I have now seen the Step Up trilogy which makes me pretty stoked for Step Up Revolution.  Not gonna lie.  But hopefully it’s better than this flick.

While Step Up was an attempt at a real movie and Step Up 2: The Streets was an awesome dance flick, Step Up 3D is pretty rough around the edges.  It resembles You Got Served more than Step Up 2: The Streets and not in a good way.

But since it’s a dance flick, it’s worth watching.  The dancing scenes are phenomenal.  From the new school dub step robot to the homage to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers doing a full routine in a single camera take.  Sharni Vinson (who kicks serious ass in You’re Next) is surprisingly underused but makes her presence known.  And Adam G. Sevani, who is the dorkiest, skinniest, weirdest looking little dude you’ve ever seen, may just be the best dancer in the world.  No joke.

Bring on Le Revolution.  

I love dance movies.  I loved Step Up 2: The Streets.  And I love Channing Tatum.  How have I not seen this movie?

Step Up is only disappointing because I saw The Streets before seeing the original.  While the sequel is a fantastic danceplotation flick, Step Up is an attempt at a real movie.  Most people would hate it and think it’s terrible and blah blah blah.  But I like these kinds of movies.  They are like candy and easy on the eyes.  

Besides, who doesn’t love seeing Channing Tatum cut a rug every once in a while?

At what point is Matt Damon going to get an Academy Award for acting.  He’s the modern day Tom Cruise where he essentially plays the “every man” in every movie, but is just so damn good at it.

To be honest, I was terribly interested in this movie.  In fact, Annie had to force me to watch it.  And after a few kind of silly, slapstick comedy tries in the beginning, I was worried it was going to be a stupid film.  But it’s not.  Oh no.

This movie is really touching.  I can’t imagine most people will weep the way Annie and I did after this movie, but if you don’t like it, you have a black soul.

Seth Rogan says that he voted for Ghost Protocol for best picture at the Academy Awards. I can see why.  This movie is so rad.  From start to finish.  The gadgets, the set pieces, the action sequences, the direction, Tom freaking Cruise…it’s all superb.

Annie made us a feast and we wanted to watch the movie while we ate.  I don’t drink red wine much, but I figured it would go well with the food.  As Tom Cruise climbed on the walls of the tallest building in the world, I spilt wine all over our couch because I jumped out of my seat.

That’s an endorsement if I’ve ever heard one. 

Cabin in the Woods is the type of movie you can’t really say anything about without spoiling it. The very premise is kind of a spoiler in my opinion. So I’m just gonna tell you it’s fucking awesome and an instant classic. The movie exudes Goodard and Whedon’s comedic brilliance but still delivers on the horror. All I will say is when the third act nears, you think “There’s no way they are going to go all the way with this.” They do, and it’s epic! 

So let me just say, the animation in this movie is spectacular.  The performance capture stuff was great and the animation quality was breathtaking.  Had it not been mind blowing, I would have absolutely turned this movie off about 20 minutes in.

I’ve never read a Tintin book so I’m probably missing something.  But holy shit, this is not my kind of movie.  Not only did I find it to be incredibly boring but there was nothing relatable.  Indiana Jones is an incredible character because he’s grumpy, rude and hates snakes.  He’s, you know, HUMAN.  Tintin on the other hand is a British Hardy boy.  He’s not a human, he’s a caricature.  I didn’t care about him when he was in danger and felt zero suspense because they never set him up as failable.

And even though the animation was amazing, I was fighting motion sickness throughout most of the film.  Because it was “animated” Spielberg felt like he never needed to cut the camera and could just fly anywhere he wanted.  This constant movement and rotation was nauseating.  There’s a big chase scene halfway through and the whole thing takes place in one shot.  This isn’t impressive because doing something in one shot or “take” in animation is not hard.  But when you are literally flying around an entire village, up and down and around, focusing on the main characters in the frame all while screaming “Just put the damn scrolls in your POCKET!!!” It makes you want to puke.

If this is the first of a trilogy, count me out.

This movie is great.  From start to finish.

I’ve never seen an episode of the original 21 Jump Street so I can’t really compare the two, but I can say this movie is hilarious.  I have always loved Jonah Hill’s comedic timing and for some reason I think he’s funnier when he’s skinny.  I also hope this will be Channing Tatum’s breakout role.  The dude is so dreamy and can obviously act, so hopefully he can get some meatier roles.  The film is constantly winking at the audience which is rad and not distracting.  And the comparisons of what is cool in high school now as opposed to when the characters were in high school are great.  The only sad part is these characters supposedly graduated in 2005 while I graduated in 2003.  I’m old.

Highly recommend seeing this movie.  It’s a good one.

One compliment you have to give Piranha 3D is it knows what it is.  It’s a dumb horror movie and tries to be nothing more.  After the required first act, the film simply jumps from gore scene to boob scene to gore scene to gore AND boob scene.  So it’s pretty hard to say it’s a bad movie when it isn’t trying to be a good movie.  I enjoyed this film as much as I love a pack of Gushers but wouldn’t recommend either, know what I mean?  Unless, of course, you like the idea of floating silicon implants and a severed penis that gets eaten by a piranha only to be regurgitated moments later.  If that’s your thing then you need to see this movie ASAP!