The Descent 2. Well, the first 60 minutes of it, since I'm turning it off right... now. Boring and derivative.
The unholy hot mess that is "Smurfs".
My eight year old LOVES this movie. Children shouldn't be allowed to treat parents like this.
You young'uns are so quaint. Back in my day, there warn't no gadjits like them thar Vee-Cee-Arrs or Dee-Vee-Dee players.
However, we had other ways to torment our parents. I remember seeinng Disney's Cinderella in the theater. The only tie-in was a couple of 45RPM records with two songs from the movie. Which I played over and over and over... I'm not sure what's worse: an entire movie on the living room TV on repeat, or two songs in an endless loop.
And kids wonder why their parents can be short-tempered.
The Hunger Games
http://korsgaardscommentary.blogspot.com/2012/03/hunger-games.html
Needed a better director, and someone who can act to play Peeta, and the violence was too downplayed. Aside from that, very well made and I enjoyed it. 8 out of 10.
The violence had to be downplayed because of the younger viewers. That was something Collins said from the beginning, before they even started filming.
Sucker Punch
The effects were fun and I enjoy weird movies that have me constantly asking myself "wtf is going on?". The husband was thoroughly confused by the end, but I was surprised he actually watched it with me. What man would refuse his wife's argument of "It's hot chicks in school uniforms with guns and samurai swords...why wouldn't you watch it?"
Just watched this, and made about the same assessment. I was scratching my head a lot as to which "reality" was the real one. (Well, apart from the obvious.) Have to say, Emily Browning is way too little and sweet-looking to pull off looking like the badass she's supposed to be; and the action scenes rather bored me. But I enjoyed it much more than I expected to.Sucker Punch
The effects were fun and I enjoy weird movies that have me constantly asking myself "wtf is going on?". The husband was thoroughly confused by the end, but I was surprised he actually watched it with me. What man would refuse his wife's argument of "It's hot chicks in school uniforms with guns and samurai swords...why wouldn't you watch it?"
I enjoyed it too personally. See the extended cut though, it it a lot better.