Pathfinder review

When I like an actor I try to watch everything they've been in while I wait for them to be in a new show or movie. Which means I watch a lot of good movies, movies or shows I would not normally watch or even rewatch shows or movies I've already seen in a new way, and I also sit through a lot of crap. Crap in pretty much every way.

Right now I'm on a Karl Urban kick. He's coming to FanExpo this year, I really like him as Dr McCoy in Star Trek, and he's hot! So I'm down loading movies he's been in that I haven't seen, the first one that I found and watched was Pathfinder. It's a movie about a Viking boy who was left for dead in the new world after failing to kill a child. He is then found by a Brave woman who raises him as her own. Then he meets a Brave woman and has the hits for her, but she goes back to her own village. Then the Vikings show up and kill everyone in his village, he gets a sword and starts killing the Vikings. The fight scenes include him riding a shield down a snow covered hill. He shows up at the hot girls village warns them to leave, and then he leaves to go kill the Vikings. Of course the girl goes to follow him and the guy who likes the girl goes follows her. Also for some reason there's a guy who doesn't talk and he follows Karl Urbans character. 

It's a very long, badly paced, gory for no reason, horribly historically inaccurate movie. I don't recommend this movie at all.

Despicable Me 2 Review

Last week I saw Despicable Me 2 with my friends from College. It was, of course, absolutely hilarious! It had a great plot, that fleshed out the characters even more, added to the things you already loved about each of them. The introduction of Lucy was done well too, even through you knew she was going to end up with Gru it was done in a way that made you look forward to them getting together. There was a lot more minion stuff, but just enough that they didn't end up annoying you, which could have been a problem. The girls were back in full force, Agnus had a lovely scene with Gru that was both touching and hilarious. Margo had the whole 'who look boys!' that every dad dreads. As usual though Edith was sort of left off to the side. I guess that's my only problem really Edith is always kind of just in the back ground of both of these movies. I did enjoy the villain in this movie more than Vector in the first movie, I found Vector funny, but kind of annoying. A personal favorite part of the movie was after the movie I asked my friends how they liked the movie against the first movie and they all said they hadn't seen it. Which means I have to lend them all the first movie. This is a very short movie review for two reason's, it was a week ago, so some stuff is gone & Big Bang Theory is on in the living room.

Monster's University Movie Review

Saturday night I went out with my friends from College. It's kind of become our thing to see movies then. We were originally going to see Now You See Me, which I still intend to see at some point, but earlier in the week my brother and sister-in-law had seen Monsters University and they both liked it, so I was in conflict about which one I wanted to see. When I met up with everyone I asked if anyone wanted to see Monsters U as well and there were a lot of people wanted to see it as well.

First we had a nice dinner at Jack Astors, which has reasonably sized portions these days. Then we saw a late screening of Monsters U, which meant the theatre was nice and quite. I really enjoyed this movie for many reasons. As usual the graphics by Pixar were amazing and believable for the world that they created. They made the monsters both adorable and completely scary or creepy.  Watching the relationship of Sully and Mike evolve is believable and satisfying. The new characters are interesting and brought in in a way that you hope you will see them again, and even with the ending in Monsters Inc it is possible to bring them in there as well.

Notable characters include the Dean of the Scare School, who's bug-like legs clicking across the ground kept me creeped out whenever she moved on screen, the frats were all very well done also, each member of each house, even when they were only briefly seen seemed to fit in perfectly. I hope they do make another Monsters movie it's a fun world to visit.

I love watching the credits, mostly because there are a lot if fun names in there and I get to say 'someone actually named there kid that?' And I always like to see which departments end up in the credits, like accounting and craft services. So I sat through the credits and before the adorable end credit scene, there was a section for production babies. I don't know if these were just kids born during production or kids that were conceived and then born during production. 

All I all Disney is awesome, Pixar makes amazing movies, both visually and emotionally, and I like credits. 

Go see Monsters U!