District 9 review

With the start of district 9, it's all about establishing the environment and describing the story of what's going on in a short segment so you can get caught up with the action. you've got the aliens mother ship that's stayed in Johannesburg.

the film represents of how a person's personality can change when the situation has changed and he's not on the winning team anymore, within the first 10/20 minutes of the film, it's displaying the different traits that the character has, such as he's a very shy character and speaks very softly and it's giving the audience sympathy towards the character and it makes the audience feel like he doesn't want to be included into another big. the main protagonist is normally a strong and hopeful character so virtually instantly the audience falls in love with them.

As I watching district 9, it felt like he wasn’t take responsibility for stuff that he didn’t do and he could make any decisions without anybody being there. The main protagonist normally talks about his wife about how she does this and that and he normally stands in the background and gets un-noticed by his peers. He rarely speaks out for himself but when everything hits the fan, he starts to take more action and starts concerning his self for his well being.

I’ve been meaning to review this film for quite a bit now but never got really got round to it and plus I’ve been concentrating on my audio blogs and I’m just trying to get up the viewing ladder and it might take a little bit but if I start doing written blog and audio blogs at the same time, I can get up the viewing ship.

Hunger Games Review

I've just watched hunger games, The summer blockbuster to hit our pictures over last year. I've heard great reviews and monumental critic's approval. I've had my friends recommending me to watch it since he says it's the most beloved films he's ever seen and whenever he sees a book or something to do with hunger games, you goes over and tells me that i desperately need to watch it. Well i've watched it this weekend and here's my opinion of it.

Hunger games is based in the future of maybe our planet or another planet. I've said a couple of times that it might be based in our planet since of the monuments such as the Washington tower and the russian embassy building but since they've all been decorated with pretty lights and flowers, it's very hard to tell. The amount of hype and ratings hunger games got was a little bit unnecessary. I wasn't really a big fan of it.

There was no build up to the effects of the actual events. things just got rushed from one section to another. Like it went from a 13th century type town to a really futuristic city. People with very powerful colour outfits and strange hair cuts. When the characters did certain things, there was no anticipation. The film felt rushed and it didn't have time to fit everything in. Saying that it was a 2 hours and 20 minutes film. Things that would have meant risk in films would have done a lead up so the character feels more remorse and afraid but in this one, it went through events like they weren't going to matter to the character. 

Hunger games didn't need the excitement and the hype around it. It's basically for the people that like twilight and it really suits with the teen sensations of today. I'm giving it a 4/10. It failed to excitement in any place. I tried to give it a chance but it nerve executed it and that's why i'm giving it a 4/10

Insidious Review

Insidious was a brilliant film, It's even better than the woman in black. it features the same horror film conventions but i'll get to that when i get to it.

The intro, Well where can i start with the intro, it takes 30 seconds for the film to actually get to the plotline but here comes to the actual introduction of the film. me and my mum were sat here for about a minute waiting for the film to start so i decided to skip it and i must have skipped past 2/3 minutes of the film just because of the intro. 

during the film, when the little boy fell off the ladder, A very high piano struck, which i thought was quite weird and strange and it just sounded cheap but as you progress through the film, the striking of the piano makes perfect sense. 

It's a really good film, there were a few moments in the film when i jumped so the tension was very well brought up with the array silence brought up by the music. Demons/creatures were moving but didn't interact with it's surrounding and look like they were manicins, and lifeless even though they were moving a normal person would do and blink like a normal person would do.

as you progresss through the film, it changes from mood to mood and i'm not saying it's a bad thing, i'm actually saying it's a good thing and more movies should do this. Instead of dragging out one plotpoint, they've tried different theories and different techniques and it pulls off in the end. Things change, things advance and things get better as you're going through the movie.

I'm going to give insidious a 8.5/10, Not a lot of films can pull it off, usually scary films aren't naturally scary for me but with the people walking through the house and having a look round, i was constantly thinking, 'i wouldn't be able to control myself' I'd say i was putting myself in their situation and if i was them, i wouldn't have the guts to do it.

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Woman in black review

'Should not be a 12, Not scary but should not be a 12'. All the way throughout the movie, i could get daniel radcliffe as harry potter out of my head. I think if you've made a name for yourself like daniel radcliffe with harry potter, it's quite annoying because people will always reference you as that character, it's just like the actors out of friends, they'll always be refered to as ross or rachel or any of those characters.

Sure a loads of moments when things popped out at the screen are just cliche and overused conventions. I even said when daniel dropped the ever lasting matches, he picked it up and at this moment, i said to my friend that i was with, 'i bet something pops out of the screen as soon as he lights that match' and as it turns out i was correct.

It's not very scary but for the certificate it's been given, there would be a lot of people out there who are actually scared of this film. I can highly recommend this film if you're a fan of insidious or grave encounters. 

When daniel is at one end of the dark room, when the camera pans up to reveal the door with the woman in black standing there, The soul or essence of the woman in black rushed forward and the sound effect that they used for that scream was cheap, I could literally type in Youtube 'Girl screaming' and receive the same results, that's how bad it was. I don't think the director paid good enough attention to the sound either, he was concentrating what was happening on screen but the music is what builds suspense. Sure they're a few peaks in the volume that tries to build up suspense but i felt like it failed to capture the audience.

I'm going to give the woman in black a 7 out of 10. it's mainly the sound that gets it down, it just felt like during the entire film that the director didn't care about the movie and only caring about the budget and made some sacifrices

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Anger management (Charlie Sheen)

I know this isn't a movie but since it's the most watched premiere of all time i thought i'd write a review about it and see how it compares to two and a half men and how charlie's acting skills has got any better or worse during his time under the media eye.

now that i've watched it, i can safely say that i won't be watching any more episodes. I thought it was absolutley crap, The comedy was too cheesy, and it was way to obvious to tell what they were going to say and the writers had virtually no thought at all going into it. I don't think nobody would know what this program is if it wasn't for charlie sheen's trimph return to comedy. It's very similar to two and a half men, he still plays the character with many women and he's a bit of a player but he is divorced and with a daughter with OCD and he has to watch out what he's saying. as the title entales, it's anger managment but not for charlie sheen, it's for other people, he's a help advisor and a leader of a social group.

That's all i've got to say on it. it's just the fact they've brought out a crap program, stuck charlie sheen in it to get more revenue and that's it. I didn't laugh once. Maybe i'll watch one more episode because usually the pilots are rubbish so i'll watch the next episode and if that's any good, i'll do another blog and i'll continue on watching it.

Ted Review

There's not much that i can really say about TED over than it's an emotional rollercoaster. to be honest, i was growing tired of family guy and it's comedy. I thought that seth macfarlane was losing his touch with comedies. Now i love american dad, American dad has a deeper meaning and richer characters but with family guy, the comedy is there but not a rich back story to back it up. With Ted i think seth has recoiled his name and he's certainly gained some lost respect.

This is the exact same thing that i said about the dark knight rises, christopher nolan didn't look far for his actors, instead he used many actors from inception and placed them in the city of gotham. The word for dark knight rises is 'An inception reunion without leonardo di carpio'. You can see the same thing with TED, many characters have got appeared in family guy and some of them are solid roles, like Jeff's mum, she does the voice of lois, and then you get jeff's co worker who plays the role of Joe a handicapped police officer in family guy. I'm just saying seth didn't look very far for his actors.

when the movie was over, i asked my aunty what she thought of it and she said 'That was the biggest load of crap i've ever seen in my entire life' and i responded with, i thought that was brilliant and i think me and you have different types of humour. I laughed a few times during the film but in my eyes, it's not really laugh out comedy, sure the first 10 to 15 minutes were but the rest were references to other movies. Jeff and Ted loved movies like flash gordon and they have Tv/film based ringtones, like they had knight rider and Darth vader theme. I know that my 12 year old cousin didn't like it at all, first of all, he never laughed one bit and that's because it was too old for him, i'm not talking about the swearing and the sexual nature of the film, i'm talking about the movie references that they made during the film. Well flash gordon, airplane, knight rider, just to name a few.

I'm going to give this film a 8.5/10. If you're a film nut or a fan of seth's work like family guy, you'll love it. another reason i'm giving it an 8.5/10 because it's actually an original story about a bear that comes to life and he turns out to be swearing, drug taking, sexual devient creature that you can't help but love. how often do you actually see an original story come out of hollywood these days. Matter of face how often do you see an original story come to the pictures?

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The Dark Knight Rises Review

I heard my friends talk about it and saw it advertised all over the country and before going to the pictures, we were actually planning on seeing Ted which I'll hopefully be watching it next week. We had to settle for the dark knight rises which in my eyes I was unfortunate that I watch the dark knight rises instead of Ted and here's why

The film starts off with a cast back from the other two films and tries to get you caught but fails to meet up to that. It reminds you of what Bruce wayne did and how's its impacted his life and his loved ones. With Bruce Wayne feeling sorry for himself this sets the stage for about 2/3 of the film.
The first action scene is set on an airplane with bane being caught foreign scientists and armed men. Bane with his cunning attacks and his speed quickly turns the table over yo his side and from then on you think he's a strong and fast character that will not stop at nothing until his objective is reached.

The music in the dark knight was amazing but in my honest opinion it felt like the music was in the wrong place and wasn't correctly or the tempo on the music didn't fit well with what was happening on screen. Don't get me wrong the score was amazing and I'll probably be downloading it later but what they chose to go into a scene just felt wrong.

The characters
Its common for the directors use the same characters over and over in their films since their good relationship on and off camera. Just like Tim Burton with johnny depp, can you really name all the films that johnny depp has stared in which has been directed by Tim Burton. Now with Christopher Nolan I could actually count 10 people that starred in the critically acclaimed film inception. Its lazy that he does this and its common that director have a good relationship with the actor but not on a scale like this.

For the most part I can't give any of the film away, since its the end of the trilogy and there's a lot of spoilers and it wouldnt be very nice if I splilled them here. For the last 20 minutes of the film I truly think that this is the best cinamography I've ever seen in all the amounts of movies and videos that I've watched through the years. If youre not with batman from the batman begins you might as well not try with the dark knight rises. There's so much story and motivation built in the previous two movies and it pays off in the end.
Since I wasn't on the mood for a serious film, I wanted to watch a more laid back film like Ted so I don't think my head was in the best state of mind going into the dark knight.

At the end of the film you'll be having questionable outcomes and assuming what happened before you is true or not.

As I said with my amazing Spiderman review, I'll be comparing the avengers with amazing Spiderman and the dark knight rises and I know that avengers is first but its hard to decide where the dark knight rises should go. Should it 3rd or 2nd. I'll let the professionals and the box office sort that crisis out.

I'm going to give it 8 out of 10. One that if I was in the right mood for a serious film such as this one I might have enjoyed it more and a quarter of the film was mostly taken up my establishing shots which were nice but they don't have to be in the film and that's why I'm giving it a 8/10. Thanks for reading.

Anything and everything : Grave Encounters

Anything and everything : Grave Encounters: Firstly I'm going to say, if you like gory films (Saw/Braindead etc) then you might not find this film that scary. It creates horror by tens...


I recommend looking at this review of grave encounters. This is done by my girlfriend and i persuaded her to go into blogging as you can get most of your thoughts done on stuff. This is her review on grave encounters

The Darkest hour

I saw this film advertised last year when I was watching whatever film I was watching and from the trailer I was immeditally stunned at this film and what it could achieve. The main male character in the film plays matthew kidman out of the girl next door and everytime I see his face in the darkest hour, i'm always reminded of his work in the girl next door.

The concept is two entreperners are making a visit to moscow for leads on their company but they are screwed over by the boss and while they are there, they meet two girls and all of a sudden the entire world has a power cut and they are invaded by aliens. These so called aliens are invisiable to the human eye and they conduct electrictly so has they are walking through a street, street lights, cars and anything electical lights up indicating that the aliens are near by.

Weird deaths
I'll let you watch the film for yourself but i'd just like to point out that there are some weird deaths during the film, some of the people that you wouldn't think would die, die and the people that you think aren't going to live for very long live on. It's very strange, even the camera angles and the way they exxagerate it make you think they aren't going to die and it's really weird.

Pointless scenes
The first scene of the film doesn't have to be in there, neither does the second scene but the first scene is really pointless. The main character during the film is flying Moscow and he's using his phone to play a game and he's been told by the stewardess to turn it off because it messes with the planes navigation system and then he starts to have a rant about how if phones were really that bad, they wouldn't be allowed and it's got to be the most pointless scene in a film. the opinion of the film changes from a serious film to a more laid back film.

Special effects.
2/3 of the film speaking about the alien special effects, there's virtually none but the aliens are invisable. heck even i can do it with the power of after effects and twinkering with the ripple effects and you've got yourself two/thirds of the film. Just me the special effects get better and you actually the see the aliens in full form and with the aliens being invisiable this created suspense and tension leading up to the actual viewing of the aliens.

I'll keep this short but this film has a weird and i didn't think it was over but when i looked at the timer, i had seven minutes of the film left and i couldn't believe until the main male character says  'this is how it starts' so i think it's set it up for a sequel and if it did pretty well in the box office, i'd think we would see another one but i've never heard or seen anything about it since the trailer was advertised last year.

i'm going to give it a 6.5/10, reasons... well the reasons speak for themselves in the review.

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Sharkboy and lava girl

Well what can I say about sharkboyand lava girl. It was definlty a family adventure but a crazy one that. The writers and the directors must have been smoking weed when they come up with this idea. I was constantly asking myself who would write this, it was ultimately random but that's just what I enjoy in a film. The film reminded of Ross noble who is a stand up comedian and most of what he talks is the most random crap you'll ever hear but you'll laugh until you wet yourself.

The special effects in shark boy and lava girl were crap and I mean seriously. Water effects weren't done properly and the use of motion blur was daunting' they used it so many times that they saturated the effects.
I recommend watching it if your high or a young child.

 It's a very very good film for the family but the parents might be thinking there's no way that could happen and why didn't characters do such and such a thing but I'll leave the rest of the film up to you.

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Grave encounters

First of all i'd like to say i watched this film on the monday so i might not be the freshest of minds to talk about this film.

The film is still kindly ingraved into my mind and that says a lot for films of today. Grave encounters is your normal run of the mill POV camera type film. A group of cocky ghost finders and afterlife experts stay at a haunted insane asylum over night. Strange things used to happen at this asylum, the doctors used to do operations and take their brains, leave them brain died. A ghost is scary but a ghost that has been distressed and tortured in life is even worse.

The first ten minutes are kindly slow but that's just building up the suspense for what's happening in the film. As i got to the end of the film, i felt that they should have developed the characters more instead of concentrating one person and i think i've leave that statement like that.

I recommend watching the film if you've found The ring and the grudge your type films and even newcomers of the genre. It's thrilling and scary. I'm not normally scared of these types of films but grave encounter's ending was... i got to admit i really jumped it was that bad

Thanks for reading... This is the first of many little film reviews that i'll be doing.

update

now that me and my mum have finished prison break, we've started watching a lot more films, on friday we watched inside man with denzel washington, on saturday night we watched the rest of 'the greatest' and we also watched the bone collector which was another denzel washington film.

my point is the films that i watch at home, i'll be doing short and sweet reviews but the films that i watch at the pictures obviously newly released ones i will be putting more effort into them and saying a lot more about the film

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Hot shots review

Now that I've seen hot shots, I can actually say my opinions of it instead of just saying it's a top gun parody well it is and it isn't. It takes movies from around the time top gun came out and makes a joke about them.

Maybe going into watch hot shots and my hype around hot shots i think is too high and sadly it doesn't live up to that hype. Although it was a very good film, it's just not that high in my top films. The funniest film of that genre must be and got to be airplane. Airplane is utterly amazing, I've only watched it once but it's got to be the funniest film I've ever seen. Airplane requires multiple watches. Hot shots features many characters that has roles in two and a half men. Obviously there's Charlie sheen who is the main role in hot shots and then there's Jon cryer who plays walleye and which you know Jon cryer is Alan out of two and a half men. There's one other person out of hot shots that I can't remember the name of but he plays herb out of two and a half men. I could be wrong and it might not be him since I only saw half of his face in hot shots.

One of the best characters out of hot shots was the general. He's absolutely and utterly amazing. The jokes, the stupid things that he does and the amount of things he walks into is just stellar comedy for it's time.

That's all I've really got to say about hot shots, I'm on holiday at the moment and there's not that much access to the internet so I can't easily look things up as easy when I'm at home.

When harry met sally review

Most people know when harry met sally from the diner scene when sally's pretending to have orgasms in the middle of the diner and everybody in the diner stops what their doing and looks at sally. Well the most remembered clip and it's possibly one of the most memorable scenes in film history. An elderly woman is looking at sally and a waiter comes over and ask what's she wants and the elderly woman replies with 'i'll have what she's having'.

I was expecting a rom/com film, sure there were a few funny bits but at it's heart it's actually a wonderful love story between harry and sally. All around the world they keep bumping into each other every few years and then they become close friends and for a while nothing happens in between them and then they eventually realise what they've got and start dating each other and get married and have a successful marriage.

Considering everybody rememebers for the diner scene, it's a really really wonderful story and there was no bits were I felt to touch my phone or go on the touch pad, it was one of those films that kept me interested all the way through. Normally in a film, it gets to a boring bit like nothing is really happening and it's not really needed in the film.

Billy crystal is a person that I've heard so much about but they actually seen him in a lot of films. He's the voice of mike out of monsters Inc and going to the past and watching when harry met sally, you can instantly tell it's mike.

I'd watch it again and again. It's one of those films that you can never get tired of. I'm going to give it 9/10. The only reason I'm not giving it a 10 out of 10 is because it kept showing married people in the couch displaying what they mean to each other. That's just one little thing I had about it, it felt lie it was breaking away from the actual film.

The amazing spiderman review

firstly i've got to say, i went into the pictures going with a bad review in mind, I saw on Ign that they gave the amazing spiderman a sloppy score. For most of the time IGN are pretty reliable in their reviews but that is if they are getting paid to give a good review and in this case they obviously didn't get paid. so expectation were a bit low but i've got to say this is possibly the 3rd best action movie of 2012, the first one being The avengers assemble and the second one that hasn't been released is the dark knight rises. It definitly lives up to the hype from the trailers and advertisements.

now what's everybodys mind is how does it compare to the toby mcguire spiderman well first all of there were a few hints and subtley that the andrew garfield didn't pick up on. Throughout the entire film, the memoriable quote 'With great power, comes great responcibty' was never brought to our ears except martin sheen who plays uncle ben brings the quote in a subtext form in a voicemail, we know what he's trying to say but honestly i would have rather him say 'With great power, comes great responcilbtly'. Speaking of uncle ben, I can't spoil anything because we all know his uncle dies because of his fault but in the amazing spiderman, it never felt that the spider could have stopped in sure peter and his uncle have an argument and it causes peter to leave and his uncle chasing after him but the guy who killed his uncle had virtually no paths with peter. These are just 2 of the few comparisons i have and i could talk about it for ages. One more change that they made was that the toby mcguire spiderman, he had naturally forming web coming out of his wrist that was built into his DNA just like a spider but in the amazing spiderman, Peter parker developed the web stringer himself  using advanced science and formulas to create this web substance.

The amazing spiderman is predictable but i'm not talking about where predictable is bad, everything that happens in the film is strung together to create a immessive experience. From the items that peter parker asks to Dr curtis connars, one item in particular he points to is a formula accelerator and if a formula is placed is this a projectile will shoot up in the sky and cast a big rain cloud releasing the formula on the public.

With any marvel films, you've always got Stan lee who is the founder and creator of most of the marvel franchises and if you haven't noticed, he's made cameos in most of the marvel comic book film adaptations. well the amazing spiderman doesn't differ, Stan lee is the school library receptionist and he's got his headphones in listening to classical music, and gathering the books together and what's going on behind is the fight between spiderman and Lizard doctor connars.

The music was really well made, not sure who composed it but whoever it is, i'm sure they put in their 100% but at times the music didn't quite fit in with the action scene, it was the right tempo but it just didn't feel like the music suited with that scene and speaking of music there's a scene where spiderman is running across building and grabbing onto cranes via is web and i swear to god they've robbed some tones from titanic. It was like the james horner's titanic music merged with the likes of Inception. One more scene that had weird music is one of the final scenes where the lizard is roaming round the oscorp floor and i'll be honest it sounds like somebody was just bashing the piano every 5 seconds, it doesn't break away from the action but it's still quite an inconvience to the ears.

I'm not quite sure that they've set it up for a sequel, it's very hard to tell, before i went in, i was expecting a tie in for the avengers two that is rumoured to come out once all the other films have been established. Iron man 3, captain america 2 and thor 2 are being produced and you've got the new ones like hawk eye that's going to get his own back story and tie in with the avengers.

they hit very nice camera angles, a Very good feature from a first person perspective which wasn't used too much, they only used the first person view for like 10 seconds and the stuff from the trailer was cut up into bits, i don't know if that was trying to simulate blinking or they just decided to it up into bits i'm not sure.

This might sound cheesy but the amazing spiderman was utterly amazing, it's no avengers but we all know how stunning and heart throbbing the avenges was, lots of funny moments, not just in the action but in the script too.

I'm going to give this film an 8 out of 10, There were a few moments that felt a bit rushed and the music just wasn't in the right place and the music seemed like it was stolen.  It's a fun thrilling experience that will be enjoyable even with these down sides.

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New: I was looking at the IMDB page of the amazing Spiderman and I came across the person who composed the music for the film and it turns out it's James horner. He's the same guy that composed the music for titanic so he didn't steal anything but it still doesn't fix that it sounds like titanic.

Avengers assemble after thoughts

Yesterday i went watching the avengers for the second time, yes i watched the avengers again! one guy that i know in college as seen it 4 times and he obviously thinks it's a great film if he's seen it 4 times. i've got to agree with him, i've seen it twice and i'm gladly to watch it again in the pictures if it still there. When it comes out on DVD i'm definitly buying it on Blu-ray, it's just the quality of movies can't compare to the crispness and stunning detail that is full 1080p.

There's a few subtle hints like sound effects in general, the first time i was watching it i was only concentrating on the visual aspect of the film but the second time around i was able to look around and find hints or areas of interests that i wasn't noticeable from the first viewing.

sorry if this blog is a bit short but i started this blog about a month ago and then i forgot to carry it on since i don't normally come into the film reviews section.

I know i was promising a film review from old to new films but i'll be honest, me and my mum have recently got into prison break and she doesn't want to watch film until we actually finish watching prison break. I've seen the entire series twice and this is my third time watching it and we're at season 3 so we've not got long to go. so when we finish watching prison break we'll get back to watching films every monday :)

Chernobyl diaries

If you're unaware on chernoybl which everybody should be a aware of it, a couple of people that I encountered today didn't know what chernobyl was and I had to explain to them what it was.

It was an event that happened in 1978 that involved a nuclear power plant in chernobyl blowing up and causing all the citizens to flea for their lifes leaving all the possessions, just anything that they could grab quickly. A housing estate that hosted 1500 hundred, most of the citziens escape but some were left to either die or get exposed to the radition and mutanting in some sick and horrible way.

This is where chernoybl diaries comes in, a group of tourists are visiting the great monuments of the world and as they're in russia visiting one of the members brothers, The brother suggests visiting the land that has never been forgotten about but nevee visited. Chernoybl.

As they visit the dead silent town of chernoybl they realise that they aren't alone, they came across bears, dogs and a some spesics that i'm assuming can only be created with the assistance of radition. The creatures were like the characters off timesplitter future perfect, they were cows with open cactus's revealing all their intestines. I'll put a picture at the bottom to show what these characters were like.

When i've seen pictures of people who escaped chernobyl and the cause of the radition caused them to grow an extra limb or an extra body part. These kind of people, there personalitys were the same but with an added limb well these characters wouldn't have made the film. The people that didn't escape would turn into complete ripping apart the flesh and get in on the good stuff, these people were ravagness beasts that wouldn't stop at nothing.

The characters
I won't spoil anything but the characters with an undeveloped back story die. The brother got the idea to go to chernoybl  was by a russian extreme tourist guider called ura was the first to die and he was a very nice characterr and not like a traditional thriller movie were the mean people would be the first to die. I'll be honest I didn't think he'd be dying first, his character was very nicely portrayed on the rest of the group members.

The girl in this film was the most developed character out of them, she was willing to give adventure a try, she was the only professional photography.

There's another girl that's not the professonal photography but I honestly think she was only there for the lads. Pre chernoybl the girl must have had her boobs in every shot and every scene and let's just say they took my mind of what was going on.

The order of which the characters was kinda predictble, I knew that the hiker's wouldn't have survived since they were only add on characters that tagged along on the trip. 
The camera wasn't anything special, it's a standard POV camera, the same camera that they've used in the likes of cloverfield, chronicle and project x except the camera man had nothing to do with the cast, just like saving private ryan.

One of the shots that I found idiotic was when the people were getting attacked inside their van the camera man was on the outside of it leaving the camera man exposed to all the violence but as I said the camera man had nothing to do with any of the cast members.

I'll talk about POV camera more in one single blog because those types of cameras really bug me.

The suspense was brilliant and well reserved for those bits in the film it was needed. Ura puts his hand into the river and pretends to get bitten by something and this caused a few people in the audience to jump which was well received by the audience.

Just two days I wasn't looking forward to this film at all, I saw it advertised but never really took notice until I was told I was watching it and I watched the trailer of the film and even the trailer amazed me by how scary the entire film could be and the film lived up to that promise.

I'm giving it 8 out of 10.
One reason why it's not a 10 is because the camera... I really don't like the camera. Originally I gave this film a 7 out of 10 but thinking about the entire film, I think they should have increased the duration of the film because it was that good.

The Boat That Rocked Review

I've been trying to watch this film ever since it came out in 2008, i'm always interested in nostalgia subjects and I think the boat that rocked really does capture the history, the conterversy of the 1960's.

You've got massive amounts of euphasis on sex, rock and roll and drugs which we all know that what life was like in the 60's and it will always be fondly remember by me as the hippie age, doing drugs, and the fashion of the age. Well if you're looking for this kind of fashion and environments you've come to the right place with the boat that rocked.

If you've ever seen Run fatboy run or shaun of the dead or hot fuzz or ever kevin and perry go large, you'll feel right at home with actors in this film, some of them being small segments but the characters you'll most farmilar with, have got a decent amount of time on the big screen and you'll see them all the way throughout the film.

In the uk the film is called the boat that rocked but in the USA it's called pirate radio. If you've ever heard about pirate radio during the 60's, it was about a radio station that was broadcasting music that they didn't have a licence to play and this was extremely aganist the law but due to them being on a boat in teh middle of international waters they coudln't be prosecuted by the BBC.

This was the story of how the BBC wanted to stop pirate radio from broadcasting because they weren't getting the desired amount of listeners they wanted for their radio stations.

The boat that rocked lives up to it's name and it does definitly does rock. It's a traditionlal engish film with britash zanny humour. I recommend watching it as long if you're over the age of 15. There's many sexual references and swear words used.

I'm giving it 7 out of 10 for funny british humour, the first film to actually use the true story that happened in 1960 and gave it a script and gave it a funny and witty jokes.

Avengers Assemble Film Review

I know i've already done this review but i thought i'd repost it in the film review sector.


I've been trying to watch this film for a couple of weeks now, couple of weeks ago I was thinking about going because my friends were going and last week we got to the pictures and it was sold out so instead of wasting money and watching a film for the sake of watching a film decided to go and see it this week and pre booking our tickets so we were guanteened a place.

My first words of avengers assemble OMG, I don't normally go to the pictures to watch the same film twice and i've seen a lot of great films in the pictures but for the avengers is so worth going to see the film again and again until it's out on DVD. I've got some other things to say that I didn't like, loved and hated but with a film like the avengers it was worth it.

The fight scenes were amazing, all of them with amazing special effects. The main fight scene took place in new york city's skyline. 

All the film studios, they've all had the right idea, buying every marvel characters likeness so they were able to perfect each characters special effects individually before they brought into a very exciting fun filled polished experience.

I'm a sucker for origin storys, I love the first films of any franchise. The progression of the character coming through developing/gaining their powers.

The characters, a lot of characters in the film were meant to be there, one of the main characters was actually iron man, a lot of the elements and construction and story wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for iron man. 

2 characters were actually pointless being there, now you're probably gonna guess which two characters (if you've seen the film/trailer) black widow and the bow and arrow guy. Sure black widow had feline reflexs and attacks but her main attack is a gun! That's it! And the guy, all he had was a bow and arrow and apart from great and godly accuracy, he was pointless too.

The camera work.
Coming from a media student, you tend to look at films in a different perspective, you start analying the camera angles that they've used, like low angle shots to show that they are important characters and it's to make the audience feel small. 

All the camera angles were very dramatic that revealed the action in a far but close sense.

The writers for the avengers must work for some other company like big bang theory or how I met your mother. The film was surprisingly funny given the sense that marvel/super hero films aren't really that funny but the avengers assemble was quiet witty and clever with their jokes. Some were obvious jokes that had to be said but some were thrown at your face and we were all having unexpected laughter.

Special effects.
The special effects were amazing, film companies have had time to perfect each character's charactistics to really fine tune every little detail they can push out to on the film.

Overall this film that everyone needs to see even the ones that aren't interested in comic book movies!! There's some bits that need more explaining but since i've not seen thor or the incredible hulk, I can't comment and there are some bits which are amazing but it's easier to explain if you've seen the film.

Men In Black 3 movie review

Men in black 3 movie review: i can't actually cast my mind back to the second men in black film but i can remember the first one in great detail. i was only a late comer to the men in black franchise, the first one came out in 1997 and it was only until 2007 that i came into the men in black franchise and i abosultey loved it.

the first thing that i thought about thw men in black 3 film that it should have done a mini catch up at the beginning, where it showed off what happened in previous events (not like the prison break "previously on prison break) something that would catch the audience up after all it's eben so long since the last one.

To me the film had a very bad understanding of what the space time contiuum was. it was all over the place. i won't get into the details of what the hell went on in men in black. it's kinda like back to the future 2 film where marty and doc travel all round the place trying to fix their present time by going back to 1955 and fixing what 2015 biff took back to 1955.

special effects: now with any men in black film you're bound to get special efects because obviously it's based around aliens and living orgians that are only achieveable with the power of special effects. there was a scene just at the ending battle of the film where will smith was jumping around the bars on the big crane holdng the space shuttle, you could easily tell there was special effects invloved and i now what you're going to say it's a special effects driven film but you could really tell the company hasn't done it quite right. the only way i noticed this was that there was too much motionblur on will smith and the camera paned too quickly around the crane.

overall it was a good family fueled adventure, some of the elements could have been done better with secial effects but i guess that they were trying to keep the gore down as it was a kids film and they didn't really want to terriify the audience. i would recommend watching this film it's a great ending to an amazing trilogy.

Thor review

In my technology and everything in between blog, i mentioned that i've recently watched thor and this is the place for me to do my film reviews so let's do it.

Since i watched the avengers just over two weeks ago, i thought i'd catch up on the other marvel hero films. As i watched the avengers, i realised that i've missed out on some key elements that i missed on why things happened but mainly i missed out on the story and was slightly confused.

Thor was actually a really good film, better than expected actually, it featured a entire city built in 3D which was pretty good and the water effects running through the rainbow roadwas stunning. The massive build up to the gatekeeper wasn't really worth it, they made the gate to another realm a very secure and special place but coming from a 3D animator the entire effect of the gate spinning and spinning until it reached the point of thor and the other members being transferred to another realm felt cheap:-
Create a sphere
Cut some holes out
Modify the geometry
Apply the different maps.

Now when i saw the film was released in 2011, i don't remember there being that many trailers out for it, it's marvel didn't have that much faith in the film and they only put the film into the series to fill in the backstory of Thor and Loki. I don't remember being many trailers for Thor, i remember being many trailers for Iron Man and Captain america: The first avenger but none for Thor... Strange.

If you look at Thor as a stand-alone film, it's disappointing for the entire you're waiting for an epic fight scene between Thor and Loki but it just fails to come, There's a few fight scenes in Thor but they were nothing like the Avengers or Iron Man. The entire reason i watched this film was to pick up on the back story each people's characters in the film, So what they could have done in the avengers was tell a little bit of the back story to Thor.

A few of the people that were in Thor didn't make another apperance in the avengers and it clearly said in the Thor that Thor was going to make another visit to earth just for Natalie Portman's character Jane foster, a few of a farmilar faces returned to the big screen was Erik Selvig and he's the scientist at the beginning of the film where he's testing the cube that gives off massive levels of radiation, well the scientists gets possessed/hyptized by Loki and his staff.

Sorry for the late review but i'll catch up on them soon

The dictator review

Well now that i've watched the dictator, it wasn't really that good at all, i'm not a big fan of sasha baron cohen's work, I like borat but not to the extent that I was laughing my ass off. Bruno wasn't entertaining at all and don't forget about his first major film... Ali g in da house.

I thought the dictator could have made a difference between his others films. His usual line up of films him disturbing other people, playing games on them without even knowing and this was pretty clever but the dicator has a proper storyline and plot but in my opinion, the storyline was too cliche, it's the standard for james cameron films, make a film based on something and then create a love story entwined that involves one half not being able to go after the other half.

I was very very disappointed of the film, it failed to wow me and to be honest it was a waste of 3 pound... Thank god we went on cheap Tuesdays. Everything that was ha ha funny was shown in the trailers and everything was expected. There was a few clever jokes included like talking about the civil rights being a joke. i'm not the most racist man but even I found that the racism in the dictator was going too far.

Some of the funniest bits were really predictable not because I saw it in the trailers before hand but because they were easily guessing moments that any film maker could think of and it felt like they had no creativity towards the film.

Comedy films are way funnier if you don't watch the trailers because they give away most if the funny bits in the trailers. This is exactly what I did for hangover 2, I never watched the trailer and I found hangover 2 more enjoyable not that it was interesting in the first place because it was most of the same formula that was in hangover 1.

One scene that really made me awkward was a scene where he started playing with himself for the first time. Sure it was funny that he's never jacked off before but that scene was dragged out until you were cringing for the scene to go off. They used a video clip from forest gump where forest is wearing his leg braces and the moment when the leg braces start to break and tear apart.

The funniest bit of the film was when allaheed and natal were in the helicopter speaking in their native language while there was an elderly english couple. They were describing the porche 911 and the empire state building and the old english couple took it as they were going to blow it up and started screaming and aware the authority that they were going to blow up the statue of liberty.

Thanks for reading, if you're a big fan of sasha baron cohen and you don't want to lose the reputation you have for this man well... I'd say don't watch it.

film reviews update

i've recently started watching prison break again and i won't be watching films on a monday anytime soon but i've been going to the pictures a lot more than i used to so i'll be reviewing films whenever i go to the pictures. i' a film buff, watch fioms every sundaydue to i'm either hungover, bored or it's a film i really really want to see.

i'm a big fan of kevin smith and his lines of work. my favourite film out of the entire kevin smith library is clerks. i havent been a fan of even kevin smith long, i was introduced to his works just last year and now i'm constantly doing quotes and watching jay and silent bob strikes back or mallats whenever i can.

Films reviews introduction

I'm a huge films fan and i'd like to start a new blog that's not just about technology but i'd like to start review films as a seperate blog so i don't get them mixed up between technology news and rants.

i watch a lot of films so it would be really really hard if i reviewed them all and wrote about them in this blog. so every week i'll be bringing out a new review on a film that i've watched that week, this could vary from films from the 1960's to now.

this is just the opening blog and i'll be watching a film on monday so monday will be my first official blog on film reviews.

i've wanted to do film reviews for quite a bit now and instead of mixing them up with my technology rants, i'd rather do a full entire different blog.

thanks