The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2009)

My Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50%

surprisingly, if some things about the twilight films weren't still there in this movie, i'd almost, honestly give it a 60%. i mean when i say same things, i mean paterson and stewart and so on having no big expressions and not really putting in what twilight really is and things like that. but truly, they did manage to making it at least a little bit nice. it was better than the first two combined.

okay the beginning. it actually starts good considering the usual. if you don't want me to spoil the beginning, i'm going to tell you right now to wait until after you've seen the movie to continue reading my review. but it starts with one guy getting attacked so that he becomes a vampire, before he gets the final bite, he gets attacked left and right while the actor is actually having a scared face, like he is terrified, and with the camera and the cuts and maybe even the music too (can't remember), they are actually bringing some suspense to what is going on. i mean one thing that is wrong which the whole franchise outside of that scene is they just put what happens as it is making it truly just for the ones who read it. they don't really try to make things suspenseful or exciting or making you wonder what is going to happen for those who haven't read the books so they can find it interesting. i mean, plenty of movies based off of books have actually tried that for their movies like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Narnia. the Twilight franchise however made it just for the amazement for the people who read the books. nothing to be amazed at or discover with the characters outside of what the readers already knew: a teenager moves to this small town feeling all 'whatever' about life with her father that she rarely sees until now, and the people she begins to know. then she falls in love with a guy that turns out to be a vampire known as Edward Cullen, then another guy the begins to befriend turns out to be a werewolf. stuff happens from there but it's all the same, bella and edward are in love and continue to be together through it all no matter what they faced. they all around continue to do a poor job at telling the story in a way that not only keeps it from being interesting for those who don't read the books, but even keeps readers that are not teenage girls or forty-year-old women being disappointed with what they get. the beginning of this movie is a small exception, but one that is there all the same, because it has some sort of story telling that cause the suspense they actually needed for the scene in a way that could make it interesting.

now acting (outside of the beginning and some points for patterson and stweart.) SUCKS!!! i have some other exceptions...in a sense when i get to the comedy section, but it still was always the same. Stewart acts with a more or less like Sofia Coppola, Patterson still acts like he's mixed with 15% trying to be Edward Cullen using method acting in a sense, and 85% actually being half asleep, and Lautner...really just has a stone face and tries communicating emotionally just by the tone of his voice. i mean if i wasn't so tired and was more interested, i'd think of a description with all the other cullens and high school friends, and werewolves. but as far as acting, it's just the same dang thing.

now here's the thing for action: THERE WAS ACTUAL ACTION!!!! YOU EVEN WATCH VAMPIRES GET KILLED MOSTLY BY GETTING THEIR HEAD SMASHED!!!! seriously. first movie, just see james and edward smashing each other into walls and even the floor like they are flying terminators, then you see some short shots afterwords of the cullens taking james apart and then that's it. second movie, you have Laurent facing werewolves for not even ten seconds and then he flees, next time we see him he's attacked by the wolves and there's a slow motion thing that just says 'you get the point, he's gone.' then you have edward fighting that volturi guy which was more like the effects from the movie Jumper. but now you have an actual battle with vampires and werewolves and you can actually see what is going on the whole time and you actually like this compared to before. all around, there is action to begin with unlike the first two and i for one am happy with that.

now for the comedy. there actually was some rather cute comedy through the movie. most of it had Charlie. unlike the first two movies, they actually got charlie to shine a little with the comedy they had for him. there wasn't much acting or even facial expressions in them but they made it all around cute with what expressions and likeness he had. the acting even without just charlie was just the same as before, but they still manage to make things cute with things like bella punching jacob and breaking her hand or even with the little sexual-ish jokes that were around during the scene were bella, jacob and edward were in that tent. even if that got the girls crazy. i mean jacob was shirtless as usual and with the sexual-ish jokes in that scene, that just made them outrageous. i mean if i don't get kinda deaf in life because i use to listen to my music pretty loud on my mp3, i'm sure girls all hot for edward or jacob that go that crazy will make be permanently deaf before i'm 26.

now i will honestly say, that in the scene where they have their graduation, i thought whoever the character that was valedictorian, actually had a good speech. not too cheesy or hollywood-like, just as sort of speech i think some of us, especially in this type of world today, need to learn from for the most part.

i will also put out how ridiculous it is how Bryce Dallas Howard was Victoria, mainly on how she has been in half minor, half major roles since after Lady in the Water and The Village. I mean she was Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3, which for the most part was a character that was just there and really should not have been there in the first place. then she's Kate in Terminator Salvation were while it makes sense that while Kate is pregnant, does not have much to do outside of being a surgeon, the fact remains that it's still a half minor, half major role for Howard. and we have Eclipse were there's nuthun much but start an army, acting like she's in love with her second command, and in the end, fight Edward and end up dead. all i'm saying here is that I'm no Howard fan, and i don't know much about her career and such, but i think she should try to up her game with having not much done recently.

so there you have it. comedy was nice, story telling was as bland and for just readers of the books as ever, acting was terrible, action was actual action, and through ti all, this ended up the best out of the films so far. i kinda love it as far as how they have told the story better for the most part.

and that's my review for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2003)

My Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 30%


okay so maybe making more movie makes a little bit of sense despite the end of T2. but how they carried it out was wrong.

they say that john was attacked the first time when the was 13 when he was actually 10. and they even add that he actually kissed a girl at one point before the events of T2. which just makes the timeline to the movie all the more messed up.

now it makes sense to make the T-X a little more unique and more powerful than the T-1000 and even being a girl works a little. but i don't get to much of it because...well i can't really explain it but they make it look like the T-X is the only T-X made like ever which is kinda lame. i mean a little helpful for the resistance in the future but still lame. Plus it's not really all that invincible if you think about it. I mean she's somewhat a mixture of the T-800 and the T-1000. and what's bad is the T-800 half which technically makes her vulnerable in how she's more of a solid object rather than totally liquid which is what makes the T-1000 so hard to kill. I mean that's the advantage they used to damage her plasma gun and then later makes the T-850 able to hold her down so he can destroy her with it's fuel cell.

the sound effects were actually really bad. i mean i heard a gun shot in the sound of the time traveling TWICE. and i could've sworn i heard a jaguar or tiger or something when the T-X's truck crashed.


the plot was a little okay in term of how they set things up for the future to happen anyway and have the new character Kate while at it. but they still had things totally mixed up all around.

And that's my review for Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

My Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 70%

now a bit after i saw the movie, i did some research to see how much of Robert Downey Jr's performance is actually Sherlock Holmes and how much is just Downey as we've known him since Iron Man.

and surprisingly, almost all of is like Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes does carry a pistol often, he does very ridiculous experiments, he has very odd methods, he actually is a skilled martial arts guy, boxer, and sword fighter. he doesn't care much about women, he's unpredictable altogether, etc.

altogether, all my life i thought Sherlock Holmes is just how most comics and movies and tv show him as: some know-it-all British guy (which is he also is) that wears some ridiculous costume holding a pipe and doing that whole "Elementary my dear Watson" crap. i mean some of it is a tad unique as far as i know by Downey's performance and how there's a fair amount of action and such in the movie that takes the story more to our level when it comes to action. but as far goes as the character, Sherlock Holmes, the movie shows a lot more of the actual character than i thought.


other than that, i thought it was a rather nice enjoyable movie. interesting plot & villains and such. that's kinda ll i have in mind to say about it.

Avatar (2009)

Rotten Tomatoes percentage: 60%

okay. so let's review how much Avatar has such HUGE amount of things plot-wise from past movies. here's the list to get started.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire
The Matrix
Dances with Wolves
Last Samurai
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Dinatopia
LOST
Pocahontas


Atlantis The Lost Empire: the main character is called out in a once in a lifetime opportunity. the main character does intend to take part in what actually is bad for the natives (Jake with taking down the trees/Milo with taking the crystal and bringing it back to the surface) but later on the changes his mind and his friends join him. he is embarrassing to everyone in the expedition and he has lost a relative that is a fairly related to the expedition. he manages to make a few friends, one is this short girl that you do not wanna mess with. eventually he finds the natives but not before coming across this chick from the natives that just HAPPENS to be the princess. the princess brings him to the King announcing it in their own language. the princess teaches/shows a few things to the main character which he does extremely wimpy job doing at first. everything seems all cool and stuff but then the bad guys cut in, things get chaotic, and the king gets killed. the main character decides to do something about it by rounding everyone up and attacking the bad guys. there's some heavy casualties and the whole battle ends with the main character getting off his bird/fish-speeder thingy and hops on the main villain's ship/hot air balloon were they begin to fight. after a while, the main villain (who is this B.A. military guy that has been through quite a bit of war)dies after a long fight were he should have been long dead a while ago. and it all ends with the main character and the princess together forever.

The Matrix: well for this one it's just with the whole cord thing to be able to do some stuff and how most of the friends die.

Dances with Wolves: like Jake and Milo, but really jake, he begins on the bad guy's side but when he is taken by the natives, he changes his mind. and he kinda does get the princess or somewhat the princess. and there's this whole preachy deal about the natives.

The Last Samurai: same thing as Dances with Wolves

FernGully:the Last Rainforest: same thing as The Last Samurai & Dances with Wolves but during the middle of the movie the word is out about the truth of the main male character and the main female chracter is running away totally broken hearted.

Dinatopia: mainly this has to do with the main male character learning all the new things and particularity with learning to fly one of the birds & kinda getting your own bird.

LOST: frankly i only put LOST here considering the matter of how, like John Locke in LOST, Jake is crippled and it's this wonderful, beautiful thing when he gets his legs back but it's only that way until Jake is no longer inside his avatar, similar to John Locke being cured only as long as he stays on the island.

Pocahontas: really all i'm putting here is how the princess is promised to the real stud warrior at first before the main character comes into the picture.

now there's some similarities with the military stuff and things like that from starcraft and aliens along with the creatures that were similar to the aliens from treasure planet and so on but i think i've given enough details for one review.

all around, the special effects and graphics were excellent. i saw one flaw with the propellers to the ships from the battle during this one shot. but it was flawless aside from that.

all around, it was a great movie and i enjoyed it alot.

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

My Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 80%


I'm intrigued about how much they are trying to make another Disney classic with this movie particularly.

let's review. handsome prince, girl with a dream, one or two supporting characters that are not human that try to steal the show, big all powerful villain (somewhat) a message about pursuing your dreams or wishing on a star, some music numbers, and the couple falling in love in like, less than a week.

and it looks like the whole race and gender bit form some of Disney's classics came back again. a black community under the exceptions of a few white people, the prince being french unless I'm mistaken, USING the princess just so that the prince can be human again and continue to live his royal life, the princess's best friend being the perfect match at first for the prince because she has blue eyes and blond hair and totally rich, not to mentioned despite actually being a very nice girl, is spoiled and visibly blond as hell. (I'm talking personality not hair)





But i really enjoyed the characters all around. The main villain, The Shadow Man was a fairly decent villain. and like i said, the princess' best friend is actually a really nice girl for a spoiled rich girl, and even her father did stuff like give that paper boy that huge tip of money. which I really liked about both of those character cause that's pretty fresh considering most movies where they have a rich family where the child/children are spoiled in any way. the rest were just okay.

well with all that out of the way... this was very enjoyable movie. a good number of things were predictable, but they still had things that were unique, interesting and fun.

now would i declare this movie as the return of Disney? well again, it had a lot of what Disney had to give these many years. but i do not think it's for me to say that disney is back yet. i mean the supporting characters were kinda cool but they were not genie, timon & pumbaa, the gargoyles, the dwarfs, the little animals etc, and under the exception of "friends on the other side" the songs were no "be our guest", "Casey Jr.", "a whole new world", "be prepared", Hellfire, etc. but if they keep making movies like princess and the frog to a certain extent and go forward from there, there may be a return around this time for disney yet.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 10%

yeah it wasn't any better than Twilight.

personally i thought Robert Patterson was doing just fine for the most part in the beginning in terms of actually being Edward Cullen, having the little half smiles or chuckles or the way he talks to Bella and kinda pays attention to everything else at the same time using his mind reading powers and so on. just all around being Edward Cullen as both me and a very close friend of mine imagined Edward when we first read the books. but as soon as the birthday party started, it was back to that gloomy state and he even had his eyes half closed when he was saying good-bye to Bella before he left her.

the graphics were much better. especially for the vampire effects because they sucked during twilight under the exception of the baseball scene.

all the acting was bad under a few exceptions. one was Robert Patterson in the beginning, and the other was Kristen Stewart when it came to acting out the big nightmare Bella had.




But what didn't help was the particular book it was based on personally. I hate New Moon. I just hate what happens. It was just good for only preparing for both the movie and the book for Eclipse. that's it. I mean the only other good things was the whole fight scene in that movie Jacob and Bella and that other kid went to see, which was a cute way to spoof most action movies. Other than that and what I just said about the graphics and Patterson and Stewart's acting, it was just dull and boring.

all around i enjoyed watching it ONLY so that i saw it, but was not disappointed at having them still make it pretty bad for the most part.