Weekend Movie Review!

This week I saw two movies in their entirety: Session 9 and Angels & Demons...



I saw this one on YouTube (someone out there actually has this movie up in there) and you have to give it props, it is a damn good horror movie. It starts a bit on the slow side but once the film gets to Wednesday, shit goes down. The atmosphere is downright creepy to say the least but the real hook comes in when the correlation between what is happening to the guys and Mary's Session tapes begins to take place. Everyone was cast right but I especially enjoyed the last thirty minutes of the film when SPOILER ALERT: Gordon and Phil (Peter Mullen and David Caruso respectively) become completely unhinged. If you like Silent Hill, you will enjoy this movie so much more because it feels like a competent adaptation of the game in another medium. Even the music sounds like a homage to the game. Downfall of the movie is also exactly that; I half expected Pyramid Head to make a scene. I did this but I was able to switch out the movie music and sort of replace it with the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack and it was all around the same experience.

Overall, I'd give this movie a solid 4 out of five but good luck finding this little jewel in other than the Internet. Here's the playlist I watched it from and don't go telling him/her to put it down, that person's doing you a favor.


Another movie who gets a 4/5 but for entirely different reasons. In my opinion, Angels & Demons felt like a better book-to-movie adaptation than Da Vinci Code, evbecause it actually put an equal balance between running and talking. The Robert Langdon in this movie was just as snarky and acrid as he was in the book, as he should be. I was pleasantly surprised with how the Camarlengo character was played out (nice switch) but most of Vittoria's backstory was dropped, which made me a bit sad. Overall, a good action/mystery flick worth spending the cash on.

I went to see this one on Premiere Day with two of my high school friends and it was just awesome! Jenny and I had the same reaction to the scene where Vittoria ripped out the page from the Diagramma (400-year-old paper) which was horror and it was just fun from there on. Lesson learned; when in Premiere Day, ALWAYS GO TO THE 4pm AND 5pm SCREENINGS. They're never that full and the lines aren't that long to go inside.

Well, that's my rant for the day/week; gonna go back to studying for my final Intermediate Accounting test and then hope and pray I get at least a B or a C.