Review: Moneyball

Director: Bennett Miller

Stars: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright and Jonah Hill

Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport

Release Date: 17 November 2011

Memorable quote:
(I like two sorry)

Billy Beane: Would you rather get one shot in the head or five in the chest and bleed to death?
Peter Brand: Are those my only two options?
&
Peter Brand: I wanted you to see these player evaluations that you asked me to do.
Billy Beane: I asked you to do three.
Peter Brand: Yeah.
Billy Beane: To evaluate three players.
Peter Brand: Yeah.
Billy Beane: How many you'd do?
Peter Brand: Forty-seven.
Billy Beane: Okay.
Peter Brand: Actually, fifty-one. I don't know why I lied just then.

What?
Let’s start with the fact that this movie is based on a real story. This can be the base for a good or shitty movie, well let’s see. Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's is the guy who needs to assemble the new line up for the season of 2002, the problem is he has no money and all the other teams have lots of it. All the good players he had were just bought by richer teams and he is left over well with left overs. He decides to turn the game and the conventions to find new players around. No more huge and expensive stars that can do everything but, as I call it specialist in one thing, most of the time those “specialists” are seen as flawed players by baseball scouts and just ignore them. Beane teamed up with Peter Brand decide to go on a mission without knowing what will happen at the end.

Yes?
This movie is what I call special; I wasn’t sure what to think about it. For me if falls somewhere in the middle between OK and good. It has all the elements for a good movie, but it lacks a couple of things to become really good. But just let’s start with the good.

From one side you can look at the movie and say this is a sports movie about baseball and who doesn’t like baseball is screwed, he just entered the wrong theater. On the other side this is a story of someone who stands in front of a big decision to go against all the known conventions and succeeds in the doing the impossible. The will to go with an idea to the limit not knowing if it’s good is seen from my part as heroic. Other will just call it stupid, but sometimes it just works out. That’s what I mean; imagine the movie or even reality would go the other way Beane would have been hanged out to the dry or even buried alive. (No this wasn’t a spoiler). This decision I would say makes this good.

Brad Pitt is a good actor, sometimes we forget it, but in this movie he showed us that he can pull it off, all the way. Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill were great together they formed this kind of team against the baseball world and they were awesome. Seymour Hoffman is as always a hero for me he can be everything you throw in his direction, as he also did with this part.

Baseball is a sport for connoisseurs; if you don’t know it it’s difficult to start loving it. There is so much behind this sport that we the people who are not used to it just have no idea. Same thing with the Baseball Jargon, drafts, runs, pitchers etc, I just don’t know those terms and the movie tried to give you as much as possible tools so you wouldn’t feel as an outsider to this world.

No?
The movie kind off succeeded in making it interesting for everyone, but still the fact is that if you like baseball it’s much more interesting for you than for others. I don’t like baseball, so this movie needed to catch me with the drama or amazing story, It didn’t enough. I believed it would but it didn’t.

I stayed interested in this movie because I was wondering if Beane could pull his idea of or not, you had some dry moments where I almost fell asleep, what can I say Baseball is lame, at least for me.

The last scene actually pissed me off, maybe I’m materialistic but I just didn’t understand this!

Well…
So the actors were great, the story was medium – well and again baseball is boring, maybe this movie will get an Oscar, but from my part it wasn’t good enough. If you like baseball this is definitely for you, if you like Brad Pitt it’s for you, if you don’t belong to those groups I wouldn’t watch it, at least not at the movies, if you have time at home, maybe. Because of all the above I grade this…

Grade: 6.5 out of 10

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,Trailer!!!

I know that I posted a couple of Trailers, but that’s not exactly my fault, good movies are coming up, so the trailers need to be shown to everyone. Do you remember someone called Peter Jackson, I’m not sure but if I’m not mistaken he directed a small movie franchise called “lord of the Rings”. The earnings for those movies exceeded one Billion Dollars, received dozens of Oscars and well are one of my favorite movies. If this doesn’t ring a bell, just throw yourself in front of a train or out of the nearest window because you just don’t deserve to see the next thing. I present here the trailer for the first movie of the hobbit; I saw it and loved it. Hope you will too. Enjoy!

So, I hope you are excited as me, this is just lovely to see the beloved characters and well the whole bunch again. The song during the trailer is amazing and just brings back the whole Lord of the rings feeling. I will keep you updated with more stuff as we come closer to the big moment, as always be prepared! Preeecious!

Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

Director: Bill Condon


Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner

Genres: Adventure, Drama , Fantasy and Romance



Release Date: 17 November 2011



Memorable quote:
Edward Cullen: No measure of time with you will be long enough. But we'll start with forever.





What?
We start to story where we left off in the previous chapters; Bella and Edward are getting married. (Oh my god I’m so excited!!!) Of course the werewolves don’t like this idea and Jacob even less. Of course if you put the simple fact aside that she is human and he is a vampire, the idea of getting married and you know having little pale babies is fun, but the whole movie is about this so we can’t just ignore this fact. Of course this makes us ask Bella, did you never hear of protection! That’s some lesson we give children nowadays. So Bella gets pregnant and the small baby/flesh-eater in her belly becomes a time bomb, I think this sums it up.

Yes?
Honestly I don’t have a lot to write in this section, I suffered during this movie. Torture would probably be more pleasant. But I do need to say that as any movie of a franchise I have a soft spot for sequels, I need to see them. I’m like an addict; you tell me that a better coke is on the market I will probably try it out.

Then we had another good thing which were the special effects. I like how they make the men transform in to wolves, this is just exciting. How they changed Bella’s look to become anorexic was amazing, I actually felt disgusted, so in this part they did a good job.

No?
Unfortunately we will have more in this section, what do you want me to say it really was a bad movie. I have watched all the Twilight movies (I know I shouldn’t brag about this) but its true, and this last chapter wasn’t just the worst of all of them, it was simply not fun to watch it. You have movie where nothing happens, you are neutral, you there you not, no difference, but here I actually felt bad watching it. Too many things just didn’t work for me. Let’s start.

I talked to some Twilight book readers, who call themselves “twihard” fans (cheesy I know, but you
get the point) and they say that the considering they awaited this movie for such a long time, this was a scandal. It should have been amazing, wedding dress, babies, and romance; instead we got a pointless soap opera. The director didn’t bring any of the emotions felt in the books, nothing.

Another annoying part was the lack of things that happened and even if something happened how they were put on screen were just boring, not exciting. We had a couple of possibilities for a fight, the tension is there and just when you believe it’s going to become interesting, nothing happens, everything calms down and they walk away.

And what’s up with the lame music throughout the whole movie, seriously a disaster.

Finally the birth of the weird baby thingy, we get stupid close ups an attempt to build up some tension by moving the camera in first person, just ridiculous and beginner like.

Well…
This movie was bad, I didn’t like it, Twilight fans didn’t like it, of course we don’t take the 12-17 girls who are just pumped up by stupid hormones, but this was just a big waste of time. I watched it because it’s a franchise I needed to for your sakes. So here is it, they get married, she gets pregnant and that’s that, the whole movie in one line. If you want something more, watch the trailer her above and you have the whole thing, just jump to the last part of the story.

Before I forget it thanks for my Twilight correspondant for her side of the story (Alix)

Because of all the above I grade this…

Grade: 2 out of 10

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The Dark Knight Rises, Trailer

Sometimes things happen that change a generation, a man on the moon, the Bugatti Veyron or believe it or not a movie. I think that the Dark knight did just that. I loved Batman Begins and The Dark knight was just to amazing for words, so you can understand my excitement for the next Batman. Since the movie was announced secrecy is the main word. We didn’t get anything, no trailer, no images no nothing. Then at the beginning of this month the information started to flow. The wheels of marketing started to move and we got a lot to show; Images, videos and stories, followed by the Prologue last week and the trailer. I know the movie will only come out in June 2012, but I am excited as hell. Here you have the trailer, and it looks awesome. Enjoy!




From the trailer we can agree on a couple of sure things. This looks awesome, but that’s not what I meant. Anne Hathaway can definitely pull off Catwoman, Bane is heartless and cold, and Batman just looks cool. So I know I said it already three times, but this is just so exciting, be prepared!!

Trailer, the dictator!!

I remember the first time I saw Borat I wasn’t sure how to react, it was funny, alter on it became hilarious. On the other hand Bruno was just weird and well Sacha Baron Cohen worthy. I’m sure a lot of you have already watched this but I saw it as my duty to make it official and show it. Only today I watched this four times. It just looks hilarious and in perfect timing with the depart of our dear friend, Kadaffi. So without further due, enjoy the comeback of our ambassador in Hollywood! Before I forget go to the bathroom before, because the trailer is funny!

I’m sure you need tissues to calm yourself down, I hope they didn’t show everything in the trailer. So as always be prepared!

Coming Up, Mission impossible 4: Ghost protocol

I don’t think I can find someone in the Western world who didn’t hum the Mission impossible track at least once in their lives; of course this is an understatement, not only that you hummed the melody, you stood next to a wall, holding some plastic gun in hand pretending to be a special agent . Everyone loves this soundtrack and it became the melody when you do something that is not allowed or even illegal. As you all know this comes from the movie franchise Mission Impossible. And yes I’m sure you can argue that the first one was great, the second one not that good and so on, but in reality who cares. You just come for the excitement, gadgets and of course again the “soundtrack”. You just buy the ticket to see how many crazy impossible stunts Ethan hunt will do to save the world from evil. That said the next and probably the last MI movie comes out tonight and I will hopefully go and see it as soon as possible. It seems it has even a good story, besides the explosions, car chases and crazy gadgets. Enjoy!

Storyline (IMDB)
The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name.

You see I didn’t lie; you get exactly that what you pay for. A crazy story, explosions and the soundtrack!

Trailer, Men in Black 3!!

The men in black franchise got hit by a lot of bad reviews because people just didn’t connect to the whole thing. I on the other hand liked it. The movies had always this funny twist and weird action. And we could even say that Will Smith was born with this. The beauty about making movies which main theme are aliens, your options are limitless, you can do whatever you want, and no one could tell you, that shit’s crazy. Said that I think Will Smith came a long way since the first one and it looks like this is going to be OK. There was a big debate for a long time to make this movie or not, well you see the results of this debate. Enjoy!

So what did we have here, aliens, time traveling, the memory eraser and the ridiculous guns, looks like fun to me. And of course we get a lot of the same again. As always be prepared for the alien invasion and the men in black!

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Well it seems that every time I think that the Madagascar flix won’t be any good they come up with something crazy as this. I must admit the second one wasn’t one of my favorite movies, but again I was excited for the penguins, they just crack me up every time I see them. So as it seems they have decided to make a third one and it looks quite good, again we can see the penguins, can’t wait for them. The release date is around summer 2012, which is in a long while, but it seems worth watching it anyway, so here you have some teaser for the summer blockbuster of 2012.

This actually looks fairly decent, I even laughed a couple of times here, we have all the same characters (yeah the penguins too), so it is going to be a hell of a movie, at least I hope so. So as always, be prepared!

Review: Immortals

Director: Tarsem Singh

Stars: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke and John Hurt

Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy

Release Date:10 November 2011

Memorable quote:
Theseus: Stand your ground! Fight for order! Fight for the man beside you! Fight for those who bore you! Fight for your children! Fight for your future! Fight for your name to survive! Fight! For immortality!

What?

At the dawn of mankind, there was a War, the once who lost became the Titans who have been imprisoned in Mount Tartaros, the once who won became the Gods, to rule over the world from Heaven. Hyperion a Bloodthirsty king has declared war on Humanity and the gods who abandoned him in his time of need. The only way to defeat mankind is to obtain the ultimate weapon, the bow from Epirus, to unleash the Titans and destroy mankind forever. His rival: Theseus a simple man chosen by Zeus himself to lead the fight against Hyperion and to give mankind a fighting chance.

Yes?
I think an introduction is needed here, to explain my opinion about this movie. I like movies that show war, blood, swordfights and huge armies. This doesn’t make me cruel or Bloodthirsty, but this makes me a bit biased towards movies that contain all those features. So let’s take for example the movie 300, loved it, even though other critics hated it. So this is my opinion and that’s that.

This movie was a mix of action and cruelty and lots of it. You go from one fight to another; still being shocked by the flowing stream of blood the next already hits your face. The action scenes were just beautiful and the fighting choreography was amazing. I guess almost everything was made with the computer, but nevertheless, great.

I entered the theater and I got the 3D Glasses, I was afraid this was the Achilles heel of the movie, from now on it’s going to suck, but it didn’t the 3D was amazing, not that crappy “throw something at me” 3D, but the whole thing had this amazing depth, and it was just stunning. Then we had the slow motion parts, which are nowadays a mandatory device in action movies, we had a lot of them, loved every single frame!

I think the actors were chosen wisely, they gave a good and convincing performance. The best part of this was Rourke, as we saw him in the Wrestler, he is the symbol of “manhood”, he doesn’t care about his looks, he is cruel and indifferent to everything around him, and the cause is the only thing that matters. Killing or letting someone live just doesn’t matter. He was so evil that I just felt it in my bones.

The main thing here was that the movie wasn’t boring and entertaining, it wasn’t the quality of the story, but more the action scenes and effects that kept me watching it till the end.

No?
As I said just here above, it wasn’t the story that made this movie interesting it was the spectacle, and this is the main flaw of the movie, the lack of an interesting story. If it would have that the movie from my part would be perfect. That’s that.

Well…
So, we had here an entertaining movie, for people who like blood dripping and action scenes. People, who don’t like the things mentioned above, just won’t like the movie and will probably say that this is a waste of time. I liked it for the stuff it was great in, if you go for the blood and action watch it at the movies because this is the main part, if you don’t just don’t watch it at all. Because of all the above I grade this…

Grade: 8 out of 10

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Coming up this week, The Muppets!

Some of you heard of a show called “the Muppet show”, this aired years ago on TV, I guess most of you are familiar with Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. The truth is that I was never a big fan of this show, but at least I remember it showing on TV. So this is the next big thing in cinema this week, of course we have other newcomers, but I believe this is the one we should keep our eyes on. Until this moment the Muppets have earned a nice some of money, just behind the New Twilight (this isn’t my official review, but just to keep you away from a disaster, don’t watch it at the movies, it is crap, and that’s not only the “Y” chromosome talking, a lot of big Twilight movie fans agree with this judgment, and it doesn’t matter they earn a lot of money!)
So on the 8th of December we get…

The Muppets

Storyline (IMDB)
When 3 Muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the Muppet theater for oil Gary, Mary and Walter set out to find the Muppets who have been split up for years Kermit lives in his own mansion depressed in Hollywood, Gonzo is a high class plumber at Gonzo's Royal Flush, Fozzie performs with a tribute band called The Moopets , Miss Piggy is the plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, and Animal is at a celebrity anger management rehab center in Santa Barbara.

For the first time here you have the trailer.



Just enjoy your childhood heroes coming back to life on the big screen, and relive the characters once again, enjoy!

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Review: In Time

Director: Andrew Niccol

Stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Cillian Murphy

Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Release Date: 27 October 2011

Memorable quote:

Will Salas: For a few immortals to live, many people must die.

What?

We find ourselves in the future, but not the too distant one, people stop to age after 25, and there are no more dollars or euros or any other currency. People pay with time. The Phrase time is money has a different signification here or better said it is just literal. When you’re time is up you die, simple as it sounds. You pay for everything with time, meaning you go on a bus, supermarket or a movie; they just take away minutes, hours and seconds of your total living amount. This means that the poor have a day to day maybe two which means a constant struggle for survival and the rich stay immortal. After Will receives the gift of time, he is wrongfully accused of murder he tries to bring down the system that keeps the rich rich and the poor poor

Yes?

I know what you think, I thought the same thing the first time I saw the trailer, and this is some deep shit. Time is money etc. I must admit the idea is really great and only for this the movie gets a couple of points, but again is this enough? I think it lacked something, I just can’t put my finger on it.

I liked how they developed this small idea in to a full system where everyone is a piece from it, you have a couple of basic ground rules that keep the movie together and keeps the movie going, which again is really good.


We have Murphy here, the bad guy from the first batman, he was good, I liked him as the bad guy and he was a good choice for him. Seyfried was also good and she did play this little rich kid in a good and convincing way.



No?

I like good ideas, especially when they are in the science fiction section. But the basic concepts of science fiction need to be upheld at any costs. In this movie we find that we have rules and most of the time they are even followed but my big problem here is the beginning of the movie, the lack of explanation how mankind got to this amazing point where people won’t live past 25 and all what follows. Even when we deal in science fiction there need to be strong fundaments, and here we didn’t get any. We got here something like; it’s like that live with it, this is a major disappointment.

We talked about the good acting, well on the other hand we had Timberlake, I think he was just not convincing in some parts, especially when he needed to show emotion he didn’t convince me, maybe next time, no harm done.

But what annoyed me the most about this movie is the fact that they didn’t use the huge potential they had in their hands. The idea was great, but I believe such a movie, which includes so many, important issues especially nowadays should have done it better.

Well…

All in all this movies was lacking some wauw moments, nothing here made you sweat in your chair, even though the big picture here was nice and even interesting. You can watch this at home, no trip to the movies is necessary here. Because of all the above I grade this…

Grade: 6.5 out of 10

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Coming up this week: The Double

I want to try from now on to put every week the upcoming movies from this specific week. Of course I haven’t watched them yet considering they aren’t in the movies, but I will try to catch up as fast as possible. So the newbie for this week is the Double. Coming out on Thursday December 1st 2011 Even though I talked about this movie in September now it actually comes out so, hopefully its as good as the trailer looks.

Storyline (IMDB)
Story kicks off with the mysterious murder of a senator bearing the marks of a Soviet assassin, who was long thought to be dead. To hunt down the killer, a retired CIA operative, who spent his career going toe-to-toe with his Soviet nemesis, is teamed with a young FBI agent.

Here you got the trailer once again...

Hope to see you there! Enjoy!

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Review: Contagion

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law

Release Date: 9 September 2011

Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Memorable quote:
Alan Krumwiede: It's a bad day to be a rhesus monkey.

What?

Let’s imagine that someone gets the flu, he has all the regular symptoms, meaning he has a fever, headache, running nose and joint pain. Then you go to a doctor and you get a shot or some pills, you lie in your bed and you get all better. But, what happens if some chicken has sex with a pig , so you get some crazy sophisticated super bacteria which then starts to infect people and all this leads to hysteria. People will walk with masks, won’t touch anything and wash their hands ten times, a day, and after a while everything will calm down because we found a cure. At least this is what we are used to, now imagine that this super bacteria, is so strong that it kills a person just by touching him, and that there is no cure, what would you do. Well this movie brings you exactly that scenario . The regular all day plague that just is fucked up on steroids!

Yes?

As I said it before, I liked this movie, because the evil side here is something that actually exists. Not some crazy psycho killer or alien. Its some bacteria that decided to show his teeth. The truth factor or reality factor is so amazing that you could actually start to imagine yourself undergoing the same thing, considering it’s so close. They just showed us how our whole society can collapse since we just can’t control this disease, even though we believe that we are fully protected against such a catastrophe.

Another great thing here is the medical explanation to everything. Everything was explained in such a way that the viewer actually believes what they all say, it sounds convincing and true. They showed and explained us the structure of the bacteria, contagion factors and other difficult terminology that has to do with our problem, which again gives a lot of credibility to this problem.

Jude law and Matt Damon gave a good believable performance. The other actors kind of faded in the background.

I also loved the fact that this movie has claws, not everything stays pink, and the good guys don’t always win. You are infected you die end of story. This counts also for small children, nobody is safe be prepared!

No?

Of course this movie brings us the usual disaster kind pictures. Including, the President talks to the people, a family stuck in traffic who is trying to escape, shots of garbage on the streets and people who just kill other people to steel or to survive. Sadly those moments bring us nothing new and those are the boring parts in the movie.

Well…

Overall I liked it, it scared the shit out of me, on the way out of the movie I didn’t want to touch nobody and anything, when I came home I washed my hands. The reality is that this could happen and this makes this movie in my eyes really interesting to watch. Because of all the above I grade this…

Grade: 8 out of 10

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the ultimate show: The Wire

Creator: David Simon

Stars: Dominic West, John Doman and Deirdre Lovejoy

Release Date: 2 June 2002 and going on for 5 seasons!

Normally this isn’t the place to give some feedback on something I’ve seen on TV, but since this thing is so amazing I have decided that this is the best forum possible.

What?

The show brings us the city of Baltimore in her glory days, on one side we have the drug world and on the other side we have the law enforcements. And in the middle we have all the other characters that make this series so special. School children, Dock workers or simply a newspaper staff, all those are forming the basic to this spectacle. It gives us different angles on the drug world and through the eyes of different spectators and influencers.

Yes?
At the beginning I didn’t believe in this show, I wasn’t hooked I could say, but all this changed once I started watching it. You just can’t stop till the episode ends and the next till you get to the end of the season, and in my case till the end of the series. I must say I’m jealous of all those people who have still everything to watch since it’s that good and probably I will watch it again.

The beauty is in the characters each one of them is perfectly written and executed. The actors chosen for the job were casted as if they were born for those parts.

The story is so different every time and still the same, drugs, money and power from again different angles. Everyone wants the same; the question is just how you get there. You steal it, you kill someone or you bribe someone, all these are just a small step till you get to the cause.

If we compare this to another cop show the big difference would be that instead that we have every episode a different case, felony or story, here everything is one huge story and one huge puzzle wherein everything has his place and time.

The last thing I will say here even though I could continue her is that the writers of the show were not afraid of just killing a huge character in the middle of an episode or season, which I believe makes a show to something more serious, if you have the balls to just do something drastic, you are good enough for this business.

No?
The only thing I got to say here is that unfortunately there are only 5 seasons, that’s it.

Well…
Watch it, I don’t care if you like cops or if you are afraid of some blood, if you like TV this is a must for you to watch.

I just want to thank here my good old “hammer friend” for opening my eyes and convincing me to do the right thing and watch this amazing show!

Grade: 9.5 out of 10

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Review: The ides of march

Director: George Clooney

Stars: Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Ruan Gosling and Philip Seymour Hoffman

Genres: Political Drama

release Date: 13 October 2011

Memorable quote:
Tom Duffy: Get out, now. Or otherwise...
Stephen Meyers: Otherwise, I'll end up like you?
Tom Duffy: Yeah, you end up being a jaded, cynical asshole, just like me.



What?

We find ourselves in the primaries for the presidential election, where Gosling is the head strategies for Clooney, and will do everything it takes to win the election. It shows us the constant struggle the political candidates undergo to come up on the upper hand at the end! Let the games begin!

Yes?
This movie isn't for everyone. All those political games, the whole political world isn't interesting normally but the beauty of this movie is that it becomes interesting. The scandals, the lies and betrayals become essential when they are on the background of political campaigns. To make all this political bullshit interesting, this is the actual strength of the movie. Even though the race isn't for the President in this movie at least, it becomes fascinating to see how everything is connected. The story just works!

Then we have the amazing actors here, sometimes you have great actors and a bad script so it’s just a waste and vice versa. In this case we have both great actors and a great story. Gosling, is an up and coming hero I would say, I see a big future for him. Seymour has the gift that he just can adapt himself to the part he got and acts the crap out of it. Clooney had his good moments here and there and then we have Giamatti who I'm just a big fan of.

No?
The ending is good in one way, even though I wanted something else. A lot of people at the movies didn't believe this actually was the ending, but it was. Let's call it open ended with a possible forecast. A lot of people don't like this.

At some points in the movie there is a lack of flow, nothing is happening, which then you need to work hard to stay focused so you won't miss the actual good parts, let's say you have some run pee moments.

Well...
This was a good movie, I liked it and you can even watch it at the movies. Definitely not for everyone, if you aren't interested at all in politics this won't be for you, if you only want explosions it won't be for you either. I liked it! Because of all the above I grade this...

Grade: 7.5

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Review: Crazy, stupid, love

Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

Stars: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Julianne Moore

Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance

Release Date: 15 September 2011

Memorable quote:

Jacob: The skin under your eyes is starting to look like Hugh Hefner's ball sack.
&
Hannah: Will you take off your shirt... fuck! Seriously? It's like you're Photoshopped!

What?

The life of Weaver was falling apart the moment he understood his wife is going to leave him. Already ready to throw everything away, Jacob Palmer scrapes him up from the bar floor and teaches him the slinkiness which is needed to score with young girls and just show him he shouldn’t be at the bottom of life. Let the games begin!

Yes?
Again one of those movies where you believe you won’t see anything new and you have seen it all, until unexpected things happen and you just fall in love with the characters, story and comedy.

Carrel brings us comedy as only he can, together with the amazing character of Gosling, they just work together in an amazing way.

This movie is funny and sad at the same time. It shows you that “love” doesn’t come as easy as all the other romantic comedies show it. Every character has his f*cked up little mind, with issues that can only exist in reality, which again makes this fun and good to watch.

The ending also brings you some great spin where you just sit and love how everything plays out.

No?
Frankly not much to say here loved most of the things that I saw.

Right found one, I know it’s a romantic comedy but for once give us something that doesn’t end in an happy ending for everyone, guys wake up life can suck balls most of the time for different people so wake up.

Well…
Liked this movie, again not enough to see at the movies but certainly enough for home, brings some weird funny sadness to your place. Watch it and enjoy. Because of all the above I grade this…

Grade: 7.5 out of 10

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Review: Friends with benefits

Director: Will Gluck

Stars: Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake And Woody Harrelson

Release Date: 22 July 2011

Genres: Comedy and some Romance

Memorable quote:
Jamie: "You're emotionally unavailable?"
Dylan: "Oh, yeah."
Jamie: "I'm emotionally damaged!"

What?
Dylan is hired by Jamie to become the head of something at a certain paper. Those details aren’t important; the important part is the “benefit part”. Yeah I’m sure you have heard of this so called tem friends with benefits and this movie here refers to the exact thing you heard of. Let’s think of sex as tennis, and they want to play it between friends. The problem is that not like in the real life in a movie complications jealousy have their place and things start to get awkward and you get the whole thing.

Yes?
I really didn’t expect anything to good from this movie, but to my nice surprise this wasn’t the case. The movie has some good comedy, nice touches of drama and a really good flow. You don’t get bored and you stay interested the whole time.

A bigger surprise to me was Timberlake, he comes off to me as a sucky medium actor, but here he actually made me believe his part. Kunis was also quite good in the role, even though it doesn’t matter, she is smoking.

It is quite as expected the story finished but it doesn’t just comes off as a stupid Hollywood story, it gives the viewer something worth watching. And I don’t mean all the nudity all the time.

Another great personality in this movie is Woody Harrelson, I just a big fan of him, brings a nice touch and added comedy to this.

No?
Sorry, but I really didn’t like all the nudity, if you decide it’s a teen comedy make sure that’s that.

Another problem is the fact that until the middle of the movie you have a serious rise in the entertainment curve but when we get to the peak in the middle from there on you have a serious decrease in interest and fun. The beginning was good the ending was less.

Well…
All in all a mediocre good movie, it had some good and fun stuff but the great start made the ending look really bad. So you can watch it , you won’t regret it, but don’t get your expectations too high.

BTW I was invited to this movie on my birthday by Fam. King, so thanks for that, you made my day!

Grade: 6.5 out of 10

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Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot...

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot...

I know you now from where this quote is, and maybe you even think, yeah we know every fifth of November the facebook status of some people says the same. But you see I just don’t care, V for Vendetta is one of my favorite movies and I think it’s my sacred duty to make sure that everyone has scene this movie, or at least heard of it. So enjoy those small clips that I put on, and there is a big possibility that I’m going to watch this movie tonight.





Of course if you want to see the whole movie, you can always come to me and I will let you my copy. Then I’m going to make you watch it and then I cannot promise you a safe passage home.

Creedy: Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die?
V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

The Divide, Trailer!

Recently we had a lot of interesting end of the world movies, in which zombies take over the world, the weather attacks us ( day after tomorrow) and then we had another apocalypse thing in 2012, which for the record could still happen, you know we aren’t too late. (Rumors are circulating that George Lucas a real believer in doomsday has spaceship prepared for the “if” scenario, that’s a serious rumor!) So it didn’t surprise me that a movie came out in which follows the survivors of a nuclear holocaust in the States, I’m not sure who attacked but let’s say Iran, so we can say:” We told you so”. The trailer looks brilliant and scary, the actors seem to be chosen well for their part and it really got me thinking with whom I would want to be locked up in a nuclear bunker, just choose wisely. Enjoy!

I know what you think, won’t happen to me, I live in a country which will never be attacked and even if I have loyal friends and family who will not cut me in to pieces for the last sip of water on earth, but just take it in to consideration. But as always be prepared; don’t say later on I didn’t warn you!

Review: Bad Teacher

Director: Jake Kasdan

Stars: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel and Justin Timberlake

Genres: Comedy

Release Date: 25 August 2011

Memorable quote:
Elizabeth Halsey: Well, that's my spiel, as the Jews say.

What?

Elizabeth is known to be a gold digger, after her fiancé understands that, he breaks it off and she is left with nothing besides her job as school teacher. Which it is important to add she sucks in. Of course she believes that she found the golden rule to pick up man, bigger boobs. Of course on her tiny salary, she won’t get anywhere, so she will do everything she only can think of to get bigger boobs to get a new trust fund as a husband. The end.

Yes?
I’m not sure what to write here, I would say go directly to the NO part but what I do want to say is that Cameron Diaz still got it, she isn’t the brightest of the actors, but I guess she is using what she has to make it work, I’m sure they had some effects added here, but that’s quite it for this movie.

Maybe you had one or two funny jokes, which needless to say were or vulgar or something in this range.

No?
This movie is considered to be sad, and that’s almost the only thing I need to write here. The story is lame and the comedy even worse. The tried a couple of cheap stunts including using Cameron Diaz to attract the younger ones, but I must say the movie was cheap as it was vulgar, which I didn’t expect from this movie. The jokes were just not funny and thw whole thing just didn’t work for me.

Then we have Timberlake and Segel which I’m sorry to say he needs to use his talnet for singing and the other one needs to stay in the living in TV and that’s it, they don’t belong on the big screen.

Well…
If you didn’t watch it, don’t bother, this isn’t even such a movie that you should watch at home in your sofa, just hire or bring something else with your popcorn. Because of all the above I grade this…

Grade: 4.5 out of 10

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Review: Captain America: The First Avenger

Director: Joe Johnston

Stars: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving and Samuel L. Jackson

Genres: Action, Adventure and Sci-Fi

Release Date: 4 August 2011

Memorable quote:
Col. Chester Phillips: General Patton has said that wars are fought with weapons but are won by men. Our goal is to create the greatest army in history. But every army begins with one man. He will be the first in a new breed of super-soldier. We are going to win this war because we have the best men. And they, personally, will escort Adolf Hitler to the gates of Hell.

What? The time is World War 2, The Nazi destroying machine is taking over Europe, and they come out with weird revolutionary technology to make super soldiers. Back in the States the pentagon doesn’t sit around they decide to come up with their own super soldier. Meanwhile in Brooklyn New York, Steve Rogers gets rejected again from the army service due to his weakness and other physical lacking’s. The only difference is that he has the ultimate weapon inside him, the will and hearth. Combine this with some weird serum and technology and you get the meanest weapon of all Captain America and the birth of the avengers! Of course then we have some super villain in Europe which as needs to be whooped, but that’s just something on the side!

Yes?
Finally we get an action hero worth looking at, he does everything for the right reasons, no pride or money, just world peace I guess, or that the US stays the leading world power, but let not look at the details. We know Evans from the fantastic four, and even there we saw that he is super hero’s material, so the choice here was right.

Then we got the story, I love it when there is a nice background to everything, till our guy becomes superhero we learn a lot about him, and what we learn is great. I liked the flow in the movie and the whole idea of no technology like 60 years ago.

The villain of course couldn’t be any better, yeah I know I didn’t like the red face, but Hugo Weaving is just the perfect villain, as we have seen him in the matrix (Hello Mr. Anderson!) I guess its his rectangular face that makes him so perfect.

Another good thing that I liked were the action scenes, they had meat on them, you had a couple of them, and of course the effects were really good.

Last but not least as in every Marvel super hero movie we see a link between characters just going over from movie to movie. Here we have Starks father, the scientist that helps Captain America to transform in other movies we have just a line.

No?
Two things always ruin superhero movies. The one is the known story line again. Weak guy becomes super strong, some villain who finds some cool thing to also become super strong, they fight, there is some girl in the middle and that’s quite it. Seriously try to come up with something more refreshing.

Secondly the final fight between the two main characters was in my eyes a bit to small and downplayed, Make it huge and just come out in a bang!

Well…
I liked this movie, it kind off stood up to my expectations, a bit more would be good but this was definitely enough. Watch it, its fun and entertaining. Because of all the above I grade this one…

Grade: 8 out of 10

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Review; Green lantern

Director: Martin Campbell

Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and Peter Sarsgaard

Genres: Action , Adventure, Fantasy and Sci-Fi

Release Date: 4 August 2011

Memorable quote:

Hal Jordan: You know... there is a saying in my planet, we say 'I am only human'. We say it because we are vulnerable, we say it because we are afraid, but that does not mean that we are weak. (cheesy but nice)

and

Carol Ferris: I've seen you naked! Of course I know who you are! A simple mask is not gonna hide anything! (good point, which counts for all the superheroes!)

What?
Hal Jordan is the perfect guy, Super high self-esteem, good lucks and he has the best job on earth he is a fighter pilot. All this of course is pumping his super human ego, which makes him as everything else super cocky. Till something happens that turns his life around, he is chosen by the Ring, the willpower-fed source of power, of the Green Lantern Intergalactic Corps. In other words he gets great powers and a tiny mask, and he becomes a superhero. The job description is quite easy defending the world from evil. Well of course at the beginning everything is fun but when “evil” becomes really scary things get tough for the green superhero.

Yes?
I didn’t expect much of this movie, one because I didn’t believe Reynolds is superhero material, he is more the loose funny character who doesn’t give a crap, which again here he does exactly the same. The movie wasn’t much, the story neither, but I loved the green effects, actually if you don’t succeed nowadays with effects really shows you shouldn’t be in the business but it was nice and again I liked it.

Reynolds was quite good for the part, but still I believe we could find another superhero to fill this part. Then we had the “human” bad guy, I think he came off as really bad, but again his motives were so human and unnecessary, I would go more for world domination and stuff.

No?
Superheroes are tricky, it seems that everything goes easily until it doesn’t an the again it does, and everybody is happy. This same story with superheroes that we had this summer again and again is really pissing me off. Try to come up with something new, it isn’t possible that everything is so easy and that the superhero always kicks ass at the end. The real world isn’t like this!

Then we have the other issues, this power that he got is amazing, and that’s all that you come up with! The potential if this power is so endless, till it came here to the movies.

The story was mediocre bad, not more it wasn’t exciting or I didn’t had a second of hesitation for what was going to happen, sometimes I just want to say f*ck Hollywood and f*ck happy ending.

Well…
The movie wasn’t good enough, I was curious so I watched it, I hope the coming superheroes movies are going to be better. Because of all the above I grade this one…

Grade: 6.5 out of 10

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Review: Thor

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman

Genres: Action ,Adventure , superhero stuff ,Fantasy

Release Date: 28 April 2011

Memorable quote:
Agent Coulson: [interrogating Thor] It's not easy to do what you did. You made my men, some of the most highly trained professionals in the world look like a bunch of minimum-wage mall cops. In my experience, it takes someone who's received similar training to do what you did to them. Why don't you tell me where you received that training? Afghanistan, Chechnya? No, you strike me more as the soldier of fortune type. Who are you?

And of course (especially loved this one!)

Agent Cale: [staring at The Destroyer] Is that one of Stark's?
Agent Coulson: I don't know. Guy never tells me anything.



What? Since this last summer was the summer of superheroes, this one will also be one. Thor was the rightful heir e to the throne of Asgard after a small clash with his father the reigning king, as a punishment for Thor being arrogant and irresponsible he is send as a “punishment” to earth ( thanks by the way). On earth as every guy or thing with superpowers he attracts various enemies and even some friends, if this wouldn't be enough; a villain from Asgard sends troops in to our world to destroy him and everything next to him

Yes?
I needed to watch it as a preparation for bigger things that stand for us. I can say a couple of good things for exchange for a lot of bad ones, sorry Thor, Marvel and all the comic lovers. First I need to say that I was excited for this movie, I saw every trailer possible etc. I didn’t know about this superhero before so the first time I saw him was great.

The effects in the movie where nice, Hemsworth as a new face was good enough, I liked the beginning when he gets to earth the confusion and everything, Asgard was also beautifully made. His weapon the “the mighty hammer” was just awesome (more about it later) Portman was ok, not the performance of her life and well Hopkins was as always perfect, nothing to say there.
The story even though based on a comic was nice and good and even a bit entertaining, not more.

No?
As I said before I was excited for this movie, so excited that when it came out and it didn’t stand up to my expectations I was really disappointed, who would believe that Marvel can come up which such a crappy movie.

The beginning was promising, the frost people and the fight there, was of the hook, but that’s it, the fights later where just easy and stupid. You would believe that they would at least make an effort to try to make it look a bit difficult.

So this was the major disappointment, if you have a superhero with huge powers you expect him to use them against the villains in an awesome way, not become human and try something else, cute but this sucked!

Well…
I know it’s an older movie; I was a bit in a break for a while, so things piled up. To conclude this movie, was definitely not something important to watch, if you are a superheroes fan it’s for you if not leave it on the shelf. BTW stay after the credits, this shows the amazing link between all the Superhero’s and the avengers, which will come out in almost a while from now. And that’s why it gets an additional point. Because of all the above I grade this one…

Grade: 6.5 out of 10

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Trailer, American Pie 4 : American Reunion!!

I know a lot of people maybe heard another installment of this franchise is coming out, and I’m sure a lot of people heard that American pie had already like 2o movies, but in my opinion only the three first movies are the real ones, and that’s why its called American pie 4. I’m not sure about you but I know that the first movies came out when I was exactly at the good age for those movies, “the need to explore” was there and this movie was perfect for this matter. Ok, this trailer doesn’t show us exactly what’s going to happen in the movie, but it puts a smile on your face and points you in the direction of the characters and the taste of this last epic chapter. But the thing I’m most exited for is the real reunion of the first movie, they brought just everyone back, and I sincerely hope and believe this is going to deliver some funny, maybe a bit childish stuff. You see I don’t care if the young people of today don’t get it, this franchise was our porkies, this stands at the beginning of our time, this was there to “explain” stuff and not the boring teacher at school, and we took matters in our hands. Just a small warning, this clip is on the vulgar side, so I said it!




So again if you don’t like it screw you, because I’m going to watch it in any case. So as always and here more than ever, be prepared!!

Trailer, the Avengers!!

So what did we have here? A list of known heroes, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, the Green Hulk and a lot of others. All those together they form a group, a special group an extraordinary group, they are the avengers. I’m not sure if you followed the signs and the hints for this movie coming up; they were shown after the credits of those movies. All those together form a good introduction to the avenger movie. In the link below you have all of them together. Its not the best quality but will do!

The next clip is the trailer for the avengers it’s the first trailer coming out and my god it looks amazing, I just love Marvel and the beautiful connections that they make. So enjoy it!

Don’t you just love Tony Stark, this guy is definitely one of the main reasons I can’t wait anymore for this, so as always be prepared!

Review: the fighter

Director: David O. Russell

Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams

Release Date: 30 December 2010

Genres: a true story, Biography and a touch of drama

Memorable quote:

Dickie Eklund: Are you like me? Was just good enough to fight Sugar Ray? Never had to win, did I? You gotta do more in there. You gotta win a title. For you, for me, for Lowell. This is your time, all right? You take it. I had my time and I blew it. You don't have to. All right? You fuckin' get out there, and use all the shit that you've been through, all the shit we've gone through over the fuckin' years, and you put it in that ring right now. This is yours. This is fuckin' yours.

What?

Since I was a child I loved the boxing world. The fact that two people fight against each other and it is allowed made it super interesting for me. Then I got to know the Rocky franchise, I was the biggest fan and I knew all of them by hearth, After all this years another great movie comes by based on the true story of the young boxer Micky Ward, who failed in everything he did until now. Got divorced, lost a lot of fights till this moment and had a sucky ex-boxer- junky as a trainer who just made everything worse. Till he gets the chance of a lifetime and everything starts to go better. Sounds familiar if you have seen Rocky, well this is the real thing!

Yes?
The story wasn’t much of it, an upcoming boxer living in the suburbs in nowhere getting a serious fighting chance. No big deal, but I believe the real big strength of this movie are the actors. Everyone was just on his best here. Yeah even Wahlberg. Normally I don’t see him as a good actor but here he played the role perfectly.

Then we had Christian Bale, this guy is just amazing, he gave everything for this role and he dam well cashed out here, I believe an Oscar counts as cashed out. Then we have Amy Adams actually known for nothing but she was the perfect for this role, the girlfriend who comes between the family and the fighter. The other actors were all just in their good role and made everything looks real.

The environment, the poor suburbs with no hope, drugs and everything just fit the picture in a perfect way. I think that’s enough for here.

The movie brings all this different emotions in place, hope, dreams, excitement, drama and even anger. It shows the decision one needs to make to advance for himself and not hold the weight of others around you.

No?
You could say that for some people the movie would be definitely boring, If you don’t like boxing, maybe this won’t be for you.

I think this was a great movie and I won’t add here anything else/
I write this here, sorry for the delay on this but there was a misunderstanding, I needed to watch this with someone, never had the time, blablabla.

Well…
This movie brings everything that a good movie needs to have, great actors and performance. All this together with the reality of the environment created and you have an Oscar winning movie. If you haven’t yet watched it do it now!

Grade: 8 out of 10

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Review: toy story 3

Director: Lee Unkrich

Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack

Release Date: 17 June 2010

Genres: Animation, some amazing adventure, great comedy for the whole family.

Memorable quote:

Buzz Lightyear: Hold on, this is no time to be hysterical!
Hamm the Piggy Bank: This is the perfect time to be hysterical.
Rex the Green Dinosaur: Should we be HYSTERICAL?
Slinky Dog: No!
Mr. Potato Head: Yes!
Buzz Lightyear: Maybe! But not right now!
Hamm the Piggy Bank: C'mon. Let's go see how much we're going for on eBay.

I know this is an older movie, but I just recently watched it and I believe it’s worth it!!



What?
Andy and our favorite characters from the toy story franchise are back. Only one major difference Andy is going to college, now the toys need to decide their future; escape, or staying and taking the risk to be thrown out or ending in the alley. After a mistake the toys find themselves in a daycare center, which at first sight looks like a heaven for toys, later on this changes and it becomes a living hell on earth which resembles a working camp in Siberia. Woody, who escaped the center before the transformation, returns to save his friends from the claws of the evil teddy bear!

Yes?
I remember the first toy story coming out, the first movie ever made in full animation. It was awesome, and thinks aren't far from the grandfather. The movie was fun, entertaining and we even had some drama. Toy story became a movie for the whole family and not only for kids. Even though we only have Tom hanks's voice his personality comes to light in Woody.
Every toy has his moments and jokes, as also the "bad" toys have. It is amazing how you can make cute teddy become a monstrous creature, same goes for the giant walking baby!

Besides that also the story was nice, you wonder how they could make up something interesting, and the result is just fabulous.

No?
Actually I don't have anything to write here, I thought the movie was good, and this section will just stay kind of blank.

Well...
Of course from my above material you can understand that if you haven't watched Toy story you should get to it. Maybe it’s an animation but it gives you the story of friendship, survival and Loyalty. Watch it dammit!

Grade: 8,5 out of 10

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Runpee, that's right Run and Pee!

I think everyone knows this feeling, situation: You buy a ticket for a great movie at the entrance of the cinema, you buy a large popcorn, a yellow pack of M&M’s and a large coke, not thinking this could ruin the whole movie for you. You enter the theater you sit down, you start drinking and eating, the movie starts and then it happens this annoying feeling, you need to pee! Your hands start to shiver, you start sweating, you just don’t know what to do, am I going to miss something? Should I hold it in? Of course this sounds really dramatic, but this happens to everyone and it sucks! Actually in my case I would probably use the big empty coke for other liquids, but not everyone is like me. Until now! People come up with a lot of stupid websites, without any use for them, but this site and application could change your life. (Or movie experience) This site tells you when to go, for how long and what did you miss. It’s beautiful, simple, and perfect. I won’t elaborate on this too much hereunder you have a link where you can check out the website and from there you’ll find the download link for the application.

I know at the end the guy says don’t download it, but again I think it is up to you, so enjoy, and relax you won’t miss anything!

Review: Sucker Punch

Director: Zack Snyder

Stars: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens and Abbie Cornish

Release Date: 21 April 2011

Genres: Action , Adventure ,Fantasy

memorable quote:

Wiseman: If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

What?
First I Must apologize for the fact that this movie is a bit older, but as I said before, I watch it so I need to review it, so enjoy.

After her mother dies, Baby Doll gets locked up in a mental facility by her abusive dad after she almost kills him. Being kept in hell on earth she uses her imagination to try to escape out of this hellhole. The reality and her imagination are the key for the escape to the other side. To escape she came up with a plan wherein she needs five different items. Every item becomes a different mission, where her fantasies take here to battlefields and missions in the past and the future. All this needs to happen before it is too late!

Yes?
In the trailers before they showed us already the simple fact that the whole movie surrounds eye candy. Yes girls in lingerie with big gun fill the movie theaters. Of course it’s not the most subtle way but it works. The story was quite interesting, and I even enjoyed the fight scenes. I liked all the special effects and big explosions, those came in big contrast to the so fragile little girls fighting in them.

Most of the actors where unknown for me and they did they job, being pretty and kicking ass. On the other hand you had this guide, who I just loved, he had this wisdom and oldness that just leaked from him. And then we had the bad guy, sometimes you have someone who tries to play the bad person and it just doesn’t come of like this, here the bad guy just gave me a bad feeling, he was convincing.

The whole filmed surrounded this darkness you had never any sunlight, everything was macabre and dark which was really good.

No?
A thing that disturbed me was the lack of reality, in every movie, as weird as it should be the reality factor is important here it was just over the top, we had this feeling of Charlie’s Angels in Hell.

The whole package was just not convincing, I just didn’t connect to the whole story, it had definitely some good stuff but not enough to be considered good.

Well…
It was a movie with some good qualities, but all in all not enough to be considered a movie you need to watch, it was childish and not convincing. If you haven’t watched it I think you shouldn’t watch it, only if you have a serious lack in female attention and you like girls in lingerie with guns. Because of all the above I grade this one…

Grade: 6 out of 10

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, Trailer

I must admit this is not my regular kind of Trailer that I show, but considering the fact that I will probably watch it with my wife, I will put it on the blog. In the previous movies you had different level of some action scenes, which were the main interest for movie, and this is actually what you can see in the trailer. Of course the story continues with the same people which are a positive thing. I just hate it when they make sequels with different people, just gives you the feeling that they don’t respect you. What you think I cannot see that it’s not the same actor, insulting! The story looks good, Bella marries the vampire, she gets pregnant, and she is going to explode unless the vampire does “something” crazy. This special something the crazy abs wolf man definitely doesn’t like. This is the story in a nutshell. Just watch it!



As I told you, some cool fights between the cold people and the warm people (I think that’s just nice how I put this one in words) and Bella in the middle. As always be prepared for the ultimate showdown!!

Release date: Around 15 of November

The Double, Trailer!

Everyone knows Richard Gere, some love him for the acting and some love him for the looks. I personally think he is awesome. He has the luxury that he can choose the movies he wants to do and I believe he made an awesome choice in this upcoming movie. It kind of reminds me of Salt with Angelina Jolie, but in a more serious and mysterious way. We have the same basic things, CIA, Russian and assassin; I guess the cold war theme never gets old. So watch the trailer, and choose for what you actually like Richard Gere.



Dam this guy has some serious cool moves. Gere as a super assassin, we could even say the Russian James Bond, maybe I got a bit carried away, but you get the point. As always be prepared!!

Review: Rise of the planet of the apes.

Director: Rupert Wyatt

Stars: James Franco, Andy Serkis and John Lithgow

Release Date: 11 August 2011

Genres: Action, Drama,Sci-Fi (I hope at least) and Thriller

Memorable quote:
Caesar: You know signs?
Maurice: Yes.
Maurice: I was circus orangutan.

What?
The father of Dr. Rodman is suffering from the Alzheimer disease. In a race against time Dr. Rodman tries to find a cure against the horrible disease. To find a cure for his father, different experiments are carried out on a chimp, which alters and genetically-enhances the intelligence of Ceaser a young ape that uses his new power to lead his fellow apes to freedom. Or at least he tries! ( a bit dry, but that’s the story)

Yes?
I watched the trailer as always for this movie, not one but all footage that came out online. I was afraid that it was going to ruin it for me but the opposite happened, it was awesome. The story was great, the effects even better.

A lot of time has passed since I have watched the original planet of the apes from 1968 but I think this movie could easily be a continuance to the original, as we like to call it “the beginning”.

Franco was good, he delivered his part even tough I belived in the beginning he wasn’t capabale of it, he turns out to be a great geek doctor. His father John Lithgow , even tough had only a couple of parts, was awesome. Last but not least we have Ceaser or better said Serkis, I’m not sure if everyone knows this but he is the figure behind King-Kong and Gollum in Lord of the rings, and here it was just spectacular, his moves were just amazing.

Serkis together with the beautiful effects were just great. No need for 3D crap or anything.
Another great thing is even though the apes are kicking the shit out of the humans, the viewer still feels in a weird way of compassion with them, this comes mainly through an amazing connection between the audience and Ceaser the baby chimp that grows older.

No?
Something that definitely bothered me was the division of the movie, the introduction, till the fight or great escape took almost the whole movie, I expected thing to happen faster, and that the escape would be the main part. But again the introduction was really good.

Maybe this is only me but I would love the movie to go further and longer than it actually did, it was quite short considering it was such a huge thing.

Well…
At the end of the movie they still leave an opening for an upcoming something, which was a nice touch, I liked it. If you haven’t watched it yet, go and watch it, at home or at the movies, it was fun and entertaining to watch. And probably tell will come a second one since it quite earned something. Because of all the above I grade this…

Grade: 8 out of 10

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