The Princess Bride (1987)

My Rating: 100%

This is an awesome film that will be remembered for a long time.

Plot: After Buttercup's love, Westley was murdered by the dreaded pirate Roberts, Prince Humperdinck proposes to her which she reluctantly agrees to. Then one day as she was riding through the woods, she is kidnapped by outlaws who plan to kill her in order to start a war. But this start to take a turn when they are being chased by a man in black.

This is a very remarkable movie. it's fun, it has an excellent and clever story, the action is awesome and is very, very fun all around.

Acting/Characters:
Cary Elwes/Westley: He is a very fascinating character. He's clever, he's skilled and quite the trickster. But he's also wise and has a very clear goal to life for in life.
Robin Wright/Buttercup:what is there to say? she was an obvious damsel in distress who often just stood there often waiting for someone to help her. But hey, she still deeply loves Westley deeply which makes it all the worthwhile with him always fighting for her.
Wallace Shawn/Vizzini: He's such a lovable character. he has some of the best lines in the whole movie. the possibility of there being a better actor that could do the job:INCONCEIVABLE!!! XD
Mandy Patinkin and Andre the Giant/Inigo Montoya and Fezzik: Very well acted and very lovable characters.
Billy Crystal and Peter Cook/Miracle Max and the Clergyman: they stole the show hands down. they were to fricking funny.

Screenplay: very well done. So many quotes to remember.

Music:Fantastic. That's actually the thing I didn't like too much about the second half of the film was how alot of a exciting music was over. but you know. whatever.

Editing: very well done. told the story just fine.

Action: excellent very good work.

and that is my review for The Princess Bride.

The Golden Compass (2007)

My Rating 10%

as far as Atheism goes, my brother and I once joked that the writer of the actual book series was more or less C.S.Lewis' former Atheist side back from the dead and after revenge. (C.S.Lewis was a strong Atheist before he was the famous Christian writer we all know. for those of you who don't know.) Well I got news for you evil Lewis, if this was your revenge, than even Satan is laughing. Because while the book series my be decent from what i understand, this movie is a disgrace.


Plot: In a world where there are talking polar bears, witches, and half the people in the world have daemons which are another part themselves, a young girl named Lyra and her daemon, pan start a journey where she begins to try to understand what exactly this thing called Dust is. She ends up facing Gobblers (people who kidnap children) and travels through a lot of places, meeting witches, earning a contract with a polar bear, and all around protecting a compass that tells the truth.

Now sure, the fantasy world they live in is a little creative. But it is a bit of a challenge to watch this film because it's pretty much boring. Part of it may honestly be because of my beliefs. I mean in the books, it carries on to the the general climax of the trilogy which is attempting to kill God and succeeding. But even then I did not find this film very exciting.

Acting/Characters: Everyone was...eh. I mean Nicole Kidman did nice being the villain and Ian McKellen did some very good voice acting. But all around, the characters weren't very likable. part of it probably is how they make portray them in this film compared to the books.

Editing: They did good enough for us to know what is going on throughout the movie.

Effects: they were good. and while I didn't like the oscar they got out of it, they still did a good job in making the polar bears realistic.

And that is generally my review for The Golden Compass.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)

My Rating: 60%

Okay. last film to review before On Stranger Tides so here we go.


Plot: Jack Sparrow has been sent to Davy Jones' Locker, and Will, Elizabeth, Gibbs, Pintel, Regetti and Tia Dalma are attempting to bring him back. meanwhile, with Lord Becket in possession of the heart of Davy Jones, he is able to use Davy Jones to aid him in destroying the pirates for good.

This is mostly a very fun and entertaining movie...but it's also messy and confusing. They often mix you up with things like what is the current matter between Will and Elizabeth, the matter about Davy Jones and his loved one, and with the life as a pirate. With the last one, I am mostly referring to how in this movie, pirates are shown to have a government and in some cases in the movie, piracy is viewed to be a religion. But still, when you leave that aside, it's still has some nice comedy, some excellent action, and the plot is nice enough to make the movie still fairly interesting and have a very satisfying ending.


Actors/Characters:
Johnny Depp/Captain Jack Sparrow: He is so much better in this film. He still focuses more on himself as usual being the pirate that he is, but he still has a the major debate about trying to life forever. But while it makes sense for them to have an imaginary conscience in terms of sort of building the suspense about what he truly wants, I still found it a little unnecessary. But still, there's no problem with him being the guy the still is.
Orlando Bloom/Will Turner: In this movie, he started to become a lot more like Jack...or more like a pirate. doing whatever it takes to free his father even if it causes a problem or two between him and Elizabeth. but hey, he's still a complete bad-a and altogether the Will Turner we know.
Keira Knightly/Elizabeth Swann: well things have certainly changed only a lot since she was just the damsel in distress. Throughout this film she's losing some people she cares about and she become a but bigger pirate than she could ever have imagined back when she found Will all those years ago. Yet still, he shes the only one that states the obvious thing to do while all the other pirates are just being ridiculous in her eyes.
Geoffrey Rush/Barbossa: this was quite the change in character. In fact, this is a good example about how the way to view pirates in this movie has changed. I mean with Barbossa, he fits the bill in the film in terms of being a cold-hearted pirate that "pillages, plunders, rifles, and loots, kindles and chars, inflames and ignites, burns up the city, be really a fright, and be a devil a black sheep, and a really bad egg, Aye, but loved by his mom and dad (*singing* drink up me hearties Yo-Ho! YO-HO, YO-HO A pirates life for me!") but now he's revealed to be a Pirate Lord (which I wonder how...but not as much as I do concerning Jack,) and one of the main leaders in a sense to the pirate government or brethren. and altogether a good guy now. so yeah, big change. But still cool.
Bill Nightly/Davy Jones: Well he's still a cool dark character, tentacles and all. But while I'm alright with his part also including the little love mix, I imagine that most people that are more skeptical than I would dislike it mixing with him also being this cool dark villain.
Chow Yun-fat/Captain Sao-Feng: this was not much of a character. he wasn't there much...really I think they put to much grandeur in this character when it came to the trailers and posters to this movie.

Screenplay: mostly good but it still possessed the lines where they would confuse you on certain things.

Music: I actually really liked the music. I thought it was all very powerful when it came to all the dramatic points in the film and it still made things exciting during all the battle scenes and gave the film a very good ending.

Action: the best.

Effects: they were very good. I dislike how they lost to the Golden Compass. Yes they did a well done job making a realistic looking polar bear. who gives a frick? I mean sure it might've deserved it but I also dislike it because I really did not like Golden Compass.

Editing: It was very good. They made the right type of cuts and camera angles to tell the story and make the action very good.

And that is my review for Pirates of the Caribbean:At World's End. tune it probably a month or more form now when I review the next film.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

My Rating: 30%

I've hardly forgotten the day i first heard that there was going to be another Pirates movie. One guy from youth group was wearing a Pirates shirt and when i said "nice" the pointed out that they were making another one. and a while after that, I got excited all the more as it was soon to come out, just watching all of the trailers several times. the general point to this intro is, I had a lot to learn still when it comes to movies before I saw this film.

Plot: Will and Elizabeth are just about to be married when their wedding is interrupted by Lord Cutler Beckett who has a warrant for their arrest for helping Jack Sparrow escape as well as Commodore Norrington who has disappeared. But Lord Becket agrees to release Will and Elizabeth in exchange for Will finding Jack and retrieving his compass. Meanwhile, Jack unexpectedly comes across Bootstrap Bill Turner who informs him that his time has run out and that Davy Jones is coming to collect his soul.

Most of this film is both interesting and goofy. Interesting because of a new story, and new cool villain. But it's goofy in two ways 1)the ways they try to be funny throughout the film, mostly when Will and Jack and the others were trying to escape from those cannibals, which is not a terrible thing, I mean part of what makes the series great is the comedy, especially with Jack, and some things were indeed funny. And i thought the major bar fight in Tortuga but it did take part in making the film goofy compared to the first one. And 2)how much everyone hardly knows what specifically is going on. I mean Jack is advising people to do a bunch of things as if they know everything Jack knows.

Acting/Characters:
Orlando Bloom/Will Turner: Acting was okay. the problem was that they didn't make his role in the film truly as big as they made him in the first one. Nothing really exciting or adventurous was going on for him aside from making a promise.
Keira Knightly/Elizabeth Swann: The character changed a lot. Which is interesting in terms of how she's starting to become the thing she has found to be very interesting for years. But i thought she was really over-acting when Jack, Will and Norrington were starting the sword fight.
Bill Nightly/Davy Jones: I thought he was an interesting character. Part of it is because of how he looks, but just with the particular story and how he interacts with the other characters was interesting.
Johnny Depp/Captain Jack Sparrow: Well, on the bright side, he still was good ol' Captain Jack Sparrow. But he was still goofy, especially on how he was leaving everyone out. I mean in a way it makes sense but still.

Music: still good.

Effects: I thought the ones for Davy Jones and for the wheel thing were definitely good.

Editing: It was what it was suppose to be.

And that is my review for Pirates Of The Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

My Rating: 90%

I remember the very first trailer many years ago. All it showed was a shipwreck in the middle of a storm with a skeleton still on the wheel of what was left of the ship. Naturally as a little kid, I didn't want to see this because I thought it was going to be a very scary movie and therefore, I was no more ready to see the film than I was to see the Alien movies. Talk about being totally wrong am I right? Because in fact when i saw it, it was not scary at all but a very fun film of excitement and adventure. And since the fourth film is about a month away, I've decided to go through the series so far.


Plot: On a voyage to Port Royal, 12 year old Elizabeth Swann finds a boy named Will Turner who just survived a shipwreck and alarms the crew of the ship to rescue him. As the crew further investigates the shipwreck, Elizabeth looks after Will who is still unconscious at the time, and find a medallion that leads her to believe that he is a pirate and hides it. Eight years later, Elizabeth remembers the medallion and secretly puts it on as she attends Captain Norrington's ceremony were he is being promoted to commodore. During the ceremony, Norrington proposes to Elizabeth, but her new dress become so tight that she can't breathe and falls off the edge and into the ocean. while she's underwater, something mysterious happens with the medallion, but shortly after that, Elizabeth is rescued by Captain Jack Sparrow who i reveled to be a pirate and is arrested. That night, pirates attack Port Royal and as an attempt to make them leave, Elizabeth demands a parley with the captain to leave Port Royal and never return in exchange for the medallion which the pirates take a particular liking for. The captain agree but he takes her hostage so a reason that is left unknown. Having feeling for Elizabeth, Will Turner who is now a blacksmith, frees Jack Sparrow in a attempt to rescue her.

The film is very unique in terms of telling a story about pirates. sure you have this adventure about Will trying to rescue Elizabeth, but then it becomes more than that which makes the film all the more exciting. It just has a very classic story to it bit by bit.

Acting/Characters:
Keira Knightly/Elizabeth Swann: She was a very interesting character with how throughout the film she has this total interest in pirates. And it gets even more interesting when she encounters pirates and other things. All around she did well in terms of playing this though woman who was also at the same time a damsel in distress.
Orlando Bloom/Will Turner: Now by the time i first see this movie, my brothers and I were already well familiar with Orlando Bloom with his performance in the first two Lord of the Rings and we were excited to see him in the third one. With this film, we were just as entertained with him sword fighting, even with two swords which we liked considering how he has two long daggers in LOTR, and how he has his own hero's call and everything else. Will Turner is just a awesome character.
Geoffrey Rush/Barbossa: He did a really good job in making Barbossa dark and mysterious. nuff' said.
Johnny Depp/Captain Jack Sparrow: Jack Sparro- excuse me, CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow is one of the most creative characters I have ever seen. I would seriously love to know how exactly he was created bit by bit with the writers, the director and of coarse, Depp himself. I also would like to see Sean Peen in Mystic River because I would love to know what was it about him in that movie that won him the Oscar for best actor over Depp. Captain Jack Sparrow is witty, funny, unpredictable and altogether strange in a way that's completely entertaining.

Music: It was very good. The score had great songs to make the film either very suspenseful or filled with adventure.

Screenplay: well true, some things were use that were not in the script. Depp actually came up with "savvy? in this film. but with what they came up with, it was still pretty good.

Effects: They were very good. the effects for the Pirates were very well done.

Action: it was very good. Jack and Will's sword fight was the best part.

Editing: Very well done.

And that is my review for Pirates of the Caribbean-The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Scream 3 (2000)

My Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50%

Well on the upside, it's not as terrible as i thought it was going to be.


Plot: Sidney is not living a private life from the public eye and her friends with a new name. Dewey and Gale start off in this film not together (again), and first thing you know from all that is that another Ghostface is in town and has just killed Cotton Weary along with his girlfriend. As people become aware of that, Ghostface starts to kill of actors who star in the third Stab movie.

the first forty minutes of this film I had two basic words for the film; Batman Forever. Because like Batman Beyond, not only is the movie pretty much bad (thought it has more heart than Batman Forever thank heaven), but it mostly focuses on a sort of distant past which is a mostly boring part of the plot to this film until the climax. However, what saved the movie from being a total letdown to me was the climax. Once everything made sense, then the film got really interesting and more likable than it is at first.

Actors/Characters:
Neve Campbell/Sidney Prescott: she was pretty stone face. I mean that's what she generally is anyway but she was more so than usual. But at least as the movie goes on, she proves herself just as clever and bad-a as ever.
David Arquette and Courtney Cox/Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers: They weren't all that great during a lot of this film. They were either in character or they were not. And they really didn't do much with the romance at all unlike the first two. They reveal what happened since the second film, then nothing really happens concerning their romance at all besides one kiss over Dewey saving Gale from Ghostface for a less than a minute thing, and then nothing happens until the very ends were suddenly they are in love again and taking things to the next level with their relationship. It was just messy all around.
Patrick Dempsey/Mark Kincaid: He played a decent character. he was slightly interesting and I was actually surprised he's not in the fourth movie. Ah well. Let's just hope that later this year he doesn't end up Razzie worthy during Transformers:Dark of the Moon...ah who am I kidding. everyone in that film's screwed. poor Shia. >:(

Screenplay: The sad part in this film is that no one is referencing horror movies at all in this film. I mean sure there is some referencing from that video the characters received from Randy that was made before he died (Poor guy. He was such an awesome character), but after that, the only comedy there was, was one or two cute lines. Because of that, as my brother put it, rather than being a horror movie that made fun of other horror movies, it just became a plain horror film.


Music: eh, it wasn't all that good. didn't really care for it.

Editing: it was just what it was suppose to be.


and that is my review for Scream 3.

The Tourist (2010)

My Rating 60%

well i'll be fair, i didn't expect it to be good at all considering the reviews right here in Rotten Tomatoes. But in the end it turned out to be not all that bad.

Plot: the plot was cheesy in a way. But regardless, what they did made it interesting regardless to me. i won't give any details but in my mind's eye, what they did except for the ending kept me on my seat.

Characters: I thought though Jolie's character's role in the film was predictable, it was interesting regardless when it came to the relationship between her character and Depp's. Depp's character I thought was entertaining and unique in a way as far goes as the character's background and so on. everyone else didn't really matter at all.

setting: i just feel like saying that i enjoyed the setting of the film with it being generally held place in Venice. great beautiful place & all that jazz.

so there's not much else to say. so in conclusion i say, is The Tourist a great movie? No. But as JOlie said at the very end of the movie, "It'll do."