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Adventureland
So, first off, the trailer for this movie lies. They make it out to be the spiritual sequel to Superbad. It isn't. In fact, a lot of the gags in the trailer were cut from the movie. This is actually much more of a drama, with people falling in and out of love, casual summer flings, people dealing with heartbreak, job loss, death, crappy jobs, crappy customers, alcoholism, infidelity, and abandoned dreams. Secondly, and this might be due to the fact that Hollywood always casts adults as teenagers, but except for the drinking and driving, I really couldn't tell that the cast had just graduated from college not high school. Everybody looks young and has
crappy summer jobs and looks like they shop at American Apparel. Thirdly, Kristen Stewart; I am on the fence, is her looking pensive and not saying much and biting her lip and running her hands through her hair, is that good acting or not acting at all? Aside from all of that, I quite enjoyed the movie, it was very real, peoples lives in shades of gray, not black and white.
Replay
This book quite simply takes the Groundhog Day premise (go to sleep/die one night, and wake up the same day and live it all over again) and stretches it out to its fullest extent. The characters in this book die in their fifties and then wake up 25 years earlier. This way they get to live lifetimes all over again, any mistakes they might have made they can retry, they can play the stock market, they can hook up with floozies, they can try to change the course of history. Then they die and wake up again 25 years earlier, nothing changed. They dispair, and live a whole different life, try to really make a difference...and they die and wake up 25 years earlier. Excellent.
Sunshine Cleaning
A perfectly fine movie about a poor family trying to run a crime scene clean up service. People try to work out their problems, deal with past failures, raise children, all the while cleaing up after dead people. None of the problems are too quirky and Amy Adams and Emily Blunt manage to look not too adorable and suitably worn down.
Wonder Woman
Quite a lot of fun. I admire how they managed to fit the whole origin story and huge battle sequences in 70 minutes and none of it seemed rushed or confusing. So many people have a hard time writing anything interesting about Wonder Woman without making her boring. And this Wonder Woman was violent, I imagine a lot had to be cut to 
make it PG-13.
Old Man's War
Is it wrong that I really really liked that they address the title of the book on the first sentence of the book? This is basically a space-army adventure and is quite fun. However, I didn't like that while most of the main characters were "old," none of the felt old, they all felt kind of hollow actually, there wasn't much character in any of the characters, none of their personalities felt very lived in.
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
This show doesn't have enough of a budget to have good looking cyborgs fight each other and blow things up every week. So, halfway through the middle of the second season, they decided to take a different tack and show what a toll it would take and how depressing it would be to have to endlessly fight the future, be paranoid about who is and who isn't a killer robot in disguise and have everybody you love around you die one at a time. While that is an interesting take on the Terminator saga, and pays due to the fact that Sarah Connor's name is in the title, it has two problems. First off, it was pretty boring and depressing. It is kind of hard to care about normal things when everybody will die in the nuclear apocalypse in a few years, and you don't want any friends if just knowing them puts them in danger of being shot in the head and having their voice copied to try to kill John Connor. This means you can't really have much of an interesting extended cast of characters. Secondly, it focuses too much attention on the mopey, weepy humans, when the robots are way funner. Not only can they say serious things and have them be funny, (unlike the completely lacking in sense of humor human cast) they also tend to kick and explode things. So those episodes that focus more on the mental toll holding Judgment Day at bay can cost unfortunately just show in contrast how much more awesome the episodes where the cute robots get to shoot things are.
So, first off, the trailer for this movie lies. They make it out to be the spiritual sequel to Superbad. It isn't. In fact, a lot of the gags in the trailer were cut from the movie. This is actually much more of a drama, with people falling in and out of love, casual summer flings, people dealing with heartbreak, job loss, death, crappy jobs, crappy customers, alcoholism, infidelity, and abandoned dreams. Secondly, and this might be due to the fact that Hollywood always casts adults as teenagers, but except for the drinking and driving, I really couldn't tell that the cast had just graduated from college not high school. Everybody looks young and has
crappy summer jobs and looks like they shop at American Apparel. Thirdly, Kristen Stewart; I am on the fence, is her looking pensive and not saying much and biting her lip and running her hands through her hair, is that good acting or not acting at all? Aside from all of that, I quite enjoyed the movie, it was very real, peoples lives in shades of gray, not black and white.Replay
This book quite simply takes the Groundhog Day premise (go to sleep/die one night, and wake up the same day and live it all over again) and stretches it out to its fullest extent. The characters in this book die in their fifties and then wake up 25 years earlier. This way they get to live lifetimes all over again, any mistakes they might have made they can retry, they can play the stock market, they can hook up with floozies, they can try to change the course of history. Then they die and wake up again 25 years earlier, nothing changed. They dispair, and live a whole different life, try to really make a difference...and they die and wake up 25 years earlier. Excellent.Sunshine Cleaning
A perfectly fine movie about a poor family trying to run a crime scene clean up service. People try to work out their problems, deal with past failures, raise children, all the while cleaing up after dead people. None of the problems are too quirky and Amy Adams and Emily Blunt manage to look not too adorable and suitably worn down.
Wonder Woman
Quite a lot of fun. I admire how they managed to fit the whole origin story and huge battle sequences in 70 minutes and none of it seemed rushed or confusing. So many people have a hard time writing anything interesting about Wonder Woman without making her boring. And this Wonder Woman was violent, I imagine a lot had to be cut to make it PG-13.Old Man's War
Is it wrong that I really really liked that they address the title of the book on the first sentence of the book? This is basically a space-army adventure and is quite fun. However, I didn't like that while most of the main characters were "old," none of the felt old, they all felt kind of hollow actually, there wasn't much character in any of the characters, none of their personalities felt very lived in.
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
This show doesn't have enough of a budget to have good looking cyborgs fight each other and blow things up every week. So, halfway through the middle of the second season, they decided to take a different tack and show what a toll it would take and how depressing it would be to have to endlessly fight the future, be paranoid about who is and who isn't a killer robot in disguise and have everybody you love around you die one at a time. While that is an interesting take on the Terminator saga, and pays due to the fact that Sarah Connor's name is in the title, it has two problems. First off, it was pretty boring and depressing. It is kind of hard to care about normal things when everybody will die in the nuclear apocalypse in a few years, and you don't want any friends if just knowing them puts them in danger of being shot in the head and having their voice copied to try to kill John Connor. This means you can't really have much of an interesting extended cast of characters. Secondly, it focuses too much attention on the mopey, weepy humans, when the robots are way funner. Not only can they say serious things and have them be funny, (unlike the completely lacking in sense of humor human cast) they also tend to kick and explode things. So those episodes that focus more on the mental toll holding Judgment Day at bay can cost unfortunately just show in contrast how much more awesome the episodes where the cute robots get to shoot things are.3 OMG SUPER POPULAR | Show Off