Reviews and Ramblings

Alright so, I totally got an awesome opportunity tonight - I got to see a private screening of a movie. This has not happened for me before. The movie? I Love You, Man. Not only was this movie hilarious, but the actors were great, as was the story-line. Now, it is a little twist off of a combination of other movies but it is pretty original. The only problem I had with it, was that it took a bit too long to get to the climax of the story. Sure, it was great to see the friendship develop, but at the same time, I even caught myself looking at my watch. This rarely happens, as I am such an avidly fanatically-minded person, but when it does happen, it's for a reason. This time, it's because the development of Peter & Sydney's relationship took a bit too long. However, as sexual as some of the jokes were, the costumes were fine, the lighting was great, transitions and shots were put together beautifully, and most of the wide frames were good. However, some of the moving wide...

A complete and total waste of an hour and a half. Seriously. The only good part of the movie were SOME of the costumes. The movie took parts of Narnia, Harry Potter, Snakes on a Plane, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The DaVinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, X-Men, Nacho Libre, MTV's Cribs, Click, some Jackie Chan moves, Flavor of Love, Borat, Star Wars, James Bond, and of course American Pie. I am sure there are more that I missed, but as I said, it was a waste of time, and I barely paid attention to it. However, I decided to stick it out. The filming was pretty bad, although a lot of the accents were good. The costumes for the Narnia part were fairly accurate, and Chewbacca and the Storm Troopers were correct (minus Chewbacca's blue hair, of course). However, the outfits for the Charlie/Chocolate Factory were totally off (Willy Wonka looked REALLY creepy), the Oompa-Loompas were just WRONG, the shots of the entire movie were okay, c...