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Dec. 8: These are the movie reviews published at the Golden Vanguard website.
Cabin Fever movie review
By Tracy Au
The movie is written by Randy Pearlstein and Eli Roth. Roth also directed it and it his first
film. His name may sound familiar,
because he is also an actor in the movie Inglourious
Basterds.
The movie started off with a creepy beginning. It then focuses on five college friends Paul,
Karen, Bert, Marcy, and Jeff (Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, James Debello, Cerina
Vincent, and Joey Kern) who rent a cabin in the woods. It’s a common theme in stories of a cabin
being isolated from the world and no technology to communicate.
There is fear as they encounter a man who can either infect
them with this disease, or kill them. It
leads to the car being wrecked and the man dying. The friends experience difficulty in getting
help as they can’t find anyone to help them.
Or when they do, they realize they can’t ask this person for help.
Overall, this is a mediocre movie. The characters aren’t really likable. It’s not really scary. There were some moments I jumped. The theme of a disease infecting one and then
others had the potential to terrify you, but it wasn’t pulled off.
The best part of the movie was the dark humor that was
thrown in it. It was the community
locals like the store owner, the deputy, and the farmer woman that made the
movie enjoyable.
The A-Team
By Tracy Au
There are multiple explosions, shoot outs, car chases, and
fist fights that occur in this action movie called The A-Team. However, it’s creative and imaginative as
they show some things that you don’t see very often in movies like helicopter
chase scenes or flying a tank.
The movie is based on the old TV show from the 80s of the
same name. The A-Team is Iraq
war veterans that consist of the leader Hannibal (Liam Neeson), the womanizing
funny guy Face (Bradley Cooper), tough guy B.A. (Quinton Jackson), and mentally
insane guy Murdock (Sharlto Copley).
Lt. Sosa (Jessica Biel) who also is an ex-flame of Face
hires the team to find the plates that are used to print $100 bills. It has an unpredictable story to go with all
the action. The mission goes sideways
and they are framed for murder, and promptly court martial.
CIA agent Lynch (Patrick
Wilson) still needs to get the plates.
Black Forces agent Pike (Brian Bloom) complicates matters for the team.
This isn’t just an action movie, but a comedy too where you
laugh out loud. They scheme together to
pull off their plans to get the bad guys like Lynch and Pike. It has good plot twists and a big payoff.
There is a wild and climatic ending. You know a movie is good when it’s over, you
think: “Is there going to be a sequel to this?”
According to this article, no:
Go watch it.
The Expendables
By Tracy Au
The Expendables are a team of mercenaries played
by actors from every action movie ever made.
Or at least it seems like it when you got Barney (Sylvester Stallone),
Lee (Jason Statham), Yin (Jet Li), Gunnar (Dolph Lundgren), Hale (Terry Crews),
and Tool (Mickey Rourke). Even Arnold
Schwarzenegger makes an appearance.
CIA operative Mr. Church
(Bruce Willis) hires the Expendables to take down a rogue CIA
agent Munroe (Eric Roberts) and the Latin dictator General Garza (David Zayas).
Barney and Lee go to see their contact Sandra (Giselle Itie)
in the South American country Vilena Island. Sandra informs them that ever since General
Garza took over, the country became a terrible place to live in. (By the way,
that’s a fictional place so no real country would be offended by it and hurt
box office sales.)
It is very violent with shooting, fist fighting, and
stabbings. It is very intense with
suspense and tension as the mission becomes more personal for Barney. He has to do more than take down Munroe and
Garza, but also help Sandra.
There are light and fun moments between the guys, and even
during a stand off with guns.
If you like action movies, the cast, fun and excitement,
then you will enjoy this movie.
Charisma Carpenter: On a side note that's not mentioned in the review, is that Buffy and Angel
actor Charisma Carpenter is in this movie. She played Cordelia on the
TV shows. In the movie, she did some good acting. She was only in 2
scenes, but I would say the first scene that she was in, showed some
dramatic acting.
I think it could be used for her acting reel. She played Jason Statham's girlfriend.
Dec. 10 Dream: Last
night I had a dream that one of my old restaurant boss was back at
work. He told me there was a condo that was close by the restaurant and
it was $95 a month to rent there. I thought: "That's cheaper than
living with my parents where I pay $400 a month." I also take the bus
to work, but in my dream, I could walk to work.
I
would then save money on my bus pass. Now I'm awake, I have to ask:
"Does the $95 cover utilities like electricity and water?" What about
groceries? When I work at the restaurant, I eat there.
In my 24 horoscope, it said: "A dream reveals the proper direction."
Dec. 11 The Golden Vanguard: I
have added them as my friend on Facebook, and they confirmed me. They
even introduced me as one of their new writers for movie reviews and got
their other friends to send me a warm welcome. I thanked them for it.
They are so nice.
Dec. 13 Writer in residence: I put this on Omar Mouallem's Facebook page:
Me: Hey Omar, I just got a email from Linked In
saying you're the new Writer in Residence at the Edmonton Public Library.
I was like: "Oh my god, I have sent my writing to those people before
and now it's one of my classmates." Congratulations.
Omar "likes" my post and said: "So I'll be seeing you there, then?
lol.
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