Showing posts with label The Bourne Legacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Bourne Legacy. Show all posts

9/04/2012

2012 Summer Movie Awards

It’s been a summer of box office blockbusters and also some box office duds.  I started out with a list of 10 movies I wanted to try to see, one of those movies got its release date moved to March (GI Joe) and I’ve been able to so far see 6 summer movies, pretty tame for my summer movie viewing record.  So let’s get it going with my 2012 Summer Movie Awards.  The movies viewed so far American Reunion, The Avengers, The Amazing Spiderman, The Dark Knight Rises, Total Recall, The Bourne Legacy and Battleship.



BEST FLICK
The Avengers



BEST DUDE
Robert Downey Jr : IronMan : The Avengers
Tom Hiddleston : Loki : The Avengers



BEST DUDETTE
Emma Stone : Gwenn Stacey : The Amazing Spiderman


BEST SCENE
Thor talking to the crew on the Shield hellicarrier and talking about Loki then ending it with "He's Adopted"
--Honorable Mention--
-Iron Man and Loki in Stark Tower talking about who Loki all pissed off and stating, "We have a Hulk"
-Hulk smashing Loki through Stark Tower.  Loki proclaiming to him "I am a God" and then Hulk just smashing the hell out of him
-Peter Parker and Gwenn Stacey in the hallway at high school with Peter trying to ask her out
-The final sequence in The Dark Knight Rises
-Drunk Jim’s Dad at Stifler’s Party

BEST FIGHT
Iron Man vs Captain America vs Thor : The Avengers
Batman vs Bane (second fight) : The Dark Knight Rises

BIGGEST DUD
The Dark Knight Rises
- Now I loved the movie, ranked it 8/10, but it didn't leave me feeling full.  Some of it felt choppy, unlike the Dark Knight.  I also really want to see the Riddler in the world Nolan built.  So please don't get me wrong, really enjoyed it but didn't leave me feel complete.


ANTICIPATED SEQUEL
Avengers 2 / Iron Man 3 / Thor 2 / Captain America 2


SUMMER MOVIE NOT SEEN THAT I WANT TO
Expendables 2



8/13/2012

Total Recall and The Bourne Legacy

Last Tuesday Night I went and saw Total Recall, the redux, on Carmike stimulus night.  It had a nice crowd and I’m not sure why all the hub-bub about the film from the critics.  I honestly think that I liked it better than the original all though it follows a lot of the same plot lines and story as the original.  I went into it with as clear of a palette as I could so I wouldn’t compare it to the original but that didn’t happen and I keep thinking “oh yea that’s how it went”.  In the original when they go to Mars and this one they stay on Earth, which I liked better.  And of course the effects were a lot better this time 20 years later.  Collin did a good job in the main role, Kate was far superb than Sharon and Jessica Beil didn’t suck either.  This one was better than the original in my opinion, don’t worry about the box office numbers, go enjoy it.

6/10


Friday night I saw The Bourne Legacy.  It’s not a reboot of the Bourne franchise that originally starred Matt Damon, but more so it is an extension of that movie.  This one stars Jeremy Renner and Ed Norton.  The movie was ok; it had some good action sequences.  If you haven’t seen it I hope I don’t spoil it for you so please quit reading now…….  It has a little Captain America type feel with messing with DNA and “super soldiers.”  That is one thing I didn’t like but the way they did it had an ok feel to it.  The ending was abrupt too.  It felt rushed, not complete like the other Bourne movies.  I did like how this movie was intertwined with the last Damon-Bourne movie, and what I excited for though is the possibility of a 5th movie including both Damon and Renner. 

6/10

Best and Worst of the Weekend

So I haven’t done a Best and Worst of the weekend in a while again so I figure I’ll do it now since I had a bit of bests and one big worst. 

Weekend started out ok.  Friday night had supper at the new Cozy CafĂ© on the corner of SE 14th and Army Post Road.  It was the 2nd time there.  The first time it was really good so I was hoping the 2nd time would be too.  Now going in I was stuffed after Jethro’s earlier in the day so maybe that was it too, but I was disappointed. 

After that it was off to go see the Bourne Legacy with Jeremy Renner.  First off, how bad is it when a movie ticket is more than your supper?

The movie was ok.  This really wasn’t a reboot, but more so of an extension of the original trilogy.  It was cool how they intertwined it with the 3rd Bourne with Damon and story lines began to inter twine.  But from the other 3 it missed something and I think that was Damon.  Renner was good, but this is Damon’s franchise.  The climax seemed rushed and then the ending abrupt.  One thing I am excited about is the hope that a 5th movie may include both Damon and Renner!   So that was Friday.

Saturday started out getting up early with Ryleigh and the older kids were up and I thought, hey, it’s PERFECT out lets go to Grey’s lake and walk and/or ride bikes and get some exercise.  I go out to my car and find it was broken into.  My glove compartment and center console were all emptied out and I didn’t realize till Sunday that my work badge and coaching badge was gone, along with about a dollar in change.  Really people need to get a life and not mess with other people’s property.  My neighbors also had theirs broken into also.  Anyone up for a neighborhood watch program? 

So we went to Greys and still went around, Addy biked and Bray walked and ran, Ryleigh sat most of it.  It felt pretty good to start out that way.  Later that morning we headed off to Living History Farms.  I have a a membership to their, the zoo and Science Center and we  hadn’t hit that place yet so we went there.  It’s basically what Iowa would be like about 150 years ago.  I enjoy that kinda stuff.  It would be interesting to see what life was like back then.  The kids were excited from the start seeing live chickens in the first houses yard.  The first house was pretty cool.  If it had AC I think I could have lived there.  The other places I thought were cool were the news paper with the printing press and then also the pharmacist with all the chemicals where the guy can make anything from perfumes, medicines and axel grease.  We only got half way through there and the kids got hungry so we hit the Machine Shed for lunch.  After that when we got home it was NAP TIME!  Brayden woke up last at about 530 and after supper we ended the night with the Lorax.  It was an ok movie in my opinion, the kids probably liked it more, BUT it did have a great message at the end. 

Sunday I slept in a little till 9 then realized my badges where gone and started to contact the DM Police department and also my work.  Brayden and I drove out to work to tell them and the drive there was great.  He and I had a fun conversation about Ninjago.  Just his joy with it and how he talks about it reminds me of how I was with Ninja Turtles and Transformers.  It’s probably my favorite time I’ve had with him in a while.

Bray and I ran a few errands and got home for lunch.  Noticing he still had some energy I took the older kids to the Science Center.  We were there for about 2 hours and thought I wore them out pretty good.  The rest of the day was watching Harry Potter movies, cleaning rooms, laundry and supper from the High Life.  It was a pretty good weekend outside of the car being broke into.

Today I start my last week of work at my current position at Wells.  I’ve got a feeling it will go pretty quick and before I know it I’ll be having cold drinks on Friday at Happy Hour.

4/09/2012

2012 Summer Movies

Well it’s close to that time…the Summer Blockbuster Movie Watch list.  Last year it started before May with Fast and Furious opening in April and it got started this past weekend, In my opinion with American Reunion.

With that here are the Summer Movies that are on my radar:

American Reunion
The Avengers
Battleship
Men In Black 3
GI Joe Retaliation
The Amazing Spiderman
The Dark Knight Rises
The Bourne Legacy
Total Recall
The Expendables 2








A lot of super hero flare again as has become par for the summer with the blockbuster popcorn flicks. 

And as always I will have my 4th Annual Summer Movie Awards in late August.

I’m sure there may be a Ice Age: Continental Drift or Brave thrown into that listing too because of kids but that’s it, that’s the list for Summer 2012.