The Road: I'd score this movie a on a scare of 1-5, a 3.5. Why? Visually the movie was great but tame compared to the images that run through your head when you read the book. Plus I didn't care for the fact that the screenplay writer decided to ad a back story and a "mother/wife" to the mix. That wasn't in the book and to me wasn't needed. More of the book was left out too and some other things added in. In the book when the man and the boy get to the ocean, he swims over to the boat that is half out of the water and finds a few things they could use. That scene wasn't in the movie and all we got was a half-assed scene where dude gets naked and starts swimming over to the boat. Overall the movie was still very good and if you've not read the book it'll be an even better movie.
Just like Angels & Demons. I read the book and hated the movie. I loved the movie Da Vinci Code, so I refuse to read the book now.
The Book of Eli: of a scale from 1-5 this movie gets a fucking 10. From start to finish I was hooked. Visually the movie was far superior to The Road. This movie for me was more like what The Road should have been. Plus Gary Oldman was fucking bad ass in the movie. Mila Kunis was great too, but her role looked a lot different in the movie previews I'd seen long before I went to see this movie.
Daybreakers: 1-5 I give this movie a full fledged 5. I had no idea what this movie was about. I was just at the movie theater and needed to kill 2 hours. So I flipped a coin and decided to the see the next movie starting. That movie was Daybreakers. I paid my way, walked inside and over to the brown double doors. I walked over to the front, not because of my terrible eyesight - but because the rest of the theater was packed. I took a seat in the middle and sat there the whole time and didn't even move to get comfortable again. I was hooked. Visually the movie was great, the story was even better and Willem Dafoe is always a bad ass motherfucker in any movie he does.
It's Complicated: I'm just a fan of Alec Baldwin's. So you know I had to see this movie. On a scale, once again from 1-5 I give this movie a solid 3. It's not a bad movie and it's saved by Baldwin's performance. Steve Martin is plain and dull in the movie and tries too hard to be funny at times and falls flat.
Precious: 1-5 scale, easily a 4. The movie is hard to explain, but captures you and makes you want to finish from first scene to last end credit. You watch the story unfold and notice little things here and there about the main character. Her mother is abusive and plaid by a comedienne. Very odd deal there, yet Mo'Nique pulled it off and added that extra "Wow" to the movie. One thing that confused me was the the main character is raped by her father? Or was he her step-father? That was never cleared up. But she was raped by him twice and got pregnated each time. Throughout the movie, Precious lives in her own world in her mind. At one point she is looking in a mirror and she see's a tall, thin and beautiful blonde and not herself. Overall a heart-wrenching movie with an even harder story that unfolds. But through it all, does Precious get way from the daily abuse from her mother and incestious molestation from her father? If you want to find out. Go see the movie.
Movie I'll see next... Pandora, Sherlock Holmes and possibly Up In The Air.
