Following Ginger's lead....movie weekend at home alone started last night:
The Messenger (2015) - Not the Joan of Arc one. This is a british film so slow plodding dialogue laden story where you hope for something interesting. The nut of the plot is a guy (late 20's?) who sees and hears dead people asking him for help (think 6th sense grown up). He's been labelled crazy for awhile, but has to help these folks in order to make them go away. The storyline follows one guy who was killed and staged as suicide just outside the apt where his wife was waiting and Jack is trying to relay a message to her from her husband. If you want supernatural, this aint it. Not a comedy, romance, or date flick. Honestly, aside from the decent acting by the lead...overall waste of time. Only watch if you want to see someone tormented by such a 'gift' as others question if it is real or his imagination. Only females are his aldutering mom in flashbacks and pie faced sister. No boobs, you wouldn't want to see those anyways. 3/10
The Last Witch Hunter (2015) - Vin Diesel is a 1200's warrior with a group that hunts down the witch queen plaguing the populations. As he kills her, she curses him to never die (and rejoin his wife and kids). Fast forward to today, immortal Vin is working with the church to police out of control witches, while the general population has worked a truce with non-evil witchcraft. Michael Caine is his priest handler who spends most of the movie in a death coma. Elijah Wood plays the replacement priest handler pretty weekly. There's an attractive witch who helps Vin, and an actress playing the witch queen who is pretty attractive but you wouldn't know it with the makeup. Fire, swords, and Vin's usual monotone dialogues. Some action, nothing to write home about. No boobs. 5/10
Seventh Son (2014) - Surprising leads of Jeff Bridges as Master Gregory ("Spook"=witch/demon hunter) against Julianne Moore ("Mother Malkin" = witch queen). Bridges is annoying in his role, but I can see that's how he chose to play it. Julianne appears to be a great actress caught in a crap role. There are supporting actors (Ben Barnes as Tom Ward, the 7th son which implies some magic power but it's not really tapped into here; Alicia Vikander as Alice who could be hot but we don't get to see her that way). This is a case of movie yahtzee - mix a few known actors, a title that implies something and a plot that doesn't address it, throw in some special effects, ok sets, and crap dialogue and send it to print praying someone would want to watch it. Probably the best chance at decent boobs for the night, and no...no boobs. 4/10