Review: "Choose" (2011)- written April 13, 2011

Ok, back to horror. "Choose" is another movie that promisses more than it gives. The story is good/okay but sometimes the writing can be bad. It wasn't very well directed though. Scenes weren't always handled realistically and on ocassion were just stupid. Yet the worst thing was probably that the important facts flew right by and left me confused more than once. So "Choose" does go a bit fast sometimes, forgeting the audiance and just going on ahead. The choices people are forced to make are somewhat ironic but don't make you think a lot and are few. The 'Choose theory' is explained in this movie but just to the extent that the story needs. However the movie wasn't completely bad, it just wasn't done well. I won't tell you to stay away from this movie, but I don't really recommend it. Though in the back of my head I will always think: 'it was a bit good'.

Review: "Soul Surfer" (2011)- written April 10, 2011

This isn't my typical kind of movie but I was interested by the trailer. Of course a character loses an arm so I guess it's close. Anyways, it is a good movie. Heck, I'll call it Great. The synopsis just writes itself 'A surfer loses her arm in a shark attack but despite the tragedy she eventually goes on to compete in professional level surfing events'. There's just something about a one-armed girl who overcomes her 'disability' to keep on surfing, it could be the fact that I think one-armed girls are very pretty but I don't know. So the movie is mainly about trials and getting through them. Romance is kept to a minimal, gore is barely existant, and slow motion shots appear about as frequently as they do in a 'Resident Evil' movie. There is also one other thing about the movie, probably one of my favourite lines in a movie ever is in "Soul Surfer":
"I don't need easy, I just need possible". So yeah, go see it if you are interested. I do look forward to having it as a blu-ray on my shelf, once I get a new one because 62 blu-rays is a tight fit.

Review: "Season of the Witch" (2011), written April 8, 2011

So, is "Season of the Witch" a bad movie? I can't say it is, Nicholas Cage is in it but his performance certainly wasn't awful. Yeah, the storyline isn't the best and no better than good. Yet is it a terrible movie? NO. It's just an average movie, that isn't great and not bad. Though some (apparenly many) could see it as awful, being as they set their expectations a little too high. Don't avoid it because it's awful, avoid it because it isn't Great.

Review: "Rubber" (2010), written April 1, 2011

So I finally got to see "Rubber" after a long and anxious wait. I thought it would be a movie of average length and have an interesting plot, well I assumed them. However, the movie is a rather unusual one. It is only 1 hour and 18 minutes including credits and its plot is, well...strange. The movie has two plots, which made it a lot less exciting than I had hoped. I just think that if your going to make a movie with a second plot like this one, it should be given to one with less promise than "Rubber". I thought "Rubber" was going to be exciting and clever but I was very disappointed. Yet regardless of my expectations is it a good film? It's ok, artistically it's pretty good but, it's nothing amazing. However there was one thing that was very interesting, the 'special' or 'practical' effects used to make a tire roll. Now if you haven't seen any trailers, that last sentence may have been confusing. That's all I have to say about "Rubber".