Creed movie review

  If your wondering what happened this week is that I had way too much homework Wednesday and Thursday to work on the blog and I got really sick on Friday so I could barely do anything except sleep and on Saturday I was going to do the weekend box office prediction until I looked and saw that only 'Krampus' was coming out which didn't have a wide release and I don't think most people knew even existed. Yet I did see the movie Creed and so I am here with a review for Creed.

    Creed is the seventh installment in the Rocky movie series, Adonis "Donnie" Johnson Creed is the illegitimate son of heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. Starting out in a juvenile detention center after the death of his mother, he is taken in by Apollo's widow Mary Anne where he grows up into a temperamental young man who works at a security firm yet boxes on the side. Eventually he quits his job to follow his dad's footsteps as a boxer and seeks help from none other than his fathers old rival turned friend Rocky Balboa.

    First off I have never seen the previous Rocky movies. I wasn't born by the time the first five movies of the series came out and when the sixth one came out Rocky Balboa I was too young to see it. Not to mention I've never been a fan of sports movies so while I do want to see the others their not that high on movie watch list. Yet I can safely say after watching it I did very much enjoy Creed.


     The film is well acted, very well directed and well scripted movie. The movie was directed and co-written by Ryan Coogler the same guy who did Frutivale Station (a movie I really want to see and I have on my list in Netflix but I haven't been able to rouse myself to watch the really depressing flick) and he does a great job here. Pacing for the movie is perfect it never feels too slow but it never feels too fast as well and all the story beats come at the right moment and by the end of the ninety minutes you feel perfectly satisfied. The tone is very uniform and consistent, the dialogue comes off natural, their are one or two speeches in the movie but their few and far between and never feel forced. The movie is also not overly comedic but it's not lifeless in fact it's quite upbeat and the jokes in the movie are very natural as well.

    I hate to keep using the word but 'natural' can really be said about the acting as well. Everyone feels like a real person here with none of those overly dramatic angry or crying scenes you see in movies around this time of year but unlike those movies it's a lot more effective of getting an emotional response out of you. I found myself getting more teary eyed than I do around other movies.

   Everyone one is good in this and yes even Sylvester Stallone does a good job in this movie. Their is not over acting or dead-pan deliveries from him here as he actually gives a good and reserved performance, it's not Oscar worthy by any means but it doesn't have to be. The stands out to me were Michael B. Jordan as Donnie, Tessa Thompson as Donnie's girlfriend Bianca and Tony Bellew as Ricky "Pretty Conlan the guy Donnie fights in the movie. Jordan is very good in the role as he makes what would otherwise be a very stereotypical sports movie protagonist very human and very complex as we see his struggle with his own legacy vs. the one of his father and how he learns to come to term with his issues. Thompson, like Jordon, also gives what would otherwise be the stereotypical girlfriend role a lot of sensitivity and character and the character of Bianca actually works as a great foil for Donnie as she too is a person who is trying to follow her dream even against some health issues that are similar to Donnie but not the same and Thompson and Jordan do have good chemistry together.

   Yet the stand out to me was Tony Bellew as Ricky Conlan which is weird because he's not in the movie that much but whenever we see him he always leaves an impression and even in scenes where they just mention him he has some kind of presences. I am so grateful they did not make Conlan a villain in this movie but instead make him just a very human guy who has a lot of issues and made a lot of mistakes in his life and Bellew makes that clear through his performance through every scene he is in as he comes off very likeable and honorable if temperamental. Like Bianca, Conlan serves as another foil for Donnie as Conlan has a legacy but unlike Donnie's where it's someone else's it's his own. Whereas Donnie is trying to make his own legacy at the same time respecting his fathers Conlan made a legacy for himself and his kids already and botched it up big time and is trying to preserve it before he goes to jail.

    Now before it sounds like I'm worshipping this movie at the alter this movie does have one flaw and it's pretty huge especially since it leads to other smaller flaws. Besides the characters of Donnie, Bianca and Conlan this is a pretty generic sports movie in terms of themes and story. It's the same story you've seen in a lot of sports movie. You've got the hothead lead trying to prove himself in his area of expertise and they happen to have big daddy issues to go along with it, you have the artsy girlfriend who supports him, the concerned mother, the rivals and the mentor with the main theme of living up to yourself and your legacy having been done in a lot of other movies not just in the sports genre but a lot of action, adventure and Oscar drama movies. Heck they even have a cancer subplot that really could have been cut as the person doesn't even die in this movie and it would have made the movie stronger.

     Now this wouldn't have been as bad if the movie hadn't tapped into new and interesting themes with a lot more potential that was ultimately wasted or weren't developed enough. Mainly the idea of how important an athletes image is especially in today's society and especially how just one mistake can ruin an athlete for life (real life examples could be Tiger Woods and now Tom Brady.)For example the character of Conlan who the only reason he's fighting Donnie is because he's going to jail for a gun charge and if he fights Apollo Creed's son his reputation won't be tarnished completely and he can go out on a victory. Also when it's revealed to the public Donnie is Apollo Creed's son it cuts to a scene of two ESPN guys talking about it and whether or not it harms Apollo Creed's legacy now. Their are other themes they touch upon that never go through all the way and if they had gone through with it the movie would have been one of the best of the year instead of just "Pretty good."

    Now of course while it does waste a lot of potential unlike some of the most abysmal movies of the year Pitch Perfect 2 and Pan the movie is strong enough to overcome that and I definitely want to see a sequel to this movie especially with the same team back as I believe without the crutches of the typical clichés of most sports movies they could turn out something really special. On that note too the ending is also very good, it's very quiet and nothing that big but like most of the emotional moments in this movie leaves a big impact. It's also one of those ending where if they just made this movie things would be fine but if they made a sequel you would also be perfectly fine as well.

I give this movie a 8.5/10- A really good movie and one of the most consistent movies of the year that has a lot of potential it wastes but it's still strong enough to enjoy.

Weekend box office- 11/30/15 A.K.A couldn't come up with a title.

 Yeah sorry about skipping last week I legitimately forgot it was Thanksgiving week and their was a lot of preparations to do so sorry. THIS WEEK is the official reboot for the blog.

     Last week was a week of "good enough" unless you were Victor Frankenstein than in that case you couldn't have bombed harder if you were an atomic bomb which in it's first weekend had landed outside of the top ten in the number twelve slot. Anyway who cares about Victor Frankenstein (because apparently a lot of people didn't) here is the weekend's top ten.


Top 10
1.) The Hunger Games Mockingjay part 2- $52 million
2.) The Good dinosaur- $ 55 million
3.) Creed- $42 million
4.) Spectre- $ 12 million
5.) The Peanuts movie- $ 9 million
6.) The night before- $ 8 million
7.) The secret in their eyes- $4.42 million
8.)Spotlight- $4.4 million
9) Brooklyn- $3.9
10.) The Martian- $3.2 million

    No real surprises except for maybe The Good Dinosaur which opened at number two and with only $55 million despite a five day weekend and coming off the back burner of Inside out although it did have a poor marketing and only really "good enough reviews." This especially not that great when compared to Inside out, Frozen, and Big Hero six other Disney/Pixar movies which did much better critically and commercially. The movie had a $200 million dollar budget (the other movies mentioned had cheaper budgets than this) and while it will make it's money back it definitely did lower than they expected.

   Mockingjay while it did make the number one again this week it's still lagging behind in terms of what it was originally projected at and the numbers it's predecessors have done. Whether it's because of the splitting the movie into two parts, people not generally liking the last movie, franchise fatigue or the Mockingjay book itself.

   Anyway that's what I've got to say on the weekend box office and other than that see you Wednesday for the Prediction for this weekend (hopefully.)

Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2 review

    Mockingjay part 2 is the last movie of the Hunger Games Franchise, Katniss Everdeen has found Peeta, the rebellion is starting to win and is ready to face off against the Evil President Snow but the journey towards peace might be more complicated than she originally thought.

    For this review I'm actually want to start out with the bad of the movie, now before you shoot me Mocking jay part two is not a bad movie, it's actually a pretty solid movie and I quite liked it, I just have a lot more to say about the negatives of this movie than I do the positives. Not that I have many negatives, I actually only have three but they are still major ones.

  Mockingjay did not need to be split into two movies. If Mockingjay part 1 was a movie without it's third act than Mockingjay is the third act of a movie, what would have been at the most only thirty minutes blown up to a two hour and ten minute movie. While it's not bad but it's really jarring in terms of structure and pacing especially in the beginning where it just abruptly picks up from the last scene of the movie and they have to stretch out the climax, falling action and conclusion into a longer than necessary runtime. This could have been done in a space of ninety minutes without anything being loss. In fact the movie feels almost too stretched out as throughout half the movie it feels as if nothing happens or things slow down to a grinding holt.

   Jennifer Lawrence is still miscast as Katniss Everdeen. Now a huge positive of the movie is that every actor is really good in this movie and even those who don't have a lot to do like Michelle Forbes as Lieutenant Jackson still make a good impact. Jennifer Lawrence , who especially in comedies is a good actress, is really flat and has an almost non-existent personality in this. Now I know for a movie Katniss wouldn't have her narration like she does in the book and would come off on the outside perspective as very quiet and super serious. Yet an actor can still play a  reserved or stoic character and still have them be interesting or at the very least be a character and have emotions, case in point Hayley Atwell who plays Peggy Carter plays her as very emotionally reserved and serious person yet still makes her a real human being with depth and believability that Lawrence should have brought to this role yet didn't or couldn't.

   The last major issue is that the movie isn't dull by any means it feels like one big anti-climax. A lot of things you can tell that were supposed to be epic, shocking or just stir any big emotions from the audience were just meh. They were either done alright but that left you feeling more 'meh' than angry,sad, happy, excited etc. or were outright done poorly. I don't want to give anything away for people who haven't seen it but their are a few character deaths within this movie two of which stand out to me as the two things I just mentioned. The first one is during the march to president Snow's mansion which was done passably but it didn't have much emotional impact even though in light of the whole series should have been one of the most devastating moments in the entire movie. The second was done very cheesy for a character who while had a character we didn't know but for five minutes. The action itself while there was more than Mockingjay part 1 there were only two that were all that memorable and everything else was either forgettable and lackluster.

   Now before it sounds as if I am tearing this movie apart for the most part this was a well-constructed, well acted, and well written movie. The cinematography, the special effects, music and directing of this movie was really good. The monsters looked real and never looked fake, the war torn setting of the capital was nice too look at and the music gave you the feelings war is supposed to make you feel despair, sadness and even confusion.

  Yet the best part of this movie was the acting, as I said even the smallest actors with the smallest bit parts gave you something to latch on too even if they were basically Star Trek redshirts. Yet of the main cast Josh Hutcherson and especially Donald Sutherland were probably the best. Josh Hutcherson made you feel both sympathy for Peeta and made you understand what he was going through yet also fear and anger at his actions as you genuinely didn't know what this guy was going to do next. Donald Sutherland's Snow was probably the best in this movie, while you still got the cold, intimidating version of the character you also got the sense of fragility and fear in the way that made you believe Snow was not the 'nothing can touch me' evil tyrant like in the last movies but just a human being who could tell his time was up but didn't want to believe and at the end accepts it with hints of insanity and even some remorse. I felt more of a attachment to President Snow than I did for Katniss in the entire movie.

   I also loved the relationship between Peeta and Katniss in the movie. It's sweet, heartbreaking, tragic and heartwarming all in the same go. Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence do have nice chemistry and throughout the whole movie I was just waiting for these two to get together because to me they were right for each other. I loved the ending with these two as you felt that despite what they went through they could get through life together and are one of my favorite movie couples in recent memory even with the whole Gale-love-triangle thing they were my favorite part of the movie.

Overall I give this movie a 7/10- This is a movie won't end up on anybody's 'worst of' end of the years list as it is too good for that but doesn't do anything to push itself to 'best of' the year status. Plus this movie didn't need to be split into two parts to the point where I think it weakened the movie rather than strengthen it and I'm a person who didn't mind it when they split 'Harry Potter' and 'Twilight' into two movies. I do recommend waiting to rent it on Demand, buy the DVD or even wait until Netflix to see but if you a fan of the franchise I do recommend it in theaters.

Update- Back to form

Hey I'm not dead!
  
   If you've noticed ever since the last week of August I've been M.I.A from the blog writing sphere for multiple reasons.

        1.) I went back to school and this is probably the big reason I've been out for the past few months. I've been trying to study more, I'm in a few clubs some where I have important positions in and just trying to get through the first part of the year with the least amount of injury's I can manage,

      2.) Nothing important came out for a while. September and for most of October have been dead zones for movies to review and when things finally started to kick into gear I got busier with school. Now I did manage to see two movies so far Black Mass (awesome and a great comeback for Johnny Depp) and Pan (one of the worst movies of the year) but other than that it's been a while since I've really been in the movie theater.

    Now things have slowed down for me so I plan to get back into Movie Junkie's again after so long. I'm planning on not changing that much with Tuesdays and Wednesday still being box office and box office predictions, with Thursdays being changed to editorial day and Sunday being movie review day. I hope to get back into routine next week but as a way of getting myself off the ground and running I hope to do either a review of Spectre or Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2 for this Sunday.

Stupid poster but still looking to see this movie.

Cool Poster but I don't really like the Daniel Craig James Bond movies so I'm a bit of a mixed bag on this.

                                                   

Weekend box office~ The end of Summer

   Well it's that time of year again the last week of Summer. More importantly the last two movies of Summer. The two last summer movies coming out this week are the Sinister 2 and America Ultra a Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart spy-stoner comedy movie. Currently because next week is the start of the new school year I will not be seeing a movie this weekend but rather preparing to for school this coming Monday but expect to see a review for Man from Uncle coming in it's place.

   I have never seen the last Sinister film because I don't traditionally tend to watch horror movies that much. Yet the trailers for the film make it look good and not as jumped scared filled as it might appear to be. It will probably make a good amount of money since Horror movies are typically cheap to produce and their is always a fan base to go see these movies although to me they would probably make more money if they waited and released this in October in time for Halloween.

   Now the other film American Ultra from the trailers alone the film doesn't look that interesting despite the premise, it actually just looks like your run of the mill stoner comedy with Spy movie elements it looks like it doesn't know what to do with. Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart acting wise look fine in it, while I don't like Kristen Stewart as a person too much you can't say she's a bad actress because she isn't, she just keeps getting stuck in bad movies.


   Anyway here's my prediction.

Sinister 2
Budget: N/A
Weekend box office:$15-$20 million
Domestic box office:$25-$30 million
International box office: $20-$25 million
World wide box office: $45-$55 million
   
      Horror movies while do make a lot in comparison for what they cost to make but in terms of what movies normally make nowadays it's pretty small.


American Ultra
Budget: $12 million
Weekend box office: $10-$20 million
Domestic box office: $20-$25 million
International box office:$30-$40 million
World wide box office:  $50-$65 million

      I expect this out of the two movies to be the one that sells the most since a lot more people like to laugh at a movie than be afraid at one and while I may not be interested other people might be and it pretty much cost nothing to make in Hollywood terms.

Weekend box office
1.) Straight outta Compton
2.) American Ultra
3.) Rouge nation
4.) Sinister 2
5.) The man from uncle
6.) Fantastic Four
7.) The Gift
8.) Ant-man
9.) Vacation
10.) Minions

That's my weekend box office prediction and hopefully I'll see you Friday or Saturday for some sort of new post (maybe.)

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Weekend box office- I'm back

   I just got back from visiting my grandparents house and now I'm back on the internet so I can hopefully get back to my usual schedule which I plan to do this week. Maybe. I know I promised three movie reviews and only did one of them sorry I forgot after posting the Rouge Nation review I was leaving the next day.

    Any the weekend box office is official and the movie that one was the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton (haven't seen it yet but I want to) with Mission Impossible Rouge nation and Man from uncle (Which I did see over my visit- maybe expect something this Sunday.) Now while the N.W.A and it's music were way before my time I love biopics and I hope to see Straight Outta Compton this soon. It's sad to see Man from Uncle not do as well or even get second place because (as you might see soon) even though I'm half and half on the movie I do want to see a sequel and unless it stays consistently in the top 3 it might not get it.


Weekend box office
1.)Straight Outta Compton- $60 million
2.) Mission Impossible Rouge nation- $17 million
3.) Man from uncle- $13 million
4.) Fantastic Four- $8 million
5.) The Gift- $ 6 million
6.) Ant-man- $ 5.4 million
7.) Vacation- $5.18 million
8.) Minions- $5.14 million
9.) Ricki and the Flash- $4 million
10.) Trainwreck- $3 million

      That's last weekend box office and hopefully I see you all Wednesday for my prediction for what will be in the top ten next week.


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Mission Impossible Rouge Nation review

 
  First off sorry about the hiatus last week I was in California for my Summer vacation. I'm being serious I was in California for the last week or so, which is why I haven't been able to update the blog and I'm getting ready to go to my grandparents house due to other events so this week so I won't be near a computer for a while so I'm calling a hiatus from my normal schedule but so that way I don't leave you guys without anything for another week this week your getting three movie reviews (Trainwreck, Rouge Nation and Ant-man.) Today will be Rouge Nation.

   Anyway last Sunday I saw the latest installment in Mission Impossible franchise Rouge Nation. In this movie Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is investigating a mysterious international crime syndicate known as... The Syndicate. However recently the IMF has been shut down due the amount of dangerous stunts, innocent lives lost and unnecessary damage that has been caused (mainly by Ethan) and so Ethan goes rouge so now while trying to investigate The Syndicate he also has to evade the CIA who want to capture him and he's going to need the help of his friends William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Luther Stickwell (Ving Rhames) and the Femme Fatal double Agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson.)


   Going in I was very excited, I've always been a fan of the mission impossible series even more so than the Bond Franchise. I liked Mission Impossible I and II, I love Mission Impossible III and liked Ghost Protocal. I got even more excited when I saw the reviews for this movie and people were praising it calling it the best action movie of the summer and how it was more exciting than the last. I was pumped for this movie! Then... I saw the movie and was thoroughly disappointed with it.

  Mission Impossible Rouge Nation to me was a boring, rehash of Ghost protocol that attempts for great things yet never follows through with them with boring main characters and a super anti-climatic ending. I know I'm going to get a lot of heat for this especially considering how almost universally acclaimed this movie has been so far (I'm getting deep flashbacks to my X-men Days of future past review.) But this is my review and thus my opinion and this is how I feel.

  Before I go into the negatives I will go into the positives because while I was overall disappointed with the movie that doesn't mean that they're weren't some things I liked. First off the movie is extremely funny and the comedy is clever without being overbearing or distracting from the plot, the best jokes are given to Simon Pegg who is basically the heart of the movie. Speaking of Simon Pegg he, Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames do a great job in their roles with Simon Pegg stealing the show, Ving Rhames acting as a great straight man and Jeremy Renner being a great counter-balance to Tom Cruise. All of them add a lot of dimension and color to very standard characters and are great to watch. The villain was well acted and Sean Harris did a good job with what little he was given.

   On a technical level the cinematography is a highlight of the film with good angles, great shots of different action scenes and the choreography for all said action scenes are done well. Probably the best action sequences in the movie where Ethan swimming and holding his breath while trying to turn off an electrical system and the knife fight Ilsa has at the end of the movie. Both those sequences were the best because unlike the rest of the movie both scenes had a lot of suspense, tension and a realness to them that the other scenes didn't have.

   Now to the bad.

   To me this movie was actually kind of boring. Besides the two actions scenes I mentioned the action scenes were subpar or kind of forgettable. The plane sequence was shown so much in the trailers that it lost a lot of it's excitement and it was really short and it had nothing really to do with the rest of the movie so it was pointless. The motorcycle sequence was the same nothing really wowing, the opera fight had potential but didn't really do anything until the end and the other action scenes I can barely remember. Nothing really happens at the end of the movie and it kind of ends on a weak note, they try to do something clever but that doesn't work that well because you forget why it's supposed to be clever.

   Now while I liked everyone else in the movie the two people who I didn't like were the two leads Ethan Hunt and Ilsa Faust. Ethan Hunt has always been my least favorite part of these movies, I always found him just another boring generic action hero and the most interesting I've ever found him in was Mission Impossible III. They try to make him interesting in this film with saying that his methods are not the best and he ends hurting more people than helping them and might even be slightly insane at this point but like Ghost Protocol any potential character development with him is negated. Ilsa Faust has little to no personality other than being a badass femme fatal and like Ethan they try to make her interesting yet they never go anywhere with it and I had no clue how by the end of the movie she came to like Ethan romantically. 

   The last but biggest problem with this movie is how it under develops it's plot and villain. The plot is basically Ghost Protocol and the first movie smashed into one with the IMF being dissolved (Ghost Protocol) and Ethan going on the run (Mission impossible I) but they try to add a corrupt government plot and what they can do to the people working for them but the thing is they never go all the way with it and it doesn't get fully developed. You don't have to have a theme or message in your movie but if you do you better go all the way with it because the moment you touch on a good idea and don't do anything with it, it might as well have never been in the movie in the first place. On that same note while I like Sean Harris as the villain, his characters is never given any development and when certain things about him are mentioned they are so vague that it leaves you wanting more but not in a good way.

   Mission Impossible Rouge Nation is not necessarily the worst movie of the year but to me it's a disappointing one. I do hope another one comes out because I do not want this to be the last one in the series and the send off to Tom Cruise.

I give this movie a 6.5/10~ A movie with a lot of potential, laughs and good actors and side characters that misses the mark and wastes a lot of it's potential.

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Weekend box office prediction~Anything but Adam Sandler please!

    So the two movies coming out this week are Pixels and Paper town. Pixels is the newest Adam Sandler comedy about aliens finding a NASA time capsule with classic video games inside and turning them into the real thing so now a bunch of 40-year old nerds with some of the best classic video game skills are commissioned by President Kevin James to take them down.  Paper Town however is another John Greene adaptation about a high school senior named Quentin "Q" Jacobson trying to find and the uncover the mystery behind his neighbor and long-time crush Margo Roth Spiegleman.


    Out of the two the movie I am seeing this weekend is Paper Town because I am-
          A.) Genuinely interested in seeing the movie
          B.) Made plans weeks in advance to go see this
          C.) I can't stand to see another Adam Sandler film ever again after Grown Ups 2 where I contemplated burning the theater down and taking a hot knife to my eyeballs

         It will be hard to tell which movie (Ant-man, Paper Town, and Pixels) will take the #1 place but if I had to put money on it I think Ant-man will keep it's position (if by a slight margin.) Now before you call me a Marvel Fan girl hear me out. Paper Town while it is getting hype after how successful The Fault in our Stars was but unlike Fault in our Stars, Paper Town isn't getting the same amount of attention but reviews have been good and people are excited to see it so it will probably be #2. Pixels will most likely take #3 because while it does look better than his most recent films I think people are finally done with Adam Sandler and the reviews have been horrendous for this movie so that adds to it.

Pixels
budget: $88-$90 million (Pretty good for the amount of CGI in that moment)
weekend box office: $20-$30 million
Domestic box office:$45-$55 million
International box office: $60-$75 million
Worldwide box office: $105-$130 million

Paper Town
Budget: $12 million
Weekend box office: $40-$45 million
Domestic box office: $65-$75 million
International box office: $75-$80 million
World wide box office: $140-$155 million

Weekend box office
1.)Ant-man
2.) Paper Town
3.) Pixels
4.)Minions
5.) Train wreck
6.)Inside Out
7.) Jurassic World
8.) Terminator Genisys
9.) Magic Mike XXL
10.) The Gallows

That's the weekend box office prediction and we will see whether or not I could do anything for tomorrow.

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Weekend box office~ Still good

  This week Marvel (surprisingly) takes #1 at the box office (If at a pretty low sum) this week. Trainwreck took #3 place but at a pretty good sum despite it's placing. Both movies fell way under my expectations but neither did poorly necessarily especially Trainwreck, they will still both make enough to surpass (especially trainwreck) their relatively budgets due to word of mouth as both movies have been well received and are loved by anyone who sees them. You can tell for Ant-man the Edgar Wright stigma still holds while Trainwreck's smaller scale despite it's big marketing campaign did trip those movies a bit but they still did alright.

Weekend box office
1.) Ant-man~$58 million
2.) Minions- $49 million
3.) Trainwreck- $39 million
4.)Inside Out- $11.5 million
5.) Jurassic World- $11.4 million
6.) Terminator Genisys- $5.4 million
7.) Magic Mike XXL- $4.4 million
8.) The Gallows- $ 4 million
9.) Bajarangi Bhaijaan- $ 2.62 million
10.) Ted 2- $2.6 million

    I'm surprised how far Minions fell from $115 million to $49 million as that's a little over a 50% drop in under a weekend which is expected considering while the hype was huge the response that came from word of mouth ranged from "it's entertaining" to "Don't waste your money on it." I have no idea what Bjarangi Bhaijaan is but from the name it's most likely an Asian or Indian foreign film and I'm surprised it made it into the top ten without much buzz (or awareness of it's existence.) Not much to say as everything else just went down one slot so it was uneventfull every where else.


Tomorrow is my review of Ant-man and the reason I didn't get it up earlier was because of the fact on Sunday I got home really late, on Monday blackout that went on in my street and I'm trying to get my sleeping schedule back in order so I try not to stay up too late. So I'll try to get it out tomorrow but no promises.

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Weekend box office prediction~ Second is the best!

A/N: I know about Yesterday, I got really distracted


    So this weekend is the two movies coming out are Marvel's Ant-man and the Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwreck. Out of the two I am seeing Ant-man to review but I do want to see both because both look pretty good in all honesty. Ant-man because it looks funny, exciting and I love origin stories and Trainwreck because like Ant-man it looks funny, it has an interesting story and I love Bill Hader.

  While I think Minions will still be at the #1 spot I think Ant-man will do well because of the fact comic book movies are still everywhere and Marvel is still Marvel so even though Ant-man had a lot of production troubles it looks good and so far has been getting good reviews but it could be hindered by the Edgar Wright scandal that still lingers on the movie so close to release. Not to mention while I really liked Age of Ultron (8/10) many didn't and thought it was one of the weaker Marvel movies (not bad Marvel has not had an outright bad movie yet) so the stigma from that could leak into this film as well.

   Trainwreck has a chance of maybe upsetting it because the reviews have been even better for Trainwreck and the marketing has been huge for this movie which could be a good thing or a hindrance. On one hand the marketing for this movie has been so great and so numerous a lot of people know about it and can make up their minds about whether or not to go see it. Yet because their has been so much marketing for this movie with different clips from the movie they may have revealed a lot of their best jokes and best gags in the trailers so if their aren't more or even better material in the movie word of mouth will come swiftly that you don't need to watch the movie just watch the trailers.

Ant-man
Budget: $130 million
Weekend box office:$85-$95 million
Domestic box office: $130-$180 million
International box office: $270-$420 million
Worldwide box office:$400-$600 million


Train wreck
Budget: $35 million
Weekend box office: $60-$80 million
Domestic box office: $60-$80 million
International box office: $80-$90 million
World wide box office:$140-$170 million

Weekend box office
1.)Minions
2.) Ant-man
3.) Train wreck
4.) Jurassic world
5.) Inside out
6.)The Gallows
7.) Terminator Genisys
8.) Magic mike XXL
9.)Ted 2
10.) Self/less

  So that's my weekend box office prediction and maybe see you Friday (no guarantees.)

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The Minions review

   
        The Minions movie is a spin-off of the Despicable Me movies about the corn pop shaped henchmen to Guru and their origin story. I loved the first Despicable Me movie it was funny, charming, heartwarming and a movie I used to watch on repeat until I grew absolutely sick of it. The second Despicable movie however while I liked it and it wasn't a bad movie held many problems and I didn't really enjoy as much as the first movie and how I feel about the second Despicable Me movie is how I feel about the Minions movie. I liked it and it wasn't necessarily a bad movie but it had many problems and I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought. I was pumped for this movie going in and when I came out I just felt 'meh.'

        The minions movie is about the minions before they met Guru trying to find a more permanent evil master to serve. Three minions Kevin, Stewart and Bob (all played by Pierre Coffin) embark on a journey to find their tribe a master and come across Scarlett Overkill (Sandra Bullock) who hires them but makes them try to steal the queen of England's crown in order to prove themselves and of course the minions being the minions mess it up and shenanigans ensue.

      This at it's heart and sole is a comedy movie meaning it's main motivation is jokes and funny characters not so much in terms of plot and message which is ok. One of my favorite movies of last year was Penguins of Madagascar and it was mainly about funny jokes than a logical plot. If comedies were judged on plots a lot of comedies wouldn't be as well reviewed.

  Yet the thing about the minions movies is that for the most part it's only half the time funny and while the other half isn't boring or cringe-worthy it's kind of unspectacular. That half of the movie didn't even have me chuckling or giggling it was just there. (If it sounds as if I'm being vague about this movie is because since comedy is the main thrust for a comedy movie it's hard to talk about one without giving most of it away.) Now that doesn't mean there weren't moments that had me crying in my seat as quite a few jokes especially in the beginning had me doing that. For the most parts kids will laugh more than anyone over the age of thirteen and if you want a time waster for the kids on a hot long summer day kids would definitely appreciate the movie.

   Now that I've talked about the comedy what about the characters and while the comedy is a mix bag they're for the most part pretty good. While the minions as much as I love them they're better in small dosages but they held up the movie really well and especially our leads the determined and leader Kevin, the lazy and musically inclined Stewart and the optimistic and super cute Bob (he's my new favorite minion) were all fun to watch and were good leads with a solid motivation of wanting to get a new master for the minion tribe.

   The new villain this time around is Scarlett Overkill and I loved her. She was funny yet different from Guru in a sense that's she's more black and white evil than him and I'm glad they didn't do a Guru rehash. They did give a her a backstory in a very subtle and clever sort of way that made you understand where she was coming from yet didn't make you sympathize with her. I also liked her demeanor and personality throughout the movie and that while she was way more evil she had a very cheerful, easy-going and slightly gentle way about her and Sandra Bullock did a great job and was very charismatic in the role. Jon Hamm as Herb Overkill was fun to watch and while he didn't have much to do he did a good job with what he was given.

   Yet the ones who really stole the show for me were the Nelson's a family the minions meet on the way to villain- con and I don't want to give much away about them because they have about 50% of the gut busting funny jokes in the movie and I would just smile and laugh every time they came on screen.

    The animation is also really good with a lot of bright colors and shapes and I love the sixties era setting of this movie. If your a huge sixties era nerd you'll definitely like this movie because they're are a lot of sixties era references that was well done.

    A problem of this movie is pacing. The pacing is very fast and fast pacing in comedies could be either the death of or the salvation of comedies. While it's not the death of the movie it doesn't give you time to enjoy the movie and it makes the movie feel rush and almost incomplete. For example, on the day I saw this movie I went out to dinner but because of how long it took the waiter to bring my food and what time the movie was at I basically had to speed eat my food only to feel unsatisfied and still hungry. That's the same problem Despicable Me 2 had the pace was so fast the jokes all came one after another so you couldn't enjoy it all.

  Another problem was charm like Despicable Me 2 it didn't carry the too much charm. The characters were charming but nothing in the movie touched you. I don't mean in terms of intense sadness or anything you associate the phrase "it hit me in the feels" but in terms of joy and lasting impression. While Despicable Me 1 hit you in the feels it also hit you in the smiles.


I give this movie a 6/10~ good animation, setting and characters yet it the comedy was 50/50,  pacing was horrible and wasn't that charming.


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Weekend box office prediction~ All Hail King Bob!

   The big movie coming out this week is Minions the Despicable Me spin-off staring who else but the minions before they met Guru and when they were originally working for Scarlet Overkill.

 


   Minions
Budget: $85 million
Weekend box office: $100-$105 million
Domestic box office: $150-$200 million
International box office: $200-$500 million
World wide box office: $350-$700 million



   This movie will make a lot of money guaranteed, the minions are one of the most popular and one of the most marketable non-Disney creations in the last decade. They're cute, mischievous and stupid and just deviously likeable. I myself have a minions Pajama's t-shirt and stuffed 'Kevin' doll. They stole the show in both movies and are the back bone of the entire franchise. Most people who know about this movie are excited and want to see it with the only thing  probably holding it back would be the not so great reviews it's been getting but still it's probably going to have at the very least a strong opening weekend and it will still make it's money back as it's budget is very small compared to other animated films like Big Hero Six (about $170 million) and Inside out ($175 million.)

Weekend box office
1.) Minions
2.)  Inside out
3.) Jurassic World
4.) Terminator Genisys
5.) Magic Mike XXL
6.) Ted 2
7.) Spy
8.) Max
9.) San Andreas
10.) Dope

    That's my prediction for the weekend box office and unless something happens the minions will be both the king of the box office and kings of England.

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Weekend box office- Not much to say

A/N: I know I've been M.I.A lately and I hope to get back on schedule soon. I had an 'interesting' week last week and sorry


    I really don't have much to say on this week's box office prediction other than Paramount Pictures must be pissed since they were pretty much betting all their rights on the Terminator franchise (in 2019 the rights to Terminator is supposed to relapse to James Cameron) since this is currently the worst critically reviewed Terminator movie (even more than Salvation) and unless it slowly gains momentum the lowest grossing Terminator movie. Here are the results:

Weekend box
1.)Inside out- $29.77 million
2.) Jurassic World- $29.4 million
3.) Terminator Genisys- $27 million
4.) Magic Mike XXL- $12 million
5.) Ted 2- $11 million
6.) Max- $6.6 million
7.) Spy-$5 million
8.) San Andreas- $2 million
9.) Me, Earl and the dying girl- $ 1.2 million
10.) Dope- $1.1 million


   That's the weekend box office and I know that was super short but hey I'm just starting to get back into the swing of things. See you Wednesday for the prediction.

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Netflix Daredevil review

  A/N: I know I missed Sunday sorry there was a party at my house so my bad sorry.

   So after two or so months I finally finished Netflix's Daredevil. The reason this took so long is I'm not the kind of person who can sit for thirteen hours binge watching a show no matter how good it is or how much I like the show, I don't have the attention span to do that.

The Man without Fear

   My favorite superhero of all time is Daredevil. I love the idea of a disable superhero who has not just the problems every other superhero has but other more personal limitations that set him back a lot, that creates for an interesting character. So when I heard he was getting a Netflix I thought both perfect and "Oh my god I want that now!" So what do I think of the TV now that I've watched it what do I think?.... I love it!

    Daredevil is a fantastic show with interesting characters, amazing acting, a great story, good action and just about everything was spectacular.

     Daredevil is a show about Matt Murdock who when he was a child saved the life of a man who was about to be hit by a truck but the truck spilled over and the chemical contents it was carrying spilled into Matt's eyes and blinded him for the rest of his life. However he found that in exchange for making him blind the chemicals gave his super senses. After the death/murder of his father with the help of a blind ninja master named Stick he learns combat skills and when he is older (and a lawyer) he becomes a vigilante (later named Daredevil) fighting in the name of justice. Now in post-avengers Hell's Kitchen (pre-Clinton era) a new crime boss has risen Wilson Fisk (A.K.A the King Pin) who plans to tear down Hell's kitchen and build a better tomorrow through criminal means. Now Daredevil must not only get the basics of what it means to be a hero but stop the crime boss before the city he loves is gone forever.
   If I could compare this show to anything (even if it's in the smallest common factor) is Game of Thrones and what I mean by that is that the show's greatest strength's are within it's interesting characters. This for the most part is a character show and the best way to review this is by talking about the characters.

   First our hero. Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil was one I was at first skeptical about as the only thing I remembered seeing him in was Boardwalk empire and I wasn't impressed with his performance. After seeing the show I see he was the perfect choice to portray Daredevil as he very much brings forth the exterior cool, calm confidence and the interior insecurity, guilt, anger and righteousness that the character is supposed to have and balances both sides beautifully. You believe Matt Murdock to be a man struggling with what's right and trying to be the best he can be when so many forces are weighing down on him both externally and internally. The performance is extremely compelling and he pretty much owns every scene he's in. I hope he's nominated for an Emmy when the time comes because he definitely deserves a nomination.

   Now while Charlie Cox as Daredevil is awesome the person who steals the show and should WIN an Emmy is Vincent D'Onofrio as King Pin. In both the comics and cartoon's King Pin is portrayed as a cool, level-headed crime boss who is the master of quiet intimidation, basically Vito Corleone. Here however he's played as both intelligent and intimidating but also in probably the most sympathetic light the character has ever been in and the most complex. He's basically an anti-social man child who is playing in the adults game with an adult appearance but with a child's personality, if you don't give him what he wants he's going to kill you in a temper tantrum and he kind of sucks at dating. My favorite villains are the ones who either think of themselves as the hero and/or in certain perspectives is the hero. Wilson Fisk entire motivation is to make Hell's Kitchen a better place and not the crime ridden cesspool he's lived in for so long and you buy it, he's so genuine in the idea that his plan is with good intentions and in certain aspects you agree with him more than Daredevil. You root for him when he finds love and happiness, you cry when he cries and you feel upset when he feels angry. The writing and performance for King Pin is just brilliant and perfect.

  Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson is great as well. He's laid back and the comedic character in the show but you can still take him seriously and he's never played as an idiot, he's played more as a well-meaning laid back guy you would want to share a drink at Josie's with and he has some of the best dialogue in the series. Yet like Matt Murdock who kind of got upstaged by the villain, the villain's best friend/right hand man kind of upstaged foggy. The character of James Wesley could have been just a generic, forgettable henchmen but with excellent writing and the performance of Toby Leonard Moore it transform into an interesting character of the King Pin's puppet master, right hand and best friend of Wesley. A intelligent, confident to the point of overconfident and dedicated guy who doesn't seem as if he's outright evil but more along the line he's here just to do his job and help his friend and you genuinely buy these guys are friends especially in episode 8,11,and 12.

  Deborah Ann Wolf as Karen Page I also really liked and found really cool she's running away from an apparently dark past and feels guilty after the death of her co-worker David, the first person to show her any kindness is killed because of her and you feel real sympathy for her. She's very caring, resourceful, and determined person who just wants to do the right thing and bring the person responsible to justice. I also really like Vanessa played by Ayelet Zuer, I like that they make Vanessa know what her boyfriend is up to and she accepts it not just out of the fact she genuinely loves Fisk but is also kind of crazy herself making her a more interesting character than in the comics.

  One of my favorite characters (along with with King Pin, Wesley, Jack Murdock and Karen) is Vondie-Curtis Hall as Ben Urich. Ben is a passionate and determined journalist and a devoted husband who is trying to survive in a internet saturated world and you understand his plight and want to see him succeed and he's a genuinely good person, he also has one of the few scenes in episode 12 & 13 that almost made me cry. Scott Glenn as Stick was inspired casting and I like the idea that Stick was not the traditional wise ninja master you see as he's rather mean and is very stubborn a lot of the time yet he is very funny and entertaining to watch. I also really loved Fisk's fellow mobsters Nobu was cool, Owlsey was just entertaining to watch, Anatoly and Vladimir were interesting but my favorite was Madame Gao a really old (probably late eighties) Chinese woman who was probably the most blatantly evil and intimidating person on the show a women who could offer sagely words of advice while at the same time ripping you apart.


    The only character I didn't care too much for (and one of the weaknesses of the show) was Rosario Dawson's Claire Temple and it's not like she's a bad character she's caring yet has her limits and has her own moral code yet the thing is, is that she doesn't really do anything besides help Daredevil heal and her appearances are very sparatic so we never really get to know Claire that well.

   Besides the characters the writing is really solid and well done, the dialogue is great and most of the episodes are coherently structured and never waste any screen time on unnecessary stuff. The actions scenes are really cool and done well as in you can actually see them and they are choreographed nicely especially the now infamous fight in episode 2 which is equal parts hilarious and badass. On a side note the cinematography is beautiful with interesting shots and angles done in most episodes.

   My favorite episodes so far are episode 2, a great Jack Murdock centric story and automatically makes Jack on of the best fathers in television. Episode 6 a great episode involving Matt trapped in a stick situation and some of the best writing in the show, episode 7 as Stick was amazing and it adds an interesting layer to Matt Murdock with what's revealed in this episode, episode 8 the backstory of the Kingpin is amazing character study of our villain and has some of the shows best directing and has the best ending to any episode and episode 11 & 12 are suspense filled rides both with shocking endings.

   Now the show does have flaws like everything does. Along with Claire not being well realized some episodes are not up to par as some others, now that doesn't mean their is a bad episode within the bunch but the other episodes are usually so good anything less than brilliant stands out. Episodes 3,13, and 5 are like that. Episode 3 is poorly structured and confusing to follow even though the ending is good, episode 5 is somewhat forgettable until the end and blends too easily with episode 4 (a great episode) and episode 13 as the finale one starts out amazing and the middle is still good but the end part is somewhat anti-climatic mainly the fight between King Pin and Daredevil.

   Still the show is overall a near masterpiece and if it weren't for the flaws mentioned above it would be.


I give this TV show a 9.5/10~ Near perfect with great characters, brilliant writing and action and just a joy to watch


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Weekend box office prediction~ Thundering the weekend

  The big movie of note that is coming out this week is Ted 2.

   I haven't seen the entirety of the original Ted but what I've seen of it has been really funny but it doesn't make me want to clamor to see the sequel. Still the trailers look good and the original Ted was did well financially (being the highest grossing R-rated comedy) and critically. The only way I could see it not doing so well is due to last years Seth MacFarlane bomb A million ways to die in the west. Anyway here's my prediction for Ted 2.

Ted 2
Budget: $85 million
weekend box office: $55-$65 million
Domestic box office: $90-95 million
International box office: $100-$120 million
World Wide box office: $190-$215 million

    The budget for this is relatively small and reasonable for this movie with high paid stars, CG and sets and they can easily make enough to break even with a little bit extra to please the investors. It won't make the $500 million the first one did but it will do well. Here's how I think the top ten will fare out:

Weekend box office
1.) Jurassic World
2.) Inside Out
3.) Ted 2
4.)Spy
5.) San Andreas
6.) Dope
7.) Insidious chapter 3
8.) Pitch Perfect 2
9.) Mad Max Fury road
10.) Avengers Age of Ultron

That's my prediction for the weekend box office and I'm still deciding what I'm doing for Friday so be sure to check and see if I actually did something for it. Thanks for reading.

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Weekend box office~ Money makes the world goes around

    Money makes the world go round and round and round because now Universal and Disney are now two of the richest movie studios of the year so far. With Jurassic Park, Furious 7, Avengers age of ultron, and  Inside out (which I'm glad that's doing so well.) And with still more films to come like Ant-man , Terminator Genesys and Star Wars force awakens, so this will definitely be a profitable film even if it's only for Universal and Disney. Here's what happened.

Weekend box office
1.) Jurassic- $106 million
2.) Inside out- $90 million
3.)Spy- $11 million
4.) San Andreas- $8 million
5.) Dope- $ 6 million
6.) Insidious Chapter 3- $ 4 million
7.) Pitch Perfect 2- $3.5 million
8.) Mad Max Fury road- $3 million
9.) Avengers age of Ultron- $2.8 million
10.) Tomorrowland- $2.4 million

  That's the weekend box office and sorry this is so short I wanted to get this out really quick sorry.

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Inside Out review

A/N: I know, I know. This is my procrastination and my obscene love for the Dragon age video game series fault.

    Inside Out is a movie about the mind of eleven-year old Riley Anderson specifically her emotions. Joy (Amy Pohler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling.) They're job is basically making Riley function as a human being and making her life the best it can be. One day after moving to San Franciso ,Sadness and Joy accidently get lost in Riley's mind with her core memories leaving only Fear, Anger, and Disgust to make Riley work so without Joy and her core memories Riley can't be happy. So Joy and Sadness must get back to HQ (where the emotions work) before Riley's life is ruined.

  I really loved this movie, and I am happy to say that if this movie is any indication Pixar is back on track.

    This is one of Pixar's best movies if one of it's darkest at the same time. It's basically about emotional development and growing up mentally and that you need negative emotions as much as you need happy ones. Joy is the leader of HQ and her primary goal is to make sure Riley is happy even in negative situations and often pushes Sadness into a corner so she is barely able to do her job but this ends up backfiring as without Joy Riley, whose only ever been happy, can't cope with the troubles she faces at school, in her clubs, her friends and her family. Most of which to some would be considered minor problems unlike say someone dying but the fact Riley can't cope with seemingly more minor problems in comparison to other people's problems makes what Joy's ideal more flawed. Now that doesn't mean they ever portray Joy as a villain (there's no villain really) but they do portray her as flawed as any human being.

   I've been sad before and I know from experience that sadness helps people understand and heal from whatever is causing their sadness. The writers and directors help emphasize this with a scene where one of the characters gets sad and when Joy tries to cheer them up using "joy" it doesn't work but when sadness comes and talks to the character they feel better. Also with one of the end scenes where sadness is the only one who can make Riley feel any emotions. Both scenes are really powerful and pointed. The last one in particular is really deep and actually had me crying. This is one of the most smartly written movies Pixar has ever written.

    So great message aside the film has amazing voice acting from the cast. First off Kaitlyn Dias as Riley and Diane Lane and Kyle MacLahin as Riley's parents did a good job whenever they had speaking parts and conveyed a lot of emotions through their voices especially near the end and they were all relatable. The emotions however are the stars of this film. Bill Hader as Fear and Mindy Kailing as Disgust did a good job but out of the five they did get the least to do although whenever they were on I did smile. Amy Pohler as Joy and Phyllis Smith as Sadness were both inspired characters and had inspired performances by both actresses and I really liked the bond Joy and Sadness shared throughout the movie despite the fact they were polar opposites. Yet my favorite out of the bunch was Lewis Black as Anger who every time he talked was hilarious and he stole the entire show for me with just how angry and insane he was.

  Speaking of hilarious this is also a really funny movie in terms of jokes and gags none of which are stupid all of them are intelligent especially during a dinner table scene between Riley and her parents and we get to look inside in Mr. and Mrs. Anderson's heads that was just hilarious. Having the emotions react to different situations Riley is in is always funny as well. The world and animation is amazing and is probably one of the most creative and stunning worlds I've seen in a long time.

  Of course their are flaws is that it's pace is really weird as at points it's really slow and yet in certain aspects it goes a bit faster than I would like and I wished it was slightly longer to give a bigger impact. Also I wished they had shown more of the importance of anger, disgust, and fear but it's really close to being perfect like UP, Toy Story 2 and 3 and Ratatouille.

I give this film a 9.5/10~ Smart writing , an important and new message, funny and great performances.

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Weekend box office prediction~ Go Inside Out! Go!

 
        So the only movie of note that is coming out this week is Inside Out the latest Pixar film about a preteen's emotions (it's a lot more fun than it sounds from the looks of the trailer.)

Let's see what you've got

     I think out of all the films coming out this year, yes even more than Star Wars force awakens, due to the fact this film will decide the fate of Pixar. Back in 2009 Pixar was basically untouchable, everything they put out ranged from good to fantastic and then Toy story 3 and UP came out, (UP means a lot to mean since it was the movie that got me into to movies and movie making),they were both hailed as perfect movies making Pixar appear as Gods and so the expectations were basically up in the stratosphere for Pixar. In 2011 Cars 2 came out the sequel to one of  Pixar's weaker movies which put a stain on Pixar considering this movie was called the "only bad Pixar movie" especially off the heels of Toy Story 3 and UP. Then Brave came out an overall fine movie but was considered a disappointment critically of and infuriated many when it was given the Oscar for best animated feature over the superior Wreck-it Ralph (Although that was more about Academy bias but that's an article for another time.)

    Finally in 2013 Monsters University came out to more critical disappointment, and to me the only bad Pixar film. Couple that with the announcement of Toy Story 4 with a reaction of appall, Incredibles 2 met with cheers but cautious ones, not to mention the rumored trouble with the upcoming Good Dinosaur movie and the set back of Finding Dory (still can't believe that happening ) Pixar has a lot riding on this movie.

   Personally I hope this movie is good because I love Pixar, they helped me truly appreciate movies and they have been putting out too much good content for them to fall. I'm also glad they are going for a smaller and more personal story to get back on track. Anyway here's my prediction.

Inside out
Budget: $175 million (I give this a slight pass because it's mostly a CGI movie and does look expensive enough for that budget.)
Weekend box office: $65-$75 million
Domestic box office: $90-$120 million
International box office: $100-$130 million
World wide box office: $190-$250 million

     This movie should hopefully make enough to break even but it better make more than that or else the think pieces "The End of Pixar" will starting coming out again. I don't think it will top Jurassic World but it should get second place.

Weekend box office
1.) Jurassic World
2.) Inside Out
3.) Spy
4.) San Andreas
5.) Insidious Chapter 3
6.) Pitch Perfect 2
7.) Entourage
8.) Mad Max Fury road
9.) Avengers age of Ultron
10.) Tomorrowland

    So that's the weekend box office and hopefully... something tomorrow... no promises.

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Weekend box office- A world of money

    Wow I so did not expect that number for Jurassic World. I expected it to make a lot of money to be made but at most I predicted it would make a one hundred million and I was off by one hundred million dollars. That is shocking yet I'm glad because while I didn't like the movie that much I do want to see a sequel and this basically guarantee's a sequel.

   This makes me interested in seeing how much Star Wars the Force awakens is going to make considering while Jurassic Park series is one classic the Star Wars movies is a whole different beast with in it's self. Here's the results to get what I'm talking about.

Weekend box office
1.) Jurassic World- $208 million
2.) Spy- $15 million
3.) San Andreas- $10 million
4.) Insidious chapter 3-$ 7 million
5.) Pitch Perfect 2- $6 million
6.) Entourage- $4.1 million
7.) Mad Max Fury Road- $ 4 million
8.)  Avengers age of Ultron - $3.6 million
9.) Tomorrowland- $3.4 million
10.) Love & Mercy- $1 million

    Besides Jurassic World I'm glad Spy is doing so well and Avengers age of Ultron is still doing well. Not much else to say but that's the weekend box office and see you either later or tomorrow for my Daredevil review (My glasses got broken and I had to repair them so that Daredevil review is going to take a bit.)

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Jurassic World review

A/N: I know, I'm sorry it's my fault, It took a lot longer than anticipated to get this I lose track of the days in the summer, I just have really bad emotional days sometimes as well

   Jurassic Park is one of my favorite movies of all time, it's the reason I love Sci-Fi (yes it's just as much of a Sci-Fi film as much as it's a horror film.) I consider it a masterpiece and one of my favorite Steven Spielberg movies next to Jaws and Indiana Jones: The last Crusade. Now of course Jurassic Park The Lost world and Jurassic Park III are bad movies lets get that straight but even still both are fun to watch and I will always watch them if they are ever on TV. Jurassic World is a different can of worms altogether because while it is the second best Jurassic Park movie it's my least favorite.


    The movie is about Jurassic World now a full operational theme park goes to shit one day when the InGen the company that owns the park decides to make a new hybrid to please apparently rapidly growing bored customers which the movie never presents outside Zach one of the protagonist of the movie because besides him everyone looks as thought they're having a great time and even with Zach it still shows him getting excited about different features of the park.

  Anyway with the help of Dr. Henry Wu (played by the ever excellent B.D Wong), who would have made a ten thousand better male protagonist than Owen, one of the original genetics specialist from the first park they create the hybrid but due to it (pretty stupidly) having intelligence and never really having anything close to any social interactions it goes loose and everything goes to hell. Meanwhile you have Claire (played by the always good if a bad decision maker when it comes to the movies she's in Bryce Dallas Howard) trying to manage the park while managing her nephews Zach and Gray and trying to manage her ex-boyfriend Owen who also works at the park now.

     First thing's first this movie is way more of a prologue to a much more interesting movie we will probably get in two-three years because this will make a lot of money. There are a lot of new ideas presented in this movie at the beginning like the idea of how big corporations, military and science are now consumer based machines that have become hard to tell the difference from anymore that make it seem as though this movie will be smart yet entertaining like the original which was basically a whole science vs. nature debate but instead the movie decides to basically rehash the plot of the original when things are about to get interesting that I feel wasn't the fault of the director or even writer so much as the studio not sure if this was going to work so they fell back on the plot of the original as a safety net. They even rehash the ending to the original movie with very minor differences.

   Some people say Lost World and III were total rehashes of the first one but no in Lost World they knew the park was bad the only thing they were trying to watch the second location was about rescuing a kid who accidently got stuck on the island. I get the feeling the ideas we see at the beginning was apart of the original finale draft and in all honesty I would have liked to have seen that movie rather than pay close to forty bucks to watch the original again.

   The main protagonist of the movie are Claire and Owen and Claire's nephews Zach and Gray. Now Claire is interesting character and a well rounded one she's a driven, perfectionist, intelligent workaholic who is actually very compassionate and cares a lot about her family even though she does have trouble balancing the two couple that with the fact she now has to work with a guy who she once dated but broke up with and from what the movie implies it was a bad break up. I really liked Claire I related to what she was going through, I felt bad for her because she's not a bad person and is really just doing her job and when things start going wrong she constantly worries about what's going to happen to her nephews.

   I also liked Zach and Gray, Claire's nephews. Gray I liked from the beginning an energetic, talkative, brainy kid who came to Jurassic World to have some fun. Gray is played by Ty Simpkins who was also in Insidious and Iron man 3 and he's just a great child actor as he both can actually act and he finds a balance between being serious and childish very well. Zach I didn't like at first because I thought he was a complete jerk but by the end of the movie I came around to him as he turned out to be a resourceful, tough and strong guy who genuinely cared about his younger brother when push came to shove. Any moment with these two I really liked and I would have watched an entire movie with those two. There is a subplot about their parents getting a divorced but a really has no bearing on the story and they seem to forget about it half-way through. It probably was there to build sympathy for Gray and Zach but you didn't need it.

   Owen is the last protagonist who is played by one of America's treasure's Chris Pratt who was really kind of wasted in this movie. The character of Owen was really just bland and non-exsistant in terms of personality, and really if it weren't for Chris Pratt (who can't be unlikeable in any movie he's in no matter how hard he tries) would come off more of a jerk and you can't really understand why Claire likes him other than the fact he's hot and he's just overall a dull character. Vincent D'Onofrio is in this as Vic Hoskins who is a pig-headed sleezeball who wants to use the dinosaurs in the movie (even though someone could just shoot them with rocket launcher and they can turn on you if your not careful and they would probably be more expensive than any drone), I love  D'Onofrio especially after Daredevil, he just chews the scenery in this and not in a fun or borderline good way just a bad way.

   A character I did love was Lowery Cruthers one of tech guys working in the control room, he's the nerd who genuinely loves Dinosaurs and that's why he signed up to work at Jurassic World but he hates all the corporation stuff that's going on around him and actually has a very level-headed and practical way of thinking and he even showed bravery when he decides to help Claire, Gary, Zach and Owen. Another character I found interesting and as I said wish was the male protagonist was Dr. Henry Wu. If you don't remember him he was a geneticist in the original movie who worked on bringing the dinosaurs back to life. In the movie they present him having resented Hammond and hating currently what the new heads are making him do. All he wanted was to see his work come to life which he gets no credit for and the new heads are asking him to tear down all his work again. That would have been an interesting concept to explore and an interesting character to see if he wasn't relegated to five scenes the last of which sort of sets up the sequel.

   The reset of the characters are ok, they range from not very interesting to in another movie being very interesting. The Hybrid dinosaur was ok but I don't know if it's the CGI or the lighting but I could never get a good look of it and it was hard to discern at points what it actually looked like. The rest of the CGI outside of the Hybrid looked good and you were able to tell dinosaurs apart from one another.

    The movie has a serious tonal problem as it tends to switch up tones out of nowhere. It switches  from a science fiction to 90's action to horror to gore in a blink of an eye and it's not done that well and it's actually kind of jarring. When I say they rehash the ending to the original, they rehashed the ending including the fact that one of the dinosaurs involved in the ending was from the original movie (how I do not know.)

   Now so it doesn't seem as if outside of a few characters I'm completely ripping apart this movie I did have a lot of fun watching this as the action and the comedy was actually well-written. The best action scene being the raptor fight against the Hybrid dinosaur. My favorite jokes actually came from Zach and Gray as they got some of the best dialogue in the movie.

   It's also more coherently structured than Lost world and three even with the tonal problems and everything else in terms of aesthetics are really good looking especially the park which was set up great and it becomes a place anyone would like to visit. The music is also really good outside of John Williams score their are some beautiful sounds that ring throughout this movie.

    Now I didn't want to be disappointed coming out of this movie, this was one of my most anticipated movies to come out this year and apart of one of my favorite franchises. I will see the sequel though because this does have potential but the filmmakers could have done better. In terms of progression this is the route that makes the most sense for the series to go even if a more interesting story could have been told.

I give this movie a 6/10~ Some really great characters, some good comedy and action if a mess in terms of tone, originality, some really stupid plot holes (why did no one think to call the military at one point) and just lost potential.

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Weekend box office prediction- A whole new world

   The big movie that is coming out this weekend is the 4th entry into the Jurassic Park Saga Jurassic World:

 

                        

 

   

 

 

     Alright! My quick summation of the first three is that the first one is one of my favorite movies of all time and while the other two can't compare to the first one and are technically bad movies, I still find both of them entertaining  and can sit down and watch them fine. So I'm definitely excited for the new one due to how much I love the franchise and the fact Chris Pratt is in it apparently with an army of Raptors doesn't hurt either.

 

 

   What will be interesting is however is seeing how it does. While it definitely will do great considering it's Jurassic Park a lot of people have been pretty skeptical due to the marketing and the last two films while I've liked them a lot of people haven't and it's left a bad taste in people's mouth. Still again it's a sequel to one of the greatest movies of all time so people will still and it's summer so a lot of people are off so they could spend a boring summer day watching a hopefully good movie. So far the reviews are good so that works in it's favor. Here's my prediction.

 

 

Weekend box office Prediction: Jurassic World

Budget: $150-$180 million

Weekend box office: $80-$100 million

Domestic box office: $100-$150 million

International box office: $300-$500 million

World wide box office: $400-$650 million

 

   While it will make a lot of money because it's the first one in fourteen years it won't enter the billion dollar club or even outside of the $600 million dollar club unless the movie is spectacular and while the reviews have been good they haven't been that good. On the bright side it's budget is reasonable for what we've seen in the trailers with the CGI Dinosaurs and the look of the park, in fact it's actually rather small since it doesn't even hit $200 million with marketing which is good since hopefully Hollywood is learning how to budget their movies better.

 

Weekend box office

1.) Jurassic World

2.) Spy

3.)San Andreas

4.) Entourage

5.) Insidious chapter 3

6.) Mad Max Fury Road

7.) Pitch Perfect 2

8.) Tomorrowland

9.) Avengers age of Ultron

10.) Aloha

 

 

     That's my weekend box office prediction and see you Friday for the man without fear!

 

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Spy review

    A/N: SPOILER ALERT! SPOLIER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!


   I know this was supposed to come out last weekend but yeah that was from general laziness so sorry and I had to clean my bathroom yesterday.

   Spy is a movie starring Melissa McCarthy as Susan Cooper a down on her luck, insecure CIA analyst to Bradley Fine (Jude Law), during a mission to secure a nuclear bomb the bomb comes into the hands Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne) who due to moles in the CIA comes to know every agents real identity so with no other options CIA director Elaine Crocker (Allison Janey) sends Susan Cooper in to stop Rayna from selling the bomb.

   Do not believe any of the trailers this movie is awesome, hilarious and is probably one of the best movies of the year so far. It's a victim of bad marketing making it look like a bad Melissa McCarthy movie full of fat jokes when it's really a movie of female empowerment when you think about it. 

    Susan Cooper from the trailer seems like an incompetent secretary who is just bumbling around in the situation while in the movie Susan Cooper is actually a genius both intellectually and physically in terms of being a spy but was "sniped" by Bradley Fine (who she has a crush on) into just settling for a analyst job and the movie is about her getting over her own insecurities, getting over Bradley Fine, getting out of the submissive, oppressive position she's been stuck in for years and become the badass she was always meant to be and it in the end gets her the respect of her superiors including Fine.

   This character arc was further exemplified by the other female characters in the film. First by her best friend Nancy( played by Myranda Hart) who is great and has wonderful chickmance with Susan and like Susan in the beginning was also in a position where she relatively had no power and due to her not being a traditional beauty like someone like Karen Walker (Morena Baccain) and is often looked over though throughout the movie she is in her own way able to help Susan and helps save the day at the end. The villain Rayna (played by one of my favorite actresses Rose Byrne) who upon first glance is a typical femme-fatal but in reality is a three dimensional character with an actual backstory who the only reason she's a villain is because of how much her father ruled over her life just because she wasn't what he wanted and as we get to know her is a likeable, understandable character who after meeting Susan to a degree she manages to break out of the hold her father has on her just like the hold Bradley had on Susan. Lastly the fact that neither Susan or Nancy don't meat the traditional standards of a typical female spy in these kind of movies being that they aren't perfect 10/10's and while they are good spies they aren't perfect both have some big flaws.
   So feminists or anyone who likes strong female characters this is the movie for you.
 
   Now while the women are great that doesn't mean the men characters aren't really good as well. The standout and really the scene stealer in this movie Jason Statham who plays agent Ford, and after this I hope to god he takes more comedic roles because he's brilliant here. In the typical Jason Statham movie he plays a super serious badass who does the most dangerous things despite how high the chances of killing him they might have. In this he makes fun of that typical stereotype he plays and everything he did and said I laughed out loud at. Peter Serafinowicz is in this too playing Aldo and he's great and you can tell he's loving every minute he's on screen playing this character. I hope he gets more mainstream American roles because of this. Even Bradley Fine who is a total jerk is played by Jude Law whose great in every movie he is in.

  Another surprising thing about this movie is that the is a lot action in this movie and it's really good, they do tend to a bit too much slow motion but it's clear and you can see it and it's super enjoyable. The comedy is top notch but I'm keeping my lips sealed because this is one of those movies where in terms of jokes you need to go cold on, the only scene that doesn't really work is between Peter Seranfinowicz character Aldo and Melissa McCarthy's Susan Cooper in a dungeon and it is slightly cringe worthy but it doesn't go on too long.


I give this movie a 9/10- Funny, cool female characters, good action and everything you could want in a summer comedy.

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Editorial~ Top 4 Fallout 4 predictions

    Schools Out! No more homework! No more waking up early! No annoying classmates just relaxation. Now I can devote more time to movie junkies so hopefully I can post things on time now.

 

 

How many people actually remember this cartoon?

    Yesterday the trailer for Fallout 4 came out pretty much setting the internet on fire with hype and speculation including myself. While I've never played the first two, my favorite video game of all time is Fallout 3 I love the gameplay, I love the story, I love the characters, I love the graphics (yes even the people graphics) I just love everything about it. Fallout 3 is one of those games I could play over and over again and never get bored. I like Fallout New Vegas as well but Fallout 3 is my main man. So actually seeing Fallout 4 is real makes me seriously consider buying a PS4 (or at the very least asking for one for Christmas.)



     Now I know this is mostly a movie blog but in order to get back into the swing of things and to get out my own fevered speculation. So here is my top 3 predictions for Fallout 4.


 4.) Fallout 4 is taking place a little bit after Fallout 3 and deals with the aftermath of it

  Now  I know this sounds like a 'duh' kind of speculation but let me explain because my theory for this involves my theory of what the plot might be. In Fallout 3 the Lone Wanderer ends up bringing pure drinking water to the Wastelands, however while I'm no scientist I know it can take thousands of years before nuclear radiation goes away and while yes in Fallout 3 you do end up sacrificing your or one of your companions lives in order to make project purity work (sorry for spoiling a seven year game) it would still take a while for the effects of project purity to set in for not just the wastelands of America but to cleanse the entire world of radiation.

   In Fallout New Vegas, it's about four years after Fallout 3 and the Wasteland is still really badly irradiated. It's going to take a while before it effects America in it's entirety. In the trailer Boston (where the game is taking place) Boston looks good for a Post-nuclear- apocalypse future it's far from good. So the wasteland is in a state of recuperation.

            

Good but not great

   In terms of continuity in the series my theory is that this takes place about seven-ten years after Fallout 3 (my range due to the fact Fallout New Vegas takes place four years after 3 and the game came out four years after the third game.)

   In the trailer also we see the Brotherhood of Steel in the trailer:

   


Protectors of the Wasteland

                                                                                                                                                                         

   My prediction is that after Fallout 3 now that the conclave, (depending on which ending is canon now for Fallout New Vegas) and either the Lost Legion or NCR have fallen the Brotherhood is in a state of trying to rebuild civilization yet the path to peace is not a smooth journey as while the wasteland in terms of nature is healing chaos is still prevalent among the people in it. My theory for the plot is that our main protagonist once he or she (I hope they still have gender choice in the game) has come out of the vault their main journey will be assisting the Brotherhood in bringing peace to the wasteland which is why in the trailer we see a very specific shot of a power armor suit.

 

    

Looks like someone is trying to fix up something.

 

   

 

    3.) The tutorial will be set when during the nuclear war

 

   One of my favorite parts of the trailer and perhaps one of the most interesting parts is that the beginning of the trailer with a dog (who is probably not Dogmeat) is walking around a house that is interspliced with scenes of what seem to be the day the nuclear bombs went off. 

 

United states year 2077

 

  Now it doesn't seem like Bethesda would include these scenes just to be artsy especially to a song whose lyrics include the phrase "It's all over." One of the aspects I loved most about Fallout 3 is the tutorial of it where you are basically playing through the first nineteen years of the main characters life while learning the skills we will use throughout the game. One of the most disappointing features of Fallout New Vegas (while I still liked the game) was the lack of a unique tutorial.

 

  My prediction is the tutorial for this game will be us as someone who manages to get into one of the vaults on the day the nuclear bombs go off where we will learn the skills and gameplay mechanics of the game. This also leads into my number 1 speculation which is...

 

 

2.) The main character of the game will be not a descendent of someone who survived the nuclear bombings but A survivor of the nuclear bombings.

 

   Ok I know this sounds completely crackpot of an idea but listen to what I've got to say. One of the things that rumored about a year or so was the description of the main character. The rumor was that the main character of Fallout 4 was actually put into stasis for some reason along with his fellow vault residents and somehow the character ends up waking up and going into the wasteland.

 

    So in conjunction with the tutorial theory my theory is that the person we are playing as in the tutorial will be the person we are playing as in the game. On the day the nuclear bomb goes off our protagonist manages to get into a vault in time before the bombs descends. Not sure the vaults will be enough the overseer or whoever is in charge orders all the members in stasis pods until the bombings have stopped. However something goes wrong in a Javik-Mass-Effect-3 style the members of Vault 111 end up stuck in the stasis pods and as time goes on the power maintaining the pods goes out one by one killing the residents except for the protagonist who I think we may have already seen in the trailer. I'm not talking about the guy we see wearing the vault uniform at the end of the trailer but during the scenes in the nuclear bombings as a little boy.

 

    In the trailer we see heavily emphasized shots of a little boy wearing a stripped t-shirt and a red baseball cap who is running towards the location of the vault.

 

Our hero (possibly) on the most tragic day of their life.

 

 

    The kids who also has similar dark hair to the protagonist shown at the very end. Now this could just be Bethesda using a random character model to use in the trailer but with the fact we see him twice and in front center of the scenes I would like the believe otherwise.

 

 Now of course a rebuttal for this could be that the kid is clearly only eleven or twelve while the person we see at the end is in his late twenties to early thirties. However remember this character (if I'm correct) was put into stasis and the thing about stasis is that it's a lot like putting meat in the freezer it keeps it fresh for a long time but not permanently and eventually the meat starts to decay. The time between the nuclear bombings and the beginning of the Fallout series is roughly about two hundred years. Now of course in a kind of Vault 101 type setting where it's basically an underground civilization the boy wouldn't live past 75 but if the boy were to be put in stasis when he's eleven or twelve while he would still age in stasis he wouldn't age at a normal rate so his aging would be significantly slowed down. So in a two hundred year time span the boy would only age to about his early thirties by the time he would wake up again.

 

 

 1.) Character motivation and the moniker

 

   Now to tie all three theories together what will the main characters motivation will be and his moniker. In Fallout 1 the moniker was 'The Vault Dweller' and the player motivation was the survival of yourself and your vault, in Fallout 2 the moniker was "The Choosen one" and the motivation being getting your people back from the enclave, in Fallout 3 the moniker was "The Lone Wanderer" and your goal (well a few of your goals) was to find your dad and bring back pure water to the wastelands, and finally in Fallout New Vegas the moniker was "The Courier" and your motivations were revenge and trying to bring order to the Mojav desert.

 

   A similar pattern between all four of these games is the motivation is a selfless motivation even in New Vegas's the motivation starts out selfish but ends up becoming selfless (well depending on how you play.) The moniker is usually represents some type of heroic archetype or symbol of importance.  My prediction is the moniker will be "The Sole Survivor" and his motivation will be trying to rebuild the world that was destroyed in his time. With this character if the whole stasis theory is correct might have a Captain America sort of complex a person out of time who must readjust to the world while trying to make it better.

 

  The protagonist arc could be that he feels guilty that his generation destroyed the world and as a way of seeking a redemption for that and the fact he survived where all the vault residents and millions of other people who didn't get to a vault died. That would be a very interesting and very tragic character arc.

 

The Sole Survivor

 

 

   Also as more of a fan theory with not much behind it in the trailer we also get a shot of a couple and their baby. Who are given a lot of emphasis in the trailer as well. As we see them in the beginning and seemingly them getting obliterated by a nuclear bomb.

 

 

 

 

   Well since the main protagonist was a little kid during the bombings and he had to have come from somewhere and the people do have dark hair like the protagonist in the trailer I'm speculating that the adults are his or her parents and the baby being their brother or sister. Somehow the protagonist got separated from their parents and sibling either while be let into the vault (their family for whatever reason not being allowed in or not being let in on time) or getting separated during the run towards the vault (the family then goes looking for the lost protagonist) and they end up dying adding more towards the survivors guilt I speculate the main protagonist might be having.

 

 

  That's my top 4 fallout 4 predictions for the game and comment below if you have anything to add or anything to refute me with. Have a nice day and excuse while I go look for a summer job to buy a PS4.

 

 

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