Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl REVIEW

Well welcome back to the Motion Picture Buff again. Today I would like to present a review for the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. In this film an eccentric blacksmith teams up with notable and recently captured pirate, Captian Jack Sparrow, to save a girl to whom has been captured by a group of pirates that used to be Sparrow's allies.

Now most people I know have seen this movie before. You had to have seen it right? This is a classic film that everyone must see. Why? Well because it is literally a very enjoyable film that keeps you interested the whole way through. What about it is so interesting? Lets first talk about the cast in this film. Johnny Depp acts with serious perfection in this film. This is the role he was born to play because in movies he acts to today in, I still see a little bit of Jack Sparrow in his role (which isn't good). Anyway, Johnny Depp, plays the character of Captian Jack Sparrow, and they did a great job picking him for this role. I was glad to see Johnny getting a nomination for Best Actor Oscar for this role. Kiera Knightley is also in this film and I looked it up, she was only 17 years old when they did the filming for this film. For 17 years old, Kiera did a great job in this film. She is an amazing actress and this is where it practically all began. She just portrays the role of Elizabeth Swan amazingly. When picking the cast for this film, they could not have done a better job. I could go on and on about all the actors and actresses in this movie, but lets just say they all do a fantastic job with their roles to bring an amazing movie to us viewers. Some other notable people in this film would include: Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Lee Arenberg, and Jack Davenport.

Next I wanted to mention the story for this film. It is a decent story, its nothing grand and spectacular. It is an enjoyable ride though. I enjoy this movie every single time I watch it, and trust me, by now I have had to have seen this movie well over 20 times. Director, Gore Verbinski, does a great job with this film. He portrays the movie beautifully and he keeps us on our toes throughout the whole movie. At the end of the movie you are begging for more, which as most people know, we do get (more on that later though). The cinematography in this movie is really good to. I love the way the movie looks and feels. It has the right look and feel for it, I wouldn't want it any other way.

The last few things I want to mention about this movie are probably what I love most about the Pirates of the Caribbean films. The musical score for this film is just wonderful. Klaus Bedelt does a great job setting up the perfect theme song for a good series of movies to come. The rest of the score as well is just perfect for the film. I can find myself humming songs from this movie all the time, especially right after watching it. Now the other thing I want to mention is just how enjoyable this movie is. It has all the right pieces to a perfect popcorn movie. It has humor, action, adventure, romance, and just a kickass cast pulling of the wittiest of characters. It may not be a perfect film, but it is a sure enjoyable ride.

Now rating this movie I will give Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl a well deserved popcorn movie night rating. It also deserves a must-see film rating because personally I think everyone must-see this film. It is for sure a instant classic. People will be enjoying this movies for years and years, as they already have been. It is a film you will watch over and over again, and so it does get a buy on Blu-Ray rating as well. Now for the rating out of ten stars I will give, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, a 8/10 star rating. 

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Planes REVIEW

The Motion Picture Buff would like to present a review of the Disney film, Planes. This film is about a crop-dusting plane who has the dream of competing in a race that goes around the world. That is the simple premise of this kids animated film.

Lets begin with the negatives of this film. Hmm . . . well lets just say that there are quite a few things wrong with this film. First of all I would like to mention that the dialogue in this movie sucks. The voices for the characters are just choppy and obviously recorded. Normally when watching an animated movie I forget that its people giving the animated object its voice. This movie did not do it well though in my opinion. Moving on to the topic of the characters I would have to say that I did not give a care in the world about them. They were dull, obvious, and just not interesting at all to me. The last thing I do want to mention is the fact that the story was just obvious and so not intriguing. With this movie you have seen the same formula over and over again. So it was kind of a snore.

To mention some good things that I enjoyed about this movie I would have to say that it was kind of cute. I mean most kid movies are pretty darn adorable. This movie looks a lot like the movie Cars, as it is from the people who made Cars. One thing I also enjoyed was the link between the Cars world and the world of Planes. It worked out well.

Well all-in-all this movie will most likely entertain any child, but if your picking a movie to watch with the kids your watching/babysitting this movie would not be it. So yeah its a kid movie that I would only buy for your kids on DVD, NOT Blu-Ray. For the rating I would give Disney's Planes a 2/10 rating. Its not a good movie in my opinion. I was bored watching the movie.

Well I hope you enjoyed this short review of Planes. Make sure you tune back in later today actually, I plan on reviewing another movie. So stay tuned for more awesomeness.

Noah Mark Bitney

The Avengers REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff" would like to present a review for Marvel's "The Avengers." Well I am sure you all can guess what I am going to rate this film right? Well I can honestly say it is not a full 10/10 unfortunately (it takes a lot for a movie to be able to do that). It is thought a 9/10 FOR SURE!!! If I could do 9.5/10 I would but I cannot so on we go with the review, with one tiny negative about the movie.

Well we should get this darn negative out the way right away. The only thing that bothered me about this film was the fact that it starts out that Iron Man and Captian America agree and like each other and work together for a little bit, but then they are suddenly arguing? I just don't get that I guess. (Oh and also I am not a huge fan of Chris Evans as Captian America but he did okay).

OTHERWISE this film is just bloody freaking epic. Oh it made me laugh, cry, gave my goosebumps, and much MUCH more. I don't want to give anything away to anyone (very few people) who hasn't seen it, so I am going to not try and talk to much about this film. Though I do want to talk about the directing, acting, plot, and just the awesomeness that came from this film. Directing: Joss Whedon was defiantly the man for the job, 1000 freaking percent. The camera angles were always just perfect, and I love how he made every Avenger relevant, even Black Widow and Hawkeye. Acting: well Robert Downey Jr. always does his absolute best as Iron Man (my favorite). I always wonder if that is how he is somewhat in real life? Mark Ruffalo is made to be the Hulk. You might have heard people say this before, but I am going to say it anyway, this movie made me LOVE the Hulk. I hated him before this, but now he is one of my favorite superhero's. Of course though everyone else did a GREAT job. The plot of this film was just superb. Joss Whedon you have defiantly outdone yourself this year with this film. You are now on my list of directors to watch out for. This movie was just a bad-ass movie all together. I love this movie so much, well probably obvious because I have seen it four times now. Just everything, and mostly the last like 20-30 minutes. Not going to give anything away though so I am shutting my words up.

All-in-all a very, VERY good motion picture that I absolutely love, but can't give it my best rating because I said to myself, even if there is one little thing I do not like about it I have to bump it down one rating, which sucks for this film because I love it so much. So a well deserve popcorn flick rating along with a 9/10. A MUST SEE!!!

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Brave REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff' presents a review for Disney's Pixar film "Brave." The rating that I believe this film deserves is a sad 5/10. Keep in mind this though: I do believe this film is a good kid movie. For Pixar though I had a few problems with this film.

Starting now with the negatives in this review is that halfway through the film, when she decides to change her fate, the complete tone of the film decides to change. The first half of the film had a completely different tone than the other half, but then at the end it went back to its original tone, and they didn't change slowly, it was like BAM change of the movies tone. For this it lost about two points on my scale. Then apparently she changed her fate? I feel like what had happened (trying not to give away any spoilers) really wasn't a change of fate at all. For that it lost about two more points, it really bugged me. Then the one other point came from it trying to hard to be funny. I feel like the film just tried way to hard, I mean sure I laughed at some points and such, but at some points it was just plain old stupid.

Now to end on a positive note it was funny (in some spots) and cute. I loved the voices for this film, everyone who voiced there characters did an absolute amazing job. Pixar seems to do a great job with picking people to voice there characters. For example: Monsters Inc., Toy Story, The Incredibles, and others. One more thing that I liked you could say was the messages that "Brave" tried to tell. I said earlier that I hated how the transition was between them, but I have to say I do like what they were trying to say, just not how they said it.

All-in-all this movie had a good message for kids just didn't it abruptly and not in a good fashion. A good kid movie I guess, but unlike other Pixar's (excluding Cars and Cars 2) where they have it so parents can enjoy it also. So a deserved rating of 5/10. Now people might not like it but what can I say I didn't like how the plot went with the tone. Could have been better.

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