The Way Way Back

            So this weekend out of pure boredom, I decided to watch a movie I haven’t seen before that I saw commercials about on television, but just never actually went to see it in theaters. The movie I watched this weekend was called the Way Way Back. Literally, this movie is depressing, well, that’s what I thought anyway.

            Basically without doing a lot of summary it’s about a boy who gets forced to go to summer house with his mum and his mum’s new boyfriend; that’s basically the whole story. The movie is focused upon actor Liam James, who plays Duncan. Basically, Duncan is an awkward kid that has no friends and is just really shy, but he learns to make new friends and find his place.

            One of the main reasons I decided to watch this movie was because it had actress Anna-Sophia Robb and all the movies she has been in so far I’ve absolutely loved, so I decided it was time I watched the Way Way Back because she was in it. I was a bit disappointed though because she didn’t seem to be in the movie all that much, she plays the role of Susanna and only talks to Duncan a couple of times; and considering the movie is focused upon the character of Duncan she really isn’t in the movie that much. Even though it’s obvious that Duncan likes Susanna and even tries kissing her, but ends up chickening out and running off, she isn’t in the movie that much.

            I thought that this movie was an okay movie, it wasn’t one of those movies that is an “oh my gosh you have to see it” type of movies. This movie is more of a “if you have time then it isn’t a bad movie to watch.” It definitely had humorous points, but I found the movie overall as depressing. I mean basically you have this boy who has no friends, shy and awkward, his dad doesn’t want him, and his mum and him live in a one room apartment with each other. It just seems overall depressing, and the fact that the mum, Pam, (played by actress Toni Collette) is with a jerk of a boyfriend makes everything even more depressing.

            I noticed in this movie that Duncan just tended to do stupid things that makes you shutter and think “Why are you doing this!?” But other than that I thought it was an okay movie and didn’t think it was a waste of time to watch, but I don’t really think it would interest that many people, so watch it or don’t…It’s a pretty straight forward movie I thought. 

Now You See Me

            So one of the coolest movies I've ever seen is called Now You See Me. This movie came out in about May of 2013. Many people saw it and just about everyone thought it was a really good movie. I thought it was an amazing movie, and would never have dreamed that I would like a movie having to do with magic.

            The movie Now You See Me centers around four magicians that do outstanding tricks on stage. The whole movie is literally just really cool and interesting. Magic is interesting and people always want to know how people do it because humans are just curious and love to know answers instead of being left in wonder. The thing that made me like this movie so much was just the plot, everything made sense and didn’t seem like the directors were leaving an important detail out. The whole story just went with everything, I wasn’t confused the slightest bit during the movie which is probably one reason I liked it so much.

            Another reason I liked Now You See Me is because I love movies about magicians; considering there really isn’t that many magician movies, this movie definitely appealed to me. The movie just centers on the detectives trying to find out what they are all going to do next and anticipate the magicians’ next moves. It’s sort of a funny movie in my opinion because the magicians’ just joke around with the detectives and play around with them, and also the tricks are awesome. Even if magic isn’t real this movie was a fun movie to see.

            My favorite part in the movie is the very end when Thaddeus Bradley, played by Morgan Freeman, is in the cell and he says to the detective Dylan Rhodes, played by Mark Ruffalo, that he knows exactly how they managed to do this trick and tells him why and then Dylan disappears and reappears out of the cell, I thought that was just so cool. Also I liked the actor Dave Franco because he was in the last season of one of my favorite shows, Scrubs. The other two guy magicians were pretty entertaining as well, played by Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson the tension between them kept the movie interesting and at ease.

            Overall, the movie was fun and interesting to see, I really enjoyed the cast. I also thought that the movie was so unique and interesting that if you haven’t yet seen this movie, it is definitely worth seeing it.