REVIEW: Hall Pass, Drive Angry 3-D, Of Gods and Men

‘Hall Pass’    

I have a feeling new movie “Hall Pass” is going to be a good one. With a cast of hilarious actors and actresses, funny lines and a humorous story, I personally can’t wait to enjoy this movie.

    The film features five guys who are given “hall passes” by their wives to do whatever they want to do. It is basically an excuse to be free for a week with no consequences. The idea behind the plot is that husbands think they could get hot young girls if it weren’t for their wives. In reality, the hot girls aren’t attracted to the old married men, and the wives know this and are letting the men discover it for themselves.

    The cast includes Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Alyssa Milano, Christina Applegate and Jenna Fischer. Wilson and Fischer star as the primary couple. Fischer is best known for her role as Pam in “The Office.” At the beginning of the trailer, Fischer and Owen are walking hand in hand discussing how to improve their marriage. A hot girl walks past and Owen’s character checks her out and Fischer gets upset. What a great way to start out a movie about a typical couple        I will most likely be in the theater when this movie comes out to find out if it really is as good as it looks. Hopefully they didn’t use all the funny jokes in the trailer, and the movie will live up to the trailer!

– victoria.hepworth@aggiemail.usu.edu

 

‘Drive Angry – 3-D’

    Is there a such thing as an original storyline in Hollywood anymore? Even if there is, “Drive Angry” 3D is not one of them. After watching the trailer, I am left bewildered, reminiscing of better movies with similar story lines involving vengeful fathers (“Taken”) and sweet souped-up cars (“Fast and the Furious”). It seems as though Nicholas Cage is running out of action movies to appear in – his latest is merely a combination of “Gone in 60 Seconds” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”

    Now, I understand the touching aspect of a father trying to save his daughter, but it certainly loses the effect when the devil’s “second-hand man” is chasing Cage, trying to bring him back to Hell. Did I mention performs every “cool” special effect film makers have created? Blown-up cars, that thing the Matrix did with a slow motion bullet being fired, you name it, it is probably in this movie.

    Just when this trailer couldn’t get worse, lead actress Amber Heard enters, sporting a pair of daisy dukes, and claims, “I don’t pick up hitchhikers.”

    Right … you just pick up middle-aged men with receding hairlines and crazy eyes. Smart girl. Horrible accent.

    Cage needs to start obtaining better movie roles, Heard needs to go back to wherever that accent is meant to be from, and Hollywood needs to realize the oddity of a father returning from Hell, not Heaven, to save his child. Even with such a fine arrangement of Camaros, Chevelles and Chargers, I highly doubt my wallet will “break loose” to see this movie.

– jessie.a.sweat@aggiemail.usu.edu

 

‘Of Gods and Men’

“Of Gods and Men” is not a movie for just anyone. First of all, it’s a foreign film, which means a different language, reading subtitles the whole movie, and a story much more powerful and even sometimes upsetting, than American movies.

    But the best thing about this movie is not that it’s based on a true story, or that it’s won a boat-load of awards, but simply that it is a foreign film. I’m a fan of foreign films. I feel like it gives me a chance to go into another culture. While the theme of this movie seems interesting, I am not too sure about this trailer.

    The basic plotline seems to feature a monastery, apparently somewhere in Algeria, in 1995. The military offers this monastery protection, which they don’t take, and someone tells them they need to leave. Every single monk decides, instead, to stay and see what happens.

    But what is going to happen? The trailer makes the watcher feel all the anticipation, but doesn’t really show any of what happens at this monastery. Why is this monastery so important? I have so many questions! 

    Despite the fact that the trailer creates more questions in my mind than answers, and is fairly uncreative, I want to see this movie. And this is one I think will be as powerful on a tiny TV in a dorm as it will on the big scree.

– april.ashland@aggiemail.usu.edu