Perfect Sense REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff" would like to present a review for the motion picture starring Eva Green and Ewan McGregor, "Perfect Sense." This film is follows the life of a chef and a scientist falling in love as diseases spread around the world killing off each one of our five senses, starting with our sense of smell. "Perfect Sense" deserves the rating that I give it, which is a 8/10. So lets talk about the one thing that really bothered me about this movie, and all the great things this movie had sneaked into it.

To start off lets talk about the one thing that really had bothered me about this movie. It was enough to lose two points for it. Well it has to do with the beginning of the film, but it wasn't how the film exactly started right away. After that though it seemed to slow down a bit, and take forever to pick up. When it did pick up though, it was like all of a sudden everyone had the disease. It never really explained where the disease came from or what really started all of this. Oh actually one other little thing was that I didn't like the camera angle when it was on Ewan's bike at the beginning of the film. Gave me a bit of a headache watching that.

Otherwise the rest of the movie I absolutely loved. I loved how real the movie seemed to be. Like they used images and videos of real people from all over the world in some scenes, and they just used them perfectly within the film. Like at the beginning when Eva Green was voiceovering with talking about life. They showed videos of real life people doing the things she was saying. I dunno I just really liked that I guess. They used this technique also within the film, like after everyone lost there sense of smell. She said that your sense of smell is directly related to memories, and so they showed images of real people. Just a really cool part of the film I liked I guess. The acting in this film was great, especially the two leads. Ewan and Eva seemed really believable, and they had amazing chemistry in this film. The rest of the cast was well picked for this film too. I really enjoyed and believed everyone's performance. Ewen Bremner played Ewan's character's coworker, and I really enjoyed him in this film. The story line of the film (screenplay/plot) was well put together. Like I always say, it just worked from the beginning to the end of the film. TALKING ABOUT THE END OF THE FILM though!!! Oh my god, I loved it! It really was one of the greatest ending I have seen for a film like this. I really actually wasn't made at the way this ended, sure there could be more explaining about after that but it worked great. The camera angles and direction of this film were good. I really did enjoy this film.

All-in-all this film was VERY good. Need a movie to watch with someone special? Well this movie is a perfect date night movie. It well deserves it's 8/10 rating I gave it. So make sure you go check it out sometime.

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In Time REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff" would like to present a review for the motion picture, "In Time" starring Justin Timberlake. This film is about how time is currency, and the fact that once you turn 25 you stop aging and have one more year to get more time. If you want to buy a cup of coffee it will cost you minutes on your time you have to live. This follows the story of Will, played by Justin Timberlake. This film came out October 28, 2011. I am going to be giving this movie a 6/10 rating. Here is why . . .

To start of the negatives of this film I am going to have to say that I really didn't like the costume and make-up in this film really. I know it is supposed to be futuristic and different from our time, but for some reason it just all seemed to weird for me. I kept focusing on this question in my head, "What and why are they wearing this?" Another thing that bothered me was the acting in this film, some of it was good, but I really hated Amanda Seyfried's performance in this film. She annoyed me the whole way through the film. I dunno I just had a hard time believing in her character with her performance. Justin Timberlake and everyone else did an okay job, but I feel like this was a weak cast for a great idea for a film. Which leads me to the fact that this film had an amazing premise, but I feel like they wasted the idea, but more on that later because . . .

The positives of this film include that this film had a great story to it. It all seemed very interesting. This film had me wanting to see it from the trailer (even though I never saw it in theaters unfortunately). They played the idea good I thought, but it could have been better. I expected more I guess. This leads me to the fact that they seemed to explain the system of currency/life in this universe very well. I did like how they explained it and showed it in this film. The action in this film was very good though, kept me on edge in some scenes. The storyline went along really nicely all the parts of the movie seemed to connect logically. The movie kept me interested in what was going to happen. At some times it kept me on the edge of my seat cheering for them, and the ending didn't happen the way I thought it would so it wasn't predictable (which I really like in a film). I like a film that isn't original and won't do what every other film in history would've done, like the ending in the movie I reviewed earlier, "Buried." I may have hated it but I loved it because it wasn't what I expected (unpredictable). Which helps a movie be some what enjoyable.

So all-in-all, "In Time" was a good movie just wasn't as good as I expected it to be. An okay movie to watch for a popcorn night, you will enjoy it but nothing spectacular. So yeah it is a popcorn flick that gets the rating on my scale, a 6/10.

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Kung Fu Panda 2 REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff" would like to present a review for the second installment in the Kung Fu Panda series, "Kung Fu Panda 2." The main theme of this film is about Po trying to find out who he really is, where did he come from? I am going to give 'Kung Fu Panda 2" a 7/10 rating. It was really good and funny (I really enjoyed it), but there were a few things that had bothered me.

Lets talk about the positives first shall we, change it up a bit from my most recent  reviews. Well the first thing I want to say is props to Gary Oldman voicing the character of Shen. I just looked that up, and WOW I knew I loved whoever was voicing him, but that is freaking awesome that it was Gary Oldman. So good job to him. Oh and good job to the writers for creating an great villain. I really like the comedic timing in this movie along with it jokes it brought along with them. Very funny and very well done. That brings us to the plot of this film, which I liked. I have more to say though about it below. Continuing on though, I really liked the look of the animation in this film. Everything looked really cool and nice, if you know what I mean. Like some animated movies had terrible animation, but this one was very good. I really liked how the made Tigress softer in this film. It says that even the toughest people do have feelings. Saying this leads me to the message of the film, which kind of has multiple messages. I really liked them, they teach kids a lesson is what a good kids film should do.

Now though we get to the negatives of the film. I said above that I liked the plot, yes I liked it but in my opinion it didn't flow very well. I mean one second they are focused on this problem, something happens, no time to think about it, and BAM they are doing something else. It just seemed to move along very fast, like I said, "It didn't flow well." Thats my opinion though. That happened a couple times in the film so it kind of bothered me. Oh and then there is the end battle, what is it with movies lately with building up to the end battle between good and evil, and then having there battle between them be really short. So it lost a point there.

Otherwise, all-in-all a very good family film! It has a great message for little kids. If you want a good popcorn flick with your family that has a laugh, then this film is a must-see. It gets a high average rating of a 7/10.

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7/3/12 Box Office Report

Last night was the midnight premiere of the reboot film of the spiderman films "The Amazing Spiderman." So how did it do? Well "The Amazing Spiderman" received $7.5 million dollars from midnight showings last night. IMAX reported $1.2 million of that money or 16 percent. Sony reported also that its $7.5 million made from Spidey's reboot lat night, was identical to Spiderman 3's midnight showings in May of 2007. There are many contributing factors to both of these movies and why such a low gross at midnight.

The new spidey film just opened up right before the 4th of July holiday, so many people are shipping out for there vacations. For May of 2007 Spiderman, it was because kids were still in school. It is hard to tell where "The Amazing Spiderman" could go in its six day weekend. It might pass the $100 million mark, but it is really a tough one to tell on how much it will make. We will have to see.

What do you think though? Will the new "Amazing Spiderman" gross a lot of money on its first weekend?

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Buried REVIEW

The "Motion Picture Buff" presents a review for the motion picture "Buried," a Rodrigo Cortés film. This film is about Paul Conroy (played by Ryan Reynolds), who is a truck driver in Iraq. He and other truck drivers were ambushed, and Paul was knocked out in the ambush. The next thing he knows is that he is stuck in a coffin, and so the movie ensues it's plot from there. I am going to give this film a marvelous rating of 8/10. There wasn't much I hated at all about this film, as you can see. Even the things that bothered me were very minor.

So to get rid of the negatives right away, I would like to say that Ryan Reynolds did his most amazing performance I have ever seen. At times though I thought he wasn't doing his best. He still made me believe though everything. I was lost in his character, but I just thought he lost some off his great acting he had in this film at some points within the film. Other than that um oh yeah the . . . well I will not say but . . . Where did it come from? (If you have seen this it should make sense what I just said). My sister saw this movie before me and ended up telling me, and it had made sense that it could have happened that way. I never saw it though, so yeah though just a little thing. (Sorry if a bit confusion but trying not to give anything away). There was also some camera shots I didn't like at some points, I thought they were in the complete wrong spot. Oh, one other thing I have to say though is that I didn't really like this one scene, it really had no relevance and it was weird.

Now the rest of this movie was just absolutely perfect. I love the beginning of the film. I could have thought of 10 other ways to start the film, but the way they did is most likely the absolute best. It keeps in tone with the rest of the movie really because, if they would have done it my ways it would have been the only other odd scene. The ending is another one of those hate and love endings I mentioned in my "Last Night" Review. I loved it more in this film because it just made it absolutely perfect, down to the very last second it was. As I said above, Ryan Reynolds acted his heart out in this film. It was just so freaking believable all the time. He really made me nervous while I was watching the film. I felt like I was in the box with him the whole time. That would probably have to do with some of the direction of the film and camera angles. Ryan though did an excellent job playing a part while being stuck in a coffin. It just shocked me how believable it was. I was totally immersed in the film the whole time. I was screaming for him, crying with him, and feeling all the emotions he felt while he was in the box. By the end you feel somewhat claustrophobic. The score of this film was pretty decent I thought. I also loved the dialogue in this film. Chris Sparling, the writer of "Buried," did an excellent job with that I will have to say. I would though like to say thanks to everyone who helped make this film. It truly was very incredible.

So all-in-all a marvelous film that I enjoyed very much. Just had a few minor things that had bothered me with it now that I think about it. It is a must-see movie though, so it would be good for a movie night one night (popcorn flick). If your ever in the mood for a thriller/mystery, well this would be a great one to watch.

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