Posts tonen met het label Ted 2. Alle posts tonen
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vrijdag 17 september 2021

Netflix Friday - Volume 72

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.
 
Action: Batman Begins (2005)
After training with his mentor (Liam Neeson), Batman (Christian Bale) begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption.
 
Drama: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Through the innocent eyes of Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the eight-year-old son of the commandant (David Thewlis) at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
 
Comedy: Ted 2 (2015)
Newlywed couple Ted (Seth MacFarlane) and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he’s a person in a court of law.
 
Animation: Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
 
Romance: He’s Just Not That Into You (2009)
This Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior.
 
Horror: Dead of Night (1945)
Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales.
 
Science Fiction: Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Fearing that the actions of Superman (Henry Cavill) are left unchecked, Batman (Ben Affleck) takes on the Man of Steel, while the world wrestles with what kind of a hero it really needs.
 
Crime: Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster (Robert De Niro) returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
 
Thriller: Double Jeopardy (1999)
A woman (Ashley Judd) framed for her husband’s (Bruce Greenwood) murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can’t be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.
 
Documentary: Untold: Crime and Penalties (2021)
They were the bad boys of hockey – a team bought by a man with mob ties, run by his 17-year-old son, and with a rep for being as violent as they were good the story of the Danbury Trashers.
 
Family: Paddington (2014)
A young Peruvian bear (Ben Wishaw) travels to London in search for a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

donderdag 14 januari 2016

Top 5 Thursday: Movie Cameos of 2015

Still looking back on 2015 as a movie year, I’ve started listing the best cameos in movies of that year. It was pretty tough, I had to dig deep. But here are my five favorite cameos of 2015.

5. 50 Cent (“Spy”)
The rapper has been in the acting game for a while now, but in “Spy” he plays himself while on a way to a concert near to the end of the film. Mostly alongside Miranda Hart’s character Nancy.
 
 
4. Daniel Radcliffe and Marisa Tomei (“Trainwreck”)
Radcliffe and Tomei show up in the movie within the movie. Amy Shumer’s character and John Cena’s Steven go and see it. It’s an Indie parody called “The Dogwalker”.
 
 
3. Hugh Jackman (as Wolverine in “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”)
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon had no idea if he was going to be able to snag Hugh Jackman to voice a picture of Wolverine in Rachel’s room. But when he told him about the scene, Jackman signed on.
 
 
2. Liam Neeson (“Entourage” and “Ted 2”)
Although I wasn’t a huge fan of either of the movies, Liam Neeson makes it all a lot more fun. In “Entourage” he does something we all want to do: he gives Ari Gold the finger. In “Ted 2” he buys a box of US cereal Trix and is concerned it’s just for kids. Really funny.
 
 
1. Mark Hamill (“Kingsman: The Secret Service”)
Mark Hamill pops up as professor Arnold, a scientist that the Kingsmen send Lancelot to rescue. This mission doesn’t go that well though. And Professor Arnold ends up, well…. He explodes.
 
 
They Almost Made the Top 5: Stan Lee (“Avengers: Age of Ultron”), Nemo (“Inside Out”)

dinsdag 8 december 2015

100 Movie Challenge 2015 - # 156: Ted 2

Director: Seth MacFarlane
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 115 minutes
Year: 2015
Starring: Seth MacFarlane, Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth, Patrick Warburton, John Slattery, Morgan Freeman, Sam Jones, Giovanni Ribisi, John Carroll Lynch, Liam Neeson

Description: Newlywed couple Ted (Seth MacFarlane) and Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

Review: “Ted” was a great comedy and although I loved it I wasn’t excited about a sequel. Comedy sequels don’t have a great reputation. “Ted 2” is no exception.
“Ted 2” brings back Seth MacFarlane and his cursing, drug using teddy bear. This time ted has to proof in a court of law that he is a person and not an object. Together with his best friend John they work their way to a happy ending.
There is still a lot of chemistry between Mark Wahlberg and the animated bear and there are jokes. But it’s more of the same and it’s never as funny as the first film. Mila Kunis has been replaced by Amanda Seyfried, who I can appreciate for her self-mockery in “Ted 2”. The movie also has some awesome cameos.
“Ted 2” is still a fun comedy, but the movie is way too long and it offers us nothing new.

Rating: 2,5/ 5

zondag 1 februari 2015

Movie Trailer Sunday (175)

Here are this weeks trailers.

Ted 2
Description: Newlywed couple Ted (Seth MacFarlane) and Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Director: Seth MacFarlane
Starring: Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Mark Wahlberg, Dennis Haysbert, Amanda Seyfried, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Jessica Barth
Trailer: Trailer "Ted 2"
Comment: I just hope this is just as funny, please be funny!

Madame Bovary
Description: Emma (Mia Wasikowska) has always dreamt of a finer life than the one she has on her father's pig farm, and marrying Mr. Charles Bovary (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) would make this possible. However, her new life fails to engage her, nor realize her dreams. Feeling trapped, Emma seeks solace with other men including a passionate kindred spirit named Leon (Ezra Miller) and a wealthy nobleman, the Marquis (Logan Marshall-Green). A series of affairs and the temptation of living above her means lead Emma down a path that leaves her immersed in debt and turned into a desperate, needy and emotionally impulsive being. Confronted with her many mistakes, her guilt consumes her, eventually leading to her demise.
Director: Sophie Barthes
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Paul Giamatti, Mia Wasikowska, Ezra Miller, Logan Marshall-Green, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Laura Carmichael
Comment: Yeah, want to see this right away!

The Fantastic Four
Description: Four young scientists achieve superhuman abilities through a teleportation experiment gone haywire. They must now use these abilities to save the world from an uprising tyrant.
Director: Josh Trank
Starring: Jamie Bell, Tim Blake Nelson, Kate Mara, Toby Kebbell, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, Reg E. Cathey
Comment: I'm skeptical. I have nothing against Michael B. Jordan, but isn't it weird that he is playing Johnny Storm, when Sue Storm (his sister) is played by Kate Mara? I think it's weird.

Welcome to Me
Description: A year in the life of Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig), a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
Director: Shira Piven
Starring: Linda Cardellini, James Marsden, Alan Tudyk, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joan Cusack, Wes Bentley, Kristen Wiig
Comment: I just love Kristen Wiig

Child 44
Description: A disgraced member of the military police investigates a series of nasty child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Starring: Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Vincent Cassel, Paddy Considine , Jason Clarke, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman
Comment: Good cast, looking forward to seeing this.