twitRev: Fantastic Mr. Fox is indeed fantastic, 5th time watching it and I'd watch it 5 times more, love every minute of this cussin' flick

Fantastic Mr. Fox is an animated stop-motion flick directed by Wes Anderson, one of my favorite directors. I instantly fell in love with this movie. I loved the art direction, the music, the story, etc. I literally loved every second of this movie. The story follows a bandit fox and his wife while on a chicken stealing job. They get caught, she tells him that she’s pregnant and makes him promise that they’ll change their lives. Fast forward 2 years later (12 fox-years) and they’re living a normal family life. But Mr. Fox has a mid-life crisis and plans one last “big heist.”

Niko945 says:

The visual appeal was incredible as I’m guessing it was a stop motion film, ala Morel Orel, Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach, it was simply pleasing to watch and I enjoyed it incredibly.

With that being said, my gripe was with the dialogue as a whole. Not sure how to explain it, but it just sounded…weird. It didn’t really take from the movie, just kind of irked me.

Also, the close-ups of the faces, especially the confused possum, were cussin’ creepy, and that security rat was just downright scary. lol

twitRev: Ninja Assassin was thrilling, violent action, bloody good fun, like a live action Ninja Gaiden movie...I wanna be a fucking ninja!

Ninja Assasin was a great action flick. Directed by the Wachowski brothers and starring that Asian dude from Speed Racer. Some if it was a bit on the supernatural side, like the apparent super speed, the healing, and the disappearing, but I didn’t mind. Wasn’t very realistic on that aspect but it worked for the movie. It was also a bit “stylized,” but again, it worked. I loved what they did with the shurikens, they had the effect of bullets in something like The Matrix. It must be a rich ninja clan, though, because they used a hell of a lot of throwing stars. Another favorite weapon was the God of War style chain blade. This movie had everything I would have loved to see from a Ninja Gaiden live action movie.


Niko945 says:

Ninja Assassin was awesome, action packed, fast and bloody. Loved every bit of it.

twitRev: The Informant wasn't as funny as I thought it would be but still enjoyable, Matt Damon was great

To be honest, I can’t remember much of what happened in this movie and I only saw it a couple of weeks ago. It had something to do with the price fixing of corn. And some dude tried to take down the company he’s working for. And some other stuff. I expected it to be a lot funnier than it was. Not to say that it was a bad movie but it just wasn’t something memorable.

twitRev: Legion was ok, cool action but not enough of it, story/dialogue was bad, when there's nothing else this is a decent watch

There’s this pregnant chick working at a restaurant in the middle of nowhere. Then some crazy demon lady attacks the diner. Then some dude in a cop car with a shit load of guns shows up and tells them the apocalypse is coming. Then we find out it isn’t demons that are bringing the apocalypse but angels that are pissed off at humans for being dicks. And it turns out that the chick from the beginning is going to have a baby Jesus Christ or something and he must live but the angels want to murder the poor innocent unborn baby. Fucking angels, man. Anyway, that pretty much sums up the story. Legion was a bit of a disappointment for me. The story, dialogue, and pretty everything else was boring. I went into the movie expecting nothing more but I thought it would at least be a fun action movie. Not so. While the action was pretty cool, there was very little of it.


LeifErikson01 says:

Legion is awesome. Needed more action. but still awesome. Willa Holland ftw!

twitRev: The Fourth Kind...meh...interesting concept but expected better, I would say skip this and watch Paranormal Activity

Some psychologist lady investigates what appear to be alien abductions in some nowhere town in Alaska. The concept behind this movie is interesting and I like what they did with the “archive” footage. In some scenes they did a split screen view with the “real” footage and a re-enactment. But in the end it felt like they were trying too hard to make me believe that the movie was based on actual events. I would recommend Paranormal Activity over this one. It also claims to have actual footage of an event that occurred but it does a much better job at making you believe that what you were watching was actually real. Granted, one movie deals with aliens and the other with ghosts, but The Fourth Kind felt like a big budgeted version of Paranormal Activity while the latter felt like a really cool indie flick.


LeifErikson01 says:

The Fourth Kind: mysterious, thrilling, and overall interesting