Creativek’s Blog

Okay I know I have been gone for a minute from blogging about movies but I am back. 

So I went to the movies this past Friday to see Transformers 2 but due to my surprise there were a million kids at the theatre also trying to see Transformers as well which meant no seats at any show so chose The Hangover instead.  Let me tell you this movie is hilarious, LOL funny. 

From the director of Old School comes a very funny tale of a bachelor party gone terribly wrong.  Two days before Doug’s wedding (Justin Bartha) he and his buddies (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis) decide to head to Vegas for the bachelor party of all bachelor parties, but the dilemma comes when the buddies can’t find Doug the morning after.  Their hotel room is trashed and they have pounding headaches they have little time to spare to find the groom before the big wedding in L.A. so retracing their steps is imperative.   This movie really captures the term “What Happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”.  From drunken marriages at chapels, to emergency room visits for concussions , to tigers in their hotel bathroom, to Mike Tyson knocking them out literally, to stolen police cars, to an Asian man locked in the trunk of their Mercedes this movie provides many twists, turns, and laughs along the way.

This is a definite must see comedy.  As the critics have said see this movie again and I would have to agree, SEE THIS MOVIE COUNTLESS TIMES!

Rating: *****

This movie was an interesting one but good one.  I had never heard of this thriller before and it was said to be based on a true story so that made it even more thrilling for me. A nice job also done by the associate producer/star Eliza Dushku whom you will remember from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the short lived series on FOX Tru Calling (my favorite), but now shows up in Dollhouse also on FOX. 

This movie takes place in Rochester, NY following the Rochester Police Department on their cases.  Megan (Eliza Dushku) stars as a driven police investigator whose commitment to the job borders on obsession.  The only other thing that receives attention in her life is her boyfriend Kenneth (Cary Elves), who just so happens to be the lieutenant of the RPD and going after the same promotion as her.  But things get complicated when they are thrown one of their worst cases yet, the murder/rape of a ten-year old girl.  When Megan puts together the pieces that the girl was killed in Churchville she becomes convinced that she is dealing with a serial killer.  She then becomes so caught up in her work that she begins to have hallucinations so much so that when they can’t crack the case before another girl is killed she suffers a nervous breakdown and is diagnosed with paranoid/schizophrenia.  Watch and see the many twists and turns this thriller takes.  It is a definite must see.  Well that’s K’s take on it again.

Rating….****

I have to admit I wasn’t excited about seeing this movie when I heard the title or saw the previews, but I have to say I was surprised at how good it was.  This was like Taken it only has one well known actor in it, Clint Eastwood but despite this fact it was an awesome, well written film and it didn’t hurt that it was filmed in my hometown (Detroit, MI) so that was definitely a plus.  Nice directorial job by Clint Eastwood who we haven’t seen since Million Dollar Baby.  Gran Torino deserved all the awards it won from the National Board of Review (Top 10 Films, Best Original Screenplay: Nick Schenk, and Best Actor (obviously): Clint Eastwood.

Clint Eastwood plays a retired auto worker Walt Kowalski who spends his days doing home repairs, drinking beers, and monthly trips to his barber.  When his wife dies her last wish was for him to attend confessional at the church she attended, but this war veteran stands on the fact that he has nothing to confess so why go.  Walt is all alone after her death, his no good kids who never came to visit him away want to put him in a home, all the people he used to call neighbors have long moved away and been replaced by Hmong immigrants from Southeast Asia.  He’s angry and resentful of virtually everything he sees now from the gangs of Hmong, to the Latinos and African-American teens who think they own his neighborhood now.  Everything changes on the night someone tries to steal his ’72 Gran Torino and that is where there story takes a turn for the worse. 

I don’t want to give anyway too much of the movie because it is awesome, but it is a definite must see.  So that’s K’s take on it again, remember don’t see a movie without getting K’s take on it first.

Rating:  *****…..A Good See!

I have to say first off that this was not in my opinion the best Tyler Perry movie to date.  With that being said I do think he did an impressive job on the film which brought in an impressive $41 million opening weekend. 

After the long awaited return, Madea bursts back onto the big screen doing only as Madea can do.  This is based on Tyler Perry’s play Madea Goes To Jail and is also a continuation of Meet the Browns which if you remember during that movie she made a bit of a cameo and informed Cora and Mr. Brown that she was going to jail, this movie just shows how it all went down.  All I can say is sit back and enjoy the ride.

After the high speed chase lands her back in front of her favorite judge, Judge Mabelean she is sentenced to anger management with Dr. Phil.  This treatment is short lived because as everybody knows Madea say she don’t have an anger management problem which leads her to the place that she has been trying to avoid…jail.  This movie also features an additional storyline that stars that fine Derek Luke (it’s a shame he’s married, we could’ve had something special…lol) who if you remember made his breakout performance in the movie Antwone Fisher.  He plays ADA Joshua Hardaway who encounters troubles of his own when he lands a case too personal for him to handle involving Candace Washington (Keshia Knight Pulliam) a prostitute and former drug addict so he hands the case over to his fiancé (Ion Overman).  Now ya’ll know no woman is just gonna take the case without asking any questions on how her fiancé knows this prostitute, that’s where the trouble begins when she sends Candace to jail.  Madea befriends young Candace and gives her that motherly affection as only Madea can do. 

This is a great movie to see if you want some laughs and receive a good message all at the same time.  Also I have to make mention of Viola Davis who delivers another remarkable performance, this woman I am waiting for her to receive the acknowledgement that she deserves.  Okay well that is K’s take on it, go out and see it.

Rating: ***….PLEASE DON’T WATCH THE BOOTLEG…GO OUT AND SUPPORT TYLER PERRY!!!!

This movie was awesome! The great part about it was that you can see it several times and still see parts that you missed before, which has to be great for the filmmaker. Considering this was a movie with only one known name Liam Neeson this movie exploded on the screen. With the non-stop action there was no chance you could go to sleep. I have to say this movie truly shows a father’s love for his daughter. When I get married and have some kids I want a man just like this one, there were no lengths that he wouldn’t go to rescue her. Not to give too much of the movie away the former spy (Neeson) relies on his special skills and tracks down the very powerful international gang that has abducted his daughter and launches a one-man vigilante crew to bring them to justice and bring her home safely.

Definitely a must see!

Rating: *****…..run don’t walk to see this movie.

This movie is supposed to be based on the book, “He’s Just Not That Into You” which was written by best-selling authors Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo which was close to being the worst movie I have seen this year and I see a lot of movies.  So let me first begin with what the movie was about and then I will tell you what was wrong with it.

The movie tells a story of a group of Baltimore-based twenty and thirty-something years olds that are navigating their way through various relationships from the  bottom of the dating pool through the deep waters of marriage and trying to read the signs and figure out the opposite sex and hoping to be the exception to the “no-exceptions” rule.  There are five women and four men, talk about those odds.  There’s GiGi who is so desperate for any call or attention from a man she can’t read the signs from a mile back so instead she takes up stalking instead.  So when the right man comes into her life she doesn’t even see it.  Beth is in the situation that a lot of women these days are in, deciding if she should stay in a long-term relationship when he still hasn’t popped the question.  Janine simply can’t trust herself around her husband and her husband can’t trust his self around Anna, and Anna can’t make up her mind to go with the married guy or her “sex buddy” Conor, who turns down relationships hoping she will change her mind and want to be more than just her “sex buddy”.  Last but not least is Mary who has found many loving men on social media networks but has trouble finding a straight one. 

So all in all the storyline was not bad, the way that it was portrayed on the screen was bad.  Let me say the bad thing by saying this movie was incredibly long.  Don’t you hate it when you are sitting in a movie noticing that it has gone on way too long?  That’s not a good thing for movie makers because now the audience has lost interest in your film but now looking at their watches and cell phones and wondering when is this awful movie going to be over.  Come on, we’ve all thought it at one time let’s be honest.  I have to confess and say that I dozed off in the middle of the film because it was so boring and when I woke up I was surprised to not only still see it on but carry on for another 45 minutes, that’s how I knew it was too long.  That is the only real flaw I found with the movie.  So that’s my take on it and see it at your own risk.

Rating: ** and wait for it either come to DVD or watch it on bootleg.