On Monday, I watched the show "Comic Book Men" on AMC. The show is a reality show that takes place in "Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash" in Red Bank, New Jersey (a comic book store that's owned by film director Kevin Smith), where we capture the lives of fanboys who work at the store. Also, we catch interviews with the employees including owner of the store . . . KEVIN SMITH.
Now when I first saw the commercials for this show, I was excited because I thought that it was my kind of show. But just to scrape it all out, I've never seen any Kevin Smith movie (although I want to see mostly all of his movies except for Clerks II, Zack and Miri and Red State), so I didn't know what to expect from his humor but OMG, this show is funny and entertaining.
This is the perfect show for those who are a fan of Kevin Smith or people who are just a fan of comic book stores. The characters are all likable and cool, my favorite is Bryon because he just looks like an average but cool guy, he's also the funniest one out of all of them.
This show is so hilarious. Now I'm totally into Kevin Smith's humor even though this may not be the humor that you fans know but still it's funny. This is totally my kind of show even though I'm not the hugest comic book fan, this show is just plain interesting. I'm totally nerding out right now, this show is just for a nerd, any kind of nerd. The store is in New Jersey, I have a family member that lives there (seriously; but I'm not going to tell you who).
Overall, this is a hilarious and interesting show that will appeal to Kevin Smith fans, comic book nerds or any kind of nerd. The characters are all funny and likable. Also, it's just a show that's by the end when it's over, you just feel good about yourself. I'm excited for the rest of the episodes, they could be good or bad. Who knows?
The name of the movie is "Safe House" which makes you think that there is a safe in the house full of money. BLAH BLING!
Safe House is the new thriller directed by Daniel Espionosa, and stars Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. The movie's about CIA-operative Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) who is in charge of guarding a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa. He is asked to guard rogue ex-CIA agent Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), the safe house gets attacked by mercenaries who want a chip that Frost have and now Weston has to escort Frost to another safe house.
I was really looking forward do this movie, I was actual excited, I thought it would be a really good action film. Now I will admit, I don't hate this movie. But was it good? NO. This movie is just the same average action movie with nothing special about it. I was really disappointed with this movie.
The acting was really good by Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds especially Denzel Washington because he's Denzel Washington (that's good). The supporting acting was fine nothing special about it, just average action movie acting.
The characters are all wooden and uninteresting (Maybe I wouldn't say the characters are uninteresting but still), their not developed well at all. The reason for that is due to the script and plot which is unoriginal and we've seen it done so many times done so much better. The dialogue in the movie is really bad and there were times where people in the theater laughed. I don't know if it was entertaining or it was just bad that it just made them laugh.
The action scenes was what really disappointed me. The action and fight scenes are filmed poorly with a lot of shakiness going on. Seriously, do directors really think filming action is hard and that shaking the camera would make it easier and exciting? NO! It's not exciting. Even the cinematography is bad, it's shaky and I don't have any words to describe how bad the cinematography is.
The biggest problem with the movie is the direction, The directing is just standard. There are scenes where Ryan Reynold's eyes start to spark like sparkles that look like he's about to cry or something and it's so bad it's bad. I keep saying bad a lot.
Overall, it's not a horrible movie nor is a good movie, it's OK. I was entertained by this movie, this movie is entertaining and watchable, it's just that this movie is mediocre. The movie just really disappointed me. Even though there are some redeemable qualities about it like the two leads, it's just not worth seeing in the theater.
Chronicle (No not "The Chronicles of Narnia" or "The Spiderwick Chronicles" just Chronicle) is the new found-footage (I like to call it "shaky cam") superhero movie directed by Josh Trank and it stars Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan and Michael Kelly. The movie's about three teenagers who get superpowers after getting exposed by some alien ship. At first, they start to use their powers for fun and pranks but until one of them gets out of control with his powers, things start to get serious, and I mean REALLY SERIOUS.
Now some people were mixed by the trailer, some people were excited and some people weren't. I was mixed and I didn't think it was going to be good but man was I surprised by this? This movie is EXCELLENT, I'm serious.
Now my favorite found-footage movie is "Cloverfield" because it was so scary and you felt for the characters. But the found-footage movies recently are going downhill from films like "Apollo 18" which was awful. But now, this might be my favorite found-footage movie and probably one of my favorite superhero movies.
The acting all around was great. All of the actors including the minor ones had perfect chemistry with each other. From the trailer, I thought the three leads were going to be unlikeable people that we were suppose to root for when one of them goes out of control. But NO, they were all great especially Dane DeHaan who plays Andrew. You can feel for Andrew since you know why he uses his powers for bad. He has an abusive father and a mother who is sick but then later you know he's going to use his powers against his father.
The director of the film is "Josh Trank" which this is his directorial debut and he does an AMAZING job. He uses the most amazing tricks during the movie especially one where one of the characters uses his powers to hold the camera and it's just spectacular the way he does it. The other thing that's great is that usually in found-footage films there would be title cards at the beginning saying stuff like "The Government recovered this footage" but at the beginning, they just show the company logo and then the movie begins immediately no title cards no nothing and that's awesome. Trank is going to direct the "Fantastic Four" reboot, MAKE THE REBOOT TRANK, DO IT.
The script is also strong to because it first becomes this laugh-out loud comedy and then it turns into this dark dramatic superhero film. By the way the movie is really funny too the jokes are funny. The characters including the minor ones are developed well due to the way the tone of the script goes when it becomes a comedy or a dark drama.
The character that is the most well-developed is Andrew because when we first see him, we know why he wants to film everything and not doing it because he just wants too. We also get to see his really bad life due to (like I said earlier) he has an abusive father, his mother is sick and he is bullied a lot so you really feel for him.
The last half of the movie is OMG (OH MY GOSH) FANTASIC. We get to see the thing that you were dying for, A KICKBUTT SUPERHERO CLIMAX FIGHT. Let's face it, the ending in "Apollo 18" just ruined the movie but this ending is the best one in the found-footage genre so far. The ending is really intense, dark and even gritty. The city just gets TRASHED and DESTROYED from all the chaos that is happening. The payout for what happens was unexpecting (I'm not going to spoil what happens). It's the perfect way to end the movie and you want to hear something that will pee your pants, I WANT TO SEE A SEQUEL TO THIS, some of you may not want to see a sequel but this ending just leads up for a sequel and if they do make one, I HOPE IT'S GOOD.
And last, the effects in the movie are FANTASTIC. Their extremely impressive and I can't believe that the movie was made on a budget of $15 million and they made it look this epic and good especially in the climax.
I have NO problems with this movie but if I had one minor thing to nitpick at the climax, what happened to the camera? I know numerous camera were used for the sequence but I want to know what camera was there during the climax. But besides that, this movie is fantastic and is one of the best movies of 2012 so far and is my favorite found-footage movie of all time. It's the most original found-footage movies I've seen in a while and is also different from the other ones. BEAT THAT APOLLO 18. I was originally going to give this 4.5/5 Stars but my final rating is 5/5 Stars.
