Filth

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Let's blow our minds!  This English movie was okay.  It had lots of good parts, especially the soundtrack (which are mostly awesome covers).  It is trippy, that's for sure.  Trippy and Filthy!  A movie about a crooked cop and his psychotic adventures.  I love, love the ending.  There is just something about the movie as a whole that was missing.  Can't figure what that is.  Maybe the flow was off.  Maybe it was trying to be too weird that things were a bit messy.  Maybe because I didn't have subtitles on and it's hard to understand the Scottish accents.  But, for what I experienced, I thought it was okay.

Gotta download some of these cover songs.  

Big Hero 6 (2014)

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Another sweet and awesome Animation this year.  This one is almost up there with The Lego Movie.  It's from the same creators who did Wreck-It Ralph (which was in my top 10 in 2012).  I have a confession:  I cheated again.  See, this is a Robot movie and I'm not supposed to see any robot movies this year unless it's Robot Friday.  In my defense, I totally didn't know or if I did know, I didn't realize until I was halfway through this movie.  So, it doesn't count.  This was just a freebie.  I'm trying to persuade my mind that it's okay and that everything is going to be alright.  I'll get over it.  Anyways, this movie is a robot movie, superhero movie, and a semi-revenge movie.  Badass!  Oh, and there are two emotional moments that hit me a bit.  Good story and cute little moments.  Okay, so it's not Wreck-It Ralph awesome but this does its job.  

 Must see, especially with the family.  Lots of cool Animation this year: The Lego Movie, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, How To Train Your Dragon 2.

 

Saw this in Midland with my son Nates the Shakes, my niece Angelina, and my brothers.

 

Western Wednesday: A Million Ways To Die in the West (2014)

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Well, shit!!  This sucked.  I went in with low expectations because of what I heard and it still didn't do it for me.  I love "Ted" and I like a lot of Family Guy episodes, but this wasn't funny.  There were two or three moments where I was laughing but that's it.  What kept me going was Charlize Theron.  She was beautiful and acted cute here.  Everyone else was so and so.  

Not the worst movie I've seen this year but pretty close.  Stay away!  

A Most Wanted Man (2014)

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Pretty good spy movie we got here.  A little intense.  We never know what was going to happen in the next scene or not.  I admit, the first half was a bit boring for me but it picked up right away.  I felt like a film snob complaining about this shit but I then slapped myself a few times and I was back to my old self again.  Philip Seymour Hoffman was badass as usual.  Rest in peace!  This probably needed lots of violence and lots of chase sequences to be awesome in my book but that's just my personal taste.  For what it was, it was pretty good.  Good solid drama.

Worth checking out at the Redbox but nothing special.  

Boyhood (2014)

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Boy, oh boy!  This was one awesome, sweet movie.  I remember covering the red carpet for it at SXSW earlier this year for work.  This is a movie by Richard Linklater.  It took 12 years to make.  Why so long?  Because it was an experimentation.  Every so often during those 12 years, Linklater would shoot scenes with the main boy, the girl that plays his sister, Patricia Arquette, and Ethan Hawke.  The result: an awesome drama showing the life of a boy growing up from elementary to his arrival at college.  It is almost three hours long.  It didn't drag at all. These characters became a family to me for three hours.  A lot of what they went through, hits home for me.  It's a movie about life and about love.  So it should hit home to almost everyone.  It's the story of Mason.  He lives with his mother and sister.  He sees his dad every so often.  During his childhood, his mother married and divorced three men.  He moves to different parts of Texas.  He meets different friends and girlfriends and has different experiences.  It shows the struggle and the changes of this boy and the other characters.  It shows how this boy evolves to a young man.  Fucking beautiful movie.  Richard Linklater has made some very awesome films.  I think I need to add him to my director shelf.  Kudos for the Austin scenes.  Can't go wrong with the best city in Texas.  

A must see and a must buy for sure.  Special movie.

Glad I finally saw this movie.  Saw it at the new discount theatre they opened in Northwest Austin and it was only a buck (1 dollar Sundays).

Interstellar (2014)

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Wow!  That Christopher Nolan guy never disappoints.  I am speechless.  Okay, maybe I have a few words:  intense, emotional, visually satisfying.  I fucking loved it.  Whenever a Christopher Nolan movie comes out, I tend to stay away from social media, reviews, rotten tomatoes, etc, until I see it firsthand.  And I saw this the way the director wanted people to see it: in 70mm.  As a bonus, I saw it in IMAX too.  My first 70mm Imax experience.  So that alone, enhances the awesomeness of this movie.  I felt my seat tremble quite a few times.  Easily one of the best space movies I've seen.  I remember loving the space experience when I saw Gravity last year.  Well, I personally think this one is a lot more awesome. I caught myself shedding some tears in a couple of moments.  Love the twists and turns.  Nolan style.  It's almost 3 hours long.  At times I do feel it but there was some sequences that were intense that I felt no concept of time.  I ain't spoiling anything about the story here.  This you have to see and judge for yourself.

Must see in the theatres and as big as possible.  Don't watch it at home for your first time.  It won't be the same.  This is a very possible candidate for my top 10 favorites of the year.  Possibly my top 5.

Ink

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A co-worker kept telling me to watch this movie and I finally did this morning.  This is a very low budget sci-fi/supernatural tale.  I think it was made for 250,000 dollars.  Considering that budget, this was pretty good.  The story was okay.  I wasn't into it as much.  But, the fucking visuals were great for a low budget movie.  Freaky scenes.  I like some of the characters especially the not so funny guy with no eyes.

Overall, it was okay to see.  Not one to buy.