Stoker

Jean, I had expected to see a psychological thriller of a movie with some good actors. What I saw was a quite stylized psychological thriller with an excellent cast and a turn into a rapidly rising body count using many different ways of killing. They included being buried alive, grass sheers in the neck, the crushing of the neck with bone cracking in HD and on. And there is a lot of blood flowing in this seemingly quiet house in the South. The blood flows on the hard wood floors, spurts on the lace curtains and lovely bedcovers, etc. The three leads are all good, such as Wiaskoska, Goode and Nicole Kidman. This is a taut thriller with a surprising amount of bloody, murderous action right up to the very  last scene.  Dad

Nicole Kidman in "Stoker"

The previews were:

Admissions

The Company you keep

Frances Ha

MUD

Oz the Great and Powerful

Jean, I think you have to see this picture for just the amazing vistas, landscapes, black forests, emerald cities, Tyrolean villages, etc. It really gives you a magician, three witches, flying baboons, and a story line with some switches  but ends up where you should be. You can make some criticisms here and there but I think you have to take the movie as a whole and in that I think they succeed in their effort to take on such a famous story. It is long at 130 minutes and it begins to drag some at about 90 minutes but stay with it. They give you one of the biggest endings I can ever remember. And for some reason the 3D holds up for me  throughout the film. I think it is worth it in seeing this one in 3D.  Dad

P.S. The previews in 3D were:

Oblivion

The Great Gatsby

The Croods

Ironman 3

Star Trek: Into Darkness

MU: Monster University

Jack the Giant Slayer

Jean, I found this a big, great looking entertaining adventure movie. In addition to it's attractive young leads, it has Ewan McGregor, Bill Night, Stanley Tucci and Iam McShane. There are the famous beans and the beanstalk that is impressively depicted reminding one of a tree in Avatar, but this one is much more action prone. Just when you come to a "no way out of this moment" they come up with a very clever solution more than once. And the giants have a gritty human look and are also quite impressive with their own personalities exhibiting human failings down to  burping, etc. The final big battle  scenes which are mandatory is brought off quite impressively. It kind of reminded one of the battle scenes in "Kingdom of Heaven" but much more intimate with different, clever weapons.  

Stanley Tucci in "Jack the Giant Slayer"

Dad

P.S. The Previews were:

Man of Steel

The Host

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Oblivion

Now You See Me