Movie Review #38 Ted (2012)

- This ain't no kids movie

I figured it was just about time for another comedy, but could Ted be the movie to ruin my recent run-ins with bad comedies? I find a lot of live-action comedy movies that are about a couple are pretty much cannon fodder for date movies or watched by the people who don't have an exciting life and stayed in their pajamas all day. Yeah we're all guilty of watching those kinds of movies for both of those reasons, and for me I watched Ted because of the latter. On the plus side, however, the movie was headed by Seth MacFarlane (director, writer, voice) who continually makes me laugh and the movie has some decent star power.

Movie Review #37 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)

- Vamps, wolves, children, oh my!

I'll start this review by saying that I have seen all of the previous movies of the Twilight saga, and that most of them were by my account atrocious, skimming the bottom of barrel of bad movies. The earlier ones contain some of the worst acting and after seeing other movies that contain the perpetrators I can more easily blame directors and writing on their bad performances which may help me appreciate the actors in other roles but it won't help at all in this series. Fight sequences if you can call them are pretty poorly designed in previous movies along with a slew of other problems, some of them were figured out and fixed and others are a mainstay of the series. I'll discuss all of it down yonder.

Movie Review #36 Skyfall (2012)

- Review, Movie Review

With a wide variety of bad guys, multiple actors playing the pivotal role of James Bond, and even when there was a dud (I won't be mentioning my least favourites, no need to cause a stir this early into a review) none of the Bond movies could be financially bad because here we are today with another movie to the series with another five contractually obligated to be filmed. What I'm saying is, love or hate the series, it isn't going anywhere so you might as well jump on board with Bond, James Bond.

Movie Review #35 Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

- Childlike and maturely romantic

Although I caught this movie a few months back, it sort of got pushed to the side for reviews of other things, but since I had a bit of a lull before the upcoming November movies really get rolling, I decided to review this now. Like so many artistic and arguably misunderstood directors and writers, I had not seen a Wes Anderson movie so, thankfully, I was going into the unknown. Something I prefer to do when going into all movies (though obviously incapable of doing so for so many) I never looked at the cast, nor did I know the genre. All I knew was that it was made by “the guy” who did The Royal Tenenbaums. So really when you look at the title Moonrise Kingdom, you can't blame me for thinking I might be getting a fantasy movie. While there certainly are small parts that could be called fantasy, it is hardly that. In any case, I digress.

Movie Review #34 Cloud Atlas (2012)

- Six movies in one!

I saw the trailer for Cloud Atlas and was pleasantly surprised by the fact that I really wasn't sure what the movie was about and only that Tom Hanks was playing more than one role, and that the Wachowskis (Lana, Andy) was involved along with the Tom Tykwer, the director from one of my favourite films (Run Lola Run). To be honest after the poor taste in my mouth left from the Matrix series and the shocking fact that I don't really love Tom Hanks, it is safe to say I went into Cloud Atlas with trepidation. I mean its run time was 2 hours and 52 minutes, and it had quite a few things that I was afraid of based on previous encounters with the various actors and directors.