Thursday, August 30, 2012

Movies I Watched This Summer

At Home:
21 Jumpstreet
Cars (a couple of times)
Dude, Where's My Car?
Minority Report

In Theatres:
Amazing Spiderman
Ted


Of these movies that I've listed above, the one that surprised me most was Ted, a comedy that Seth McFarland of Family Guy wrote, directed, and starred in (or his voice did).  I didn't know what to expect when I went to see this movie, but the fact that it starred a living teddy bear made me a little skeptical.  I was shocked at how vulgar this film was for a film that features a teddy bear (can you imagine how many little kids begged their parents to talk them to the teddy bear movie?), but it was still surprisingly funny for an adult crowd and had a common real life conflict (keeping friends close as you grow up).  So despite the fact that it had a living teddy bear, it was a very funny movie that actually is somewhat realistic (don't we all have a "Ted" that we struggle to move on from as we grow up?).


On another note, the effects in this movie would have been impossible to imagine 10 years ago.  It is amazing how they could bring a teddy bear to life in a non animated film without it looking fake.