2 more movies
With my suddenly immense amount of time to do stuff that isn't active due to my lame ankle, I've already seen 3 other movies... House of Fury (HK), Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and The Longest Yard.
House of Fury is a crappy movie, don't bother.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith is about two secret agents who do not know each other's secret identity before marrying each other. After 5-6 years, their respective companies set each other up against each other since they were found to have been living together. The outcome? Some pretty good action. I knew this movie wasn't going to blow me away when I went to watch it. To my surprise however, the movie came out pretty satisfying, until the end. The action and humor between the married couple keeps viewers hooked on the movie until the very last scene where they get blown away by the cheesiness. Yeah the ending wasn't the greatest, but the road taken was a pretty good one. Angelina Jolie heats up the screen with her hotness and Brad Pitt is more than enough man to handle the entire movie. Both huge egos work well against each other as neither really overly dominates too much over the other. Humor is sometimes forced, which doesn't work nearly as well as it could have, but other times it works very well. The one scene that I remember very well was when both spouses are racing each other home. How many of us have experienced having to race home before the other? How many of the guys actually are nice enough to let their woman beat them? There are unfortunately countless plot holes everywhere throughout the movie, but watching a movie like this, there really isn't a need for plot. It's all just about blowing stuff up and watching Angelina Jolie work her stuff. If I really had to rip a new one in this movie, it would be in the ending. The end fight scene was cheesier than a 555 deal of 3 cheese pizzas from Dominos. And then even after the fight scene, the movie just kinda ends. Everything "just happens to work out." Leaves me very disappointed even after all the pretty action scenes. Anyway, to rate this movie... I'd give it 6/10.
The Longest Yard (2005) is a remake of an old 70's movie where Adam Sandler takes up the role that Burt Reynolds played in the previous movie as former football superstar Paul Crewe who gets stuck in prison having to turn a group of cons into a decent football team that will taken on the prison guards team. I got quite a few laughs out of this one but unfortunately I couldn't tell how the rest of the masses really thought because there was a whopping 6 people total in the entire theatre. I really hope that that was only because the movie has been out for 2-3 weeks already. This movie really hit the spot for me because I hadn't seen a feel-good/route-for-the-underdog movie in a while and this was perfect. The movie itself however, wasn't nearly perfect, but worked. Adam Sandler is showing that he can grow into a different actor from his older roles, albeit not a great one, and show versatility with his sometimes funny but monotonous character. Almost every single one of Chris Rocks jokes except for maybe 2 can be found in trailers of the movie, which was very unfortunate in my opinion. I was hoping that he would bring more humor but no. Overall, yes the movie was all good and fun, but really lacked any true emotion. You didn't really feel anything for the characters, mainly because of the spotty acting job turned in by everyone, so after the movie, all you really get is a few good laughs. You didn't really care too much about this person's death, or whether or not someone showed up in the game, because you pretty much knew what was going to happen. This movie just takes the cookie-cutter plot of an underdog story, throw in a dilemma for the main protagonist, add a happy ending and a waterboy and you got yourself another feel good comedy, for guys. So... for rating, I'ma give this one a 6.5/10.
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