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The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
James Corden should replace Stephen Colbert
I find this show a breath of fresh air. It's the best show on late night. I'm quite happy that CBS had the chance to follow on from Craig with another unique, intelligent and unpredictable host and that they didn't go in the direction of dumbed down TV like Jimmy Kimmel.
The shows set up is that of and older British style where instead of interviewing one guest at a time, they all sit at the couch together and its a more interesting, fun discussion. James Corden is great at keeping everyone in the conversation and not leaving anyone out and sliding from one topic to the next. He's not a traditional stand up comedian so monologues aren't his thing, but he's perfectly fine at it.
The houseband is great! I wish Colberts house band gelled with him like Corden's band does. The band leader is not only a talented musician but hilarious too! CARPOOL KARAOKE ANYONE! Let's face it, James Corden is great and would be a fun person who to sit at a dinner table with and just chat, which makes him the perfect television host, that you can tune in and feel like your apart of that conversation. He seems like he is just being himself and caring about the show and his guests.
I love the going randomly up to people houses and asking if he can film his show there. It's just so random, and just enough of that awkward feeling that can make things absurdly funny and weirdly hilarious on accident, it just works so well.
It's really quite an intelligent show. Corden is a sweet guy and all his talk about men's physique makes me thinking of Chris Farley who also used his body image in a fun comedic way.
The only thing similar between Craig Ferguson And James Corden might be those UK accents, but that's about it. Ferguson was becoming unbearable with all his negative, immature, potty mouth behavior. Not funny. Not witty. Not watchable. The show was a major disappointment.
I do feel bad for all the Craig Ferguson fans that are now James Corden haters and apparently all the negative reviewers on this site. Face it Ferguson wanted to leave CBS and CBS was happy to go in a different direction. They wanted to change things up and they sure did in big, wonderful way. I feel sorry for Ferguson and the his lost talent. I understand why he quit, but honestly, he just wouldn't have fit in the millenial trending late night entertainment slot.
Black Gold (2011)
I hoped this would be better
What's awful about this movie is the writing and some of the acting. With the well known leads this movie had i would have thought the script would have been better. But it was lack luster and at times B-movieish. Maybe for an independent, low budget, no name film, I could understand the rush of dialogue and the gloss over of these characters. I would have preferred an in-depth understanding of them. More "game of thrones" style set in the Arabian desert. From the trailers I saw, I assumed it would be better. But this is definitely NOT that!
Then half-way through the film the action sequences start. While the tactics are fun to watch, it's all rushed and hurried, with little thought to if scenes make plausible sense or not. By 3/4's of the way thru the film its back to being a B-movie. Something to laugh at more then take seriously.
You want this film to be good, but it just isn't.
The Last Airbender (2010)
not as bad some believe
Without knowing anything of the Airbender TV show or book my expectations on this film were that is was a family film by M knight shamalan. that being said, my expectations were already lowered. Every review that i've read seemed to criticize how it was not like what was done before. But no one mentioned how it performed on its own as a film. While the cgi action elements could have been better(they were too slow and seemed not to fill the space)and some dialogue was lacking interest i'm surprised it got such a low rating.
Though before reading any reviews i thought this was an original idea and interesting concept, but apparently that isn't the case.
Still i'd like to see the follow up movie. If you know nothing about this movie before hand, its worth the time watching it.
Fire & Ice (2008)
Bad directing, bad CGI, Bad almost everything
This movie has way too many shots of the same thing that makes the action sequences feel like a turtle running a 5k marathon. So many scenes should have been cut out entirely. Imagine watching the dragons fighting(doing somersaults around each other, then cut back to princess looking on, see dragons flying not really attacking each other, cut back to more looks of worry from princess, back and forth of this pointless dragon fights and worry looks for what seemed like way too long until finally i caved and just had to skip fwd a bit more until it was over. Bad directing is the key to why this movie sucked. The acting was alright i guess, some actors better then others. On the jacket it states "A Visually Spectacular(imo outright lie...unless they meant spectacularly awful), Fantasy Adventure(yeah its that) from the director of Catwoman(uh -oh catwoman sucked too)." That is supposed to be some thing good? (That made me laugh.) I mean the CGI is from 2008, it should be better then stingray like dragons that clearly don't blend into the background and looks real. Jurassic Park had better CGI then this and that was made back in 1993(so visually spectacular???? yeeeeah-right.) Costumes were meh.... I see they tried but it looks like a low budget webisode project and i've seen better webisode shows with much better wardrobe.
My thinking is why did they even bother making this? Yeah, i only stuck around because Amy Acker(Angel) was a main lead.
If your looking for a drinking game maybe watch this with friends and drink every time they say "dragons" or "princess", and you will be drunk real quick.
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
If you love torture... well, shame on you.
This movie just shows how evil the United States was.(Amercans = North + South America) I do not understand all the attention this film has had. This is disgusting and the fact that our government- Bush era allowed this to occur is pathetic.
The Hurt Locker shouldn't even be compared with this. The only thing they have in common is the middle east/ location. Two different subject matters entirely.
The fact that people even consider this as propaganda is really bad. "Hey folks lets torture people and say we don't torture people in the US cause we do it some place else haha." /facepalm. This film shows how evil the USA is , that's not really a good thing. If anything its propaganda for our enemies! And the more The US and the West does this kind of stuff the more conflicts we are going to create.
Torturing people very rarely leads to the truth, and more so creates lots of lies.
As far as Jessica Chastians acting, It could have been anybody. This was her break out film? she is OK in it, but any character actor could have done as good a job.
The movie got too much attention because of the subject matter, It doesn't live up to the hype.
I don't know how you walk away from this movie with out hating the US government.
Riddick (2013)
Worst of the three
Pitch black was great and i liked Chronicles despite the reviews, but Riddick was just the same as the first movie. I wanted to see more of the into part of the film with Carl Urban and the necros or rather I would of preferred the movie to exist in that atmosphere and not the planet(been there done that). The fight scenes and cgi were all amazing. I like Vin as the anti hero and Riddicks fighting skills, but there really was no point to remake the first movie and called it a third chapter. I want to see more of Riddick as king of the necromancers- that would be more interesting then this. I liked seeing Katee Sackhoff again but, she was fun to see but her role was too minor in my opinion. I wish the she would of filled the role of John instead and could have been a sister rather then father of little john. Like Joss Whedon Strong Female leads, I wish she would of had a larger part here, or like Claudia Black in the first movie.
Clash of the Titans (2010)
good film
I thought this was a solid, good film, I don't know why it got lower ratings on IMDb.com then "Pacific Rim", which in my opinion had sub par performances. The follow up movie "Wrath of the Titans" in my opinion was worse, but to each his own i guess. Don't watch this movie in 3-D. Most movies are better once you get over the hype of the retro 3-D experience. Especially if you already wear glasses, having to wear the special 3-d glasses over top makes it very annoying. And for non glasses wearer who aren't use to them, it makes your field of vision blocked off and the whole point of going to the big screen pointless. 3-D isn't for every movie, in my opinion outer space works best.But Seriously why would you watch this film in 3-D? Regardless of all that the film would have gotten higher ratings were it just normal in non 3-D.
After Earth (2013)
If you like slow story lines and bad acting/ casting you'll love this movie!
To start off with its pretty bad, but i had heard it got bad reviews before i watched it so i was prepared- and didn't waste real money only time since i rented it for free from the library. (plus if you think something might be bad just have patience and wait a few month your library will probs have it soon enough to all those that like to waste 10 bucks and then complain about it later.
It starts off abruptly i think the intro could have been better designed/ laid out. Casting is sub par, The Smiths don't really fit this role. Jaden's character seems to be a complete idiot the way its written. Not sure if that's completely the writing or his bad acting or a combo of the two. Will plays a hardened military unemotional commander(father less so). He's okay, but i swear... during trailers I thought they had some weird, stuck up, white, British, preppy accent, for no reason and it was just outta place.
The movie s l o w l y inches along as the idiot son discovers the Earth and what not to do as he crosses it. I personally thought this was like a comedy/ parody horror movie style where the audience is suppose to yell at the screen because of the obvious sh!t the character isn't suppose to do. It was hilarious in a B-movie kinda way. (though that wasn't the director's intent)and only at the end of the movie did I realize this was an M. Night"sleep-a-thon" film...
Even parts of the CGI were bad. At the waterfall it was OBVIOUS the creek behind him, the tree on the right side of the screen(the edges were blurry), the cut out silhouette around Jaden, it made him look like he popped off the screen.
I mean They were the only 2 to survive? What?? How did Will survive he should have died in that mid air Explosion, if everyone else didn't make it. That was just bad writing imo. After looking at the special features I realize a lot had been edited out that we didn't see, so i can only assume there was a lot more crap then what we saw.
There were many holes in the story. blah blah snore.
If you are still considering this movie, you have to be a huge Will Smith fan because otherwise its not worth your time.