Movies, movies, and more movies

Saturday was an uneventful day full of video games (Record of Agarest War) and movies; five to be exact. Coincidentally two of them featured Jeff Daniels, the guy who wasn't Jim Carrey in Dumb & Dumber. He apparently is still in movies, more serious movies now though.

Best movie of the night was:

Ghost Town (2008)- Starring Ricky Gervais, with his typical dry, sarcastic humor. Genre wise it is a romcom, but not one of those horrible ones that have come out in recent years starring Katherine Heigl or Jennifer Aniston. Anyways, due to certain events, Frank (Gervais) is able to see ghosts who still hang out in NYC. They bother him, and through the movie, he learns to stop being a jerk, and in the end gets the girl. Typical-ish. But the great thing about the movie is Gervais' comedy. If you don't like his humor, then this movie isn't for you. 

Rating: 8/10

(I should probably explain my rating system....maybe another time)

#2. Paper Man (2009)- Starring Jeff Daniels and Emma Stone. He is an eccentric writer with writers block, she is a young girl. They develop a friendship, talk about life, and how sad it can be.  Ryan Renold's character is featured on the cover/poster, but he really seems tacked on, and there isn't a lot of him in the movie. Otherwise the acting is great, story- not so much. It isn't a great movie, but I am surprised that it only got 29% on RT 

Rating: 7/10

#3 The Lookout (2007) Starring Joseph-Gordon Levitt as a memory challenged person, and Jeff Daniels as a blind man. I don't like to spoil plots, unless they are formulaic, since it is better if you don't really know that much about it, so one an be surprised. So this movie is about Chris (Levitt), no relation, and his issues with life, as he copes with his condition. It isn't some depressing movie about a disabled person, there is some action as well.





 Rating: 7/10

#4 The Wackness (2008)- Stars Josh Peck (from Disney's Drake & Josh) as a weed dealer and Ben Kingsley as his psychologist, who he also sells marijuana to. It's a story of a disgruntled teenage drug dealer and his relationship with people, like Ben Kingsley's character, who is quite a peculiar person and isn't at all likable (the best part is that he quotes Gandhi at one point). So ya, nothing all that much happens, and the characters aren't all that sympathetic, but it does have a great hip-hop soundtrack.



Rating: 5/10





#5 Stir Crazy (1980)- A mostly slapstick comedy starring Richard Pryor and the always yelling Gene Wilder. It does have some funny moments, but most of the jokes fall flat. The plot is decent enough for the genre of movie that it is.









Rating 5/10



Hey, I wrote some movie reviews....look at that. Finally got around to it. Anyway, I hope they were informative, and I'll post something about my rating systems eventually.