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Hey everyone, for those of you wondering where my reviews have been, I’ll tell you.  I have stopped doing Veoh Reviews for a very long time now, and just recently moved to another site called nuDia.tv.  I do movie reviews called nuReview now, and you can head over to http://thenureview.wordpress.com and either read or watch my new reviews.

It doesn’t have the other video reviews I’ve done up there, because I’m starting the page fresh.  To watch my other video reviews, and other fun stuff, head over to nudia.tv, and select nuReview from the dropdown list, or search nuReview in the search bar for even more.  I’ve done quite a few there already, so check it out!

Now I’m not sure if the voters of MTV Movie Awards were mainly teenage girls, but I doubt it.  What I do know, is that they had the american public vote for Best Film of 2008.  Well that would have been just fine, except for the fact that they had voters vote in via text message.

Let’s think about that for a second.  Of the entire population of the United States, most texters are female, and the younger, the more common. So let’s just guess what movie is going to win for best movie.

Dark Knight was the obvious choice to win, even Iron Man could have won and I would be equally happy.  But Twilight? No, theres no way I’ll look back and say, “Oh, I remember the very day I saw Twilight in theaters.” You know why? Because it hasn’t even been a year since I saw the first in theaters, and I barely remember the experience.

So shut up, fangirls, your reign is over! Well, unfortunely that isn’t true, but it should be! Peace out!

4/5 Stars

The Last House on the Left has quite a few recognizable names in it’s surprising cast.  First of all, we have Garret Dillahunt.  Many of you will recognize him for his role as John Henry AKA Cromartie in the late popular FOX television show, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”.  Another big name in the movie is Tony Goldwyn.  You know, the bad guy from Ghost? And last but certainly not least is Sara Paxton.

This film centers around the life of Mari Collingwood and her family. Though I must say her parents were really the film’s heroes, but I’ll get to that in a second. Mari is kidnapped by ruthless criminals after befriending the criminal’s son, Justin.  Trying not to spoil anything, I will say this…the criminals have no sympathy, and do whatever they feel like, ending up brutally beating Mari.

Unknowingly, the criminals find solice at Mari’s parents house.  When Mari found her way back home, well…lets just say her parents were not too happy. This film is a remake of a film made in 1972 with the same title.  Apparently, the film was intended to go straight to DVD, but the initial screeners were so popular the film moved to theaters.

I really believe the film had some great acting, and the violence was pretty creative, with a good amount of gore.  Though as always, I have a problem with horror movies.  At a time, Horror films used to be in the category of “terrifying” but now I just call it “Horrible.” In the sense they do horrible things to each other.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve slowly been warming up to several different horror movies.  I see them in a new light now, even if that isn’t the best way to see them.  I do love Thrillers, which this film had a good variety of.  So all in all, this was an alright movie, I give it 4/5 stars.

4/5 stars

Jason Statham is back in action in “Transporter 3″  This time around, he is forced to take on a job by a ruthless villain played by Robert Knepper, more formerly known as the psychopath killer “T-Bag” in FOX’s hit show, Prison Break.  Knepper’s character, Johnson, put Frank on a tight leash, so if he went beyond 25 feet of his car, he would be killed.  

The idea of Frank tied to his car for the whole film might seem interesting at first, but after a few minutes you begin to realize that he is stuck with his car the whole film…So there is a lot of driving, I mean a lot.  Which wouldn’t necessarily mean a bad thing, but a majority of the driving is just driving, not racing, or dodging traffic, or even doing neat tricks with the car.  Don’t get me wrong, all of the above is in the film, but theres just as much normal driving as well, which made me personally feel ripped off.

As for the plot.  I am torn with the plot.  At times I think it’s going to be really smart and amazing, then at times I think it’s just predictable.  For the most part it just became predictable.  It was also very confusing, I may have missed something, but in the long run, there never seemed to be a reason why Johnson needed him to transport.  He kept changing the location ofver and over again, making Frank go in circles, and in the end, Frank just delivered the package BACK to Johnson.  So if I missed something, forgive me, but right now, I am just confused.  I was also dissapointed in some of the driving scenes, they were obviously sped up, which took away from the experience.

I loved the first film, I even loved the second film.  The third one? Well lets just say I liked it, it was simply just done differnetly than I imagined. Which is not a bad thing, I think what they did with it was very well thought out…to a degree.  It has it’s faults just as any film would, but I think a few stood out more than average.  To me, Jason Statham’s character is a bit like the hit TV show 24′s hero, Jack Bauer.  Not the personality, but the joy of seeing him in character again.  That feeling only came during the first few minutes of seeing him. Overall, a great movie on its own, but when trying to live up to the bar the first two set, this one strayed just below, peace out!