Star Wars: The Force Awakens

I will preface this with the fact that I do not like Star Wars. I've seen two of the originals, none of the prequels and I wasn't going to see this one but it happened to be playing at our local theater where we could get in for $1. I also happened to be craving buffalo wings and my friends wanted to see this movie so we went. If Adam Driver hadn't been Kylo Ren I would have felt no inclination to see it, but since I love Adam Driver in about everything he's done, I thought why not and I could get some awesome food out of it. I guess I can understand this being called the movie event of the year, but in no way is this the movie of the year.

Mad Max Series

There is a movie theatre in my city where, if you go at 10:00pm and have a student ID, tickets are $1.00. They just finished a four week long Mad Max Marathon, showing the next Mad Max in the series each week. Me and three of my friends went every Friday night at 10:00pm for four weeks straight with everything building up to Mad Max: Fury Road in 3D. After seeing the first Mad Max we all kind of accepted that we were just going so that we could make it to week four aka Fury Road week. And honestly, if those tickets had been more than $1 each it wouldn't have been worth it, but they were, so it was an experience worth having.

Deadpool

Deadpool is an interesting specimen of movie because the main reasons I went to see this was 1. the action sequences were going to be amazing and 2. I want to support R-rated Marvel movies-- I was not expecting to really like this movie and yet, I really liked this movie. Most of the promo you see is a lot of sex jokes and that really turned me off of this movie pretty quick, but the majority of his jokes in the movie are just him being an asshole, and I find that super funny. I think this movie, or at least the humor in this movie, will likely be a hit or a miss for a lot of people.

2001: A Space Odyssey

This movie was first, out the ass weird, then out the ass dull as nothing happens for 45 minutes straight, then it was out the ass weird again, then it turned trippy as all hell and then ended on a solid horrifying note. This movie, much like A Clockwork Orange, had me considering whether or not I was going to have to bail on everything. I am not 100% sure why I was so scared by the end of this movie but I was not coping well with everything that was happening.
Also when we decided to watch it I thought we were watching Armageddon with Bruce Willis and Jake Gyllenhaal, so you may understand my confusion when there was twenty minutes of dudes dressed up like monkeys doing literally nothing at the start of the movie.

A Clockwork Orange

I was horrified at this movie. I couldn't imagine this movie coming out now, and I didn't even think something like this would be allowed to be produced in the 70's. It was horrifying to watch and there were more than a few times when I thought I would have to bail on the whole thing. I would suggest not watching this movie alone; I watched it with my roommate and we stopped halfway through and finished it another day. It's just too damn much of a burden for one person to hold on their own--please watch this movie with someone else. My roommate told me that everything was supposed to make sense in the end, like, there was supposed to be this big revelation and audiences everywhere where supposed to go "OH that's why everything happened and why everyone was so terrible" however, we finished the movie and I was left just as disgusted and confused as the rest of the movie.

Edge of Tomorrow

This has, of recent times, been the movie that I almost always make people watch, solely because I want to see their reactions, because I think this movie is great. I've seen Edge of Tomorrow at least 7 times, probably more though. The time travel in this movie is pretty damn interesting, that saying, it is not without its flaws. This is one of the only movies I have seem with Tom Cruise in it; I've recently watched Risky Business and it did not convince me to watch anymore young Tom Cruise movies, so I think I'm going to stick with more recent Tom Cruise movies i.e. Edge of Tomorrow, Mission Impossible, Minority Report-- basically nothing before 2000. Anyway, I have been watching more action movies lately, starting with this one, and damn I actually don't hate them anymore.

The Martian

I was not expecting to come out of this movie liking it. I thought I would be impressed with the visual effects but otherwise I was not really expecting much mostly because of the fact that I am not a fan of Matt Damon (probably because of those goddamn Jason Borne movies). I think the theme of abandonment on a planet, and the similar cast and vibe to interstellar (you know what I mean if you've seen Interstellar) also made me kind of wary of The Martian, simply because I thought it was going to be too much like it, and I am not one of those people who could watch Interstellar twice. But, as my friends and I were deciding between seeing Black Mass and The Martian, they raised some points about the other cast members and the scientific accuracy of it and the visuals and they outnumbered me, so we saw the Martian, and I did not have any strong feelings against it.

The Fly

I've enjoyed my fair share of weird movies, but I only recently watched The Fly, and I've got to say that is the most fucked movie I have ever seen. Even though its from 86', it really doesn't seem that dated, which surprised me. I was surprised that it didn't just seem kind of goofy with bad effects, but it actually really got me, and I was so shocked afterwards it has since been the only movie ever that, when it ended, I was sweating. I caught myself a few times with my mouth just hanging open. I can't say whether or not I liked it, but I definitely appreciate it and the effect it had on me; I've never seen a movie, except for The Grudge, that had such an impact on me, and even with The Grudge the only prolonging repercussion from that movie was that I couldn't sleep on or look under my cover for a while, and I couldn't be in stairwells alone, you know, because of those scenes. However, if I wasn't in my bed or in a stairwell alone, I didn't think about it and it wasn't a problem. The issue with The Fly, is that even when I'm just walking around town or something is, if I'm thinking about it, I worry about it becoming a pseudo King-Kong Situation where this "185-pound fly" is going to escape and terrorize masses of people and somehow make its way onto my middle-of-nowhere, in the mountains college campus and we'll be stuck with it and no one will save us. I've thought about that extensively. The Fly was so disturbing that I wouldn't necessarily make the decision to ever watch it again by myself, but I was damn intrigued and fascinated and I'm super glad I watched it.