Weekly Reviews: March 8 to 15 (Despicable Me, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lone Ranger, Nightcrawler, The Judge, Equilbirium, 3:10 to Yuma)

I've decided that writing a review isn't fun, but rather time-consuming and hard to think of. The quality of my reviews it dropping too, because it's hard to start and finish a review effectively. My two best reviews were for Snowpiercer and Battleship. I am no longer going to give full reviews for every movie I watch, based on the above reasons. However, I will still give my thoughts on each movie. I'll write a weekly log of Movies I watched, with a brief summary of what I thought about it and what I would rate it. This week's log is Sunday to Sunday because I never reviewed Despicable Me which I watched as on a Sunday, but the rest of the logs will be Monday to Sunday, starting the following week. As for my movie ratings page, I'll leave it there but won't add the new movies. For the trailer ratings page, I'm done rating trailers because its too much of a bore and I'm never really sure how much I like a trailer anyway. I'll leave the trailer page up, but won't add new entries and I may eventually get rid of it. Occasionally, if a bunch of trailers that are for long-awaited movies come out within 8 days of each other, maybe I might put them together and rate them. Here's my first log.

Despicable Me

Despicable was certainly better the first time, but it was still an enjoyable, heartwarming, fun adventure with good characters and is one of the animated greats. Steve Carell and Jason Segel were cast quite well.
B+

The Grand Budapest Hotel
I had seen it one other time, and the quality did not decrease the second time. However, I still think it is incredibly overrated. The cast, dialogue, characters, moments were excellent, not to mention it may be the most original movie of the year. But that's all it has. It's actually not that funny, and it's very strange.
B

The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger may just be the most underrated film of 2013. Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer were perfectly cast and have great chemistry. The villains are good. The adventure is great, and there's plenty of fun to be had. Sure, it's not quite as badass western with a ton a guns and awesome action sequences, but not all westerns have to be. The Lone Ranger has plenty of adventure and it's great for all ages. We really need a franchise for it.
B+

Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler is bold, unique. Unique as in different. It's a dark crime-drama but has plenty of ligt moments and switches back and forth. Jack Gyllenhaal is incredible, making Lou Bloom one of the biggest creeps ever. And it's gritty, intense, and thrilling. There's plenty to like. But, it's also strange unique.
B+

The Judge
I haven't seen The Judge on any top 10 of 2014 lists, and I've read quite a few. And sure, it's not that good. But it's underrated. Downey Jr. and Duvall are effective, well-cast, and excellent together. The story is good as well, but the problem is that it doesn't focus on the case enough and it's too long.
B

Equilibrium
It had some good action and Christian Bale was a good lead, but that's all it had. The story and premise is awful, stupid, strange, and unrealistic. It's too dark, and there aren't any  fantastically awesome moments in it.
C+

3:10 to Yuma
Christian Bale and Russell Crowe have fantastic chemistry, give great performances, and make their characters the highlight of the movie. But, there isn't enough action, it's too slow, and the plot gets old quick.
B+