True Grit

After wanting to see it for a couple of weeks, I saw True Grit. The movie is about a girl in the 1800's named Maddie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) who takes revenge on Tom Chaney for killing her father. She hires a U.S Marshall named Rooster (Jeff Bridges) to help her track Chaney down and kill him.

I am not a big fan of Westerns but this movie really opened my eyes. This movie was great. Jeff Bridges and Haile Steinfeld do wonderful jobs. It was also very funny. There was also very nice and beautiful scenery of the Arkansas area. It was kind unrealistic at times, a bad joke here and there but that is ok because it was still really good.

What the Coen Brothers who made the movie did was put two different actors; one who is very experienced (Bridges) and one who has never been in a movie before (Steinfeld) together very well. This should definitely be up for an Academy Award along with The Social Network. It is a must see.

My rating: 4.5 out of 5

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Yogi Bear

I saw Yogi Bear the other day.

Where to start? Yogi Bear is about two bears, Yogi (Dan Aykroyd} and Boo-Boo (Justin Timberlake) who live in Jellystone Park. The park is facing financial problems and now is going to be shut down if they can't raise some money. Wow we have never seen this before? A lot of jokes fail but some do work.

Some characters are really not needed. One guy is Ranger Jones and his performance is horrific. He wants to be the top ranger and that is all he cares about. No one cares. Some other bad things are a scene where people are walking across a tree limb which is not realistic. Another strange scene is that they had a big fireworks display planned and they just brought a bunch of shooting rockets and planned to shoot them off themselves.

This movie seems cheap. It was set mostly in a forest and once they went into the town, there appeared to be some very cheap sets. The movie had some very good actors and but they did not seem to be used very well here. For the people that did not see this movie, you are lucky. Do not go buy it new on dvd because it will be in the 5 dollar bin real soon. I guarantee you.

My rating: 1/5

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Cursed

This is Wes Craven's werewolf movie. Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg are the lead actors. It should been great but it was so bad.

A girl name Elle [Christina Ricci] and her bother Jimmy [Jesse Eisenberg] are attacked one night by a werewolf. They are cursed by the wolf and then there are problems. The movie then fails completely. The twist at the end was so bad it was hurtful.

There were many characters that were not really needed. Most of the film did not deal with the wolf. It deals with Jimmy's girl issues and Elle's problems with her boyfiend. It was not really scary. It was kind of boring. Most of it was just talking. It is sad to see Wez Craven put this out. He has done some great work but then he puts this out?

Please do not watch this. If you a horror fan like me I think you will be disappointed.

My rating: 1/5

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