Movie Review

I like movies. I do. Problem is, I like watching the movies that I know I'll like, which partly explains my rediculous collection of DVD's that I have at my house. (I am reminded of this each time I have to clear a new shelf on the bookshelf that is now almost entirely all DVD's). But now that I'm doing the dating thing again, I have gone out to see a couple of movies, so I'll write my opinion on them all here. Because the 9,120,329 people on yahoo users' opinions don't mean crap.

Dan in Real Life
What I thought it was about: Some freaking funny guy from the office stumbles through raising his kids and runs into a lot of funny hijinx along the way.
What hollywood says it's about: Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent.
After seeing it, what it's really about: Some panty waste of a whiny man falls in love but rolls over and dies before fighting very hard for it.

Critics gave it: B Yahoo Users gave it a B. Yours truly gave it....a B.

Okay it wasn't bad just not what I expected. And I was a little depressed that Dane Cook wasn't a little funnier. It was sappy and kind of boring, not the humor masterpiece I was looking forward to and it was entirely too predictable. But it had it's most. And most importantly, at 11pm on a week night, I didn't fall asleep.

Martian Child
What I thought it was about: Single guy adopts a kid who has diagnosable mental problems.
What hollywood says it's about: A recently widowed science fiction writer forms an unlikely family with a close friend and a young adopted boy that claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignores some sage parenting advice from the widower's sister and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences lead them to believe that the child's claim may be true.
After seeing it, what it's really about: I was a little disappointed in that there wasn't anything really wrong with the kid, he was just a weirdo. And new couple? Give me a break, that chick was in like 4 scenes which made the ending seemed forced and pointless. If you are going to spend the whole movie talking about this guy and the kid, why on earth do you have to add in some relationship. And we still don't know how he knows that lady...she could be the dead wife's sister for all of that character development.

Critics gave it: C Yahoo Users gave it a B. Yours truly gave it....a D.

Snore. Pass this one. In the attempt to do so much, they ended up with so little. And the kid wasn't even that cute in a kid-from-jerry-maguire kind of way. What's with little boys and their long hair these days. Gross. My kid is going to be buzz cut until the day he gets to college.