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.

Thanks for reading.

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.