Maybe Watch This: Tower Heist

Promotional Poster for Tower Heist

I think we all know what I am about to say here, I was bored and I started browsing through the On Demand offered by Comcast Cable when I ran across a bunch of awesome movies I wanted to watch. So I picked one out and that is that.

Except that is not exactly all of that. I chose Tower Heist not because of the movie, I meant the plot line was pretty obvious. Instead, I decided to watch this movie because of Ben Stiller, who I have loved since I saw Zoolander, and Eddie Murphy, who sometimes manages to be in amazing films such as Bowfinger. That is right, this is a movie I watched because I wanted to see the actors, as rare as that occurrence is. Anyway, here is my review.

Maybe Watch This: In Time

Movie Poster for In Time

I seem to be moving forward on the clock as to when I am awake and when I want to go to sleep, which is why I watched this movie at noon instead of my usual time of midnight. As such, I ended my day (or at least what is the end of my day) watching a movie that I had never heard of before but looked interesting based on what was written about it on the on demand menu.

For this movie, I saw the name Justin Timberlake and that alone caught my interest and made me want to see what this was about. I think he is an interesting character, so I thought why not watch a movie with him in it if it sounds interesting enough. Then I read the description that came after his name, a science fiction movie about the near future where we do not have a currency anymore because our new currency is how long we live. Basically it takes the concept that you sell your time for money and just skips that transaction to make it simply you sell your time. Interesting to say the least. So I decided to give it a go and this is what I thought after watching the film.

Skip This: The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Movie Poster for the Pirates!

Another night and another long story about how I have nothing to do is what my review readers have probably come to expect of these introductions, but alas it was not this way last night. Instead, I rather had a lot of stuff that I could be doing and I chose to watch this movie. You see, I could have been playing my video games and ranking up, I could have been reading one of my new books, and I could have been watching a couple of television shows that I have fallen a little bit behind on. Instead I chose to watch this movie, for I knew that it was made by the same stop-motion folks that put together the entire Wallace and Gromit series as well the Chicken Run movie. Now while I found Chicken Run a little bit disappointing, I would still recommend that movie for young folks because of the nicely woven tale and beautiful stop motion. But I do admire and adore the creators for their Wallace and Gromit stop-motion pieces, as those were expertly done and very friendly for all ages. And with such an inspiring and big cast, how could they go wrong I thought. At any rate, here is my review for their most recent movie the Pirates! Band of Misfits.

Maybe Play This: Black Ops

In case you are in the dark when it comes to Video Games, the sequel to 2010's major first person shooter hit is coming out this November. For those that care, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will premier in stores November 13th. But while there is still some time between the next game releasing and now, I thought I would finish up the single player campaign and finally give a review on the original Call of Duty: Black Ops. As of last night, I finally finished the campaign on the hardest difficulty.

Maybe Watch This: Total Recall (2012)

Total Recall (2012) Movie Poster

I will openly admit that this movie was not actually on my list of films I wanted to see, but that is because I consider the first film a classic story that should not be messed with. And being completely honest with myself, I know that if a director wants to remake a film, then they usually also want to change something in the plot. I do not think I have ever seen a film that was remade and simply just updated, new actors and maybe better actors, new technology to make the background, and perfection of an already outstanding script. Nope, they never want to do that because why did you make a whole new film then.

Still, my friends decided it was time to see a movie and they persuaded me to go and watch this film last night. I will say that I am happy I did go and see it with them (I love seeing movies with my friends), but with that in mind I will also say that the original movie is still better. And do not worry, I'll explain why I think the original is better in this as well, because that was the crux of my decision. Anyway, here is my review of the movie Total Recall (2012).

Total Recall [2012]

So for those that do not know, which seems to be a lot of folks in the younger generation, this is actually a remake of a movie by the same name, Total Recall (1990). That's right, a movie made just twenty-two years ago they have decided to remake with better graphics and a script that they think will hit home with the new generation. Except, to anyone that has seen the old movie this one is not even in the same playing field, let alone should carry the same name.

Maybe Watch This: 21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street Movie Poster

I cannot get to sleep tonight, which is maybe because I took a two hour nap earlier. At any rate, since my insomnia is keeping me up I decided to watch a movie. So I picked the one that has been bugging me for a while, 21 Jump Street. To explain how this movie has been bugging me, on Comcast they keep running an ad for the movie on their On Demand service, stay on the screen looking for a movie long enough and you'll see how annoying it gets. Anyway, I thought you should maybe watch it.

21 Jump Street [2012]

So this is just like any other typical movie you have seen about officers of the law going under-cover in a high school to find out who is selling drugs. Basically they both were strangely different in high school, the extremes of nerd and geek, and they in general did not get along. Then they get out of high school and become friends for one reason or another, so it should lead to a funny but very generalized comedy. And to that effect, that is exactly what this movie is, a funny but very generalized comedy.

Play on Smartphone: Infinity Blade

Infinity Blade
Logo

I know this is a really late review end it, I know the sequel to this game is out and every possible gaming website on the planet has already beaten this game. But I lag behind because that is cost effective, especially for these single player games where it does not matter if I am up to date. And besides, none of my friends have this game on their smartphones so none of them will be able to battle me anyway. If you'd like to download it from the iTunes store, please follow the following link (or click the logo)

[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/infinity-blade/id387428400?mt=8]

With all of that said, I finally got around to playing this app for my iPhone and it is amazing! Just for a quick clarification, yes I used the words "got around to playing," as in I've had this sitting on my phone for the past month or so and never even touched it. I bought it on sale during the July 4th holiday and just never touched it because I had too many other things to do. With that said, here's my review.

Watch This: The Dark Knight Rises

Before I even begin to give a review of the newest Batman, I want to first take another moment to wish the best to the families of the victims and to the survivors of the Century 16 theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Personally, I remember getting out of the theater and being so happy as I tried to come-up with the words for this review. All of that changed the minute I got home and turned on my computer, opening up twitter to find that for some folks it had not been such a happy occasion. It is going to take everyone a long time to recover and understand what happened at this midnight opening.

If you want to know what happened, I was doing a live update blog that morning that can be found in the link below. You can also search any of the major news sources for this shooting. I've also done that search in my blog, bringing up many of the major news sources and posting links to their individual articles.

Canvas Spots - Batman Theater Shooting

Batman: The Dark Knight Rises [2012]

I have to start my little review of the movie by telling everyone that I'm actually not the biggest superhero movie fan. In fact, I tend to think badly or down of superhero movies because I just have never had a love of superheroes. Yet somehow I keep ended up at the movie theater to watch all of these movies released. Just this summer, I've seen the new Avengers movie and the Amazing Spiderman, to which I probably would not have gone to. I am not really that big a fan of spiderman and the Avengers was something I only wanted to see because my friends were going with it.

With all of that said, even I was excited for the new Batman movie. Why? Because so far I have loved the previous two and Christopher Nolan's ability to create perfectly creepy villains. That's right, my favorite part about all the recent Batman movies is not the bat, but actually all of the bad guys!

The Movie Trailer for Batman: The Dark Knight Rises