Boba_Fett1138's movie reviews: Emma Roberts

We're the Millers (2013) Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 12:40 PM / comment : 0 2013, Ed Helms, Emma Roberts, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Hahn, Matthew Willig, Molly C. Quinn, Movie Review, Nick Offerman, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Tomer Sisley, We're the Millers, Will Poulter

It's hard nowadays to come across a comedy that's actually genuinely fun and funny to watch. And while this is something you most certainly wouldn't expect from a Jennifer Aniston comedy, this is actually one that's genuinely good and funny to watch!

Well, I say it's a Jennifer Aniston comedy but is it really? She's really 'just' a supporting character in this, or sidekick if you will. The true focus of the movie is on the Jason Sudeikis character, which is perhaps also part of the reason why the movie works out so well. It's not a chick-flick or some other nice type of comedy but simply a good old fashioned silly comedy, with some good writing and dialog in it.

You know it's a silly comedy, so of course it's going to feature some exaggerated moments and characters in it. Good thing about this though is that all of these characters and moments work out as rather amusing. I won't say this movie is the best or most hilarious thing ever but I definitely had a good time with it, which was something I absolutely wasn't expecting from this movie.

It's a fast paced and witty movie with some snappy dialog. It isn't ever wasting any time on anything, which means that there are also no distracting side-plots, other than the ones that truly help the movie to go forward. It's perhaps not a huge surprise that I liked this movie, seeing how its directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber who also directed the hilarious "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story". It's not like both movies feature the same comedy style but it's obvious that Rawson Marshall Thurber understands the genre and knows what it takes to be funny. Comedy is all about the timing and execution of things really, which is something this movie had no problems with either.

The actors all obvious had fun playing in this movie, which is also one of the reasons why the movie itself is a fun one to watch. It wasn't just another paycheck for them and their hearts and minds were truly into it. All of the characters also feel like very rich ones, no matter how small their parts actually are .Jason Sudeikis and Will Poulter were especially good and enjoyable in this.

Maybe it's ail hard to believe but just watch the movie for yourself and chances are it will truly surprise you how good and fun it is to watch.

7/10

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Empire State (2013) Directed by Dito Montiel

Posted by: Frank Veenstra Posted date: 2:09 PM / comment : 1 2013, Dito Montiel, Dwayne Johnson, Emma Roberts, Empire State, James Ransone, Jerry Ferrara, Liam Hemsworth, Michael Angarano, Movie Review, Nikki Reed, Shenae Grimes

This movie is more predictable than a bad B-movie and therefore also quite a bad and boring one.

It's amazing really; all of the right ingredients for a good movie were here. A good and interesting sounding concept, a decent cast and the fact that it's based on a true story. Nothing about this movie would indicate to you that it's a bad one, until you start watching it.

Pretty much from the first minute on already it started to annoy me. There are very little things more annoying than watching a bunch of guys act like tough guys, while they obviously aren't. Something so incredibly fake and annoying about it. I don't know, perhaps I have seen a few too many movies like this already. It basically makes it hard to ever care for any of the characters, when they are constantly acting like a bunch of tough-talking buffoons. And it's not like any of the main characters are doing 'good' things. They really are all a bunch of criminals, no matter how you look at it and some of them also do some absolutely despicable things.

But really, that's hardly the only problem of this movie. The weird thing about the movie is that about halfway through, things start to shift and it starts to become about something completely different, once it decides to change its main focus. Suddenly the Liam Hemsworth character isn't the main one anymore and all of the sudden it decides to focus on the good cop that's after him, played by Dwayne Johnson. It's a weird shift really. What was it trying to do and achieve with it? Who were we supposed to root for, toward the end? It doesn't help much that the Dwayne Johnson character isn't a very well developed one. He just shows up but we don't know anything about him at all, purely because the movie doesn't give you any background information on him, or tells you his character's motivation.

There also isn't any real excitement in this movie, which is disappointing for a movie that loves to present itself as an action heist movie. It's not as if this movie is ever trying to be a serious or dramatically deep one. It clearly was going for a more fast and entertaining type of approach but there just isn't ever enough action or fun. The movie actually gets quite boring to watch after a while, which also is really due to the fact of this movie being an incredibly formulaic and predictable one. Seriously, nothing happens as a surprise in this movie and you can see all of its 'twists' and events coming from miles away already, which is all really due to the movie its own storytelling.

Now, really this isn't the worst movie you could ever watch but at the same time, why should you watch it in the first place? There is absolutely no reason for it in my opinion! There obviously are countless, far better, genre movies out there, you can have a whole lot of more fun with as well.

5/10

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