Drive Angry (2011) - 5/10
Drinking Buddies (2013) - 3/10
Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief (2010) - 5/10
DareDevil (2003) - 5/10
Never Back Down (2008) - 2/10
Any Day Now (2012) - 10/10
Insidious Chapter 2 (2013) - 4/10
About Time (2013) - 8/10
Carrie (2013) - 8/10
Dead Silence (2007) - 1/10
Rush (2013) - 5/10

This Is The End - 3/10
Scary Movie V - 5/10
Juno - 9.5/10
Identity Thief - 7/10
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story - 4/10
Boys Don't Cry - 10/10
Warm Bodies - 9/10
This is 40 - 7/10

Footloose - the old one 1/10 - I couldn't even finish it, it was that bad.
How to Train Your Dragon 9.5/10 - Adorable and great fun!
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog 6.5/10 - Enjoyable and silly.

The Dark Knight. I loved it! The best Batman movie ever. Heath Ledger did an amazing job with the Joker. So if I were to rate on a star scale of 1 to 5, I would give 4. The last star disappears because I can't stand Batman's voice.

Last Vegas (2013) - 6/10
House At The End Of The Street (2012) - 2/10
Machete Kills (2013) - 5/10

I know an English teacher who loves this movie. I can't watch it because it hurts my throat to listen to Keith.

It's like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2yv8aT0UFc


*Edit* I just watched most of Mirror, mirror and plan to watch it again when I can stay awake for all of it. 8/10 - very well done! Nice twist on the classic story with great costumes, sets, and acting. Julia Roberts is a convincing evil queen and Lily Collins is adorable as Snow White.

End of watch (2012) - 2/10
Almost famous (2000) - 6/10

ExTerminators (2009) - 5/10
The Informers (2008) - 2/10
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 (2013) - 5/10
Filth (2013) - 1/10
Thanks for sharing (2012) - 2/10
The Clinic (2010) - 4/10
The baby Formula (2008) - 3/10

The Best Offer - 2013 - 8/10
Like a fairy tale. Geoffrey Rush is an amazing actor, so I gave extra points for his performance. I had some quibbles with some things in the movie like I recognized paintings in his collection that are in museums, but I still liked the film.

Scored (2013) - 3/10
Delivery Man (2013) - 6/10
I Give It A Year (2013) - 2/10
Girl With The Pearl Earring (2003) - 1/10
World War Z (2013) - 4/10
Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994) - 5/10
Leading Ladies (2010) - 5/10

I watched Dallas Buyers Club and August: Osage County last week.
Both were amazing, to be honest, even though the first one is very intense. I usually dislike movies about drugs and illnesses because they give me anxiety and I just feel kind of depressed after watching them (like the one with Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish, which right now I don't remember the name of), and DBC was definitely one of those. The acting is amazing though, oh God. Matthew McConaughey has finally grown up and become a real actor, he's almost unrecognizable. Let's just say the only times I smiled during the movie were when Jared Leto's trans character was on screen (she's very funny) but besides that it's very intense and depressing.

August: Osage County is very different, I wouldn't say it's extraordinary because the plot itself is rather dull, but you sure get some great acting there as well. Meryl Streep is (obviously) flawless. There's a dinner scene where she talks for like 20 minutes straight and I was just there, with my jaw dropped, listening. So good. What really struck me is Julia Roberts though. I admit that the last time I saw her on screen was probably in Notting Hill or Eat Pray Love, both two silly and forgettable movies, so I labeled as a silly and forgettable actress in my mind.
Couldn't be more wrong. The Julia you see in this movie is a make-up free, passionate and definitely flawed woman which tries to keep her family together. Truly a great performance that made me change my mind on her. The movie is about a family and the problems/skeletons-in-the-closets you have to deal with when you're in one of them, which is always good food for thought.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - 5/10
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) - 3/10
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) - 3/10
Concrete Blondes (2012) - 3/10

Mr. Peabody & Sherman - 7/10 Great fun! Although it's based on the old 60's cartoon, it mostly feels new. There were times, however, when I could almost hear the original Mr. Peabody's voice. The adult child of the original creator was one of the people who worked on this and it was interesting how they brought the old simple drawings and theme to modern times. Mostly it was a great adventure. Near the end, it felt a little like Dr. Who.

There's also a 22 minute short on Netflix about the making of the movie and the original show.

Liam Neeson on a Plane (a.k.a. Non-Stop) -7/10
Surprisingly good for a Liam Neeson movie. Probably due to it being incredibly self aware about being a Liam Neeson movie.

Liam Neeson is somehow more deadly to have on a plane than snakes.

The "Thor" films, plus "the Avengers".

"The Avengers" was alright, but not the best I've seen. Maybe a 5/10.

The "Thor" films (particularly the first one) had me howling with laughter and almost flat out on the couch. The plots may not have been the best, but both of them score higher for the entertainment (anything that makes me jump up and down on the couch with glee, and give a screen the thunbs up every so often scores high on entertainment!). The first gets an 8/10 and the last gets a 7/10.

Dracula, the dark prince 7.5/10 good fun and I felt sorry for Dracula in this film...why... did he have everyone betraying left right and centre, he's a nice a guy and also I think he's nice looking

Gone with the Wind: 9/10. Amazing cinematography, great costuming and the acting was mostly also great. It's very hard for me to like any of the characters because for the most part they're either horribly shallow, easily manipulated, create their own problems, or some combination of the above. (Mammy and Belle Watling are two exceptions.) That's not necessarily a bad thing for a movie, though, and the movie does a wonderful job of making the audience sympathize even with Scarlett on occasion. There is definitely some heavy values dissonance (Old South and slavery is romanticized, it's good that a bastard baby died, Ashley marries his much younger cousin, Rhett is an otherwise sympathetic rapist) but it's important to take into account the time period. I got the feeling that Melanie had a thing for Scarlett, an interpretation that makes her character much more interesting to me.

It's my favorite movie ever! To be honest I think that yes, characters are a bit shallow sometimes, but just because everything was much more repressed back then. Especially women, but also men, were not as free to express themselves as they are nowadays and that's why they can seem dull in my opinion.

Melanie was supposed to embody the spirit of Southern femininity, grace, and charm. She represented the old ways, but unlike Ashley, was able to adjust to the new. She was a foil for Scarlet. Yes, that is a great film.

Oh, what I meant by "shallow" was mostly referring to Scarlett and her (lack of) emotions after the death of her first husband. That was an occasion when she would be allowed, even expected to have strong emotions and to express them, but she only cared about having to wear black. My perception of her character might be influenced by the book, since I read the book first and had a pretty strong reaction to how horribly selfish she was. I still loved the story and the movie, in my opinion, was even more enjoyable than the book, so when I say that most of the characters are unlikeable that doesn't mean that they're bad characters.

Scarlett and Melanie are great characters and I think Vivian Leigh and Olivia de Havilland were perfect for the roles. Don't forget Scarlett was 16 when she got married the first time and her husband died soon after. So she was young and immature.

Of course Scarlett was selfish - that was the point! She was spoiled, pampered, self-centered, and head strong. The story is about her journey into adulthood.

Oh ok, my bad, I thought by "shallow" you meant "dull".
I agree with everyone above, she was probably raised reading romance books and wanted a different, more adventurous in some way, marriage than her parents'. She had a pretty romanticized and static idea of what love is, and therefore never bothered for her first husband and children (if I'm not mistaken she has a couple more in the book): she always knew she was bound to better love and better kids.
She was a spoiled brat, but the stubbornness that her lavish lifestyle created in her turned out to be strength and courage in her darkest and most difficult moments. She is not stone hearted, she just learned to keep a detachment from things in order to face them in the most objective way she could, even in a separate moment (After all, tomorrow is another day!). And her last drop of childish view about love vanishes after the death of Melanie, when she realizes she had everything she wanted right before her eyes but didn't appreciate it.

She is definitely not the perfect character but it's impossible not to feel heart warmed by her change during the movie/book and her strength to face life.

I don't think people are understanding what I'm trying to say. Apologies if I'm not phrasing it clearly.

I like movies/tv shows/books about imperfect and perhaps unsympathetic people. It sincerely is not a criticism of the movie when I say that it's full of shallow, easily manipulated characters. That was just something I found interesting, especially since, as I said, the movie manages to make you feel sympathy for them anyway. I wouldn't want Scarlett to be unselfish, because then she wouldn't be Scarlett and the plot would be completely different.

Scarlett starts out entirely unsympathetic (to me, at least). As the movie progresses she does become stronger, which makes her much more likeable, but at the same time she's still self-serving and manipulative. To me, it seems like even when she honestly does love someone she is still fundamentally selfish. She doesn't care about what would make Rhett or Ashley happy, as long as they're with her–she may believe that being with her would make them happy, but as evidenced by her relationship with Rhett, they can't be honest with each other and they make themselves miserable. As she becomes an adult her priorities change and she becomes more tactful about getting what she wants, but she is still ultimately concerned with what's best for her and for Tara, and not with standard morality.

I think you've made a fair assessment of Scarlett's character and the author's design for her. She was partly a product of her environment and partly it was the way she used her upbringing, looks, and station to her every advantage. She was deliciously naughty and it was fun to see her grow. One wonders if there hadn't been a war, would she have grown or continued to play her childish and self-serving games for the rest of her life.