Rear Window

This is one of my favorites. What I like about this movie is that the point is the story, instead of the special effects. There's no explosions, and only a bit of violence towards the end, so if that's what makes a good movie for you then this isn't the movie for you.

Rear Window is about L. B. Jefferies (aka Jeff), a photographer who broke his leg and now spends his days in his apartment looking out his rear window into the other apartments. One day, when looking out his window, he notices that one man's wife went missing over night. Jeff firmly believes that the man murdered her, even though there was a witness who claimed to have seen her leaving the apartment with her husband, her husband claiming he's escorting her to the train she's leaving town on. Jeff wasn't able to get the police on his side, because his detective friend, Doyle, believes the wife left town. The only two people who believe him are his girlfriend Lisa, and his nurse Stella. The three need to gather enough proof to back up there story, but things just get worse when it appears the man they suspect for murder is heading out of town himself.

I'm giving this movie 3 stars for a story that keeps you on the edge of your seat!

Twilight: The Movie

In case you're wondering why I chose a photo of the Cullens instead of the actual movie poster, it's because I believe the rest of the Cullens need love, too.

Here's my review on the movie Twilight. Enjoy...?

Twilight:

I have to admit, I wasn't going to write this review in fear of scaring my readers. I was also afraid that I might get in trouble, and that my crime would be something like "writing more of a paragraph of complaints than a review". But, here it is anyways!

Just thought I'd let you know, I didn't have hope at all for this movie to be like the book. Okay, I'll just say it: Bella looked drunk and Edward looked like he really had to use the restroom. Also, there was so little of the other characters that I was surprised they weren't invisible! They left out so much that I actually expected something better than what it was, and that's saying something. They cast all the Cullens (the vampire family) well, except Edward. Luckily, there are a few things that I actually enjoyed! The baseball scene, for instance:

Bella was invited to watch the Cullens play baseball, and it was actually pretty good. I would have been happier with the movie if it skipped everything until that point, then stretched that one scene for the whole length of the movie!

My final word on this is that it's a 0 star waste of money, though the casting for the Cullens (minus Edward) gets 3 1/2 stars, because they were great!

Been Thinking...

I'm really sorry I haven't been posting! However, I can't use homework as an excuse because I really haven't had that much (at least not enough to take too much of my time away). I can't really give any excuse except that I've been distracted and this is the last thing on my mind these days...or months. Anyways, I was running through my old posts, and I noticed that I have different opinions on things now that I've thought them through. Not big changes, but I may have changed the rate I gave the book/movie when I first wrote the review (not always a bad thing! In some reviews, I changed my rate to a higher one). One thing I thought I should say about a change in one of my opinions:

I think I gave Twilight a bit more praise than I would now. I've thought it through and realized that I had pushed the love story out of my head because I was distracted by the vampire family (the only reason, I now realize, that I kept reading the series). I love the vampires in the books, though at times Edward's an exception (he seems to have the ability to tick me off...)

Basically what I'm saying is, if you look at the bottom of my Twilight review, you'll see the biggest change I've made in my ratings.