Toy Story 3:
It’s Pixar. Â The closest thing they’ve come to making a bad movie, in my opinion, was Cars, and even that wasn’t so bad. Â The first two Toy Story movies were awesome, and I expect no less from this third installment. Â Seeing this in the theater would be a pretty safe bet, especially if you have kids. Â I’m going to try, but other plans may prevail.
Jonah Hex:
I managed to see a screening of this movie and I’m glad I did. Â It wasn’t horrible, but when I left the theater the thing foremost on my mind was all the potential they wasted. Â I had a similar feeling after seeing Ghost Rider, which is the comic book movie I would most liken Jonah Hex to. Â There were some scenes I enjoyed, but overall the film was… underwhelming. Â On top of the film being a moderately entertaining squandering of potential for a good story, you get Megan Fox. Â I’ve read so many people saying she is very talented and that she just needs the right material to showcase it. Â If that is true, then I submit that she needs to find someone else to pick her material, because she keeps making films that are clearly unable to showcase the talent she supposedly has. Â In this film she continues her career of passionless dialog delivery, inability to do accents, and blankly staring into the camera in a way that apparently turns on sections of the male population who prefer that a woman have nothing going on in her head and just look pretty. Â For me, it’s the vacant stare that ruins her beauty. Â I generally want to give people the benefit of the doubt, but after enough performances like this I’m going to have to assume that the people who say she has acting talent are full of shit and performances like this are all we are going to get out of Megan Fox. Â All in all, I’d have to say… wait for rental.