Day 128: Sixteen Candles

Directed By- John Hughes

Written By- John Hughes

Starting- Molly Ringwald, Justin Henry, Anthony Michael Hall

Critics Review- "Racy, drunken, hilarious '80s high school comedy."- Randy White "Common Sense Media"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 85% Audience- 84%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 2 1/2 stars

My review-

This is supposed to be a classic movie from the 80s and at times it is pretty funny other times it isn't. This movie is all that, like some people say it is, I liked The Breakfast Club better, which was made after this movie so in way we kind of see where one of the characters in this movie is going to be typecasted for some of the other Hughes movies. I understand that this movie is supposed to be about a girl's sixteenth birthday but even the though Ringwald is cute, she was really annoying in the film and I did not like her character one bit. Not all the characters were like able in this film, it seems like the ones that were not in it as often were better ten the title characters in it. However I did like some parts of the movie where Michael Hall was in it. It seems like he made the movie funny when his character was around and so did some of the grandparents, other than that it is not all that is says to be. I can see why Family Guy makes fun of the last scene of the movie. I prefer Family Guy's version better.

Day 127: Cars 2

Directed By- John Lasseter

Written By- Ben Queen

Starring- Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Eddie Izzard, Michael Caine, Emily Mortiemer, Jason Issacs, Bruce Campbell

Critics Review-"For the first time in it's 25 year existence, Pixar has created an utterly ordinary film."-Mike Scott "Times Picayune"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 38% Audience- 55%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 2 1/2 stars

My Review-

This is not the best film that Pixar has made. However it was not that bad it had laughs here and there but it was from the side characters and not the main characters. Another thing if this was a kids movie how come it shows other cars trying to kill other cars? that I did not get. It did have some cool actors in the film though aside from the main two actors. I would not recommend watching this movie since it was not as good as one would hope, but then again the first film did not due to well either, even though I did like the first one this one was just a huge fall for Pixar, hopefully they can make it up with Brave.

Day 126: Everything Must Go

Directed By- Dan Rush

Written By- Dan Rush

Starring- Will Ferrell, Stephen Root, Rebecca Hall, Michael Pena, Christopher C.J. Wallace

Critics Review- "Will Ferrell plays a grown-up and proves maybe he should do it more often."- Scott Nash "Three Movie Buffs"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 75% Audience- 53%

Out of a Possible 5 stars- 3 stars

My Review-

I have seen few movies where Will Ferrell actually plays a dramatic role, and now that I have seen this one he should do more movies like this, even though he is known for comedy he can pull off the serious roles as well. Even though at times this movie seemed a little bit boring and you wanted to hate his character it is pulled off well by Ferrell, another good actor in the film was Christopher Wallace the son of Biggie Smalls, which he is surprisingly is able to act and hold his own with other actors around him who have been doing it longer then he has. At times I had wished it would have gone into a little more detail about Ferrell's marriage in the film and his friend played by Pena, I had hoped to see him in a bigger roll as well. Even though I did like this movie I thought it could have been a little better in certain areas of the film, like more with the characters and some parts of the story.

Day 125: The Avengers

Directed By- Joss Whedon

Writer(s)- Joss Whedon, Zak Penn

Starring- Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Clark Gregg

Critics Review- "After years of build up. It's a reward to patient audiences who've been waiting for this team-up for years."- Stephen Whitty "Newark Star-Ledger"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 93% Audience- 95%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 5 Stars

My Review-

I do not even know where to begin with this movie, which is a good thing in this case. This movie was just pure awesomeness from start to finish, Joss Whedon did an amazing job writing and directing a movie this big. I had faith in him when I first read he was going to write and direct this movie and I am glad that they chose him to helm this movie and possible franchise. I am still awe about this superhero movie, since it is the first of its kind like this. This movie had everything; action, comedy, suspense, more action and comedy. Another thing was the amazing fight scenes, especially between Hulk and Thor, actually all the fight scenes were actually pretty badass and well choreographed. The movie also had a lot of wonderful one liners and jokes throughout the movie between all the actors. What made this movie also work is that all the actors got equal screen time with their characters, was not how each actor got more screen time then the other. Whedon wrote in away they all got the same amount and it worked really well. Some action scenes were better than others, but the main thing that surprised me was Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk. Now at first I was a little iffy when he was chosen to replace Edward Norton for this film, but Ruffalo did an amazing job as Bruce Banner he is probably the best actor to ever play Bruce Banner/The Hulk because when he was in the film as The Hulk the movie became 10x more awesome then it already was. I do not want to spoil anything more if I have already, but this movie should be seen. It's the first movie of its kind where all types of superheroes come together like this and its done really fucking awesome. So if you have not seen this movie yet, even though it did just come out a this morning, go and see it this weekend to see the amazing job that Joss Whedon has done with this movie, it is well worth your money. Also stay because there are two post-credit scenes after the movie and they are both worth waiting for as well. It was well worth the wait in line, and it was well worth every Marvel movie starting with Iron Man, and I cannot wait too see if they make a sequel and hopefully it will top this one, and if Joss Whedon is writing and directing again, I know it will.

Day 124: La Ballon Rouge (The Red Balloon)

Directed By- Albert Lamorisse

Written By- Albert Lamorisse

Starring- Pascal Lamorisse

Critics Review- "An utterly charming little story."- Bosley Crowther "New York Times"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 100% Audience- 89%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 3 1/2 stars

My Review-

This was another foreign film to put on my list, and even though it was really short I quite enjoyed it.and even though this movie did not have that much dialogue in the film I was still able to understand what was going on in the film, since most of the movie was a visual story about a boy and his red balloon. This was simple storytellng at its best and did not need dialogue to let us under stand what was happening. It was almost like it was a short film, I liked the music in the film, but I did not like the fact that there was no subtitles for when they did talk during the film. Yes it was a short film, and yes I did enjoy the fact that it was done in away that you felt sorry for the boy at the end of the film, but happy at the same time. Since it is really short with a run time of almost 35 minutes, and you want to see a old foreign film this is one to watch. This is one of those films that time just flies by when you watch it since you are so into the movie, because with the movie it was all about the visuals and not so much the dialogue of the story. This movie was plain and simple. A story about a boy and his red balloon.

Day 123: TMNT

Directed By- Kevin Munroe

Written By- Kevin Munroe

Starring- Sarah Michelle Gellar, Patrick Stewart, Mako, Chris Evans, Kevin Smith, Lawrence Fishburne

Critics Review- "Never strays too far from its inner turtle."-Mark Sells "Oregon Herald"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 34% Audience-64%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 3 stars

My Review-

Well yes I am writing this review at almost the last minute, and I kind of do not feel good at the moment, I will try to write as much as I can. This was better than the the 3rd one in my opinion and still had that feel to it when I saw the original ones as a kid. I enjoyed the comedy and the action and for it is like they never left. Even though I did not like the animation too much, I did enjoy the story line of the movie. Even though it could not be the original voice actors as the previous movies I still liked it. Even Mako as Splinter because he was Uncle Iroh in The Last Airbender which I liked alot about this movie as well. I am kind of bummed out that the movie was not a little longer, because it was quite short, shorter than it need to be in my opinion. If you like the Ninja Turtles movies I am sure you will like this one.

Day 122: Plan 9 from Outer Space

Directed By Ed Wood

Written By- Ed Wood

Starring- Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tom Keen, Tor Johnson, Dudley Manlove, Joanna Lee, John Breckinridge, Vampira, Bela Leugosi

Critics Review- "Yes, it's so awful it's almost good. Here is the birth of camp in cinema."- Cole Smithey "ColeSmithey.com"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 66% Audience- 45%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 2  stars

My Review-

I was confused throughout this whole movie, and spoilers its about alien's and they were not that smart. I think I figured out why this is considered one of the worst movies ever made, but cannot see why on rotten tomatoes it holds a 66% its kind of confusing to see why it has that. At times I was enjoying the movie but other times I was just really confused because I did not know what the fuck was going on with this movie. so if you want too see how bad this movie is watch it, if you don't want to, never watch this movie.