ACTION America!

Theaters were filled across the country to see the film Captain America: The First Avenger. From the very first scene my curiosity was sparked. Going into this film I really did not know anything about Captain America. I had not viewed any other movies or read a comic book about him or seen a cartoon. So with all honesty with nothing else to compare the performance with I will say that Chris Evans portrayed Captain America magnificently.

His look and his mannerisms were very on point because the image of Captain America is strong, but at the same time very meek and humble.

Hugo Weaving, probably best known for his role as Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogy, played the nemesis Red Skull. His look and speech added the icing on top of the proverbial villainous cake.

Hayley Atwell plays Peggy Carter the love interest of Captain America and she is tough because she is a woman in a male dominated time it is the 1940's.

Also in the film is Tommy Lee Jones who plays Colonel Chester Phillips, Stanley Tucci as Dr. Abraham Erskine as well as Derek Luke as Gabe Jones and others.

This film was GOOD. The action scenes, dialogue, and acting were very good, but my only problem with the film was that a few of the scenes were too long and drawn out. But, is it worth your time and money? Yes.

The ending is a bit of a surprise.

Horrible Bosses

Horrible Bosses tells the story of three friends Nick (Jason Bateman), Dale (Charlie Day) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) as well as the bosses that make their lives miserable Dave Harken (Kevin Spacey), Julia Harris (Jennifer Aniston) and Bobby Pellitt (Colin Farrell).

Also in the film Donald Sutherland as Jack Pellitt the owner of the industrial company where Kurt works and enjoys his job until Jack's sudden death which leaves his cocaine addicted son Bobby (Farrell) in charge of the company and that is the turning point for Kurt.

Nick (Bateman) worked hard to get an upcoming promotion at work, but is screwed over by his boss Dave Harken (Spacey) and Dale (Day) is being sexual harassed by his boss Julia (Aniston).

The three friends begin to contemplate killing their bosses and by chance end up meeting Dean "Motherf**ker" Jones who becomes their murder consultant and gives them the idea to kill each others bosses.

This film was just OK. It had its funny moments, but for the most part I felt like the writers, director and even actors were trying too hard to get laughs out of the audience. The two standout performances would have to be Jason Bateman and Kevin Spacey. Bateman was subtle in his comedy. The littlest thing he did or said could get a laugh. Kevin Spacey was excellent at playing a pure jerk. He made the role of Dave Harken very believable and it made me think that somewhere in the world there is a man that acts just like Harken and although its funny to watch on a movie screen I would not want to work for him.

Horrible Bosses is not necessarily my brand of soda, but for you just may be.

My Prediction For #1

On today July 22nd the movie Captain America: The First Avenger opens in theaters nationwide. My prediction is that this film will top the charts and will be the number 1 grossing movie for this weekend knocking Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from the number 1 spot and trumping the Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis romantic comedy Friends With Benefits.
I do want to go see Captain America, but I am sick of 3D so if I do go see this film it will be in its regular format.
Captain America: The First Avenger stars Chris Evans as Captain America and also in the film Tommy Lee Jones.
The movie seems interesting and just may be worth my money.

Who Told Justin Timberlake He Could Act?!

This summer Justin Timberlake can be seen in two films, Bad Teacher (already in theaters) starring Cameron Diaz and sharing the screen with Mila Kunis in Friends With Benefits in theaters July 22nd.
Justin Timberlake has been in numerous films such as Alpha Dogs and Black Snake Moan both released in 2006. He was the voice of Artie Pendragon in Shrek The Third (2007), Shrek Forever After (2010) and of course his role as the Napster creator Sean Parker in the 2010 blockbuster The Social Network.
I have always thought that there are three types of actors they are either good, bad or great. But Mr. Timberlake's acting has thrown me for a loop because his acting isn't good, not necessarily bad and DEFINITELY NOT great.
I may have to put him in another category. He is a purgatory actor- he just floats around and does films putting in no real effort, but hey it makes him money.
Justin Timberlake, you are a singer so SING! And leave acting to the people that can really act.

Silly Ol' Bear- The Relaunch Of A Franchise

On July 15th Winnie The Pooh comes to theaters nationwide. The makers have gone back to the original format of drawing like on the television show The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh. Parents taking their children to see this film will become reacquainted with and their children introduced to the cuddly, lovable characters of Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, down in the dumps Eeyore, Kanga and Roo, Piglet, Owl, and the boy who calls them friends Christopher Robin.

Relaunching this franchise was brilliant because they have now opened the door to a whole new way of marketing and branding. Kids who are very young now and don't know about Winnie The Pooh and the rest of the gang will now leave theaters all across this nation and want the Pooh Bear or the Tigger. They should also think about releasing The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh on DVD and Blu-Ray because I know that when I was a child I enjoyed those movies, but I had them on Beta Max.

If I had a child I would definitely take them to see this movie, but I know that the theater will not just be filled with parents with children, but there will probably be some adults sitting in the theater and for 69 minutes they will feel like a kid again.

Please Don't Resuscitate Jennifer's Body!

Jennifer's Body hit movie theaters in 2009 and starred Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried. This film was a great concept, but was a bad movie. I don't know if this film was the result of being poorly written, bad acting or just a combination of the two. The premise of Jennifer's Body was a simple one. The movie is set in the fictional small town and a girl named Jennifer, played by Megan Fox, becomes demon possessed when a local rock band thinking she was a virgin sacrifices her to the devil so they can get fame and fortune. The lead singer of the band, Nikolai, played by Adam Brody, kills her in sacrifice, but Jennifer is not a virgin and a demon possesses her and she begins to kill and feed on the males at her school.

Anita also known as Needy, played by Amanda Seyfried is Jennifer's long time, insecure, childhood best friend. Needy becomes suspicious of Jennifer when the night she leaves with the rock band Jennifer mysteriously pops up at Needy's home later on and vomits black fluid on her kitchen floor.

As the movie goes on more people die, Needy does research and finds out how to kill Jennifer and finally does. While in attempting to kill her Needy is bitten by Jennifer, but ultimately she stabs Jennifer in the heart killing her. Jennifer's mom walks in and Needy is sentenced to an insane asylum. In Needy having been bitten by Jennifer and have lived some of Jennifer's powers were transferred to Needy. With her new found powers she breaks out of the insane asylum and tracks down the rock band that sacrificed Jennifer and murders them all.

I felt like this movie was missing something. Like something could have been done differently or enhanced in some way. Maybe there are a few that enjoyed this film, but I am not one of those few. I am glad that I saw this movie OnDemand for free and did not make the mistake of out of curiosity buying this movie on DVD. Hopefully this film will fade off into the abyss of nothingness.

Megan Fox, You're Fired!

There is no secret that Megan Fox will not be in the third installment of the Transformers franchise. Transformers: Dark of the Moon directed by Michael Bay will be in theaters June 29th starring Shia LaBeouf reprising his role as Sam Witwicky and his new love interest will be played by English model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Megan Fox needs to learn to censor what she says because in Hollywood one day you can be the "it" girl everyone wants to work with and then the next you can be out and not even your own agent will want to take your call. You cannot say any and everything that is on your mind and if you must then don't get quoted in a publication saying it.
That being said Fox was apparently quoted in saying that director Michael Bay "wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he's a nightmare to work with." Steven Spielberg who was a producer of the films, but the franchise no longer requires him did not like the "Hitler" comment so he ordered Bay to fire Fox.
Michael Bay has responded by saying, "I wasn't hurt because I know that's just Megan. Megan loves to get a response. And she does it kind of the wrong way. I'm sorry Megan. I'm sorry I made you work twelve hours. I'm sorry that I'm making you show up on time. Movies are not always warm and fuzzy."
Transformers: Dark of the Moon will possibly be one of the most grossing movies of the summer and hopefully Megan Fox will learn the error of her ways....probably not.