Movie

A Christmas Kiss (2011)

A Christmas Kiss

A Christmas Kiss (2011)

Director:

John Stimpson

Starring:

Elisabeth Rohm

Laura Breckenridge

Brendan Fehr

Plot:

After a spontaneous kiss, a struggling designer ends up falling in love with her demanding boss’s boyfriend as she decorates his home for a Christmas party.

Review:

So this is one of the better ranked Christmas movies available on Netflix right now. I’m trying to broaden my horizons and watch Christmas movies I’ve never seen before, but I’m still interested in watching. That really narrows down my options, so here goes.

Brendan Fehr has the appropriate level of hotness for a romantic Christmas movie but his character doesn’t warm up well. He seems distant and aloof, which is understandable since he’s about to get engaged to another woman, but it doesn’t help with the romance side of the movie.

The ending is kind of contrived, the handyman was never included on some of the conversations, yet somehow figured out that the Adam the girls were talking about was the same one. There is evidently only one Adam in Boston. The running into the nutcracker was silly and that emotional scene in the elevator was pretty bad.

I liked the movie, for the most part, but it definitely ended on a low note.

3/5

Side Note:

That was a ridiculously large elevator.

and

Oh to be rich and have peons to do the boring/dirty work.

Classic Christmas Movie: Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983)

Mickeys Christmas Carol

Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983)

Director:

Burny Mattinson

Starring:

Alan Young

Wayne Allwine

Hal Smith

Plot:

The classic Disney animated characters play the roles in this animated retelling of the Charles Dickens masterpiece.

Review:

Mickey’s Christmas Carol was a movie I use to watch every Christmas, it was recorded on a VHS tape along with several other TV specials. Re-watching it with my daughter was so much fun.

It’s a lot shorter than I remember at only 26 minutes for the actual Christmas Carol. Filling up the rest of the Blu Ray are a few Disney shorts, none of which are anything remarkable.

All in all, the Christmas Carol is the best part, and even though it isn’t as faithful to the source material as The Muppet’s Christmas Carol, it’s a much easier introduction to the classic Dickens’s story.

4/5

Classic Christmas Movie: Die Hard (1988)

Die Hard

Die Hard (1988)

Director:

John McTiernan

Starring:

Bruce Willis

Alan Rickman

Bonnie Bedelia

Plot:

John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save wife Holly Gennaro and several others, taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

Review:

“You don’t like flying do you?”

“What gave you that idea?”

“Do you want to know the secret to surviving air travel?”

Seriously can you beat that intro? They talk about toes! There’s a giant bear and John McClane smokes in the airport!

The good old days when a NY cop could travel to LA and still keep his gun with him, then light up in the terminal. Memories…

Anyway… It’s one of our Christmas traditions to watch this movie, though we watch it throughout the year as well. Die Hard hits all the notes of a Christmas movie but it doesn’t beat you over the head with the holiday so there’s no issue watching it the rest of the year.

I really love this film. It’s pretty much everything I want in an action movie and it’s a little spice in the sometimes overly sweetness of the Christmas season.

5/5

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

Transformers Age of Extinction

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

Director:

Michael Bay

Starring:

Mark Wahlberg

Nicola Peltz

Jack Reynor

Plot:

A mechanic and his family join the Autobots as they are targeted by a bounty hunter from another world.

Review:

I like that this movie shows the consequences of the previous movies. All the destruction.

Such a wonderful depiction of our American military and their reaction to something they don’t understand. I thought Michael Bay liked the military? I thought one of the reasons they let him work with their shit was because he always did such a nice depiction of them. I guess I was wrong. Maybe it’s because the head dude is actually CIA and it’s ok to depict them as evil.

At least the dude is hot in this movie. There is equal opportunity eye candy. They did kill the weird guy which pisses me off. I liked him, even though he did give them up.

This movie was a lot darker than the others, at least from what I remember of them. I wish the women were more than just a piece of ass. They always seem to be able to work with machines, but other than running they aren’t there for much but being a pretty face. Though in this one I thought she had a bit too much makeup on, just my opinion.

All Asians can kick ass evidently.

The ending was a huge joke and made a movie that wasn’t that bad stupid. Optimus Prime riding a dinosaur into battle is not cool. I also disliked the fact that Mark Wahlberg’s character started the movie as an inventor but then just ended up using an alien gun to solve problems. You would think that he could find some brainy attack, but nope just brute force it.

There is no reason for a Transformers movie to be 165 minutes long. It was like watching Return of the King, only nowhere near as good.

2/5

My face is my warrant, no joke that was said in this movie.

Space Station 76 (2014)

Space Station 76

Space Station 76 (2014)

Director:

Jack Plotnick

Starring:

Patrick Wilson

Liv Tyler

Marisa Coughlan

Plot:

A 1970s version of the future, where personalities and asteroids collide.

Review:

So I’ve never been a huge fan of the 70s. It’s not an era I can relate to so normally the movies from that time annoy me at best. After watching the trailer for this movie, though, I was intrigued enough to rent it.

Well it was as depressing as any other movie from that time that I’ve ever watched. Almost everyone was horrible and selfish and there was a stupid bullshit ending.

1/5