Trailer Talk: Oz the Great and Powerful

Well it has been a long time since I have done a trailer talk here, and when I woke up this morning I watched a trailer to "Oz the Great and Powerful." I got so excited about this trailer that I just HAD to talk about it. You can find the trailer below.

Well now I am here to talk about the actual trailer itself. For starters I guess I can say that I am actually really intrigued by the idea driving this movie. I loved the musical "Wizard of Oz." One of my four sisters always loved that movie, and so we watched it quite a bit and surprisingly I love it. I can also remember reading the book in fifth grade. So yes a movie about how the Wizard arrived in Oz and got the fame he got it going to of course be on "The Movie List."

What did you think about the trailer though? Are you excited to see it? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below.

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The Lorax REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff" would like to present a review for the animated film "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" brought to you by the creators of "Despicable Me." In this film a 12-year-old boy named, Ted (voiced by Zac Efron) searches for one thing that will get him the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover first why this thing has disappeared from the town's midsts. He must hear the story of the Lorax.

Well hm, I think in this review I should start with the positives since this movie was absolutely full of them. Well the voices for the characters were just great. I mean everyone who voiced there character, made it their own character. Danny DeVito as the Lorax was great, he had an excellent voice for him. Then Ed Helms as The Once-ler was magnificent. Zac Efron, Taylor Swift (who I usually don't like AT ALL!!!), Betty White, and Rob Riggle all did a great job! They made their characters them, which I absolutely love. The messages in this film I want to talk about too! Oh they were great for kids to learn about, but what makes it greater is that the parents watching it with them (along with us young adults watching it too) it gives them a wake-up call to reality! That this is what we are doing, that this is what our life is like now. Thats what I loved about it. This movie didn't just have one message to it, which I am usually not a huge fan of to many messages in a film. In this movie though they made each one relevant and displayed them in a very good way. Now I didn't know this movie was supposed to be a musical at all, but let me just say that I am so definitely purchasing the soundtrack to this film. I think that my favorite song would have to be either the end song, "Let It Grow" or I would also pick, "How Bad Can I Be?" I just loved the songs within this film, all of the songs were so catchy. I was humming and singing to one yesterday with a friend . . . that catchy. In "The Lorax" I also really loved the story line. I thought it flowed really good, I loved the story that they told us. I really enjoyed this movie. One more thing to add is that this film isn't just a kids film to me, I think it does a really good job at making adults enjoy the movie as well as the kids. Which makes a really good kids film, so parents/babysitters will enjoy it too.

Now I only had two really negative things to say about this film. First thing was that the direction in some of the scene's was a little iffy, not horrible but just seemed a little bit unnecessary in some spots. Then the other thing that had bothered me was the ending. I felt like it was a wee bit rushed, but other than that I really have no other negatives to it.

So all-in-all this is a great kids film that adults can enjoy too on their own. I am going to have to say that it really is a must-see film, and probably one of my favorite animated films. Go ahead when you are at Wal-Mart and buy it on Blu-Ray. I can promise you shouldn't regret it. So on the scale out of five what am I going to give this film? Hm, well its going to receive a four out of five. Now go check out "The Lorax."

Well thanks for reading my review about the animated film, "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax." I hope you enjoyed. Now I hope you have taken some time to see the new tab above that is displayed as "MUST-SEE FILMS." This is not a list of all the must-see films I have reviewed for that just look in the sidebar at the labels and click the must-see films one. This tab is for you to see (so far) my TOP TEN favorite movies. I have not reviewed all these films, but I am working on it.  So go check it out, I will be adding to the list and making it TOP TWENTY movies and so on. So again thanks for reading and thanks for the continued support here. Make sure you spread the word about "The Motion Picture Buff," and check out "The Lorax" you will enjoy it! Stay tuned . . . for more to come.

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Rock of Ages REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff" would like to present a review for the musical "Rock of Ages." For this film I would have to give it a 4/10 on my scale. This movie was absolutely ridiculous, but there were a few things that kept me somewhat interested in the film.

So lets start this review with the positives of the film. The music in this film was absolutely the greatest. I love 80's music, and this film had the best of the best from that era. I thought that some of the acting from some of the actors/actresses was very well done. For example: Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, Julianne Hough as Sherrie, Alec Baldwin as Dennis, and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Patricia Whitmore. Those were the only things I really liked about this film.

Now for the negatives of this film which as by the 4/10 rating, has a lot of them. This film seemed to want to be everywhere at once. The singing didn't just stay in one place when it came to a song. They went to every story line in the film basically for every song sung. So it wasn't just one person singing a song, it was almost the whole cast. Now back on the topic of story lines, this film seemed to have a lot of them. One with Tom Cruises character, then one with Catherine's character, then one with Julianne's character, and also one with Alec's. The love stories in this film were crazy in my opinion. Two of the love stories were about a couple who just met and apparently they were in love like a blink of an eye. I do believe in love at first sight but this film just stretched its limits to far. Then the other love story came out of nowhere, but was a somewhat normal love that had developed over a time period. One other thing I had hated about this film was that there was this one lady who was in a lot of shots for some songs, but really had NO relevance.

Over all, I just felt like this movie was all over the place and didn't do it well at all. The music in this film though was absolutely excellent, along with the singing. Oh I forgot to mention that I do not know how this film was only PG-13 too, that floored me a little. Back on topic though, so all-in-all "Rock of Ages" deserves its 4/10 rating.

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