Lockout (2012)

I went to the movies again with my roommate and we went and saw “Lockout“.  I hadn’t really seen that many trailers for the movie, but people had told me it was a decent movie to watch.  The movie tells the story of Snow, a man framed for a crime he did not commit but was set up for.  In exchange for not spending his life sentence in a maximum security prison that is housed in space where the prisoners are kept in suspended animation, he is to rescue the President’s daughter Emilie from the prison that was overtaken by inmates in an attempt to escape. 

The movie had a lot of action in it, which I love, but the plot was somewhat unrealistic.  Although set in the far future, it’s quite hard to imagine a time when we would send criminals into space where they are put ‘under’ in hyperbaric chambers until they have successfully slept their way through their sentences-most of which are the worst criminals in the world and therefore serve several life sentences.  

The Raven

Today I went with my roommate to Concord where we met up with her boyfriend and his mom.  While walking around the mall, we found ourselves standing in front of the movie theatre.  I had never really heard of ‘The Raven” nor have I seen any previews or trailers for the movie so I didn’t exactly know what to expect.  Basically, It is a fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, in which the poet and author pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in Poe’s stories.  I was never forced to read any of Poe’s works in High School or even in College, so I was lost at times as to the references of his poems that were made throughout the entire movie. 

The Raven

The Raven

Today I went with my roommate to Concord where we met up with her boyfriend and his mom.  While walking around the mall, we found ourselves standing in front of the movie theatre.  I had never really heard of ‘The Raven” nor have I seen any previews or trailers for the movie so I didn’t exactly know what to expect.  Basically, It is a fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, in which the poet and author pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in Poe’s stories.  I was never forced to read any of Poe’s works in High School or even in College, so I was lost at times as to the references of his poems that were made throughout the entire movie. 

The Raven

The Raven

Today I went with my roommate to Concord where we met up with her boyfriend and his mom.  While walking around the mall, we found ourselves standing in front of the movie theatre.  I had never really heard of ‘The Raven” nor have I seen any previews or trailers for the movie so I didn’t exactly know what to expect.  Basically, It is a fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, in which the poet and author pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in Poe’s stories.  I was never forced to read any of Poe’s works in High School or even in College, so I was lost at times as to the references of his poems that were made throughout the entire movie. 

The Cabin in the Woods

This past sunday was Student Activities free bowling and movie night at the Gaffney Entertainment Center. My friends and I had seen the trailer for The Cabin in the Woods and thought it would be good. So as we were sitting in the theatre watching it, we couldn’t help but think what was it that we were actually watching. The only thing the plot reveals is the fact that five friends go camping together after a semester of school. But the movie involved much more than that that left everyone that was watching shocked– in a bad way. I have seen a lot of movies, but none compare to this one. This movie plot was ridiculous and without giving a spoiler alert, downright Unreal.

Drag Me to Hell

I remember in High School when my Graphics teacher showed us the trailer for this movie.  I was never a big horror movie fan, but this movie got me started into what is now an obsession with scary movies.  Drag Me to Hell (2009) tells the story of a loan officer at a bank (played by Alison Lohman) who one day refuses a loan for an elderly woman who ends up getting evicted from her home and is at the receiving end of a supernatural curse.

The Sitter

I am a huge Jonah Hill fan from the time Superbad came out and till now.   I’ve loved all his comedic roles but his role in The Sitter was my favorite by far.  I can relate I guess to having nightmare babysitting jobs.  But this movie tells the story about how Noah (Jonah Hill) is lured into a babysitting job by his mother after having been suspended from college.  Conflicted with his own problems, he soon realizes that the kids he is babysitting have their own issues that Noah helps them work through throughout the movie.

 

We Bought A Zoo

We Bought a Zoo is a movie based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) and it tells the story of Mee and his family (1 son and daughter) who just bought and moved to the country outside of the city after his wife dies to a run-downed soon to close zoo.  It follows the family through the struggles of trying to rehabilitate the zoo and make it ready for its reopening to the public.  I really didn’t know what to expect having seen the trailer and read about it, but it turned out to be a great movie that had me laughing as well as feeling for the characters.

 

The Hunger Games

Over Spring break, I was able to have some free time to get back to another love of mine, reading.  And in the 4 days I had completely off of softball, classes, and friends, I managed to read all 3 books of The Hunger Games trilogy.  Crazy right, 3 lengthy books in 4 days, but this is normal for me when I’m not busy and it doesn’t hurt that the books were nearly impossible to put down.

But, when it was time for the movie premiere, my friends and I were quick to going to the Midnight premiere on thursday night/friday morning.  I guess I didn’t really know what to expect from the movie, the trailers didn’t really offer much to the action within the movie, but sitting there in the theatre I was on the edge of my seat.  Squirming at all the violence and blood that took place during the games, laughing at all the jokes told, and feeling for the characters.  The movie included almost every important detail that it possibly could in the 2 hours, and with success might I add.  The characters were portrayed they way they should be and the acting was superb, much unlike its vampire counterpart Twilight.

For once, the movie  actually lived up to books 🙂

 

the Hunger games trailer

a change…

I have found myself extremely distracted lately and thats the result of my hectic schedule between classes, softball, and traveling for softball and my excuses for not faithfully writing this blog.  I haven’t been able to watch as many movies as I’d like to and be able to find ones that display product placement within.  So, I’ve decided to change the focus of this blog to something a little more close to home.  Instead of watching movies and dissecting each of their product placement weaknesses, I’m just going to write about movies that I watch and discuss them.  Starting with movies that I’ve watched (several times, I might add) that are based on books that I have also read.