Gravity

2013 - 1/5

I’m not sure I want to get into an in-depth review with this movie. I don’t know what to make of it to be honest. All I know is that I’m going to be in the minority with regards to where I stand when it comes to this movie.

As for the visual effects… well… I didn’t see this in theaters… I’m going to leave it at that… so no further comments on that!

I couldn’t really figure out exactly what the story was from the trailer, but from review I saw, it seems like a lot of it would be Sandra Bullock (as Dr. Ryan Stone) would be alone in outer space. I couldn’t help but think of the Disney movie Wall-e, in which the first half barley had any dialogue. It worked for an animated, so I was curious as to whether or not this movie would be similar and if it could pull it off as a non-animated movie. Obviously the script wouldn’t be a major part of this film, so it would have to be all story driven.

Ugh. This is the part I don’t really want to get into: the plot. I’m just saying I couldn’t get into it. I really think that the only reason I didn’t stop watching it was because I really wanted to know how it ends. But overall, I couldn’t buy into it. I’m happy this movie was only 80 minutes.

I did think that Clooney and Bullock were paired together very well. That was one thing that worked for me in the movie. Bullocks short hair aside, I thought both their looks, voices, everything else were very fitting for their characters. I had no problems with the actors and the characters they portrayed.

I was trying to think of a numerical value to give this movie that I felt comfortable with. Even when I picked a random number between 0-5, I couldn’t justify giving it any higher than a 1… and that’s only because I think that Bullock (and Clooney) did a good job.

Snitch

2013 - 0/5

For a movie that was based on true events, I'd say only 5%, if that, actually occurred in real life. I'm not saying I've done thorough research with regards to the exact events that took place, but it's obvious that it didn't play out like movie shows.

There wasn't much believability on any level, which in turn, took away the entertainment value. You can tell the director/writer had a really good premise to work with, and you knew it was one of those types of movies that were supposed to be very intense, but with how it was executed, it just didn't come across like that. Because you can see the potential that lies just beneath all the actual crap you're seeing, the movie just ends up dragging along and it was barley able to keep my attention.

None of the actors seemed to fit the role. I don't think Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson suited this character at all! I raised an eyebrow when he was getting beat up by a couple of thugs near the beginning of the movie. The guy is huge and he's casted as a regular joe? I'll admit, I like Susan Surandon, but lets be honest: she hasn't been in anything in a long while, and frankly, it shows! That character could have been played by a nobody and it wouldn't have made a single difference. All of the characters were boring, flat and I didn't care about any of them at all.

The only thing you take away from this movie, not that I didn't already know, is that the American 'War on Drugs' was just as pathetic in 1992 as it is now.