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For Dads: Crazy Stupid Love #BlurayElite Review #SP

July 1, 2012 by Eddy 2 Comments

As a member of Warner Home Video super exclusive Blu-Ray Elite team, I get access to some of the greatest movies ever made. My mission is to give you how these movies fit in the life of a Dad. Movie: Crazy Stupid Love I know you have been waiting for a great movie, and I finally got one. Starring Steve Carrell, Ryan Gosling, Julian Moore and Emma Stone, this movie takes up through the tumultuous life of Cal Weaver as he gets divorced but ultimately finds the love he truly deserves and needs in the end. Its kind of like How Stella Got her Groove Back for white males. Dad Factor: medium/high. I have a slight MILF crush on Julian Moore and Emma Stone has been climbing up the ranking of Hollywood cuties in my mind. It doesn’t hurt that I feel both have fun and outgoing personalities (As you can tell with Divina, I really like that). Through in the fact that for a Steve Carrell and Ryan Gosling are probably among the top 3 leading men that I can tolerate in a Romantic … [Read more...]

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For Dads: Horrible Bosses #BlurayElite Review #SP

June 26, 2012 by Eddy Leave a Comment

As a member of Warner Home Video super exclusive Blu-Ray Elite team, I get access to some of the greatest movies ever made. My mission is to give you how these movies fit in the life of a Dad. Movie: Horrible Bosses Who wouldn’t want to kill an awful boss. Horrible Bosses is an underrated comedy, while not ridiculously inventive or even great for that matter there is enough meat on the bones of this movie that I find the movie pretty re-watchable. With outlandish performances from Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell the movie has you rooting for our heroes to get their revenge. Dad Factor: High. This movie was made for adults to watch. This is a definite only for the scene with Jennifer Aniston as a inappropriate dentist. Add in Colin Farrell with his Bill Murray from Kingpin style hair and tiger robes are totally unforgettable. Kid Factor: Not until they are a bit older (meaning when they are at least teenagers) and even that is a bit of … [Read more...]

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For Dads: Contagion #BlurayElite Review #SP

May 28, 2012 by Eddy Leave a Comment

As a member of Warner Home Video super exclusive Blu Ray Elite team, I get access to some of the greatest movies ever made. My mission is to give you how these movies fit in the life of a Dad. Movie: Contagion This is a tough one, I was never a big disease movie fan, it creeps me out too much. I can still remember being freaked out by monkeys after watching Outbreak. Directed by the king of the super star cast movie genre Stephen Soderbergh, I was actually surprised Soderbergh restrained himself and his style in the movie. He creates a pretty intense atmosphere of suspense. Quick synopsis: A disease comes and kills everyone; people freak out. Oh yeah, and bloggers are evil…so beware. Dad Factor: Medium. It might be a bit procedural for some dads, while the tension is high, the film does move at a slow pace. Kid Factor: Low. No way fit for kids. Think of all the traumas that could be caused by seeing mommies, daddies and children dying. Date Factor: … [Read more...]

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For Dads: Inception #Bluray Elite Review

May 24, 2012 by Eddy Leave a Comment

As a member of Warner Home Video super exclusive Blu Ray Elite team I get access to some of the greatest movies ever made. My mission is to tell you how these movies fit in the life of a Dad. Movie: Inception It's kind of funny that I recieved Inception along with The Matrix as my first taste of the Warner Home Video Blu Ray Elite progam. Both movie kind of blow your mind away, this time Inception creates the ultimate heist movie but instead of stealing money from banks they are stealing ideas in dreams. The concept is great but I think the execution is even better thanks to the genius of Christopher Nolan, when you add in the Batman movies and his earlier work like Memento you realize he has fashioned quite an impressive career for himself. Dad Factor: High. Great movie, though this is no mindless movie, be ready to put your thinking cap on...and ask yourself how deep you would go to see your own kids again? Kid Factor: Low. Way too high level thinking for the … [Read more...]

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21 Jump Street Movie Review

April 15, 2012 by Eddy 1 Comment

I am an unabashed 21 Jump Street fan (yes, the show from the 80s). I can clearly remember watching the show from its absolute premier to its cancellation. I am not sure what drew it to me in the first place, but to my young mind these “cop” turned high school students were the coolest people I knew. Fast forward to the 21st century and now due to the originality and genius of Hollywood we have a movie. Refreshingly, the movie takes a totally different approach to the story, not just bringing back the original characters back and just retelling some lost and forgotten plot line that couldn’t cut it for the original show, we are treated to an almost self aware parody of buddy cops in a similar vein of the Other Guys, just with more high school students. Starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as youthful looking inept cops who almost as a last resort are co-opted into a revived program from the 80s in which cops infiltrate high schools to fight crime. Both officers … [Read more...]

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Haywire Movie Review

February 1, 2012 by Eddy 2 Comments

By Eddy My God what have I just watched? I have returned to my hotel room after watching the movie Haywire and I had to start writing the review. I couldn’t bear to think about the movie any long than I had too. Believe me, I will be taking a long shower after this…and I am not ruling out crying it out in the fetal position while I am there. Steven Soderbergh has taken the Ocean's movie formula way too far. Just because it worked more or less with those comic caper movies doesn’t mean it will work all the time, it also helped to have the full star power and charm of Brad Pitt and George Clooney. While not lacking in stars (Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxon, Channing Tatum, Micheal Fassbender and Michael Douglas all of whom mailed in their performances)the movie in its purest essence is a revenge film ala Death Wish and therefore needs a bit more that a couple of stars mugging for the camera it needs to have an actual story. It honestly felt that the … [Read more...]

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Real Steel DVD & Blu Ray Review

January 24, 2012 by Divina Rodriguez 2 Comments

By Eddy Hello Reader! Do you or some child you know love Robots? Yes, well this movie is for you. Do you or some Husband you know like boxing? Yes, well this movie is for you. Do you or some wife you know love the glistening muscles of Hugh Jackman? Yes, well this movie is for you. It looks like the movie Gods tried to have their cake and eat it too, the only thing that would make it complete would be inclusion of a pretty girls…oh hi Evangeline Lilly. Coming out on DVD and Blu Ray today, Blue Steel tries to cater to everyone’s needs and tastes. While I don’t think it accomplishes its goal the movie certainly wraps it in a pretty exciting package. Real Steel follows the story of Charlie Kenton and his son Max who train a forgotten fighting robot to face the ultimate Robot champion. I will have to say that I didn’t have too much hope for this movie, but during the culminating battle Rock and I were on our feet jumping. It hard not to root for the … [Read more...]

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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Movie Review

January 10, 2012 by Divina Rodriguez Leave a Comment

By Eddy Other than the straight to DVD title MI:GP fulfills all the promises of action that we expected from series. Director Brad Bird had a lot to live up to after his hit The Incredibles. As a fan of the Pixar film I was interested in finding out what he could do when constrained by this such as the law of gravity and physics. Add in the drop in interest in the last two Mission Impossible films as well as Tom Cruise’s well known antics, this appeared to be the makings of a possible explosive combination and not in a good way. The first and foremost thing about the movie is that it is all about ACTION, everything else is just a vehicle to move us to the next action sequence. As far as plot goes, MI:GP fall behind the other movies. I would not be surprised if they just adapted one of the episodes from the 1970’s show, the whole “save the world from a nuclear war with Russia” was played out in the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s and while I lived a part of my life … [Read more...]

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Captain America: The First Avenger Movie Review

July 26, 2011 by Divina Rodriguez 1 Comment

By Eddy One of the most over used terms for Comic book style movies is Campy. Campy is defined by dictionary.com as Effeminate: affected in mannerism, dress, etc. Relating to or considered characteristic of homosexuals Consciously artificial, exaggerated, vulgar, or mannered; self-parodying, especially when in dubious taste. I am not going to lie. I didn’t really see the first two definitions coming. In terms of most movies that I associate with the word, the third is the closet. Yet even with the text book definition it seems that most movie critics professional or otherwise seem to throw the word around so much that it seems to have lost its meaning. In my mind the truest definition of the word in terms of movies and television is the old 1960’s Batman starring Adam West. While exhibiting copious amounts of the first two definitions the shows also tended to treat itself less serious than the other shows around it. It seemed like they were in all the … [Read more...]

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Super 8 Movie Review

June 28, 2011 by Divina Rodriguez Leave a Comment

By Eddy Leading up to the premier of Super 8, nobody really knew what the movie was about. There was so much secrecy; it was if it was the next Star Wars movie or something. It got to be ridiculous, and a bit self important. I was pretty sure that this movie wasn’t going to save the world or anything and I fairly certain Steven Spielberg wasn’t going to donate his share of the profits to hungry orphans so why the big hush, hush, why make it such a secret. To this day I couldn’t tell you why. Yeah it was a cute movie and all, but I don’t think knowing anything about the plot or creature made this movie any worse or any better. It was Cloverfield all over again, just a little less disappointing. Before I went into the theater, I kept on hearing from those who had watched the film that it was a lot like Goonies in the sense that a group of kids go on a fantastic adventure. For the most part it is true, there is a group of kids and there is adventure, just none … [Read more...]