I am an Ashton Kutcher fan. It’s hard for me to disrespect an actor who can play both serious and comedic roles in an equally convincing manner. Maybe I also enjoyed this movie because Kutcher’s character is close to my heart. He’s a womanizer who uses his prey for money and places to stay – a “social drifter” is what his self-affected label proclaims. I admire his carefree lifestyle, his willingness to bounce from place to place… and of course his way with the ladies. But all that aside, the storyline of meeting his match and the eventual ending that defies Hollywood movie logic, is what made this one a real stand-out in my mind.

I’ve been waiting awhile to get the chance to write a review on Pandorum. It has been widely rejected by critics for its lack of distinction, pinned as a copycat of other sci-fi horror films, and what have you. But the critics are wrong. Pandorum has an excellent storyline that is backed up by phenomenal set design and convincing special effects. Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid aren’t the greatest actors known to man, but they do the job of embodying a two-man flight crew faced with the sudden mystery and danger of waking up on a derelict spacecraft. The film is packed with heavy doses of suspense, and a great plot twist at the finale – it kept me guessing the whole time, and I’m good with plot twists. Four!

Like most movies about drugs, this one is best watched while you’re on drugs. Being sober when I saw it didn’t do much for me, but I can see how it might be interesting if you were really high. The visuals of this film are what make it unique. The original film was outlined, traced, colored in and animated using rotoscoping techniques to give it vibrant coloration and an almost computerized, vector-based graphic quality. I can imagine that the book (off of which this movie is based) might be a good read, but the movie has several slow-moving segments, and it seems to drag. Not the greatest thing since sliced bread.

When this first came out, I really wanted to see it. It’s been several years, and now I kind of wish I hadn’t. The story is compelling and the acting is good, but there’s just one problem – it doesn’t make sense. For a plot that’s supposed to take place in pretty much the present day and in modern times, there’s an element of fantasy that I just wasn’t willing to accept. It’s almost magical how the main character dies and is transported through time, having the ability to change things with only his mind. It just didn’t work for me. On the scale, it’s a 1.5, so… too bad.

Sam Rockwell is a great character actor, but he’s usually reserved for being the sidekick, playing minor roles and having a strong back-up presence on screen. In Moon, he’s the leading man, and is actually the only human being who appears for more than a few minutes of the entire film. Matter of fact, he appears more than once – at the same time! But that’s all I can say without giving away too much of the premise of this unique space mystery. The discovery of what is really going on as Sam’s character maintains a solar energy harvesting plant on the moon is what separates this sci-fi film from its counterparts. An interesting watch that gets a 3.5 on our flaming scale of awesomeness.

I’m convinced that Demi Moore has an uncontrollable compulsion to show her boobies to people all the time. I’m surprised she hasn’t gotten arrested for public nudity, because it seems like every movie she does involves her being practically naked for 90 minutes or more. G.I. Jane finds her attending Navy Seal training as a politician’s ploy to give women equality in the military. We all know that women and men are not equal. Men are stronger and women are smarter, everyone knows that. So the idea that women should be in combat and that they can make it through special forces training is retarded in the first place – but that’s besides the point. Every chance she gets in this movie, Demi Moore is naked. Whenever she can’t be naked, she wears as few clothes as possible so that there’s always a chance she can become really naked really quick. This movie is nothing special.

This off-beat 1970′s comedy joins Harold, a strange young man who enjoys going to funerals and pretends to commit suicide for fun. Soon he meets Maude, an equally quirky old woman, and he quickly becomes smitten with her. I thought it was weird for a guy to fall in love with an 80-year-old woman, but the movie was pretty funny and had some very odd and unique situational humor. Plus you should watch it just for the fact that Harold’s parents are rich and so the house they live in is ridiculous.