Should I really give Nicholas Cage another chance (Sorcerers Apprentice)?

So I am pretty sure when the Sorcerers Apprentice came out it happened to be the same weekend as the second greatest movie of all time: Inception. Perhaps the movie was a diamond in the rough that was overlooked but after watching it for myself I couldn't really decide if i liked it or not. Jay Baruchel was the main character and minus a couple lame jokes I think his performance was acceptable. As far as Mr. Cage, I think if the world wasn't so sick of him this would have been a half decent performance, but its just hard to listen to his weird voice and imagine a sorcerer when you have seen him as Ghostrider. All in all the movie was filled with enough humor and action to keep adults entertained but clean enough to be appropriate for the younglings. I would like to make a shout out to Teresa Palmer who is the love interest in the movie. I'm glad this movie has a hottie playing the role of the hottie even though she is way out of Jay's league. One thing that really annoyed me was that they played the same One Republic song every time the movie was romantic.

Overall rating: 6.5

Why it isn't a 10? The movie often had jokes that couldn't get a smile out of me. While some of the acting added to the movie others took away from it.

Megamind was a Mega Good Time

The wife and i went and hit up the matinée today and after we made it through the previews that seemed like they took forever Megamind finally started. From the opening scene this was throughly entertaining. I was a bit worried about hearing Will Ferrell's voice throughout the whole movie just because sometimes he seems to be annoying instead of funny but I thought he did great. I think the thing I liked most about this was how well it was written. There was humor for both the older kids (us) and the younger kids (the 9 year olds that were laughing so loud it was kind of annoying.) Another brilliant Dreamworks movie but that's nothing new. Tom McGarth, the writer of this movie as well as the Madagascar movies, did a superb job with the script and since I haven't seen any of his other movies, this makes me want to see them. I give this movie 4 out of 5 fingers which means go see the freakin thing!

Throw Back Thursday: A Few Good Men

I have never seen this movie before, but have always heard the famous "YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!" I have to admit... this was a great movie! Yes it's old and the clothes / hairstyles make you cringe, but if you can look past that to the plot and story of the movie... it will change your life!! Ok, not really... but the movie was absolutely amazing! It had some great actors and they played their parts extremely well! Jack Nicholson back in the day was the man and this movie proves that point once again. On a scale of 1 to 50 with 10 being the highest, I give this movie a 9!! Go out and rent / download / whatever so you can experience this movie!

The Crazies - About as Scary as a Siamese Twin

Actually, a little less scary than that. Siamese twins kinda freak me out. This movie did not freak me out. Watching most of the shows on TLC is scarier than this movie. Midgets, families with 19 kids, and having 4 wives are all scarier to me than this movie. The plot was quite predictable. It was actually predicted long before I ever actually knew what was going on. Since I knew why the people were actually going crazy, it made it a lot less effective as a scary movie. I really liked one of the beginning scenes with the man walking out onto the baseball field with a shotgun. That was pretty disturbing. I wish there were more of those scenes. I would give this 2 out of 5 fingers. What this means is it was pretty bad but not bad enough to swear at. Good alternative - Paranormal Activity. Now that is scary.

Catfish...? More like Blowfish

So when I saw the movie trailer for Catfish it really seemed like it had potential. From the trailer it looks as if it was going to be another scary movie filmed by a single camera, but it turns out it wasn't scary at all. The trailer keeps you in the dark and I wish the dark is where I would have stayed.  I don't want to tell what the story is about just in case one of our many readers wanted to watch it but I will say that the movie seemed like it was three hours long even though it was actually under an hour and a half. If the movie is actually real, it may not be a bad one time watch. I'm guessing this movie is fake and therefore is not worth a watch. For those of you who haven't heard of this independent film... don't worry about it. Just go watch The Dark Knight for the seventh time.

Overall Rating: 5
Why it isn't a 10:  It was a boring movie that only had like one or two parts that could keep my attention