Christ Centered Gamer

Magnum Force

I didn't love it as much as Dirty Harry, but it was definitely a worthy sequel. Something was lost in the transition from man vs. villain to man vs. trouble in the system. Nevertheless, Harry Callahan's continued awesomeness was here in full... er... force.

And on a philosophical level, it was a great sequel to the first movie. While the first said "sometimes, the legal system ends up protecting those it should be prosecuting, and that isn't right," the second shows that taking the law into your own hands has some very ugly consequences.

It's best summed up by Harry himself when he says to the leader of the vigilante group... "I hate the system! But until there are some new ideas that actually make sense, I'm sticking with it."

God bless "Dirty Harry" Callahan.

Drewsov wrote:It was a reboot, not a sequel.

And it was a very faithful adaptation from the comic books.

it can be as unfaithful as it wants if it isn't terrible

Terminator 2 Judgement day.

That was entertaining.

The Killer

Be pleased, Oro. Took me long enough, but I finally watched it.

I gotta say, I loved it. I'm honestly not sure if I liked it more than Hard Boiled, though. Despite both being John Woo/Chow Yun Fat movies... with lots of people getting shot... they were radically different movies.

I love them both. <3

Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 3

..

The first one is and always will be the best, and while the latter two are mildly entertaining, it's more of a struggle determining which one I dislike more than the opposite.

(500) Days of Summer

An amazingly directed film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, it traces one man's relationship with a girl from the beginning to the heartbreaking end (and that's not a spoiler). Basically everything about the film is perfect, save for one younger actress who breaks tone a couple times over the course of the film, almost weakening the end result.

A+

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Terrible. Fun to make fun of. Almost so bad it's good.

F

Drewsov wrote:(500) Days of Summer

An amazingly directed film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, it traces one man's relationship with a girl from the beginning to the heartbreaking end (and that's not a spoiler). Basically everything about the film is perfect, save for one younger actress who breaks tone a couple times over the course of the film, almost weakening the end result.

A+

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Terrible. Fun to make fun of. Almost so bad it's good.

F

Funny to see that Gordon-Levitt is in both films, and I forgot about reviewing the latter, although I pretty much agree with you.

And I desperately want to see (500) Days of Summer.

Yeah... not sure how it worked out that way.

He really flexes his acting abilities in (500) Days of Summer, but then totally mails it in in G.I. Joe (though everyone else does, too; I mean, Jonathan Pryce and Dennis Quaid, both pretty respectable actors, are in it, and theyr'e basically the epitome of corny). Gordon-Levitt in (500) Days of Summer is especially impressive given the relative ease with which he seems to jump from emotion to emotion from scene to scene. He's completely believable, and the viewer can't do anything but sympathize with him.

It's not surprising that it's corny, considering it's based on an 80's cartoon. But still.

Also, my entertainment value of the movie went down after seeing Brendan Fraser's face.

I thought it was based on the action figures.

Well, it's give or take. The cartoon series was based on the toys, obviously.

Drewsov wrote: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Terrible. Fun to make fun of. Almost so bad it's good.

F

Whoa. Right down there with transformers?

Three Kings.

Quite a laugh.

B-

Children of Men

It is rare for a movie that takes place in the future to have the setting as fully realized as in Children of Men. Everything about the movie is so real. The acting, the camera work, the sets and locations...I've seen the movie several times, and it has never left me anything short of breathless. It's perfect.

A+

The Rocketeer - I was all kinds of nostalgia for this movie, and there are subtle brilliances in it but now? Ultimately for me it's boring. Maybe I've gotten spoiled by better special effects and a bigger budge but...meh.