Movie Reviews, Sorry it's been SOOO Long my friends.

Sorry for the delay. New job and my old computer crashed, so I felt like using the work computer for blogging might be frowned upon. Iron Man 3- First summer blockbuster to disappoint me. I enjoyed most Iron Man's because they really avoided the typical superhero movie moments that leave you shaking your head mouthing "What the fuck?" during them. This movie sharply regresses to a few too many "What the fuck?" moments. The bad guy is a super-nerd who forms a genius think tank who takes plant regeneration and found out how to use it on humans making them either able to heat their body to lava-like temps, or blow up in a large explosion. It's maddening and ridiculous. They bomb the shit out of Tony Stark's house and almost kill Pepper and Tony. He gets one suit out that is damaged and you're left to believe everything else is buried in the ocean and destroyed. Tony flies the battered suit, or it flies him, to a remote TN town where he repairs the suit and gets to the bottom of the ridiculous "exploding human" plot. He works for days and finally repairs the suit to try to save Pepper and presumably the world, but then he calls in 50 other iron man suits that are completely computer controlled to kill the "lava humans" as I've decided to call them. It's all bullshit and ridiculous in my eyes. Sorry if I ruined the movie, but it wasn't anything special. Bottom Line: 5.8 out of 10. Still worth watching for Downey Jr. and some cool CGI. I liked the limited performance of Sir Ben Kingsley as Mandarin. Star Trek II: Into the Darkness This movie DID NOT disappoint me. The movie starts on a strange alien world they are trying to save from destruction that's coming from an active volcano. Kirk disregards a standing order to not interfere with the alien races way of life in anyway. Kirk gets a slap on the wrist from his Admiral buddy from the first Star Trek. Spock turns him in on it because that's what a Vulcan would do, it's logical. Kirk gets pissy about it, Admiral friend puts him under his command. Star Fleet command is attacked, Admiral friend is killed, but Kirk saves the day and Robocop (Peter Weller) immediately puts Kirk back in command of the Enterprise to hunt down the man responsible. The plot twists and turns magnificently and introduces us to our old friend Khan along the way. Unlike Iron Man 3, I'm not going to ruin this one for you. It has amazing CGI, excellent cast, very good story, and a lack of too many "What the fuck?" moments. Bottom Line: 8.8 out of 10. I was a huge fan. I like J.J. Abrams "Style" and everyone besides Chris Pine as Kirk I'm a huge fan of. Side note: I really think it's because I think he acts like a little bitch spoiled kid instead of the regal William Shatner as Kirk, but I just can't stand him. Trouble With the Curve- I hate Rom-Coms (Romantic comedies for ye laymen) generally, so take this whole thing with a grain of salt. The story follows Clint Eastwood (The reason I watched it) as a VERY old scout with failing vision. He really only cares about his job and plays the pissed off old man we've grown to love Eastwood as. He has a daughter with whom he has a very strained relationship you don't really understand fully. It's Amy Adams who I really like and also tosses in a sprinkle of the ever popular Justin Timberlake as a pitcher Eastwood recruited whose arm blew out and is now trying to become a scout himself for the Bahstan Red SAWX (NOOOOOMAAAAAHHHHH). Eastwood has 3 months left on his deal and his buddy John Goodman (Head of scouting for the Braves) has his back, but young upstart Matthew Lillard uses computers and sabermetrics (though it's a rom-com, so just using a computer that follows players is good enough. No need to explain WARP or anything) who wants the old man out for his new, young guys who understand computers. Adams follows Eastwood to recruit the consensus #1 prospect, putting her ultra hot-shot law career in jeopardy since she's preparing for THE BIG CASE TO MAKE HER PARTNER. She tries to patch up their relationship and fix it, herself, and scout in the process. It's typical stupid rom-com shit all along the way and insanely predictable. Timberlake is enjoyable, I like Eastwood as the pissed off old man, but there isn't much else that kept me giving a fuck. The prospect looks like a if Porter from the Sandlot played high school ball and it's supposed to be believable he's the next Albert Pujols? Get fucking serious. At least make it look like he's an athlete. Bottom Line: 6.1 out of 10. Boring, predictable, painfully bad moments and bad casting. Typical rom-com problems for me.