timjhare Reviews

The Grand Seduction (2013)

Best movie of the year so far

[9/10 · 30 June 2014]

This film is brilliant. If you're tired of the same old fare that the American Comedy giants make then see a movie that doesn't resort to shock value or follow the one-up trend. See a movie with heart and substance that has a point and makes you feel good about the world. In "The Grand Seduction", The jokes range from brilliantly subtle to absurdly silly and are designed to poke fun at everyday life in a small coastal town.

It really is a shame that this film wasn't given more of a chance in theatres, and it's shocking that people can find something bad to say about it. I, however found this film refreshing and I hope more Canadian style comedies are made, even if they need to be stolen from the French Canadians!

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Fantastic

[8/10 · 5 June 2014]

As reviews go on here, there is a lot of regurgitation of the premise to fill up space and not a lot of fresh ideas shared by people writing reviews. Unfortunately, I'm no genius, but I'll do my best as I've decided to write a review for this movie.

Firstly, I read in the Cineplex magazine (paraphrasing)"If you like Tom Cruise, he's at his best, and if you don't, he dies like 300 times." I had a laugh at that because the most common complaint I hear about actors like Tom Cruise is that they're in every scene in their movies, which is true with this movie.

I was excited to see this movie because I'm pro Sci-fi, so there's my bias in action. I read some reviews on here and I heard some comparison to a "Ground Hog Day" meets....(sci-fi action)...my one stipulation to this, is that I recognize a lot more in common with the popular video game "StarCraft". This slashes my hopes for a future StarCraft movie, but on the same note, the aliens were done so well, and the movie so good and relatively creative and imaginative - with a lot of detail to small things Sci-Fi fans like - that I'm not upset that a StarCraft-like movie was made. And, like "Ground Hog Day", the character repeats some scenes with different outcomes, but the flow of the movie is a lot faster and dedicates less time to the learning curve than Bill Murray's movie does.

I felt the movie could have been a bit longer, and perhaps slowed down its fast pace in the middle of the movie to develop the characters some more, but, then again, I always say the movie could have been longer if I enjoyed it. Hopefully you will/did too, as more Sci-Fi movies like this need to be made.

Thanks for reading.

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Fap fap fap fap fap

[2/10 · 6 January 2014]

I didn't like it, I've seen the hedonist-to-riches-to-rags story before, as in the bigger they rise the harder they fall, yada, yada, yada....

If they're going to make a movie that pushes the envelope, which this movie does, moviegoers should have as much warning as possible as to what they are about to endure. Sure, some people might think that "It's a Scorsese movie, you know what you're getting into," and for some people that's true, but there are people who don't research every movie they go to, and who feel they usually get enough information from a preview, or they decide to go spontaneously. More upbeat: the movie had some good irreverent humour.

At the rate of moral decay on screen, we will be watching porn on the big screen in just a few years now. My feeling on the matter is that I can stay at home and jerk off to porn for free, so why do I want to pay money to go see porn in the theatre.