Backdraft

Steph....I liked this movie. Its a must see for all firefighter enthusiasts. Billy Baldwin and Kurt Russell are firefighting brothers who lost their father to a fire at a young age and are constantly fighting with each other. With the help of a fire investigator (Robert De Niro) they are trying to solve the mystery of an arsonist who is setting back draft fires and targeting specific people. This was very entertaining and I didn't cry my eyes out at the end like I did with Ladder 49.

Kris.... This has always been one of my favorite films and after watching it again it really holds up. Really if you have never seen it you must check it out.

The Philadelphia Story

Steph...Seeing as I have the plague and need to rest,during my waking hours when the NyQuil hasn't kicked in yet, I've been watching movies. I've seen this movie before and watched it again last night. The Philadelphia Story is a romantic comedy staring Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, and Carey Grant. The story is about Hepburn's character who is getting married much to the dismay of her first husband (Grant). So with the help of a tabloid news reporter (Stewart) Grant sets out to shake up Hepburn wedding plans, but things get crazy when Stewart falls in love with Hepburn. What's a girl to do on the eve of her wedding? All I have to say is that this movie was made 70 years ago and is still more watchable and entertaining than anything Hollywood's produced romantic comedy wise in the past few years (the only exception being 500 days of Summer, that movie was great). So if you have the chance you need to check this movie out!

The Last Station

Steph...This movie was interesting. This was about the last days of Tolstoy, the Tolstory movement, and the relationship between Tolstoy and his wife. It moves kind of slow but the relationship between Helen Mirren's character (Tolstoy's wife) and Christopher Plummer's character (Tolstoy) was fun to watch. Plus, I have a new phrase to bug Kris with, "Am I still your little chicken?" Haha

Kris... This was a good movie but it was very slow at times. James McAvoy is slowly becoming one of my fav actors. He is really good here.Good acting make this worth seeing. Plus i love period pieces.

Heat

Steph...So this movie is nothing new. Its about 15 years old. But I had never seen it and I think Kris was about to revoke my movie card because of this. So if your lame like me and haven't seen it, this movie is about a bank robbery that goes wrong. Well that's what its supposed to be about but really its just an excuse to watch a De Niro and Pacino stand off against each other. Plus, it has a young sexy Val Kilmer in it. That's good enough for me! This movie is definitly a classic!

Kris.... Heat is one of the best movies of the 90's. The only thing that could be better about it is the length. At almost 3 hours, the director really should have cut out a half hour. The whole sub plot about Picino and his wife and her daughter could have been cut. Although the daughter is played by a young Natalie Portman. She is good in the role but cutting out that half hour would have made this movie much tighter crime drama. Having said that the acting is amazing.De Niro, Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight,Ashley Judd and Tom Sizemore before he went all crazy. Heat is a 9 out of 10 and every one should check it out.

Before the Fall

Steph...Napola A.K.A Before the Fall is a German movie about two boys at a training camp for the SS. One is the son of a high ranking Nazi and the other one is from a poor family who only got into the training camp because he is a great boxer. This movie was really good at depicting the harsh life at Nazi training camp,especially the way they try to train the boys to have no pity. This movie was sad but is definitely worth watching.

Thirst

Steph.... No, this is not that vampire movie. And I couldn't find a picture of the real one. This movie stars Lacey Chabert from Party of Five, and is about good looking people stranded in the desert making stupid decisions, that inevitably get them killed. Everything happens exactly the way you think it will. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't great. Its something to watch if you got nothing else to do.

Kris... Thirst is a pretty forgettable movie. I only really rented it because i like Lacey Chabert a lot and she is pretty good here. But like Steph said the people in these movies always make the worst decisions. Just remember this, If you are driving in the middle of the desert and a coyote runs in front of your truck. Run it over instead of turning your truck over a cliff. Enough said.

The Final Destination

Steph....So this movie isn't exactly new. It came out about a year ago and Kris and I just watched it on HBO the other night. All I can say is I am so glad I did not pay money to see this. The first movie in the Final Destination franchise was good, because it was new and interesting. By the time you get to the fourth one you know what to expect. Guy has vision of a horrific disaster and gets himself and friends away from it in the nick of time. Only to have the friends die one by one is some horrible way because they were supposed to die in the disaster in the first place, blah, blah, blah. If your bored and there is absolutely nothing else on, then watch it. Otherwise, don't waste your time.

Kris... I always liked these movies just so i can see 6 or 7 more ways pretty people could be killed. This instalment is pretty bad. In the future if they want to make more than they need to get some known actors and put some money into the budget. I have no more to say about this forgettable film.