Not until you admit Avatar is horribly overrated and Act Of Valour is a terrible movie
You're sure are right about What Dreams May Come though. It's just awful on so many levels. I'll give it a 3/10 for being visually appealing in places. That's the only positive I can find in it.
I've caught up on a load of this years 'popcorn' films in the last few days.
AVENGERS: Despite the usual comic book movie cliché plot, this was a massively entertaining romp. Some great SFX and genuinely funny moments. 8/10. This is what mindless entertainment is all about.
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS: Again...simply great entertainment. A genuinely original take on the popcorn horror movie, and the craziest final act of a film i've seen in years. 7/10
JOHN CARTER: I was expecting the worst considering what a flop it was at the box office. So watching it with very low expectations, i was surprised at how much i ended up enjoying it. Yes, we've seen many aspects of it before in Avatar, Star Wars etc, but seeing as the source material was what influenced those films in the first place it's no surprise. Fantastic visuals and an engaging enough story, it was another really entertaining couple of hours of mindless fun. Not sure why it was such a flop to be honest. It's a solid 7/10 popcorn flick.
The Big Year - Oddly enjoyable for some weird reason avbout competitive birding (bird watching). Nothing really happens and no laugh out loud moments despite firmly comedic based cast, but relaxing. It's like muzak in film 5/10
Rampart - Good performance from Woody Harrelson if a little let down by the script. Worth watching nonetheless. 6.5/10
Sure Avatar won't be remembered as a classic, but i had a great time in the cinema, and that's what matters and why i won't call it a bad movie.
Act Of Valor, fair enough i admit it doesn't have much going for it if you're not a fan of weapons, special forces etc like i am, it's great for people who are into those stuff..
Probably. I expected to like it a little more than I did, and if you start to think too much about the causality loops inherent in the premise of this movie it falls apart (as do all time travel movies to some extent), but it's a really fun ride with a few unique tricks.
Wait, that's a thing? How the hell does that work?
Coulda told you that after seeing the trailer.
I really, really looked forward to this one. I really like intelligent dystopian sci-fi, that's my favorite kind of story. I did feel, though, that it didn't quite live up to the potential. I still enjoyed it, quite a bit, but something just keeps telling me it could have been better. In the end, it was a pretty run-of-the-mill time travel story at its core, with some nice dressing. I do like the foggy memory element, though, that was pretty interesting and I don't think I've encountered that in any other time travel stories (not that I've read/watched a lot of them).
I really like where Gordon-Lovitt's career has been heading this last couple years. He's developed into a very solid actor with a good eye for movies; Inception was bloody fantastic and Looper was pretty good. 500 Days of Summer and 50/50 were both also very good performances for him. There's something about him as an actor, he's just got that subtlety that most don't. It really works, very well.
[EDIT] Oh yes. I also saw Expendables 2. It made me laugh. It did exactly what it says it will on the tin. No more, no less. Exactly what it's supposed to be.