Tonight's Entertainment - Wonder Woman 84

 

Thank you to HBO Max the kids and I didn't have to go to the theater to watch the flick, and I'm kind of glad.  I pregamed by watching the first movie, that I love, and this was a complete lack luster compared to that.  

And its not because of the acting, it was more the overall story.  Gal, Chris, Pedro and Kristen were all great.  Pedro was almost over the top and totally different from the Mandalorian.  I was curious of casting Kristen as a villain but her transformation was really well done.  Gal was made for this role too!  And young Diana was excellent.  

The action scenes were really good too, not on par to the first but good.  The thing that failed me is the whole "Wish" stone portion.  It was almost like Pedro's character was Bruce Almighty and that was causing the chaos.  Didn't enjoy that.  And the 2 hour 30 min run time felt long.  

4/10 Stars

This Means War

Last night with nothing on TV (as it will be in the summer mostly due to reruns) I rented This Means War starring Reese Witherspoon (top 5 worthy!), Chris Pine and Tom Hardy.  Yes it is a chick flick but it also has some action around it that helps. 

 

Classic story of a girl getting in the way of 2 guys.  Both are trying to get her in different fashions.  Pine is more of a player and Hardy more of the nice guy.  The interactions and involvement of the CIA are kind of funny where they two try to sabotage each other.  Chelsea Handler provides some more comic relief but the 2 guys play well off each other too. 

 

It was a different “chick flick” and had some good laughs.  Kind of expected/predicted the ending which wasn’t bad.  It’s worth a rent.

 

5/10 Stars

***Note --- I am switching from Flixster to IMDB for my ratings on movies and will include a side bar (if possible) on my blog of my top rankings and lists.  IMDB also uses 10 stars instead of 5 like Flixster so I will have to double my ratings points from Flixster.***

Best and Worst of the Weekend

So the weekend was a quick one, again.  Actually not to bad either.  Got a movie in (DVD) haven’t seen Captain America, yet.  Took the boy fishing then had a trip to Mullets with him.  Indulged in some ice cold tasty GrainBelt! Even got to watch a replay of DJK putting up a hat trick vs. Michigan on the Big Ten Network.

I also tried what I guess is rated the #1 deli sandwich in Des Moines, B&B Dad’s Killer sub.  Gonna be honest, it’s not #1.  The Zach Johnson at the Manhattan Deli is the best deli sandwich in town.  I thought the Dad’s Killer, if I had all the ingrediants, is something I could have made at home and it would have been the same. 

 

With my boy, this was his second time fishing, and it didn’t go as well as the first one.  We tried a new location, a covered dock at Easter Lake.  He was more excited this time about the dock than sitting there fishing, but he sat for a bit and was proud of him there.  He had a few bites but we never could nag a fish.  After it we went to Mullet’s for lunch.  He was excited to sit at a big chair table and had fun chatting with the girls working there.  The Philly CheeseSteak PoBoy was pretty good, but it wasn't as tasty as The Sandberg. 

Also took a load of big cardboard boxes down to a friend’s house Sunday and burnt them while the kids ran around with their black lab.  Black Lab won a few times knocking them down and licking them like crazy.  Nice thing Saturday Addyson had a play date with a  friend for 4 hours and got to get with a friend of hers from preschool and hang out while the other 2 kids were sleeping.

While Addy was gone, I put on Unstoppable, starring Chris Pine and Denzel Washington.  The movie about an out of control high speed train.  Yes, like most movies in Hollywood these days, it was predictable, but I enjoyed it.  Pine I thought did a good job and liked Denzel in this movie too.  Supporting cast was good too.  Was it believable that the events like that would actually happen, um no…I hope not, but it’s a movie, let yourself go. 

2.5 / 5 STARS

2009 Summer Movie Awards

With the smell of football in the air, the summer in my mind not calendar, is coming to an end, and with that the summer blockbusters. And usually I try to get to the biggies in the theater, with kids and life I don’t. I’ve seen 5 movies this summer and have rankings below. The movies I’ve seen in chronological order; Wolverine…Star Trek…Transformers 2…Ice Age 3…GI Joe: Rise of Cobra.

Best Movie – Star Trek

Best Dude – Chris Pine : Captain Kirk : Star Trek

Best Dudette – Sienna Miller : Baroness : GI Joe

Best Scene – new Kirk meets old Spock : Star Trek

Best Fight – Snake Eyes vs. Storm Shadow : GI Joe

Biggest Dud – Transformers 2

Anticipated Sequel – GI Joe

Summer movie not seen that I want too – Terminator 4