The Big Short

The Big Short is a really inventive movie; it's like The Wolf of Wall Street mixed with Too Big To Fail. It was super funny and super dark-- often at the same time. The Big Short's most impressive accomplishment is making our mysterious stock market seem understandable to the normal movie goer. With all the talent that's packed into this movie there's no real place for weak performances, however, I was surprised how Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Steve Carrell and Ryan Gosling were advertised as the main characters when really I thought Steve Carrell and Christian Bale were the actual main characters and Brad Pitt was just there to aid two characters played by virtually unknown actors. Ryan Gosling reminded me of a less egotistical version of Leonardo DeCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street. I wouldn't have been so confused in the beginning if the previews and trailers for the movie reflected the actual cast and their roles. In the trailer I saw it showed two of the main characters played by lesser known actors once together and one alone. In both shots they just look like bank executives and neither of them speak at all so I didn't appreciate it when these two guys were all in my movie when I really just wanted to see the four big wig names.

The Hateful Eight: 70mm Roadshow

Inglorious Bastards is still my favorite Tarantino movie but The Hateful Eight comes in a close second. The thing with this movie is it's really just Tarantino patting himself on the back the whole time. It is a really amazing movie, but at times I was thinking, this is just for him isn't it? There is nothing unoriginal about this movie, like most of his other movies. Every little twist that happens throws you off a little bit more; it's so filled with events that will throw you, that the best summary someone can get without spoiling anything is that a bounty hunter has caught a woman who is worth $10,000 and due to a blizzard, is forced to stop in a log cabin where seven other people also congregate because of the blizzard. The basic conflict of the movie is that this bounty hunter is super paranoid that someone is working with his captive woman to set her free. Any more explanation past that would ruin some sort of revelation in the film.

The Danish Girl

I was really unhappy that this movie has only received the equivalent to a C rating. Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander gave incredible performances. I personally think Alicia Vikander gave a more diverse performance but Eddie Redmayne's performance was an incredible one in the way that he portrayed two people who, in a way, had two completely different personalities. I don't know how accurate this movie is when it comes to Lili Elbe's relationships, but since it is based off a novel 'm assuming most of the main conflict is accurate.

The Shining

This movie was an abomination as an adaptation to the book by Stephen King. I respect the shit out of a good Stephen King movie-adaptation, or that is, I would, if there was one that I could actually like remotely, or even at all. The only Stephen King adaptation I've ever loved was The Stand, which is a three part, 90 minutes each, Netflix series so they could get every damn detail correct. That's my favorite book ever and thank jesus it was good or else I would have cried. I know now that when (if) I watch a Stephen King adaptation that I should not expect much past 'meh'.

2016 Golden Globe Awards

I watched the Golden Globes last night and boy was it underwhelming and particularly disappointing. I don't think the Golden Globes did some of the best movies of 2015 much justice. Some of the award presenters were super awkward and weird. There was that awkward Jonah Hill bear joke where Channing Tatum said Jonah couldn't make it but the bear from The Revenant would stand in for him and Jonah came up in a bear hat thing. It wasn't that funny except for when Jonah Hill mentioned that "...theres a few directors that I would like to claw tonight--just kidding but remember I am a bear" I thought that was pretty funny but otherwise a lot of the audience was not feeling it. It was also awkward when Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell presented because it seemed like they were trying to stay on stage for as long as possible and nothing they were doing was funny. However, Andy Samberg and, surprisingly, Jim Carrey were super funny in their presenter speeches; they were probably the best along with America Ferrera and Eva Longoria. It certainly wasn't the greatest award show I've ever watched but it definitely wasn't the worst.
The list of awards are not in the order they were presented in.

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.