After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
I had quite high hopes for this. The animation and characterisation are all great. The voice work is top notch. But the story is immensely trite. There should be a law against writing and producing your own work, it’s a recipe for self-indulgence.
★★★
Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country's most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them.
I wish Shia LeBeouf had been in more stuff. He seems to play pretty much the same guy every time but he does it so well.
As for the film, as conspiracy movies go, it’s not bad.
★★★½
Pearl Jam · Song · 2004
Jeremy by Pearl Jam
When wily Captain Barbossa steals Jack Sparrow's ship and kidnaps the governor's beautiful daughter, Elizabeth, her childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack to save her and recapture Jack's ship, the Black Pearl.
Watched with the kids (8/11). Taken a while to convince them they won’t be terrified. They thought Captain Jack was funny and they actually made sense of the plot! Success.
★★★½
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
Watched with my youngest (8). She found this much more confusing than the previous films, with random armies appearing out of nowhere.
For my money… I get that you want your character deaths to have a bit of meaning, rather than being essentially a footnote as they are in the books, but wow this is laboured.
★★½
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
Watched with my youngest (8). She liked it but wanted to know why the Eagles didn’t just fly them to the mountain.
[insert “wormtongue – a just question” meme]
★★★
Jack's got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. But ever-crafty Jack isn't about to go down without a fight.
We watched the first Pirates of the Caribbean with the kids (8/11) and they liked it, so we watched this. And they spent the whole time saying, “wait, what’s going on? Why’s he doing that?”
We had to have a chat about how some films look good, have fun things in them, but make zero sense, even by their own rules.
★★½
David Housden · Song · 2012
Where Are You? by David Housden
nervous_testpilot · Song · 2012
Schism by nervous_testpilot
