Thursday, March 12, 2009

Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


Worst Film i've ever seen...

Let me start off by saying, Brad Pitt is one of my favorite actors. But after watching this three hour long film with no apparent plot line and lack of ideal premise. Wow, man starts off old then dies at days old. The film could of saved itself by shortening it to an hour, possibly an hour and a half. But no, nearly three hours of predictable nonsense about a boring and backwards story of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) being born at age 80? and dying at infancy.
The film is based in the advancing times of New Orleans, Louisiana. A new born Ben Button's mother died giving birth to the wrinkly arthritic infant. And the father in fear of the "devil child" abandons Benjamin at a nursing home, to where Benjamin is raised by a African-American woman named Queenie (Taraji P. Henson) whom Ben considers his mother. And the story bores with his struggle of a backwards life all narrated by a dying woman (the love of Benjamin's life played by Cate Blanchett) telling the story to her daughter of her estranged father.
But this mearly simple and idiotic film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" rips the actual story apart and created a foolish and lame annoying overdrawn movie with no real depth, character, or even plot. It's a circle of life of a story that should of been left a book. Worst film i've ever seen in my life! i'd rather watch Disaster movie, or Another Gay Movie than watch that crap ever again....


MUT rates a 0.5 out of 5.


Movie Review: Religulous


Intriguing film that will bring up Questions.

Bill Maher's documentary Religulous dwells deep into the context of religion, the bible, and ideals of life's meaning and a "higher power". It will quickly bring you to question what faith really means to you and if what you believe honestly makes anysense. Bill Maher, assumed a simple comedian shows his true nature to question life and religion. He allows you to think hard about the choices we make and the resons we make them. In a strange sense this film brings to surface things about relgion's true past that very few minds have ever had the opportunity to learn.
The film doesnt neccessarily "attack" religion, it's really more of a "really?" type of documentary. And sort of bash's religious nuts who devote their lives to fairy tale beliefs. Maher in his own words says, belieiving in the bible is no different than believing Star Treck, comic books, bambi or even the lion king.
The film is rather good, and worth seeing once, maybe even twice to catch things you might of missed. A must see for all people. It really will bring to surface the questions we don't know how to ask.

A must see. The best documentary i've seen in years.


MUT
rates a 5 out of 5.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Movie Review: Watchmen


The Watchmen...Shocked and appalled...

The most seemingly anticipated movie of the year released last night March 6, 2009. The Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder and inspired by the legendary cult classic graphic novel. A movie surrounded by an absolutely enormous hype in the works of nearly 20 years. The hyper began with a trailer that premiered in middle 2008, got fanboys and movie lovers round the world shaking in their seats with anticipation. Questions rounding from, can it live up to the novel? Could it be as good as the trailer? Could Snyder produce another masterpiece to contend with 300? Or will this movie just bomb....?
Well ladies and gentleman, I'm here today to tell you that The Watchmen was a 3 hour long story following the tight script trying to keep truthful to a worshiped Comic book. A story of vigilante masked heroes "defending the world", being targeted by an unknown source. The film begins full forced, and quickly dies down into a mellow drama of love, idiots, and a devilishly awesome character named Rorshack. It's a shame this movie quickly turned into an overdrawn light action dull super hero movie. It has failed me a comic book lover, and i predict millions of more fans round the nation. The movie was surrounded by too much hype and couldn't possibley live up to it's rage. So ladies and gentleman, i tell you, Watchmen is no where as good as it could of been. Just wait, and stop giving them money by buying theater tickets. RENT IT, when it's released to DVD. And make sure you have three hours to kill of utter dissapointment before viewing this movie. *sigh*

MUT
rates a 3 out of 5.
Ever rates a 3 out of 5.