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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Becky and I went to see The Big Wedding  this Weekend at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO with her Mom and Dad. The Fandango website at The Big Wedding describes the movie as follows…

“A charmingly modern family tries to survive a weekend wedding celebration that has the potential to become a full blown family fiasco. To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin (De Niro and Keaton) are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son’s wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future – and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process…”

The Review:  The Big Wedding is the big fiasco that the movie is trying to prevent.  It’s an all-star cast with a terrible script and a ridiculous story that never comes together to make any sense.  The characters are whacky and the film is loaded with just terrible situations that are meant to be funny, but are not entertaining.  The family is totally dysfunctional and that’s supposed to make for a good film, but it was boring to watch and at times painful.

Robert Deniro looks like an old man in this movie and his character is tragic example of a man with a failed marriage and failed relationships with his family.   His ex-wife played by Diane Keaton and his new wife played by Susan Sarandon are good actors, along with other actors in The Big Wedding, but the film has absolutely no substance.  It’s a really lame flick that none of us liked at all or found worth the time invested to watch it.

Becky and I both agreed that this movie wasn’t what we expected and can’t recommend it.

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

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Becky and I went to see G.I. Joe: Retaliation  a couple of weeks ago when it came out at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO with Conroy, Corban and Bianca. The MovieFone website at G.I. Joe: Retailiation describes the movie as follows…

“Veteran dance-film director Jon Chu takes a crack at G.I. Joe in this sequel to Stephen Sommers’ blockbuster 2009 film. Dwayne Johnson stars as Roadblock in the sequel, with Channing Tatum returning as Duke, the leader of the Joes, and Ray Park…”

The Review:  G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a sequel to the previous G.I. Joe movie and it was just as bad as the first one.  It’s getting great reviews from the audience, but I have to go with the Critics on this one.  It’s just not a very good movie.  The story is actually pretty good, with the evil empire kidnapping the President and wiping out the “Joes”, but the delivery is not as good as what the G.I. Joe’s pull off in the movie.

The G.I. Joe characters have super human qualities that will make you think you’re watching a Marvel or D.C. Comic movie and it’s just painful to watch.  There are some cool stunts, some great action, but it’s non-stop action that is beyond ridiculous.  Bruce Willis shows up to show that he can use a machine gun and run around on a movie set, but he’s not anymore believable than the rest of these characters.  I guess that’s what we’ve come to expect though from these movies now, which borderline on playing a video game more than watching a movie.

Bianca and her friends liked the movie and thought it was Worth The Trip but keep in mind that she is 12 years old.  I am going to have to recommend you wait for the rental and that was pushing it for me since at times I thought I was watching the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or who were those other goofballs who dressed up in colored uniforms with their super powers and swords that are appealing to an 8 year old?  Oh yeah, it was The Power Rangers.

The rest of the gang gave it a rating of being a rental as well.

John – ** Rental
Becky – ** Rental

Bianca – *** Worth The Trip
Corban – ** Rental
Conroy – ** Rental

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Becky and I went to see Olympus Has Fallen back on Opening Day a few weeks ago at the AMC Theater in Highlands Ranch, CO with our friends Mark and Maria. The MovieFone website at Olympus Has Fallen describes the movie as follows…

“When the White House (Secret Service Code: “Olympus”) is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building…”

The Review:  Olympus Has Fallen is the first of several movies where the White House is under attack and a “super hero” type character has to come in and “save the President”.  I figured this movie would be very predictable and I was right, but it was more entertaining than I expected.  The body count is ridiculous!  The story is pretty good since Gerard Butler does a good job playing the character Mike Banning, which is the main character in the film.

Unfortunately, the movie is way too far fetched to be even remotely believable.  There were so many things that had to take place in order for the story to be close to possible that it took away from the shock value of the film.  The President for example tells his underlings to give the Nuclear Launch Codes to the terrorists to save their lives, which would never happen, even under President Obama.  Morgan Freeman was just kind of hanging out in this  movie.  I couldn’t figure out what he was doing there other than drinking coffee and showing up for his star power.  When he gets his honorary award someday at The Academy Awards, it will be one more movie that he was in ordering a cup of coffee.

There are a number of things that took place in the film that made you think you were watching an action film from the early 1990’s.  Nevertheless, it was still rather entertaining.  We didn’t dislike the movie, but we didn’t think it was worth seeing on the big screen since it was far fetched and too predictable.

We would have to say this one is a good rental for a snow day, when you’re really bored.

John – ** Rental
Becky – ** Rental

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Becky and I are a little behind on the movie reviews again, but we went to see Admission with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd a few weeks ago at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO. The MovieFone website at Admission describes the movie as follows…

“Tina Fey (‘Date Night’, 30 Rock) and Paul Rudd (‘I Love You Man’, ‘Knocked Up’) star in ‘Admission’, the new film directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Weitz (‘About a Boy’), about the surprising detours we encounter on the road to happiness…”

The Review:  We didn’t have huge expectations going into this movie, which is probably why we liked it and thought it was worth the price of admission.  The story is cute and funny at times, but it’s not a full blown comedy as it is classified.  It’s really more of a drama, with some pretty serious parts of the movie as Tina Fey’s character discovers that she may have a son that she didn’t know about from a long time ago.

It’s an interesting story and the characters work very well together.  Paul Rudd and Tina Fey play off each other very well and this movie takes some twists and turns, while making a joke out of the admissions process for an Ivy League school, which in itself was pretty funny.  There are quite a few laughs and we did like the way the movie ended, which was not what we expected.  That’s another reason why we liked the movie because we thought that it was going to be predictable going through the movie and it turned out to be very unpredictable.  One of the reasons why that was entertaining is because the characters in the film are predictable, but it shows that life can always throw you a curve ball.

We both like the movie and thought it was Worth The Trip.  If you miss it at the box office, put it on your rental list as a good lighthearted Comedy / Drama.

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

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Becky and I took Corban to see the new movie The Host at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO last week. The Fandango website at The Host describes the movie as follows…

“A body-snatching alien takes possession of a young woman who refuses to surrender her mind, and together they seek out the man they both love as writer/director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, In Time) adapts Twilight author Stephenie Meyer‘s New York Times best-seller. The majority of the human race have been possessed by unseen invaders, leaving only small pockets of “wild” humans like Melanie (Saoirse Ronan) scattered throughout the world. Upon being captured by the invaders, Melanie finds her body claimed by Wanderer, a spirit that has been warned of the difficulties that come with claiming a human host. In the process of inhabiting Melanie, Wanderer is deeply affected by her vivid dreams and memories. And when Melanie fights to maintain control of her mind even as Wanderer possesses her body, the sympathetic entity joins her on a journey that will reveal the unfathomable depths of human love and compassion. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi..”

The Review: We had seen pretty much everything at the box office and we decided to go see The Host and invited Corban to go along with us.  Why Corban was willing to go see this film surprised me because he was not a fan of the Twilight series, but we were not fans either.  We figured we would give this movie a chance and see what it was about and went into the film with no real expectations either way.

I’m not going to pull any punches, this movie is absolutely terrible.  You would be better off watching an old episode of Star Trek than this movie.  After the movie, Corban said, “That was the worst movie I’ve seen since The Incredible Mr. Fox.”, which was really funny.  He said, “Even Twilight was better than this movie.”, which was funny too.  Yes, this movie is that bad.

It’s about these friendly aliens, who have taken over the planet by doing an invasion of the body snatchers move and inhabiting the body of the human being after ejecting the soul of the current user, which is why it’s called Host.  It’s basically a remake of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” all over again, only it’s not a horror story, but a love story.  It’s extremely stupid and painful to watch.  The aliens have made the planet better and do not perform violence, but one alien that is a leader is rebelling and commits violent acts against the humans who are trying to survive.

I can’t add anything more to this movie other than to say that it’s definitely a waste of time.

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

Corban – * Don’t Bother

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Becky and I went to see the new Tyler Perry movie Temptation on Friday night with our friends Mark & Marie at the AMC Theaters in Castle Rock, CO.  The Fandango website at Temptation describes the movie as follows…

“Acclaimed playwright Tyler Perry explores the hardships of marriage and the benefits of confronting problems in this drama about the stressful union between a hardworking accountant and his loving wife, a harried marriage counselor. Roger Jackson strives to support his family, a group that includes not only his Ivy League-educated wife Judith (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), but his ganja-smoking father Stanley and her Bible-thumping mother TT as well. Meanwhile, Judith doles out thoughtful advice to couples every day, yet remains completely powerless when it comes to addressing the issues surrounding her own troubled marriage. When an old college friend drops by her office, Judith faces her biggest personal challenge to date. Perry previously brought this tale to the big screen with a filmed stage version in 2008. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi…”

The Review: I had zero interest in seeing this movie.  Becky and I had seen the Previews several times and I thought it looked terrible, but our friend Maria wanted to see it, so we went with her and Mark on Friday night.  It was pretty funny because she said to me, “You don’t want to see this do you?” and I said, “No.” and she said, “Too bad because I see all kinds of stupid movies with you and Becky that I don’t want to see.”, which was really funny.  I knew I better shut up and just go because she was right, we see some really bad movies and this couldn’t be as bad as some of the movies we’ve seen this year.

The Critics said this movie wasn’t worth the price of admission, but we have to disagree with them on this one.  The fact is that we all liked it and thought it was worth the price of admission.  It’s very well done and real to life.  Tyler Perry did a great job on this film, except that it does move really slow at times.  It has a good story and message about priorities in life, the struggles people face and the lure of temptation that can destroy people’s lives, especially if they are not careful and give into the temptation. Which unfortunately millions of people often do and it costs them dearly.

The movie had heart and character, but he did throw in the kitchen sink when it came to problems people were facing.  Most of the people in the movie were totally dysfunctional, but that’s probably pretty true in America today, so he wasn’t completely out of touch with reality in that regard.  We thought it was Worth The Trip and if you don’t see it in the theater, it will make for a good rental when it comes out on DVD.

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

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Becky and I took Corban and Bianca to see the new movie The Incredible Burt Wonderstone at the Regal Cinemas in Lone Tree, CO last week. The Fandango website at The Incredible Burt Wonderstone describes the movie as follows…

“Down-on-his-luck Las Vegas magician Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) reunites with his old partner Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) to take on hip illusionist Steve Gray (Jim Carrey) in this comedy from prolific television director Don Scardino. Partners for 30 years, illusionists Burt and Anton made the Las Vegas Strip a magical place to be. But lately Burt and Anton’s ticket sales have plummeted right alongside their once-strong partnership, allowing gritty street wizard Steve Gray..”

The Review: This movie is whacky.  It’s one of those films with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey that is just strange, but fun.  The main characters are over the top goofy, but they are funny.  The movie totally makes fun of magicians in the Las Vegas strip entertainment industry, especially the magicians who do crazy tricks like locking themselves in containers for days and doing insane tricks that can cost them their lives.  It’s actually really funny the way they did the movie because of it.  Jim Carrey’s  character is totally nuts.

Becky and I have seen many of these magicians in Vegas and some of them are better than others.  A few of them were obnoxious and fit the characters in this movie.  I think that’s what made it so funny to us, but be forewarned that it’s pretty stupid humor.  There are some parts that are really funny though and some parts are totally ridiculous.

We all liked it and thought it was worth the price of admission, but you have to be in the mood for this type of a movie and the whacky humor otherwise you should wait for the rental.

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

Corban – *** Worth The Trip
Bianca – *** Worth The Trip

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