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One Sentence: It is like your guilty pleasure TV show.

Rated: PG-13

Release Date: 24-May-2013

Nudity: None

This movie franchise has turned into a big budget TV show with a lot of characters that you like, and really they can’t really do any wrong.  There is some drama between some of them, there is a conflict that has to be resolved by the end of the episode, and you know it is going to get solved.  Then there might be some bigger arc that is going across multiple episodes.  It doesn’t make you mad, it isn’t bad, and there are some parts that still blow you away.  You don’t tell your friends you love it, but the secret is they love it too.

Fast And Furious 6 is another installment of a movie franchise that won’t die and based on the audience reaction and the quality of the movie shouldn’t die.  Why not print cash, if the product is good enough I can get behind cash machining your franchise.  Justin Lin and Universal got the formula down and haven’t skimped on the costs when they needed to.  They keep the quality up and it really still works after 6 installments.  Is it award worthy?  No.  Do you have to first weekend this movie?  No.  Will it be on FX for the next 20 years, probably.  But there is something great about these movies and 6 still keeps up, the fun, the cars, the booties, and the crazy action.

It’s a pretty easy check to see if you will like this one.  Did you like any of the other ones except for 3?  Then you will like this one, and it is totally worth going to see in the theater, why not.   Just go during the day and you won’t run into anyone else and have to admit you paid full price to see the 6th movie in a franchise in the theater.

One Sentence: You better have seen The Avengers.

Rated: PG-13

Release Date: 03-May-2013

I can’t really tell you to go see this movie or not.  That doesn’t matter, you would not listen to me anyway.  If I said this was the worst movie ever created and that you literally get punched in the face and your mother gets shot if you go to this movie, you would still go.  So let’s skip most of the review and talk about what we really need to talk about.  How you should prepare and what version you should watch this in.  That’s the only important things you need to know.

So if you know who Iron Man is, and that his suit is red and yellow and hes rich, you only need to see The Avengers for any references to this movie.  If you want to be fully up on all the references you might want to watch Iron Man 2 as well, but it is a minor point that you might not understand fully.  You don’t need to see any other of the Marvel movies around The Avengers.  They are both good movies, so it’s not like it’s a tough task to satisfy.  Catching both of those movies should make you fairly satisfied with Iron Man 3.

Now the format, I know this movie is available in 3-D, and I know some of you think that 3-D is awesome.  It is not awesome for Iron Man 3.  It actually made me dislike the movie quite a bit.  It made the movie much darker, the feeling more drab, and the overall emotion and danger that was attempting to be portrayed was taken down a notch by the muted grey colors.  It felt like a rain cloud over the whole movie and it just didn’t have that brightness and color that the previous Iron Man’s did.  I would take off my glasses during parts and it felt instantly different.  I should of just watched it blurry, it would of been better.

If I can do anything for you with this review, it is to tell you, DO NOT GO SEE THIS MOVIE IN 3-D.  Help stop these awful conversions and releases and make 3-D go away for another 30 years.  You will have a much better movie experience and it is cheaper too.

One Sentence: The movie is kind of like it’s poster.

Rated: R

Release Date: 12-Apr-2013

Nudity: Rosario Dawson full nudity.

Throughout the years I have learned to love Danny Boyle, even Sunshine.  He is in your face, with music, lights, sound, and story.  It is all pushed out in front of you and he does not shy away from what he is trying to do.  His movies feel like they should be worse than they are.  He is so extreme that you think that this movie should not work, but they usually being great.  Trance is another one of these movies that I think should not work, but does.

Trance is an odd movie, part love story, part art history, and part heist movie, it has to do a lot to get it’s point across.  For the most part it does this well, walking a thin line between reality, and the world of fantasy and memory.  The story is very layered and gets pulled apart slowly, leaving you wondering what is happening and what is going to happen next.  You know this movie is going to be one with an ending that is shocking or not what you expected and I think Trance delivers on that.  Overall it is a satisfying story…but.

It has that hint of Danny Boyle being Danny Boyle, which as I have said makes you feel like this shouldn’t be a good movie.  Trance I think is a little bit too much Sunshine and not enough Slumdog Millionaire.  It is good, it is quality, it is interesting, and it has some scenes that make you think, that a joke is being played on you, that is only funny to Danny Boyle.  It leaves you questioning the integrity of the rest of the movie.  It is classic Danny Boyle.  Which as I have said, I have learned to love, but it might just be a little too much Danny Boyle for everyone else.