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The Boxtrolls (2014)
I loved Coraline but this made me uncomfortable...
Coraline is one of my favorite movies. It had a sort of dark comedy to it but this is definitely NOT in that category to me. This was just dark, bordering on sadistic.
I took my 7 year old son and thought this would be a good movie but instead several times I found myself questioning whether this was something he needed to be watching.
The evil characters in this movie are a bit too evil - one especially makes you feel like he could star in the cartoon version of Hostel. The cruelty to the trolls and the children was uncomfortable to watch. I think I laughed maybe once. Most times I was wincing or feeling like I was on the verge of tears. Things that were off putting to me: They show the evil villain swinging to kill the boys dad with a large wrench, a troll and later the boy are put in a cage, boy's dad chained upside down for a "decade" who keeps repeating "jelly" because his brain is not right, chasing a child with a bat and swinging to hit them several times, making jokes about killing the boy because he won't be still then aiming and firing the gun, trolls hit and kicked in their boxes, trolls put in a box crusher machine, and holding a child chained over a fire (even if the outcome didn't happen) was just too intense.
I don't want to even get started on the cheese eating episodes. That part could have played out funny but he was made to be so grotesque. Then when he stretches out his tongue across the screen to eat the cheese twice its just disgusting. Throwing leaches on his face to get the blood swelling out was just beyond strange. Plus the "hostel" guy was so thrilled to be get the leeches to throw on him in secret.
So not to be all negative I did like the animation. The box trolls are adorable.
Neighbors (2014)
So awful I had to waste a moment of my life to write this
I'm here to try to correct the blatantly incorrect rating of 6.8 stars which has to be some sort of hack of IMDb.
This movie was awful and that's sad because I really wanted to like it. I like Seth Rogen and Zach Effron but this just...sucked.
First off this should have been rated NC-17. It seemed every 5 minutes someone was having sex. The scenes are supposed to be humorous but it was just awkward and unnecessary. I think the only part of the movie where I did laugh was the flash back part when they showed the guys from Workaholics as past members of the fraternity. Too bad that was only 10 seconds of the whole movie. My boyfriend didn't laugh the entire time and actually fell asleep. I watched it all the way through hoping it would revive itself and instead it slowly withered and died. Other viewers are correct that the trailers showed the good parts so unless your watching it for free I wouldn't recommend it...even then I would only under extreme duress. You've been warned.
The Apparition (2012)
Wasted time I will never get back
I watched this movie and I'm sorry I did. It literally was a waste of time. I really had high hopes for this movie. Not once was I even really afraid. Also the plot didn't make sense. First you see they did an experiment that went wrong and then the guy is told it is him that is haunted but if that was the case then why did it continue to go after his girlfriend. And thats another thing. You don't care about the characters at all. There is no depth in the plot whatsoever. I don't even think you actually see any sort of apparition except when she escapes only to go to some sort of Walmart somewhere and crawls inexplicably into a tent and only then do you see several hands on her face :/ Then the credits roll...