Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!
Before I talk about the movie let me just talk about this for a minute. The Star wars force awakens trailer is freaking awesome! I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan and by that I mean I don't worship at the alter of Star Wars, they didn't change how I looked at anything, heck I didn't even know they were that Iconic and that sacred until I was thirteen. I was more of Planet of the apes and Back to the future and Doctor who science fiction worshiper. I still liked the original trilogy and I even liked the prequel for entertainment reasons but I have to say the new trailer got me really excited and it looked really cool with my favorite parts being seeing John Boyega and Oscar Isaac (go see Attack the block and inside Lewlyn Davis) in seemingly lead roles and the effects for the millennium falcon flying which looked stunning. I am also glad this had no scenes with the old cast because my main fear was that it would be nothing but a Nostalgia fest with all the new ideas shoved into the corner. Yet this trailer gives me hope and really does excite me.
Now back to the movie.
Penguins of Madagascar is an animated spin-off about the penguins Skipper, Private, Rico, and Kowalski who must stop the evil octopus Dave from turning all of the worlds penguins into monsters and team up with the North Wind squad of the wolf leader C.L.A.S.S.I.F.I,E,D , a seal named Short Fuse, Kowalski's new crush an owl named Eva, and a penguin loving polar bear named Corporal. I love this movie.
First off the animation and voice acting is great. The animation is not as unique as Book of life but it lends itself to some really great facial expressions and lends itself to some really tight, really fast action you can see and is very creative and fun to watch. The voice acting in this movie is also really good, the voice actors especially from McGarth, Miller, Vernon and Knight, Malkovitch (who plays Dave and I did not recognize at all) and Cumberbatch (classified.) You can hear that all the actors are having fun. When they are called to be expressive and show emotion everyone delivers giving off some really good personalities to what would be some very stereotypical an d one-note characters.
The best part of the movie is for the most part the writing. Mainly the comedic writing, this movie is funny, entertaining and wonderful because of the way it's written. The jokes very much hit for the most part, with some very funny gags, jokes and cutaways. The movie overall is just crazy from the plot about turning the worlds penguins into hideous monsters just so no one will love them, to some other stuff in the movie such as how the penguins avoid dying from falling out of a jet and some other stuff I don't want to spoil makes it sound like the writers for this movie either each wrote a few pages then handed it off to the next guy to write a few more pages and pass it off until they got to the end or they did a bunch of drugs. In anyone else's hands this movie would have crashed and burned but with the direction and the pace of this movie it turned out to be great and so much fun.
The main bad part about this movie like the book of life (and really a couple of the dreamworks movies in general) is they try to shoe horn a message into this movie that makes no sense and kind of changes from scene to scene when really they would have been fine if they just made this a straight comedy. It doesn't bother me so much hear than in something like the book of life is one A.) Expectations- I had way higher expectation for Book of life than I did for this movie but mostly B.) The writers for the movie spread out the "message" throughout the movie where as The Book of Life shoes horns it so much into the last third it feels out of place and weird.
Still it is very jarring and very much unneeded when it gets brought up
I give this movie a 8/10- Despite the message it's one of the best comedies of the year in my opinion just from how insane and hilarious it is with great voice actors, great actions and fun characters as well.
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Sunday, November 30, 2014
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Weekend box office prediction~Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving! So tomorrow is thanksgiving (no editorial for Thursday because I have to go fill up for winter and will be at relatives houses as well as the fact I have no ideas for one) and the next day Horrible bosses two and Penguins of Madagascar (If I do see a movie I want to go see this one. Also this Friday the star wars force awakens trailer comes out in theaters and Itunes so that is something to be hyped about. Yet today I am going to talk about the box office. So here is my prediction.
Penguins of Madagascar
Weekend box office: $37-$42 million
Domestic box office: $ 60-$120 million
International box office: $120-$200 million
Worldwide box office: $180-$320 million
I loved the first and second Madagascar series (I hated the third one) and I really loved the Penguins of Madagascar cartoon show that used to air on Nickalodeon. I love Benedict Cumberbatch too so it I definitely want to see it.
Horrible Bosses 2
Weekend box office: $28-$33 million
Domestic box office: $77-$99 million
International box office:$53-$61 million
Worldwide box office: $130-$160 million
I and a lot of people liked the first horrible bosses movie and I thought it was pretty cool but Horrible Bosses didn't need a sequel and I am not excited for it in all honesty although I do like most of the cast.
Weekend box office
1.) Hunger Games
2.) Penguins of Madagascar
3.) Horrible Bosses 2
4.) Big Hero six
5.) Interstellar
6.) Gone Girl
7.) Dumb and Dumber to
8.) Beyond the lights
9.) St. Vincent
10.) Fury
So that's my prediction for the weekend box office and have a nice thanksgiving!
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Penguins of Madagascar
Weekend box office: $37-$42 million
Domestic box office: $ 60-$120 million
International box office: $120-$200 million
Worldwide box office: $180-$320 million
I loved the first and second Madagascar series (I hated the third one) and I really loved the Penguins of Madagascar cartoon show that used to air on Nickalodeon. I love Benedict Cumberbatch too so it I definitely want to see it.
Horrible Bosses 2
Weekend box office: $28-$33 million
Domestic box office: $77-$99 million
International box office:$53-$61 million
Worldwide box office: $130-$160 million
I and a lot of people liked the first horrible bosses movie and I thought it was pretty cool but Horrible Bosses didn't need a sequel and I am not excited for it in all honesty although I do like most of the cast.
Weekend box office
1.) Hunger Games
2.) Penguins of Madagascar
3.) Horrible Bosses 2
4.) Big Hero six
5.) Interstellar
6.) Gone Girl
7.) Dumb and Dumber to
8.) Beyond the lights
9.) St. Vincent
10.) Fury
So that's my prediction for the weekend box office and have a nice thanksgiving!
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Monday, November 24, 2014
Weekend box office- Hunger Games is the big winner and the big loser
This weekend Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1 came out to a big win but not the one everyone wanted. I and most of Hollywood predicted $155 million while in actuality it made $123 million which is awesome especially considering it beats out Transformers for the biggest opening of the year. In my opinion it was probably due to the stigma of part 1 and 2 movies (I loved the movie and even I said in my review it could have been easily condensed), Jennifer Lawrence burn out and not the best word of mouth of all the franchise. Well here's the rest of the box office.
Weekend box office
1.) The Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1: $123 million
2.) Big hero six: $20 million
3.) Interstellar: $15 million
4.) Dumb and Dumber To: $14 million
5.) Gone Girl: $2.8 million
6.) Beyond the lights: $2.6 million
7.) St. Vincent: $2.2 million
8.) Fury: $1.9 million
9.) Birdman: $1.8 million
10.) Theory of everything: $1.5 million
So that's the weekend box office and I'm glad to see Gone Girl, Big hero six, and St. Vincent are doing so well since I love all those movies. I haven't seen Birdman yet but I am glad Michael Keaton has a mini hit on his hands.
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Weekend box office
1.) The Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1: $123 million
2.) Big hero six: $20 million
3.) Interstellar: $15 million
4.) Dumb and Dumber To: $14 million
5.) Gone Girl: $2.8 million
6.) Beyond the lights: $2.6 million
7.) St. Vincent: $2.2 million
8.) Fury: $1.9 million
9.) Birdman: $1.8 million
10.) Theory of everything: $1.5 million
So that's the weekend box office and I'm glad to see Gone Girl, Big hero six, and St. Vincent are doing so well since I love all those movies. I haven't seen Birdman yet but I am glad Michael Keaton has a mini hit on his hands.
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Sunday, November 23, 2014
Hunger Games MockingJay part 1 review
Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!
Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1 is the fourth entry of the Hunger Games franchise. In this film our hero Katniss Everdeen has escaped the 75th Hunger Games and has been brought to district thirteen the home of the rebel force, despite having her district blown up (hey it's been a year fair game) and leaving behind Peeta Mellark Katniss must become a beacon of hope (through the use of Propaganda) of the other districts of Panem who must rise up and defeat the evil capital.
Before I get into the actual I have something to say and it doesn't lower my score for the actual movie it's just that the whole Part 1 and Part 2 aspect of a finale movie is getting ridicules. For something like Harry Potter and the deathly hallows and soon to be Avengers infinity war which are huge stories that would need two parts in order to properly tell the story and still have a good movie but when it comes to something like Twilight breaking dawn which could easily be cut down in a ninety minute to two hour movie and Hunger Games Mockingjay which is the shortest book in the Hunger Games franchise, I get money is money but still it's kind of annoying when you can literally figure out how to condense it into one movie. Yet that doesn't change the fact that Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 is a phenomenal movie and my favorite in the series so far.
What I like is that Mockingjay part 1 is a movie about the character of Katniss and why you care about her.
I do care if a female is a good role model but what I care more about is that she's still a character and not just a role model. Which is why I was never that impressed with the character of Katniss I felt she was more a role model than an actual person. Yet here where we get to see Katniss at her both most real and her most vulnerable you get a sense of who she is as a person and want her to succeed and live a happy life. This in my opinion is my favorite Jennifer Lawrence performance. I am half and half typically on Jennifer Lawrence: I really liked her as Mystique in X-men First class, thought she was bad in Days of future past, I liked her in Silver Linnings play book but thought she didn't deserve that Oscar, didn't like her in American hustle and thought she was OK at best in the last two hunger games. I think she is a good actress but I hardly get to see her range.
Yet here we see her go through so many emotions, with a level of realness and natural rawness that reminds you Jennifer Lawrence is a good actress. The movie is more of a character study than anything else. Some people will complain about the lack of action but that doesn't make it any less of a thrilling movie. There is so much suspense about character fates and with the plot that you really don't need so much action to get entertained. I also like that the movie is big enough to allow moments of calm and peace specifically when Katniss sings this (way too catchy song) and playing with the cat.
The movie is also a movie about propaganda which is really interesting and adds a new dimension we haven't seen and shows us how important it cane be. I also like whenever they do a propaganda video they show the chain reaction it causes in the other districts which I loved. This is also a pretty dark movie with some pretty dark imagery and scenes with you actually seeing people getting shot and dying. So be careful when taking little kids to see this.
The side characters, which have been my favorite part of these movies, get small roles but very key and good roles and all the actors do a very good job. Woody Harrelson is good as Haymitch like in the other films although his part has been downgraded he's still good along with the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Plutar Nash who is very good along with Julianne Moore as president Coin. Effie Trinket is my favorite in the series and Elizabeth Banks is awesome in the role and Effie adds a lot of levity and entertaining even though she's in a very sad place in her life right now. Willow Shields does is great as Prim and brings a lot of heart to the movie. Sam Clafin and Josh Hutchinson probably get the most downgraded roles but every time we see either of them they always makes an impact.
The action we do see (which is very few) is good as well as all of the practical effects.
Now no movie is perfect so is there anything wrong with the film? Well earlier I mentioned the practical effects were good the CGI effects... god they are bad. They do one of my new pet peeves in movies which are CGI animals, how hard is it to get a real deer and just let it roam around. I get it with fantasy animals like dragons but when it's a freaking deer the cheaper thing to do would be to get a real one. A lot of the CGI effects looked really noticeable and I don't know if the special effects artist were rushed or because most of the budget for effects went to part 2 but god it was bad. Especially when they showed sick Peeta which looked so noticeable it wasn't even funny, I mean how hard was it to put make up on Josh Hutchinson it would have made the progression look more natural.
The beginning of the movie is also very abrupt and it makes it seem like fifteen minutes was cut from the finale product and it threw me off the movie for fifteen minutes. It also ends abruptly and unlike Hunger Games Catching fire where it ends on a perfect moment it feels really sudden.
I give this movie a 9/10~ Bad CGI effects and abrupt beginning and end it's still a phenominal movie and makes you care about Katniss if you didn't before with an interesting plot and enough suspense to keep you going.
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Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1 is the fourth entry of the Hunger Games franchise. In this film our hero Katniss Everdeen has escaped the 75th Hunger Games and has been brought to district thirteen the home of the rebel force, despite having her district blown up (hey it's been a year fair game) and leaving behind Peeta Mellark Katniss must become a beacon of hope (through the use of Propaganda) of the other districts of Panem who must rise up and defeat the evil capital.
Before I get into the actual I have something to say and it doesn't lower my score for the actual movie it's just that the whole Part 1 and Part 2 aspect of a finale movie is getting ridicules. For something like Harry Potter and the deathly hallows and soon to be Avengers infinity war which are huge stories that would need two parts in order to properly tell the story and still have a good movie but when it comes to something like Twilight breaking dawn which could easily be cut down in a ninety minute to two hour movie and Hunger Games Mockingjay which is the shortest book in the Hunger Games franchise, I get money is money but still it's kind of annoying when you can literally figure out how to condense it into one movie. Yet that doesn't change the fact that Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 is a phenomenal movie and my favorite in the series so far.
What I like is that Mockingjay part 1 is a movie about the character of Katniss and why you care about her.
I do care if a female is a good role model but what I care more about is that she's still a character and not just a role model. Which is why I was never that impressed with the character of Katniss I felt she was more a role model than an actual person. Yet here where we get to see Katniss at her both most real and her most vulnerable you get a sense of who she is as a person and want her to succeed and live a happy life. This in my opinion is my favorite Jennifer Lawrence performance. I am half and half typically on Jennifer Lawrence: I really liked her as Mystique in X-men First class, thought she was bad in Days of future past, I liked her in Silver Linnings play book but thought she didn't deserve that Oscar, didn't like her in American hustle and thought she was OK at best in the last two hunger games. I think she is a good actress but I hardly get to see her range.
Yet here we see her go through so many emotions, with a level of realness and natural rawness that reminds you Jennifer Lawrence is a good actress. The movie is more of a character study than anything else. Some people will complain about the lack of action but that doesn't make it any less of a thrilling movie. There is so much suspense about character fates and with the plot that you really don't need so much action to get entertained. I also like that the movie is big enough to allow moments of calm and peace specifically when Katniss sings this (way too catchy song) and playing with the cat.
The movie is also a movie about propaganda which is really interesting and adds a new dimension we haven't seen and shows us how important it cane be. I also like whenever they do a propaganda video they show the chain reaction it causes in the other districts which I loved. This is also a pretty dark movie with some pretty dark imagery and scenes with you actually seeing people getting shot and dying. So be careful when taking little kids to see this.
The side characters, which have been my favorite part of these movies, get small roles but very key and good roles and all the actors do a very good job. Woody Harrelson is good as Haymitch like in the other films although his part has been downgraded he's still good along with the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Plutar Nash who is very good along with Julianne Moore as president Coin. Effie Trinket is my favorite in the series and Elizabeth Banks is awesome in the role and Effie adds a lot of levity and entertaining even though she's in a very sad place in her life right now. Willow Shields does is great as Prim and brings a lot of heart to the movie. Sam Clafin and Josh Hutchinson probably get the most downgraded roles but every time we see either of them they always makes an impact.
The action we do see (which is very few) is good as well as all of the practical effects.
Now no movie is perfect so is there anything wrong with the film? Well earlier I mentioned the practical effects were good the CGI effects... god they are bad. They do one of my new pet peeves in movies which are CGI animals, how hard is it to get a real deer and just let it roam around. I get it with fantasy animals like dragons but when it's a freaking deer the cheaper thing to do would be to get a real one. A lot of the CGI effects looked really noticeable and I don't know if the special effects artist were rushed or because most of the budget for effects went to part 2 but god it was bad. Especially when they showed sick Peeta which looked so noticeable it wasn't even funny, I mean how hard was it to put make up on Josh Hutchinson it would have made the progression look more natural.
The beginning of the movie is also very abrupt and it makes it seem like fifteen minutes was cut from the finale product and it threw me off the movie for fifteen minutes. It also ends abruptly and unlike Hunger Games Catching fire where it ends on a perfect moment it feels really sudden.
I give this movie a 9/10~ Bad CGI effects and abrupt beginning and end it's still a phenominal movie and makes you care about Katniss if you didn't before with an interesting plot and enough suspense to keep you going.
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Thursday, November 20, 2014
Box office prediction~ Jennifer Lawrence for the win
So the only movie of worth and the movie I am really excited for is Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1 (even though it's the shortest book in the series but that's neither here nor there.) I am excited for the movie but the marketing hasn't been a really memorable but just on the name Hunger Games and Jennifer Lawrence alone people will go flock to see this one. Here's my prediction
Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1 Box office prediction
Weekend box office box office: $145-$155 million
Domestic box office: $300-$410 million
International box office: $ 550-$600 million
World wide box office office: $850-$ 1,100 billion
Yeah expect Hunger Games Mockingjay to make every other movie this year look like it all flopped at the box office. Hunger Games catching fire was really good and with the demand for female lead movies this will make a lot of money. Especially the next one part 2 which spoiler alert! if it follows the book will have a big tear jerking what the hell you heart less directors moment.
Weekend box office
1.) Hunger Games
2.) Dumb and Dumber to
3.) Big Hero six
4.) Interstellar
5.) Gone Girl
6.) Beyond the lights
7.)St. Vincent
8.) Fury
9.) Ouiji
10.) Night crawler
That's my weekend box office prediction and if I'm not dead from a cold an editorial tomorrow and a movie review on Friday or Sunday (I have an eight hour debate tournament on Saturday.)
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Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1 Box office prediction
Weekend box office box office: $145-$155 million
Domestic box office: $300-$410 million
International box office: $ 550-$600 million
World wide box office office: $850-$ 1,100 billion
Yeah expect Hunger Games Mockingjay to make every other movie this year look like it all flopped at the box office. Hunger Games catching fire was really good and with the demand for female lead movies this will make a lot of money. Especially the next one part 2 which spoiler alert! if it follows the book will have a big tear jerking what the hell you heart less directors moment.
Weekend box office
1.) Hunger Games
2.) Dumb and Dumber to
3.) Big Hero six
4.) Interstellar
5.) Gone Girl
6.) Beyond the lights
7.)St. Vincent
8.) Fury
9.) Ouiji
10.) Night crawler
That's my weekend box office prediction and if I'm not dead from a cold an editorial tomorrow and a movie review on Friday or Sunday (I have an eight hour debate tournament on Saturday.)
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Monday, November 17, 2014
Weekend box office~ It just gets dumber from here
OK I am trying to get back to form and better so here it is the weekend box office. One movie came out wide release to any significance "Dumb and Dumber to" which opened overall good and to pretty mediocre reviews. Anyway Hunger Games next week should really whip up something big so lets see what happened THIS week.
Weekend box office
1.) Dumb and Dumber to~ $36 million
2.) Big hero six- $ 34 million
3.) Interstellar- $ 28 million
4.) Beyond the lights- $ 6 million
5.) Gone Girl- $4.5 million
6.) St. Vincent- $3.7 million
7.) Fury- $3.7 million
8.) Ouji- $2.9 million
9.) Night crawler- $2.9 million
10.) Birdman- $ 2.4 million
So that's the weekend box office for this week, I am glad to see Big Hero six and Gone Girl in the top five because I love both movies and same for St. Vincent in the top ten because it's a very good movie too. Next week Hunger games can't wait!
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Weekend box office
1.) Dumb and Dumber to~ $36 million
2.) Big hero six- $ 34 million
3.) Interstellar- $ 28 million
4.) Beyond the lights- $ 6 million
5.) Gone Girl- $4.5 million
6.) St. Vincent- $3.7 million
7.) Fury- $3.7 million
8.) Ouji- $2.9 million
9.) Night crawler- $2.9 million
10.) Birdman- $ 2.4 million
So that's the weekend box office for this week, I am glad to see Big Hero six and Gone Girl in the top five because I love both movies and same for St. Vincent in the top ten because it's a very good movie too. Next week Hunger games can't wait!
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Saturday, November 15, 2014
Netflix movie review~ Death of a superhero review
Yes I am back from the dead! I am still in school and one of my electives in school is debate in which I have to go to a lot of tournaments.Typically I still try to do these blog updates but because the lead up to this tournament has been awful and my brain has been frazzled I am just getting back to this today so sorry. Also yeah this is going to be a movie from Netflix movie review because being at a point in school where I still can't drive by myself I'm at the whim of my parents who invited both grandparents tonight (on Friday my dad wasn't home and Foxcatcher wasn't playing anywhere near by.)
The film death of a superhero stars Andy Serkis (Hail Caesar) and Thomas Brodie Sangster (Simon from Nanny McPhee or more recently one of the better characters and actors of Maze Runner Newt.) Thomas Brodie Sangster is a terminally ill cancer patient Donald Clarke who slowly is falling out of his messed up reality into his superhero imagination and is desperate to have sex once before he dies, worried his parents send him to Dr. Adrien King (Serkis) for help.
A couple months back I reviewed The fault in our stars and was for the most part very positive about it and said it was very genuine. After seeing this movie later and watching The fault in our stars again, TFIOS has kind of gone down in my opinion and seems a bit more cheesy. Death of a superhero is extremely genuine, extremely good, extremely heartfelt and extremely melancholy as well.
The premise seems like that cheesy hallmark movie type synopsis with the golden therapist bringing up the young mans spirit about an impossible situation. Well not really actually. While Dr. King does bring Donald some compassion and companionship this is Donald's story and ultimately he brings himself to accept what might occur. This is one of the most genuine stories about a cancer patient I've ever seen, it brings the anger, and pain that comes with the inevitability of death.
The characters of this movie are very good and they are all very relate able and very like able realistic people, they're people first above all else which is what characters should be. In this the star is Donald (Brodie-Sangster) and the person you like the most is Donald which is credited not only to the writer of this movie but of Brodie-Sangster's performance as Donald and the realism and insight he brings to what could have been a hit or miss Character. Serkis is really good in this and is actually in the movie very little but creates a strong impact. All the performances are very good especially in a film that is basically the slice of life of a cancer patient but at the same time still a good one.
Now this being titled death of a superhero there is actual animation in this film and it's actually really good and it brings the metaphor of Donald's life out and fleshes it out. With Donald feeling cancer is like being a superhero so he can't "get" with any girl.
The script of this movie is very good with very crisp and fast yet slow and relate able dialogue with just a plain good story and characters.
If there is one problem with this movie is that the ending is a bit cheesy and my problem with these kind of films is the end (literally and figuratively) and how it's portrayed. I'm not going to get into too much detail except that while I can get it's upsetting to show something like that but from the start the movie is willing to show some dark stuff and I wished they had gone big or gone home. Yet that's just me.
I once put this up as a netflix pic and called it one of my new favorite movies which it is, so go see it on Netflix.
I give this movie a 9/10~ eh ending but great movie overall.
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The film death of a superhero stars Andy Serkis (Hail Caesar) and Thomas Brodie Sangster (Simon from Nanny McPhee or more recently one of the better characters and actors of Maze Runner Newt.) Thomas Brodie Sangster is a terminally ill cancer patient Donald Clarke who slowly is falling out of his messed up reality into his superhero imagination and is desperate to have sex once before he dies, worried his parents send him to Dr. Adrien King (Serkis) for help.
A couple months back I reviewed The fault in our stars and was for the most part very positive about it and said it was very genuine. After seeing this movie later and watching The fault in our stars again, TFIOS has kind of gone down in my opinion and seems a bit more cheesy. Death of a superhero is extremely genuine, extremely good, extremely heartfelt and extremely melancholy as well.
The premise seems like that cheesy hallmark movie type synopsis with the golden therapist bringing up the young mans spirit about an impossible situation. Well not really actually. While Dr. King does bring Donald some compassion and companionship this is Donald's story and ultimately he brings himself to accept what might occur. This is one of the most genuine stories about a cancer patient I've ever seen, it brings the anger, and pain that comes with the inevitability of death.
The characters of this movie are very good and they are all very relate able and very like able realistic people, they're people first above all else which is what characters should be. In this the star is Donald (Brodie-Sangster) and the person you like the most is Donald which is credited not only to the writer of this movie but of Brodie-Sangster's performance as Donald and the realism and insight he brings to what could have been a hit or miss Character. Serkis is really good in this and is actually in the movie very little but creates a strong impact. All the performances are very good especially in a film that is basically the slice of life of a cancer patient but at the same time still a good one.
Now this being titled death of a superhero there is actual animation in this film and it's actually really good and it brings the metaphor of Donald's life out and fleshes it out. With Donald feeling cancer is like being a superhero so he can't "get" with any girl.
The script of this movie is very good with very crisp and fast yet slow and relate able dialogue with just a plain good story and characters.
If there is one problem with this movie is that the ending is a bit cheesy and my problem with these kind of films is the end (literally and figuratively) and how it's portrayed. I'm not going to get into too much detail except that while I can get it's upsetting to show something like that but from the start the movie is willing to show some dark stuff and I wished they had gone big or gone home. Yet that's just me.
I once put this up as a netflix pic and called it one of my new favorite movies which it is, so go see it on Netflix.
I give this movie a 9/10~ eh ending but great movie overall.
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Sunday, November 9, 2014
Big Hero Six review
Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!
Big Hero six is a loosely based comic book animated movie on an obscure marvel comic book (yes even more obscure than Guardians of the galaxy.) The film is takes place in San Fransokyo (if San Francisco was colonized or taken over by the Japanese) about Hiro Hamada (love the name) a fourteen year old genius with a interest in robotics, who uses his talents in robot fighting until one day his older brother Tadashi brings him to the university he goes to where he meets GoGo Tomago, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Fred and Baymax, a personal health android Tadashi created. He convinces Hiro to enroll in the school but sadly a tragedy at the university science fair occurs and Hiro is left in a depression and Baymax tries to cheer him up, then a villain named the Yokai. So now Hiro and his friends must become the Big Hero six to defeat them.
I love this movie so much.
First off on the technical stand point this movie is gorgeous with the use of colors and the anime Japanese influence this movie pops and dazzles, it is that beautiful. This movie also has the best action I've seen in any movie so far due to the characters powers and the fact you can see it all and the camera stays still it is eye-widening and just straight up cool. This is also a very creative movie with the concept of San Fransokyo and the characters powers it creates such a big world of science and colors.
Yet the best part is the story and the characters. First the side characters of GoGo, Honey, Wasabi, and Fred are a lot of fun and super likeable giving us a lot of great character moments that make you fall in love with them. Hiro's brother Tadashi is a lot of fun too, he edges on uncle Ben territory (more marauder than person) but we still get surprisingly a lot of time with him so we grow to like him a lot. The Villain of the movie Yokai is one of the coolest design and power set villains of this year although his story is a revenge story due to the themes of the movie it is used to great effect although it's one of those "who is it" villains and because their were really only two options which kind of undermines it although of the two I am glad they went with him rather than the alternative.
The main focus of this movie is Hiro and Baymax. I really like the character of Hiro because:
A.) He's not stupid
B.)He uses his head
C.) Goes through a good character arc
D.) Is serious and not goofy
These are all things I like in main characters and Hiro is easily on my top twenty (not quite top ten) favorite characters list. Yet the star is Baymax the loveable, huggable and dimensional android. I like that they don't make it where he develops feelings and "gains a soul" in this movie rather he just learns to process and understand humans. The one of the main thrust is the relationship between Baymax and Hiro which is very genuine and heartfelt. This is also one of the two movies (the other was The Help) where I cred due to a scene near the end with Baymax and Hiro.
My favorite part though is the story and themes of the movie. The main two themes of the movie is the cycle of revenge and letting go of the dead. These are themes we've seen in a bunch of other movies but it is done so well. If the villain in this movie did not try to seek revenge Hiro would not have gone after him for revenge for his brother (spoiler!), and creating one of the two darkest scenes I've ever seen in a kids movie where Hiro almost murders him with Baymax (and for a second I swear to god I thought that they were going to go through with it and kill the villain but thankfully Honey stopped Hiro.) And the only way the cycle of revenge stops his when Hiro let's go of his brother. This is one of the most well written movies of 2014 for me so far.
Now that I am done basically worshiping this movie what are it's flaws? Well for one thing along with the villain kind of being predictable this movie's pacing goes way too fast, by the time the movie ended I was like "that's it?" I know the whole kids with short attention spans thing but at the same time the movie would have been stronger with an extra half hour and if your quality is good enough kids will excuse an extra half hour to sit and enjoy. It irritated me so much because I loved this movie so much but hated the pacing of it.
Also because this is a Marvel property there is an after credits scene that is so cool and a Stan Lee cameo that is amazing!
I give this movie a 9/10~ Fix the pacing and villain of the movie this would be a perfect film
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Big Hero six is a loosely based comic book animated movie on an obscure marvel comic book (yes even more obscure than Guardians of the galaxy.) The film is takes place in San Fransokyo (if San Francisco was colonized or taken over by the Japanese) about Hiro Hamada (love the name) a fourteen year old genius with a interest in robotics, who uses his talents in robot fighting until one day his older brother Tadashi brings him to the university he goes to where he meets GoGo Tomago, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Fred and Baymax, a personal health android Tadashi created. He convinces Hiro to enroll in the school but sadly a tragedy at the university science fair occurs and Hiro is left in a depression and Baymax tries to cheer him up, then a villain named the Yokai. So now Hiro and his friends must become the Big Hero six to defeat them.
I love this movie so much.
First off on the technical stand point this movie is gorgeous with the use of colors and the anime Japanese influence this movie pops and dazzles, it is that beautiful. This movie also has the best action I've seen in any movie so far due to the characters powers and the fact you can see it all and the camera stays still it is eye-widening and just straight up cool. This is also a very creative movie with the concept of San Fransokyo and the characters powers it creates such a big world of science and colors.
Yet the best part is the story and the characters. First the side characters of GoGo, Honey, Wasabi, and Fred are a lot of fun and super likeable giving us a lot of great character moments that make you fall in love with them. Hiro's brother Tadashi is a lot of fun too, he edges on uncle Ben territory (more marauder than person) but we still get surprisingly a lot of time with him so we grow to like him a lot. The Villain of the movie Yokai is one of the coolest design and power set villains of this year although his story is a revenge story due to the themes of the movie it is used to great effect although it's one of those "who is it" villains and because their were really only two options which kind of undermines it although of the two I am glad they went with him rather than the alternative.
The main focus of this movie is Hiro and Baymax. I really like the character of Hiro because:
A.) He's not stupid
B.)He uses his head
C.) Goes through a good character arc
D.) Is serious and not goofy
These are all things I like in main characters and Hiro is easily on my top twenty (not quite top ten) favorite characters list. Yet the star is Baymax the loveable, huggable and dimensional android. I like that they don't make it where he develops feelings and "gains a soul" in this movie rather he just learns to process and understand humans. The one of the main thrust is the relationship between Baymax and Hiro which is very genuine and heartfelt. This is also one of the two movies (the other was The Help) where I cred due to a scene near the end with Baymax and Hiro.
My favorite part though is the story and themes of the movie. The main two themes of the movie is the cycle of revenge and letting go of the dead. These are themes we've seen in a bunch of other movies but it is done so well. If the villain in this movie did not try to seek revenge Hiro would not have gone after him for revenge for his brother (spoiler!), and creating one of the two darkest scenes I've ever seen in a kids movie where Hiro almost murders him with Baymax (and for a second I swear to god I thought that they were going to go through with it and kill the villain but thankfully Honey stopped Hiro.) And the only way the cycle of revenge stops his when Hiro let's go of his brother. This is one of the most well written movies of 2014 for me so far.
Now that I am done basically worshiping this movie what are it's flaws? Well for one thing along with the villain kind of being predictable this movie's pacing goes way too fast, by the time the movie ended I was like "that's it?" I know the whole kids with short attention spans thing but at the same time the movie would have been stronger with an extra half hour and if your quality is good enough kids will excuse an extra half hour to sit and enjoy. It irritated me so much because I loved this movie so much but hated the pacing of it.
Also because this is a Marvel property there is an after credits scene that is so cool and a Stan Lee cameo that is amazing!
I give this movie a 9/10~ Fix the pacing and villain of the movie this would be a perfect film
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Saturday, November 8, 2014
Editorial- Naruto
In 2007 I stayed up really late on Saturday night, while watching Cartoon Network it suddenly changed their was this ship, a space guy and something about something called Toonami. Then this show came on called Naruto and that's where it all began when I was eight. I know it's super inappropriate for an eight year old barely in second grade to be watching anime (especially the episode I caught was the first episode which had a lot of violence and the first use sexy jutsu.) As it just so happened their was a marathon from that episode to later learned final episode of the land of waves arc (Yeah I was basically up all night.)
In the end I fell in love with the series because of the world it created, the characters and the story. It inspired me to want to go in a field that involved story telling (either literature or movies) in order to do that because it was so amazing. Naruto made me the person I am today. So Naruto is very important to me and it feels really strange it has ended. It feels like I am officially out of childhood and getting more and more closer to adulthood.
Now my general thoughts is I love the series but that doesn't mean it's always been good, the first part of Naruto is legitimately good throughout the whole thing and is the perfect example of how you should progress a story from a simple one to a bigger world built emotionally deep story, was it perfect heck no it could be inappropriately silly and had not the best female characters but overall it was still good in story, character and emotional development.
Naruto shippuden overall it's hit or miss there are a lot of aspects I really love about it from how they made the new villains and how good the story arcs could get, how dark it could get and again the development of the characters both story wise and emotionally. The miss parts of it were that Sasuke became intolerable to read or watch about because even before or after he got his revenge he was still whiny, annoying and bitchy and it felt infuriating how Naruto and Sakura still wanted Sasuke to turn good because it was a thing of that you could tell he's too far gone. It could also get really convoluted at times and kind of stupid and explain things we didn't need to know.
The worst arc for either part one and shippuden has to be the fourth great war arc which started out great with all the shinobi coming together to fight Tobi, and the action and introductions to characters like Darui and expanding on other characters such as B and A. Yet after the reveal of Tobi it got really convoluted and stupid such as the connection of love and the sharingan, bringing back Orochimaru, the whole chakra-tree-of-Eden-first-shinobi bullshit. I hate when writers try to hide or out right lie about reveals to pull off "clever twists" but it's also infuriating to know the origins of things we didn't need to or want to know such as how Chakra was created.
I do still love the series despite how bad the Fourth shinobi war/final arc got (and at times it got really horrible) and I did like the epilogue which I found really heartwarming and a good send off.
I am writing this to sort of get my feelings out on Naruto and what effect it has on me because, because of Naruto I look at how to write characters and stories very differently and think about what you can really do with it even some of the most insane stuff can be great story telling devices. It's unfortunate how low of an opinion "the mainstream" typically has on anime and manga because it can be really great and while it has many flaws and got really bad near the end I could get really great and I still love it.
So that's my feelings on the end of Naruto and I'm really sad about it now. Also here's my customary list on some Naruto things.
Favorite male character: Kakashi Hatake and/or Gaara
Favorite female character: Hinata Hyuga
Least favorite male character: Sasuke Uchiha
Least favorite female character: Sakura Haruno
Favorite male villian: Haku
Favorite female villian: Konan
Least favorite male villian: Orochimaru
Least favorite female villian: Kaguya Otsutsuki
Favorite story arc: The chunin exams
Least favorite arc: Final arc
Favorite Jutsu: Any and all wood style Jutsu's
Least Favorite Jutsu: Rasengan (lost it's cool factor and it's power threat when it became used so much in Shippuden which was another flaw how often they used the same jutsu in Shippuden.)
So that's it see you later for big hero six review
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In the end I fell in love with the series because of the world it created, the characters and the story. It inspired me to want to go in a field that involved story telling (either literature or movies) in order to do that because it was so amazing. Naruto made me the person I am today. So Naruto is very important to me and it feels really strange it has ended. It feels like I am officially out of childhood and getting more and more closer to adulthood.
Now my general thoughts is I love the series but that doesn't mean it's always been good, the first part of Naruto is legitimately good throughout the whole thing and is the perfect example of how you should progress a story from a simple one to a bigger world built emotionally deep story, was it perfect heck no it could be inappropriately silly and had not the best female characters but overall it was still good in story, character and emotional development.
Naruto shippuden overall it's hit or miss there are a lot of aspects I really love about it from how they made the new villains and how good the story arcs could get, how dark it could get and again the development of the characters both story wise and emotionally. The miss parts of it were that Sasuke became intolerable to read or watch about because even before or after he got his revenge he was still whiny, annoying and bitchy and it felt infuriating how Naruto and Sakura still wanted Sasuke to turn good because it was a thing of that you could tell he's too far gone. It could also get really convoluted at times and kind of stupid and explain things we didn't need to know.
The worst arc for either part one and shippuden has to be the fourth great war arc which started out great with all the shinobi coming together to fight Tobi, and the action and introductions to characters like Darui and expanding on other characters such as B and A. Yet after the reveal of Tobi it got really convoluted and stupid such as the connection of love and the sharingan, bringing back Orochimaru, the whole chakra-tree-of-Eden-first-shinobi bullshit. I hate when writers try to hide or out right lie about reveals to pull off "clever twists" but it's also infuriating to know the origins of things we didn't need to or want to know such as how Chakra was created.
I do still love the series despite how bad the Fourth shinobi war/final arc got (and at times it got really horrible) and I did like the epilogue which I found really heartwarming and a good send off.
I am writing this to sort of get my feelings out on Naruto and what effect it has on me because, because of Naruto I look at how to write characters and stories very differently and think about what you can really do with it even some of the most insane stuff can be great story telling devices. It's unfortunate how low of an opinion "the mainstream" typically has on anime and manga because it can be really great and while it has many flaws and got really bad near the end I could get really great and I still love it.
So that's my feelings on the end of Naruto and I'm really sad about it now. Also here's my customary list on some Naruto things.
Favorite male character: Kakashi Hatake and/or Gaara
Favorite female character: Hinata Hyuga
Least favorite male character: Sasuke Uchiha
Least favorite female character: Sakura Haruno
Favorite male villian: Haku
Favorite female villian: Konan
Least favorite male villian: Orochimaru
Least favorite female villian: Kaguya Otsutsuki
Favorite story arc: The chunin exams
Least favorite arc: Final arc
Favorite Jutsu: Any and all wood style Jutsu's
Least Favorite Jutsu: Rasengan (lost it's cool factor and it's power threat when it became used so much in Shippuden which was another flaw how often they used the same jutsu in Shippuden.)
So that's it see you later for big hero six review
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Weekend box office prediction~ Battle of the fans
Two big movies are coming out this weekend Interstellar and Big Hero six (which I will be seeing and reviewing.) Both about science with one being a giant space opera while the other is an action-packed superhero robotics movie. So lets see how I think these movies might do?
Interstellar
Weekend box office: $70-$85 million
Domestic box office: $ 150-$250 million
International box office: $ 250-$ 550 million
World wide box office: $400- $ 800 million]
I am luke-warm on Christopher Nolan myself but he is a box office draw himself among both fans and critics and this has been anticipated for a while so you know their will be a turn out.
Big Hero six
Weekend box office: $50-$65 million
Domestic box office: $ 100-$200 million
International box office: $ 200-$250 million
World wide box office: $300-$450 million
While Big hero six is an unknown property their are a lot of elements helping this movie to succeed at the box office such as it's a family film, it's shorter than Interstellar, it's a marvel property, and the Disney marketing strategy while it probably won't top Interstellar it will have a crowd and the word of mouth has been excellent for this movie.
Weekend box office prediction
1.) Interstellar
2.) Big Hero six
3.) Ouiji
4.) Nightcrawler
5.) Fury
6.) Gone Girl
7.) Book of life
8.)John Wick
9.) St. Vincent
10.) The Judge
That's my weekend box office prediction and either tomorrow or Friday....whatever I think of.
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Interstellar
Weekend box office: $70-$85 million
Domestic box office: $ 150-$250 million
International box office: $ 250-$ 550 million
World wide box office: $400- $ 800 million]
I am luke-warm on Christopher Nolan myself but he is a box office draw himself among both fans and critics and this has been anticipated for a while so you know their will be a turn out.
Big Hero six
Weekend box office: $50-$65 million
Domestic box office: $ 100-$200 million
International box office: $ 200-$250 million
World wide box office: $300-$450 million
While Big hero six is an unknown property their are a lot of elements helping this movie to succeed at the box office such as it's a family film, it's shorter than Interstellar, it's a marvel property, and the Disney marketing strategy while it probably won't top Interstellar it will have a crowd and the word of mouth has been excellent for this movie.
Weekend box office prediction
1.) Interstellar
2.) Big Hero six
3.) Ouiji
4.) Nightcrawler
5.) Fury
6.) Gone Girl
7.) Book of life
8.)John Wick
9.) St. Vincent
10.) The Judge
That's my weekend box office prediction and either tomorrow or Friday....whatever I think of.
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Monday, November 3, 2014
Alexander and the terrible horrible no good very bad day review
Somewhat Spoilers
Alexander (no way am I typing out that full title throughout this review) is based on the thirty-two page children's book about a boy named Alexander who has a terrible, horrible no good very bad day. The book itself focuses solely on Alexander as he goes through his day where as the eighty-two minute movie focuses more on his family then it does on the title character himself.
Now I am not going to try and compare the book to the movie and before you say "It's a book adaptation they can change things as long as they keep to the core." Which I agree a book adaptation should not be ball-and-chained to the original source material if it would be better for the movie to diverge that's where I get to the good parts of the film.
First let's get to the bad. This is a very cheesy and kind of hooky film, many of the scenes are very cookie-cutter and very cringe-worthy, the most is when they repeat the mantra (terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day) which they did in the book but actually saying it out loud makes it seem very cringe-worthy. The movie is also rushed through completely as most of the problems are fixed by the time the second act happens so nothing really happens by the time the third act comes around.
Another bad part of the film is the character of Alexander our title character, now I don't blame the child actor (Ed Oxenbould) for this because he actually does a decent job with what he's given but the character of Alexander is so one-note and flat you can basically perform a tap-dance routine on him. The thing is Alexander not the main character of the movie the rest of his family is, the bad day the book is about is rushed through in the first five minutes and it's more about his family experiencing a bad day understanding what he goes through. Now I would be fine with this premise if the name of the film was Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good very bad day.
The rest of Alexander's family his brother Anthony, his sister Emily, and his mom and dad are also very one note and by the end of it kind of forgettable. Now that doesn't mean the performances are bad much of the acting in this movie is very good from his siblings and from Jennifer Garner and Steve Carrell as his parents who are both always fun.
On that note lets get to the good, I do think the film does or at least tries to capture the message of the book- everyone has a bad day. So you can tell the filmmakers had some passion for this story which is good for me. I don't think it does it well but it still does it and again the performance are good and overall the movie is genuinely funny with some actually very funny scenes.
They also do a new pet peeve of mine in comedy movies the CGI animals which always makes me cringe because I think it would be cheaper and cooler to get real animals instead of getting fake ones.
The movie as a whole wasn't as bad as I was expecting actually and did have a lot of redeeming qualities.
I give this movie a 6.5/10~ Cheesy, hook and flat with pet peeves but still good performances, tries with some passion and is genuinely funny.
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Alexander (no way am I typing out that full title throughout this review) is based on the thirty-two page children's book about a boy named Alexander who has a terrible, horrible no good very bad day. The book itself focuses solely on Alexander as he goes through his day where as the eighty-two minute movie focuses more on his family then it does on the title character himself.
Now I am not going to try and compare the book to the movie and before you say "It's a book adaptation they can change things as long as they keep to the core." Which I agree a book adaptation should not be ball-and-chained to the original source material if it would be better for the movie to diverge that's where I get to the good parts of the film.
First let's get to the bad. This is a very cheesy and kind of hooky film, many of the scenes are very cookie-cutter and very cringe-worthy, the most is when they repeat the mantra (terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day) which they did in the book but actually saying it out loud makes it seem very cringe-worthy. The movie is also rushed through completely as most of the problems are fixed by the time the second act happens so nothing really happens by the time the third act comes around.
Another bad part of the film is the character of Alexander our title character, now I don't blame the child actor (Ed Oxenbould) for this because he actually does a decent job with what he's given but the character of Alexander is so one-note and flat you can basically perform a tap-dance routine on him. The thing is Alexander not the main character of the movie the rest of his family is, the bad day the book is about is rushed through in the first five minutes and it's more about his family experiencing a bad day understanding what he goes through. Now I would be fine with this premise if the name of the film was Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good very bad day.
The rest of Alexander's family his brother Anthony, his sister Emily, and his mom and dad are also very one note and by the end of it kind of forgettable. Now that doesn't mean the performances are bad much of the acting in this movie is very good from his siblings and from Jennifer Garner and Steve Carrell as his parents who are both always fun.
On that note lets get to the good, I do think the film does or at least tries to capture the message of the book- everyone has a bad day. So you can tell the filmmakers had some passion for this story which is good for me. I don't think it does it well but it still does it and again the performance are good and overall the movie is genuinely funny with some actually very funny scenes.
They also do a new pet peeve of mine in comedy movies the CGI animals which always makes me cringe because I think it would be cheaper and cooler to get real animals instead of getting fake ones.
The movie as a whole wasn't as bad as I was expecting actually and did have a lot of redeeming qualities.
I give this movie a 6.5/10~ Cheesy, hook and flat with pet peeves but still good performances, tries with some passion and is genuinely funny.
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Weekend box office~Jake Gyllenhall crawls his way to the top
I live in Florida so tomorrow is election day so that means no school! Hooray! I am plan to write the review for Alexander and the T.H.N.G.V.B.D tonight so watch out for that. So anyway this weekend the only movie of significance came out was Nightcrawler (one of my favorite x-men) and lets see how it did among the other sea of movies that aren't Oscar bait or anything really noteworthy and just filling up the rest of the weekend until then.
Weekend box office
1.) Ouji- $ 10.7 million
2.) Nightcrawler- $10.4 million
3.) Fury- $8.8 million
4.) Gone Girl- $8.4 million
5.) The book of life- $8.2 million
6.) John Wick- $7.9 million
7.) St. Vincent- $7.2 million
8.) Alexander and the T.H.N.G.V.B.D
9.) The Judge- $3 million
10.) Dracula untold- $2 million
From what I hear Nightcrawler is very good and it's sad to see it's not doing so hot but it's an independent movie with not a lot of marketing behind it. So hopefully it finds an audience. Alexander T.H.N.G.V.B.D movie review later but if not then expect it tomorrow since I have no school.
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Weekend box office
1.) Ouji- $ 10.7 million
2.) Nightcrawler- $10.4 million
3.) Fury- $8.8 million
4.) Gone Girl- $8.4 million
5.) The book of life- $8.2 million
6.) John Wick- $7.9 million
7.) St. Vincent- $7.2 million
8.) Alexander and the T.H.N.G.V.B.D
9.) The Judge- $3 million
10.) Dracula untold- $2 million
From what I hear Nightcrawler is very good and it's sad to see it's not doing so hot but it's an independent movie with not a lot of marketing behind it. So hopefully it finds an audience. Alexander T.H.N.G.V.B.D movie review later but if not then expect it tomorrow since I have no school.
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Sunday, November 2, 2014
St. Vincent Review
I saw two movies this weekend St. Vincent (which I wanted to see) and Alexander and the terrible no good very bad day(which I didn't but I went for my mom and grandma.) I am going to review St. Vincent for the my main movie review and Alexander T.N.G.V.B.D tomorrow due to laziness, I saw St. Vincent first, and I have to prepare for school tomorrow.
St. Vincent stars the lovable as Bill Murray plays asshole Vincent Mckenna, a drunk smoker war veteran with a lot of issues. He spends his days gambling, drinking, sleeping with his lady of the night (watch the film to get that joke) and (possibly, maybe) the mother of his child Daka, and taking care of his Alzheimer stricken wife. He's also in debt and one of the ways he figures out how to make money is by baby sitting for his constantly working single mother divorcee Maggie Bronstein (Melissa McCarthy) her son Oliver (Jaeden Liebher.)
Probably the best part of this movie is the characters and the actors portraying them. Murray does a fantastic job and it reminds you why you like Bill Murray as an actor, I love the character of Vincent, the whole film is about how saints can be anyone even if they are SUPER flawed and Vincent perfectly emulates that. From the beginning of the film to the end of the film he is a flawed and kind of a dick human being but he has a lot of redeeming qualities and is just too likable. That was so refreshing to me that he doesn't due a complete one-eighty to a completely saintly guy by the end and while he is better he's still a bit of an ass.
The kid who plays Oliver is very good as well and the character of Oliver is very cool and while he does grate in some scenes he is overall a good three-dimensional character. Melissa McCarthy does a really good job as well and for once plays a very subtle character with a lot of dignity, the character really challenges her as an actress and proves she can do straight drama if she choose to. There's this one scene that got me really chocked up because it reminded me a lot of my mother and I won't spoil it for you. Naomi Watts plays Daka in this and while small does a very good job and is very entertaining and serves a pretty good purpose in the film.
Also a really great thing is that the film does have a bully subplot and while that is a horrible cliche typically they do it new and refreshing in here as the kid who is the bully actually has a reason and actually becomes Oliver's friend halfway into the film so there can be room for more story. When that happened I was like "Thank you movie for doing that new!"
If I did have to complain about this movie is that it does dive into some cheesy areas, and there's these two subplots with Maggie's ex-husband and Vincent and possible the Mafia (I don't know it wasn't clear) that didn't really need to be there or should have been really fleshed out more.
I give this movie a 8.5/10~Sometimes cheesy and a lot could have been cut but heart-warming, charming and full of great characters and performances.
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St. Vincent stars the lovable as Bill Murray plays asshole Vincent Mckenna, a drunk smoker war veteran with a lot of issues. He spends his days gambling, drinking, sleeping with his lady of the night (watch the film to get that joke) and (possibly, maybe) the mother of his child Daka, and taking care of his Alzheimer stricken wife. He's also in debt and one of the ways he figures out how to make money is by baby sitting for his constantly working single mother divorcee Maggie Bronstein (Melissa McCarthy) her son Oliver (Jaeden Liebher.)
Probably the best part of this movie is the characters and the actors portraying them. Murray does a fantastic job and it reminds you why you like Bill Murray as an actor, I love the character of Vincent, the whole film is about how saints can be anyone even if they are SUPER flawed and Vincent perfectly emulates that. From the beginning of the film to the end of the film he is a flawed and kind of a dick human being but he has a lot of redeeming qualities and is just too likable. That was so refreshing to me that he doesn't due a complete one-eighty to a completely saintly guy by the end and while he is better he's still a bit of an ass.
The kid who plays Oliver is very good as well and the character of Oliver is very cool and while he does grate in some scenes he is overall a good three-dimensional character. Melissa McCarthy does a really good job as well and for once plays a very subtle character with a lot of dignity, the character really challenges her as an actress and proves she can do straight drama if she choose to. There's this one scene that got me really chocked up because it reminded me a lot of my mother and I won't spoil it for you. Naomi Watts plays Daka in this and while small does a very good job and is very entertaining and serves a pretty good purpose in the film.
Also a really great thing is that the film does have a bully subplot and while that is a horrible cliche typically they do it new and refreshing in here as the kid who is the bully actually has a reason and actually becomes Oliver's friend halfway into the film so there can be room for more story. When that happened I was like "Thank you movie for doing that new!"
If I did have to complain about this movie is that it does dive into some cheesy areas, and there's these two subplots with Maggie's ex-husband and Vincent and possible the Mafia (I don't know it wasn't clear) that didn't really need to be there or should have been really fleshed out more.
I give this movie a 8.5/10~Sometimes cheesy and a lot could have been cut but heart-warming, charming and full of great characters and performances.
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Saturday, November 1, 2014
Editorial~ Marvel Slate
Last Tuesday Marvel put me and the rest of the internet on an excitement high that still exists right now as I right on a late Saturday evening. I was suppose to write this on Thursday but I kept forgetting to do it. So basically I'm going to review the entire slate with my thoughts on each movie.
Captain America: Civil War
When this was first only pitched as a rumor I was not too thrilled because while I like Civil War in the comics I didn't think it would make a good movie. However after hearing people pitch ideas around and Kevin Feige saying they were going off the page for this I am really excited. I hope unlike Civil War they do go all grey instead of claiming to go grey and really do a mostly black and white story. This has so much potential to be great and it is super exciting that this is where we will finally met Black Panther/T'Challa.
Doctor Strange
Awesome I love Doctor Strange and pretty much anything with Magic. We knew this was going to get officially announced because they already announced a director and have been throwing around names for leads. What interests me is the fact they haven't announced Benedict Cumberbatch for Dr. Strange yet since a lot of sites have been saying it was almost complete deal for him. Feige said anything not announced was either "Not true or in the works" and considering they have to start filming in the spring it's probably a thing of the ink is not dry yet on the contract.
Guardians of the galaxy 2
Heck yeah! I loved the first Guardians of the galaxy and can't wait for the next one. Considering the first one made over $700 million dollars you know the next one is going to be huge and I love how the logo design reflected the tone of the movie (it looks like someone maybe Rocket took a paint can and sprayed over the logo.) Laid-back and doesn't give a shit.
Thor Ragnorak
Really excited for this one because while I really like both Thor films my main complaint is that except for the first one Thor is kind of a back seat character to Loki hopefully this will put Thor up front and center to show what he could really do. Also my prediction Thor "dies" and gets sent to Ragnorak and so has to fight his way through hell.Which will be as badass as all hell (no pun intended.)
Black Panther
Finally a black superhero with his own movie. Not the first black superhero because we have Iron Patriot/ War Machine and Falcon to thank for that. Black Panther is not only the first black superhero but he is also a really cool one because he is the KING OF HIS OWN COUNTRY you can generate so many movie ideas with that. Also the picture of his suit looks awesome as it's really comic accurate but still updated enough to look practical.
Captain Marvel
Awesome! I recently started to pick up the Captain Marvel (& Ms. Marvel) comics for Marvel now and it is really good. I can't wait for this movie to come out and it will be interesting to see what they do since they can do a lot of things with Carol Danvers but from the sounds of it they will be sending her up to space to do a cosmic story.
Inhumans
Introducing the replacement to the X-men because Fox would rather drink Anti-freeze than give up the X-men! Still really excited for the Inhumans, just started reading Inhumans Marvel Now and they are really cool especially Medusa she is so badass. Interesting this will probably the answer to Game of Thrones as well due to the whole political fantasy aspect to it.
Avengers infinity war part 1 & 2
This along with the Harry Potter deathly Hollows movie is the only time I will say the whole two part thing is necessary considering since this seems like a massive story that would need to be in two parts. Interesting even more their are two movies in between part one and two leading me to believe this will be contained as two separate movies with the same story line running though.
So that's the Marvel movie slate and yeah... by 2019 I'll be pretty broke but super happy at the same time. Hopefully see you tomorrow but no promises.
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Captain America: Civil War
When this was first only pitched as a rumor I was not too thrilled because while I like Civil War in the comics I didn't think it would make a good movie. However after hearing people pitch ideas around and Kevin Feige saying they were going off the page for this I am really excited. I hope unlike Civil War they do go all grey instead of claiming to go grey and really do a mostly black and white story. This has so much potential to be great and it is super exciting that this is where we will finally met Black Panther/T'Challa.
Doctor Strange
Awesome I love Doctor Strange and pretty much anything with Magic. We knew this was going to get officially announced because they already announced a director and have been throwing around names for leads. What interests me is the fact they haven't announced Benedict Cumberbatch for Dr. Strange yet since a lot of sites have been saying it was almost complete deal for him. Feige said anything not announced was either "Not true or in the works" and considering they have to start filming in the spring it's probably a thing of the ink is not dry yet on the contract.
Guardians of the galaxy 2
Heck yeah! I loved the first Guardians of the galaxy and can't wait for the next one. Considering the first one made over $700 million dollars you know the next one is going to be huge and I love how the logo design reflected the tone of the movie (it looks like someone maybe Rocket took a paint can and sprayed over the logo.) Laid-back and doesn't give a shit.
Thor Ragnorak
Really excited for this one because while I really like both Thor films my main complaint is that except for the first one Thor is kind of a back seat character to Loki hopefully this will put Thor up front and center to show what he could really do. Also my prediction Thor "dies" and gets sent to Ragnorak and so has to fight his way through hell.Which will be as badass as all hell (no pun intended.)
Black Panther
Finally a black superhero with his own movie. Not the first black superhero because we have Iron Patriot/ War Machine and Falcon to thank for that. Black Panther is not only the first black superhero but he is also a really cool one because he is the KING OF HIS OWN COUNTRY you can generate so many movie ideas with that. Also the picture of his suit looks awesome as it's really comic accurate but still updated enough to look practical.
Captain Marvel
Awesome! I recently started to pick up the Captain Marvel (& Ms. Marvel) comics for Marvel now and it is really good. I can't wait for this movie to come out and it will be interesting to see what they do since they can do a lot of things with Carol Danvers but from the sounds of it they will be sending her up to space to do a cosmic story.
Inhumans
Introducing the replacement to the X-men because Fox would rather drink Anti-freeze than give up the X-men! Still really excited for the Inhumans, just started reading Inhumans Marvel Now and they are really cool especially Medusa she is so badass. Interesting this will probably the answer to Game of Thrones as well due to the whole political fantasy aspect to it.
Avengers infinity war part 1 & 2
This along with the Harry Potter deathly Hollows movie is the only time I will say the whole two part thing is necessary considering since this seems like a massive story that would need to be in two parts. Interesting even more their are two movies in between part one and two leading me to believe this will be contained as two separate movies with the same story line running though.
So that's the Marvel movie slate and yeah... by 2019 I'll be pretty broke but super happy at the same time. Hopefully see you tomorrow but no promises.
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