My Ali-like Return to Ring

After a long hiatus "No Man" will start back, reviewing movies as I see them.  Hope to read all your gripes and comments.  Please don't hold back.

The 30 Day Movie Challenge: Day 18

Day 18 – A movie that you wish more people would’ve seen

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

So this is probably a movie that a lot of people that consider themselves movie watchers have seen, I don't know maybe it isn't, but as an avid movie watcher my grip on what the average person has seen is not necessarily tight.  There's quite a few movies I could pick here, definitely a lot I've already either reviewed or done on the 30 day challenge so I picked something that I haven't mentioned yet and this one was on my mind for a few reasons.

  Lock, Stock is a Guy Ritchie film and for anyone who has seen one of his movies knows they're filled with the spunky British slang that we Americans love so much.  It also in my opinion has probably the best opening 5 minutes I've ever seen, which is saying a lot.  Strongly, strongly recommend it. 

The 30 Day Movie Challenge: Day 17

Day 17 – A movie that disappointed you the most

Where The Wild Things Are

I pride myself on being a pretty good judge on whether a movie is going to be good or not.  And since I am quite the movie snob, I rarely dance around in the sub-par movie levels where it may be harder to judge whether a film will be good or not.  Undoubtedly Transformers should either be here or a close second, but since I have already referenced it above I decided to pick something different.  Arcade Fire is, at least of the modern age, one of my favorite bands, therefore when their song Wake Up was used for the trailer, I was quite excited.  Needless to say the fact that is was Where the Wild Things Are also made me excited.  Unfortunately, the movie was pretty sad, annoying, and dragged on, even though it was under 2 hrs long.  I admit that there was a lot of whimsical beauty in the music, costumes, buildings, and scenery, but unfortunately that only counts for a small portion of what's consider a great movie.  By the end, I was ready for the credits to roll, 2 of my friends actually walked out before it was over.    

The 30 Day Movie Challenge: Day 16

Day 16 – A movie that you used to love but now hate

E.T.

I wouldn't say I hate E.T.  To be honest, I actually still kinda like it, but I do feel it is overrated.   I don't really have any movie that I used to love and now hate, except for maybe a Land Before Time or something, but I don't feel purely kids movies should be considered here.

As for E.T. there was a time, when I was in kindergarten, when I would get off school at noon, and come home, eat lunch, and watch E.T.  Pretty much every weekday for like 10 weeks straight I watched E.T.  I loved E.T.  Our dog was named Gerti after Drew Barrymore's character.  Both that and Wizard of Oz were my goto's at that age.  And I'd also like to say that I am not burnt out on it, I just grew to realize how overrated Spielberg is, and now that I am an adult have a plethora of movies to watch rather than the various VHS my parents own.