Summer Movie reveiw

Spider Man, War for Planet of the Apes, Baby Driver, Dunkirk

Lets start with my favorite movie of the summer--Baby Driver!
I have never seen an action flick revolve around a soundtrack. Amazing songs in this flick. The director & writer Edgar Wright has great musical taste. Plus its the first time my hometown of Dunwoody is mentioned in a movie. Whole movie was filmed and takes place in the ATL.
The driving action scenes were great but to me the MUSIC was the star.
7 out of 10

Dunkirk
I have never FELT a movie like this--the chair would shake during bomb scenes, the music was tense Hans Zimmer at his best! I was on the edge of my seat for most of the movie because of the musical score.
It will win ant least 1 Oscar for sound editing--it would be worth paying extra to see in 70mm GTX format. I saw it on regular screen and it was impressive.
Plot was confusing as there was 3 parts all different time lines--was hard to follow at first but all came together in the end
6 out 10

Spider Man Homecoming--was lame. the special effects are not as good as the Sam Raimi versions.
Plus the diversity mandate from Hollywood is getting a little ridiculous. The bully to Peter Parker Flash ( who in the comics is a huge white football player) in this its a nerdy Indian kid who teases Pete by calling him Penis Parker.  Very disappointed in this flick
3 out of 10

War for Planet of the Apes
Seemed like LONG flick no different than the other 2 previous --was ok end to the trilogy.
5 out of 10

Captain America Civil War

Long--but good. The story premise was a little weak. But-Some epic fight scenes, that were ridiculous and fun to watch.
There was so much action that for those that get motion sickness, it was hard to watch.
 The new Spider Man and Paul Rudd as Ant-Man were great comedy relief. My boys loved it so much--its all they talked about for a few hours afterwards. As far as Marvel movies go, it could be the best ever.
Go enjoy the first of the summer blockbusters
oh, ticket prices getting really high, $50 for 3 people 1 popcorn and 2 drinks.
That is Bulls@#%!

Jungle Book

Great film to take the whole family. Kids loved it as did the wife and I.
Try to pick out the celebrity voices--some really big names doing the characters.
Visuals were fantastic--go see on the big screen if you can.
If you can't still in the theaters , its worth renting as a family movie night.
I give it a 7.5 out of 10.

Spotlight & the Catholic Church

After seeing this movie I sat in my  car and cried , thinking to myself how could all of this happen?  I was raised a Catholic, I loved the church as a child. I found my faith that I still have today from the Catholic Church . My belief in Jesus, my knowing right from wrong , what is a sin--ALL from the Catholic Church, so don't take this review as me bashing God & religion. It is not--it IS me bashing man and the institution.  Like most things on the beautiful planet of ours, man tends to screw it up.  Growing up I always found it so odd in order to be a Cathloic priest you have to be celibate. I never to this day understood what your love of another person and wanting to be with wife/partner had to do with your faith in God.
 The movie talks about how this attracts a certain kind of deviants. I really feel if this religion wants to get into the 21st century and scrub itself of its past--it needs to forget celibacy and also allow women priest. Teaching faith and love is much easier to do when you can express your love with someone else.  In the movie they did a study that 53% of priest were NOT celibate , and 6% of them were abusers towards children. There are many noble priest and many great Catholic Churches all over the world, heck I grew up in All Saints in Dunwoody GA--loved it. SO DONT TAKE MY RANT the wrong way.  This movie just frustrated the shit out me .
 Think about it --kids that were the poorest and had the worst homes--where did they turn to?
 The church to show them the way , yet these were the ones taken advantage of --Reminded me of Sandusky.  I won't get into the numbers, go watch the flick  but it was staggering, and it was just the city of Boston.  Geez, between this movie and Ray Donovan the TV show--did everyone who grew up in Boston have someone they knew growing up getting taken advantage of by a priest?  Seems like it!
  I was really taken aback to the whole cover up.  So sad  how people just kept brushing it under the rug, but a GREAT movie--I was reminded of All the President's men with Hoffman & Redford. GREAT cast  Keaton & Ruffalo were fantastic.
And I always love a good movie that takes place in BawStun. I just love the accents , it makes for great story telling.
Watch it--discuss it with your kids, have a conversation with a neighbor, let's talk about this issue and not cover it up any longer.
Sorry for my rant--it just crushed the Catholic Church.
I give it a 8.5 out of 10!!!

13 Hours the Soldeirs of Bengahzi

What a shit storm this story is, I am so glad I am not in the military. Budget cuts have made it impossible to do a good job. The Michael Bay movie is typical MB style, very grandiose in scenes, but what makes the movie are the actors who portray these heroes.  I can't even imagine ( well I can , watched it in real time on screen) HOW pissed off these guys must have been when they got home. The CIA comes off as a bunch of D-bags. I hope this was just for the movie's sake, and the events did not unfold like in the movie.  Once again the actors, John Kransinki & James Badge Dale are awesome, but the best was Pablo Schreiber, the comedic one of the bunch. Phenomenal job acting by everyone in the flick.

I give it a 6.8 out of 10

The Revenant--WOW crazy insane flick

OK --I have never seen a movie like this.  The attention to detail is so intense, the sound of walking in powder snow, gutting of a dead horse , to the "huff" of a grizzly bear. Alejandro G. Inarritu will win another Best Director Oscar this year, last year's Birdman was filmed unlike anything I had ever seen , UNTIL NOW.
He did it again, Alejandro is a freaking genius with the lens. The story is so-so, hell Leonardo doesn't even say 25 words the whole movie. Tom Hardy is great, you want to punch him in the face 5 minutes into the story. he plays such a douche bag. Once again the story is "meh"/ok, but to watch it unfold is true cinematic masterpiece.

You know how Bruce Willis in all the Die Hard movies goes through so much hell--well multiple that times 100 for what Leo endures in this flick. Its so unfathomable the shit he goes through and comes out on the other side. Impossible, but its worth watching how, he survives. Damn cool movie.
No one under the age of 17 should see it, when I mentioned earlier-- attention to detail--, its not for the squeamish.
I give it an 8.5 out 10

Big Hero 6 is awesome sauce

OK go take your kids to see this movie. What a treat ! Very well written with a great message. The animation was great. And when you give your kids a funny high 5 after the movie you will get what I mean.
Kids and I gave it a 9 out of 10