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Cowboys & Aliens – AMC12 @ Downtown Disney, Anaheim, CA

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Fun. Pure, simple, action/sci-fi fun that just happens to be a Western. It’s got a few more jumpy moments than ID4 did, but the film paces itself fantastically enough that I didn’t really mind (i.e. I wasn’t scared out of my wits the whole time waiting for the next “jump” moment, I was able to enjoy the movie). I’m so happy Jon Favreau got this movie made – I really like his directorial style. There was this one really simple shot (Laura says it’s a crane shot) at the beginning of the film – Daniel Craig has just woken up in the desert and the scalpers are spreading out around him and the camera just pulls back and up and it looked really cool!

I am intrigued to see what they changed from the comic book.

Yay grumpy Harrison Ford!

Yay Keith Carradine! It isn’t really a Western without him! ;-)

Also had the “pleasure” to see a trailer for Battleship, as in, “You sunk my….” At first the premise was fairly interesting, or at least a little more interesting that Battle: LA looked (or maybe I was just happy to see Liam Neeson acting all grumpy…), but the title card just made me scoff. It’s only saving grace would be if Liam Neeson at some point says in a confrontation with the aliens or whatever, “You sunk my battleship! I will have my revenge!” You know what, not even that would really be enough to save this film.

Thor – AMC 12 @ Downtown Disney

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I don’t see what everyone is bitching about – this film was beautiful.

Chris Hemsworth looks absolutely incredible as Thor. I mean he really bulked up for the role and it looks awesome (we last saw him as George Kirk in J.J. Abram’s phenomenal Star Trek reboot).

I love that Kenneth Branagh directed the film – especially after reading interviews with him where he talks about growing up in Ireland reading the Thor comic books and enjoying them!

Side Notes: In the lobby we noticed a display for Puss In Boots, which just makes me roll my eyes that they’re taking anything vaguely Shrek and giving it it’s own movie. Also there was a HUGE 3-panel display for Cars 2 with so much pretty that we stood there for about 10 minutes analyzing all the little details. I am so very excited with what Pixar has accomplished just with this display (the tiniest details of the architecture have automotive highlights and there’s a billboard featuring a Lotso product) which means the bar is even higher for the actual film! It’s absolutely incredible.

Update (5/20/2011): saw the film in 3-D and didn’t mind it – Asgard was beautiful as was the credits sequence. Other than that, it’s still a solid film the 2nd time around.

The Green Hornet – Regal Garden Grove 16, Garden Grove, CA

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It was almost perfect. The number of times Seth Rogen’s character was a stubborn jackass was ALMOST proportional to the number of times he got his butt whooped…but who’s counting.

This was definitely a very fun and enjoyable movie.  It was nice to see Cameron Diaz again…feels like she’s been absent from my movie screen unless I watch The Mask again.  ;-)

The definitely amazing thing to come out of this movie is Jay Chou – he kicks butt, he’s funny and he sings! Be sure to stick around through the end credits to hear him rapping it up!

I was almost unsure how I was supposed to fell about this movie thanks to the webcomic The Gutters, but I’m glad I went.  Seth Rogen does look like he put in some physical training labor (not to mention the scripting and producing credits) and got into a slightly less dough-y shape in order to play this part which pleases me even though I’m not that familiar with the source material.

All in all a very satisfying flick.

Iron Man 2 – Century 20 @ Bella Terra, Huntington Beach, CA

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Freaking amazing. The entire cast and crew do a fantastic job.

Does Disney even exist in the Marvel universe? Was that an awkward moment at the Disney-buys-Marvel-negotiations? “Um yeah…Howard Stark replaces Walt Disney in our universe”

RICHARD SHERMAN WROTE THE JINGLE USED IN THE ARCHIVED STARK EXPO FOOTAGE (it’s called “Make Way for Tomorrow Today”). EEEEE!

Jon Favreau must really love AC/DC as he features them very prominently in both Iron Man movies so far.

Sam Rockwell ALWAYS seems so sleazy to me.

I know the strawberry vendor! He was in Torrance Cultural Arts Center’s summer production South Pacific (circa 2002) as Stewpot! Ha! It’s always fun to pick him out in movies. He was in one of the Fast and The Furious trailers as the truck driver who’s rig is being dismantled while he’s driving it.

Having read some reviews, my language/opinions have been slightly tainted/biased, but there are still some things worth saying. In comic book movies, the antagonist plays almost as important a role as the protagonist. That being said, Sam Rockwell’s character mucked up the works a bit in terms of antagonist just like in the first film you had the leader of the 10 Rings being one of the antagonists. Whiplash (expertly played by Mickey Rourke) was a pretty awesome antagonist though…shame Sam Rockwell had to steal his thunder.

The thing I love the very most about both Iron Man movies is the holographic/3-D tech (AKA Jarvis). It’s very fun to imagine such an interactive computing experience when right now we’re just goofing around with tech akin to the dummy robot that keeps futzing about (to great one-liners from Robert Downey, Jr.).

The Dark Knight

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This film is staggeringly epic in it’s darkness and execution. Heath Ledger’s performance is incredible, but not in my mind Oscar-worthy (but the Academy doesn’t listen to me so we’ll just let Marissa Tomei win again ;] ).

I love that the movie opens with the Scarecrow (Cillian Murphy) because it maintains the new Batman mantra of not killing off your villains and letting them be little side jokes that Batman totally destroys.

Joker lines

I’m like a dog chasing cars…I wouldn’t know what to do if I caught one!

And here we…go! Can’t rely on anyone anymore…

Why so serious son? Let’s put a smile on that face….