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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