Celeste and Jesse Forever

I so desperately wanted this to be a good movie. I love Rashida Jones and I love Andy Samberg, so I figured what could be better? Well, this film is mediocre at best.

I thought oh best friends who love each other even through divorce, yes I read the description of the movie before I received it. However, to say they "struggle" is an understatement. It's back and forth with their relationship and at some point I feel like watchers will just become frustrated, as I did.

You want a happy ending and for things to turn out well for both of them, and I guess to some extent it is a "happy ending." But the happy ending just wasn't good enough for me, I felt like the movie was dragging and I hoped it would get to the end faster. Any time I feel that way I tend to tell others to just skip it.

There isn't a lot to say about this movie, overall I did not enjoy it. It did provide a few laughs and some emotion but I think if I knew before what I was getting myself into, I would have just skipped it.

Flight

I have to admit initially for me this one was a skip it, even after it was nominated for an Oscar. I had no intentions of seeing it, until my mom said it is really good. Now, unlike my dad she does have pretty good taste in movies. Plus, it helps that she had already seen it and enjoyed it.

I am not going to spend a lot of time explaining the plot of the film because most already know it. It is about Washington being a hero pilot that saves everyone on his plane with the exception of, I believe, six individuals. The catch here is that the hero, is a drug using, heavy drinking individual, including but not limited to when he flies.

The story is really so much more than the plane wreck however and the story of his life and what has happend along the way. I would say this is really the story of one man's addiction and what it took for him to really realize he needed to quit using drugs/alcohol to avoid his life.

I did enjoy this movie, it kept my attention and caused a debate among my family and I. A few thought it would be possible for the plane to fly upside as it did in the movie for as long as it did and not have any problems. I disagreed because I read what the director had said in regards to consulting with a twenty+ year pilot and how it would not be possible for the plane to fly like that. I also read to my family what Boing (who owns that type of plane) stated, agreeing with the pilot, that commercial planes cannot fly upside down.

So, if the logistics of how a plane can actually fly and the artistic license that the director took will not bother you, which I was able to get past and enjoy the movie, than I suggest you watch this movie. The movie really is a good story and visually very appealing, plane upside down or not.

The Factory

This was another movie chosen because of convenience, thank you Netflix Instant. I love Dexter and when I saw Jennifer Carpenter was in this movie, I figured let's give it a shot!

The movie is about a policeman (Cusack) and his partner (Carpenter) who are searching for a serial killer who ends up taking Cusack's daughter.

The hunt continues while the police search for his daughter but you are taken into the home of the serial killer to learn to true reason behind why he continues to take the prostitutes.

It is a hard movie to review without giving away what happens. That being said this is not a fabulous movie by any means, but it is interesting and there are a few twists along the way that made it worth watching. The ending is something you would never expect which is the reason I say it is worth a watch.

Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden

I do not love history. I don't really love war movies either, but since seeing Zero Dark Thirty I have been very interested in movies about Osama Bin Laden. On a night where my family was searching for something to watch good ole' Instant Netflix came to the rescue.

The first thing that caught my attention was the main woman, who is from Beverly Hills 90210 and she still looks the exact same. I also noticed Gigandet, who wouldn't notice him, he's beautiful. Aside from noticing actors in the movie, it is obvious what the story is, how they found Bin Laden.

After watching this movie, I reflected that it is incredibly similar to Zero Dark Thirty, it does get a little more personal with the members of Seal Team Six though which was interesting. That is about the only difference and because it was a made for TV movie, it obviously did not have the high movie budget.

This movie, for what it was, was good. If the history of Bin Laden interests you, it's worth a watch, especially if you have Netflix seeing as it is still on instant.

Killing Them Softly

This movie should actually be titled Kills You Slowly (And Painfully)! It is terrible. The only positive to it is a few comical lines from Brad Pitt. Other than that this movie should be used for torture. I've learned over the years that my dad is not just bad, but terrible at picking movies! God bless his heart, but somehow he always picks the worst movies out there.

I believe I avoided this movie when it was in theaters because it just did not look to appealing to me, based on the types of movies I am typically okay with watching in theaters. I should have just avoided it all together, sort of like the plague.

This movie is 100 minutes long, break that down it is supposedly an hour and forty minutes. Let me tell you it felt like it was as long as Gone with the Wind, but maybe 1/10th as good, and I don't even particularly care for Gone with the Wind!

This movie drags, it's slow, the plot is terrible, overal just a really bad movie that I wish I did not have to see the first time around.

This is a big fat skip it.

The Call

This movie was amazing! I knew when I saw the preview for The Call it would definitely be one that I saw opening weekend. I will watch almost any movie out there, but I am picky about the thriller movies I see in theaters. There was absolutely no regret about seeing it.

Halle Berry at the beginning of the movie is a 911 operator, this quickly changes with events and she becomes the new operator instructor, no longer taking calls. By happenstance, an operator starts to panic while Berry is on the floor showing the new operators the lay of the land and this is where the movie really starts.

If you've seen the previews then you already know that a girl gets taken and we follow her kidnap journey. The girl is none other than Abigail Breslin all grown up. I have to admit in one portion of the film you see Breslin in her bra and you can't help but think, where did the little (fake) chubby girl go from Little Miss Sunshine? To her credit, she does a wonderful job. She definitely embodies true fear of a girl who has been kidnapped.

I was given just enough entertainment and twists and turns to make this one of my new favorite movies. I actually saw it the Friday it came out and am still raving to everyone to go see it. My favorite part is the ending, but I won't ruin it for you!

Go see it in the theater, but if you don't want to spend the money, it is a must rent.