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The Avengers MarketBOB Movie Review
Any movie that ends after the credits with an exhausted Avenger team stuffing their faces with shawarmas, no dialogue, no recognition of each other or the camera and you just have to love these characters saving our universe by working together as a team . One Word Movie Review: Hulkadorable
Category:FilmReads:129Uploaded:05 / 09 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionThe Hunger Games MarketBOB Movie Review
A three-finger salute to The Hunger Games for the first socially-significant box office hit of 2012 and proof why you don’t carry a bag of apples in a minefield. One Word Movie Review: soawesome
Category:FilmReads:554Uploaded:03 / 25 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionMarketBob Academy Awards 2012 Predictions
Have you seen all the movies nominated for best picture for the 2012 Academy Awards? My guess is: probably not. Box office hits were scarce in Oscar nominees this year, like the last several years. But fear not, for MarketBOB has gone beyond the usual box office #1 movies to help you pick the likely winners and perhaps take home the Oscar Pool cash this year.
Category:FilmReads:685Uploaded:02 / 20 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionMarketBOB Hugo by Martin Scorsese Oscar Review
Hugo has 11 Oscar Nominations, for everything except acting, and it shows on the screen. Beautiful to look at, but the emotional ride is impersonal and contrived to tug at the orphan within us all, searching for understanding about how the world ticks, usually against our best efforts.
Category:FilmReads:350Uploaded:02 / 19 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionMarketBOB Midnight in Paris Oscar Review
Woody Allen’s postcards of Paris plays like a laundry list of who’s who in the 1920’s, interspersed with the most unlikely cast of shallow contemporary characters wrestling with the elitist problems of our current age. Other than the picturesque scenes of Paris, there is little to love in this midnight rambler of a movie. Will it win an Oscar? Maybe for Woody's screenplay, but that's about it.
Category:FilmReads:352Uploaded:02 / 13 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionMarketBOB Tree of Life Oscar Review
Brad Pitt again, producing and acting as “brush cut” Brad, featuring the back of his head and horned-rimmed glasses usually worn by workers about to go Postal! Cut to celestial bodies swimming through the tumultuous currents of life and you have this allegorical albatross of a movie and Oscar Best Picture Nominee. Will it win?
Category:FilmReads:318Uploaded:02 / 11 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionMarketBob Moneyball with Brad Pitt Oscar Review
Brad Pitt uses his star power to get on base with Oscar voters but will not reach home as the home run slugger of best picture will not drive this movie home. Brad and Google Boy Jonah Hill shape a team from statistics and uncover the value in raising every player to perform to his average level. Yay, what a thriller of a story! Let’s all hit for average, team! That’s why we go to the ball park, to watch players rack up consistent on-base percentages! Unfortunately, average doesn't win Oscars!
Category:FilmReads:379Uploaded:02 / 05 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionMarketBOB Movie Review Collection Box Office Hits 2009-2011
Watching a movie is a personal choice, amplified by others through the box office totals to become crowd-sourced hits and bombs. MarketBOB reviews only the hits every weekend, the box office movies we pay to see, now collected from all my Scribd reviews in one volume. These movie reviews cover the years 2009 to 2011. They reveal how we feel emotionally both as individuals and as a collective audience, sharing through our choices the best movie every weekend. Sometimes, the choices are limited, but the box office is a great voting mechanism, a humbling barometer of our feelings towards the biggest stars, the loudest explosions and the bloodiest crimes. The last three years have seen the box office invaded by superheroes, zombies, vampires, lovers, comics, idiots and cartoon characters. Hollywood has matched the mood of audiences, devastated by the Great Recession and the following recovery of the 1% at the expense of the rest of us. We now end 2011 at the edge of a revolution in society. We see it in the Arab Spring, in Russia, in China and in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the country. The inequalities in our lives are reflected in these movie reviews, as we searched for those more powerful, sad or tragically flawed than we are in our daily lives. We like super heroes because we feel only the all-powerful among us can save the day. We flock to zombie flicks because we identify with the walking dead, shuffling through life while the 1% flies overhead in their private jets, from penthouse to waterfront estate. We are thrilled by the end of the world, because we’re feeling anxiety about the future. It is unpredictable, primarily because we are at the mercy of politicians and their ability to lead and make the hard decisions. History has shown how dangerous life can be when politics control our lives. Polarized politicians lead nations to wars and depressions. Rarely, a movie delivers a surprise, a story that no one predicted would be a hit, but we make it so. Those are the real treasures, when audiences seek out a movie or star that resonate with their mood. For me, reviewing all these movies for my MarketBOB analysis of audience mood, I watch people as well as the screen. I try and capture their reaction to the Story, Genre and Quality of what they see. I judge the value of the experience, whether it was worth the money and time invested. Most of all, I judge these movies in the light of our current state of mind. Are we happy or sad, fearful or full of hope? How many times have you chosen a movie because you feel like being scared? Or need a laugh? When you leave, you either satisfied your emotional decision or not.
Category:Health & LifestyleReads:556Uploaded:01 / 17 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionMission Impossible Ghost Protocol MarketBOB Imax Movie Review
This mission is impossible, to make Tom Cruise into our favorite action movie star again but damn if this isn’t the greatest action thriller of the year! You don’t have to choose to accept this mission, but if you do, you’ll love it (and if you IMAX it, it will blow you away). One Word Movie Review: Kaboom-apalooza Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is the best action thriller of the year. It is Bond without the silly fantasy, Bourne without the jerky camera work and Tom Cruise without the smirk and pretty boy looks.
Category:FilmReads:1,088Uploaded:12 / 17 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionTwilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part I MarketBOB Movie Review
So, is having sex with a vampire is a good thing? Of course, we’re married, silly! What about taking some precautions? Oh, that’s the beauty of marrying the undead, they’re shooting blanks and, wait, I have to throw up before answering your next question… One Word Movie Review: Soapy
Category:FilmReads:1,987Uploaded:11 / 19 / 2011ShareAdd to collection
