Movie Soup for the App Lover's Soul

So, I hear that you are in love with your iPhone. Now, now, it's ok. Everyone loves their iPhone, so it's ok, you can vent. But you think it needs something, something more, something that will turn it into the ultimate device. That's right, movies! And how would one get some movie lovin apps? I am glad that I asked myself that, because here I am with the answers!
So right now, grab your iPhone from your pocket (Don't look away from the computer screen), go to the app store, and download these beauties!

 Apple Movie Trailers: One thing I really love about movies, is waiting for them! The goose bumps you get from them are something that truly awakens the movie lover inside of you! And, most of the time, trailers are more epic and\or contain the entire amount of cool scenes in the entire movie. Well, if I might have rung a bell, this is the app for you. With the trailers updated as soon as they are released, the quality spot on, and the interface beaming at you and saying "I love you", this is an app hard to pass up.

Flixster: This is the best out there for finding out when movies are coming out and when DVDs are finally making there appearance after months of waiting. Every movie window comes equipped with trailers, reviews, pics, list of actors, and....Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know I was overwhelming you, I'll stop now.....are you good?...good. It also comes with a theater finder where you can fine the one most convenient for you, with all of its showings for the next week. Now that's a movie app.

IMDB: "I like this movie....wait! I know that actor! Who is he? WHO IS HE!!! ARG! I know this, I know this....AHHHH...." *POOF* "Hello Johnny, I heard your cry for help" "Who are you?" "My name's not important! But here, I have this to help you with your dilemma!" "It's an iPhone" "Oh hahaha! This isn't just any iPhone, it's one with IMDB!" "Really?" "Yes Johnny, now search for the movie you're watching." *Typing* "There's the movie I'm watching! Here's all types of cool facts about it, and reviews! Oh, and there's the actor! I knew I saw him before, here's the list of all the movie's he's been in!" "What's his name?" "Brad Pitt!" "Boy, keep the iPhone, if you can't figure that out, you'll need it."

Plan for this week

Hello everyone! I know that lately I've been a little slacked on my posts lately, but I hope to fix that!
Here are the list of movies and posts I would like to get out this week, and if I don't get a chance, here are some blurbs to calm your movie itch.
Enjoy, and anticipate!

Real Steel: A movie I was pleasantly surprised with. It's great blend of story and effects made me smile. Still, what writer could stand to have a kid swear?

Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows: My favorite movie of last year. A wonderful movie which has you grinning ear to ear, beginning to end.

White Collar: When you need to catch a thief, you to need to be one. USA's original series brings on the action, and the humor when the world's best forger turns around and helps the FBI.

Best iPhone apps for movie lovers: You love your iPhone. You love your movies. If only there was a way to.. OH, WAIT!

First of all, I would like to thank you for attending the "Zay-y" Awards! This is where movies of the past year (2011) are rated using the highest authority in the land, ME!
This award goes to the worst film I've seen this year,
The Nominations were,
Green Lantern
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Captain America

And the winner (Or looser) is................GREEN LANTERN!

Though the other movies deserved the title, this film had a very special place in my arteries. It's pure lack of character development and its rebellion against well written scripts made my movie loving spirit weep with no end. The only thing that made the movie worse was that the clearplay guy who edited it cut over 30 hours out of the movie for no reason. This movie was just DC comics trying to cash in on Marvel's bounty of movies this year. They didn't worry about characters, scripts or cinematography all they cared about was how much money they could squeeze out of the people pumped up on Marvel films.

In brightest day, in darkest night, no evil will escape my sight....
Then how did this movie get past you?

A Look Back @ 2011

Well, it seems as though another year has come and gone. Which means that DVDs for all of our favorite 2011 films should be out soon! Lets have a look back on a few of the films that released last year.

Tron Legacy: Trailers where amazing! Every part of the 30 second trailer was pure action. And that's about the amount of action in the the movie- 30 seconds. This Tron bike went theater-to-netflix streaming in nothing flat. Yet another example that too many effects cause a small script.
Rating: Leave it alone to glow by itself in the dark corners of Walmart.

Thor: Man of muscle, man of honor, man of quick character change. Though Thor didn't break down any doors or run away with my movie-loving heart, it did find a way to squeeze it's way into my DVD collection.
Rating: The mighty hammer of Thor is worth a DVD, but not Bluray.

Green Lantern: Cool! Not. This poor excuse of a movie was DC's small ride on the wave of Marvel movies that came out this year. It hung ten before hanging itself on on gallows of poor movie making. No character, no script, no dice.
Rating: There is no need to tell you not to buy it, because it seems as though the movie case is so embarrassed of the colors it sporting, it's hiding behind Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Captain America: Did you want a kick-butt hero that fights for honor, integrity, and the American way? Well, if you did, it seems as though Marvel though you wanted a flip-flopping, kick-line dancing, idiot who got his powers from drugs. This movie had no research into the 1940's and no creativity.
Rating: Skip Captain America and go straight for the Captain Taiwan movie. It has better quality.





 Courageous: Cinematic gold. Down to earth, real life, and uplifting. Truly a movie to be proud of. Nothing more needs to be said.
Rating: I heard you didn't pre-order it. Why?

Sherlock Holmes, Game of Shadows: My favorite movie of 2011. Every shot planned out, a twist at every turn, and a bucket of cinematic creativity! Humor abounds on this cake with all the trimmings!
Rating: Purchasing this film would be elementary my dear Watson. (He never said this, but he would have)

The Muppets Movie

Let me lay this out right now, I am a huge fan of the Muppets. I've seen the show. I've watched the movies and I love them all. (Except the Wizard of Oz one, that I do not believe should be counted as one of the Muppets movies). And when I heard that they were remaking the Muppets for a new movie, with Disney heading it, I was pessimistic. In almost every remake of something that was funny, wholesome, and classic, the studio has a tendency to, how to I put this delicately? - Obliterate, destroy, ruin, and tear to shreds in a mouth-foaming frenzy the innocence of it. Making it more edgy, darker, and all around stained, thinking that they are appealing to this generation.

But what the Muppets Movie proves is that the best is timeless. You don't need to shade it to try to make it more appealing a generation later. They successfully show that the Muppets are timeless, no matter your age.

Growing up as a puppet in a human family can be rough. You are always the same height, everyone counts you out, and it's impossible to find someone to relate to. That is how Walter felt (get it?). Sure he had a good family, and a brother that loved him more than he loved his girlfriend (an error he balanced out later in the film), but life was for people, not puppets. That is, till a TV show aired. That show, that was new and shiny back then is what is known as the "Muppet's Show" today. The show told him that although you may be out of place, and a bit fuzzy, you can still be loved by millions, and that you have a place.

As the years go by, Walter grows up (relatively speaking) but he never gives up his never ending love for the Muppets. As he soon learns, that is something the Muppets themselves have given up. And as an oil tycoon sets his wrecking balls on Muppet's Studio, it's up to Walter to make the Muppets what they do best, come together in a movie.

I was almost sure when I walked into the theater that Disney would give the Muppets an edge, but as the movie played I learned that they took what made the show great and did.......nothing to it! They kept it in it's golden glory, not even dipping its Hollywood toes in the 80s movies. Sealing the brilliant Muppety innocence in the vacuum sealed goodness of the original show.

I don't know what really more I can say about this. It's a Muppets movie, and if you've ever seen one you can't really describe it outside the phrase "It's great!"

The Muppet's characters were untouched by 21st century's hands, keeping the pure, fuzzy love at it's pinnacle goodness. The added characters convince you that they've been in every Muppets venture, that's how good they blend in. They are charming, funny, and as smart/clueless as the rest of the Muppets.

Using spontaneous dance numbers and moments where the cast themselves point out the hilariousness of the movie they have found themselves in, coupled with brilliant celebrity cameos that the Muppet Movies are known for, this movie gives us great scripts and bellowing laughs as we watch the wonderful Muppets characters do what they do best, just....being.....Muppets.

How movies change things: Lightsabers

Ah, another fictional word that, because of a movie, everyone knows about!
I can tell right now that you are wondering why I am talking about a glorified glow stick. So stop wondering and listen.

In this post I want to show how one movie changed every one's mindset. This is something films do, change mindsets, the more popular the movie, the more ingrained into society it is.
When Mr. Lucas had this crazy idea for "StarWars" he came up with the "sword made of light" he probably thought that it was pretty cool, but it was just an effect, he probably never thought it would become an icon. But now as we all know, Lightsabers have there own Wiki page, more people know about them than StarWars, and you can look in you dictionary and locate it.

People every now hide away in there rooms, away from the eyes of friends and family, swoosh their imaginary saber around the room, matching the sounds using their mouths only to change their woosh sounds into a scream of horror as a parent barges into the room.
Not only that but almost every kid's show, every sifi, and every youtube video has a lightsaber, or their own spin on it. And all of this because of just one film.

Now I wonder what if we stopped creating weapons and starting creating morals.

One of the most hit videos on youtube is a lightsaber fight called Ryan Vs. Dorkman

Kid's TV show character Jimmy Neutron wielding what looks like a sword made of light.

In a major videogame "Supersmash Bros. Melee" characters can use the item "LightSword"

DVD TIME: Cars 2

This last week another Pixar film came out on Bluray, so if you haven't seen it in theaters, I hope that this review will help you decide to run over to RedBox right now! But, uh, don't trip.

Pixar never fails to bring us a fresh new idea, even if they are recycling one of their old ones, and Cars 2 is no exception!

This time instead of racing and fixing egos, this Cars movie revolves around believe it or not, SPIES! Which is quite clever if you think about it, one of the coolest gadgets a spy has is his car. Spy Cars that can shoot missiles, fly and burn rubber are all a part of this flick, but the way Pixar does it makes James Bond wish he was a car.

This is the most filled out Pixar movie I have ever seen, there is not a single scene where they could have added another thing. The movie was a completely basted turkey with all the trimmings. It's one of those movies where you wish that you could view the entire film in slow motion just so you could see each and every minute detail!

But sadly, the most of characters that you all knew and loved in the last were somewhat "hollow" last second additions to the movie. They were all nothing but a shell of their former selves (a little joke for the people who know computer animation). Mater is the only exception for he is the star of the film and the new characters replace the old in a way that "somewhat" makes it "ok". Somehow I think that the only reason they kept the old characters is so they could make some money in a toy deal.

But one thing I did not expect in this race em up, is that it would also be a "shoot em up". Cars get blown up, shot, and tortured until they writhe in pain and die a painful death.......something I was not expecting in a "G" rated kids film. I don't know how the ratings board let this film get a "G". And these being colorful Pixar characters, it makes the violence worse. In one cringing scene we see the cubed remains of an agent car. But if you remove the few violent scenes that I have all mentioned here, you've got yourself one heck of an action film!  

Characters and violence aside, Pixar out did themselves in this film. It was a good film, but a classic summer movie with explosions and shiny things. But I did not try in any way to make this flick sound bad, it was another great pixar movie, a movie everyone needs to see and enjoy!