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Stand Up Guys (2012)
The old men's club
When I got the Stand up guys DVD I didn't know what exactly to expect. I knew that Al Pacino and Christopher Walken play the lead parts in this criminal comedy / drama. I suspected that Pacino and Walken still make movies but I haven't seen any of their latest work. Stand up guys was my opportunity to check on the two old men and see how they are doing.
Initially half an hour after I started watching the Stand up guys I got the impression that this is a movie about nothing. Sure there were funny scenes in the brothel, the bar, and the hospital with the erection but they were a drop in the sea of pointless dialogs between Val and Doc about blank issues.
It got a lot better when our two heroes rescued Hirsch. The movie just became eventful and we got a little more than just pointless chit chat. The moment Hirsch died everything went back to boring normal again. The end was just like I expected it to be, no surprises there.
Stand up guys had nothing special that I will remember when i will wake up tomorrow. Al Pacino and Christopher Walken wanted to make a duet, so they did, was it a great duet? i don't think so. I have to state that Pacino, Walken look old, a lot older than I'm used to remember them. Pacino kept himself well but Walken looks like he won't be doing this acting thing much longer.
Look I personally wasn't impressed much by Stand up guys. It's not a cool movie in my opinion but it wasn't bad either. I guess it's just not my taste.
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The Covenant (2006)
Male witches running wild
The Covenant movie was like every other urban legend movie that was made before. It had its mystic creature's (in this case male witches). There was the hot damsel in distress (Laura Ramsey), and it had the lost mystic group member that went stray, now he returned to make trouble.
Like every other teenage movie it had a lot of pretty boys and girls
actually there were only 1.5 hot girls (the blond was a looker while the other one was nothing special).
Those boys and girls supposed to be college students but all they do is party all night, swim in their college team, use their powers to show off, fight between themselves and try to stay awake during their classes. That is strange, from what I remember of my college years I had to work really hard and I didn't had a spare minute to waste. I guess the boys and girls from The Covenant are gifted and everything comes easy for them.
The acting from most of the participants was
OK, the Covenant's cast has nothing to brag about, their performance was tolerable.
The action and special effects were below average. The guys through invisible balls that supposedly blew up and caused fires, they could do so much better than that. Is it so hard to create a fire ball in CGI or make them through huge stones. Everything is better than an invisible ball of jellyfish they used all the time.
Although the special effects sucked in the Covenant, the visual scenes and the way the movie was shot was very well done. Renny Harlin managed to bring classic Europe to The Covenant. The castles with the beautiful landscapes made the viewing experience better than expected.
Overall this movie was average. I didn't follow most of the plot because when i was watching the movie i was exhausted from a long day at work, i was on neutral smeared on my chair. The only reason that the covenant can be considered as a cool movie is the fact that I wasn't my 100% watching it. If you are really tired (like i was) or really drunk like i wished to be, you will enjoy the Covenant.
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