[Brenda]

MIB3 - 8/10 If you're a fan of the first two "Men in Black" movies this one will not disappoint. I'm so lame that I haven't seen a movie in the theater since "Titanic"--really because there haven't been many that I thought were worth it and I really dislike the huge multiplex theaters. We went to the Glen Theater for the first time yesterday where Sunday matinee movies are $4/person! What a treat! It wasn't crowded at all.

It would truly be a shame to see this movie without having seen the other two first. There were multiple references that would be missed otherwise, like the talking pug. One review that I read said that it dragged at the beginning--I didn't think so. They had to give you a sense of where the relationship was between K and J at that point in time before they moved on to the current plot. I read another review that criticized the lack of historical 60's references. Well, the move is less than two hours long!!! How many could they add?

The premise is that a convict (the villain in this installment) escapes from a lunar prison and goes back in time to kill K, changing the entire chain of events from that point on. In order to save K, J has to go back in time to stop that from happening. There are plenty of gunfights, cool rides, gadgets and of course, aliens...and a twist at the end that you would NEVER see coming!

Plus, I LOVE this tune!!!

[Matt]

I saw it in China, and liked it too. I didn't like the second one at all.

[Matt]

Prometheus -9/10 - Just what my summer needed!!

[hobkyl]

Safehouse...5/10.

Meh. Was hoping for something better than this from Denzel.

[Matt]

The Dark Knight Rises - 7/10 - Cool, but more of the same.

[hobkyl]

This movie evoked such a gut wrenching emotion in me that I've never felt from watching a movie. I give it a solid 10.

Which guy are you referring to Kelly?

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 6/10
This movie honestly had potential......it had some real quality moments but as much as I wanted to like it.....I came away disappointed. It's a shame too, because Tom Hanks and I have a child together (kidding!), Sandra Bullock and I were best friends in college (yeah, right!) and the kid who plays the little boy looks distractinglly like the founder of this website (for real; see below....). Too contrived. Overall, the acting is pretty good, but I have to wonder where they got the guy who ruined a critical scene in the film. Because of his pathetic showing, I pretty much just gave up and checked out at that point.

Thomas Horn/Matthew Conheady

Thomas Horn/Matthew Conheady

[Kelly]

Which guy are you referring to Kelly?

PM'd you,Kyle.

[Kelly]

This movie evoked such a gut wrenching emotion in me that I've never felt from watching a movie.

Translation? You cried like a girl?

[hobkyl]

Pretty much

[Matt]

Argo - 10/10 - complete awesomeness.

[L_G_D]

Flight - 6/10

Cloud Atlas - 9/10

I took 5 points off the score for Flight for false advertising, then added a point for the good acting. This is one movie I actually contemplated getting up and leaving halfway through, and I sat through Very Bad Things. When I saw the trailer, what I took away from it was, guy heroically lands a damaged plane, saving lives, but for some reason, they are trying to blame him for it. I was thinking maybe some kind of conspiracy thriller or something. Not even close. It's just another movie about a person ruining their lives with alcohol. I watched a co-worker do that in real life, I don't need to see it in the movies. If I had even suspected that this film would be 2 hours of Denzel Washington's character getting drunk and throwing his life away, I would have passed and seen Man With The Iron Fists instead. But it is very well acted, Denzel does a good drunk, not the fake, comedic drunk, but the real, drink-a-gallon-of-vodka drunk, I know, I've seen it first hand. So, as long as you know what you're in for, it's a well acted movie, and Tom Goodman as the scumbag drug dealer is great and about the only comic relief you get after watching Washington drown in alcohol for a few hours. The almost feel good ending isn't worth the trouble of getting to it, if you ask me.

As for Could Atlas, I'm also a bit on the fence about this one, and was maybe thinking of giving it a point or two less, but I think it's worth seeing, and maybe seeing again, if not in theaters, then I might think of getting the Blu-ray. The biggest problem this movie has is you absolutely have to pay attention to what's going on and what everyone is saying, even if they are speaking 18th century sailor talk or 24th century post-apocalyptic patois. Also, the thing is almost three hours long, so that will turn off some people right there. Again, waiting for the Blu-ray and being able to pause to take a bathroom break would be a big plus, because you can't skip any of this movie, you won't know what's going on. It's actually 5 movies in one, following the same connected people through 5 centuries of what can only be described as reincarnation, no matter how you want to look at it. The part that made me take some points off was that the same actors are used pretty much throughout the arc of the story, though not in the same roles, of course. The makeup effects sometimes don't quite come up to speed as the actors have their race and even gender changed in the various story lines. For instance, Hugo Weaving is awesome as always, whether he's playing a hallucinated devil in the 24th century wasteland or a sadistic female nurse in a contemporary nursing home.

So, as long as you make a stop at the restroom immediately before entering the theater and pass on that big gulp soda, I would suggest seeing this in theaters to get the experience. I saw it in Imax due to the theater again scheduling the standard shows at inconvenient times but the visuals were worth it I think. Settle in for a 2 hour and 50 minute running time and pay attention.

[Matt]

I'm not interested in Fight for that same reason. It seems like it would annoy me because of that whole "Blaming the hero" crap.
Looking forward to Cloud Atlas, but like what you said... maybe Bluray is better for it?

[L_G_D]

I wasn't so much mad at Flight for that, but because they weren't up front what the movie was about to begin with. I haven't seen a preview that was so far from what the real movie was as bad as this since Hotel New Hampshire.

The only problem with seeing Cloud Atlas in the theater is the running time and bladder capacity test it presents. It has great visuals which are awesome on the big screen, but if you have a decent size flat screen and Blu-ray player, that isn't as much a reason as it used to be when TVs were small, had bad brightness and color and were the wrong aspect ratio. Plus, watching on Blu-ray would let you rewind some of those parts where the dialog isn't in contemporary English and you're sitting there thinking "What did he just say?"

[Matt]

You've got to get that app for your phone that tells you when it's safe to get up to pee.

[L_G_D]

With Cloud Atlas, there is no safe time to get up and pee. Well, maybe during the chase scene in the 1973 story, but then you miss the action.