San Andreas

GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: 29 May 2015
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Staring:  Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd
Rating? PG-13
SPOILERS? YES

REVIEWS
IMDB: 6.6 of 10 Link
Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 50% Audience: 61% Link
MY RATING: 5ish of 10. A little better than okay but not quite average

MY REVIEW:
I think the nicest thing I have to say about this movie is that it's a better than average end of the world style movie.

Here are my issues:
1- The seismologist is the voice of reason who is not listened to. I think the idea that movies perpetuate the stereotype of "Lets ignore the smart guy" routine is just annoying at this point. His LITERAL job is to figure this earthquake shit out and then when he does it's basically too late for most of the people since there are no safeguards in place. {shakes my head}

2- The too-far from serious action sequences are just TOO MUCH. It's almost as if they put a preposterous line on a chart and had the writers do their level best to reach above that line for 90 of the 114 minutes. No one is that lucky! How about some realism! Yeah, a bunch of people died, but it was just too much of not enough.

3- Who wrote this?? It was basically like a bingo game played with disaster movies. Lets pick a bunch of crap and glue it all together.

4- The ultra-cheestastic last line of the movie was so utterly ridiculous that I ACTUALLY LAUGHED OUT LOUD!!! The Rock is standing with his wife and daughter and two random strangers looking over the mass destruction that is left behind in the wake of the earthquake//tsunami/fire and godzilla like devastation and his wife says: "What do we do now?" I was waiting for the line that would have made sense to me like, move to Kansas or whatever. So that was not the line that the writers felt was needed. Rock looks out and says with a straight face, "We rebuild." Seriously?? That was so the end for me.

My Final Rating: 5ish of 10 Just a bit better than okay.

Pitch Perfect 2

GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: 15 May 2015
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Staring:  Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, Adam DeVine, Katey Segal
Rating? PG-13
SPOILERS? YES

REVIEWS
IMDB: 6.9 of 10
Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 65% Audience: 71%
MY RATING: 8 of 10

MY REVIEW:
I feel like I should be honest about this upfront. I was an A Capella girl in late High School and in College so I have a hard time being 100% fair in the evaluation.

It was obviously not "Gone with the Wind" but it was not a horrible movie. I think there were some really hilariously awesome parts and when you combine the amount of laughs in the 115 minutes it equally to a movie that provided the bang for the buck!

The plot sets the so-loved Barden Bellas in a predicament.. poor Fat Amy has a nasty wardrobe malfunction causing her private area to be broadcast nation-wide causing the on-campus stock of the Bellas to plummet faster than David Caruso's career {Thank you South Park, I have been waiting for years to use that!} With the loss of their status and being barred from active recruiting, they decide to do the last thing that anyone thought was possible, win the International A Capella Competition that NO AMERICAN group has done before. Yeah, that was pretty obvious, even to me that they would win, but what a journey!

The Beca/Jesse and Fat Amy/Bumper love stories are widely different and amazingly awesome!

So many amazing mash-up songs. So many quotable lines. So many laughs!!

Mad Max: Fury Road

GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: Theatrical Debut 15 May 2015
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Staring:  Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron
Rating? R
SPOILERS? Not enough to matter

REVIEWS
IMDB: 8.5 of 10 Link
Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 98% Audience: 89% Link
MY RATING: 4 of 10

MY REVIEW:
I have to be entirely truthful about this; I was not a big fan of the idea of Mad Max as it was in the 70's. I get it.. dystopian future, things are bad, etc, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What did I like?  I like the visual place that I was taken to during my two-hour stay at the Lynnhaven Mall AMC Theater. Visually stunning. Fairly imaginative.. few pieces of wit and humor.

What didn't I like? The thugs who run the world just odd and seemed disjointed from the idea of the water starved world. Women subjugated to baby factories and "milk for the oddly bred aristocracy."

I did like the Charlize Theron role but the idea for me was realistically, I could have watched the trailer fifteen times back to back and could have seen enough.