Since the Oscars are Sunday night, you'd think there would be a lack of good films in movie theaters this weekend to boost up Oscar ratings. However, like this year's best picture category there are plenty of movies to see before we all celebrate the year's best on Sunday.
I haven't been to the movies in a while (Sherlock Holmes was the last flick I saw) there are way too many options to choose from. Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland opens this weekend and so does the film Brooklyn's Finest (which I hardly know anything about.) Leo DiCaprio's Shutter Island has been out for three weeks and is still the top contender at the box office, while the Bruce Willis/Tracy Morgan comedy Cop Out and Nickelodeon's Percy Jackson are also popular choices.
Alice and Wonderland is like a trip down memory lane. The animated Disney version with the famous "Un-birthday Song", brings backs so many memories of my childhood and how my brother and I would beg our mom for toys because it was over "un-birthday." 364 days a year to get presents sounds awesome.
I couldn't bring myself to watch that version again, too many songs and way to cheesy. The kid in me is thriving to see Tim Burton's remake but if I succumb to fairy tales I should just see Percy Jackson since it will be far less crowded than Alice, since it's been out for a few weeks. I'm not too much into crime dramas or any type of crime film so I'm not the least bit interested in seeing Brooklyn's Finest or Cop Out although I'm a bit curious to see the chemistry Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis bring to the big screen.
That's leaves only Shutter Island left and I've heard nothing but good reviews about it. It's another DiCaprio-Scorsese collaboration (the fourth one to be exact) and these two seem to know how to make anything turn to box office gold. It's a psycho-thriller which I love so I'll be spending my $12 Saturday night staring at Leo for 2 hours (which I don't mind by the way) trying to help solve a murder mystery.
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