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I never saw the first one but I just watched Elizabeth: The Golden Age this weekend and it was thoroughly atrocious in my opinion. Definitely not a good weekend of movie watching:
La Vie en Rose: Wonderful singing but the movie itself was dreadfully boring. Standard musical biopic arc of tough childhood, sudden stardom, descent into bad behavior. But the singing was amazing. They should have just cut the rest and released it as a soundtrack.
Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts: All were unimpressive, most felt like art school finals where the goal was not overall coherence but display of animation techniques.
Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts: Not horrible but not amazing either. The best of the bunch wasn't really a short and the best short was amusing but nothing I'll remember in a year.
Rambo: Was convinced to finally see this because of some friends saying it was good butt kicking action. It wasn't. It was just gory gunfights. However, when I'm 60-something I want Stallone's forearms (the only muscles put on display) even if it means years of chemical inducement.
Untraceable: For a suspense thriller involving a lot of computers it wasn't horrible. They goofed badly in not taking into account the way the internet likely would have really reacted to such a scheme but if they had there wouldn't have been a movie.
Jumper: An interesting idea ruined horribly by two decisions: casting Hayden Christensen and the horrible hair on Samuel L. Jackson. The woodenness of Christensen almost makes me think his acting in the prequels wasn't Lucas's fault (except for the fact that everybody else in the prequels was horrible too). Played more like a high-end TV pilot/movie than a standalone big screen affair. The eye was definitely too much on the next movies that will surely come. After a very impressive go at the first Bourne movie, this is a second major face plant for director Doug Liman (the other being the truly reprehensible Mr. and Mrs. Smith).
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