New "Basterds" Trailer

Looks amazing.
-Zach

Whatever Works

The new Woody Allen film, Whatever Works, is not as good as Vicky Cristina Barcelona but it is still great. It is amazing to see Allen return to his home city of New York. The city is filmed rather well and it adds to the movie. Larry David gives an amazing performance which now leads me to believe he may get many more acting roles. Evan Rachel Wood looks much different than she did the The Wrestler which I found strange, but none the less she is still very funny. The film is full of great performances and lines and is in my opinion, very memorable. Whatever Works is definitely one of the best comedies of the year so far.

Whatever Works is in limited release and will be released wide on July 3rd.

Whatever Works - 4 out of 4

Also, I may not post for 3 weeks because I will be in Italy, if I see a movie and get to an internet source to post, I will.

-Zach

Transformers: Revenge of the F***ing Stupidest Movie of All Freakin' Time

Transformers... Michael Bay... If you put these two things together is it possible to make something good? The answer is yes, Michael Bay proved that in a little movie I like to call Transformers. I wish I could say the same about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The action I am okay with, its everything else that fails. To make it simple, words can not describe how much this movie annoyed me. I even found myself covering my eyes at certain parts of the story, not because they were frightening but because how cringe-inducingly bad they were. In the car, on the way home from the movie theatre I made a list of quotes that exemplify how extremely stupid this film is. The Fallen is actually the name of a Decepticon who wants to harnes the power of the sun for energy and also to get revenge on Earth because the humans wronged him in some way that is unclear. In a scene early in the film The Fallen says something to the extent of, "I can only be killed by a Prime and Optimis Prime is the only Prime left." That is proabably one of the laziest examples of story telling I have ever seen, couldn't have the screenwrites presented that information in a different way then to have the villian just say it for no reason at all. Also, I took note of a line that was mentioned in Roger Ebert's Review of the movie. I had actually written it down before I read his review. The line is said by the amazing John Turturro while climbing a pyrmid to stop a Decpticon from activating a machine that will destroy the sun. He says TO HIMSELF, "Oh no! The machine is buried in the pyramid! If they turn it on, it will destroy the sun! Not on my watch!" Might I add that the fact that this machine will blow up the sun had been mentioned at least ten times before this point in the movie. There are so many things wrong with this movie it would take me at least ten more pages to list them all. To end I just want to mention that I saw the movie in IMAX, and yes, it did look amazing but that dosn't justify how horrible the movie was.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - 1.5 out of 4

-Zach

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Denzel Washington and John Travolta both give very good performances in a very good Thriller, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. The suspense is built up gradually and beautifully. Almost the whole movie consists of a conversation between the subway and MTA. The dialogue is excellent and the action scene at the end is pretty satisfying. There is not much to write about because the movie dosnt move around too much and there aren't to many aspects of it. That isn't a bad thing, it just leads to a shorter review.

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 - 3.5 out of 4

-Zach

The Proposal and More!!!

I saw a screening of The Proposal last month. To tell you the truth, it was not as bad as I expected. I imagined it would not be funny and it would have a very predictable ending. When I finally saw the movie, I laughed more than I expected. The ending was predictable, but there was a big surprise that I wasn't expecting. A performance in the movie that I really enjoyed was Betty White as the grandma, I thought she was extremely funny, and also I always love Sandra Bullock. On the whole this was an above average romantic comedy.

The Proposal - 3 out of 4

The Proposal will have 800 sneak peeks on Saturday June 13th and will open in wide release on June 19th.

Also, I saw Land of the Lost last weekend and I thought it was below average for Will Ferrell.

Land of the Lost - 2.5 out of 4

But the movie you should see this weekend is called Moon with Sam Rockwell. I saw it at Tribeca Film Festival and it is one of the best movies of the year. If you want to read my review check out the post called "Tribeca Film Festival: Part 2."

Moon - 4 out of 4

The other weekend I also saw Drag Me to Hell which is the best horror movie to come out in years and should be seen by every 80's horror movie fan.

Drag Me to Hell - 4 out of 4

This weekend I'm going to see The Taking of of Pelham 1 2 3, and hopefully write a review. Also, I have already prepared the website for my most anticipated film of the year, Inglourious Basterds. I have updated the movie news, poll, and movie videos, all to be about the new Tarantino film.

-Zach