These are the movies I've watched.
Green Zone
Matt Damon is a Chief Warrant Officer hunting for weapons of mass destruction in Baghdad. He doesn’t find any but instead uncovers the secret plot behind the WMD fiasco.
Some people have said that this movie isn’t timely enough but I didn’t find that. WW2 movies are still popular and that war is even older.
Decent enough to watch but I wouldn’t search it out.
The Last Airbender
Stay far away from this movie. It’s terrible. The only reason I watched the whole thing was out of morbid curiosity.
The acting is terrible – stilted and monotone. The dialogue is awkward. It’s as though there was no real script only a series of bullet points – every line of dialogue is a major plot point – there is no “How are you doing?” only “We must now travel to the Northern Water Tribe.” and “You are the only one who can save us.” all the way through.
I spent the whole movie rolling my eyes… what a waste of time and money.
When in Rome
Kristen Bell plays Beth, a young woman who doesn’t believe in love. While at her sister’s wedding in Rome she takes a handful of coins from the fountain of love. The sky darkens, lightning flashes, and the owner of each coin becomes instantly infatuated with her. The rest of the movie involves Beth trying to figure out what happened and which one of the men pursuing her has real (not magic) feelings.
It’s not an overly good romantic comedy but it was watchable.
Robin Hood
Russel Crowe does a good job as Robin Longstride (aka Robin Hood). The movie tells the story of the how Robin Hood came to be and consequently spends a lot of time dealing with 12th century politics and other historical events such as the crusades and the invasion of England by Phillip of Spain. It isn’t until the last five minutes that Robin becomes an outlaw.
Worth watching.
The Lovely Bones
A young girl is murdered. The remaining investigation is worth about 45 minutes – instead someone decided to drag it out to over 2 hours. Most of that 2 hours is spent showing the murdered girl exploring her “heaven”. We don’t care, it adds nothing to the story except to show off some ho-hum special effects.
The book is supposed to be amazing… maybe it is. The movie is dumb.
A Serious Man
This is the story of a man who tries to be good and deal with all the crap that the world throws at him… and there’s a lot of crap. There’s nothing funny or entertaining, there’s no message, there’s not even a proper ending.
He is being threatened by the father of one of his students, he is receiving anonymous hate mail, the tenure committee keeps jerking him around, his wife kicks him out of the house because she is seeing another man, his deadbeat brother moves into the hotel with him (and gets arrested twice), when his wife’s lover dies she makes him pay for the funeral but refuses to let him move back home, his son won’t stop complaining about the misaligned tv antenna, his son gets stoned for his own bar mitzvah, his daughter is stealing from his wallet to pay for a nose job, his neighbour is building a shed across the property line, and he crashes the car. There’s more but you get the point.
Don’t waste your time. Depressing with no point.
Iron Man 2
Take the awesomeness that was the original Iron Man, add Scarlett Johansson in tight leather and Samuel L. Jackson in an eye patch, knock a little off the top for being a sequel and you have Iron Man 2.












