The Lord of the Rings; the Two Towers

(Spoiler Alert if you haven’t seen The Fellowship of the Ring)

Summery

Frodo continues his quest with Sam. Saruman continues bringing the 2 hobbits, Merry and Pippin, to him by the hands of his oruci. After laying Boramir to rest, Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli, chase after the oruci. They run into some of the Riders of Rohan…

Cool Stuff

· MORE FIGHTING!!! With black blood.
· “You’ll have to throw me… just don’t tell the elf.” ~Gimli
· “I… am an ENT!” ~Treebeard
· The relationship between Legolas and Gimli as they wait for the fight from behind tall walls that the vertically challenged can’t see over.

GIMLI

[Jumping and straining to see] What’s happening out there?

LEGOLAS

Shall I describe it to you? [Looks at Gimli with a grin] Or would you like me to find you a box?

GIMLI

[Laughs good-naturedly] Hehehehe!!

Moral Stuff

Yet again, pretty clean

Stupid Stuff (Spoiler Alert)

· Love the competition between Gimli and Legolas.
· The stupid little drain. By now SOMEONE must have thought of that drain as an entrance.
· Gollum. He just irritates me. “We could let HER do it!” but then is so informative as to who this HER is.

· The ending conversation between Frodo and Sam is so sweet.

* SAM
I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales.

FRODO
What?

SAM
I wonder if people will ever say, ‘let’s hear about Frodo and the Ring.’
And they’ll say ‘yes, that’s one of my favorite stories.

Frodo was really courageous, wasn’t he, dad.’

‘Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that’s saying alot.’

FRODO
Huh, you left out one of the chief characters
– Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam.

[Frodo turns to look at Sam.]

FRODO
Frodo wouldn’t have got far without Sam.

SAM
Now Mr. Frodo, you shouldn’t make fun. I was being serious.

FRODO
[smiling] So was I. [He turns to walk on]

SAM
[Dreamily] Samwise the Brave. [He gives his backpack a heave and follows Frodo]*

* http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Two-Towers.html *

Lord of the Rings; The Fellowship of the Rings

Summery

Frodo’s uncle has a ring that makes him turn invisible. Unfortunately, this same ring is wanted by Sauron, who’s basically the Lord of all evil. So Gandalf sends Frodo off with Samwise Gamgee to take the ring to the inn of the Prancing Pony in Bree where Gandalf would meet up with them. Pretty easy right?

Cool Stuff

· The use of black blood mellows all injuries.
· Gandalf is pretty darn sweet
· BALROG!
· “They’ve got a cave troll” ~ Boramir

Moral Stuff

Pretty clean. Mostly just fighting.

Annoying Moments. (Spoiler Alert)

· Don’t you just hate it while you’re trudging through waist deep snow while the elf is standing on top off it?
· Gimli, if the ring could be destroyed by hitting it with a sharp object, don’t you think someone would have done that by now?
· Arwen, if you’re so worried about Frodo, don’t stop and taunt the ring wraiths, get him to your father, Agent Smith. Wait… wrong movie.
· Gandalf, this time could you not turn around and get pulled into the dark pit? Just this once to make things interesting?

Ironman

General Info

Ironman is a well made film that, though predictable, is mostly family friendly. Even though the beginning starts with lose morals and a carefree “living for the now” Tony Stark, it sets up a plot in which you watch this character go from careless to caring.

Cool stuff

· Tony Stark is a genius. He works well with his hands and would be a benefit to society if he wasn’t spoiled.
· Stark owns up to his companies actions
· Ironman. How can one watch this movie w/o wanting a suit like that?
· All the explosions

Moral Stuff

· The beginning of the movie includes many loose morals
· Swearing is minor

Stupid Stuff (SPOILER ALERT)

· The robot with the fire extinguisher is funny, even though he is quite stupid.
· The way Stark fell after getting free should have killed him. He fell head first.
· When he escaped in his first rough ironman, the flames and varies forms of heat should have cooked him alive.

Transformers 2; Revenge of the Fallen

Overview

A robot kill robot movie with plentiful special effects 2 ½ hour movie. Lots of sexual innuendos. No rounded plot. If fact very little plot at all. Is it worth it???

Coolness Factors

>AMAZING special effects
>The incorporation of most of the characters in the last movie
>It’s Transformers 2! It isn’t great by any means but so many people(including myself) have been waiting for this since the last one came out on DVD.
>Jetfire is pretty sweet. As is the cat robot and the megadecepticon...

Moral Stuff

>Did I mention sexual innuendos? Just ignore the all the dialogue… and I do mean ALL of it!
>Sam Witwicky does his best to be faithful to Mikaela.
>Yes, guys have testicles, can we get over it???
>Sam’s mom on drugs. Scary.
>Language is like 50 times worse than the first movie.

Stupid Stuff

>The 2 new robots (green one and red one) that call themselves the twins are so annoying. -Eveytime they open their mouths…
>The Dialogue
>The plot (or lack of it)
>Sam doesn’t want to cheat on his girlfriend. Not that whatsherface gives him much of a choice.
>Yeah, no one is EVER going to find that temple. Not in a million years!

Plot (Spoiler Alert!!!)

So here’s the deal, supposedly the Transformers had been on Earth before. And the leader of them, the one “Prime” that went bad is trying to harvest Earth’s sun, but you need this matrix to operate the sun eating machine and the rest of the Primes took it and made a tomb for it with their bodies. Hence the temple with the really big doorway. It’s hidden behind the mural where no one else would ever think to look! Right. Megatron comes back and needs Sam to find the matrix because the “map” is in Sam’s head. It got there when he touched a shard of the cube. Hence the spas attacks. The map is in the language of the Primes and no one knows how to read it except the Primes (Optimus is dead by now) and a couple Decepticons. So with the help of a captured Decepticon they find Jetstream who can read the language and takes them to Egypt where the sun eater is in the pyramid and Sam gets the matrix which turns to dust, gets it back to the NEST solders and then dies. Then the dead good Primes visit him and tell him he has won the honor of the matrix and it reforms. Then Sam resurrects (didn’t see that one coming!) and saves Optimus. Jetstream gets maimed and gives Optimus his parts, Optimus kills Evil Prime then Megatron and Starscreem flee. The end. Not a lot of plot for a 2 ½ hr movie.

Wall-e

Overview

From the creators of “Finding Nemo” and “Cars” (as stated on the box) comes the movie Wall-e. I love “Finding Nemo”. “Cars” is okay. With Wall-e, I’m STILL trying to figure out the point to that movie was. Basically the first third of that movie was the robot running places doing stupid (okay, I guess it could have been mildly amusing) stuff. Yawn. Then he finds this plant and he puts it in a shoe. And he watches this old movie. THEN starts the ACTUAL movie. Enter Ev-e, space flight, and the amazing hover chairs.

Synopsis (spoiler alert)

Similar to “Eagle Eye” and “I Robot”, wall-e is a movie in which the robots take over the humans. Similar to “The Matrix”, they take over the humans by putting a computer screen in front of their faces (thus, capturing the minds). The presence of a computer screen in front of these human’s faces is similar to the way some teens text. They will go around, their phone will beep and then they have their face glue to the screen, and will miss anything going on. The end result is predictable, the go back to earth, the best character(the cricket) is STILL safe, and the people learn how to walk (even though they shouldn’t be able to after living their lives in those chairs, their legs wouldn’t be able to hold their body weight). Then all the people are amazed and happy, even though they will all die soon because they won’t know what to do. (I may be under estimating humans… maybe, but we can be pretty pathetic)

No moral stuff was brought into play. It was a Disney/Pixar production, so it was clean.

The movie was full of stupidity, and is good for younger audiences, just not for me. I would pick “I Robot” over Wall-e every time.

Paul Blart, Mall Cop

Overview
With parts similar to the movie “Get Smart”, Paul Blart is a guy who is looking for a woman who will love him as him. He runs into Amy, one of the kiosk workers, and it’s love at first site… when a group of thugs break into the mall, and take some people (including Amy) captive, Blart is still inside the mall. He ends up giving the police the information they need, and… well… no spoilers! :)

Plot?
Limited. The first 30 minutes and a minute before the credits are about as much plot as we get.
All “twists” aren’t really twists, as this movie is VERY predictable!
There are no complex characters.

COOLNESS FACTORS! :{)
Paul Blart riding that segway scooter… :)
The hair extensions
The tattoo

Moral Stuff
Well, the whole drunk scene
The love he has for his daughter, mother, and job
Lack of respect from the guy in the wheel chair and the lady with the handbag
Seriously? Not EVERYONE has a cell phone AND can text using said cell phone(yes, I think that should be under moral factors)
Not as dirty as the commercials make it seem

Stupid Stuff
Has anyone red the whole movie plot? Or lack thereof? It was a stupid movie in my opinion, but I watched as two kids cracked up repeatedly during the movie, so I guess it’s probably just not my (X-men, Lord of the Rings, Eragon) style.

The Dark Knight

General Info…
Well… for those of you who don’t know, The Dark Knight took place after Batman Begins, and is, in fact, a Batman movie.(now that I’ve got the obvious stuff out of the way) It is Dark, as the title states, and it is very intense and it will pull you into the movie. The Joker (more on him later) is not your typical crazy insane person. From the very first scene of the movie, he is completely intelligent, plots well, and pushes Batman to the limit, toward that line he doesn’t want to cross; murder. Heath Ledger died after this movie of an overdose of prescription drugs. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/bio ) I think this in unsurprising due to the intense, disturbing villain that he plays and had to put himself into.

Joker
Joker is not stupid. He himself says he works for Chaos. If you have a plan, he will try to mess it up. One of the things about Joker is his whole “you wanna know how I got these scars?” routine. He gives 3 different stories. The first one is the most creepy as it happens right before he kills someone. He is in most of the scenes in the movie. My theory on Joker is that he not crazy, he is insane. If anyone has read the book “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, I think Joker is insane the same way Renfield is. He is an interesting character, and easily the creepiest in the movie.

Two-Face
Two-Face became what he is when he got gasoline on the side of his face and a time bomb went off. Batman got him out, but not far enough away to stop the fire from hitting his face. He refused to get skin grafts, and ends up with a pretty messed up (but cool looking) face. Anyone he talks to, he leaves their life to chance, and does kill a couple people. He dies when he threatens to kill Commissioner Gordon’s kid.

General Overview (SPOILER ALERT!)
The movie starts with a bank robbery planned by Joker. He sets off the alarm on purpose before he even gets into the vault. Throughout the robbery, all the characters, except the bus driver (Joker) are killed. The first view of Batman is at a parking garage. He gets ticked at a couple of fake Batmen (the ones using guns), and encounters some dogs. Throughout the rest of the movie, Joker sends cryptic threats (via the body of a dead Batman or “Harvey” “Dent”) He kills (or almost kills) many people including 2 boats with over 30,000 people on each. At the end of the movie, Joker is going to jail (where he will be for as long as HE chooses to stay), Batman is on the run (he needs to become the bad guy for awhile to save the city), Rachel who just got engaged to Harvey Dent (before he became two-face) dies in an explosion caused by Joker) and Harvey Dent is dead after almost killing Commissioner Gordon’s blond son. Note: not a complete summary, simply the parts I chose to underline.

COOLNESS FACTORS!!!! <3
Two-Face looks like he’s ½ a Terminator with that face of his!
That whole using cell phones to make a map… enough said
When they brought Joker into the scene… there were a couple cool moments.

Moral Stuff
Swearing including the use of f*** once.
Evidence of intercourse when Bruce Wayne leaves his party to go into his “panic room”.
What movie doesn’t have some sort of lie?
The two boats with the 30,000 people each…
Batman and his killing line.
Putting a cell phone inside someone? That’s just weird. Therefore, I’m putting it here.
Joker in a skirt. ‘Nough said.

Stupidity Moments (SPOILERS)
Seriously? With the whole hostage thing, why did everyone assume the clowns were the bad guys? With Joker being a criminal genius, why did no one think, “The clowns are in plain sight. What idiot does that? I thought Joker wasn’t an idiot!”

Why o why o why o why, did Batman put the cell phone map in front of his vision. Why not just let Fox guide him. Stupid Batman, almost getting himself killed for x-ray vision!