Becky and I went to see the new movie American Sniper at the AMC Theaters in Highlands Ranch, CO this Weekend with our friends.  The Fandango website at American Sniper describes the movie as follows…

“Biopic of Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), the most-celebrated sniper in American military history. In the aftermath of 9/11, Kyle decides to serve his country by becoming a Navy SEAL. But with each tour of duty, he grows more detached from his wife and children…”

The Review: American Sniper is a true story about Chris Kyle that stars Bradley Cooper.  The film is directed by Clint Eastwood and it’s one of the best films he has made, definitely the best in years.  Bradley Cooper is amazing in this film and so are all the other actors, but he really does an amazing job playing this American war hero.  He should win an award for this movie for sure.

The movie is long, but it doesn’t feel long.  It’s very disturbing at times and shows the harsh realities of war and what it does to people.  The cost that has been paid to fight terrorism has been a high price to pay for sure and this film illustrates the sacrifices of American men and women and their families, as well as those who live there as well.  American Sniper is one of the best movies we have seen in a long time and it’s along the lines of Unbroken, Fury and others that show the danger and terrible sides of war.  It is very heavy at times and difficult to watch, but at the end of the film the whole theater applauded it had that strong of an impact on the audience.

We both recommend this movie and definitely thought it was a film you don’t want to miss.

John – **** Don’t Miss It
Becky – **** Don’t Miss It

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Becky and I went to see the new Chris Hemsworth movie Blackhat at the AMC Theaters in Highlands Ranch, CO this Weekend.  The Fandango website at Blackhat describes the movie as follows…

“An American/Chinese joint anti-cybertheft task force races to root out an elusive hacker based in Southeast Asia in this Legendary Pictures thriller written, produced, and directed by Michael Mann, and starring Chris Hemsworth. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi…”

The Review: We were really looking forward to seeing this film since it seemed like it was going to be a great thriller about how someone could use cyber terrorism in a way we hadn’t seen before.  Instead it was over two hours of non-stop boredom.  The cinematography was terrible with the camera moving all over the place.  The Director shouldn’t be allowed to direct a Youtube video since it was on step above a bad Chinese feature film.  This movie was really terrible.

I won’t bore you with all the details, but this movie did not delivery in the least.  It was so bad that I got up at one point and looked at Becky and said, “Let me know what happens.  No, let me know if anything happens.” because really this is a film where nothing happens.  They take a minute showing people walk up stairs or get into a car or climb into bed.  It’s so incredibly painful to watch that we wouldn’t recommend even renting this film.

There you have it.  This is a big don’t bother for sure.

John – * Don’t Bother
Becky – * Don’t Bother

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Auto Consultant – John Boyd: The Cool Car Guy

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Becky and I went to see the new Liam Neeson movie Taken 3 at the AMC Theaters in Castle Rock, CO this Weekend.  The Fandango website at Taken 3 describes the movie as follows…

“The chase is on once again in this sequel from Taken 2 director Olivier Megaton, and screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi…”

The Review: I didn’t have much interest in seeing this movie after watching Taken and Taken 2.  We figured by now they should figure out how not to get taken, but it was actually much better than we expected.  The story is much more clever than the previous two films because they didn’t actually have anyone get taken.

The story picks up with his wife played by Famke Janssen is married to a super rich dude, who is involved with the Russian Mafia that ends up putting her life and the life of their daughter at risk.  Liam’s job is to find these gangsters and take them out, while trying not to get caught by the police.  The movie is pretty action packed and it’s much better than we expected.

Taken 3 is not a great movie, but it’s not terrible either.  It’s entertaining as an action thriller and not overly complicated, but it is pretty far fetched most of the time since Liam Neeson is getting to be old and beating up on these guys in their twenties.  He also would have a hard time evading the police with all the technology they have to track people today.  However, if you can look past most of the problems with the movie it was a pretty good movie overall.  We both liked it.

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

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Becky and I went to see the new movie The Imitation Game at the Regal Theaters in Lone Tree, CO.  The Fandango website at The Imitation Game describes the movie as follows…

“Alan Turing, a pioneer of computers, led a group of scholars to crack the codes of Germany’s WWII Enigma machine. A genius under nail-biting pressure helped to save millions of lives and was ultimately convicted for the crime of homosexuality.”

The Review: If you have read our reviews for any length of time, you know that I often accuse Hollywood of having an agenda that promotes homosexuality as a normal lifestyle, showing Christians and others who disagree with homosexual behavior as being evil and catering to a special interest group.  If you watch enough movies, you will almost always see the gay and lesbian lifestyle being promoted like a car commercial built into the film.

Although this film is about a man who lived in Europe during WWII and was a homosexual it is not a film that promotes an agenda in a negative or positive way, but simply deals with his personal life as who he was.  It is the fascinating true story about a brilliant man who struggled in a number of areas of his life, especially relating to and speaking with people and he happened to be a homosexual.  He lived at a time when homosexuality was unacceptable behavior and how they treated homosexuals was totally unacceptable.  It was very sad to see the government focus on that area of his life, especially after what he had done to save millions of lives.

The story is amazing and the film is one of the best we have seen all year.  Alan Turing was a real war hero who saved millions of lives by cracking the Enigma code used by the Nazi’s.  The film shows his brilliance and the amazing team of people that he worked with as well as the start of the British government lying to its people and doing covert spy operations through MI6.  It has a sad ending because of how he was treated by his government and others.  He was a brilliant man on the level of Albert Einstein and has been virtually unknown.  Had he lived in our time he would have been hailed as a genius.

The acting is fantastic by everyone involved, including the child actor playing the main character and Kiera Knightly was exceptional as well.  It is extremely well done and should win a number of awards.  We definitely recommend this movie as one not to miss for sure.

John – **** Don’t Miss It
Becky – **** Don’t Miss It

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Becky and I went to see the new Mark Wahlberg movie The Gambler at the Regal Cinemas in Lone Tree, CO this past Weekend.  The Moviefone website at The Gambler describes the movie as follows…

“Literature professor Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank (John Goodman), a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student (Brie Larson) deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance…”

The Review: This movie not only had a pretty cool movie poster that would look good hanging on the office wall of a Mark Wahlberg fan, but it had a really off the wall story to go along with it.  It opens up with the lead character going into an underground gambling casino to play.  I’m thinking he’s going to sit down and play poker for the night with mad genius skills taking everyone for their money. Nope.  He plays blackjack and within a few minutes has lost thousands of dollars and you are wondering if this guy has a brain.

We soon discovered that this guy is a train wreck in deep with gangsters and continues to get further in debt.  It doesn’t make any sense because the guy has the Life of Riley with no other obligations in life or to people other than the people he is gambling his life with and that is what makes it interesting.  He’s an unhappy dude who is a bit of a spoiled brat because life is just too easy for him.  He meets some fascinating characters along the way though, including a young writer that he finds attractive, a gifted basketball player, a gifted tennis player and three different types of gangsters.  His Mom is played by Jessica Lange and she does a great job playing a rich woman who loves her confused son.

I found it to be entertaining and I really liked it.  Becky wasn’t very interested in it though and found it boring, so we are not in agreement on this one.  I definitely thought it was Worth The Trip and could see it again and Becky thought it was at best a Rental or a Don’t Bother.

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

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Becky and I went with Conroy, Corban and Bianca to see the new Christmas movie Unbroken at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO tonight.  The Fandango website at Unbroken describes the movie as follows…

“Angelina Jolie directs this true-life tale of Louis Zamperini, the Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in World War II, only to fight for his life against nature and eventually as a prisoner of war. Joel and Ethan Coen provide the script…”

The Review: This true story is amazing and the movie is fantastic.  I have actually heard critics say this movie is not very good and they are crazy.  Unbroken is one of the best films of the year for sure and every showing at our theater was sold out, so I wouldn’t listen to the critics on this one.  People actually applauded at the end of the film, which is always strange to me since it’s a movie, but that should tell you how much the audience enjoyed this movie.

This film is a reminder of the incredible sacrifices that were made by men and women in World War II.  The story of Louie Zamperini is absolutely unbelievable and it is titled correctly because I cannot imagine that most people wouldn’t just want to give up and die.  The acting is very well done, the story is shocking and Angelina Jolie needs to win an award for the directing of this movie.  She did a fantastic job bringing this story to life.

We all liked it and thought it was a don’t miss it for sure.  You will want to put it on your list for sure.

John – **** Don’t Miss It
Becky – **** Don’t Miss It

Conroy – **** Don’t Miss It
Corban – **** Don’t Miss It
Bianca – **** Don’t Miss It

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Becky and I went to see the new Christmas movie Big Eyes at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO.  The Fandango website at Big Eyes describes the movie as follows…

“The true story of painter Margaret Keane’s life in obscurity while her husband gleaned the notoriety for being the face of her work is brought to the screen by Tim Burton and his Ed Wood screenwriters, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. The story opens in the late 1950s, when Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) packs up the car with her daughter and their personal belongings, and leaves her husband to start a new life in San Francisco. There, Margaret quickly reconnects with her old friend DeeAnn (Krysten Ritter), and falls head over heels for Walter (Christoph Waltz), an artist and part-time real-estate broker who soon shows great interest in her unique paintings of small children with strikingly expressive, saucer-like eyes. ..”

The Review: This story was fascinating and it stars Amy Adams, who grew up in Castle Rock, Colorado where we live, so we have to go and support the home town talent.  I really like Tim Burton films and he produced and directed this film about a famous artist, who had a crazy life story as a painter because of her whacko self-promoting husband.

The story is wild in that real life is often stranger than fiction, especially with this film.  Her husband had the world believing that he was the artist of these strange paintings of little girls with big eyes.  He became incredibly famous and he was a total jerk, locking his wife up to paint so that he could mass produce her paintings and make money as the artist.

I really like this movie and thought it was definitely worth the trip to the big screen to see Big Eyes, but Becky thought it was a rental.  I liked her paintings too.

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

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Becky and I went to see the new Christmas film Into The Woods at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO on opening night with Conroy and Bianca.  The Fandango website at Into the Woods describes the movie as follows…

“Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods is adapted in this musical from director Rob Marshall and Walt Disney Studios. Inspired by a choice selection of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, this plot centers on a baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) who incur the wrath of a witch (Meryl Streep) while attempting to start a family…”

The Review: We didn’t know this movie was a musical or we probably would have skipped it, so if you’re not a fan of musicals you will want to blow this movie off for sure.  You know, those musicals where people burst into song for no reason to sing about why their cow is white.  It’s that type of a film that is more like going to the theater and seeing a play instead of watching a movie. This is not like Pitch Perfect where people sing at appropriate times, but one of those sappy films where people sing about everything that happens in their life.  Bianca looked at me about 20 minutes into the movie and asked if we could please leave.  Although, I think the movie Grease is probably the exception because that was a pretty fun musical.  This film was a bit too depressing to be a musical.

The acting, the characters, the costumes and the cinematography were all very well done.  Even the singing was really good at times, but these type of movies are exhausting to watch and I’m not sure why people like them.  If you’re a fan of these type of musicals you will love this film, although it should have ended with Cinderella finding her Prince Charming, but instead they had to take a turn to the dark side and make sure that a “happily ever after” wouldn’t happen.

Conroy liked it much more than the rest of us.  In fairness to the actors that did a great job I’ll rate this movie a rental, but for me and Becky it was definitely a Don’t Bother.

John – ** Rental
Becky – * Don’t Bother

Bianca – * Don’t Bother
Conroy – *** Worth The Trip

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Becky and I went to see the film Horrible Bosses 2 at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO.  The Fandango website at Horrible Bosses 2 describes the movie as follows…

“Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day return for more employee revenge in this follow-up to the 2011 comedy. Sean Anders directs from a script by Anders and Jonn Morris. Having narrowly avoided prison following the antics of the previous film, Nick (Bateman), Kurt (Sudeikis), and Dale (Day) decide to go into business for themselves. When their breakthrough product, the Shower Buddy, catches the attention of a wealthy entrepreneur named Bert Hanson (Christoph Waltz) who offers to bankroll their initial production run, the eager inventors quickly move into manufacturing. Proudly filling Hanson’s initial order before the deadline, they decide to surprise their key investor with the good news, only to get a nasty surprise: A shrewd businessman with a serious lack of ethics, Hanson announces that he is cancelling the deal…”

The Review: This is the second installment of the first movie Horrible Bosses that was actually pretty funny.  The second time around it wasn’t nearly as funny as the first flick and was pretty crude most of the time.  The characters are still funny, but it’s almost like the exact same movie re-written with the characters in a different setting.  Much like watching a sitcom on television where they have another episode instead of a completely different movie.

Horrible Bosses 2 isn’t a terrible film, but it is pretty raunchy at times so be prepared for that aspect of the film.  There are quite a few good laughs and the story does have a couple of plot twists that make it entertaining.  The problem though with sequels is that you often compare them to the first one and the first film was definitely better than the second installment.

If you liked the first one you will probably like this one too, but otherwise you are better off waiting for the rental and watching the first one instead until this comes out at Redbox or on Netflix.

John – ** Rental
Becky – ** Rental

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Becky and I took the kids to see the movie Big Hero 6 at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO.  The MSN website at Big Hero 6 describes the movie as follows…

“In this ridiculously fun animated adventure, a young tech whiz named Hiro must save his city from a nefarious villain with the help of his inflatable robot Baymax, as well as his friends Go Go Tomago, Wasabi, Honey Lemon and Fred….”

The Review: Big Hero 6 is a cartoon that we decided to all go and see together since we are fans of good animation.  The story is really well done and fun about a young boy genius who has a brother that creates a unique robot while in a high tech University.   The characters are really well done and it’s a great movie for the whole family.  Everyone that went with us liked it and it was very well done with a great villain who comes to power because of the main character.

I don’t want to give away this movie, but if you are looking for a good family film to go see, this is one that everyone will like.  It’s probably not well suited for really little children since one of the characters dies in the film, but other than that it’s definitely a great family flick.

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

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John is an auto consultant and owner of CoolCarGuy.com with his license at a car dealership in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase or consign your vehicle – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com or Twitter@coolcarguy