Monty python live (mostly) review

I was watching monty python last night and all the reviews from the daily mail and various other newspapers. I thought it was going to be rubbish but it was the complete opposite it was utterly amazing. It was what the fans wanted they wanted all of the old sketches from the original monty python flying circus series to be re done by the 5 of the remaining members of the pythons. They honoured graham chapman with serious and gentle humour. A lot of the things that the daily mail was saying was there was no new material or sketches. And i'm being completely honest i haven't seen all of the flying circus series so are lots of the scenarios and sketches that was portrayed by the remaining members that i haven't actully scene so i was seeing the fish slap it was the first time hearing i like chinese and the lumberjack songs.

The show is called monty python live and in brackets it says mostly which is actully true most of the time you were seeing cartoons to help the transition between their live sketches. As they are getting old now, being mainly 70 years old, it probably did take them ages to change costumes and set up the new stage set.

The prices for the tickets were 105 pounds, which is quite a lot for a show but it was definitely worth it, like me and my family for tickets. My uncle mike, uncle Steve, aunty donna all drove from the north west to Essex to arrive at your family down south, Karen and mike, who both had tickets so driving down there. So overall, the petrol money, the ticket price, the train fair and the added cost of buying merchandise and drinks and the o2 arena. It was quite pricy for a weekend but to see the comedy giants and still are remembered by a number of people and yet they haven't done anything for over 30 years. Remember when Alfred Hitchcock changed the way we look at films, with its story telling techniques and exposition. Same with rockstar and the open world sandbox game, they basically invented the genre and the same goes for Monty python. Monty python will always be remember for being silly and being the greatest comedy acts known to man

Transendence Review

Eventually i got round to watching this film. I saw it advertised when i went watching Godzilla a few months back and i've been wanting to watch it ever since that trailer.

Transedence features Johnny Depp as a neural scienctist, head of Computer Lab company trying to push their way and try to improve the quality of life of citizens and humanity in itself. Using research that they've found from monkeys, they've been able to encode the brain on the monkey into a computer called PINN. Using this concept, Johnny Depp goes on Stage to present his breakthrough PINN and research that follows. and for humanity creating a person/Soul that controls everything that we do through technology. A person asks johnny depp a question whilst he's out on stage asking 'if he's making a God' That same person goes up to him after the conference and shoots him. He goes to hospital gets the bullet removed. later he finds out that the bullet was coated in a radioactive material that slowly kills him. Using the technology that they've learnt from the monkey and uploading it to the company. they've decided to upload his personality and his profile to the machine just to keep him alive. with that only being the intension. well he starts invading peoples computers collecting information.

I loved the concept from the trailers and i liked the film but it wasn't that great, i was always expecting something big to happen but everything had a steady pace and there wasn't a visible change to how things were progressing or drama.

To be honest, it wasn't that good, it was just a movie trailer that got me excited but sadly the film didn't deliver, if you're not interested in computers you won't be interested into this film at all. and i wouldn't even say give it a watch, i'd say don't even download it. that's just my personal opinion. 5/10

Oculus movie review

I went to watch oculus film and no not the oculus rift. Its the latest horror film to hit the pictures and its not actually too bad.
I've gone into the film expecting a lot of jump scares and a lot of freights but there was absolutely none. The film was actually story based horror which you don't normally see with the likes of woman in black, sinister, insidious etc. The way that horror films have gone lately happened because paranormal activity. The film only cost 10 grand to produce and yet it made over 150 million at the box office and I'll admit at the time of this review, I still haven't seen paranormal activity. I've been told by numerous to watch it but at this point its over hyped.

On a unrelated note, I watched frozen a few weeks ago with my niece and due to everyone over-rating it, saying its amazing, its the most watched and the highest earning animated film of all time. Sadly passing toy story 3. If I watched frozen before anyone got their chance, maybe I would have loved it too but due to what I built it up in my head, it just didn't live up to that expectation.

Oculus without giving anything away, its about a mirror that people have acquired throughout the 18th century and all the owners of that mirror or the families that have owned it have all died in mysterious ways. Sometimes its just being brutally murdered by one of the family members or dying of dehydration whilst taking a bath.

There's only one noticeable actress and that's Karen Gillian. A woman that has recently come into limelight due to doctor who and it seems that her career to going to push beyond the television screen with her performance in oculus.

The film is actually unique in the way it tells the narrative. In order for me explain the way they tell it, I'll have to explain the main plot. Two kids, girl and a boy. The family move houses and aquire a mirror and the dad has the movers place the mirror in his office. Events take care in the house that causes the boy to go into a mental hospital. As the film is constantly switching between the future and the past events. Thats where it gets confusing because sometimes you can't distinguish which is the future and which is the past.

I'll rate it 7/10. I'm knocking it down some points because the trailer advertises the film as a jump scare type of film. Sure they're are some scary moments but that's only because the eyes of the people that have been killed by the mirror have been replaced with sliver balls. And don't worry its not at all related to the oculus rift