Sunday, August 19, 2012

Mr. Deeds

I'm starting by giving this a nine of ten. I loved this movie. The main character, Mr. Longfellow Deeds, played by Adam Sandler, is a small town Pizzeria owner who is completely happy with his current life. When his distant Uncle, Preston Blake, the head of a large media company, dies on an expedition to the top of Mount Everest, Deeds is thrown into the world of stocks and business. Meanwhile, a reporter, looking for a big scoop, makes up a separate persona and dates Deeds to learn about his life and tear him down. Along the way she starts to develop feelings for him and he finds out the truth. Heartbroken, Deeds sees himself as nothing special and leaves New York to run his Pizzeria back home. If you want to know how the movie ends, if Deeds owns the company, gets the girl, or stays home, go watch the movie. I saw it on Comedy Central but I'm fairly certain it's also on Netflix. I like these genres of movies when a man is faced with a problem and the problem only gets worse because of a love interest that kills the man inside. Again, I give it a nine of ten. I recommend seeing this movie.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises

I've only seen The Dark Knight Begins before seeing the newest one so feel free to take that into consideration before my rating. The Dark Knight Rises started out pretty good, it had fast paced action and fight scenes introducing the main antagonist, Bane. The action of this movie rarely slows down, only breaking to follow up on some other points in the plot. The plot unfolds very late in the movie and you actually start to connect the dots and understand what's happening, I don't want to give any spoilers... but, Bane isn't the only bad guy The Batman has to stop in this film. Out of the three people including me that went to see it, mixed reviews were plentiful. The eldest of us three loved the movie, the middle of the three, I, enjoyed it but I did think that it was just missing some small details to make it great, and the youngest, and also the prettiest, did not like it. Taking into consideration these opinions, I give it an eight out of ten.