Friday the 13th (2009)

With Rob Zombie making new Halloween movies and the fact that horror movies are becoming scarier, I was intrigued to see the newest, revamped verison of Friday the 13th. Let's just say, while I enjoyed the movie, I couldn't find one scary moment in the movie. I did like how they revamped Jason. In previous Jason movies, Jason would just be a mindless killer who just killed for no reason. In this one, Jason seemed to know what he was doing. As for the rest of the cast, you get the same old story. You can almost predict who was going to die first, and how they would die. All in all, the movie didn't suck, but in my opinion, it could of been better.

The Natural

After hearing that the Texas Rangers took two of three from the Boston Red Sox, I got in the baseball mood and wanted to catch an old baseball classic movie. I haven't seen The Natural in a real long time, so we rented it from Blockbuster and brought it home to watch. Seeing as how Dakota never saw the movie, she watched it with me.

Here's my take...

This is, in my opinion, the greatest baseball movie of all time. The story of a young boy with natural baseball talent, who struggles to get to the big leagues after 16 years. Robert Redford is great as Roy Hobbs, and middle aged rookie who knows that the clock is ticking on his baseball career. From every home run he hits to the struggles he went through to get to the final game, the story was captivating. For the baseball fans out there, this is the movie to check out.

Iron Man

I was sitting in the truck one night, bored out of my mind. As I was looking online, I came across a You Tube video of the upcoming Iron Man 2 movie, due out in 2010. That got me wanting to see the first Iron Man movie!

The Good: Marvel Comic movies are really on their game. Iron Man reminded me of how I felt after seeing the first Spiderman movie. The story was excellent, the acting was superb, and the action sequences were awesome. Robert Downey Jr. reminds us on how great of an actor he is. Jeff Bridges was great as the main villian in the movie, a role that I normally don't see him in. While I'm not a big fan of Gwyneth Paltrow, I thought her role in the movie was enough to not hate her. The funny thing is that after I saw the movie, I went to Wikipedia to learn about the origin of Iron Man. I liked how they took the origin of Iron Man and adapted it to our current situation in the Middle East.

The Bad: The only bad thing about this movie for me is that it wasn't long enough. They gave Superman Returns two and a half hours and it sucked! This movie could of added an extra 30 minutes and not dissappointed me.

The Verdict: Jon Favreau was on the Howard Stern show after Iron Man was released and Howard kept telling him to not make any other movies and just make Iron Man movies. Favreau has taken a forgotten comic figure and brought him to life that other comic book heroes haven't had. Iron Man is a keeper, and Iron Man 2 looks like it's going to rock!