Playing Catch Up

I have seen a few movies and been a little bit busy so here are a few quick reviews

Mad Max: Fury Road was a visual spectacle that was made to be seen on the silver screen. The movie is really about Furiousa(Charlize) and her journey and Mad Max(Tom Hardy) just happens to be along for the ride. Just like all the other movies it's a post apocalyptic world where we have off the wall tyrants, war boys, milk ladies and baby makers. Great car chases with amazing vehicles, I mean who has a vehicle made mostly of amplifiers and a guitarist on bungies? This was truly a fun movie to just go see and get lost in it. There is not a complicated story and it is full of action and spectacle. Go see it!

Pitch Perfect 2 was pretty much the same movie on a larger scale. The Bella's were beat down and needed to find their sound again as a team. It was cute and I laughed quite a few times. I also loved that Phat Amy and  Bumper had a love story, but there was nothing new brought to the table with this story. Too many side stories and it seems like they tried to hard to capture the magic of the first one.

I had high hopes for the Poltergeist remake. The original one is held high in my mind as one of the great horror films of all times. It has heart, a great story and truly terrifying. The new movie has none of that. It started off not so bad with the introduction of the family, but soon veered into a very bland and not a very scary movie. I liked how they updated the family unit and all of the acting was pretty good. One of the most scary scenes in the original movie was the clown, and what was so scary about it, was that it was one of the kids toys. In this new movie the boy finds a box of clowns in his room. Predictable, and why make all the clowns look like they are evil right off the bat?. And don't even get me started on the tree, or the lack of the pool(!) and how can you have a Poltergeist movie with out Tangina(!!) or have the girl named Carol-Ann???  Please!