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I think its ridiculous that to see a great movie like The Hurt Locker you have to check every movie theater in a 50 mile area and hope you find one theater thats playing, while crap like G-Force a movie about secret government operative hamsters is showing on every screen every hour. Its not fair.
Besides that I can honestly say that The Hurt Locker is probably the best movie that I have seen all summer, I can honestly say that it held my attention the entire time. Being that is about a team of US bomb technicians it really makes things suspenseful in a disarm a bomb-race against the clock kinda way. Jeremy Renner plays the rebel bomb tech well as well as the other cast, its all very believable I would imagine in real life it probably play out the same way. If you can find it playing near you its defiantly worth checking out
I'm normally not a big fan of the midnight showings of new movies but I have seen 2 already in this month ,Transformers 2 and now the newest Harry Potter. Of course I didnt learn my lesson from Transformers about getting there before an hour before showtime so I got stuck at the very bottom...again.
Just to note this review isnt coming from someone who is a very big Potter fan or has seen all the movies in the series ( I haven't seen the first one) but I found out that it takes you about 15 minutes into anyone of the movies to make sense of it all because most of the other stories from the ones before dont really matter anyways. What annoys me the most about the movie is that when it starts going somewhere I like it changes and forgets what is was trying to establish. Is it a action movie..kinda, is it a love story...kinda, or maybe a kids movie.....this one not as much. Obviously the kids are a little older and with that the story goes a little darker which is good for the series but it just kinda dances around the true nature of what it really is about. The dark lord Voldemort is supposed to fight the chosen one Harry Potter in some kinda bad ass wizard battle royal or something. At least thats what I get from 12 hours worth of Harry Potter movie that I have seen . Its not like my review is going to stop anyone from going to see it that hasn't already and I dont want to stop you because your probably going to like it anyways. But for a non-Potter movie goer its probably not going to be worth sitting 3 feet in front of the screen in a crowded theater at midnight. I can say the only reason why I can still remember seeing this movie is because I am reminded everytime my neck starts hurting from staring straight up for 3 hours straight.
Bruno falls into that category of "you really like it or you really hate it".
Just like his other movie "Borat", Sacha Baren Cohen creates controversy in the real world as a fictional character that he creates. As the gay Austrian Bruno, Cohen gets into some really crazy situations like a hunting trip in Alabama,a swingers party, and an African American talk show where he shows of his new African American baby named O.J. that he traded for an Ipod. Probably the best part is when he lures then Presidential Candidate Ron Paul into his hotel room and starts to undress and dance for him.
Bottom line is that it really pushes the boundries to the extreme of acceptable content of an R rated movie just like Borat. Its so extreme that it WILL offend some people as did many people in my theater. Go see it if you like Borat, you wont be disappointed.If you haven't and you still want to go see if consider yourself warned.
Resident Evil 5
So for the record I have played Resident Evil 0,Resident Evil (both the gamecube remakes),Resident Evil Code: Veronica,Resident Evil 4, and now Resident Evil 5. I can say that I am fully aware of the Resident Evil storyline, videogame plot anyways. So I was hoping that they would make alot of things makes sense and provide some sort of closure to the story that they have been working on for 15 years. Even though I go to finally kill the dark emporer of the series, Albert Wesker, I still feel like 5 really doesnt add onto the main story. A aspect that still bugs me. For some reason the last 2 games although good, dont really look back onto the earlier games that much. All that aside Resident Evil 5 doenst really try to scare as much as I would like. Maybe that because its in the daylight in Africa and not in a haunted mansion or a sleepy European villiage. Resident Evil was never about action it was about slow methodical planning and moving from one room to the next. 5 threw most of that through the window. Yeah they make you conserve ammo but I rarely died, in fact I died more from just stupid mistakes during the quicktime events than anything else.
All that being said it has some sweet graphics. Maybe not quite Gears of War but close. The enviromental effects are some of the best ever seen in a game. It always irks me when they put so much into the backgrounds and you never stop moving long enough to admire them. Anyways I would reccomend this to anyone who like killing zombie like things with a little bit of story thrown in, but it only takes about 12 hours to beat so maybe a rent would be a safe bet.
Ghostbusters
Now this is a game I was waiting for. Its basically Ghostbusters 3 but intead of film they chose xbox. Atari did a really good job bring you the Ghostbusters feel to you, all the actors, from the movies including Jenene and Pecker are in it. The graphics are among some of the best I have ever seen, they did an great job capturing the likenesses of the actors (you can even see the acne scars from Bill Murrays character.
What makes this game fun is the process in which you capture a ghost. Shoot,capture,and trap every ghost and its harder than you think to wrangle some of the faster ghosts and move them over to the trap. I bought it but thats only for a die hard ghostbuster fan. My one gripe like Resident Evil 5 is the length. Its about 10 hours long. Probably less if I didnt wander around as much as I did to catch all the Easter Eggs. At least worth a rent.
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