Miller's Movie List!

2-6-2010 The Grand Theater Good This movie was creepy. It was scary, but not in a good way. It was scary in a "I'm going to jump out from a dark corner" sort of way. I find those kind of movies more annoying then truly scary. I don't like it when you use tricks, actually have the brainpower to write a convincingly scary story, and then get good enough actors who can truly be scary, not creepy. The concept of the show was good enough, but it was too gorry. Not that I don't like gorry. Look at Zombieland, I loved the Gorry in that movie. However the Gorry in Daybreakers wasn't as effective. Sorry to be such a bummer, but Daybreakers just didn't deliver for me. No wonder I was the only one in the theater. Private screening are kind of cool though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9roxtugaUo

1-29-2010 The Grand Theater Great I was worried at first about this movie. Any movie with the premise of a daughter being murdered might not be a good movie for me to see. However it wasn't overly dramatic and it was a good drama. Nothing spectacular from acting to writing to story, but it was a fun movie nonetheless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuLI80y0v_s

1-26-2010 The Grand Theater Excellent This was a bad-A## bible movie! Although it was a little slow at the begining I loved the idea of the bible being the most sought after and powerful book in the world. I loved the idea that Eli's mission was to protect it at all cost and deliver it to a place where it would rebuild the world. I loved how no weapon formed against Eli was able to prosper, and I loved then end when you found out.... Yeah right like I'd ruin it for you! Go see it yourself! Sure the details are a bit peculiar but I have a rule for any movie that has anything to do with the end of the world. That rule is: Don't focus too much on the details, if you do you're focusing on the wrong part of the story. So go get some religion, some hard core religion, and fill up your violence quota all in one night! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfZrbS79To

1-19-2010 The Grand Theater Great This was the best movie Sandra Bullock has ever done. It's funny and sweet. It's the good version of "Precious" I really enjoyed the dialouge and Sandra Bullock delivered her lines perfectly. I highly reccomend! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khtBvQdxta4

1-15-10 The Grand Theater Great After thinking about it I really did like this movie, it just wasn't as good as it could have been. The problem is it's "In Between." The dead girl didn't connect in any way with her family trying to solve her murder. This made it feel hap-hazard. The dead girl really had no active role in the plot of the movie. Without her the ending would have been the same. I wanted the ghost girl to have a part in the living people finding her killer, or her body. Even just given a clue, but she didn't. The after-life wasn't real enough, or visually spectacular enough, to be believable and I found myself asking what's the point. It had good ideas, especially being told from the perspective of the murdered girl, but the ideas weren't developed enough. It could have been more. The murderer should have known somehow that the dead girl was watching. The dead girls sister should have seen the dead girl or felt her presence. That would...

12-28-2009 The Grand Theater Superior This movie was way better than it was supposed to be. I mean James Cameron writer/director, James Horner composer, Celine Dion singing at the ending credits, it's going to be Titanic 2 right? Wrong. Although it uses all the ingerdients of a normal movie it uses them in the most effective way possible. It's like going to your favorite restaraunt and ordering you favorite dish and enjoying it. Was it a surprise? No, but you enjoy it anyway. Now I'll be the first to say it's not the best of the superiors, in fact it's probably the worst of the superiors. If I look over my list though at all of the Excellent ratings, I will not find a movie that is better than this one. Great action movie, with great sci-fi ideas that was crafted very well. It's a bit long, but even after 2:40 I'd like to stay in that world a while longer. That's the usual sign of a Superior movie...you don't want it to end. I tried to fight it, I di...

12-26-2009 The Grand Theater Great Thank you Disney. Although this was not The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, or Aladdin, it was so nice to see an "Old Fashined" animated feature from Disney. The Pixar stuff is great, don't get me wrong, but sometimes you need to go back to your roots. It's kind of like church (hang with me here) I love my church, it's contemporary and exciting using all kind of media, lights, sound etc. I love it. But every now and then I think about my church from childhood. I remember the Christmas eve services on a cold dark night. I remember the old hymns from an old organ. Those are sweet memories of tradition and stability. This movie was like that old church, sure it's not the latest and flashiest, but that doesn't make it innefective. It's a great movie for all the reasons any movie is a great movie. Great characters, Great Story, Great Story telling. And a five year old who passes out into a popcorn coma on the way home hel...