More Movie Reviews

Just came back from seeing Mean Girls (alone) and Van Helsing (last night with Matt, Luke and Brett).

Mean Girls: It was really funny, although I find myself completely unable to relate to contemporary movies depicting high school. Tim Meadows is still funny, and he did really well opposite Tina Fey. I'm not a big fan of Amy Poehler, though. Lindsay Lohan was great, and her breasts did a stellar job of causing audiences to cower in fear. There was some shockingly frank language and situations (her character drank in this one, oddly enough), so it was definitely aimed at the upper teen demographic. A few cheesy moments, but it avoided a lost of terrible clichès. Interesting plot twists as well.

And annoying girls getting hit by buses. I think there should have been more of that. Ninety minutes of annoying girls getting hit by buses.

8 / 12 Final Fantasies.

Van Helsing: Again, I liked it. I know a lot of people have referred to it as "Van Helstink" and complained about the massive amount of effects, but I disagree with both. The soundtrack had some interesting strings in it that caught me by surpise, but I liked it. It was a really good action movie with pretty good effects. I wasn't dissapointed, and I don't think anyone else I went with was.

8 / 12 Final Fantasies.

I've given up trying to rank them all. Maybe later...

In gaming news, I checked out Rise to Honor and Star Wars: Bounty Hunter. Rise to Honor had an innovative control system in which the right analog stick controlled the attacks. It was pretty cool, but it was hard to get into it. I'm liking Bounty Hunter. I feel like a real badass. I still want to check out Samurai Warriors and Transformers. There's a few others I need to check out. I'm going to go play some now, but I'm in the middle of a Chelsea funk. Expact another history post later.