Movie Reviews

For your consideration: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, (500) Days of Summer, All About Steve, and District 9.

Before we begin my reviews, I want to mention that I watch movies/TV shows instead of reading these days. I just feel so darn guilty pleasure reading when I could be reading school readings instead. So...I watch stuff instead to relax because it's brainless and I don't have to "watch" anything for schoolwork. :P Plus, books cost too much for me to buy. :(

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: First off, I have to mention that I don't remember the books at all. I remember liking them, but that's it. Based on that fact, I can't give a comparison between the book and the movie, but I can say that I enjoyed the movie. I thought it was a fun kid movie and it had an interesting theme about being who you are and wanting to be accepted. I will say, food falling from the sky seems like a really bad way to get food...Overall, I'd recommend people to see it.

(500) Days of Summer: Summer is the girl of interest in this movie and it basically goes through the the main character's (Tom's) 500 days involvement with Summer. The movie makes interesting points about love and liking someone. It's big thing is to not be jaded and think love doesn't exist or isn't magical.  Zooey Deschanel does a good job as Summer. She's one of those actors who is a little more subtle in how she acts and what roles she's best for. Summer drove me nuts sometimes (poor Tom), but I overall liked it. I don't think I liked it as much as some people do (I know a lot of people who really, really like it), but it was enjoyable.

All About Steve: This movie was...odd...It's no wonder it got the bad reviews it got. Sandra Bullock plays a smart woman who creates the crossword puzzles for a local newspaper. She meets Steve and becomes obsessed with that he really likes her (he was doing the polite brush off) and basically stalks him without fully comprehending he doesn't like her. There's some odd plot twists and a kind of weird climax. The end of the movie falls a little flat at the end. It wasn't like the movie was horrible, but you watch it and go, "what did I just watch?" at the end. Like I said, not surprised at the bad reviews it got.

District 9: Last year's movies really bugged me with the whole "nine" theme: District 9, Nine, and 9. Was there another "nine" movie? I thought there was...Anyway, I was expecting a lot of gore in this film because of the rating and what I'd heard, but it wasn't as gory as I thought it would be. It's not like horror film gore where it's just everywhere. It was well placed and, yeah, it was gory when you saw it, but it wasn't like guts spilling out everywhere. It was more like arms being ripped off, arterial spray, one instance of someone being eaten, etc. Okay, I didn't think it was that gory, but I apparently have a skewed sense of what "gory" means and I don't like gore. Weird. Moving on...it was an interesting documentary-ish style of a film and the end left me a little sad and wanting more. There were some sad moments in the film and you really felt bad for the aliens and the main character. It was good if you're into that type of film. I'm kind of borderline whether I really liked it or not. I'm more indifferent to it. Neither liked it nor disliked it. I thik it's mostly because it was just so...different. It wasn't what I was expecting either. Other than that, you may or may not want to see it.

In other news...I have midterms in 2 weeks. Ugh. Time for bed.