Movie Reviews...

This is going to be a monthly (maybe bi-monthly) thing I will do. I might also start reviewing books that I've read. What I am going to do is not just one movie review but a bunch of ones from movies I've seen (either in theater or DVD) recently. I will show the reviews from RottenTomatoes.com and IMDB.com that are user (IMDB) and critics (Rotten Tomatoes) ratings too on top of my personal rating.

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Yes I actually did see this in theaters and no I'm not going to criticize it like most conservatives have done out there. It is for all practical purposes a lefties wet dream (or as some have referred to it as, Dances With Wolves on another planet). The plot is a yawner and Sigourney Weaver does do a good job playing the nerdy scientist and you need to go see this movie if for nothing else the special effects. Be prepared for nothing like you have ever seen, go see it for the special effects and please turn your brain off. My brain was going for the movie and it actually kind of ruined the experience for me. I didn't love it but I didn't hate it either. Go see it and try not to puke, seriously (because of the effects, yes they are that intense). I almost did.
My review: 6.5/10
IMDB: 8.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes 82% positive reviews


Inglourious Basterds (DVD)
Unlike a lot of people I've talked to I actually thoroughly hated this movie, Quentin Tarantino spent most of the movie jacking off and apparently making old movie refrences. I say apparently because I didn't get them but my Dad sure did. It was too long, drawn out, and flat out rewrites history, and is probably the most disappointing movie I have ever seen. I went in with high expectations and they were crushed. If you've seen the commercials/previews of it they show the only funny parts of the movie, I'm not kidding.
My review: 2.5/10 (and I'm being generous)
IMDB: 8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes 88% positive reviews

Sherlock Holmes
Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law walk away with this Guy Ritchie (my favorite director outside of Tim Burton) adaptation of the classic novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Playing the coked out of his mind genius and facing his current foe, Lord Blackwood, he rapidly at the ends exposes Blackwoods scheme to eliminate Parliment and basically take over England by force. All the time there is this suspicious character lurking in the background, we go to find out at the end of the movie (you would have already figured it out if you have read any of the books) that Professor Moriarty, which basically means they are setting up the second movie villian. Sort of the way that Batman finds the Joker card at the end of Batman Begins. Great, fun little movie, go see it.
My review: 8/10
IMDB: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes 69% positive reviews


Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
I'm not going to lie, I'm kinda embaressed I even saw this one. Date movie, period. But it actually wasn't that bad, the movie had some fun parts and there were old movie refrences thrown in there so I was kind of entertained by that. Don't go see it unless you see it for the $5 matinee price, otherwise your getting ripped off.
My review: 4/10
IMDB: 3/10
Rotten Tomatoes 21% positive reviews


More coming next month