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

#216 The Social Network A biopic following the start up of the social networking site facebook and its founders Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). I’m slowly making my way through all 10 of the Best Picture nominees for the 2011 Oscars. I might even have seen them all by the time the 2012’s are announced. Like a lot of people when I heard they were making a movie about the creation of facebook I sort of dismissed it as a non-movie but I’ll be damned if this isn’t an entertaining and immersive story. I’d be pretty hard pressed to say whether this or the King’s Speech was more deserving of the Oscar. It reminded me a little of the beginning of A Beautiful Mind (just in the broad strokes and probably because they were both set in Harvard). It had that same sort of gravitas to the whole thing somehow. The characters were all just the right levels of assholes that you liked them enough when they were doing well but when they turned around to be a dick it still rang true to the character. Eisenberg and Garfield are both fantastic in this and I look forward to seeing both of them more in the coming years. Eisenberg is sometimes portrayed as ‘Micheal Cera-lite’ but I think he’s head and shoulders better than Cera in everything I’ve seen him in.  It’s a well shot, well edited and well directed film with a great cast and tells an interesting story. 5/5

#216 The Social Network

A biopic following the start up of the social networking site facebook and its founders Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield).

I’m slowly making my way through all 10 of the Best Picture nominees for the 2011 Oscars. I might even have seen them all by the time the 2012’s are announced.

Like a lot of people when I heard they were making a movie about the creation of facebook I sort of dismissed it as a non-movie but I’ll be damned if this isn’t an entertaining and immersive story. I’d be pretty hard pressed to say whether this or the King’s Speech was more deserving of the Oscar.

It reminded me a little of the beginning of A Beautiful Mind (just in the broad strokes and probably because they were both set in Harvard). It had that same sort of gravitas to the whole thing somehow. The characters were all just the right levels of assholes that you liked them enough when they were doing well but when they turned around to be a dick it still rang true to the character.

Eisenberg and Garfield are both fantastic in this and I look forward to seeing both of them more in the coming years. Eisenberg is sometimes portrayed as ‘Micheal Cera-lite’ but I think he’s head and shoulders better than Cera in everything I’ve seen him in. 

It’s a well shot, well edited and well directed film with a great cast and tells an interesting story. 5/5