How To Train Your Dragon

Hey, guys! Sorry it has been a while. School, photography, and holidays around here keep me on my toes. I was able to watch this movie a week or so ago, and let me tell you about it, because it is so worth it. =)
  Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), the son of the lead Viking dragon-slayer on the Island of Berk, is not the normal dragon-slayer's son. This poor boy runs into every ounce of luck possible to run into, plus some, and the result is his being put in the Black Smith's care, making and repairing weapons for the other Vikings who are busy slaying dragons and defending their village, despite his earnest desires and attempts to help them. One night his life changes when he hits a Night Fury dragon, the dark, fast, and deadly dragons of the night, and it goes down without anyone seeing him, and no one believing him. Over the next weeks to months, this dragon which he does find, changes how he sees dragons. Such a great story! I really enjoyed this movie, and so did all of my family members. Because it was so good, I will refrain from telling you the rest of the plot, and will simply say to go and get it and watch it. You will not be disappointed. =D I would give it a 10 of 10 rating. It is around 98 minutes long, and the movie is something almost everyone could watch. Enjoy it! =)

Killers

Oh my goodness, I am soooo sorry for not posting for one month! I really do apologize. I am really behind on k-rate. I haven't done even half of the movies I have actually watched this year, which is a fail. haha Oh well. I will try. =)
  Killers was an AMAZING movie. I absolutely loved watching it! haha We had to use the filter, which blocked language, some violence, and a couple other things. I was laughing my head off and many things in here. Killers is about a single gal (Katherine Heigl, seen in 27 Dresses) who just broke up with her boyfriend, and on vacation with her parents. She meets a 'gorgeous', if you will (=D) guy (Ashton Kutcher, seen in Valentines Day, The Guardian, What Happens in Vegas, etc), and immediately hooks up with him. They take a liking of each other, and it is a true, pure relationship. It turns out, though, that he is a secret-agent spy, killing bad guys for his career. But once he meets her and realizes that he longs to have the life style she has and loves, he decides to quit his job, and settles down with his wife. =)  3 years later, they are still passionately in love, but after receiving a secret message from his old boss, their normal lives are turned upside down when suddenly close neighbors start trying to assassinate them both because of a several million dollar bounty on his head. I won't tell you the rest, but let me assure you that when safely filtered, this is an amazing movie to watch. haha =D According to the IMDB it is rated PG-13 for violent action, adult material and language, as I said, and is roughly 93 minutes long. Very much worth watching. =D

Wolfman (viewer's descretion is advised!)

Yes, Wolfman. I told myself I wouldn't watch it when I heard what it was about. But, being the person I am, and not wanting my brothers to watch something that I wouldn't because it was really scary (ok, the Mummy was an exception. I will NOT watch that! lol), decided to watch it at the last minute. So I hop downstairs wearing a men fleece sweatshirt carrying gummies and chocolate from Europe, and hope and pray that I won't be scared to death. Well, here is what I saw. A lame version of Beauty and the Beast. I am serious! Laurence Talbot, an English-born boy, was sent to America by his father after his mother commited suicide when he was a boy. Years later, his dear brother's wife sends for him after his brother was killed by an unknown creature. He returns to his father (Anthony Hopkins), and brother's wife (Emily Blunt, from The Young Victoria =D), and spends his time trying to find that creature. One night while in the camp of gypsies, the creature is revealed to be a wolf of unusual size and strength, which then literally tears apart each of the humans in that scene, ending with it biting Laurence in the neck. From this bite, he over time turns into a werewolf who gets loose and terrorizes the village they were in, and once captured by the somewhat annoying Inspector Frederick Abberline (Hugo Weaving, from LOTR!!!), transferred to London, and tortured for almost 30 days, till the time he was supposed to transform into a werewolf again. The doctors there thought he was mad, and to prove he was not, they had him secured to a chair in front of many, many elderly men, with a view of the full moon that would soon come by. Warning them about what was to happen, and begging them to kill him, as he did not want to be a beast and hurt souls, but not succeeding in his attempts, he turns into a werewolf again...yes, well, I shall stop there with the story. To sum it up, it was a very, very graphic and gory movie, very scary for lots of people, very gross (insides being torn out, to say the least, I am sorry), and it had many moments where something would happen all of a sudden, making you jump. I was prepared, and would dig my head into my dad's shoulder and make sure my ears were properly covered! lol So this movie is rated R for bloody gore and violence (yes. do not question this!), and is 103 minutes long. I would give it 2 of 5 stars. It really wasn't worth watching. lol So, I hope this helps some of you. haha

The Young Victoria

This is the first historically-accurate movie I have seen that does not have any bad scenes or language in it that I can remember. And wow, was it good! Starring Emily Blunt (The Wolfman) and Rupert Friend (Pride and Prejudice), to name a few of the many and very talented actors and actresses in this film. It starts out with Victoria telling about her childhood, being one of seclusion from almost everything normal, being a prisoner in a palace, never being able to do what she wanted, really, and all was found out with she turned 11, to be for her protection, since she was the only heir of brothers, either kings or dukes, and would inherit the royal title as queen when the last king died. She meets a prince (Albert), and they become friends instantly, though his uncle had first had him in the 'friend' position as a main way of getting information to help Germany, but since Albert really was a friend and really did like her for her, his 'mission' failed. x) This movie was so well-made, it is a photographer's dream to be able to see all the true colors, all the focus-changes, all the beauty of England presented as it was. I loved it. =) It is around 105 minutes long, rated PG for smoking, brief violence and incidental language, and some sensuality. No scenes whatsoever, and I did not notice the 'language' being harsh or anything like that. Most of the things in this movie are accurate, though some were put in to add some thrill to the movie, and that they did. It is an AMAZING movie, I would give it more than 5 stars. =)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Theif

Wow. haha This movie really caught me by surprise, yet it didn't. Okay, so this past month I have been hearing lots about the 'gods' and such, and we watched a couple movies with them, including this one. But this one is by far the best. Not only because it was made by Chris Columbus (Director of Harry Potter =D). Percy, an average teenager, lives with his mom and rather annoying 'step-dad' in an apartment. He spends his free time hanging out with his best friend, Grover, at the swimming pool. Most of the time. Percy suffers from what everyone thinks as ADHD, and several other problems as well. He always sees words swimming in his head that he is reading, which, if in a certain language, are translated for him. After a substitute teacher turns into a beast one day in a museum and threatens him, trying to make him give up a 'Lightning Rod', his whole life changes. Percy finds out that he is the son of a god, Poseidon, and is himself a demi-god, a half human half god. He meets many people, some friends, some not, and travels across the United States to find certain things to take him on a certain journey to save the whole world. I will not give it away. Though I am a Christian, and do believe in only one God, the true, real God who created this world and everything in it, I still find this movie a very good, very amusing one, a good education for learning about the Greek mythology and such. I had lots of laughs. heheh I like laughing at various random things, and this movie was packed. =D Rated PG for lots of action violence, peril, suggestive materials, and mild language, and is around 118 minutes long, starring Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, and Alexandria Daddario. =) Great movie, I would so give it 5 stars. =D

When in Rome

=D I like this movie. x) This chick flick is about a gal (Beth) who has her job going well for her. She is a great modern art shower, and just adores her job. The thing is, she is single. And none of her friends are happy with this. They want her to find a guy, but she says she doesn't want to get a guy unless she loves him more than her job. After a bad day at work, her sister comes to her apartment and tells her she is getting married to a guy she has known for a couple weeks, but just knows that he is 'the one'. And guess where they are getting married? Rome! Beth flies over there for 48 hours, and while over there, meets the best man, Nick, who is a lot like her in many ways. She thinks she might like him, and then boom, she sees him with another girl outside. So while everyone else is partying, she goes to the famous fountain of love and takes some coins out just to 'aggrivate' it. Little did she know that those coins were thrown in by some guys who would then pursue her aggressively with no mercy till she either accepted them or really just gave them the complete foot. haha It was very well made, the actors were chosen well (at least Beth and Nick), starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel (in the Transformers movies). Rated PG-13 for some suggestive content, though I would really say it is for some disturbing things. It has that guy from Napoleon Dynamite, and he is as weird as ever, but the parts with the pursuers are just really weird. 91 minutes long, very good, I would give it a 4 1/2 star rating, because of those weird scenes. I really like this movie, though. =D

Leap Year

Can I just say that Amy Adams was excellent in this movie? Oh, was she amazing! Anna O'Brady, a lady who designs rooms to present them to sellers for a sale, thinks she is in love with her boyfriend of 4 years. After her hopes of a proposal one night at dinner are washed down the drain, and he leaves for Ireland, she decides to follow him there, and propose to him on February 29th, since it was a leap year, and girls are allowed to do so that one day. But before she is able to get to where she is going, a storm warning makes their plane land early where she does NOT want to go, and she is either stuck at the airport for a day, or tries to find her own way of getting to Dublin, Ireland. She chooses to go. After a bunch of different rides that fail to help her reach her destination, she ends up staying the night in a small inn owned by a man (Declan) who knows much, speaks little, and laughs at her. After much negotiation and then a threat from someone to close his inn, he accepts her offer of a certain amount of money to take her there, but on their way,  they loose his car, and are forced to find another way there. I am not going to ruin the middle or ending of this movie, as it is waaaaaaaaaaay too good for that. =D =D May I just say that the locations where they shots this movie are SPECTACULAR, to die for places that I would very much not mind visiting for a long time. =) =) Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, and several others starr in this beautiful romantic, funny movie. Seriously, it was so hard to keep from completely laughing my head off while on the plane watching this. x) 100 minutes long, rated PG for sensuality (some sort of inappropriate but not things) and a couple words, most I didn't even understand because of the heavy Irish accents. haha x)  Totally one of my favorite favorite favorite (if not my favorite) movies right now. 5+ stars on this one! =) Amy Adams was incredible. =D =D