Wow, a blog, cool!

Oh yeah, I have a blog! Between working full time, a full time business and performing in improv shows while finding a little time for my family, I seem to have completely forgotten!

Well I like to review movies on here and I have seen a bunch so I'll do a quick review of as many as I can remember in absolutely no order whatsoever:

Sherlock Holmes: Elementary indeed. Though entertaining at face value, the film doesn't have any drive for a series. It didn't leave me wanting more which it felt like it was trying to do. The only odd twist seems to be that at the ripe age of his late fourties, Holmes is yet to even meet his arch-nemesis, Moriarty, yet. I did enjoy the innocent bromance going on between Holmes and Watson, however. It was subtly in your face the entire film and speaks very true to people my age losing their old selves and old lifestyles to love and family elsewhere.

Avatar: Amazing! Superb! Epic! Fantastic!......these are words that have been used to describe a fairly decent achievement in a CGI film. Though entertaining and action-packed, the story lost me when they named the element they are trying to mine "unobtanium"...I can only assume it's from the latin "difikult2getis". This, for me, laid the film in a cartoon-danger/character reality where everyone was a one dimensional character with one driving force. The general, for example, never once stopped to think about his actions and when the lead tycoon guy DID stop to think about his actions, he made all the wrong decisions after thinking about it! It's also improbable that nobody ever thought to attack the red flying creature from above before this new guy came along.

500 Days of Summer: Absolutely worth watching, an extremely charming comedy jumping back and forth within a 500-day span of a relationship. And Cobra Commander is in it! Speaking of which....

GI Joe: Did I already review this one? Oh well, stupid as expected but if I were 14 years old I'd have watched it ten times in the theatre. Lots of action but when ships explode little guys in parachutes didn't appear, it was weird.

Whip It: Not as amazing as I was expecting, but still a nice little movie. Drew Barrymore should have stayed behind the camera though because every time she was on screen I wanted to punch her character in the face.

Dora the Explorer Saves the Puppies: An interesting twist in where Dora and Boots need to save 100 puppies but need 100 keys and get the kids to count to 100 with them! Also good to see Swiper expanding his plans to Wile E Coyote-like extremes rather than just walking up and grabbing stuff out of Dora's hands.
What? I have a kid, I've seen this one twice now, it needed reviewing and now I've done it.

2012: I've never seen so many sequences where the lead characters JUST get away in time. Once or twice in a film is suspenseful, fifty times in one film is just irritating. Also, when communications go down globally in your story...you should keep the communications down globally in your story!! It makes it seem a little more real!

Anyway, that's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll be back soon with more reviews and news.