The Cabin in the Woods

Movie: The Cabin in the Woods  

Genre: horror

Synopsis: Five friends are headed to a cabin in the woods.  When they get there, really bad things start happening.

My two cents: I was dying to see this movie.  The trailers showed the requisite grizzled tobacco-chewing creepy guy directing them to the cabin.  Then the trailers also showed this same creepy guy on the phone telling someone that the subjects were on their way.  This movie was quite unique.  The way they blended good old fashioned zombie-style horror hi-tech “stuff” (I don’t want to give more away) was quite ingenious.  This movie spends a lot of time with its tongue planted firmly in place.  If you let yourself go with the flow, you should have a good time with it.

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Titanic in 3D IMAX

Movie: Titanic in 3D IMAX

Genre: thriller

Synopsis: I think everyone probably knows the story here.  This was a re-release in IMAX 3D.

My two cents: This was the first time I saw this movie.  It was pretty impressive.  It has been a while since a movie made me do so much reflecting.  Two weeks after seeing it, I find myself still thinking about it a lot.  Hat said . . . I don’t think that the IMAX 3D really added much.

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Delicacy

Movie: Delicacy

Genre: romantic comedy

Synopsis: Natalie (Audrey Tautou) is an executive in a small company.  When her husband dies in a traffic accident, Natalie deals with her grief by throwing herself into her work.  Eventually, almost by accident, she starts dating a Swedish do-worker.  The movie follows the blossoming romance and how she deals with the conflicts that arise.

My two cents: This was a really sweet and enjoyable romantic comedy.  It was nice to see the beautiful woman fall for the somewhat dorky, slightly overweight guy with a receding hairline.

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Goon

Movie: Goon

Genre: drama-comedy

Synopsis: In a family of PhD’s, Doug (Seann William Scott) is the black sheep who works as a bouncer.  Doug is at a hockey game with a friend when he gets into a scuffle with one of the players.  The scuffle is resolved when he knocks out the player.  The coach is so impressed that he hires Doug to be a goon – a player whose purpose in life is to get into fights with opposing players.  Doug seems to have found his niche in life, as well as a girl, although his parents do not agree. The movie builds to a climactic game in which Doug goes toe-to-toe with the soon-to-retire reigning king of the league’s goons, played by Liev Schreiber

My two cents: I liked this movie, but hoped to like it more.  I liked seeing Seann William Scott is a role other than Stiffler.  He did a pretty decent job.  The movie had the elements to be really good, but only managed to be pretty good.

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The Raid: Redemption

Movie: The Raid: Redemption

Genre: martial arts thriller

Synopsis: This is an Indonesian film set in Jakarta, with English subtitles.  Tama is a local crime lord has taken over an entire apartment building has his headquarters.  Neither police nor rival crime gangs have been able to penetrate it.  Rama (Iko Uwais) is a member of a Jakarta swat team sent in to try and capture Tama and shut down his organization.  Things do not go well and soon Rama is pretty much on his own versus an entire building of gangsters out to kill him.

My two cents: I was not overly impressed with this movie.  Lots of martial arts action, but nothing to set it apart from other movies in the genre

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Wrath of the Titans

Movie: Wrath of the Titans

Genre: fantasy adventure

Synopsis: This is a sequel to Clash of the Titans.  Sam Worthington is back as Perseus, the half-human/half-god son of Zeus (Liam Neeson).  Zeus’s brother, Hades (Ralph Fiennes) Ares have captured Zeus and are draining him of his power in order to release the Titans (led by Zeus’s father, Kronos) upon the world.  The only person who can save the world is Perseus.

My two cents: I was underwhelmed by this; but then, I was underwhelmed by the remake of Clash of the Titans.

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