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- Successful publisher Will Atenton (Craig) quit a job in New York City to relocate his wife, Libby (Weisz), and two girls to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was the murder scene of a mother and her children. And the entire city believes it was at the hands of the husband who survived.When Will investigates the tragedy, his only lead comes from Ann Paterson (Watts), a neighbor who was close to the family that died. As Will and Ann piece together the disturbing puzzle, they discover that the story of the last man to leave Will's dream house will be just as horrifying to the one who came next.
- I cannot for the life of me remember the last time that a trailer for a movie ruined a movie more than this one. In the trailer - they blatantly tell you that the guy's family is really dead and he is imagining seeing them. So, please explain to me why the movie is on for about 50 minutes before they reveal this? I was so bored out of my mind for 50 minutes because of the big twist that was revealed two months ago when I first saw the trailer making everything I was seeing completely obsolete. And then the rest of the movie was pretty much just a cheesy Lifetime movie with how it played out and what not. Total waste of time.
- I wouldn't recommend anyone bothering with this big turd. It's a total waste of time and you can just watch the trailer instead.
- Based on a true story, Moneyball is a movie for anybody who has ever dreamed of taking on the system. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball's conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It's more than baseball, it's a revolution – one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he's tearing out the heart and soul of the game.
- I enjoyed this movie alot. However, I was completely familiar with the whole story and am a huge baseball fan. I honestly don't see how a non-baseball/sports fan can really enjoy/understand this movie. It was advertised as a fell goodish sports movie - a la The Blind Side, but anyone could truly enjoy that movie. This one - not so much. It's very heavy in to the operation of a baseball franchise and how the philosophy was changed by Billy Beane when dealt a really crappy hand regarding team payroll in a small market.
- Again - I really liked this movie and I would definitely recommend that any big sports/baseball fans check this out. If you are not too familiar with all of that - you won't really enjoy this nearly as much.
- Based on a true story, Killer Elite races across the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East in the action-packed account of an ex-special ops agent (Jason Statham) who is lured out of retirement to rescue his mentor (Robert De Niro). To make the rescue, he must complete a near-impossible mission of killing three tough-as-nails assassins with a cunning leader (Clive Owen).
- You can throw the based on a true story and add legit actors in to this, but it's still pretty much just another Jason Statham movie. If you like his movies - you will like this one. If you don't - you won't. Pretty much that simple. It had a basic story but kind of made it complicatingly annoying with a lot of back and forth in the past/present. The action was there and enjoyable as always (since I'm one that finds his type of movies entertaining). Bottom line - it's was watchable. I wasn't fully invested in every thing going on but enjoyed it enough to not turn it off.
- I would lukewarmly reccomend it to Jason Statham fans. That's really about it though.
- For as long as he can remember, Nathan Harper (Taylor Lautner) has had the uneasy feeling that he's living someone else's life. When he stumbles upon an image of himself as a little boy on a missing persons website, all of Nathan's darkest fears come true: he realizes his parents are not his own and his life is a lie, carefully fabricated to hide something more mysterious and dangerous than he could have ever imagined. Just as he begins to piece together his true identity, Nathan is targeted by a team of trained killers, forcing him on the run with the only person he can trust, his neighbor, Karen (Lily Collins). Every second counts as Nathan and Karen race to evade an army of assassins and federal operatives. But as his opponents close in, Nathan realizes that the only way he'll survive – and solve the mystery of his elusive biological father – is to stop running and take matters into his own hands.
- This movie is exactly what the trailer showed you. Formula in every way. No suspense at all. Pretty much just an excuse to have Jacob from Twilight (why even bother giving him a real name mention - that's all the kid is ever going to be) run around and what not. There was no hook. I couldn't have cared less about any characters and I could have wrote this same review from watching the 2 minute trailer.
- I wouldn't recommend anyone bothering with this. It's a pretty big waste of time.
- Drive is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day (Ryan Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan). When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best—Drive!
- What a big turd. This movie is the definition of those movies that could be really good if the director didn't have the need to make it artsy. Seriously. I was ready to pull the plug on this movie long before any of the action started happening. And when it did - it was way over the top gore. The score to this movie is easily one of the most annoying things I've ever had to listen to while watching a movie. So disappointing.
- Hell no, I wouldn't recommend people watching this. It's a total waste of 90 minutes that I can never get back now.
- Haunted by a tragic past, Marine Tommy Conlon (Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his father (Nick Nolte) to train for Sparta, the biggest winner-takes-all event in mixed martial arts history. A former wrestling prodigy, Tommy blazes a path toward the championship while his brother, Brendan (Edgerton), an ex-fighter-turned teacher, returns to the ring in a desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin. But when Brendan's unlikely, underdog rise sets him on a collision course with the unstoppable Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront each other and the forces that pulled them apart.
- Holy $hit!!! At no point did I expect to walk out a movie about MMA fighting released in the movie going wasteland that is September feeling like I just witnessed greatness much less announcing the following statement . . . . . WARRIOR IS THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR! Seriously. This is not a joke. I'm not some MMA fanboy who is biased. Honestly, I've never even watched it. This movie is hands down one of the best sports movies and family character dramas at the same time I've ever seen. Every character had so many levels and were all so well developed. The tension was unbelievable and just kept going as the fight tournament built towards it's conclusion. I've never been so torn with how I wanted a story to turn out. I was equal parts cheering and crying inside for the two main characters and their quests. Hell, I was cheering out loud and got totally choked up at the same time.
- This movie is an absolute must see for all. The movie is simply that phenomenal in story, direction and acting. As of right now - my pick for best movie of the year.
- When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minneapolis from business in Hong Kong, what she thought was jet lag takes a virulent turn. Two days later, she's dead in the ER and the doctors tell her shocked and grieving husband (Matt Damon) they have no idea why.Soon, others exhibit the same mysterious symptoms: hacking coughs and fever, followed by seizure, brain hemorrhage...and ultimately, death. In Minneapolis, Chicago, London, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong, the numbers quickly multiply: one case becomes four, then sixteen, then hundreds, thousands, as the contagion sweeps across all borders, fueled by the countless human interactions that make up the course of an average day. A global pandemic explodes.
- I really enjoyed this movie. Movies like this about mass panic, if done right, are always entertaining and make you wonder what if. This was more of an artistic and political look at a global epidemic. It included doubting what the government says, questioning the integrity of the internet and how debilitating red tape can be in regards to simply doing what is right or what is necessary. The characters were all well developed and the whole thing seemed very realistic. The only knock that I would make against this movie would be that it ended more artistic with the life will go on line of thinking in a pretty mushy way instead of a pretty little bow. Then they actually showed you just how simply the whole thing started. That to me was more terrifying than anything.
- I would definitely recommend people checking this out. Again, don't have your expectations too high because it's not the pretty little package that you would expect. I really liked it though.
- The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stephan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciarán Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen) in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission was accomplished - or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.
- This movie was a decent watch. The suspense wasn't all that suspenseful, but the story playing out was more than intriguing enough to keep my attention throughout. You care about the characters and the back and forth between the present and the past was well put together.
- I would lukewarmly recommend this movie. It's not a must see by any means whatsoever, but there are many worse things out there.
- Adapted from the bestselling novel, One Day charts an extraordinary relationship. Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) meet on the night of their college graduation – July 15th, 1988. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, every July 15th reveals to us how "Em" and "Dex" are faring, as their friendship ebbs and flows with the passing of the years. Through love and loss, heartbreak and success, hopes fulfilled and dreams shattered, they experience the grandeur of life. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along.
- To be fair - I left this movie after 30 minutes because we had Stinka with us and this is not the simple/easy romantic comedy that was advertised. It was alot more about hooking up and what not and after seeing the third and fourth bare asses at a nude beach scene we ran like hell. However, I had seen more than enough to know that I will probably never bother watching the rest of it. It's about as textbook as you can get and there was pretty much no chemistry between Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess and it all felt really forced, which is pretty sad because I really like both of them.
- I wouldn't recommend anyone bothering with this . . . . . at least I think not based on my 30 minutes of viewing.
- Every family has one: the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz (Emily Mortimer), Miranda (Elizabeth Banks) and Natalie (Zooey Deschanel), that person is their perennially upbeat brother Ned (Paul Rudd), an erstwhile organic farmer whose willingness to rely on the honesty of mankind is a less-than-optimum strategy for a tidy, trouble-free existence. Ned may be utterly lacking in common sense, but he is their brother and so, after his girlfriend dumps him and boots him off the farm, his sisters once again come to his rescue. As Liz, Emily and Natalie each take a turn at housing Ned, their brother's unfailing commitment to honesty creates more than a few messes in their comfortable routines. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realize that maybe, in believing and trusting the people around him, Ned isn't such an idiot after all.
- Overall - this movie was about as pointless as you can get. There was a simple moral of love your family but there was nothing outside of that. That being said, I really enjoyed it simply because the characters were funny and I have always liked Paul Rudd. His delivery is just as good in this movie as it always is and all his sisters played off of him very well.
- I would lukewarmly recommend people checking this out. It's not a must see by any stretch of the imagination but it is one of the better movies by default right now simply because of the amount of garbage that is in theaters right now.
- Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972 was the last manned mission to the moon. But in December of 1974, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
- Exhibit B of why going to the movies in September sucks. This movie has been bounced back for over a year and half at this point and there is definitely a reason why. It is a complete and total waste of 90 minutes of your life. It is set up as old 8mm camera footage so that gets old and annoying about 2 minutes in to the movie. It takes like 7 years to get to the creepy part and then once it gets there it's really not that creepy anymore. This movie was basically an attempt at doing Paranormal Activity in space and it failed miserably.
- Hell no I wouldn't recommend anyone seeing this. The audience was collectively bitching about the movie out loud at the end of it because it was so lame.
- Arriving by boat at her family's Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. Assuming the injury was caused by a freak wake-boarding accident, the group realizes they have to get Malik to a hospital on the other side of the lake, and fast.But as they set out in a tiny speedboat, the college friends discover the lake has been stocked with hundreds of massive, flesh-eating sharks! As they face one grisly death after another, Sara and the others struggle desperately to fend off the sharks, get help and stay alive long enough to reach the safety of dry land.
- Exhibit A of why going to the movies in September sucks. I expected a schlocky, possibly guilty pleasure type movie of people getting attacked by sharks. Instead, they actually tried to give this movie some kind of an absurd story and wasted precious minutes of my life trying to develop the characters. I was rooting for all of them to die in crazy shark scenes. Ended up getting only two good ones. Total poop.
- Hell no I wouldn't recommend anyone seeing this. It's total garbage and opened up in September for a reason.
