Lets go to the movies: The Heat review

It's a terrible thing when you're in love with a film such as Bridesmaids, and you hope that every film to follow with Melissa McCarthy in will be as fantastic because you are almost certainly going to feel disappointed. So I may not have laughed out loud like I did with Bridesmaids and wanted to watch it again and again, but it wasn't unpleasant viewing and there were some funny moments.

The Heat is based around FBI agent Sarah Ashburn trying to get a promotion, she's not too popular with her colleagues so is sent to take down a drug lord as a way of proving herself and having a better chance of a promotion. Sarah's investigation is disrupted by Shannon Mullins who is as very territorial police officer (maybe FBI agent?), but ultimately doing good without doing it 'by the book'. The rest I'm sure you can guess, after intial teething problems, they use their strengths and weaknesses to work together to save the world (well almost)
So here are my thoughts on the whole sha-bang:
There was a lot more violence than I expected, although I did go into the film not knowing that much about it, so I suppose when there are a lot of drug themes, violence goes hand in hand with that, nonetheless it made me squirm in my seat a little.
Sandra Bullock has some real gem moments for example, the neighbours cat, who she adopts as her own cat...It doesn't sound so funny typed out...Anywho, but she always seems to play the same 'isolated focused workaholic' character.
There is also some mega cheddar moments, for example when Sarah bursts in on a meeting to tell everyone what a good agent Shannon really is bla bla bla

So it was enjoyable, and yes I did laugh out loud (especially at the cat bit) but I wouldn't be rushing to see it over again!

Lets go to the movies: Iron Man 3

Today I saw the New Iron Man 3 at the cinema and I have to say, I was not very excited. I was being dragged along by others who on the other hand sempt very very excited. I didn't think much of the Avengers and films with fire and bombs and helicopters and guns do have the tendency to make my eyelids feel droopy. I wasn't charmed by Tony Starks personality in the Avengers and I wasn't expecting to be charmed now.

Well, I was proved wrong, slightly.
Knowing basically nothing about anything to do with superheroes or Iron Man it was still incredibly easy to follow along the story and it was actually pretty good. My all time favorite bit is his to-die-for house, it looks like a UFO from 2050 landed on a cliff side, it's really truly beautiful but

*SPOILER* Watching it get smashed to dust was hard *SPOILER END*

Tony Stark is actually quite charming, he made me laugh although I'm not keen on his mustache.
Then the story takes an odd turn with a terrorist threat that actually sort of scared me at the time, but it all turned out quite comedic in the end.
Alongside the terrorist story there's a whole dangerous botanist self-healing part too, which is quite interesting.
The funniest part is the relationship between Tony Stark and Harley who is a young boy that to be quite frank, looks adorable. They together make for smashing some film cliches, humorously of course. Unfortunately the film still has some cliche moments of it's own, my #1 worst line being said by Tony "She's already perfect" - Maybe I'm mean but that immediately takes him down a peg or two in his 'charismatic cool' character.
All in all : expect a lot of goodies who turn out to be baddies, and baddies who turn out to be harmless. Ultimately, I enjoyed this and I had already decided that I wouldn't before I had sat in my seat and I would watch it again.

Lets go to the movies: Despicable me

I put off seeing this film for a long long time based on the title, which is the valuable lesson of the day.
Never judge a film by it's title!
First of all I though that this was an adult comedy with actors, it's actually a kids film that's animated yippee! My favorite type of kids films!
It's your typical kiddy plot of bad guy planning to do some bad things, then he meets a crossroad in his life that changes his whole outlook then happily ever after the end!
It's the generic template storyline that makes it 'not quite' Pixar.
Nonethless I still enjoyed it so much that I could watch it again!

The cross road in this baddy's life:

Is meeting these three orphan girls:

At first he's not so nice to them, and for ages and ages he's still not nice to them- it actually takes much longer than expected for his stone heart to be melted into a pool of gooey parental-love for the girls he has 'accidentally' adopted.

My favorite moments are:
When he puts them to sleep in old hollowed out bombs- it's just so cruel but half funny too

When he reads the hilarious 'three little kitty' story to the girls and has to use the finger puppets in the book. If this book is real, I want it!

The unicorn toy that is 'SO FLUFFY I WANNA DIE'

When he tells them his own storybook and uses his nose as a unicorn horn- this will make no sense if you haven't seen it, but it just made me laugh!

This is a super-cute-feel-the-fuzzy-love film
and I want to watch it all over again!

Lets go to the movies: Pitch Perfect

The quick review is:
Pitch Perfect hit a bum note with me

The long review is:

Pitch Perfect as a concept never really struck me as something that I would be overly interested in, it just sounded like a singing variant of the Step Up films which never particularly interested me... but THEN

I saw a (misleading) billboard that desribed Pitch Perfect as a cross between Ted and Bridesmaids. I quite liked Ted although I found it sad, and I love love looove Bridesmaids, it's up there in my top five so I thought 'sign me up' anything that is half as funny and brilliant as Bridesmaids is worth seeing, so I thought.

What Pitch Perfect actually was, is more like High school Musical becomes University Musical.

I have no problem with High school Musical, but there's a time and a place for it! So I was a little dissapointed as I didn't laugh at all.


The story is focused on a single greeby/emo girl that comes across as a bit spoilt and a bit like she's trying too hard to come across as 'different' or 'quirky' who is in no way funny.





She joins a hobby of singing in a failing acapella singing group at University along with a bunch of other characters, the funniest (although still not funny) being Fat Amy (I'm not being rude, that's actaully what she calls herself) who dances like a mermaid:



Aside from that it's film cliche after cliche, boy meets girl, steals a glance, bla bla bla...

I guess it's great if you're looking for something lighthearted to pass the time, but it's certainly not a laugh-out-loud comedy

Lets go to the movies: Ted

I watched Ted because it had a cute teddy in it, that literally was the only reason, I thought the teddy was cute and I wanted to watch it despite everyone telling me that he really isn't all that cute.

The first five minutes or intro of the film were like the beginning of some magical kids film, it told the story of how Ted came to be, and how he is magical enough to talk, it like melted my heart!
Then you flash foward like 20 years to the future and he's picked up some much less cute habits... including hookers, drugs, swearing all that kind of stuff, but I just had to let that stuff go over my head.

I didn't laugh a whole lot because it wasn't really my kind of humour, but I loved the cute teddy bear and his different outfits.

There's a scene where he wears a suit for a job interview and oh my gosh he just looked adorable! He's all tubby and cuddly looking I just wanted to squeeze him!

As the story goes on Ted's like #1 creepy fan tries to steal him, and the story gets a whole lot more sinister, for the past ten minutes of the film I actually cried, solidly, real tears! I can't say why because it will give it away, but it really made me weep, I just freakin' love that bear!

To sum up:
I cried a lot more than I laughed at this film, and probably liked it for all the wrong reasons, but gosh darnit I want a life-sized Ted plush

 

Lets go to the movies: Looper

I was persuaded that going to the cinema to see Looper (not Taken 2, that I really wanted to see) was a good idea.

Here's my movie lowdown:

The concept of the film is time travel- it's set 30-ish years in the future and time travel has been invented but was immediately made illegal. So the only people that do time travel are gangster-type people who send people to the past where a gun waits to kill them, because it's much easier to hide a body then rather than in the modern day where technology is all tip-top.

So why is it called Looper?

Crime bosses turn to time travel to send their targets to the past to be killed using "loopers" When crime bosses want to end a looper's contract, they send his older version back to be killed by his younger self, referred to as 'closing the loop'

Then alongside all this a section of the population have been given some magical coin floating powers that seems kind of irrelevant for a long time
If it sounds a bit weird, it's because it is! It's been referred to as the new 'Matix' but to be honest, I didn't really like that movie...

To sum up it's a lot of guns (a lot) a lot of death (a lot a lot) and a lot of time travel and concentrating so that you don't miss something important!

 

This is their 'concentration' face

I hope I havent put you off, I think it just either is your sort of film or it isn't.. and this sort of isn't!