Rambo : Great or Greatest Movie ever?

Have you seen the movie everyone is talking about?  What are they saying, just read these reviews:

“A cinematic master piece!”

“Best movie of the year!”

“Will solve world peace”

These are some of the official reviews that may or may not be by real critics (or just my friends).  I went into this movie believing it was going to be this action, explosive, gut twisting, kill fest….but I was wrong, dead wrong.  The protagonist, Johnathon Rambo leads a quiet life, but don’t let his solemn tone and stern look lead you to think he’s one dimensional.  The depth of his character is like none other, he continually struggles with his past and present internal battles.  He engages other dynamic characters with their own sophisticated back stories arise to increase the excitement.  We are engrossed as the story explodes with dialog and snakes like winding river to several confrontations where the softer side of Rambo surprises us more and more.  The superior skills of the actors bring new meaning as their words seem to cut into you like a sharp blade and leave you gushing.  Rambo’s character is ever changing as he melds with antagonists and wins them over with a barrage of timely aphorisms that instantly win over his enemies.  Timeless, generous and heroic is the character of Rambo, he could blow the minds of any rebel and leave their evil thoughts lying lifeless at his feet.

I’m sure I’m not the first to say it was a fantastic piece of American Cinematography and should be given the Nobel Peace Prize.

Stallone for President,

Ben

Movie of the Century

The moment you have all been waiting for, the movie expected to make a billion dollars opening weekend is here, Balls of Fury. You haven’t heard of it?!? It’s only about one of the coolest sports in history, ping-pong and by one of the creators of Reno 911! Ben Garant. Okay, so it may not be for everybody, something like Dodge Ball but prolly funnier. Watch the trailer and await the count down 8-29!

Boink-

Benjamin Willis

Bourne Ultimatum – Willis Approved

I got a break today from work to catch the latest in the Bourne movies. The movie was very well done and was well worth the theater experience, def 4/5 stars, or thumbs or whatever else you want to call it. It keeps in pace with the Identity and Sumpremacy by offering good action plot line and contains a lot of on-site filming (New York City, India, Morocco, Spain, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom). Matt Damon did quite well with the few lines that he actually has, but it’s funny to note the amount of actual stunt men that were used-makes you wonder how much time he actually spent on camera.

One final note that made the film a little funnier was the use of Motorola phones, VW cars and Google Maps-they are kinda hard to miss. Amazing things you must be able to do with the latest Razor phone like putting out and confirming your kills.

Benjamin Willis

Bruce, worthy of the name Willis?

I have to admit I like action movies and the most recent one I saw was Live Free or Die Hard. I know it is kinda late to talk about this movie because everyone has gotten their feedback in but whatever still worth commenting. Bruce, if I may call him by his first name, did a fine bit of action scenes in this movie-with a short vocal script (good thing considering his alzheimer’s…you heard it here first). Though most of the scenes were quite unreasonable it is important to note that he is something around 80 years old, so that kind of quality ages like wine. Not only was the action good but the Mac Guy (Justin Long similar to Dell Guy but for Apple to those of you living in a closet with a laptop and wireless connection) had a bit of comic releif-especially his insight on the technical side. My favorite aspect of the nerd scene in the movie was the ability to upload explosives to some of the smartest nerds computers-must be the new etp (explosive transfer protocol) automagically installed by windows vista sp3. But back to Bruce, after further review, I do believe he is allowed to continue with the surname Willis as long as he sticks to some more realistic action scenes (taking down helicopters instead of jets) and has the script hold true to actual plausible technological scenarios.

If I am his age and still saving the world I may be satisfied with the way my life turned out. Oh and I think Bruce Willis and Chuck Norris should fight.

Benjamin Willis