The Fighter Review

The Fighter

The Fighter stars Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale. So The Fighter is the true story of a boxer who is  trained and supported by his family, his family consists of a brother who is a drug and alcohol addict, a mother who is hard to explain but she does like to party and kind of ignores the stuff she doesn't want to see, and he's sisters who say what they want when they want. After his brother is put in jail Mickey has to decide weather or not to stick with his family or move on. So I have to say that I absolutely love this movie! The story is just amazing and everything is just done so well. First lets start with the acting, everyone does an amazing job in this movie, everyone gives Oscar worthy performances in my opinion. Wahlberg gives one of the best performances of his career, Bale actually won the Oscar for best supporting actor and holy cow did he deserve it. Bale out acted everyone in this movie, he just did such an amazing job! At the end of the movie there is a clip with the real brothers and other than the fact that they look different Bale WAS that character he did just such an amazing job. Melissa Leo also won a Oscar for Actress in a supporting Role and she definetly deserved that as well, she did just amazing in this role. Amy Adams was also in this movie and she just did an amazing job in this role, she also got nominated for the Oscar for best supporting actress, I do think Meslissa gave a slighter better performance but  Amy did do such an amazing job. This movie was also nominated for other Oscars including best picture, best director, and best original screenplay. Now this movie lost the Oscars for these from The Kings Speech. Now personally I didn't really like The Kings Speech, in fact I don't even think I ever finished it so I think that The Fighter should have won all of those Oscars. The movie is just a spectacular story and was done so well and I just felt that The Kings Speech was just boring and slow. Now the movie is a drama but there was some humor in there and that's mostly thanks to the sisters who say what they want when they want and its a great break from the drama because the drama can get heavy in this movie. I was personally engaged in this movie, I'm not a fan of boxing but still loved this movie, and I really didn't feel that the movie was about boxing really it was more about the journey of a man who had to decide to do what was best for him and not just do what is family wanted. I really couldn't think of any negatives for this film really the only thing that I can think of is some of the boxing in the movie seemed just a little to much like they were acted out, and I know they were but I still felt that they could have been done a little better.

So a great film, I must see in my opinion and as for a ratting I'm going to give this movie a 9/10.

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While You Were Sleeping Review

While You Were Sleeping

So While You Were Sleeping stars Sandra Bullock and is about a woman who saves a mans life but the man falls into a coma and while visiting him in the hospital the mans family shows up and she pretends that she is engaged to the man and fools everyone but the mans brother.

So this movie was actually very interesting. Sandra does a fantastic job as the main character, her acting is just suburb. Now this movie is a romance/drama/comedy and I loved every genre of the movie and how they put it all together. The chemistry between all the characters is great, I loved every single member of this family that is in the movie and I loved the love interests in this movie I really believed in these two characters love for each other. This movie was a comedy and I loved how they incorporated all the comedy into the movie it was just great. I loved the story of this film just the sound of it makes me laugh. I also loved the family in this film they are just wonderful and the way they accept Sandra's character and make her part of the family just makes the movie so nice and just makes you feel so good, such a feel  good movie.  This movie was just really charming would be the word that comes to my mind when I think of it.

Now I have to say that this movie was a little predictable but not so bad that I didn't enjoy this movie I enjoyed this movie quite a bit, but it was slightly predictable. You know I think that this is the only flaw to this movie I really did just enjoy this movie. I've looked at other peoples reviews and it doesn't seem like anyone really hated this movie.

So a great movie to watch with that special someone, I absolutely loved it and as for a ratting I'm going to give this film a 8/10

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Spanglish Review

Spanglish



So Spanglish is a drama/romance about a Mexican woman who decides to give her daughter a better life by bringing her to America where she finds a family to work for. The family consists of a famous chief, the chiefs wife who is insecure, and a young daughter. Eventually the chief falls for the Maid and things get out of hand.










So lets start with the positives of this movie. First off the acting in this movie is great, for those who say that Adam Sandler cant act well they are wrong he does just phenomical in this moive. I also liked the idea of this love story developing with a famous chief and a maid. Its something different and I enjoyed that part of it. Now the movie has some humor and some of it was decent humor that made the movie enjoybale. Now I liked how realistic this movie was the characters felt very real and the situations felt very real as well. I also have to say a lot of the dialogue in the movie felt so real and it was very engaging at times.









Now for the negatives of this movie. The movie feels very slow and boring at times. There were quite a few times where to I just wanted the movie speed up and just get done already. I also felt that the movie had a little to much drama, I realize the movie is a drama but I just felt like the movie had to many of these little plot points with more drama and it just got annoying. I also think there was some humor that did feel forced and the movie was trying to stop being the drama that it was and be a comedy more instead. Also the mother played by Tea Leoni is just so evil that you absolutely hate her to the point where you just cant watch the movie, she's supposed to be evil but it just goes to far.


So all in all this movie is all right, a lot of other people like this movie but for me it was just not that great it was just all to much for me. So as for a ratting I give Spanglish a 5/10.




So what did you think? Did you agree? Thanks for reading and let me know!!


The This and That Guy :)

Jackass the movie review

Jackass the movie

Well hello everybody and welcome back today we review Jackass the movie. Now Jackass was first a show I believe and if you haven't seen the show or the movies this is the basic plot of these things, there's a bunch of guys who do stupid stuff to try to get some laughs out of you. This is all real things all things that real guys actually do. That's about it, so this should be a short review seeing as far as movie ratings so there's not much to talk about. Okay so my first thoughts on this movie is that its not for everyone. These guys do some pretty messed up stuff that you just wonder how anyone ever thought about doing these things. This movie is funny at times yes, I think its also very gross at times that you need to turn away from the screen at times and if you can't handle gross things then you probably shouldn't watch. This movie is hard to review seeing as there isn't any acting involved really, there really isn't a story its just a bunch of stupid pranks and stunts that these people are hoping will make you laugh. I have to say that some of these stunts get to the point where they are so stupid and just so dumb that I do lose respect for the people and the film though. It just gets kind of pathetic and just stupid and that takes me out of the film a little bit. I've looked at other reviews of this movie and I noticed that people either like it or they hate it and I can see why its just not for everyone there's a lot of gross stuff and I feel like you need to be a little immature to like this kind of film. I'm sort of in the middle with the film but I lean more towards the negative side I just see what these guys are doing and a lot of them are just plain stupid and I just lose respect for these people its just too stupid what they are doing and it just disgusts you that you really can't even watch.

So a shorter review I know but there really isn't much to talk about. As for a ratting I'm going to give this movie a 4/10.

So what did you think? Do you agree? Let me know and thanks for reading!!

The This and That Guy :) 

How I Met Your Mother Series Finale Spoilers Review

How I Met Your Mother Series Finale spoilers

Well hello everybody I hope all is well. So today we talk about the series finale of what USED to be one of my favorite shows. Now before we get to the finale lets talk about the final season as a whole. Now here is your warning there is going to be SPOILERS in this review let me say that again huge heavy SPOILERS!!!! So if you do not want anything to be spoiled leave this review until you watch the show first. Now the eighth season ended with everyone leaving to get to Robin and Barney's weeding. We knew that Lily and Marshall were planning on leaving for Italy, but Marshall also found out he was going to become a judge and they might not go. We know that Ted is planning on leaving for Chicago, and we also know that Barney and Robin are excited for their weeding. Now I have to say that watching the eighth season and knowing that they were planning to do the entire last season into three days did worry me a little bit, and I think after watching the final season I was right to be worried. The season was just choppy and just to many things happened in the course of a days time. Even Ted said in one of the final episodes that its just unbelievable how many things have happened in one day. I also felt that there were to many fluff episodes that just did nothing, they made us laugh a little bit but when it comes to the last season there is just no reason to have those fluff episodes if your going to have them have them in other season in my opinion. The episodes just did nothing to move the plot forward and they could have replaced that episode with something more important. So I guess that's my thoughts on the last season to many fluff episodes and just to many things happening, now lets talk about the final episode shall we?

So lets talk about some good things now before we get on with the bad because there are a lot of them. First off this episode got off to a FANTASTIC start. I loved how we saw Ted see the mother I loved the whole Barney going Ted...Ted...Ted it was just hilarious. I also loved the goodbyes that we got from the characters when they were saying goodbye to Ted. Robin and Ted's major thing was perfect, The high five between Ted and Barney was hilarious and just like them, Marshalls goodbye was great and I even loved the E.T goodbye with Lilly it was all just hilarious and sweet. I also have to talk about the whole saying goodbye to the apartment thing, I'm glad they had a goodbye to the apartment. There had been episodes in the past where we thought we would be saying goodbye to the apartment and we knew the time would eventually come that we would say goodbye to it and I loved the fact that they had a party to celebrate the apartment and all the wonderful memories we've had in it. I also though Lilly and Marshall had a great reason for leaving the apartment. Now something that I didn't like about the eighth season is the fact that Marshall and Lilly were leaving for Italy. I wanted Marshall to become a judge it just suited him in my opinion and he would be a great judge, so I was quite happy to find out that he did eventually become a judge and also a senator as well. I feel that Marshall out of all the characters on How I Met Your Mother was the most purest and the best person, Marshall is someone we should all try to be, so I just really felt he deserved to have what he wanted. Now the acting in this last episode was just phenomenal!!  I was just floored by Neil Patrick's Harris scene where he first held his child it was just perfect and just a beautiful scene. I also loved how they had a few of those references to other seasons like the "caca mouse" it just gave me a great memory from previous episodes that I really loved and enjoyed. One final thing  I have to say about the final episode that I liked is the mother, she was just perfect for Ted and just fit into the group nicely. I loved the met it was just so cute and it was just the perfect way for them to met. I loved the name Traci and I loved that she had the same initials. The two of them had just fantastic chemistry and she was just a fantastic character.  Not going to lie I fell in love with her she was just so sweet and so funny and I just loved her.

Now lets get into the bad and I have to warn you there are a lot of them. First of all this show was a sitcom right? Except for the first ten minutes or so the entire episode was depressing!! It was more of a soap opera than a sitcom, I felt emotionally drained after watching the episode and just wanted a hug it was just so depressing. Now lets talk about what made the episode so depressing, first we start out with Barney and Robin getting divorced. I just don't understand how they could have done this the entire last season focused around their weeding and how much they were in love and then they just quit because of some traveling?  I just didn't like that how can they give up over something so little. Something else that was just super depressing was the fact that they stopped being friends, they claimed to still be friends but they weren't, part of the reason why I loved the show and the characters was the fact that even after everything that these guys have been through their friendship still lasted. I loved the idea that these guys would just always be friends and would always be together. I don't have a lot of friends and I don't trust people and that's why I loved the characters they were a little bit of hope for me that I could find friends and have the same close and amazing friends forever. I also thought that I heard the future Ted saying that every year they go to see Robots Vs Wrestlers and every year they get together for holidays and in the episode Robin wasn't at Robots Vs Wrestlers so what happened to that?  I've lost hope now after seeing this, this makes me want to never ever make friends again! Now the final super depressing part was the mother thing. How the heck can you make us fall in love with a character and have us wanting to met her for eight years and then just kill her off? I just don't get why they thought that would be a satisfying ending? Also another thing to go along with that, what happened? Did she have cancer? We know she was sick but what actually happened? It just felt insulting to the character. I was sad because I loved her but should I have felt even more sad? Was it a painful death was it quick was it slow? It was just stupid!!! I also didn't like the fact that they didn't get married right away, I just felt like that it wasn't something Ted would do and it just didn't fit the characters. Also I didn't like that Ted was still in love with Robin the whole time, to me it was even more of an insult to the character I felt like Traci was kind of like a prostitute she was being used! Ted used her for kids and let me grow up a bit with her until the kids were at an old enough age that Robin wouldn't mind them and then Ted went to Robin. It was just stupid and pathetic in my opinion. Now also like the rest of the season this episode went back and forth and just to much happened and it just got annoying and dumb. I also have to say that the whole Robin falling for Ted thing it just didn't make sense to me. Robin has admitted many times that she didn't want Ted and I just feel like that she just fell for him a little to easily and it just didn't work for me. Now lets talk about Barney because he was a key player in this last episode, now he is my favorite character but I hated him in this episode. The last few seasons were spent showing how he has changed and stuff and then all of a sudden he was just unchanged. What? This was just confusing to me! It also ruined the last few seasons to me because they really were pointless!! Barney not changing just doesn't work and it was dumb and lame. He also pretty much changed to his old self after having this baby. Now don't get me wrong I loved that scene, such an emotional and well acted scene but what the heck a child just changes Barney all of a sudden?  What? Also with that who was the mother of that child? How come we never met her? It also sounded like he was taking care of the baby more than the mother was? Did he marry her? Did he just decide to raise the child? There were just to many unanswered questions and it was just stupid!! Now the final thing I want to talk about is the final speech from Ted and the kids, first of all  I hated the kids speech!!! It just seemed stupid and unnatural and also with the final words from Ted where the heck is Bob Saget? We are just going to hear his voice for nine seasons and then all of a sudden he sounds like young Ted? What? It was just so stupid and just didn't match up with the rest of the show. 

So all in all this was just a HUGE disappointment!! The show has been ruined for me!!I've tried watching it again and I just can't the show had a terrible ending and the show is just ruined!!!

So the ratting yeah there were good things I liked but the ending just gets a 0/10. The good didn't take over the bad.

So what did you think? Let me know and thanks for reading!!

The This and That Guy :)

How I Met Your Mother Review

How I Met Your Mother Review

So today I'm going to review How I Met Your Mother, the show just wrapped up not to long ago and now its time to review it. So this show is great I absolutely love this show but like every other show it  just doesn't have a satisfying ending season. In fact I want to say that you don't want to watch the last season of this show. But lets talk about this show as a whole.

So lets talk about the characters to start with. You will love these characters!!! They are just the best characters ever!! There are experiences and times where you see yourself as each and every character in this show. These characters are just funny and so relatable you will just love these characters. The actors who play the character just play their characters so well. I loved them sooo much. I feel like the characters are really what draw you in. Now lets talk about the story, the show is about a man telling his kids the story about how he met their mother, the story is just intriguing you are the entire time you are wanting to know how he met the mother and how everything is relevant. I just love the adventures they have and everything they do. Lets also talk about the phrases and quotes and dialogue in this show. You will find yourself repeating so many lines from the show. I just loved it so much and I'm still saying it even though the show is ruined for me. 

Now we need to talk about why this show is just ruined for me and thats the final season!!! Now I'm not going to spoil anything I will put up a review eventually with spoilers of the last season up here soon. Now the last season takes place in a weekends time and we know it will eventually lead up to the main character meeting the mother. Now we really didn't get to much about the mother up until season eight where the end of the season ended with us seeing the mother for the first time and I was hoping to get to get more of how we met the mother. I was just disappointed in that fact. Also they put to much into one season and it was just not believable how much happened. There was also a lot of throw away episodes and what I mean by that is that there were a lot of episodes that didn't further the plot at all and I don't mind those usually but in the last season with the stakes this high and stuff it was just stupid!! So i didn't like that either. This last season was also a terrible ending to the show it just threw everything away for an easy ending in my opinion that was supposed to be a surprise kind of but it was just horrible.

So as for ratting I'm going to have to rate the show before the last season and that ratting would be a 10/10. Now if we add on that last season I would have to say a 5/10! The show had a terrible ending  and it just felt like there were a lot of things that were just spoiled and ruined because of the endingof the   show. 

So what did you think? Did you agree?

Let me know and thanks for reading!!!

The This and That Guy :)

Captain America The Winter Soldier Review

Captain America The Winter Soldier

Hello everyone and welcome back to the This and That blog I've sorry I've been gone for so long I've had some computer issues and I'm happy to say that this has been fixed and now i will be back. To start out this comeback i decided to review the new marvel film Captain America The Winter Soldier. So this movie picks up where The Avengers ended for Captain America and now we see that Steve Rogers AKA Captain America is working for S.H.E.I.l.D and hes struggling with living in the modern world and this time he has to deal with The Winter Soldier. So let me start out by saying that i really didn't like the first Captain America but this one i LOVED!!! This movie is probably my favorite stand alone Marvel film its between this one and Iron Man. 

So lets start with the positives of this film. The story is just great! I loved how they handled the events after The Avengers and the first Captain America film they did just a fantastic job. I also have to say that the action in this movie was just amazing! I thought Cap was kind of a loser before but this movie and all the action and special effects were just so awesome that i just think he is now a badass! There are a few new characters in this movie,  Anthony Mackie plays The Falcon and he is just a badass, Sebastian Stan plays The Winter Soldier and hes just an awesome villain. The acting in this movie is just awesome all around the returning cast is awesome Chris Evans is just a great Captain America, Scarlett Johansson is a great Black Widow and shes  hot!!!! Samuel L Jackson is just an extreme bad ass!!!! This  movie is about two and a half hours and I didn't feel at all like that long of a film it went super fast! 

So a couple things that did bother me the first thing is this one scene that was just out of place and awkward to me it just seemed out of place and i just didn't like it one bit. Another thing that bothered me that isn't really a big deal is the fact that The movie is called The Winter Soldier and i feel that he wasn't in it very much and i just felt that the movie should have been called something else i just didn't feel that they needed to put so much attention to that. The last thing that bugged me so something that bugged me in the rest of the Phase 2 movies its the fact that we don't get a reason for why others cant come and help out we get references about the characters but we don't get a reason why. I hate that we can get some stupid reference but we cant get a line about where they are at. 

So i have decided to change some things about my blog the first thing is I'm not going to have a portion where i talk about what others think. If we want that back we will put it back but unless someone tells me to change it its going to stay. I also feel like i want to talk about movies more its what i want to do with my life and its what i want to talk about if there are events in the world i will talk about it but other wise we will stick with movies. But anyway as for a ratting of Captain America  The Winter Soldier I'm going to give it a 8/10

So what did you think? Did you agree?

Let me know and thanks for reading!

The This and That Guy :)