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Movie Review Roundup: 21, Beowulf, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb and 28 Weeks Later
Well, yesterday was movie day...not the best movie day we have ever had...in fact, we were barely batting 50% on this one. So here's the scoop of the Good, The Bad, The Ugly (but not necessarily in that order and some qualify for double awards).
28 Weeks Later - I hate Zombie movies. This was the sequel to 28 Days Later. I like end of the world kind of movies, but now zombie movies. They are some of the most grotesque films out there. Hubby loves zombie films....so every now and then as an act of a good wife, I will watch one with him (through veiled or averted eyes). This movie should never have left the cutting room floor...it should have been burned up. The characters were stupid, the story was stupid, and military people were stupid. The movie was stupid. Don't get this movie! Don't waste your time watching this movie... What an awful waste of ketchup and red jello or red cornsyrup or whatever they use!
We give this movie 2 thumbs down and 0 stars. Blech!!!!! It gets the bad and ugly award!
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb: This was a cheap blue ray disk I bought and that should have clued me in right there. This was a made for television movie. I love mummies. I love all things Egyptian and I thought, what the heck....how bad can it be.
Well, I don't really know because after about an hour and 20 minutes of it, I just stopped watching it (there were another 90 minutes to go). I just didn't care. I didn't care about the emerald tablets. I didn't even find myself rooting for the bad guy as I will sometimes do in a bad movie. I just didn't care. It was slow, plodding, unimaginative (imagine Indiana Jones meets The Mummy cast). It was just bad.
We give this movie 1 star....for picking an interesting topic... and for being better than 28 Weeks Later.
Beowulf This is the 2007, Zemeckis version. The special effects are spectacular. The colors vivid and things can be done in this movie that can only be done due to the CGI. However, if you are a Beowulf fan, you will not believe the storyline that they came up with....they took elements of the tale of Beowulf and changed them into a different story. Interesting, but very not like the tale of Beowulf. The gore and gruesome factor of this movie is very high. Even though it was CGI, I found myself wincing and turning my head....just warning you!
We give this movie 3 stars. It was good and ugly. It wasn't great. And if the younger generation doesn't know the real story, they will now have the wrong understanding of Beowulf.
21 - is a movie based on a true story. It is the story of a group of MIT students who came up with a strategy of card counting as a group and take Vegas casinos for millions. It is an interesting and fast pace movie and the fact that it is based on a true story gives it extra oomph. Great characters, well acted.
We give this movie 2 thumbs up and 4 stars. My teenage neighbor who watched it with us, gives it an extra thumbs up for the cuteness of the main character!
