. TERRIBLE
1. A Good Day to Die Hard. The absolute worst film of 2013 is the hardest pill for me to swallow. As maybe the biggest fan of the Die Hard series EVER, (I really enjoyed the last one, Live Free or Die Hard even (shameless Kevin Smith intrusion/cameo notwithstanding) the thing was action packed.) This turd was the biggest disappointment I have seen in years. Bruce Willis, has been one of my favorite actors from clear back in the Moonlighting days. I saw Die Hard 11 times in the theater the summer it came out. The way he sleepwalks through this thing taking a paycheck disgusts me. He isn't John McClane in this movie, he's McClane's son's sidekick the entire movie. He follows him everywhere and rarely shows any ingenuity that John McClane is famous for.
The one liners are freaking terrible, "I'm on vacation!!!!!" is repeated ad naseum by Willis. First off, you aren't on fucking vacation, you went to Russia to try to get your son out of prison or so you thought, face it, you didn't really have a plan. So let's just scrap that stupid ass line.
The one decent scene in the beginning of the movie is a chase scene involving Willis driving an enormous truck, hitting pedestrian drivers all over the place, with him yelling out a "sorry, ma'am!" out the window. he eventually rolls the truck about 10 times, climbs out, without a scratch on him or any sign of a limp, then is immediately hit by a car while standing in the road, rolls up the windshield and then down the pavement, STILL no scratch or limp!! I don't believe Willis gets ANY blood on him the entire movie until about 3/4 of the way through and I believe even THEN it is his son's blood that'd been cast off on him. If there's one thing you can usually guarantee in a Die Hard movie even in the PG-13 one, was that McClane was going to be bloody as hell and have scrapes and cuts all over him....not this movie.
There are I believe 3 actors in this movie I recognized and one dies about 30 min in, the rest of the cast is filled with leftovers from Steven Seagal's last five straight-to-DVD movies shot in Hungary. Not even the main villain is someone recognizable. If you take one thing from this list, heed my words, do NOT watch this movie, it will just make you crave ANY other Die Hard Movie. Not one redeemable quality in this movie. I tried to watch it as a spoof of a Die Hard movie the second time I watched it, nope, it still sucked.
My Top Movies of 2013
My top 15 list of the BEST movies of 2013: (These are in no particular order, aside from number 1 as were my picks for the WORST movies of 2013) I love movies so I cheated and made it my top 15 picks. (Its MY list, I can do what I want!!)
15. Dead Man Down- Noir with Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace, give great subdued performances of two people with tons of bag...gage that need one another. I saw this in March and it’s stuck with me.
14. This is the End – Hilarious comedy with comedic actors playing warped versions of themselves, tons of cameos. Vulgar and profane, filled with pot humor (which, if you know me at all, if I STILL found it extremely funny, it must be).
13. The Conjuring- Great old school 70s style horror movie. Beautifully shot and acted, very subdued in its gore. In fact, I’m still not sure why it was rated R over other horror movies I’ve seen that were gorier and rated PG-13. Was very creepy, but the only thing I wish is that studios would quit showing all the great scary parts in the trailer.
12. The Call- Great suspenseful thriller that gets going from about the beginning credits and never lets up. With a great, extra creepy performance by Michael Ecklund, as the serial killer. This was a movie I didn’t expect much from but was really surprised.
11. Olympus Has Fallen- Best “Die Hard” movie of the year, which in the year an actual Die Hard movie came out, is not a good sign for Die Hard. This was action packed from beginning to end, very violent, R-rated, which nowadays is very hard to find in an action movie. Gerard Butler was really good, and should definitely do more action movies instead of romantic comedies. This is right in my wheelhouse, very enjoyable.
10. Fast and Furious 6-Outrageous, unrealistic, unbelievable, but as far as action films go, a hell of an enjoyable movie. It does include a sequence that involves what must be the longest airplane runway in the universe, but I LOVED every minute of it. People in the audience either cheered or groaned at certain sequences. Which I thought was hilarious. The Rock has brought the last two movies to another level in my opinion. I was really looking forward to the next movie with Jason Statham as the villain, it’ll be interesting to see how they deal with the loss of Paul Walker.
9. The Dallas Buyers Club- Excellent film with great performances from Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. The trailer did a great job not telling you much about this film, which I actually enjoyed going into the movie without seeing the entire movie in the trailer. McConaughey will probably be up for an Academy Award for this, and he should be. Jared Leto should probably be up for Supporting Actor, as well.
8. The Heat- Really funny buddy comedy with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, was one of the funnier movies of the year to me. Foul mouthed and definitely worthy of the R-rating. This was a great movie poster too.
7. Captain Phillips- Great performance by Tom Hanks and also Barkhad Abdi, as his Somalian captor, in this suspenseful movie that is tense as hell and doesn’t let up. I did not know any of the details of this story, so I enjoyed not knowing where the movie was headed and how it was going to end. When Tom Hanks is being checked out by the doctor at the end of the movie and breaks down its hits you hard…..or you just have no heart, you bastard.
6. Prisoners- Very dark movie with Hugh Jackman, about his and Terrance Howard’s daughter’s getting kidnapped. Awesome performances from both, Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Not a movie for everyone, and I’ve had an argument about the ending of this movie with a friend of mine since we’ve seen it. Her version, ends even DARKER than how I think it ends. Lol
5. Out of the Furnace- Darker movie than probably even Prisoners, amazing performance by Christian Bale, maybe my favorite performance by anyone this year. His performance with Zoe Saldana on the bridge when he tells her he wants her back is probably my favorite scene in anything this year. Woody Harrelson was awesome too, and Casey Affleck, hell pretty much everyone in this movie was great. It is a VERY depressing movie, but acted brilliantly. A shame that no one really saw this movie, as it came out in a tough month competition-wise for movies.
4. American Hustle- Great movie about a con man and woman forced to work for the FBI, great performances by Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner etc. Very funny, great music, and wardrobe.
3. The Wolf of Wall Street- Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, have made a new Casino/Goodfellas for the stock market crowd. Profane, funny, disgusting and reprehensible. Great performances and story. Being argued right now that Scorsese is glorifying this behavior, utter ridiculous to me. Was he glorifying the mob in Goodfellas and Casino?
2. Saving Mr. Banks- A movie that kind of caught me off guard, GREAT performance by Emma Thompson, and actually I really enjoyed Paul Giamatti in a very minor role as the poor chauffeur tasked with "Driving Miss Travers" to and from Disney studios. Tom Hanks was good as Disney, but after Captain Phillips, it paled in comparison, and honestly not a big part of the movie, a lot less than I imagined. Colin Farrell as Emma Thompson’s Father told in flashbacks turned in probably one of the best performances of his career.
1. Gravity – (I know this will make my friend Shannon roll her eyes, but oh well. ) Singlehandedly the most awestruck I’ve been in a theater in years. The special effects were just amazing; I know in my mind it was CGI, but damn if the inner kid part of me didn’t believe at times, that Sandra Bullock and George Clooney were actually in space. The tension was pretty much constant for the entire 90 min running time and by the end of the movie I was exhausted like I’d been trapped in space myself.
There it is, my picks for the top movies I saw in 2013. See you at the movies.
15. Dead Man Down- Noir with Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace, give great subdued performances of two people with tons of bag...gage that need one another. I saw this in March and it’s stuck with me.
14. This is the End – Hilarious comedy with comedic actors playing warped versions of themselves, tons of cameos. Vulgar and profane, filled with pot humor (which, if you know me at all, if I STILL found it extremely funny, it must be).
13. The Conjuring- Great old school 70s style horror movie. Beautifully shot and acted, very subdued in its gore. In fact, I’m still not sure why it was rated R over other horror movies I’ve seen that were gorier and rated PG-13. Was very creepy, but the only thing I wish is that studios would quit showing all the great scary parts in the trailer.
12. The Call- Great suspenseful thriller that gets going from about the beginning credits and never lets up. With a great, extra creepy performance by Michael Ecklund, as the serial killer. This was a movie I didn’t expect much from but was really surprised.
11. Olympus Has Fallen- Best “Die Hard” movie of the year, which in the year an actual Die Hard movie came out, is not a good sign for Die Hard. This was action packed from beginning to end, very violent, R-rated, which nowadays is very hard to find in an action movie. Gerard Butler was really good, and should definitely do more action movies instead of romantic comedies. This is right in my wheelhouse, very enjoyable.
10. Fast and Furious 6-Outrageous, unrealistic, unbelievable, but as far as action films go, a hell of an enjoyable movie. It does include a sequence that involves what must be the longest airplane runway in the universe, but I LOVED every minute of it. People in the audience either cheered or groaned at certain sequences. Which I thought was hilarious. The Rock has brought the last two movies to another level in my opinion. I was really looking forward to the next movie with Jason Statham as the villain, it’ll be interesting to see how they deal with the loss of Paul Walker.
9. The Dallas Buyers Club- Excellent film with great performances from Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. The trailer did a great job not telling you much about this film, which I actually enjoyed going into the movie without seeing the entire movie in the trailer. McConaughey will probably be up for an Academy Award for this, and he should be. Jared Leto should probably be up for Supporting Actor, as well.
8. The Heat- Really funny buddy comedy with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, was one of the funnier movies of the year to me. Foul mouthed and definitely worthy of the R-rating. This was a great movie poster too.
7. Captain Phillips- Great performance by Tom Hanks and also Barkhad Abdi, as his Somalian captor, in this suspenseful movie that is tense as hell and doesn’t let up. I did not know any of the details of this story, so I enjoyed not knowing where the movie was headed and how it was going to end. When Tom Hanks is being checked out by the doctor at the end of the movie and breaks down its hits you hard…..or you just have no heart, you bastard.
6. Prisoners- Very dark movie with Hugh Jackman, about his and Terrance Howard’s daughter’s getting kidnapped. Awesome performances from both, Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Not a movie for everyone, and I’ve had an argument about the ending of this movie with a friend of mine since we’ve seen it. Her version, ends even DARKER than how I think it ends. Lol
5. Out of the Furnace- Darker movie than probably even Prisoners, amazing performance by Christian Bale, maybe my favorite performance by anyone this year. His performance with Zoe Saldana on the bridge when he tells her he wants her back is probably my favorite scene in anything this year. Woody Harrelson was awesome too, and Casey Affleck, hell pretty much everyone in this movie was great. It is a VERY depressing movie, but acted brilliantly. A shame that no one really saw this movie, as it came out in a tough month competition-wise for movies.
4. American Hustle- Great movie about a con man and woman forced to work for the FBI, great performances by Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner etc. Very funny, great music, and wardrobe.
3. The Wolf of Wall Street- Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, have made a new Casino/Goodfellas for the stock market crowd. Profane, funny, disgusting and reprehensible. Great performances and story. Being argued right now that Scorsese is glorifying this behavior, utter ridiculous to me. Was he glorifying the mob in Goodfellas and Casino?
2. Saving Mr. Banks- A movie that kind of caught me off guard, GREAT performance by Emma Thompson, and actually I really enjoyed Paul Giamatti in a very minor role as the poor chauffeur tasked with "Driving Miss Travers" to and from Disney studios. Tom Hanks was good as Disney, but after Captain Phillips, it paled in comparison, and honestly not a big part of the movie, a lot less than I imagined. Colin Farrell as Emma Thompson’s Father told in flashbacks turned in probably one of the best performances of his career.
1. Gravity – (I know this will make my friend Shannon roll her eyes, but oh well. ) Singlehandedly the most awestruck I’ve been in a theater in years. The special effects were just amazing; I know in my mind it was CGI, but damn if the inner kid part of me didn’t believe at times, that Sandra Bullock and George Clooney were actually in space. The tension was pretty much constant for the entire 90 min running time and by the end of the movie I was exhausted like I’d been trapped in space myself.
There it is, my picks for the top movies I saw in 2013. See you at the movies.
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