Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows

        The best movie theater in my area is a theater called Malco. Malco is nice because it has stadium seating. You maybe are wondering what this has to do with Sherlock Holmes. Well, the first time I saw Sherlock Holmes 2 I didn't get to sit in the stadium seating, but instead in the area in the front. I could literally only see one part of the screen at a time. On top of that the particular showing that my family and I were going to had the close captioning, so instead of watching the movie I was reading the scrip. Add that to the fact that Sherlock Holmes has a very confusing, fast paced story line then you’re in trouble. So I decided to go and see it again, and let me tell you, the second time was infinitely better (Besides the slightly annoying people behind me). We got to sit farther away in the stadium seating, and we didn't have subtitles this time. Plus the second time around the story is very much less confusing. Sherlock Holmes is one of the year’s best movies, with lots of action that rivals the first one. I did enjoy this Sherlock better then the first, although they are about the same. There are a lot of great camera works (running through the woods for one), great actors (Judd Law and Robert Downy Jr. have done it again as the quirky duo they so beautifully created in the first Sherlock movie), and very deep moments in this movie (when their on the train for one, and when Sherlock does a very surprising act at the end of the movie for another). In an interview with Robert Downy Jr., he said that a lot of sequels will not do as well as the first because of the high expectations, and that the best thing that you can do is keep your head low and hope for the best. Let me tell you, this movie rivals the first. I would recommend this movie to anyone who has a love of good action movies and who can keep up with the fast pace of the movie. In fact this movie is so good that you will have to see it twice, especially if you had an experience like mine :) 

My Rating: 95
Rated: PG-13 for lots of action and some drug references   

Happy New Year!

Can you believe it? A whole new year is here! 2012, who would have thunk, right? now I don't know what you all's resolutions are for the new year, but I believe that everyone should try to think a bit more intellectually. You can do that by reading more books and by watching movies that challenge you thinking.On top of that, there are movies that are referenced in a lot of movies and TV shows, and if have not seen any of these movies, you have no idea on what's going on. So here is a list of 30 movies you should watch at lest one time in your lifetime.
1) Chinatown
2) Gone With The Wind
3) Fiddler On The Roof
4) Breakfast At Tiffany's
5) A New Hope
6) The Empire Strikes Back
7) Return of the Jedi
8) The Breakfast Club
9) Pretty In Pink
10) The Fellowship of the Ring
11) The Two Towers
12) The Return of the King
13) 16 Candles
14) It's a Wonderful Life
15) It Happened One Night
16) The Matrix
17) The Castle
18) Planet of the Apes
19) Secondhand Lions
20) The King's Speech
21) True Grit (either the new or the old) 
22) The Man Who Knew too Little
23)The Blue Brothers
24) Dirty Harry
25) Grand Torino
26) Pirates of the Caribbean
27) The Wedding Singer
28) Shrek
29)The Wizard of Oz
30) Napoleon Dynamite
Now most of these movies you have probably seen, or at lest heard of. These are all great movies that I think that everyone should seen these movies at lest once in their lifetime. Until next time, I hope that everyone has a safe and good holiday, and that everyone has a Happy New year with lots of blessings to come this next year.  Cheers!