Monday, March 23, 2009

Movie Review: "I Love You, Man"

Now let me tell you guys, "I Love You, Man" was an amazing movie, even without bad language or nudity. Many people could relate to the story and laugh about their own lives. Also, the script itself was pretty funny. They make fun of a lot of things that are true to us in real life. The only bad thing about this movie was all of the subliminal advertising. When the main guy gave his fiancée's girlfriends drinks, he put chocolate straws in them. One of the girl's asked him if those were chocolate straws and he said, "Yeah, tasty and delicious." He took a bite and finished it off by saying "Pepperidge Farm." In another scene, he wanted to show his fiancée a song so he said, "I am going to load up iTunes on my PC," while opening up a Dell notebook computer. LOL. Other than that, the main guy's friend was very realistic and very honest. He is the way a good guy friend should be. The movie was mostly about the two guy's friendship and not so much about his life with his fiancee. This movie sticks to the topic and delivers laughs all while being very quick and fresh with new ideas. This movie was funny until the very end. Every moment of it was very entertaining. I recommend this movie to anybody over 16 years of age. I give this movie an "A" in the comedy genre. One of the best movies this year. Grade: A!

Movie Review: "Duplicity"

I like Clive Owen, but the last movie I saw of his was disappointing ("The International"). I went to a theatre hoping his movie "Duplicity" would be much better. After twenty minutes, I was surprised. This movie was the worst movie I had seen since "The International." This movie was in fact worse than that. You know how when a movie gets so boring, your movie seat, for some reason, starts getting hot, hard, and uncomfortable? This is how this movie made me feel like. Julia Roberts is a great actress, but it's very easy to be a great actress in such a boring movie. The storyline went all over the place, the dialogue was tastelessly simple and basic; it almost felt as if a third-grader wrote the script. The movie pretty much repeated itself over and over about every ten minutes. It would show Julia Roberts and Clive Owen getting "fake-mad" at each other, then it would show them make out. Then the scene would fade-away and I would hope the movie would end. . . . But it wouldn't! It showed another scene exactly the same, except in a different location! And what the hell were they spies for anyway? And were they on the same side or what? This movie just does not make any sense. Don't waste your time watching this movie. It is exactly like "The International," which got only 2 stars by the way. I would only reccomend this movie to people who have a bottle of sleeping pills on hand. You guys are going to need them.