good evening and welcome to through the lens brought to you by the fine folks here at the belmont media center i am and i am joined as always by the esteemed mike higgins where we're going to be what we're going to review a few movies that you can see in theaters now and we'll have a little bit of discussion later on as well but we're going to kick things off with something movie that just opened the day we're today the day that we're taping i got to see a sneak preview of it  which would be two guns starring denzel washington and a local actor mark wahlberg marky mark who these two these two guys play actually undercover agents  for different agencies who are actually working together but don't realize they don't know that each other or are undercover agents they're both on a mission to try to take down the same drug cartel kingpin  each trying to set the other one up while they're doing it and they again they just don't know that they're both undercover agents as well denzel washington plays robert trench a bobby b means he is  agent and mark wahlberg plays marcus stigma and whose nickname is stick he works for naval intelligence and then as i said they are trying to  frame each other for a bank robbery that is also going to help bring down the drug cartel and then the madness ensues now i'm not going to get into too much detail about the rest of the plot you'll certainly want to notables in there as well very good play between denzel and mark wahlberg i thought it's kind of you know you kind of get a twist not a twist but like a you know lethal weapon type of buddy cop movie vibe going because they do have one liners back and forth every now and then there's a lot funnier than i expected which you certainly get to see those buddy cop sort of movies you know but you know mix in there trying to you know clear their own names because they're their own agencies try to you know set them up and and take them out when they're not doing what they think they should be doing and cetera et cetera they bragged on to a naval base at one point in time which is which is kind of fun you know i don't recommend doing that in real life no no no that's not fairly not in real life no t in the movie it was it was ok and it was the only time in the movie that there was any sort of response to all of the gunfire in the movie they were in residential areas all the time guns being shot left and right and you never see a cop or never hear a siren and i don't know apparently there aren't any cops in wherever they are you know work even when they buy a condo in a base well know the navy base people or people are running after him and chasing him all over the place but anywhere other than that no police presence whatsoever but i digress again very fun kind of it is not incredibly fast paced but it's still it's still enjoyable especially you know the play between the two characters is very good you know they do end up becoming friends throughout the course of the movie and it's nice to see and either way i would recommend it if you're if you're a fan of either denzel or mark wahlberg definitely i would say that you know you'll enjoy this and if you're just a fan of that type of movie like lethal weapon or you know those sorts of things you'll probably enjoy that as well so i would say you know it's going to be in theaters for a while definitely it's worth checking out to to see them playing off each other i works out really well i think so is that all your bunch and i know the funky bunch is not is not in it with the funky bio he is just as mikey he is just well he is just mark walberg didn't even bill him as marky mark anymore which is unfortunate set excuse me my fault now i know mike has also seen of course that's the only movie i've gotten to see recently due to my new work schedule but i know you've seen a couple of movies as well so i am not sure which one you wanted  iran man three or iron man if you don't say the cool way man of steel this one was kind of the underrated one that went under the radar india's it is a record setting performance in that it's the sixth time that hug two or three years after x three the last stand so there's been a couple of expending movies in between there one was x men origins wolverine another one was xpand first class this one is a direct jump off to the last full x men movie  where the kind of aftermath of what happened the end of that jean grey something happened while she's dead spoiler the movie five years old if you haven't seen it by now i'm sorry who was i who was wolverine's true love shows up in kind of a spiritual role kind of like he you know he is is love these dreams about her and he has visions of our entire premise the movies will ring is immortal as he always  in everything and this would be x men from the last stand so i'd be very happy that would be the movie that this is a sequel to he's living in the canadian wilderness and he gets tracked down by a japanese young girl who wants her to come once in the come on the meet to meet her master her or her benefactor who wants to say goodbye a new wolverine a past life turns out they met in a japanese prison camp and wolverine logan saved this japanese officer from the immortal himself because he's rich industrialist over in says no and the plot ensues this movie is entirely set in japan so there are no other really recognizable actors there are no other x men that show up in this movie there are a couple of the mutants the mutant viper shows up as a doctor scientist woman who suppresses wolverine's healing power he's very weak through this through this entire movie as he's helping this this industrials granddaughter get away from the yakkers of the japanese mob together it's it's it's an intriguing movie because it's it's more thoughtful than i expected it would be it really examines what this guy has gone through with everyone he loves dies that's the price of immortality is that you outlive everyone is visions of jean who's dead keep saying come join me come join me come join me you know what you or i can't stay with you and the they when he wants to be with her in another existence and he can't be suit of armor that ends up slicing off wolverine's very famous claws which you can see in the picture behind us and they were placed by claws been out of bone which are kind of actually wild to see i liked it it wasn't as action packed as i thought it would be in expecting more of an x man kind of fun movie and this was dark kind of brooding which actually was nice and it was it was nice after man of steel which i have real mixed reactions to i kind of liked it when i was watching it as i thought about of thought about it more as a misfire i think this one is kind of a sequel standalone it's a sequel standalone movie i think it does well it is worth noting that right now filming in montreal is x men days of future past which is going to kind of unite the young x men which they had which was the first quite a first class with the older x men and this movie bleeds into that you probably don't need to see it to see to set up for x men days of future pa is a marvel movie right so you really do need to stay through the credits thankfully for those of us that like to go to sleep after seeing a movie and at night you don't want to stay till ten thirty waiting for an hour and half a credits to come out they put the scene halfway through the credits and that's when you see a couple friends show up and i'm not going to spoil it by saying no but that scene is a direct jump off into days of future past and it made me very excited to see the movie was probably the best marvel post credits during credits scene sense that one of the end of the original iron man movie where they where they actually set up the of the beginning of the avengers initiative where you saw nick fury command you had seen the entire movie and mentioned him and he shows up this was another short little scene but it's definitely worth worth of your fan of the expo and you'll you'll really really enjoy it all in all i like this one it's a top grossing movie right now i don't think it'll last up there too long but you know in  could have down the road out about rights and everything as we are closer to that but i think they do it well i think they they build these characters up very well the the movies are all different you know and you have to explain quite a bit the the entire x men universe in terms of movie making in a way has been pretty successful franchise yeah you know because i mean they've they've got quite a few i mean even more than i'd say the avengers overall for overall movies under their belt for that entire they do universe going on right now they do and i think they were smart by going to x men first class because they introduced magneto professor x and all these characters as young actors right and they got lucky because they cast jennifer lawrence as mystique and so now she's going to be in the next one so you've got that where you've got these young characters where you can tell the stories you've got a cast that's getting older and expensive you can tell them with the younger actors but you can also bring there's going to be obviously time travel and so you can bring both cast together much like  you know if you get professor x played by patrick stewart they did that and when they handed off the original cast of star trek the next generation they had a kind of a right across over where kirk and paccard been the same thing this is very similar to that and i think it's i think it's well done i'm looking forward to do i'm not a big x men family more of a batman fan but i've seen all the movies and enjoyed them and i'm looking forward to days of future past quite a bit based on what what they've done with these characters and where they've gone with it and it was an enjoyable that i'm sure you were pretty excited to see i was excited to see you know i have i have a child last show we did i reviewed monsters university because we brought our four year old so this is one man who made it one i did not bring the four year olds who are a little above her head and it's despicable me two ye they continue adventures of grew and more importantly the minions what it's all about them and it really is all about the minions and i'll get into that later this follows the fact there are the millions de phil kevin the minions have a big role in this movie they are very very enjoyable to watch it's very funny funny character the yellow blobs this one picks up where the first one ended grew is remember it adopted three three young girls and he was trying to be a good father to the fact he had e's not a villain in this one he's actually working for the good guys and he's trying to find out who stole this formula i mean but man i don't know  this it's kind of an action comedy animated movie i remarked to my wife when i came home from seeing it that it was it was a little violent for an animated movie i mean there's no deaths or anything like that by any means but you know he's battling a super villain who has a serum that mutates things and he ends up mutating all of the minions of these wild purple killing machines who are kind of kind of vicious actually i mean you know once again roeder in a car to a road runner coyote cartoon way but it's kind of vicious but the movies the movie is very cute there are a lot of very funny scenes of grow in the kids and it's a it's a great it's a great steve voices grew and it's a great  juxtaposition we've got this guy trying to be this villain and yet he's dealing with his fifteen year old adopted daughter who wants to go out and date the son of what turns out to be the super villain he's battling who's actually goes a mexican restaurant there's a very funny island and for those of us of a certain age there is a great seventy's t v show reference where they show a bunch of minions at a bar and the bartender looks is where you white jacket an afro and he looks at the camera goes his love interest slash partner kind of a new age secret agent who is very enthusiastic you know when it's over the top ridiculous i mean they strapper to what strapped to a missile she struck to a shark strapped a credit scene and it's in the middle of the credits where they have three minions trying out for the minions movie on a car which i thought was just a joke and then i went online to check it out and current is out in two thousand and fourteen minion movie is coming out i see where it's going to be a prequel where the minions who have barely better around since the beginning of time serving villains are going to decide which villains so it's basically how the vins meant group c i probably will in fact go see right i love the minions i have i want a minion i do not have a minion is very sad to me that i do not have anyone i want my own minion i used to have one on my phone but i can't find the app anymore so i don't even have a phone minion i need a minion ok anyone knows of where i can get a minion please contact us through the email address where we will have a minion delivered to us i want my own minion so i give it a recommendation if you've got kids you know it's  definitely on the list for most of my kids anyway yeah you know the littlest one who's almost six he was going to be six next week better get that one there straight chief goodness how time flies but that's definitely on the list of things to see i don't know if we're going to get a chance to see it while it's in theaters for me have to wait for it to come out on d v d but it's definitely on the last and i you know i hadn't really heard much about it until just listening to you i oh i thought it was you know more of just a vehicle to to you know get more action from the minions myself yeah well you know it kind of is but it's it's it's well done i'll also say that both of these movies are reviewed  i did not see them in three d i don't see the need to see these in three d i mean there were a couple of gags at the minions with a very clearly playing up to the three d where they're throwing things at the screen right but overall save you money save the extra four b know don't don't waste your time playing these in three d i don't think it's i don't think it's i mean there's lots of movies that are being released in three that don't really need explain to me why great gatsby was released in three d that's the one i don't get yeah i mean is is the is the extra depth of scene really going to be that impactful on and on the great gatsby no no it's not not mine will be like that now we saw a star trek the chris pine star trek they just money into darkness and three day and really really really liked it and the def does add something bright big spectacle action movies right increase but it doesn't do so headache i mean the you know some of those movies move too fast for the three day at least in my at least my eyes that while there are some there are some scenes ins in some movies that do i mean the three d effect does become a bit of a distraction and and it can be weird for one example one of the scenes in the avengers when they open up that portal and that huge mechanical thing is you know that snake that is coming down out of the hole and it's just that scene where it's coming towards the camera and just that particular three d effect was just  somehow it just made everything look incredibly weird and it just took me a good five minutes to recover from that during the whole battle so when i think that part of the problem is they don't shoot a lot of these movies in three they know it's converted down and it doesn't work as well right  and then they're also releasing movies in there and they're converting it into three day and imax notably one coming out this fall that's going to be converted to imax and i would have guessed three d but i don't know that for sure is the wizard of  's coming out either this fall or early next winter you know into imax related release right probably just in preparation for celebrating the seventy fifth much like and that's that's where i think we're kind of digressing a little bit but that's why i think imax does well is you can convert these movies and see them again they just they did address the hardest which i happen to be able to see in i'm in three d i did get a chance to see that three d which i thought  really really kind of cool and the movie holds up very well raiders lost ark last year they released it on blu ray and to celebrate the release of for a week and imax there is i happen to be lucky enough to see that too and that one holds up well i think that's i think that's where you're going to see the kind of future of of movies where they get more expensive the play but the specialty specialty movies we've got limited releases i think i think that will work rather than i'd rather see that than a lot of the direct that's coming up i mean and some of it really is just absolute dreck why do we need another percy jackson see a monster's movie why why do we need or smurfs two smurfs to avoid disney's maclean's which is just cars up in the  in the air right you know it's and i love disney don't get me wrong but i saw the preview for that and i went you know it's just it's kind of pour tombo i mean i'm sure it's a very cute movie and i'm praying might end up seeing it just because i was a kid a snail wins the indy five hundred i mean let's do it but you know i'm going to go there i'm going to go there is moving from star trek from trek to war as you know if he allows george lucas to get near a word processor have it disconnected on the internet have a disconnected from a in fact just have to just have it disconnected is he needs to just send george lucas to a small deserted island with a jar jar binks stall and that's where the next seven years yes and just let him have no say in the process whatsoever  sold it you don't own any more george clooney owns it bye bye because i have hope for that i'm a little leery that they're signing all the original cast because that that that if they don't do it right and they try to make them the stars of the movie rather than kind of let bikini you know she she's definitely not doing that especially magic and i was in three d don't go there but i have hope because it is j j abrams who i think is probably one of the best directors do you think you'll be able to get within shouting distance of any series into you know trying to update all the original movies which i admit if watchers of the show fourteen years ago when we started we did a huge show on the rerelease of the original the original and  menace we did a whole thing on the phantom menace was was a real big one too and then it just went really downhill really fast from there and it was incredibly unfortunate to see that train wreck but i was going to get back in touch on things you do in a kind of  subject we talked about earlier yeah releases there were plans to release all the star wars movies in three d and they started with the phantom menace why because they want to do it in order that's why george lucas should not be allowed  o movie anymore i did no one wants to see those stop pushing them down our throats right start with four five and six you would have made more money than you needed to do that would introduce the good movies to another generation right and then you would have a sprin i'm hoping they still release these on the big screen i mean i own them on d v d but i go see them the big screen it would be nice to see the original the original three on the big screen and i don't care if you show me the special edition i don't really care i did the additions and it didn't bother me that much you know rio shot about about the fact that that was a crap fast you know oh no i understand i understand completely and i i don't necessarily feel any different but it will be nice to anxiously anticipating what abrams can do and if you miss a show you can certainly catch a rebroadcast watch it on on the web site belmont media dot org you can catch us there as well so until next time enjoy the movies tonight