Triple Movie Saturday
I effectively accomplished one thing today while in actuality doing three things. Three movies that I wanted to see, one currently in theaters and two out on DVD, I successfully watched in the past 11 hours. So, let’s get started with the reviews, shall we?
Aliens in the Attic was my first movie of the day and was also the one that I went to go see in a theater. I was going in expecting it to be a kids movie, and on that front it delivered. It was entertaining but nothing special, and not a movie I intend on picking up on DVD. For $8 though, it was a good way to spend a couple hours. My score: 7/10.
I then headed off to Blockbuster and rented two DVDs. Race to Witch Mountain was a movie that I wanted to see when it came out, but I just never got around to going. It was probably my favorite movie of the three today, and aside from not being all that believable at the start of the movie (not in a fiction way, but just in character behavior), it actually ended up delivering pretty well. I thought the movie was going to end with some open ends, but the clips played throughout the start of the credits took care of that. It most likely won’t be a purchase in the near future, but I could see myself getting it once it drops down to the $10 level or so. My score: 8/10.
My final movie of the night was Coraline, and it definitely wins the award for strangest. Once again it just happens to be a film adaptation of a book (which helps to explain so much), but it definitely had a dark element to it that was a little disconcerting. Of course, the director also did The Nightmare Before Christmas, so I guess strange just comes with his territory. Not a purchase, not a movie I ever think I’ll need to see again, but fun to watch while it lasted. My score: 6.5/10.