Premiere As A Movie Critic

I'm thinking about becoming a professional movie critic...I love movies, and my opinion on them must be worth millions, so ya know - it's the next logical step in my career. ;) Here's a few quick reviews of some of the movies we've watched recently, in case anyone is interested in checking out some new movies...

1. Drive - starring Ryan Gosling - is kind of a slow starter, but then gets pretty interesting. He's a mechanic and a Hollywood stunt driver, but then ends up a criminal. It's a little bit Indie than we were expecting, but it was still a decent movie. Jeff liked it a lot more than I did, but that's because I was extremely sleepy when we watched it...

2. In Time - starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried - turned out way better than expected. I had read somewhere that it wasn't good, so I was apprehensive - but we ended up liking it a lot, and when it ended I wanted to see more! It takes place in a crazy world where Time runs everything - literally. There is no money; people "pay" using time. Then when they run out, the die immediately. It's too hard to explain the whole premise concisely on the blog, but not difficult to understand while watching. I would definitely recommend this one. It also makes you think a bit about how our world actually works in reality. In the movie, it seems so silly that the "rich" people who have hundreds of years on their clock (way more than they will ever need), won't share with the "poor" people who live only one day at a time. Doesn't that sound a lot like how our world works as well?

3. John Carter - starring Taylor Kitsch - big time surprised me. I didn't want to see this one at all, but I decided to give in since Jeff is usually so good about seeing girly movies with me, I thought I would return the favor. And guess what - I'm really glad I did. It was such a good movie! Wasn't expecting to like it at all, but I absolutely did. And I will absolutely watch it again when it comes out on DVD. (I'm quite sure this is one Jeff will want to buy on BluRay.) Girls - don't be intimidated by this extremely boy-ish looking movie. If you liked movies like "Thor" or the new "Star Trek," give this one as try as well.

P.S. - Click the title of the movie to go to the specific page on IMDB for that movie, where you can read more of each movie, as well as watch the trailers for each one.