Iron Man, 2008

Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark, an eccentric millionaire inventor who decides to fight the "bad guys" in the body armor he invents. Gwyneth Paltrow plays his assistant, Pepper Potts, the low-self-esteem nerdy assistant who lets down her hair, takes off her glasses and becomes a sex symbol. It isn't hard to notice that the only female characters in this movie are either sex symbols or victims. A good portion of the movie is spent showing Stark working on his inventions or driving his cars. Some cool CGI stuff.



If you are a comic book fan, you probably already saw the movie twice. But for everyone else, you can probably find a better use of 126 minutes.
Directed by Jon Favreau.


Melody's Stars: 0


Rating System:
*****=Worth Buying
****=Worth Seeing in Theaters
***=Worth Renting
**=Worth Watching on TV
*=Worth Watching if also cleaning house or doing paperwork
0=Total waste of time
Fail=So bad it doesn't even make the rating system

Jumper, 2008

This movie is so unremarkable that I know someone who accidentaly ended up watching it twice--I guess the first viewing must have "jumped" from his memory. If you are a Hayden Christensen fan who enjoys the paranormal then perhaps this is the movie for you. Otherwise it is probably not worth your time.



Staring Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson. Directed by Doug Liman.

Melody's Stars: 0


Rating System:
*****=Worth Buying
****=Worth Seeing in Theaters
***=Worth Renting
**=Worth Watching on TV
*=Worth Watching if also cleaning house or doing paperwork
0=Total waste of time
Fail=So bad it doesn't even make the rating system

Lakeview Terrace, 2008

I'm really not sure what the point of this movie was. If it was supposed to be a suspense/thriller movie, it failed. If it was supposed to be a horror movie, it failed. If it was supposed to be an insightful drama it also failed in doing that. If it was supposed to show how people can be really stupid sometimes, I guess it partly succeeded.



Directed by Neil LaBute. Stars Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, and Kerry Washington.

Melody's Stars: 0


Rating System:
*****=Worth Buying
****=Worth Seeing in Theaters
***=Worth Renting
**=Worth Watching on TV
*=Worth Watching if also cleaning house or doing paperwork
0=Total waste of time
Fail=So bad it doesn't even make the rating system

The Women, 2008

This movie:




is a remake of this movie:




Hopefully the original was better, because this movie really didn't need to be any longer than the preview.


Melody's Stars: 0


Rating System:
*****=Worth Buying
****=Worth Seeing in Theaters
***=Worth Renting
**=Worth Watching on TV
*=Worth Watching if also cleaning house or doing paperwork
0=Total waste of time