DVR recorded movie ratings #27

Once again, it's been a while, or so it seems. Been busy trying to get my job interviews in check and not confuse the directors and the job sites. There's 3 potential places, I say potential because all 3 have called me back for either a second interview or a working interview. So, at this point, one of them better hire me. Some of these movies I've seen about two weeks ago and some more recently.

• Exam: I had seen this movie about a year or so ago and it was playing again. My hubby and I both enjoyed it because it was more of a critical thinking suspense movie. 9 candidates are brought into a room for an exam which consists of a simple question, only the question is not really noticeable, at first. There are 2 rules, something to the affect of not tainting the exam and the other is not talking to the Invigilator or the guard on duty. Oh, plus, they have eighty minutes to come up with the response. The candidates don't know much about each other, except for their appearances. So, they come up with code names based on how they look. There is some threats, resistance, fights... breaking up among them, but yet no one leaves the room willingly, even after the guard escorts them out for breaking one of the two rules. It has it's twist moments and a-ha moments. I read some of the boards on http://www.imdb.com/exam and I'm not too thrilled by it, making it seem as if the movie was so-so and it wasn't really all that. I feel that they were/are wrong and I loved this movie. I wanted to see it again as soon as it was over to see if I could get the clues I had missed. In a way, it reminded me of http://www.imdb.com/FermatsRoom, which is another GOOD movie. I give this movie 5 Daisy- girls.
• The Master: Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Joaquin plays a navy veteran who returns back home and isn't himself. He feel disconnected and not happy of where his life is. He happens to come upon a boat while being out drunk. Next thing you know, Phillip is talking to Joaquin and apparently Joaquin had told Phillip that he was a sailor. At first the communication between them is a bit superficial without anyone wanting more than just work. Soon things change one night when they both start to talking about what Phillip does. He just so happens to be the Master of the Cause. He is very charismatic with his words and very charming to everyone around him. At first it seems as if he is just hypnotizing people and asking them questions about his past, but he wants it more as in to relive your past experiences and learn from them to become a better person. He gets called out on the Cause being a cult and his wife (Amy) is one to come to his defense. Damn, I want her as my wife. Joaquin soon involves himself So much into the Cause that he loses the little bit of faith he had in anything else, even himself. he becomes putty in Phillip's hands and Phillip is loving it. Showing others how he has helped Joaquin reclaim his life and how he is a new person. It's actually quite sad because we see Joaquin in the process of doing so and there is no one to stop him until Phillip decides Joaquin has had enough. The movie is long and monotone in a lot of pars. Overall, I give this movie 4 Daisy-girls, because I am still unsure of a few things in it.
• Prometheus: Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pierce, and a few others Okay, so I had read that this movie is supposed to be the prequel to the Alien franchise. Don't hit me, but I have only seen Alien Ressurection. I've seen parts of Alien and Aliens, but not one to claim I have actually seen the movies. This was another long movie and it was pretty interesting. It seemed to have started out good, but then it went all over the place. I don't know if it's cause it felt longer than it was, I was in the middle of making dinner, or what. Even my hubby pointed stuff out (WAY more than I did). There were just some stuff that was duh, other stuff was unexplainable, or not explained. As in, if they went to a planet/place that no other human had gone to and there is a perfectly lit tunnel with wires and such all over the place... Why The FUCK are you not going to question that or the fact of uhm...maybe we shouldn't be walking in this tunnel in the first place. Anyway, I can go on about the story, but in a nutshell here it is: Set in the future, undisclosed mission, find traces of early humanity, think human race came from here, they are wrong, aliens live there, aliens try and kill them and vice versa, struggle for survival. I give this movie 2 Daisy- girls.
• Zero Dark Thirty: Movie about the capture of Osama bin Laden by the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6. It was an interesting movie. It was also long, but it didn't feel as long as other movies. Sadly, it took 10 years to kill this motherfucker and we didn't even get a chance to glimp at this killer or even fucken torture him for what he had done. Anyway, I wish I had seen this movie much sooner. First of all I missed it in the theater, then it sat around on my DVR for quite some time because I didn't feel like watching a 2+ hour movie late at night. I give this movie 4, almost 5 Daisy-girls.
• Blackfish: This movie had been on my moviewatch list on http://www.imdb.com/Blackfish for quite some time. Then I saw that http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/Blackfish was going to air it on October 24, so I told my hubby to put that shit on the calendar. We didn't watch it right away, we waited until this past weekend and Oh MY FUCKEN GAWD! I don't like Seaworld as it is and this film made me hate it even more. Sadly, my cousin works/worked for them, but in the souvenir shop, but still within the family. About 10 years ago, she gave my mom and me passes to check it out, seeing as I had never been there. I wish I hadn't. There I was with my video camera handy and hoping (honestly REALLY hoping) that I was wrong about what I had read about this place. But, I wasn't wrong, I was right. We went to one of those aquarium where a wall is just a large window to look at the marine life and there at the bottom was a manatee, just floating, but not the usual floating you see. Some people asked the workers what was going on with him and they explained that it was tired. Hmm first smirk. Then we went to a dolphin show and there was a dolphin on the side making a lot of dolphin noises and half of its body was out of the water. Once again, when asked what was going on, the workers said it was greeting the audience and its trying to communicate with the people. Hmm again, second smirk. The day went on and there were more smirks, but anyway, overall experience, I did not enjoy it. I later mentioned this to my cousin and she said that the dolphin had died and the manatee was sick and may not recover. Okay, so going back to Blackfish, they had interviewed past killer whale trainers, past SeaWorld employees and they all pretty much said the same thing. That SeaWorld is just a front for mistreating the sea life animals. They were instructed what to say/do when questioned by the public, they lay claim that it was the trainers faults whenever they got mauled, bitten, killed by the killer whales. They tried to cover up the fact that Tilikum, the killer whale had never killed before and that it was all the trainers faults. There IS evidence that no killer whale has actually killed a human out in the wilderness. They showed the baby killer whales being separated from their moms and families and the families crying out to the babies for hours on end. It was a very informative, sad, disappointing, educating film. I dare anyone to see this and not feel affected by what they just witnessed. At the end of the film, it is noted that the filmmakers tried to get in contact with SeaWorld so that they may have their say, but SeaWorld  either declined/ or refused to be a part of the story. I give this film 5 Daisy-girls.