61* Update

Just a quick update on the adventure that is my list.


On 23 DEC 10, I went up to my Mom's and with my sister went through old stuff in the attic.  As my sister said at one point, it was like Christmas.  Lost of stuff had been wrapped in old paper and plastic, so there was a lot of unwrapping.   While doing this, I found all of the wooden cars that my Dad had made for me when I was young.  Once I get them inside out of my car, I will be taking pics and doing a post on just them.


That's really the big update.  As I write this, I'm watching 'The Deer Hunter' as part of my goal to watch 20 movies off of the AFI 100 years, 100 movies list.


20. Watch 20 films I have not seen from the AFI 100 Years, 100 Movies, 10th Anniversary (0/20)
39. Donate 100,000 grains of free rice on Free Rice (5,960/100,000)
57. Clean out my stuff from my moms attic and do something with it

2010 - The Movies I Saw

Put simply, if it was released in 2010, and I saw it, its on this list.  The numbered list is a rough ranking, not to be taken too seriously.  Un-numbered is the rest.

1. Iron Man 2
2. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
4. Shutter Island
5. Robin Hood
6. Predators
7. Alice In Wonderland
8. Repo Men
9. The Losers
10. The Sorcerer's Apprentice

From Paris With Love

The Wolfman

The Ghostwriter

Clash of the Titans

Date Night

A Nightmare on Elm Street

MacGruber

Prince of Persia

Jonah Hex

Grown Ups

Capitan Jack's back... savvy?

Now, I know what you're thinking.  Not another Pirates movie!  I too thought the same.  But then I heard that Ian McShane would be playing Blackbeard.  And that Penelope Cruz is in it.  And the most important part... no Orlando or Keira!!  Now, I enjoyed those two in the last three movies, but their stories are done.

So, then this here trailer is released.  And it is awesome.  It looks like a lot of fun from the first one has returned.

Look like its shaping up to be a good Summer 2011 movie season.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

I recently used the phrase 'raging pile of meh' and that only begins to describe the level of disappointed I felt after watching this movie.  Now, I am a big fan of the original movie, and when I heard that Jackie Earle Haley (of Watchmen fame) was playing the clawed one, I look forward to this movie with much anticipation.

Mr. Haley was the best part of this movie.  I almost like him better than the original Freddy, Robert Englund.  Outside of Mr. Haley's performance, the rest of the movie was cookie cutter.  I was hoping for something a bit different, but what we got was just a re-hash.

Please don't continue to make Freddy movies.  Thanks.

I give this 3/5 finger knives.

This movie was so meh, I can't even work up the interest to write a decent review...

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)

I went into this movie fully expecting it to be a raging pile of meh, and I was not disappointed.  Actually, that's not fair.  As long as Michael Cera wasn't speaking the movie was great.  I found that during any scenes where Mr. Cera was speaking, I grew very annoyed with the movie.  He has a VERY limited range, and I understand that's what he's good at, but some emotion from time to time would be GREAT!

Overall, the movie was really enjoyable.  I liked the sight gags (phones that say 'ring', the video game style fights).  Tom Cruise* Brandon Routh was well cast, as was Chris Evans, two of my favorite superhero actors.  The suprise appearance by Frank Castle Thomas Jane was very enjoyable as well.

I've never read the comics, so I can't speak to accuracy of the film.  For the kind of film it was, it had very few things that took me out of the movies.  Even the battles with the Evil Ex's were believable.  As I said in the beginning, I went into this movie expecting it to be a raging pile of meh, but now it takes a place as a Favorite Film of 2010 (there might be a list of these soon).

I give it 13.25/15.75 used video game cartridges.

*Since watching Brandon Routh in 'Chuck' I am fully convinced he is some sort of Tom Cruise clone or love child of Mr. Cruise's.  If they should ever want to do a 'Top Gun' reboot (please don't do that) I vote Mr. Routh to play Maverick.