Posts have been lagging around here because a) who reads these things anyway? and b) I haven't really been watching as many new movies. So here is a basic breakdown of what I've neglected to mention over the past month and half.

Inglorius Basterds: Liked it, but I need to see it again with someone who enjoys Tarentino movies for what they are, not just the commercials of them on TV.

The Perfect Getaway: Liked it, not what I was expecting.

Surrogates: Iffy, liked the premise, just hated the fact that I knew what was going to happen within the first five minutes of the show. I also have a negative reaction on this movie because it was children (and by that I mean moronic teenager) movie night. Whoever thinks it's cool to talk aloud during movies should be drug out into the street and shot.

As I said, not a lot of movies to review. I want see the new movie Zombieland, but I don't want to like it. Zombies are the new vampires, and I'm getting rather sick of everyone thinking how cool they are. What's next? A movie about a sensitive yet misunderstood zombie who just wants to love and be loved? Wait a minute, just watched the new Reverent trailer. Doh!

Latest greatest toy movie.

So it could be said that most of the movies I've seen over the past couple of months haven't been too noteworthy. They've been entertaining, I'll grant them that, but inspiring...not so much. However: the recent film G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra had some interesting moments, and while I'm the first to admit that it wasn't the kind of G.I. Joe movie I would have made (Cobra would have killed more Joes) I still had fun watching it. Can I recommend it? If you're in the mood for something to you don't have to think about too much and want to watch things get blow up (without all the annoying crap they stuffed into Transformers) give it a go. Now you know...

A bit of escapism.

I've been in a bit of a classical gangster type of mood lately, so perhaps that tainted how much I enjoyed watching Public Enemies last night. I'm not all that familiar with John Dillinger, but I have heard the name, so I don't know how close this movie gets to his true character. Depp did play a good part though, but I wasn't all that surprised by that. Bale on the other hand played a toned down part I thought, not his best though. I liked him more in the recent Terminator flick. Anyway, I liked Public Enemies, with lots of period-esque gangsters running around with Tommy-Guns and and such, it's a good time.

I still hate Vegas.

You know, for not being much of a comedy fan, I have to admit the film, The Hangover, was rather amusing. Now don't get me wrong, there were some sick and wrong sequences in the movie that had me cringing and looking away, but I was laughing while doing so. Basically it's movie about a bachelor party gone awry in Los Vegas. It was a little cliche, and I thought they could have made things end up a little more strange, but overall I enjoyed the movie. If you're just looking for some mindless stupid humor, that doesn't fall into the inane adolescent schlock category, this movie fits the bill.

Light and the dark.

I have two distinctly different movies to report on tonight. I'll get the horror movie out of the way first. Drag Me To Hell is a movie about not pissing off gypsies. Don't do it, they'll send you to hell if you piss 'em off! I know this is labeled as a horror movie but I found myself laughing more than I did cringing in terror. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either.
The other movie is Up, Pixar's latest. You know I liked this movie, but it wasn't for any of the obvious kid-type reasons that I should have. Growing old sucks, this movie illustrates that, but it doesn't mean you should stop living your life. I liked that. The dogs were funny too.

No fate but what we make.

And so after many years of wishing they would just set a Terminator movie in the future, they finally did it with Terminator: Salvation. Was it everything I hoped for, not 100%, but I'll give it a very strong 99%. Hot damn! This movie grabbed me from the get go, because even though I thought I knew the story well enough, this introduced elements that were all new, and even a couple of surprises. Now what should have been the biggest surprise was ruined by the stupid trailer for the movie, but all the rest were moments where I kept thinking; No way! I don't know if this movie is every one's cup of tea, but for this odd Sandman out, it was a whole lot of fun.

. . .of a demon in my view.

Tonight I took in Angels and Demons, I was satisfied. As with the novels themselves, I thought this movie was better than DaVinci Code. As for all the other little nitpicky things people seem to get all worked up about. . .blah, whatever. Hanks portrays a decent Langdon, not how I saw him, but what's so special about that? Changing aspects of the story to fit it all in the movie was fine with me too. And of course I always enjoy watching Ewan McGregor. ever since Trainspotting, the dude's just a fun actor. My only gripe with this movie was my main group with DaVinci Code, not enough of the back story on the art. (sigh) However, I felt they put a little more of that in this movie, but still. . .give me a two hour art history lesson, I'm game. Either way go see this one.
As for other recent movies, I've seen them but can't think of anything good or bad to say about them. Wolverine was alright. Star Trek was alright. Not much more I can say about them than that.