FANTASTIC FOUR REVIEW

NO!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!! I feel so dirty. I defended this film. I said to my friends that we needed to not be so close minded. We needed to wait. It could be great. Well this movie, and the studio that produced it DO NOT CARE. They spit on the fans, and then they did a little dance after spitting on us, as if to say " Neener neener neener!"   It's a total cash grab!!!!! Whats the story? How did it get so bad?

"The Fantastic Four" stars Miles Teller, Jamie Bell, Michael B Jordan, Kate Mara, Toby Kebbell, Reg E Cathey and Tim Blake Nelson. To not give away the premise of the F4, and how they get their powers, They become Super humans when they return from another dimension  One, Mr Fantastic,  can stretch into anything, The invisable woman, is well,  invisable, The Human torch can fly like a speedy fireball, and one is, well, the Thing. Kind of a  solid rock version of the HULK with a better vocabulary.

Aside from the actors being wasted with a script so full of plot holes you could mistake it for a piece of Swiss cheese, the action is horrible,  and not helpful to what isn't bad in the film, namely Jamie Bell, as THE THING. Reg E Cathey plays Professor Storm, and while doing the best with a craptastic script, I never quite understood why he needed to be apart of this.  It takes an hour and a half for the Fantastic 4 to get their powers, and to be honest by then I was wondering, " Why am I still here?"Dr. Doom's villain  as a character is not scary at all, and when the final showdown happens, its in the last 10 minutes of the film, and by then, you just don't care.

                                                       THE VERDICT

Don't go see it. It will be two hours of your life you will never get back.
I give the "Fantastic Four," a D-.

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON REVIEW

The eighties and the nineties were a huge time in the music industry. Rap and hip hop came into play and back then there really was no better and no bigger a group then NWA. The group included well known people today like, actor/rapper Ice Cube and rapper/ producer  Dr. Dre. Other members included were Eazy E, DJ Yella, and MC Ren. There has been some controversy about the film, but it did not bother me. Once I was interested in going, and once it was clear that all the other critics loved it, I knew I had to see it.  Hows the story you ask? See below. 

"Straight Outta Compton," is about how Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy E formed the group  N.W.A. ("N" words with Attitude) Their Rap was different as it told the stories of their rough Compton upbringing, and all of their encounters with the Los Angeles Police Department. The movie also includes what happened to them after they stopped performing as a group.

 I love this movie.From the screenplay which shows how much of a struggle it was for them to get out, to the cinematography which paints a bleak existence for them all, to the acting which includes a break out performance by O'Shea Jackson, Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins,to the songs which were honest and sad and pounding at the same time. At 2 plus hours, it made me cry at times, and think about all the crazy things they went through, and how we are still going through some of those things today. one of the best movies of the year in my book. 

THE VERDICT

"Straight Outta Compton"is incredible, with great acting, and an amazing screenplay. I give "Straight Outta Compton," an A.