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David Tennant rehearsing Love’s Labours Lost

I do not know why actors rehearsing in street clothes is so damn sexy, but by God, it is.

The King’s Speech

Half of a review i started after just seeing the movie. Can’t remember what i thought about it about that. It’s been a while.

Alright so there’s a lot to love in the poignant little flick about the three kings of england. Ther firest that i should focus on i the best part: the performance. Hurray Colin Firth and Jeffrey Rush. I love these actors and I love them working together in this movie. Although many think that Firth totally outshined Rush, I’d like to put in the claim that that is quite debatable.  I cared for Rush’s character just as much as I was rooting for Firth’s, I thought both did an equally great job, although Firth might have had more opportunities. 

It was also very refreshing to see Helena Bonam Carter in a movie that was Harry Potter or a Tim Burton film, and I liked her a lot as the other half of Firth. 

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Everyone just needs to calm down. This isn’t as terrible a movie as everyone make it out to be. I think everyone is underestimating Michael Bay, or at least his casting director. 

Going into Transformers: Dark of the Moon, I expected it to be a gigantic robotic gladiator fight. And it was. But I didn’t expect to like it. And strangely enough I did. I’m going to credit this surprising turn of events to two things:

1) The plot was very intricate, (although the choices of the protagonist pretty simple) in that there were many smaller characters that appear- only to be faded out or killed as the action heats up. You weren’t just stuck with Shia and Rosie. The number of not only famous but well reknowned actors that appeared was astounding.  Francis McDormand, who won a Tony Award this year best female performance in a play, had a larger role as a tight-ass government agent. She had a fairly large part compared to many others, who mostly had cameos or smaller. One cameo included John Malkovich. What the heck was he doing there?

Other notables were Allen Tudyk, who played a some government officials assistant and manservant. I don’t know what it is about this guy: he just takes on smaller roles, sweeps in, steals scenes, and leaves without a trace. He kills me every time; I love him so much. http://www.filmwad.com/the-alan-tudyk-effect-4621-p.html

Some of the funniest moments were with Sam’s parents. Matching jumpsuits and an RV; perfect! They were just such a good parallel to the absolute absurdity of the rest of the movie. And of course then there’s Larry, the asian spy, played by Senior Chang (Ken Jeong). He did his thing, you know. I laughed.

And the second reason I liked it was…

2) I have to hand it to Bay, he knows how to create emotion in an audience. His tactics may be completely blunt, but they work. Just throw in some slow-mo special effects, swelling music, and intense patriotic symbols and presto! I’m into it. I’m rooting for the cleaner, less menacing robots. Damn, Bay got me. But I just don’t care cause Bumblebee’s about to be shot.

I should say something about the new girl, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. And that is that she’s a good replacement; she’s different, but at the same time, you don’t really notice too much that it’s not Meghan Fox.  You may not believe that she would ever fall for Sam the same way as with Fox, but you forget that when Sam is trying to save her through all the robot fighting- city demolition.

Shia LaBeouf did a good job as Sam. I always forget that Shia is primarily a comedic actor, through all the serious military business and world-saving emotional strain and screaming. But every once and a while, the sarcasm comes out and you can see for a moment that little Louis Stevens again. Although, I was surprised just how much Sam was screaming. Ok, I’ll admit it, if I was in the same situation,  I would have been crying like a little girl. But this is Hollywood. This is the third installment. Shouldn’t Sam be used to all this stuff by now? 

Nicolas Cage and Cher in a movie. What’s not to love?

Litterally, this movie made me giddy with delight. Alright ignoring the pretty cheesy parts, fake accicents, and incredibly obnoxious 80’s hair, this movie was delightful.  The moon themes- which encircled the dogs, wolves, and all around love were carried through out the entire film. They were blatant enough that you could catch them, but not obnoxious enough to be annoying. And the incredible thing is that I actally loved Nicolas Cage in this movie. I don’t know how. Considered a lot of his romantic lines were “now get in my bed!”Actually, the great thing about this movie is that there were not characters that you found you’re self disliking- even the sheepish fiancée or his dying mother. Cher’s performance is great- she’s loud and opinionated and over-sexed up I thought, but she carried it.

What the real central theme of this movie was love- and all it’s different shapes and forms. 

All these sets of couples get swept away by this gigantic moon over new york city.  With all of these people- of different ages, joyful with all the love in their lives, it made me want to go out and find someone to love. It’s a happy, simple go lucky movie. The movie begins with Loretta, who has just been engaged to Johnney, moments before he boards a plan to Sicily, to the sick bed of hi dying mother. When he proposes to her, Loretta insists he get down on her knees and give her a proper ring. Loretta does so, because  as she explained, her last marriage fell apart because of  “the bad luck.” Johnny does so, promising a proper wedding to Loretta, and she says yes happily. Later that night Johnny has to board a plane to Sicily, to the death bed of his ill mother. Before he leaves, he gives Loretta one request- to call his brother, Ronnie and invite him to the wedding. Loretta never knew about Ronnie before, because the brother hadn’t seen each other for five years, because of what Johnny calls “bad blood.” But what Johnny didn’t mention was that Ronnie was a smoking hot, terrible devastated baker with a vicious temper and a heart of gold. Got to love it. 

alright this is going to be a hard one to write. so many things are coming to an end. Harry Potter, my childhood, any small chance any one had of seeing actually chemisty between daniel radcliffe and ginny. sorry guys, on that account, prepared to be soarly disappointed. 

But, turht be told, that’s really the only thing to be upset about. 

I’ll just say right now that I’ve been a huge harry potter fan since before i was in grade school, so i’m a little biased told the entire harry mania, so please take what i’m about to say with a grain of salt. 

It was so freakin’ amazing. Like holy crap.