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Dunk Films - by Christopher Waldeck

50/50 review

January 17th 2012 02:07

I loved this movie. It had everything that a moviegoer could ask for and a real emotional connection to the characters behind it. The screenwriter was daiagnosed with cancer and Seth Rogen had atually tried to help him so this is basically a real story acted extremely well by Seth Rogen doing his usual profane and slacker quirkiness to perfection rather than annoyance like in the Green Hornet. Joseph gordon Lewitt does excellent gaining sympathy from the audience and deserves the Golden Globe award that he is nominated for. \

Jonathan Levine does a great job working with the script by Rogen and his friend and the characters all work their roles well. Bryce Dallas Howard needs to remain in the role of a villainous character because she nails it perfectly and its great to see her finally getting cast in great movies instead of the average work that she was in prior to this. Anna Kendrick is also splendid in her role as Lewitt's Therapist and love interest. Her quiet beauty and quirkiness acts really well off of Lewitt's performance and his essential look for this part.

This film sadly won't win any major awards for Comedy thanks to The Artist and midnight in Paris, but damn is it a great movie that borders so close to dark reality and humor that it blurs the line between what is socially acceptable to laugh at and what isn't. This film is not for everyone and those sensitive to the subject of making humor out of dying from cancer will be greatly offended, but for those who can sit through this film will find it to be a pleasant surprise and a wonderful picture that not only showcases Lewitt's acting chops but shows how far Rogen's talents can go as far as writing and acting if used properly in a movie.

Rating: A

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Immortals is big, violent, visual and fun

November 19th 2011 03:49

This immortals is a fun movie. It is not intended to be fun which is its major flaw because it appeals to an audience of gore hungry, testosterone juiced frat boys, and muscleheads. That is because the violence is so vivid and graphic that it appears to be made just for that genre. Seeing that this movie is from the producers of 300 this is no surprise. Tarseem Singh directs the visuals amazingly as usual if you've seen his previous efforts such as The Cell and the Fall. Hopefully his upcoming Snow White movies is at least better when it comes to storywise because this film suffers from it. It grows so warped in its fanboy pleasing gore that it forgets just how great of a film that tit can be.

It saddens me to see a movie with great potential squandered, but this is what happens with this movie. It has interesting characters and some hilarious casting like Mickey Rourke, who seriously deserves better than this, and John Hurt in his small role as an old man. The casting of Stephen Dorrif is cool because it shows he is gaining larger roles especially after his wonderful performance in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, and I'm glad to not see him in Buck Larson again. That movie needs to be erased from memory as it has been shown to kill intelligence faster than the horrid Jack and Jill

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Apollo 18

September 20th 2011 02:19

Imagine sitting in a movie theater and seeing a brilliant idea onscreen and then watch the makers behind it do absolutely nothing with it for an hour and tewnty eight minutes and one has seen Apollo 18. This film is the latest entry into the found footage cliche that has been sprining up like crazy since Paranormal Activity. However where Paranormal Activity gets things right this film gets horribly wrong.
While the film has an interesting and premsie and deos a decent job of including stock footage from history into the whole scenario it loses everything when the characters land. In most horror films there are actually legitimate scares and shocks, but not in this film. The shocks are pretentiously set up and predictable so one knows exactly when the jump is coming. There is almost nothing interesting happening onscreen and thats what kills this film the most.
It's shame to see such a promising premise wasted with such a lazy and misguided effort in directing, but that is exactly what this film is. Instead of paying for a hollywood cash in just wait for Paranormal Activity 3 coming out this October because at least Oren Peli hires experienced directors to helm the sequels

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Scream 4 Review

July 20th 2011 04:03

This movie is brilliant well at least the first ten minutes were. However the movies as a whole was just fine. It was amazing in its ability to be self reflective on itself and parody the series better than any recent scary movie, and the young cast held their own up against franchise Veterans Arquette, Cox, and Campbell. Wes craven did a fine job with the plot, and an intelligent script and despite the fact that this film shows its age in this movie, I still found it tolerable.

The film would have been a masterpiece if it had just ended with the first ending, rather than the second ending. That is how you start a new franchise. However this movie took the same route as the other Scream movies without leaving much room for a fifth installment. I totally dig the whole fuck remakes angle, but it would have been much better and more shocking to just end it with the first cliffhanger. It would have been a crazy turn of events, and it would have rocked the Scream Diehard fans, and the general audience as well

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Thor continues the high hopes of the Avengers!

May 20th 2011 02:24

Ok, Thor was amazing! When I went to watch it in theaters, I felt like I was a child again watching a movie. It was the same feeling I felt when I watched Avatar, Inception, or King Kong. This film had a great lineup of actors and actresses. However the real break out star is Chris Hemsworth who adds a likability to Thor by acting one dimensional, and using gestures, and expressions to express the actions in order to hide the true character. In fact I think that the character of Thor was developed with the backstory and the actions of the supporting characters rather than the actro himself. Nonetheless, he has the physique, charisma, and chops that just scream superhero. Tom Hiddleston was excellent as Loki as he just had a natural look that seemed like he was hungry or lusting for power and attention. He looked as plotting as the other characters described him to be. His acting was powerful and his scenes with Anthony Hopkins were the most emotionally gripping of the movie as it revealed his true character as both villain, and tormented son longing for the attention and acceptance of his father. Kenneth Branagh did an excellent job as the director. He grasped the focus of the relationships between the characters extremely well, and provided us with some delicious scenery and eye candy with the visual effects. I mean you truly have to see these effects to see how beautiful this film is. They were almost like Speed Racer except more thrilling and engaging.

The only flaw that I found in this film was the scenes on Earth. They slowed the movie down a bit too much and didn't necessarily grab the audience especially after witnessing the beauty of the space scenes. The human characters and scenery simply couldn't live up to that of the Norse Gods. I think that is what will divide most critics is this aspect because it kills so much momentum, and seems more like filler rather than adding anything to the story

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Insidious is scary in a good way!

April 2nd 2011 02:37

The Saw team of Whannell and Wan reunites for this terrifying movie which Wan was aiming to be the poltergeist of this generation. This low budget film made for only 1 million dollars looks better than its price thanks to sharp editing and directing by James Wan. The screenplay is clever thanks to Whannell.

The film centers around a couple whose son is in a coma after falling into a coma. It turns out that this is not a coma and their son is being haunted by spirits trying to take over his body. This film has two fine leads played great by Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne. The film also has a wonderful supporting cast including Barbara Hershey, Lynn Shae, and Leigh Whannell himself in a great role for comic relief in this dark film

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Inception is slightly overrated

January 31st 2011 21:34

When I first saw inception I knew it was a great movie because it was a great movie. However I can't stand the fact that people are labeling it as easily the best picture award. Those people are either christopher Nolan fans or mainstream audiences. The truth is that this film is nothing more than an intelligent summer blockbuster and it was original. Nw I know that it is probably the best work that Christopher Nolan has done that he has written and directed, but this film is still not best picture material or as great as half the fans say it is. This movie was great, and nothing more than an excellent action film, but please stop saying that it deserves an oscar simply for being tight with the mainstream crowd.

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The Last Airbender

November 29th 2010 04:29

The first words out of my mouth were: Epic Fail! This was only after the first minute when the actress mispronounced the Avatar. After this I just knew it was all down hill from here. The question is where should I begin? The truth is there is nowhere to begin because all hope of this being an epic movie ends the moment it begins. M. Night Shymalan what the hell happened to you? I actually appreciated you and defended as a director because at least you tried to make your movies in your own vision because it was your own work and ideas that you were creating, but there is no way I can defend you for this train wreck of a movie. What were you thinking?

To start off the dialogue was atrocious and corny. It felt as if he was parodying the show and making a parody of an epic movie. It wasn't the Last Airbender, but the rather the Wicker Man(remake) in a fantasy world. The over exposition cheesed up the characters which made the actors have no real feeling when reading their lines because the dialogue sucked all the life out of anything innovative. The plot was squished because you decided to rush the whole first season of the series, and the second half of the series in a very short timespan. Less than two hours was the time which didn't leave room for any character development or give us enough time to become attached to the story or care about what was going on. It was Jonah Hex level on the crappy pacing except on massive steroids

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The Social Network

September 29th 2010 03:57

This is easily the best film of the year and it officially restores the credibility of music video directors thanks to David Fincher for his hard work on this film for which he'll surely receive and Oscar nomination and quite possibly and Oscar award for. The trailer to many people may have made the movie look really corny, but I sensed that this film is more.

This film is more than just a summary about the story of the Facebook founders, it's about Facebook in general and why we are so obsessed by it. It digs in deep into the lives of those who made it and the mental stress they were in when they invented Facebook

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Splice: An underrated Masterpiece

July 31st 2010 16:00

In news of a film which is so good that you would think that everyone would see it, Splice arrived. Sadly, nobody went to see it. It starred Sarah Polley a great underrated actress, and Adrien Brody, a great actor who is hated for almost no reason.

The film is about two scientists, and lovers who want to create an amazing experiment by creating an entirely new life form. They create this life form who Sarah Polley names Dren(Delphine Laureant) which is Nerd spelled backwards. Dren soon begins to grow and adapt a more human form, but at the same time revealing it's characteristics as a species with no known predator that has dangerous consequences for the new world

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