Leezy's Movie Reviews

Welcome everyone. This blog mainly exists as a way of tracking all the movies I've been watching and some of the initial thoughts and general feelings I've had about them.

Rating System

5/5 - Fantastic movies; movies which need to be seen and enjoyed by everyone.

4/5 - Movies which are very good but don’t have that spark which compels you to make others watch them as well.

3/5 - Average movies; watchable and enjoyable, but nothing which elevates them higher. The baseline all movies are given before watching.

2/5 - Can be watched but really bland and forgettable.

1/5 - Minimal to no reason to watch these films. It may have some redeeming factors e.g. it’s so bad it’s good or there’s one character that’s awesome enough to make it not a total waste of time.

0/5- Total waste of time. Nothing redeemable about these films.

As with every review blog/site, this is all my own personal opinion so feel free to take everything with a grain of salt.

Also I'm Scottish so all reviews will be in UK English. Get used to theatre, colour and words ending in -ised.

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Top 10 Films from September, 2011 (Excluding re-watched films) Total watched this month: 16 (12 new) A Touch of Larceny 5/5 The Social Network 5/5 Superman 4/5 The Girl Who Played With Fire 3.5/5 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 3/5 Bridesmaids 3/5 Repo! The Genetic Opera 3/5 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest 2.5/5 The Kids Are All Right 2.5/5 Gilda 2/5

Top 10 Films from September, 2011 (Excluding re-watched films)

Total watched this month: 16 (12 new)

A Touch of Larceny 5/5

The Social Network 5/5

Superman 4/5

The Girl Who Played With Fire 3.5/5

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 3/5

Bridesmaids 3/5

Repo! The Genetic Opera 3/5

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest 2.5/5

The Kids Are All Right 2.5/5

Gilda 2/5

#227 The Kids Are All Right Wanting to learn more about their sperm donor father (Mark Ruffalo), two teenage children (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) of a lesbian couple (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) make contact with him. This upsets the family dynamic and everyone involved has to learn where they now stand with one another. Must…resist…urge…to…call…film…alright. In all serious though that about sums up this film. It doesn’t impress in any real way and it follows its plot in much the way you expect it to from the outset. It has got a couple messages it wants to impart on the viewer which it pushes a little too heavily (seriously if this film was leaning any more to the left it would be carving a trench in the ground. It actually seems like it’s verging on parody in some places as a result of this.) and it does manage to have a couple of tender moments near the end of its run time but for the majority of the film it’s just good actors going through the motions. I really don’t know what more to say about this one. It’s a little like Secretariat in that it’s super generic and about a pretty bland subject matter. The only thing which really got it any attention is that the story involves a gay couple instead of a straight one. While this is a progressive step forward in an industry where the majority of films are made for white males between 15 and 35, it’s just not made any more interesting by the fact that it’s lesbians having relationship problems over every other dramatic movie in which a straight couple have relationship problems. 2.5/5

#227 The Kids Are All Right

Wanting to learn more about their sperm donor father (Mark Ruffalo), two teenage children (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) of a lesbian couple (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) make contact with him. This upsets the family dynamic and everyone involved has to learn where they now stand with one another.

Must…resist…urge…to…call…film…alright.

In all serious though that about sums up this film. It doesn’t impress in any real way and it follows its plot in much the way you expect it to from the outset. It has got a couple messages it wants to impart on the viewer which it pushes a little too heavily (seriously if this film was leaning any more to the left it would be carving a trench in the ground. It actually seems like it’s verging on parody in some places as a result of this.) and it does manage to have a couple of tender moments near the end of its run time but for the majority of the film it’s just good actors going through the motions.

I really don’t know what more to say about this one. It’s a little like Secretariat in that it’s super generic and about a pretty bland subject matter. The only thing which really got it any attention is that the story involves a gay couple instead of a straight one. While this is a progressive step forward in an industry where the majority of films are made for white males between 15 and 35, it’s just not made any more interesting by the fact that it’s lesbians having relationship problems over every other dramatic movie in which a straight couple have relationship problems. 2.5/5