*The movies!*
I have actually missed a ton of movies in theater recently like The Apparition, The Possession, Expendables 2 etc. I have been watching movies on Netflix and from Netflix (Bluray) though and I have a bunch to review.
The Tunnel
Okay, so this movie is about a news team that goes down into the abandoned underground of England (Old subway tunnels, sewers, bomb shelters etc) to investigate why the government suddenly decided to stop working on a project that was supposed to help create more clean water by recycling it. The news team assumed that the government had been lying about homeless people living living down there and they thought it might be an exciting story. Well, obviously they found a story. This movie is so boring. I mean like, I was losing interest and trying to stay awake boring. Well, until the last (roughly) half an hour. The end was so intense I had to pause it at times to take a break. SPOILER: This is one scene in particular that will be with me for a while. Watch until the end. *shudder* 8/10
Abduction
"When teenager Nathan comes across his own childhood picture while scrolling through a missing persons website, he begins to question everything he ever took for granted -- including the people he always assumed were his parents" Okay, so this movie acts like it is going to give you something exciting. You keep getting little scenes where maybe the kid is going to bust out some supernatural power or something but all of the way until the end there is NOTHING. You don't even get to meet one of the characters that people have been talking about for the ENTIRE movie even though he is on the phone at the end. This movie is boring, unbelievable, akward and pointless. Why was this movie even made? Go watch a James Bond film or Mission Impossible. 3/10
Forget Me Not
This actually endeed up being a pretty cool movie. (Slight Spoilers) Basically these kids go to a graveyard one night to play Ghost in the Graveyard (which I used to play!) and they meet this other girl who wants to play with them. They agree and she wins. However, upon finding out she won, she throws herself off a cliff, presumably to her death...only the cops cant find her body. After that the group of friends begins to drop, one by one but no one can remember them but Sandy! 7/10
The Moth Diaries
I didn't really know what to expect from this film. I hadnt really heard much about it but it was late, and I was clipping coupons (which is MINDLESS) so I needed something to do. This movie is about a girl named Rebecca who is coming back to school (the remote Canadian boarding school her mother shipped her off to after her father killed himself) for a new year. She is really excited to see her friends, especially one friend in particular named Lucie. I have to admit, I got the "Rebecca likes Lucie as soooooo much more than friends" vibe off of this movie almost as soon as I saw the two interact. I think that though that might have been true, the movie was also trying to convey that Rebecca had formed a really unhealthy attachment to Lucie after her father died. The first day of school is going really really well until a new girl named Ernessa arrives. Ernessa wants to be friends with Rebecca, but not as much as she wants to be friends with Lucie. Rebecca's jealousy leads to some pretty hard to believe ideas about who Ernessa is and where she comes from. I thought that this was going to turn the twist of the movie into our protagonist being insane (yawn) but it didn't. It ended up being dark, creepy and kind of poinant. 7/10
The Tunnel
Okay, so this movie is about a news team that goes down into the abandoned underground of England (Old subway tunnels, sewers, bomb shelters etc) to investigate why the government suddenly decided to stop working on a project that was supposed to help create more clean water by recycling it. The news team assumed that the government had been lying about homeless people living living down there and they thought it might be an exciting story. Well, obviously they found a story. This movie is so boring. I mean like, I was losing interest and trying to stay awake boring. Well, until the last (roughly) half an hour. The end was so intense I had to pause it at times to take a break. SPOILER: This is one scene in particular that will be with me for a while. Watch until the end. *shudder* 8/10
Abduction
"When teenager Nathan comes across his own childhood picture while scrolling through a missing persons website, he begins to question everything he ever took for granted -- including the people he always assumed were his parents" Okay, so this movie acts like it is going to give you something exciting. You keep getting little scenes where maybe the kid is going to bust out some supernatural power or something but all of the way until the end there is NOTHING. You don't even get to meet one of the characters that people have been talking about for the ENTIRE movie even though he is on the phone at the end. This movie is boring, unbelievable, akward and pointless. Why was this movie even made? Go watch a James Bond film or Mission Impossible. 3/10
Forget Me Not
This actually endeed up being a pretty cool movie. (Slight Spoilers) Basically these kids go to a graveyard one night to play Ghost in the Graveyard (which I used to play!) and they meet this other girl who wants to play with them. They agree and she wins. However, upon finding out she won, she throws herself off a cliff, presumably to her death...only the cops cant find her body. After that the group of friends begins to drop, one by one but no one can remember them but Sandy! 7/10
The Moth Diaries
I didn't really know what to expect from this film. I hadnt really heard much about it but it was late, and I was clipping coupons (which is MINDLESS) so I needed something to do. This movie is about a girl named Rebecca who is coming back to school (the remote Canadian boarding school her mother shipped her off to after her father killed himself) for a new year. She is really excited to see her friends, especially one friend in particular named Lucie. I have to admit, I got the "Rebecca likes Lucie as soooooo much more than friends" vibe off of this movie almost as soon as I saw the two interact. I think that though that might have been true, the movie was also trying to convey that Rebecca had formed a really unhealthy attachment to Lucie after her father died. The first day of school is going really really well until a new girl named Ernessa arrives. Ernessa wants to be friends with Rebecca, but not as much as she wants to be friends with Lucie. Rebecca's jealousy leads to some pretty hard to believe ideas about who Ernessa is and where she comes from. I thought that this was going to turn the twist of the movie into our protagonist being insane (yawn) but it didn't. It ended up being dark, creepy and kind of poinant. 7/10