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.