Raiders of the Lost Ark

Why haven't they made a movie this good?  Most of the movies out today are not this in depth with story and action.  Steven Speilberg and George Lucas made this picture.

Harrison Ford stars as Indiana Jones a grave robber, oh I mean Archeologist.  He goes from quest to classroom fluidly, and then gets hired to find the "lost ark of the covenant".  He finds that this quest tests his endurance.  

Movies like this compel a person to root for the hero and boo the bad guy.  You cheer at the end when the "bad guys" get melted by the spirits from inside the box.

I revisited this classic, since I have seen some bad movies lately.  It is a good movie.    

3:10 to Yuma

Why did they make this slow, slow, slow, okay I think I made a point, movie.  I did not finish it.  

I was looking forward to a Western  like those greats from the past, Tomestone, Young Guns, How the West Was Won and any John Wayne movie <---too many to mention.

This movie stunk.  It was bad.  I could not sit through it because it was putting me to sleep.  Russel Crowe should stick to historicals from Europe and not try to tackle an American Accent.  And Christian Bale should stick to cute period romances or his Batman franchise.  

The character were contrived and not likeable.  There were too many writers on this script.  So, maybe the actors could have done a better job if the writers:Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt, and Derek Haas actually did some dialect research.  SOme times more writers make something better, but other times less is more.

I can't say anything more about this bad movie.

Sydney White

I have had a couple days of recovering from watching this cute stinker.  Amanda Bines makes very cute young adult pictures.  Cute and entertaining most of the time but Sydney White was different, than her other cute movies.  

Sydney White is loosely based on the Snow white fairy tale.  This one should have not been adapted.  Snow white is not the story that screams remake me! Sydney starts out at a sorority that her mother pledged to and ends up in a run down home with seven dorks.  

Luckily the dorks were not too stereo-typical.  But this movie did not know what it was. Was it a princess picture? Was it a romance? Was it a comedy?  Since I had to ask these questions even I could not categorize this picture.

This was a bad movie.  And I wish I had not rented this DVD.