End of the Summer Update

-Miss Congeniality 2: So I think I watched this movie cause I was bored and there was nothing else to do. And I liked the first Miss Congeniality. It was cute. But this one was just odd. They made Sandra Bullock look really weird in it too. It always looked like she had a bunch of plastic surgery done on her face. Anyhoo, I watched this so long ago that I don't even remember the plot. I could look it up, but since I don't remember it at all, I think it gets my point across way better. One thing I do remember is they take out a male lead and put some black chick in and try to make her be partners with Sandra's character. In a movie like this, I'd rather just watch Sandra hook up with some hot guy. I don't really want to learn a life lesson. I mean come on. Not really a good chick flick. I'd say skip it.

-War of the Worlds: So I really wanted to see this movie despite the whole "TomKat" thing that was going on. I'm usually up for a good Spielberg movie. He's pretty awesome. But some people do make mistakes. And I wouldn't call this whole movie a mistake. It had some great action in it. The first half an hour is so fucking awesome. But after that the plot starts to thin down. If you don't know already, this movie is about aliens attacking earth. According to the movie "They've been planning their attack for millions of years," or something in that nature. But as I read in Ebert's review, he brought up some good questions. Why were they attacking and why didn't they update they're plan of attack if they were planning this for millions of years? So nothing really got answered in this movie. Like what the hell was that red shit. People's blood? But why was it all over the place? What purpose did that do? So many questions. *Spoiler Alert* And how the hell did that little block of Boston survive when the rest of the country was totally destroyed. Don't you think Boston would have been high up on the list to destroy. Apparently the aliens didn't know better. Oh...and the brother should be dead. No way in hell should he have survived! *Spoiler Alert Over* Anyhoo the movie has good action, awesome effects, pretty good acting, but it's lousy with the plot. I know Spielberg used the original story of War of the Worlds, but he should have explained more.

-Hostage: So Another movie I watched out of boredness. It wasn't bad though. Entertaining enough, but casting was really weird in this movie. The ultimate bad guy was played by this guy: http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/0664-fig/Events/0664-fig/foster_b.en?path=pgallery&path_key=Foster,%20Ben%20(I). Yeah...terrifying. So basically, cop who stopped working in the hostage division, is brought back into the line of duty when is family is being threaten by another bad guy who's trying to get something out of the house where people are being held hostage. Yeah. That's the easiest way I could put it. So there's a lot of fire at the end of this movie. If you like fire and disturbing acts of violence, this is a movie for you. If you like Bruce Willis, pick up something else he was in. Um maybe The Fifth Element or something. Just not this....or the Whole Ten Yards. Yeah.

-Wedding Crashers: So this is the sleeper hit of the summer. Comedy is in and action movies are out. *See the Island below. Vince Vaughn pretty much made this movie. But I wanted to see this movie cause I think Rachael McAdams (Mean Girls, The Notebook)is absolutely adorable. Anyhoo, the story goes like this. Two guys like to crash weddings. They wait all year for "wedding season." They go to each party, make girls fall in love with them, by making up stories about themselves. The have sex with the girls and never call them again and all is well. Until they go to the biggest wedding of all. A senator's daughter's wedding. While at this wedding Owen Wilson's character falls in love with the beautiful McAdams and from there it's all about hoping Wilson and McAdams get together and hoping Vaughn can get out of his nightmare date with the crazy sister. It's all amusing. And you know what happens in the ends, but that doesn't matter. Just enjoy the laughter.

*-The Island: I feel bad for the Island. It totally flopped at the box office this summer. And the sad thing is I really enjoyed this movie. I was pulling for it to come up from the bottom. Yeah it was directed by Michael Bay, creator of horrors such as Bad Boys 2 and Pearl Harbor. But this movie wasn't produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It already had something going for it. But alas, the movie wasn't promoted the right way and it flopped. It's bland title is also the blame for it's last place finish. The Island. That's not very original. But it stars two actors I really like: Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johanson. Why didn't it work out? I don't know. I think people just tend to review Michael Bay movies like they don't matter at all. But all I know is I came out of this movie satisfied. It's good Sci-fi.

-The Upside of Anger: Depression at it's best. Here. I'll just find the email I sent to Neal about this movie and post that. *Warning...it has Spoilers! Actually I right the whole ending in it*:

"Yeah I watched that upside of anger movie and like in it the husband supposedly left with his secretary to sweden or something. Like his secretary quit work the same day the husband disappeared so naturally the family thought he left them. So the mom drinks a lot and the girls deal in their own ways and the mom hooks up with the drunk neighbor and they kinda fall for each other. And then....10 minutes before the movie ends they discover something in their like extended backyard. Like behind them is a woods area where they're going to build houses and some worker comes across an old covered well thingy and he looks down and oh nooo somethings down there. And Kevin Costner (the drunk neighbor) comes out and looks down and they're like we found this...and it was the wallet of the husband (like in the beginning of the movie they said the husband left with his wallet and the clothes on his back or something). so apparently the husband fell down this well thing and no one ever knew for 3 years! 3 years! Cause like they never tried to contact him cause they were mostly all mad he left. So then they do the funeral thing and at the end the family sits down in the back and are hanging out and they're kinda smiley and stuff and then the movie ends with the daughter narrator talking. I'm like ummmmm hello!?!?!?!? your dad has been dead in your extended backyard for 3 years!!! Are you not affected or disgusted by that at all!!! Nah we'll just sit on this bench and pretend like it never happened. Weird. Just kinda weird."

-Hitch: I really didn't want to watch this movie. But I was bored and it was this or Guess Who. I opted for this cause I like Will Smith and hate Ashton Kutcher. So typical romantic comedy, except this one wasn't funny. Like it had it's few moments. But most of them were in the previews. I didn't really care if Will Smith got together with the woman he liked. I didn't care about any of the characters. The storyline seemed like it was just thrown together and the acting wasn't so hot. It was kinda lame. So don't watch it. Please. Stop retarded girls from buying this movie. Do it for me. Do it for the world. Stop pollution.