Weekend Wrap Up 2

Alright, the action scenes went that way

Saw a bunch of movies this weekend. I had a lot of time on my hands, having no life helps

Priest

I was taking a chance with this movie, I was hoping it was going to be a lot of action scenes, what I got was few action scenes and a weak plot. The basic idea here is Vampires in this movie aren’t human, there another species all together. They look and move like Lickers from Resident Evil. The human race turns to religion for protection, Now, I may not be very religious, but why would people turn to the church, who don’t have any weapons to protect them, and from what I can tell hasn’t been very effective in stopping the vampires.  Even more puzzling is why would the church allow technology like flame throwers and guns from being invented by SCIENCE! When science would eventually make religion less viable?

Anyway, the movie starts with Priest (Paul Bettany) and a whole bunch of other Priests being ambush by the un-human vampires, now here is the major twist, so if you don’t want to know don’t highlight. They capture one of the Priests called Black Hat (Karl Urban), the queen vampire turns him into an Human Vampire that can survive in the sunlight, Black Hat believing humanity has become corrupt, which isn’t explain very well other than he was taken to the vampire layer and saw it when the queen vampire bit him. I don’t know, they probably didn’t know how this was going to work either when they wrote it I’m guessing. His plan is to take his flock of un-human vampires to attack the main human city by train.

But before he does that, he kidnaps a young girl whose father is played by (and this I found this to be funny) Stephen Moyer, If you watch True Blood, you will have a chuckle inside. The young girl turns out to be Priest’s Niece and he goes off in search of her, in the process he meets a young sheriff, and is being hunted by another priest played by Maggie Q. Now, I ask again, why does religion have to be in this movie? Through out this movie I was just thinking, they should just kept the vampires and added cowboys, cowboys vs vampires, YES! That would be brilliant. This was either a extremely expensive way to say religion is bad for you, or it was originally plan to be a vampire western movie, but at the last second a studio exec said, “we need religion in here, because it’ll sell better the evangelicals, and maybe it’ll let them see how bad religion can turn out!”.

I will give them credit for the animated opening scene, really cool.

Game of Thrones Ep 05
Woo! Action in almost every scene, I have no idea how the sister angle for Lady Stark is going to play out, but the breast feeding scene made me uncomfortable. More and more, the Imp is starting to become my favorite character.

Treme Ep 04
That Japanese guy can play, where can I get more of his music. Alan Richman getting his face drenched was pretty funny.

It doesn't matter if I don't have alot of lines!

Faster

What was the point of focusing on Billy Bob Thornton’s character, and having him go through that whole entire redemption plot? It doesn’t make any sense, especially considering what happened at the end of the movie. OK, you know what, spoilers. Billy Bob Thornton’s character was the main baddy who got The Rocks brother killed. Rock gets his revenge by killing Billy Bob Thornton at the end of the movie. Was I suppose to feel sadness here? I just wanted to see The Rock kicking ass, and there was some of that, not enough though, need more Rock ass kicking, and I mean ass kicking, not him with a gun shooting people.

Z0MG!!..sexy wink

Drive Angry

Will this movie had two things going for it, Amber Heard & William Fichtner, did I ever tell you he was at my graduation. Yes, stupid fun. shut off your mind and just watch Amber Heard. Oh, you want to know the plot, ummm, idiot religious nuts believe main religious nut will be rewarded by Satan for killing the baby of the dead main character, Nicolas Cage’s daughter. Nick gets angry from Hell and comes back to hunt down religious nuts, William Fichtner follows Nick around, trying to get Nick back into Hell. Stupid plot, some good action scenes, and Amber Heard, 2 good defeats 1 bad.

Battle L.A.

This movie would of been so much better if it was just Saving Private Ryan with aliens. We don’t need any civilians in this movie. Just have a bunch of marines go into battle saving other marines. The Aliens were really dumb, why go attack cities and get a hostile response, when you could just secretly go to a remote area in the South or North Pole, and just steal the water there? Who is going to notice or care, Santa Clause? Penguins? There is a lot of stupid things the superior Alien force did that made the marines look more smarter than they actually were. Like having all there control & command center located in one location.

The American

Some people say this movie is boring, and sometime it is, but it does make George Clooney’s character seem more isolated. I think most people went into this movie thinking it’s a spy thriller with a lot of action scenes like Jason Bourne, instead what they got was a character study of a professional killer. So if you like those kind of movies, watch this one.

Shower scene

Resident Evil Afterlife

There is a lot of things wrong with this movie, a bunch of slow-mo action sequences that made me laugh, a lot of heroic posses for no reason what-so-ever. Characters just show up and die, I mean you get a little bit connected to some of them, and the next scene they die, just like that. The whole goal of Alice crashing a plane onto a prison to save the survivors there, was just to find a way to introduce Chris. You know what, Alice is really bad at saving people, every person she tries to save either gets capture or dies. The Resident Evil thing still got me through it though, maybe that’s not a good thing, through out the movie I was thinking, why are Las Plagas zombies in the middle of LA? Or why is the big Axe dude from RE5 there too? This movie was created to make money off of Resident Evil fans and it has done its job, cause there is another one coming out, cant wait!

Predators

Hey this was a good movie, Adrien Brody got huge, he had a Arnold moment at the end of the movie, why he just decided to get naked and put mud on himself, when it was revealed in a previous scene that Predators always learn from past failures? plot holes maybe. I still enjoy it, it was a fun watch. Predators have become way too stupid and weak since Predator 2, how many times are they going to fall for the grenade as I’m dying trick. For crying out louad you have a energy gun, just disintegrate them from a distance, and when did this rule of three come from, Predator 1 & 2 both had 1 predator hunting, but ever since, it has to be three. I want one predator in New York City or Hong Kong killing triads and mobsters, with a gritty and out of luck cop kicking its ass in the end, make it happen.