insulationed Reviews

Gone Girl (2014)

One of the best of the year for me so far.

[10/10 · 9 March 2015]

Everyone should give this movie a watch, watched it with a family member and we thought it was one of the best of the year. It's like our little inside thing we're constantly referring to. People giving this a one star honestly are being unreasonable, most likely just dislike it because it has really good reviews. You only give a really terrible movie one star, with bad acting and all.

Gone Girl keeps you watching on your toes from the start to beginning. It makes you begin thinking, then you start to piece together how everything makes sense if you paid attention. It may seem like she made mistakes, and they showed those moments, but she always covered them smoothly. It's one of those movies where you think "even though the girl is psycho, you have to admit that was cool".

Gone Girl creates a young attractive woman that really knows how to use charm to manipulate people. You see a pretty woman like her covered in blood or in a bad situation, you do not question it, you feel bad and try however to help her. You ignore that some things are unanswered..

47 Ronin (2013)

Could Have Been Better

[5/10 · 2 June 2014]

When I heard Keanu Reeves was in the movie, I thought it was worth a watch from just that alone. The movie was okay, but I couldn't say it was top notch. My biggest issue is with the fantasy elements added to the story; I liked the fantasy that was added, but they really did a terrible job at explaining more about that and displaying it more in the movie after teasing us with it.

When the ending came around, I was expecting a big epic fight that showed off the new fantasy elements in the movie, but that was a disappointment. After seeing one epic fantasy fight, I just wanted another before the end. I also thought lots of things made no sense (especially the ending), I can say the rushed and half-done fantasy additions contributed to this confusion. I love Keanu Reeves, but I felt he stuck out like a sore thumb with the rest of the cast. I'm all for hiring certain actors for publicity, but they should have at least tried to make sure to change some things so he would blend in.

A short summary of things I discussed that weren't so great: Keanu Reeves is a great actor, but seemed out of place. The new fantasy to make the movie more interesting was poorly done.

Rosemary's Baby (2014)

Not that bad, worth a watch.

[7/10 · 19 May 2014]

I found the movie not as bad as people are trying to say it is. I think people are saying it's bad because they didn't make it exactly like the first film in every single detail or because they expected it to have certain things that it did not. I believe the point of a remake is to make your own version of something, not copy the first film so we all know what'll happen every time. In my opinion, this film did a good job at keeping the main parts of the first film, which is all any remake should do. Outside of the main parts, little things were changed, such as different settings and different groups of people, which original serious fans threw a fit about.

Zoe is a beautiful and talented actress and I don't think it was wrong for her to play Rosemary in the film. Zoe is one of Hollywood's new hits, starring in lots of new film, she was perfect for just advertising the movie alone.

If you're a serious fan, like you know every single detail from the book and/or the first movie, this film might not be for you in all honesty. If you want to see a modernized version of a film you saw in the past with new famous faces, give this a watch. If you don't know anything about Rosemary's Baby, you should definitely give this a watch. I also thought it was creative how they turned the movie into two parts, I hadn't seen that done yet, but that may just be myself.