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Suicide Squad (2016)
Starts off great, good middle, then drops off at the end.
I do have to say DC is getting better at their movies. Maybe they are taking hints from Marvel, I don't know, but I do know is that this movie was a good movie. The beginning was a solid 9/10. Middle of the movie was a 8/10, then end was a 6/10. If it had a good ending, it would've been a AWESOME movie. But they screwed the ending up. So anticlimactic. You could pretty much predict what was going to happen, even though there was a million different things happening, and at the same time, confused about what is going on.
And to the person that is suing because they didn't put enough Joker in the movie - I thought there was plenty of Joker scenes. Add anymore and the whole movie is about the Joker. They ended the movie setting it up for Wonder Woman/The Flash/Suicide Squad 2.
Drive (2011)
Not a great plot, but the acting make this a great movie.
This movie is not quite an action movie, but you get your shootout and car chase scenes. Not quite a romance, but you get Ryan Gosling falling in love with Carey Mulligan. And it's not quite a drama, but Ryan Gosling's character is in love with a woman who already has a boyfriend (played by Oscar Isaac) that is in debt with gangsters for protecting him while he was in prison, and while Gosling was driving Isaacs for a pawn shop robbery to pay back the gangsters, Isaacs gets killed.
The plot isn't too deep, but at the same time, it isn't too shallow either, and Ryan Gosling gives a GREAT performance, always pausing before answering a question or speaking, which I'm not sure if that makes him look like a deep thinker or a slow one.
Warning, spoiler past this point. The ending of the movie will have you hanging at the end of your seat. After killing off all the gangsters that were involved in the killing of Carey Mulligan's boyfriend, he brings the money that was stolen in heist to the main gangster, played by Albert Brooks, and Brook's character stabs him in the parking lot after Ryan Gosling hands him the money - Ryan Gosling, in turn, stabs him back - and what appears to be a near-instant fatal stabbing.
The camera then shows Ryan Gosling sitting in his car, clutching his bloody stomach, not moving and apparently dead. After about a minute or so, he blinks, starts his car, and drive's off into the California sunset.
Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
Gnomeo & Juliet is a great movie for everyone of all ages.
Despite the name, this movie is not a real incarnation of Romeo & Juliet. Yes, it does have the same plot, but I would say that's basically as far as it goes. Despite this, Gnomeo & Juliet is a great movie. The brought in some great voice over actors and actresses. James McAvoy as Gnomeo, and Emily Blunt for Juliet - they even brought in Ozzy Osbourne and Jason Statham.
The movie will have you laughing at times, and sad at others - it definitely does a great job of bringing out the emotions. The animation is great - you sometimes forget that the characters are garden gnomes made of porcelain - but they do a great job of making sure that you that they are, from the way they look to the death of the characters - instead of blood and guts, it's just the shattered remains.
Despite the movie being great, after I watched it once, I tried watching it again and it lost it's appeal. Maybe I will come back after a few months and try to watch it again and see if it's a re-watchable movie or just a one-time movie.
Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
Wonderful adaption of Wilson Rawls book.
Normally when i see a movie after I've read the book, i'm usually disappointed because my imagination is usually bigger than what they can put on the screen with time limitations and budgets - but not this movie. The minute i started watching this movie i was hooked. I haven't read the book in years, but I've read the book at least two or three times, and this movie brought back some great memories, and certain parts of the movie was almost exactly like i imagined (especially the coon contest).
Set in the Ozarks in the 1930's, this movie shows what kids did before computers, cell phones and video games. It also shows that life is very fragile, with Rubin Pritchard dying by simply trying to break up a dog fight and falling on his hatchet. But overall this is a feel good movie for the whole family, even though both dogs die in the end - it ends nicely with a nice montage of Billy Coleman and his dogs, and knowing that Dan and Lil' Ann will live for eternity through the book, this movie and where the red fern grows.