Will I be receiving good movies for my birthday? Let's take a look; The Devil Wears Prada 2 - Today This is pretty much going to be a ladies day for my family. My mom, sister and aunt are HUGE fans of the original movie, so of course the ladies are going to see it. Me included. Critics appear to be cool with the movie and the audience seems to agree. And I do see this being a draw at the box-office considering the impact of the original. Mortal Kombat II - May 8 I've never seen any of the previous Mortal Kombat movies, nor am I a game person. So it should come as no surprise that I have zero interest in seeing this movie. It is to my understanding that most of the Mortal Kombat movies have not been well received, so why on earth would this one be any different? I do see this doing well at the box-office though The Sheep Detectives - May 8 To my surprise (and slight disturbance), critics actually like this for reasons I will never understand. I guess we'll see how the...
With all due respect to Mr. Jackson, I do not believe he needed a biopic. But again, Hollywood has been having a strange fetish for music biopics over the last few years. So of course there needed to be a biopic about the GOAT of entertainment. This retelling of Mr. Jackson's story features his nephew Jaafar taking on this iconic role. The biopic was fine at best, albeit slightly generic. Though I personally did not think it was as bad as people claimed it was. If anything, Antoine Fuqua did the best he could with his material. A lot of people are annoyed with the movie "sanitizing" Jackson's story. Me on the other hand, I could not care less. And besides, certain aspects of Jackson's life could not be touched upon due to legal reasons anyway. That's why Janet's not in the picture, that's why the abuse allegations were omitted, and so on and so forth. So if ya'll wanna blame anyone for that, blame the system and not Fuqua. The problems I had with t...