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Seven Pounds summed up in one word is depressing. My best friend and I were intrigued with this movie ever since it came back and trailers were shown because we only had an idea of what it was about and were not sure what was really going to happen. The plot to this movie was very good but just all together the movie could have taken a different turn than it did. Will Smith's character that calls himself Ben has caused an accident that killed seven different people including his fiancee so he spends the rest of his life trying to find seven deserving people to help get out of certain positions whether it be an abusive relationship, an illness or just a bad place in their life. Ben feels as if he can change the outcome of the previous wreck by helping these people but feels like he himself does not deserve redemption when in reality he could have just realized he was able to be redeemed. The twists and turns in this movie I can honestly say I did not see coming at all, this was one of the few movies my best friend even just went along for the ride with. The movie leaves you feeling depressed because the main character you so nicely have come to like decides to kill himself in probably the movie unique way I have ever seen or heard about but also has a way of making you continue thinking about this movie long after you have seen it.
Over Spring Break, I was home and was hanging out with some friends of mine whom wanted to watch a movie so since I was home for break and didn't really care I let them pick the movie and they picked the 2008 remake of The day the Earth stood still with Keanu Reeves. Usually I really like Keanu Reeves because I find him to be a really good actor and find that he can play many different parts and be believable in all of them. Anyway, I had no idea what this movie was about coming into it but figured I'd give it a chance. It was a mix between crazy and cool. A few times I found myself getting lost and confused many times during this movie even though I played very close attention. I noticed that Jaden Smith was in this movie and found myself really disliking his character and thought his performance was very annoying and could have been played by anyone but he was probably just picked because his mom knows Keanu. But besides that I thought this movie was interesting but probably not a movie I would ever see again because even though I like Keanu I would have to say this movie was not on my list of his favorite appearances even though I thought he did a very good acting job. I just felt like the plot, story and end all had problems with them that did not keep me content with this movie. I felt like the end totally killed it as well. I wouldn't recommend this movie to others and don't think it fit the 'hype' it got when it was talked about. As said by another blogger, this movie shouldn't have ever been a remake.
This movie was a lifetime channel movie and being a female I do like watching lifetime movies and try to make sure I am home for them but this movie didn't really catch my eye. I didn't want to see it because I felt it gave cheerleaders a bad rep and being a cheerleader since the age of two I didn't appreciate that but one night it was showing on demand so I decided to watch it and give it the benefit of the doubt because I had done some research on the plot and was curious as to what all was going down. The Texas Cheerleading Scandal movie was actually really good, I appreciated watching and it had really nothing to do with being a cheerleader. I would recommend this movie to anyone and not just to my lady friends because I appreciated it and thought the acting was good even though a lot of these actresses I had never seen before. I found this movie to be really good especially for being a lifetime movie and would choose to watch it anyday.
From the first day I saw this movie, I was somewhat hooked. Though this movie came out in 2007, I never met anyone who liked this movie as much as I do or who even thought this was a good movie. The target demographic for this movie was younger teens, the average soccer mom, families and children and even though I am none of those I found this movie entertaining and I do every time I watch it. Meet the Robinsons' characters are so diverse and yet are able to touch your heart and make them memorable.
I decided to wait for this movie to come out on DVD because I wasn't sure if it would be good enough to spend money on to go see at a theater. This movie caught me by surprise. Maybe I didn't get the full information about the main characters and what not but I was fairly surprised about the plot, if you will say. Moments into this movie, I was excited because it was set in Texico, New Mexico. My best friend Christal is from New Mexico and her boyfriend and also one of my best friend's is name is Tex and it was just crazy that it was Texico, New Mexico. We even did some research on it and realized it was a real place. This movie was moving. At first I just wanted to see it because I love Paula Patton's work and liked that she was playing a broadcast journalist because that is definitely where I want to go into career wise but after watching it, I was intrigued by Molly's (Madeline Carroll) performance as Bud Johnson's (Kevin Coster) very intelligent mature daughter and I was also really impressed by Kevin Coster's performance as well. You really saw a change in his character throughout the movie. I felt like the end of this movie wasn't the greatest because you never really find out the question you ask yourself throughout the movie but for the most part this movie was good and I liked it a lot. It wasn't all about politics and didn't try to make a reference to our current President situation but it found a path of it's own. Swing Vote was a great movie that kept my attention even at four in the morning.
Coming into seeing The Women I did not realize it was a play beforehand or even a remake of another movie. The main reason I wanted to see this movie was because Eva Mendes is in it and I love her. I was a little disappointed to realize that even a half hour into the movie Eva Mendes still has yet to be shown. This movie was definitely not what I was expecting but I liked it. I felt like the situations the group of women got themselves into was real and things that people I am friends with or that I could potentially get into myself. I did however think some of the way the ladies handled some things was a tad much but after all it is a movie. I thought the cast and acting in this movie was really well and even though a man was not shown once I didn't miss them. With this all star cast made up of Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Jada Pinkett Smith, Deborah Messing, Debi Mazar and Annette Benning there was no possible way these ladies could have gone wrong. I'd give this movie a five out of five and have also recommended it to many of my lady friends.
Being in college a lot of what I do is watch movies. My friends and I find that we watch at least one movie per week. Through this we have found ourselves sharing movies we each individually liked with ones that the other have not seen. One of the movies we randomly ended up watching the other night was 2007's No Reservations starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart. I had seen this movie whereas my best friend Christal had not. I found this movie to be refreshing and cute. I thought Catherine Zeta-Jones' acting was perfect and made the movie. The first time I viewed this movie I did not see any of the plot conflicts, actions, etc coming at all. Going through other reviews for this movie I realized that they were all food related which I thought was very cheesy to be talking about a food movie. The food in this movie wasn't the full subject and what everything was surrounded around, it was a symbol and kind of a way of getting all the characters brought together. This movie starts off with Catherine Zeta-Jones' character Kate being completely focused on work and not really having any kind of life outside her kitchen because her restaurant is her life but slowly changes within the first half of the movie when her sister Christine has a wreck and her daughter Zoe is left alive and in Kate's care. At first Kate doesn't know what to do with Zoe and getting to know Zoe's eating habits but with help from Nick, Zoe finally gets to eat some solid food. That brings Nick and Kate closer since they were on the fritz because Nick moved into Kate's kitchen when Kate was taking time off to be with Zoe in her time of need. During the course of the movie, Nick and Kate grow closer and Zoe and Kate also grow closer and Zoe comes to adore Nick. This movie has a good ending but I will say a slow beginning but judging by everything else this movie definitely gets a three and a half out of four stars.
