Adam's Movie Reviews

Here are the movies I saw in the last 2 weeks. I don’t have energy to write longer reviews right now, so here are the short versions. The Taking of Pelham 123 – This movie gives you what you came for which is Denzel Washington and John Travolta matching wits. I probably won’t watch it [...]

I watched Benjamin Button last week. In fact, I watched it twice. The first time I saw it, I thought it was a 5/5 rated movie but I don’t like to be sure with my “5″ ratings so I had to watch it again to be sure. My main hesitation with giving it a 5 [...]

Here is another movie, like G.I. Joe, that I read many negative reviews about and decided to wait until DVD to watch it (downloaded it from iTunes actually). Unlike G.I. Joe, I enjoyed Terminator Salvation. Now, here is the thing, the first two Terminator movies are absolutely sci-fi classics. They are once in a decade [...]

Movies I’ve watched over the past few weeks but don’t want to write long reviews: Back to the Future II – This one didn’t age as well as the first one, but it was still fun 3.5 / 5 stars. What’s Up Doc – Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal in a screwball comedy about burning down [...]

Last week I saw Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. I read a lot about this one before seeing it… The long feature in the New Yorker on Wes Anderson, the interview with Wes Anderson on NPR’s Fresh Air. I read a ton of reviews on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes (who’s reviewers gave it a 92% [...]

This weekend I watched Back to the Future on DVD and streamed Ronin from Netflix. I had seen Back to the Future before but it was maybe 15+ years ago. The word that keeps coming to mind when I think of how to describe my impressions is fun. Back to the Future was a really [...]

Netflix predicted that I would give Remember the Titans 4.5 stars (out of 5) and they are usually right about these things however, I’m just thought it was a 3. It was fine, I’m glad I watched it but I’ll probably forget about it in a week. It did have at least one very positive [...]

My wife and I went to check out Where the Wild Things Are this weekend. I was able to see a couple of weeks ago too. The New Yorker had this to say about it: The movie seems to be less about liberation than about futility. I just have to disagree that the movie was [...]

Last Friday I went out to see 2012. I have sure seen a lot of criticism of this movie from my Twitter friends and from professional reviews. The criticism seems to be aimed at the low intelligence of the dialog and the predictability of the action (everything blows up but the heros get away just [...]

Welcome to Adam’s Movie Reviews blog! I love to watch and discuss movies. I am also interested in creating movies as a hobby. This blog is a way for me to capture my thoughts and take notes on the movies I’m watching. The blog is primarily for my own enjoyment, but if you also enjoy reading [...]