Thursday, March 13, 2014

300 Rise of an Empire Review


300 Rise of an Empire. Directed by Noam Murro. Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, and Lena Headey.  What a movie. Going into this I was excited yet skeptical.  How were they gonna come back from the EPIC first 300? Was this sequel gonna be any good?  I can pleasantly say this movie did not suck.  But it did suffer from greatness.  What do i mean?  A lot of what made the first movie so great was here in this installment.  However, before, it was mind-blowing.  This time it was, well, just there.  So many movies have used that sssslllllooooooooowwwwwww down then speed up cam that its still great, but a little played out.  That being said the action scenes, which there where a whole hell of A LOT, where great but i felt like I have see this before.  The acting was so so.  I felt myself not really caring about any of the characters, i just wanted to see the fight scenes.  It was a good movie but could have been a lot better.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Ride Along Review

 Being that almost everywhere you turn Kevin Hart's face probably would be there, Ride Along had high expectation behind it.  This movie stars Kevin Hart, Ice Cube, Tika Sumpter, and  John Leguizamo. The is about Ben (Kevin Hart). He has a passion for being in the police force and wants to marry Angela (Tika Sumpter), the sister of James (Ice Cube). James does everything in his power to stop Ben from going through with the marriage by taking him on a Ride along..... THIS MOVIE IS SO FUNNY!!!!! Kevin  Hart Let loose on this job and his comedy is at a all time high.... You can tell the director of the movie just sat down and said Kevin...Do you. Ice Cube was great also. Playing the hardened cop, the chemistry between the two was flawless.  Has to be one of Kevin Harts best acting performances..... He really needed this after Soul Plane... Don't get me started on that poor excuse of a movie.... This is one of the funniest movies of the year and I'm happy to see what else is in store for Kevin Hart the rest of the year...... 9/10

Saturday, August 6, 2011

X Men First Class

This movie BLEW MY MIND….. I did not think it was going to be as good as I was. There were no dead parts at all. Of course, the whole movie was not filled with action but when they came ooohh man, they were great. I love the story they put behind the movie also. The movie really cared itself quite well. I even loved the talking parts. The acting was pretty good to. I mean there were some parts like are you serious? However, all and all it was great. The movie was short to me. Yea it was an hour and fifty minutes but after seeing Transformers…I mean I need more. This is NOT the movie to sleep on. If you do not go and see this movie, you will be defiantly missing out.

Sucker Punch Review

This movie sucked…well 95% of it at least. It was so much stuff going on the movie you find yourself getting lost not knowing what is going on. It was so confusing. So the movie was about this girl whose mother dies and her step father sends her to this women’s home. There the girls are forced to dance…kind of like prostitutes. However, when the main character dances she goes into another world but it is really the real world….your confused to…yea that how it was the whole movie. Now I say 95% of the movie sucked. That last 5% was the action scenes. There were only like four of them but they were pretty cool. Now the acting…..oh god the acting. It was so bad. I can’t believe a movie full of d list actresses could be so bad…oh never mind….stay away from this movie…please  

Friday, August 5, 2011

The Lincoln Lawyer Review

Great movie….this movie had me thinking. Nevertheless, it was a great movie. The acting was great. Everyone was great. This was not a typical movie I like to watch. This movie had me on the edge of my seat. But not like how and action movie would. This movie had me wanting to see how it would end….and I must say the ending blow me away. to I was so into the movie I found myself sad when it was over. This is a must see.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

The WORST movie I've EVER seen

Oh my goodness….I could not go without talking about this movie. The Last Airbender had to be the WORST movie I have ever seen in my WHOLE life. This movie had so many things wrong with it. Where do I begin? First off, I do not know who didn’t the actor search but whoever it was deserves to be shot. This was the collective worst acting performance since Dragonball evolution (that is the second worst movie ever). Its bad when the main character is a bad but when EVERYONE was terrible. Another thing that this movie DEFIANTLY missed the mark was the story line. Now I am a BIG fan of the TV show but I cannot believe how bad they tried to remake it. I caught myself wanting to like the story but it just was not happening. I also found myself not caring about any of the characters….at all. I would literally watch every Twilight movie 3 times each before I watch that terrible movie again. If I were you…I would go and by this movie….then BURN it…then take the ashes and burn it again…period

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Jalen's Top 100 Movies


I took me a while but here it is…My top 100 Movies (in my opinion)

  1. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
  2. Star Wars Episode V:  Empire Strikes Back
  3. Glory
  4. Lion King
  5. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  6. Scarface
  7. Godfather
  8. Taxi Driver
  9. GoodFellas
  10. Godfather II
  11. Training Day
  12. Dark Knight
  13. Inception
  14. Departed
  15. Rocky 1
  16. Matrix
  17. Forest Gump
  18. Casino
  19. Pulp Fiction
  20. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
  21. Schindler’s List
  22. Saving Private Ryan
  23. Toy Story 1
  24. Jurassic Park
  25. The Silence of the Lambs
  26. Signin’ in the Rain
  27. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  28. 12 Angry Men
  29. The Shining
  30. The Shawshank Redemption
  31. Gladiator
  32. Friday
  33. Black Hawk Down
  34. Cape Fear
  35. Boyz in the Hood
  36. Alien
  37. 300
  38. Iron Man
  39. Superman
  40. Driving Miss. Daisy
  41. Platoon
  42. Independence Day
  43. ALI
  44. A Few Good Men
  45. Breakfast club
  46. Untouchables
  47. Life
  48. Fight Club
  49. Back to the Future
  50. Spiderman II
  51. Friday the 13th
  52. Nightmare on Elms Street
  53. Brave Heart
  54. Blade Runner
  55. A Perfect Storm
  56. Citizen Kane
  57. Titanic
  58. Passion of Christ
  59. Transformers : Dark of the moon
  60. Hangover
  61.  E.T. Extra-Terrestrial
  62. Abyss
  63. The Town
  64. Do the Right Thing
  65. American Gangster
  66. Bamboozled
  67. Friday Night Lights
  68. Antwone Fisher
  69. Coach Carter
  70. Behind Enemy Lines
  71. Panic Room
  72. Wall-e
  73. Mean Streets
  74. Star Wars Episode II: Clone Wars
  75. The Great Debaters
  76. Malcolm X
  77. Up
  78. Pirates of the Caribbean
  79. Black Swan
  80. 127 hours
  81. Superbad
  82. Toys Story 3
  83. A Serious Man
  84. Scoot Pilgrim vs. The World
  85. Gone in the Wind
  86. Avatar
  87. Seed of Chucky
  88. Up in the air
  89. Bad Boys II
  90. Any Given Sunday
  91. White Men Cant Jump
  92. Miracle on St. Anna
  93. School Dazes
  94. Cooley High
  95. A Walk to Remember
  96. Rent
  97. Star Wars Epidsode I: A Phantom Mence
  98. Radio
  99. Tropic Thunder
  100. Limitless