Wolverine, can someone say dissapointed?

Wow, there's bad film making then there's just a waste of celluloid.

Let's start with the dialogue. No subtext whatsoever it lacked originality and i found myself quoting before the actors even said their lines...so predictable.
And what was with the digital shots. I cannot press enough how much I hate the digital picture look and the filmmakers kept inter cutting digital shots with film!!!!!
And the effects, for some reason the makers decided to use so much budget on everything but wolverine's claws. They looked so fake and even moved around on his hand.
Most of the acting was sloppy barr Ryan Reynolds and the Asian guy whom i cant remember at this point.
The plot was dumb and I spent the first 3 quarters of the movie waiting for it to become interesting, it never did.
And this is not even mentioning the plot hole between this and the other, far superior X-men films.
2/10 one point for Ryan Reynolds the other for the Asian guy and only their beginning scenes
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My brother's Doritos commercial.

This is an ad my brother made for a Doritos commercial, could anyone who reads this blog pleas give it views as well as when it gets put on the site (ill let you know when that happens) please vote!




Thank you! :)

Fired Up!

Wow I was suprised when I saw this film. From the trialers, I was expecting som good ol' teen comedy but I got quite a suprise when i found this movie to be highly entertaining.

The premise is simple, 2 jocks decide to go to cheer camp in order to hook up with the some 300 girls that go there. However, it is what the cast and crew have done with the premise that makes the story so entertaining.The two main leads (Nicholas D'Agosto & Eric Christian Olsen) work very well together and have brilliant back and forths which (I assume from the blooper reel) it seems were improvised. Actually the blooper reel indicated that alot of the funny lines were improvised.

The supporting cast also do a fantastic job without detracting the audience from the main story. One in particular is Juliette Goglia who plays Poppy, the sister of one of the leads. She pulls of a fantastic role of an over-mature girl in a world surrounded by 'morons' and she too pulls some hilarious lines, some of which appeared improvised.

All in all the movie is a nice turn of events from the current teen flick genre (see Twilight [read: rubbish] ). Fired Up! provides some very good laughs entertaining characters and a nice story.

I give Fired Up! 7/10.

Fast & Furious & Crap

What a rubbish movie, i used a free ticket and still feel like i was ripped off.
the Fourth installment in the F&F franchise finally sees Paul Walker and Vin Diesel reunite since the first one in a plot that involves drug trafficking across the border in order to get revenge on the murder of a close one (to Vin's character, Paul kinda just tags along for cop issues).

The movie opens with an oil ("liquid gold" *rolleyes*) truck heist, which never comes up again in the whole film, what a wastes of the budget!The exposition was sloppy with dialogue giving it all away (Big no no). And on top of all of this it is not made for those who haven't seen the others, with references and plot points flying everywhere. The acting was mediocre at best and the cars didn't really feature all that much, it was more about Vin's character getting revenge which completely throws away a lot of the original concept.

Had it not been nighttime and my transport wanting to see the whole film, I would have walked out. 1/10

2 trailers of EPIC movies!

Just saw the trailers for My Sisters Keeper and the new Harry Potter trailer
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

heres the My Sister's Keeper trailer:


What is with all the negative opinions surrounding this movie. I read the book and I believe that if adapted right, it could very well be an Oscar tender (especially for the acting of the two child leads). And there is talk that the ending has been changed which I don't believe, after the ending of The Mist (another Darabont masterpiece) we can see that nothing is really taboo as an ending (I won't ruin it here).

And here is the link to the Harry Potter trailer (I cant find it on youtube it's the 'trailer 4a' in the link).

Need anything else be said. SO EPIC!!!!!!!

Monsters vs Aliens, a Heroes Journey.

Monsters vs Aliens is a prime example that the fable of the heroes journey ALWAYS works.
MvA is a story of a woman who gets transformed into a massive (that's tall) 'monster' called Ginormica. She soon discovers that the government has a small group of monsters gathered over the years to keep from the public eye. But when an alien comes to earth for an invasion it is now up to Susan/Ginormica and the others to save the world.

The story follows the traditional heroes journey and it was exceptionally good. The movie also cleverly incorporates many pop-culture references into the mix from An Inconvenient Truth to Close encounters of the third kind. The humor is also very well placed and even is used as a 'pope in the pool' (a screenwriting technique to distract from exposition) to fantastic effect (the conference scene).

Now the 3D. It was my first viewing of the new 3D business however, all it does is really distract from the plot and i probably would have preferred to watch it normally (which i still might do). the 3D seems to be just a ploy to get larger audiences into theatres but what producers cannot see is that in times of economic crisis people flood to theatres and so this new technology isn't needed. But ah well, it was an experience.

Monsters vs aliens is a fantastic animated movie that very effectively homages those vs films that we so often make fun of. 8/10.

My Ratings System

I should probably explain what i mean by my ratings so as not to confuse.

0/10 = absolute worthless piece of garbage and a waste of celluloid and rape of the eyes.

1/10 = extremely crap

2-4/10 = bad and barely watchable

5/10 = alright movie, many flaws but watchable

6-7/10 = enjoyable movies, some flaws however they are quite watchable (tend to be family movies)

8/10 = very enjoyable movies, good for what they are and very worthwhile and a definite recommendation to see in a cinema

9/10 = Amazing film, fantastic and some of the best in their time/genre.

10/10 = Timeless masterpiece, these are the GREAT films

There you go! :)

"There is nothing beyond the city."

Last Night i had the great honour of watching the director's cut of Dark City. Dark city is one of the most brilliant science fiction movies ever made in my opinion. It is the story of a man apparently named John Murdoch who wakes up to a world he doesn't remember. This world is the Dark City where, at midnight every night, strange figures called the 'Strangers' use the power of Tuning to rearrange the city and its inhabitants as an experiment to search for something.
The Strangers.

Have it be known that this movie was made before the Matrix. The theme revolves around that philosophy where we don't really know if what is around us is real or not and challenges our memories to their limit. The theme questions perceived realities and relationships and whether their existence contains any meaning or is it just someone else's experiment.

Visually, this film is extravagant. Taking motifs from Film Noir and German expressionism, Dark City makes for a brilliant genre mash-up. Film Noir influences are seen in the detective sub-plot with the over hanging lights, the fog and the cynical jokes. While the German expressionism comes in the shape of the Tuning, when the Strangers alter the city the buildings become deformed and out of shape, exposing the falseties of the world that these people believe is their home. and as a final touch, Dark city incorporates a MacGuffin: (an object that drives the story) the elusive Shell Beach that everyone knows but cant remember how to get there.

Not to mention the special effects, which for a 90's movie at some points puts current movies to shame. The tuning ability, the changing city and the ever night are some awesome sights to behold from this movie and i cannot press enough that more films that are special effects heavy need to be more like this: where the effects compliment the story and not the other way around. STORY comes first in any film.

I bought the movie for my brother as a Birthday present because he had seen it as part of a Uni assignment and wouldn't stop raving about it. And when he showed it to me i was simply blown away.Though not the greatest film I have ever seen, Dark City was fantastic and I give it 9/10.

BULLOCKS!!!!! :S

I just found out there is another blog called twenty four frames per second!!!!!!
i shall try to contact them and apologize but i hope we could maybe join forces or something to that effect.

Race to no subplot......

Race to witch mountain..... stuff producers.
The movie has a reasonable premise: a taxi driver suddenly gets thrust into a race against time to return 2 alien children with superpowers to their spaceship to stop an imminent invasion of earth whilst also outrunning the evil Feds and an alien Bounty Hunter.

We get some good performances from Annasophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig who play the children but the rest of the cast simply suck. it felt as if the Rock was only there for a contractual agreement with Disney and anyone could have played the female role of Dr. Alex.
The story followed common conventions (characters making decisions under pressure etc) however the writer set up a subplot involving these Gang(?) members who were bullying the Rock's character and i fully expected the movie to end with him overcoming them and therefore completing his character's journey.... DIDN'T HAPPEN!!!!!

I know as a writer that those details of the subplot wouldn't have been put in there if they were an idiot so the writers (Matt Lopez and Mark Bombak) intended to finish that little story. However i am assuming that idiot Disney Producers/MPAA people assumed that gangs were not appropriate for the story and therefore cut it. This was possibly the worst mistake for the move and it RUINED it.

I am not going to really bore you with the details of the rest of the story because there are too many holes cut out for them to even matter.
I give this movie a 4/10 and the points go to the kids (that's 2 each) they were the only thing that kept me from walking out.

Inkheart.

So for my first post I will review the movie Inkheart.

Inkheart stars the well known Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany and Helen Mirren. But next to this star-studded cast is little known Eliza Bennett who, at some times, outshines her well paid co stars.

Inkheart is about a father who has the ability to bring things (people, money...weather) from books by reading aloud (they are called silvertongues). 12 years ago he read from a book called Inkheart and as a result the villains have come to our world with the intent of world domination, along with his daughter, one of the 40 thieves and a character from the Inkheart book, He must save the world from the clutches of the evil Capricorn played brilliantly by Andy Serkis.

All in all the film is executed very well with some very good cinematography and reasonably good performances and with a strong story to hold it up, the film does very well. My only issue i had within the film is that while Brendan Fraser has an American accent, his daughter has a British one (and since in the story the mother left when she was 3 this doesn't really work) however, aside from that i really enjoyed the film and was pleasantly surprised that there were no 2 minute monologues to solve the problems at the end of the film.

I rate this film 8 & a half/10.