BLOG -- My Movie-watching History (in Theatres) Part 4 [2007-2008]

So... this blog is part 4 of the movies I've watched in theatres.

SPOILER ALERT WARNING!!

Since I will be mentioning a good number of movies in this blog, some of them will contain spoilers. Any movie that will contain a spoiler will be marked.

2007

MOVIE: Pan’s Labyrinth [SPOILER]

DATE: February 8, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: I didn’t like it. It was fantastical, but it was grim, and some parts of it were very predictable. Pan’s Labyrinth was supposed to be similar to another movie, but I don’t remember what it was compared to back then. I didn’t like the ending – it was not definite and I think that the ending could be happy or sad, depending on how your interpret Pan’s death. I don’t like endings like that.

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MOVIE: 300

DATE: March 10, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: This was… okay. A few weeks after watching it, I overheard a conversation between two university students talking about chick flicks. The guy mentioned 300 as a chick flick. The girl asked how 300 could be considered a chick flick. Then the guy said: “Think about it. 300 well-oiled muscular men in loincloths.” That was hilarious.

I actually didn’t enjoy the movie very much. I thought there was too much narration and not enough action. The story wasn’t that interesting either.

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MOVIE: TMNT

DATE: April 4, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: I really liked this. I thought there was decent character development, story, and I liked the whole brotherhood concept.

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MOVIE: Zodiac [SPOILER]

DATE: April 12, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: The pace was slow… but it still freaked me out somewhat. The scene where the killer kept stabbing the lady in grey was very traumatic for me. It scared me more that it was based off a real killer.

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MOVIE: Spider-Man 3

DATE: May 5, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: Too busy. The plot was too thick. I didn’t really like it. I also didn’t like Peter Parker getting a new love interest -– darn teen movies and their love triangles.

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MOVIE: 28 Weeks Later

DATE: May 24, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: This was really good and really scary. I think it was scarier than the first movie.

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MOVIE: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

DATE: June 16, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: It was meh. I’d say it was on par with the first movie. Decent but not outstanding.

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MOVIE: Live Free or Die Hard

DATE: June 30, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: This was a really good movie. Of course, I have nothing to compare it to. I didn’t watch any of the earlier Die Hard movies. This was action-y and cool. I like the nerd character.

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MOVIE: Transformers

DATE: July 7, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: I liked the honesty of the main character. It looked like he wore his emotions on his sleeve and I liked that. There was a lot going on in this movie. I liked the soldier’s story bits, and the main character’s bond with Bumblebee. After watching it again, years later, though, I realized that this movie wasn’t as great as I remembered.

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MOVIE: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (IMAX) [SPOILER]

DATE: July 25, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: Ugh… too many things cut from the movie. I mourned Sirius’ death and that’s it.

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MOVIE: Underdog

DATE: August 2, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: It was cute. I don’t remember much, but that’s what I remember.

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MOVIE: Rush Hour 3 [SPOILER]

DATE: August 11, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: I don’t remember much, except that there was one scene where Jackie Chan and Chris Rock had a dispute and were missing each other. They ended up eating food from each other’s culture – so Chris ate some Asian dish; Jackie ate some fried chicken. That’s all I remember from the movie.

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MOVIE: The Simpsons Movie

DATE: August 15, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): **

COMMENTS: Yuck!! I don’t remember anything about this movie and I’d like to keep it that way.

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MOVIE: Resident Evil: Extinction

DATE: September 25, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): **

COMMENTS: I don’t remember anything about this movie except lots and lots of sand.

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MOVIE: Saw IV

DATE: October 27, 2007

RATING (OUT OF 5): **

COMMENTS: Eww… yuck… the victims are just getting worse and worse. I appreciated the backstory on Jigsaw, though.

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MOVIE: Sweeney Todd [x2]

DATE: December 21, 2007

DATE: January 8, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: I honestly don’t remember watching this movie two times, but I have two movie stubs for it, so I must have watched it two times. It’s a really good movie. I love the singing. Johnny Depp has an amazing singing voice, as well as Helena Bonham Carter. The movie’s subject matter, though, is so depressing that I know I will never buy the DVD. I don’t think I’ll ever want to see it again.

2008

MOVIE: Vantage Point

DATE: March 4, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: This was a good movie. The trailers advertised something completely different, but I still enjoyed it for what it was.

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MOVIE: The Forbidden Kingdom

DATE: March 19, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: This was slightly cheesy. I only watched it because Jackie Chan and Jet Li were in it. I didn’t really like the action scenes. I remember that the camera would shift every time somebody got hit, and I wanted to see the actual physical impact. Some of the humour was kind of weird.

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MOVIE: Iron Man

DATE: May 10, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): *****

COMMENTS: I greatly enjoyed this movie. Robert Downey Jr. is sooooooooo HOT in this movie. Oh my gosh… *drool* Haha… the story was really good and the script was fast and smart. I really, really liked it. I’d say it’s one of the best super hero movies ever made. Gwyneth Paltrow was great as Pepper as well.

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MOVIE: The Happening

DATE: June 17, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: Ugh… this was one of M. Night’s weaker movies. Eww… this was bad.

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MOVIE: The Incredible Hulk

DATE: June 21, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: This was decent, but I have no care for the Hulk. I liked Robert Downey Jr.’s cameo at the end.

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MOVIE: Hancock

DATE: July 5, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: I really enjoyed this movie. I thought it would be pretty neat as a video game. I thought the story was kinda neat. And I liked how Hancock won’t take crap from nobody, not even that kid, hehe.

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MOVIE: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

DATE: July 15, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: It was okay… but not as good as the previous ones. I watched the older movies to prepare myself for this one. This one was pretty meh…

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MOVIE: The Dark Knight [SPOILER]

DATE: July 24, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: This was really good and detailed. Heath Ledger did an awesome job as the Joker, and the whole story was pretty deep as well. Poor Aaron Eckhart playing Two-Face. The ideas in this movie were really cool. And Joker was very menacing.

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MOVIE: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

DATE: September 2, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: This movie pales in comparison to the first and second movie. Brendan Fraser still did a great job at his role. When he acts serious, I can really pick up on that seriousness. He’s a total cutie.

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MOVIE: Mamma Mia

DATE: August 5, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: I enjoyed the singing and the overall visuals. Meryl Streep has a really good singing voice. The plot was okay… just okay.

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MOVIE: Death Note

DATE: September 15, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: If I remember correctly, I watched this in Japanese with subtitles before watching it in theatres. The theatre version was dubbed which made it slightly cheesy. There were certain parts where the audience (probably a lot of them Death Note fans) laughed at the cheesiness of the dubbing. The movie itself was pretty good and a little sad. I can’t believe that the guy who played the main guy in Battle Royale is Light in Death Note. It’s such a change.

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MOVIE: Saw V

DATE: October 24, 2008

RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: This one was better than Saw III and Saw IV. But it was still off its original mark.

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That's it for this blog. Thanks for reading! If you have any comments about anything (even if you greatly disagree with anything I've said, or if this made you think about the movies you've watched and want to share), feel free to comment! :)