Movie Review: Salt

Warning: May contain spoilers. You've been warned.

(out of four stars)

I heard mixed reviews about this movie prior to seeing it. Mostly I heard that the ending sucked.

Now, normally people lowering my expectations of a movie makes me hate it. But I actually really liked this movies. I just didn't care for some aspects of it.

It totally threw me off that she was a double agent actually working for the Russians. I found it disappointing when they finally made that clear, but, by the end of the movie, I ended up being okay with it. It made me happy that she ended up saving the world... as lame as that sounds.

I was very disappointed with the fact that she didn't save her husband! Like, what the fuck Angelina? You just stood there and stared at him as he died and then killed everyone. You could have killed everyone then saved your damn husband! Ugh!

Other than that major downer, the movie was great. Great action and sexy Angie. I hope they end up making a Salt 2 because they did leave it open ended. I found Salt to be Jason Bourne with a vagina!

DVD Tuesday! New releases! 12/21

-Family Guy: It's A Trap

-Easy A

-Salt

-Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

-Step 3

-Devil

My Top 50 Songs of 2010!

Basically it was a year of Ke$ha, Gaga, Rihanna, Glee, and Katy Perry. I've compiled a list of my 50 favorite songs from this year (some from last year that carried over into this year due to popularity). The list is in no particular order whatsoever and I've linked each song to the iTunes store. So beware, if you click... iTunes will open.

-"Take It Off" - Ke$ha

--"Just the Way You Are" - Bruno Mars

-"If We Ever Meet Again" - Timbaland featuring Katy Perry*

--"I Gotta Feeling" - Black Eyed Peas*

-"In My Head" - Jason Derulo*

--"Telephone" - Lady Gaga*

-"Airplanes" - B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams

--"Empire State of Mind" - Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys

-"Love the Way You Lie" - Eminem featuring Rihanna

--"Somebody to Love [Remix]" - Justin Bieber featuring Usher

-"Hey, Soul Sister" - Train

--"Rude Boy" - Rihanna*

-"Raise Your Glass" - P!nk

--"Alejandro" - Lady Gaga*

-"Liberty Walk" - Miley Cyrus

--"Run This Town" - Jay-Z featuring Rihanna and Kanye West

-"Blah Blah Blah" - Ke$ha featuring 3OH!3

--"Misery" - Maroon 5

-"Kings and Queens" - Thirty Seconds to Mars*

--"California Gurls" - Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg

-"Round & Round" - Selena Gomez & The Scene

--"DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" - Usher featuring Pitbull

-"Dynamite" - Taio Cruz

--"Impossible" - Shontelle

-"Naturally" - Selena Gomez & The Scene*

--"Eenie Meenie" - Sean Kingston and Justin Bieber

-"Can't Be Tamed" - Miley Cyrus

--"We R Who We R" - Ke$ha

-"Break Your Heart" - Taio Cruz featuring Ludacris

--"Like A G6" - Far East Movement

-"Cooler Than Me" - Mike Posner

--"My First Kiss" - 3OH!3 featuring Ke$ha

-"Only Girl (in the World)" - Rihanna

--"Firework" - Katy Perry

-"Yeah 3x" - Chris Brown

--"Ridin' Solo" - Jason Derulo

-"Not Afraid" - Eminem

--"Hard" - Rihanna featuring Jeezy*

-"Your Love Is My Drug" - Ke$ha*

--"I Like It" - Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull

-"Love the Way You Lie, Part II" - Rihanna featuring Eminem

--"Grenade" - Bruno Mars

-"Whip My Hair" - Willow Smith

--"Who's That Chick?" - David Guetta featuring Rihanna

-"Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga

--"A Year Without Rain" - Selena Gomez & The Scene

-"Fireflies" - Owl City

--"Teenage Dream" - Katy Perry

-"Tonight, I'm Fucking You" - Enrique Iglesias featuring Ludacris

--Music from Glee - (Marry You, Just the Way You Are, Teenage Dream, etc.)

* - songs released in 2009 that reached peak popularity in 2010

Movie Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Warning: May contain spoilers. You've been warned.

(out of four stars)

I'll confess that I went into this movie thinking that it would totally fail as a Narnia film since Disney sold out and gave it to 20th Century Fox, but I was wrong, but that doesn't mean it was great.

I haven't read the book yet so I won't be able to compare the book to the movie.

What I complained about the most with the other two movies was their lack of blood or action violence. Both movies have battle scenes, but I felt that their battles were toned down for the family audiences. I always felt that Disney grabbed the Narnia series because they were looking for their own Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, which I still believe that, but Disney is also Disney meaning that they'll tone down anything to make it family appropriate. It's called a battle scene, Disney... there will be blood and death and violence.

Anyways, I'm straying... Now that Fox has power over Narnia, they were able to be more flexible with their content. The action scenes were 27 times better, so that was a major plus with me.

I must say I missed Peter (although I hate him) and Susan. I'm glad they made short appearances, but I miss them playing major roles. I was happy to see that Ben Barnes returned as Prince King Caspian and he was a leading role. The cousin was a prick, but sadly I ended up liking him in the end. Typical.

A bad thing is that I felt that the visual effects were done poorly. They weren't up to their usual realistic standard. Aslan and Reepicheep were the only creatures that were up to that standard. Everything else seemed poorly animated including the dragon and the Dawn Treader. This could be because the production budget was $80 million less than Prince Caspian and $40 million less than The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie. I liked and hated certain part's of the 'new direction' Fox is taking. I hope they do continue to make the last of the books into movies. They have a lot of potential, they just need to be made correctly.

New Trailer: Fast Five

aka The Fast and the Furious 5. Necessary? No. Interested? Just slightly.

And the Golden Globe nominees are in!

Today the nominees for the 2011 Golden Globes were announced! Yay (but not to much yay, since the Oscars are better)! Glee stole the television section with 5 nominations (1 more than last year, adding Chris Colfer to the list of nominees)!

Here are my picks for select categories (regardless if I've seen the movie or not)...

Best Motion Picture Drama - Inception (I would probably consider Black Swan or The Social Network, but I sadly have yet to see them.)

Best Actress: Motion Picture Drama - I'm rooting for Natalie Portman, Halle Berry, and Michelle Williams (but mostly Natalie ;)

Best Actor: Motion Picture Drama - I would be satisfied with any of these actors minus Colin Firth.

Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical - Alice in Wonderland

Best Actress: Motion Picture Comedy or Musical - Emma Stone or Anne Hathaway

Best Actor: Motion Picture Comedy or Musical - Johnny Depp, Johnny Depp, or Jake Gyllenhaal. ;)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Mila Kunis, Amy Adams, or Helena Bonham Carter

Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Jeremy Renner

Best Animated Film - Toy Story 3, but I'd be content with How To Train Your Dragon

Best Director - Christopher Nolan, of course.

Best Screenplay - Inception

Best Original Score - Inception

Best Television Series Drama - The Good Wife

Best Television Actress Drama - Julianna Margulies (or Piper Perabo).

Best Television Series Comedy or Musical - Glee or Modern Family (interesting that this category has six nominees)

Best Television Actress Comedy or Musical - Lea Michele from Glee

Best Television Supporting Actress - Sofia Vergara from Modern Family

Best Television Supporting Actor - Chris Colfer from Glee or Eric Stonestreet from Modern Family (or Chris Noth from The Good Wife).

The awards will air live on Sunday, January 16th!

To see the full list of nominees, click here!

DVD Tuesday! New releases! 12/14

-Despicable Me

-The A-Team

-The Town

-Nanny McPhee Returns

-The Other Guys

-Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'hoole

-Cyrus

The First Trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Glee performs at X Factor in Britain

Sucks Chris Colfer wasn't there and Chord Overstreet was instead. Chris was apparently filming Warbler scenes.

Trailer for I Am Number Four

Movies that have people with powers never get old for me. Check out the trailer for I Am Number Four starring Beastly's Alex Pettyfer, Glee's Dianna Agron, The Sorcerer's Apprentice's Teresa Palmer, and, of course, the exceptional Timothy Olyphant.

New Trailer: Thor

Thank god for Natalie Portman, otherwise this probably wouldn't appeal to me as much.

Hello Gwen!

New photos of Emma Stone (with blonde hair) as Gwen Stacy are popping up. Production on Spider-Man has officially begun!

LOVE HER!!!

First Transformers 3 Trailer!!

They better do this one right!

I'm intrigued...

It's basically Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. Lol. I don't understand why I think this looks so decent.

DVD Tuesday! New releases! 12/7

-Inception

-Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter

-Boy Meets World: Complete 4th Season

Movie Review: Eat, Pray, Love

Warning: May contain spoilers. You've been warned.

It was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. Especially after hearing that it wasn't that great.

I really didn't care to see it mostly because of the 'pray' bit, but I did and it wasn't terrible.

Basically this depressing and weak woman played by Julia Roberts gives up on love and... pretty much her life in general and travels to Italy (Eat), India (Pray), and Bali (Love) to rediscover herself and start over. A total chick-flick inspirational movie.

The best segment was Eat. By far. It was just so funny. Like I had not expected to laugh that much.

The next best segment was while she was in Bali and she found love in Javier Bardem!

And India was my least favorite, mostly because I'm not that big of a fan of India.

Julia was great. She really does need to make a comeback to acting. It seems like she has 1 movie a year. And I loved the supporting cast Viola Davis, Mike O'Malley, Javier Bardem, and Richard Jenkins. James Franco was kind of ... eh. He seemed to only be in the movie for younger viewers to get some sexiness out of the movie. It was just random that he was there.

This probably just a one time viewing for me, but I didn't hate it. Just know that.

I'm coming out... as a Gleek!

I'm a gleek.

I admit defeat. After being completely against the show and what it stands for, I've given in.

Back in June, I posted an entry dubbing myself a hater of Glee and, until November, I firmly stood by that. The only time (between that post and November) that I gave in to something that was Glee was purchasing the Glee Cast's version of Bad Romance. ...I thought it was good. And I watched the Britney Spears episode... solely for Britney.

So what caused me to watch the show? Well the whole teen suicide slash bullying thing was huge at that time (not that it isn't now), but I read somewhere that Glee was doing an episode (and eventually a story arc) on bullying. So I watch "Never Been Kissed" where Kurt is greatly harassed by a jock bully and he meets Blaine (Darren Criss). My intention was to just watch the single episode, thinking that the story would come to a conclusion. I had no idea it was going to be a storyline for the season and would suck me in.

So, since then I've watched every episode to follow the Kurt-bullying storyline. I didn't think that I would become so freaking engrossed in the story and fall in love with all of the characters (except Sue). So I've seen every episode on Fox.com which, at the time, was "Grilled Cheesus" to "Special Education," plus "Britney/Brittany." And since watching "Never Been Kissed," I've downloaded six songs from the show. ...Shocking!

I may have totally fallen for the show, but that doesn't mean my opinions have changed about my high school show choir. I stand by the fact that... I hate them. Where in this show the Glee club is full of outcasts, by high school's group thought they were gods and goddesses. And for those classmates who read this, trust me, I'm not the only one who thought that.

It was hard for me to finally admit that I love the show after making my firm stance against it. Trust me, it's hard to admit defeat. I judged it and criticized it without giving it a fair chance first. I tend to do that a lot, but I'm trying to change.

So you may start seeing some posts commenting on the show. Starting really soon due to the news that they plan to replace the entire high school class by the end of the 2012 season. Dumb, but I'll comment on that later!

As for now... I'M A GLEEK!!!

And for those wondering about my picture... I made it completely myself. The title, the photo, the colors, everything was me. I didn't steal anything from any of the original posters! Similar to my NO H8 photos.

Ke$ha - Cannibal

So funny and so catchy! Love Kesha!

Movie Review: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Warning: May contain spoilers. You've been warned.

This movie was just as I anticipated it. I was neither disappointed nor was I impressed.

I had heard mixed reviews going into it. Most of them were positive. But I'll admit I enjoyed it.

The movie is based off the segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from Disney's Fantasia.

It was a good movie with great action and great comedy. And surprisingly, I didn't mind Nicholas Cage in this movie. However, I have no idea why they chose Jay Baruchel as the leading guy. He's so awkward and definitely not appealing to the eye. He did pull off some of the comedy well... I'll give him that.

I really liked Alfred Molina as the bad guy. He's just a great bad guy in general. He was amazing in Spider-Man 2 and so hilarious in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (although he flopped from good to evil to good again).

Do I think this movie has sequel potential? Yes. And honestly, I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel. However, I don't think it will happen. This seemed to be a one time deal. Nicholas Cage is having money problems so he's picking up any roles in any movies. Jerry Bruckheimer puts out movies left and right to make more money (not that I don't love him). The movie was not much of a success at the box office, bringing in only $215 million after having a $150 million production budget. And finally, it wasn't so great with the critics.

Regardless, I enjoyed it.

Movie Review: Predators

Warning: May contain spoilers. You've been warned.

This movie wasn't bad at all.

I've only seen the beginning of 1987's Predator with Arnold and I haven't seen 1990's Predator 2. I figured that because there was a 20+ year gap between the movies and I've seen both AVP: Alien vs. Predator movies, I would be fine skipping to the third installment.

Unlike the original two movies, 2010's Predators takes place on the apparent home planet of the creatures. This was one thing I was originally iffy about, but then I had to consider where these creatures had to have come from.

Thankfully, for the human characters, the creatures live on a planet identical to Earth, complete with water, greenery, and oxygen. In fact, it took nearly 30 minutes of the movie for them to realize they weren't on Earth, which I was fine with.

The characters were great. You hate them all at first but then they grow on you (until they start dying one-by-one, big shocker there!). Adrian Brody, in my opinion, seriously overacted in this movie. Adrain, this is a Predators sequel/series-reboot... it's going to take a lot for this movie to be Batman-huge so just chill. (And I say Batman because his voice in this movie sounded exactly like Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne when in disguise as the Caped Crusader.

The predators were awesome as usual. I enjoyed seeing them in a film that focused solely on them and they didn't need to share the limelight with the even awesomer Alien. I was able to understand what they were about more.

In the end, we find out that one of the humans in the group of outcasts is evil. Too bad that person was my favorite (but then again, that's typical).

The film ends with the final survivors still stuck on the planet determined to find a way off of it after watching as more humans fall from the sky as they did.

Sequel potential? Yes, there's a lot of potential here seeing as the characters never got off the planet. Whether the studio will follow through with another sequel, to me, is unlikely (at least for the time being). The film did average with the critics and it was decent at the box office. Producer Robert Rodriguez (SpyKids) says he would definitely be up for a sequel and Adrian Brody claims that he is somewhat interested in reprising his role. So we'll see.

Previous film: Predators 2 (1990)

Hilary will release another album... eventually.

So exciting!

When recently asked if Hilary would release more music, she said this:

"You know what, I want to and I think that until I feel really inspired by something that I wanna do, like a way I want to go, I couldn't do it. I think one day I'll wake up and I'll say, 'That's exactly it!' you know, and then I could do it. But right now, I'm not focused on that."

At least it's a for-sure now. That's all I can ask for. It's been two years since her Greatest Hits album!

Darren Criss & Chris Colfer: Baby, It's Cold Outside

James and Anne to Host the Oscars!

Super exciting!

The 83rd Academy Awards will be hosted by Oscar-nominee Anne Hathaway and James Franco.

I loved Ellen and I loved Hugh Jackman, but I'm really liking this idea. Anne Hathaway was great two years ago in the opening number with Hugh Jackman. I expect great things from her. And what's also interesting is that James Franco is most likely going to be getting an Oscar nod for his new movie 127 Hours.

Can't wait! February 27th, 2011!