Monthly Movie Roundup

Friday
Genre: Comedy/Drama (1995)
Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long
Rating:
Comment: This I watched primarily out of curiosity… I didn’t expect it to be any good and it sure wasn’t (and I bet my pinky neither are Next Friday and whatever else they made). But then again, I find both Ice Cube and Chris Tucker exceedingly annoying.

Terminator Salvation
Genre: Thriller/Action/Sci-Fi (2009)
Director: McG
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin
Rating:
Comment: Cool movie, I enjoyed it immensely. Christian Bale is today what Bruce Willis was in the 90s ;-) Anyhoo, compared to the other Terminator installments, I just can’t give it 5 stars – it wouldn’t be fair :-)

The Hangover
Genre: Comedy/Crime (2009)
Director: Todd Phillips
Starring: Bradley Cooper , Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha
Rating:
Comment: Awesome. While not the most inspired picture it sure is a crapload of fun. Although I still think Neil Patrick Harris should’ve been in the movie :) Plus I love Zach Galifianakis. His stand-up stuff is the shit.

The Tournament
Genre: Action (2009)
Director: Scott Mann
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder
Rating:
Comment: “Hey, let’s make a movie and not waste any money on developing a story” – et voila, you got The Tournament. Some of the fighting scenes were pretty innovative, but other than that it was retarded (as a side note: the priest dude should’ve been Nicolas Cage, he’s awesome at playing whiney bitches).


Merry Christmas, fellows!

Holy crap, time’s flying like there’s no tomorrow (ugh, how’s that for a shitty metaphor?). A merry Christmas to you all!

For those of you who don’t know, I finally graduated from college, moved to Munich and got a kick-ass job there (although not in that order ;) And it only took my ISP six goddamn weeks to hook up my internet, adding technical difficulties to my latent laziness as far as blogging is concerned. I was gonna write a review of the NAS I bought for my movie collection, but it crapped out on me about a month ago and that was that. Which also explains why there haven’t been any movie roundups for a while.

As for 2010, I think it’s gonna be a great year. I plan on putting my private little movie theater into practice, step by step as my wallet permits. There are a couple of fairly interesting projects at work that I wanna share with you once they’ve matured a little bit, and considering the fact that I do get paid for implementing them, there’s a pretty good chance that that is actually going to happen.

Also, I am definitely gonna post my “picks of the year” for 2009, but I won’t be able to do that until I’m back in Munich which will be in early January and chances are I’ll date it back to December 31st.