Becky and I went to see Fast & Furious 6 last Weekend at the AMC Theater in Highlands Ranch, CO with our friends Mark and Maria. The MovieFone website at Fast & Furious 6 describes the movie as follows…

“Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete.

Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again….”

The Review:  It’s a repeat of every other Fast & Furious movie and it’s incredible that they have been able to make six of these movies.  This is a 100% pure guy flick.  It’s mindless, ridiculous, far-fetched, unbelievable, should I keep going?  It’s still a fun action movie with fast hot cars and beautiful women, but the story is really laughable and the main characters are pretty much indestructible with The Rock looking like he eats steroids for all three meals.  All I can say is, “that’s not natural or normal”.  At one point toward the end, his head looked like it was two of Vin Diesels.

Becky and Maria didn’t like this movie at all and thought it was a complete waste of time.  I liked it for the action and fast cars and Mark liked it for the action and the hot women.  Although I hate seeing them destroy so many great cars, which is like a horror movie for me and at times this movie plays out like a horror movie, especially a crazy scene with a tank rolling over cars on a freeway.  The characters were also totally ridiculous at times, more like super hero’s than real people.  You definitely have to look past the absurdity of the film and get ready for the 7th because that’s coming for sure.

If you like these movies, you’ll probably like this one.  If you don’t than go with Becky’s advice and skip it.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – * Don’t Bother

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Becky and I went to see Star Trek Into Darkness last Weekend at the AMC Theater at Castle Rock, CO. The MovieFone website at Star Trek Into Darkness describes the movie as follows…

“The Star Trek franchise continues with this follow-up to 2009’s J.J. Abrams-directed reboot. Abrams returns to direct from a script by Damon Lindelof and the writing team of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. The crew of the Enterprise engages in an epic battle of good versus evil after being summoned home, only to discover Starfleet in ruins, and they venture into a war zone to find the powerful villain (Sherlock’s Benedict Cumberbatch) responsible for the devastation…”

The Review:  Star Trek Into Darkness is the second trip into the world of the new Star Trek series with Chris Pine as Captain James T Kirk.  It’s a continuation of the previous movie with an addition of the famous Khan character from the Wrath of Khan.  If you’re a Star Trek fan you’ll like this movie and you’ll see the correlation to the original television series and the Khan character.  Except for the fact that the character Khan really didn’t fit the mold of the previous Khan characters for some reason.

The movie has a bit of a Soap Opera feel to it, more like the television series and it had plenty of action.  It’s a fun movie to watch, but I thought the first one was much better and Becky got bored with it, since she’s not a science fiction, Star Trek fan anyway.  Still, this movie is much better than the older versions that they had done previously that were pretty lame and the characters are great, true to the original, such as the classic “Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor…” line by Bones in this new movie.  There are a number of things like this that are pretty cool to the Star Trek fan.  I watched the television series growing up, so I caught it quickly, along with many other people in the audience.

We liked the movie and thought it was the price of admission, especially if you’re a Star Trek fan, but I have to say it was just Worth The Trip and not a Don’t Miss It.  Becky agreed with me on this one, which is “highly unusual”.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – *** Worth The Trip

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Becky and I went to see Iron Man 3 last Friday with my Mom and Dad and our three kids at the AMC Theater at Highlands Ranch, CO. The MovieFone website at Iron Man 3 describes the movie as follows…

“Marvel’s ‘Iron Man 3’ pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?…”

The Review:  Iron Man 3 is a fun film, if you’re a fan of the Iron Man series and Marvel Super Hero movies.  If you’re not a fan of these movies, then you probably are not going to like it that much.  It’s a continuation of the saga for Tony Stark with more twists and turns than the previous films, including the bad guy, who is much worse than the previous bad guys that he’s faced.  With the exception of The Avengers film that comes into play with this movie where he had to face aliens with super powers, but he had help from all of The Avengers, where this time he has to match wits with a brilliant villain.

The story is pretty good this time around with a person from Tony’s past coming to haunt him.  I liked the way they used a character actor to hide the real bad guy in the movie, which was pretty clever.  He also had to face another genius like himself that made it much more entertaining and interesting compared to most bad guys that are more brawn than brain.

We are all fans of the Iron Man series, so we all thought it was a great blockbuster for the year and it’s proving to do extremely well at the box office.  Most people that I’ve spoken to who have seen the film liked it.  It’s not over the top fantastic, since it’s a sequel, but it’s definitely worth the price of admission for some good entertainment.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – *** Worth The Trip

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Becky and I went to see Pain & Gain yesterday with our friend Mark at the Alamo Theater at Aspen Grove in Littleton, CO. The MovieFone website at Pain & Gain describes the movie as follows…

“Michael Bay directs this ripped-from-the-headlines tale of a group of bodybuilding criminals in a Paramount Pictures production starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson. Anthony Mackie, Ed Harris, and Rob Corddry co-star…”

The Review:  Before I review the movie, let me review this new movie theater Alamo at the Aspen Grove mall.  We wouldn’t recommend going here, unless you want to feel like you’re in grade school with a Hall Monitor watching your every move.  I understand that there are security concerns today with the Aurora shooting, so theaters have tightened security.

However,  when you’re paying top dollar to see a first run movie, you’re spending another $15 on popcorn and a soda at the theater, you don’t want to have someone come up to you during the movie and ask you to put the piece of Ghirardelli chocolate that you pulled out of your pocket away or they will have to remove you from the theater because they don’t allow outside food or drinks.  My response is “Thanks, but no thanks.”  That was our first and last visit to that theater.

Pain & Gain is a Michael Bay action film that’s based on a true story about some body builders who turned into criminals with a crazy scheme to steal money from some of the club’s clients.  It’s very strange and a bit like Scarface or Reservoir Dogs in the violence department, which was a bit too much for all of us.

What makes this film absolutely unbelievable is that it’s based on a true story and sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.  In this case, this is definitely true.  It’s hard to believe how stupid, evil and self-centered these three thugs were and you have to believe that the steroids they took totally whacked with their minds to do such heinous crimes.

If you ever have watched CSI Miami, this movie could be an episode or several episodes with attempted murder, robbery, bank robbery, arson, murder, it’s just incredible that these guys functioned in society as long as they did.  In fact, what really blew my mind was when the lead character went back to work after committing his crimes as though nothing had happened and how bold they were about their crimes.

Pain & Gain is completely insane.  It’s a whacky and horrific story, that borders on being a horror movie with the characters being so maniacal and twisted where you really don’t know what they will do next, while justifying their crimes.  The acting was good, the characters were over-the-top, but overall we couldn’t recommend it as a good movie because it’s just too weird and difficult to watch at times.

I liked it more than Becky and Mark and would probably say it’s on the border of Worth The Trip and being a Rental because it was fascinating from a psychological standpoint of watching people go nuts. Becky and Mark thought it was a rental though and I’m not sure if they liked it enough to give it a rental rating.  I’m still going to go with rental though since it’s not that entertaining as much as disturbing.

John – ** Rental
Becky – ** Rental

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Becky and I went to see Oblivion last Weekend at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO. The Fandango website at Oblivion describes the movie as follows…

“In the year 2077, Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) works as a security repairman on an Earth left empty and devastated after a war with aliens. Jack has two weeks left before his mission ends and he joins his fellow survivors on a faraway colony. However, Jack’s concept of reality comes crashing down after he rescues a beautiful stranger (Olga Kurylenko) from a downed spacecraft. The woman’s arrival triggers a chain of events that culminates in Jack’s nearly single-handed battle to save mankind…”

The Review:  Oblivion is the latest Tom Cruise flick and although he’s a nut, this movie is pretty good.  Becky didn’t like it at all, so I’ll get that right upfront about that because she doesn’t like science fiction to begin with and this is definitely a sci-fi flick.  She fell asleep for most of the movie, since we had ran an Ultra-Marathon earlier in the day and I talked her into going and seeing this movie with me and Conroy.

The movie has a good story about Earth in the future and how technologically advanced aliens had taken over the planet, only to be defeated by humans, who ended up losing the planet in the process.  It has plenty of twists and turns, including some cloning in the futuristic world.  I thought it was well done and pretty cool, but it does move slow at times.  If you’re a Tom Cruise fan you should like it, Morgan Freeman is in this movie too, but he doesn’t do much.  It’s not a great flick, but it was worth the price of admission.

Conroy and I both liked it and Becky said to skip it.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – * Don’t Bother

Conroy – *** Worth The Trip

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