Into the Woods

GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: 25 Dec 2014
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Staring:  Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp...etc
Rating? PG
SPOILERS? NO

REVIEWS
IMDB: 6 of 10
Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 71% Audience: 50%
MY RATING: 3 of 10. 
Maybe drunk.

MY REVIEW:
Truth- I gave in and vacated the theater with 20 minutes left in the film.

This was just painful! I felt like I was sitting in there for 10 hours. I kept looking down at my watch thinking that it was at least 3 hours since I looked last, but NOOOO! Ten Minutes!

So, this is based on a Broadway PLAY. Someone made a Broadway play into a MUSICAL. I like musicals, and I knew what I was getting into when I went. Not one real memorable song!

Johnny Depp is a pedophile wolf, well he's Jack Sparrow dressed as a wolf playing a pedophile. Weird sexual undertones, weird sexual encounters with the Bakers Wife... Not really fully understanding wha the hell was the point of this movie.



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This is my disappointed face:)

The Imitation Game

GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: 25 Dec 2014
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Staring:  Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightly, Matthew Goode...
Rating? PG-13
SPOILERS? YES

REVIEWS
IMDB: 8.1 of 10
Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 89% Audience: 92%
MY RATING: 10 of 10! Perfection!

MY REVIEW:
X\As a student of History, I've come across the name Alan Turing on multiple occasions and with each one, I am saddened to hear of the atrocities done to him. {Read about him here at Biography.com} I had to wipe the tears away more than once in this movie.

Back to the movie, it was a masterpiece. The story of the Enigma has been told a few times.. {Enigma-2001, All the Queen's Men- 2001 and U-571-2000}  Alan Turing was brilliant and Benedict Cumberbatch plays him to perfection.

This film speaks to the early days when Prof. Turing was recruited as a last resort to end the war. The movie spends the majority of the time watching him crack the code and build a special relationship with Joan Clarke, played by Keira Knightly. It was in Turing's brilliance that the code was cracked and then the second act hits like a bomb as you see Turing exposed as a homosexual and at the time, it was a crime in England and he was rewarded for his efforts to save England and all of the other Allies with Chemical Castration in lieu of prison. The film ends with what those of us who know about Turing was the end of something amazing.

See this movie. I cannot give a strong enough reccomendation!

The Interview

GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: 24 Dec 2014
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Staring:  James Franco, Seth Rogan, etc..
Rating? R
SPOILERS? YES, but it's not like you should watch it anyway!

REVIEWS
IMDB: 6.7 of 10
Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 52% Audience: 49%
MY RATING: 3 of 10. Watch it Drunk.

MY REVIEW:
And after all of the controversy, the hacks, the threats, the ridiculousness, I watched this.  Turns out that it's a horrible piece of poop! It's nothing more than a C level attempt at a drunk or high group of man-boys to lengthen a SNL Sketch. FAIL!

This was predictable garbage.  Throughout the whole thing, I kept wondering what I was missing.  Best line of the whole movie.. "He's motherf***ing peanut butter and jealous."

Waste of my time.

The Pyramid

GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: 5 Dec 2014
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Staring:  Ashley Henshaw, James Buckley, Denis O'Hare...
Rating? R
SPOILERS? YES, but it's for your own benefit!

REVIEWS
IMDB: 4.7 of 10
Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 11% Audience: 25%
MY RATING: 2 of 10

MY REVIEW:
This is just another take on dangerous exploration of the unknown location... think Descent. The poster was great, the preview looked awesome... the presentation, not so much. I absolutely LOVE Horror movies, and this leaves me with yet another bad aftertaste with modern Hollywood. What happened to the classic horror that was the late 70's early 80's?

I watch a lot of documentaries, especially about Egypt, and WHAT seasoned archeologist would venture into a newly found pyramid without so much as a few days or weeks, or even MONTHS of preparation!?!?!  Not a realistic idea.

Then, the idea of getting trapped and in a weird pyramid and waking up an ancient monster is a little cliched. I think I've seen that in at least ten movies in the last few years. YAWN. SOOO, predictable with the really bad CGI Anubis monster. Someone should have called a better Director and KNB Studios to make that horrible monster!

Another thing. Since when did the Ancient Egyptians use THOSE type of booby traps in pyramids. Such a big historical inaccuracy that it brought me out of the movie.

Last thing. The movie got it really wrong on a few things. I think someone should have paid for an Egyptologist to check the facts. NO- Anubis was NOT the son of Osiris, he was the son of Set. NO- the deceased were not weighted against Maat, they were weighed against a feather. NO- Anubis was not evil, but his dad was.

Just too much for me to deal with!!