District 9 - Movie Review

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(This following blog post is written in a personal perspective view, it is fan made to be like as if I am in the world of the movie, but I am still living in the same area as a college student.)

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Web Log Entry #0146

Title: Regarding the District 9 Situation

Time: Friday April 11, 2010 10:03 P.M.

Well, the aliens were around ever since I can remember. I was born about 5 years after they crash landed at Johannesburg, South Africa in 1982. My dad told me about how the whole world literally stopped what they were doing and focused all their attention on the  massive spaceship which was just simply hovering over the city like God finally came to Earth.

Its pretty interesting to be in the first generation of children to encounter aliens because we tend to feel a bit more comfort-able then our parents do. We been living on Earth with the aliens all our lives that we just saw it as a natural occurrence. As me and my friends grew up, we were told to refer the aliens as Prawns. They looked like humanoid insects, kind of like a cockroach, but that's my opinion. None the less I’m probably more uglier anyway.

My friends and I would literally have a whole line of discussions about the future of Earth itself if the aliens were to continue to live here. We would predict that either we or future generation of kids would go to school with aliens someday and many other surprising changes in order to co-exist with the aliens. I honestly wouldn’t want to go to war with them. Based on the news reported to us about their weapon design, I would never want to mess with that, especially the gravity gun…I hear someone got killed by a pig when it was launched from the gun. I would never want to mess with that.

Well, as my dad told me, he said that the military cut their way into the spaceship and found a mass amount of Prawns just nearly dying of starvation, so they setup an area below the spaceship and called it District 9, and sheltered the Prawns until they can raise them to good healthy condition.

It was suppose to be the beginning of a bright new future for mankind and the Prawns, working together to live in harmony, paving the way for a better tomorrow, however, it never turned out that way. District 9 became a slum for the Prawns and was boxed up with fences and high military guards.

People are wondering what is going on? The media is telling us one thing and the illegal underground news feed is giving us real horrifying stories about what we the human society is really doing to the aliens. It was said that they were experimenting on the aliens, trying to figure out how humans can use alien weapons, and even murdering them, all in the name of research and advancement. Now that's fucked up, your destroying a person’s life.

And then came an organization called MNU, Multinational United. I personally believed they were a bunch of faggets thinking they can do whatever the hell they want with the aliens without their given rights. I mean come on now, their spaceship isn’t working, they got no where to go, and now they want them to move 200 miles away from the city. They planned to move them to a new shelter and call it District 10.

While MNU tried to evict the Prawns out of District 9, something happened to one of the workers. I don’t remember what his name was but he was in charge of the operation. I think his name was Wikus van de Mery? Or was it Merwe? Names really don’t mean anything nowadays, but anyway, we were told that he had sex with a Prawn and got infected that made him mutate into a Prawn. Everybody was shocked by the images of him having sex doggy style with a Prawn, which was literally in every magazine, newspaper, and the internet. It was actually pretty hilarious when people made comics, parodies, flashes, etc etc. The best was AmazaFAIL’s new song, “Prawna Lover”.

Then come the conspiracy theorist talking about the mysterious control ship that fell off the mothership, I can’t believe they made an entire 20 minute documentary about some mysterious object falling from the mothership. Then there was one about how Wikus was actually tortured into being a research specimen for MNU, one clip they showed of him firing the alien weapons looked pretty real…but then again it may have been edited with special effects. Later it talked about him escaping from the secret lab 4 stories under MNU.

I honestly don’t know what to believe, the year is 2010, the spaceship that was hovering over south africa was said to have started and left earth shortly after. Maybe Wikus managed to escaped MNU and ran away to the spaceship. Not sure why he left 1.9 million Prawns on Earth, should have taken them with him or something. Now the population is 2.5 million in District 10, where they were all moved to, and their clearly here to stay now, since the spaceship is gone. Or maybe it wasn’t Wikus, maybe whoever was the pilot of that ship finally got it to work and left to get help. However…if the underground source is right and the media was lying to us the whole time, I wonder if they would wage war on us?

Who knows what the future might hold. Until then, I should just stop thinking about current affairs and just focus on my school work and how I’m going to shoot this film for my final exam. Hope my friends are available Wednesday Night. Damn…its getting late, there's so much I wanted to say, but I blanked out, I always seem to do this, maybe I’ll write down main ideas and topic focuses before I make a blog before hand.

Anyway, goodnight and thanks for reading my fellow subscribers. <3 All 6 of you.

Log End….Saturday, April 12, 2010 2:15 A.M.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Movie Review

Before I review the movie, let’s talk about the book a little bit and don’t mind my fake and poor British accent.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the 6^th book in the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling. Like all Harry Potter books, it had many people in excitement upon its release date four years ago, July 16, 2005. The great part about Harry Potter was the fact that it introduced an entire generation of children into reading. However, it didn’t stop there; the series gave these children a sense of vision in creativity over the course of their lives in literature.

There are countless of fan fictions, fan films, scripts, plays, and even a dictionary relating to the Harry Potter series. Rowling has literally changed the lives of many children and adults around the world and I am certainly impressed to see the power of literature at work.

Here is an example:

 

But, why am I talking about the book instead of the movie? Everybody already knows about what happens in the book, how it differs from the movie, and how great the book truly is to all Harry Potter fanatics. However, what some people didn’t know about was the mischief behind the selling of the 6^th and 7^th book. You see some people thought it would be hilarious to dress up in black clothing, get a loud speaker, a friend with a camera, and of course have the internet as their audience, to witness something pretty messed up.

This person in black ninja like clothing also inspired many people around the globe to perform the same stunt on the 7^th book release. What he did was this, got a list of important facts, went into a crowded book store, lifted his microphone, and simple said, “Attention Customers, SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!” If you heard the spoilers on that release date, I feel your pain. <3

And now for the film review:

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince continues the story of telling us a bit more about Tom Riddle, who is later known as Lord Voldemort, and his past life and how he came into Hogwarts as well as progressing to be one of the darkest wizards Dumbledore ever encountered. In order to defeat Voldemort, they needed to know the past, and the only person able to give that information was Voldemort’s favored teacher in Hogwarts, Professor Slughorn who has a profession in Potions. Dumbledore and Harry visit him at his house to get him to go back to Hogwarts to teach, at first he refused, but eventually gave in and prompted for a raise in his salary.

Surely I thought the story would strictly be about Voldemort, however branched off into another matter. As ordered by the Voldemort, Draco was selected for a special assignment, to kill Dumbledore. Draco’s mother, Narcissa Malfoy, and Bellatrix Lestrange, the first female Death Eater, went to Snape’s home. Narcissa pleaded to Snape to protect Draco from harm, and Draco was not able to kill Dumbledore, he would do it instead. Snape said he will protect Draco, but Bellatrix suggested that an unbreakable vow would insure his words were true.

So, basically, the movie had two plots working with one another, one was where Dumbledore and Harry were seeking to find the truth in the past to defeat Voldemort while the other is where Voldemort was ordering Draco to kill Dumbledore. An interesting film, I never read the book, I seem to have been miss informed about life considering I lived in the era where Harry Potter was created and never heard of it until the 3^rd movie came out. Anyway, great film, glad I watched it twice, missed a few things the first time I watched it, and the second time cleared up everything. Go watch it! Sidd Approved ^^

 

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen – Movie Review

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) is an action pack CGI/live action film that continues the story about the raging war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, but takes us back into an earlier time in history where an ancient race of transforming robots landed on Earth. These ancient robotic beings travel to the far reaches of space in hope drain energy from stars and convert them into a resource material called Energon in order to power the AllSpark (seen as the cube in the previous movie). In this ancient era, the Dynasty of the Primes are the ones in power of the weapon they called the Sun Harvester which they use to drain the stars in the universe.

The Dynasty agreed they will only take the stars of uninhabited solar systems, basically stars with planets that have no living organisms; however one of the members in the Dynasty came to Earth and wanted to drain the sun while there was still life on the planet and was later named and known as “The Fallen”. For his own views and hatred toward the planet Earth and its inhabitants, began to construct the Sun Harvester, but was stopped by the Primes. In order to save Earth from The Fallen, the Dynasty of the Primes sacrificed themselves and hidden away the Matrix of Leadership, the key that powers the Sun Harvester machine.

And so, many generations later, The Fallen returns to Earth to finish what he started in order to gain Energon and build up his army.

Sam Witwicky, played by Shia LaBeouf, who in the previous film becomes involved in a war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, has grown up and was heading to college. In order to maintain his relationship with Mikaela Banes, played by Megan Fox, they would have to have to communicate through webcam chat over the internet (which is amazingly popular trend to do when couples, friends, or relatives are far apart from each other).

Before he went off to college, he noticed that he still had a piece of the AllSpark and when he touched and looked at it, the AllSpark fragment reacted and gave Sam some sort of symbolic map to where the Matrix of Leadership is located. The fragment became too hot for Sam to hold onto and fell to the floor burning its way to the kitchen where it reacted to metal and made everyday electronic kitchen machines into transformers and caused a heck of a mess.

So skipping ahead a bit, Sam travels to college. They show us the typical university college life which I still have to witness for myself if this is what really goes on (x.x), with typical weird roommates, hot college guys and girls, parties, and of course class lectures with 100-200 students in an auditorium. This is the scene that cracked me up the most. A teacher walks in eating an apple and talks about physics. He takes a bite, drops the apple, and kicks it to a hot young lady at the front row who says thank you and the teacher replies “Finish it for me”. The way the angles in those shots played reminded me of an adult film-like setting, so I nearly bursted out laughing, covering my mouth as hard as I can while the audience in the theatre room was quiet as hell. The woman next to me gave me a dirty look (They eventually walked out in the middle of the movie x.x).

Anyway, during class, Sam had a weird occurrence of reading the entire class text book in 5 seconds and going nuts claiming that the teacher was wrong. With a freak-out during class, he walks out and wonders what is going on with him and what the symbols he is seeing mean.

Now without spoiling a bunch of things for the movie, I will stop here about the story telling, the film is amazingly awesome, a great movie to watch that has LOTS of action and transforming ^^. There are many scenes that will leave you laughing pretty hard and really get you into the movie that you won’t even have time to eat your snack because you don’t want to miss ANYTHING!

10/10 Great Job at creating this movie!

Oh I forgot one thing…the CGI on Megan Fox is amazing, it’s too real to be real!

Land of the Lost (2009) – Movie Review

Land of the Lost is originally a kids television show that aired back in 1974. It was produced by the Krofft brothers, Sid and Marty. The characters that starred on the show were the Marshall family, Rick, Will, and Holly Marshall, who were on a ordinary expedition when suddenly something went wrong and found themselves falling randomly into a waterfall. When they awoke, they came to a strange world where they came face to face with dinosaurs, primate called the Pakuni (which were kind of interrupted as early forms human beings) , and the lizard species, the Sleestak.

A remake of the 1974 series was done in the early 1990’s which became one of my FAVORITE kid shows. I always wanted that DAGGER. >.< They only changed the names of the characters with a few more additional characters to the cast.

Now, in mythology or in science fiction, there came a time when people have talked about early human lifestyles and what type of other species that existed. I’m not too familiar with the subject, but they were labeled as the reptilian humanoids. Basically there saying that back in the day, human beings weren’t the only superior race with the ability to dominate the Earth. However, there are thousands of articles portraying another story saying we evolved from them or the unknown wars that early human beings won in order to continue to survive up until now.

In many cases, I do remember reptile like human beings used in video games during my SNES era. A great example would be Chrono Trigger, where you travel to nearly 10,000 BC (I think) to help Ayla, the prehistoric warrior fight the mighty lizard king that threaten to kill off the human race.

Anywhoooooo…

Land of the Lost in 2009 became a big budget film starring Will Ferrell as Dr. Rick Marshall, Anna Friel as Holly Cantrell, and Danny McBride as Will Stanton. The film is directed by Brad Silberling. If your a fan of the original TV show, this is a definite must see film due to the fact that most of things that occur during the film is based off the 1974 TV show.

The story starts out on television broadcast as Matt Lauer is hosting the Today show and is interviewing Dr. Rick Marshall. He discusses his research and asks him to explain it a little more in detail. Rick explains his theory on time warps and how it will save the world. After hearing about Rick’s theory, Matt was speechless and like everybody else, he labeled him as a nutcase and he's out of his mind. The interview went from bad to worse when Rick nearly attacked Matt.

Since that interview, Rick has been laughed at, and was nearly pushed down the latter in the science field to a teacher at George C. Page Museum where he gave his presentation about a device that can work to create time warps, the Tachyon amplifier. When all seemed lost for Rick, a very attractive woman came to his classroom and confronted him about his research. She introduced herself as Holly Cantrell and encouraged him to go back into his research. Rick had opposing decisions to whether or not continue his research and to create the device, but after a long night, Rick developed the Tachyon amplifier.

With no time to waste Holly and Rick traveled out to seek out a signal which the amplifier can detect and exert the particles which cause a tear in time and space for developing time warps. They get a strong reading in a cave and see that it is a tourist attraction, The Devils Cave. They meet up with the tour guide, Will Stanton and they head out into the cave in a raft.

As they are traveling in the cave, the device reacts to nearby particles and cause the cave to shift in the water path’s movement. The raft was traveling on its own downward as Will claimed he doesn’t know what is going on. Eventually the raft is lead into a waterfall as everybody onboard it fall.

Our main characters wake up in a parallel world where many things from 10,000 BC to anything from modern time where piled like garbage around the sand. The view of the sky looked as if they were on a different planet.

Holly is amazed by the accomplishment and looks toward Rick and asks him what this all means now.

Rick promptly is proud of his accomplishment and entering the Land of the Lost and proudly shouts, “Yes…I know what this means, MATT LAUER CAN SUCK IT!”

Aside from everybody else that was watching the film, I enjoyed it very much. I knew this film was going to be awesome for me at least since I knew the entire back story and it was really fun to see something from my childhood brought to life in a parody like CGI film. I admit, there are parts in the film that seemed like…ugh or meh…but it was all for the randomness I guess. And there were hilarious parts such as the GIANT Enemy Crab. xD

All in all, I give it a 3 out of 5 based on only the film ALONE.

FanBoy Statistic – 5 out of 5

Pixar’s UP – Movie Review

A few words for the audience.

I just wanted to start this review off by stating a few key things about the average movie theater viewer. You’re all a bunch of dickholes. Excuse me for being one of those few people who actually enjoy watching a movie they just spent good money for. Why? Why is it so hard for people to just put away their god damn cell phones for a close to two hour movie? You phony fucks growing up nowadays. Do you see those messages that us regular movie viewers must deal with because of assholes like you? Can’t you just put that piece of shit phone away, shut your fucking mouth, and for GOD SAKES just sit down and enjoy the film? Better yet..wait until the movie is on DVD and just sit at home and do your little fucking texting, that way your parents can actually see what worthless offspring they’ve given birth to.  What’s with these bitches nowadays who have to yell out their emotions during a film?

Bitch 1: Oh my god..that’s going to make me cry!
Bitch 2: That is SOOO funny!!
jb: *bashes their fucking skulls open*
jb: NO! You don’t say an emotion..you do it! Stop failing at life!

Oh..and if I ever see anyone taking pictures in front of me..let alone two sets of bitches letting off two flashes at the same time while the trailers are playing I will take the cameras and smash them against the walls. O___o Fucking kids these days are just ridiculous.

Now on to the movie!

In Pixar’s nature UP begins with a short called Partly Cloudy.

This cute little story takes the idea of the baby delivering stork and explains where these birds actually retrieve the precious newborns. Up in the skies the friendly clouds sculpt these babies (be it human or animal) out of the fluffy clouds and brings them to life with a bit of lightning. Gus, the main character and a bit of a loner compared to the other clouds, is a master at crafting only the most dangerous babies. Crocodiles, porcupines, rams, and other newborns all cause trouble for Gus’s ever so loyal stork Peck. But, when the babies become a bit too much to handle (hilarious outcomes with each one), poor Peck leaves Gus to find a new cloud friend. Gus’s emotions become eratic as he causes a thunderstorm followed by a brief rainstorm. Peck soon returns to Gus with a gift of football equipment to make him more suited for Gus’s dangerous newborns…that is until the eel comes. It’s a great little short that really gets you into the mood to watch UP.

I hope that five minute short really did lighten your mood, because after the first fifteen minutes of UP, you may just be crying in your seats and clinging to any love ones you may have near you. A very emotional twist leaves our main protagonist, Carl Fredricksen, a grumpy old man with sad thoughts of promises he could not keep to the love of his life. When life becomes too hard to stand, Fredricksen decides to finally keep one important promise he had made to his wife Ellie, to fly their home to Paradise Falls in South America. Carl met Ellie when they were both young after watching their idol Charles Muntz, a great explorer who traveled to far off lands with his canine companions. Using countless helium balloons, Fredricksen lifts up his house from it’s foundations and sets off on his adventure, urbanites to him that he had a stowaway. Russell, a Wilderness Explorer who happened to visit Carl the day before trying to earn his “assisting the elderly” badge, had returned the day of Fredrickson’s lift off because he had supposedly found the “snipe” that Carl had sent him out to find the day before. After the duo find trouble passing through large storm, they eventually end up in South America, on the wrong side of Paradise Falls. This is when the truly hilarious parts of the movie begin. You also meet (in my opinion) the most lovable characters Pixar has ever created.

 

Even as you just meet Dug the dog you just fall in love with him…sorta like how he falls in love with Carl when they first meet.

Dug: My name is Dug. I have just met you, and I love you.
[he jumps up on Carl]
Carl Fredricksen: Wha...
Dug: My master made me this collar. He is a good and smart master and he made me this collar so that I may speak. Squirrel!
[looks to distance for a few seconds]

Dug is thought of as an outcast of the pack. He’s tricked by the group leader Alpha into going out for a special mission (which is supposedly going to be a short on the DVD release). Like the rest of the pack, Dug is searching for the bird creature that was the cause of his master’s, Charles Muntz, lose of reputation and fame. On his search he meets and befriends Fredrickson and Russell and discovers that they have also found and befriended the bird who Russell quickly names Kevin. Dug requests Kevin become his prisoner in the cutest fashions. The group is eventually found by Muntz and taken aboard his airship as welcomed guests only to leave as his sworn enemy when it’s discovered that they’re protecting the bird. This leads to later actions scenes and that usual life changing event for the main character.

This is an all around great movie for any age. The humor is just spot on, the emotions are true to life, Dug and Kevin are beyond lovable. (I want the Disney store plush of him. o_o) You’ll want this film in your collection as soon as it comes out on DVD so you can watch it’s lovable goodness over and over again! Words just can’t do this movie justice, it’s something that shouldn’t be spoiled in a review but should be shared with good friends.

Rating: 5/5

Star Trek "The Future Begins" - Movie Review

Star Trek, is an original American science fiction show created by Gene Roddenberry that aired in 1966 to 1969. The story took place in a futuristic universe about the captain and his crew members in a starship called The Enterprise in deep space. This original series was cancelled due to low ratings upon its third season however spawned a large fan based community which soon lead to conventional events and literally a society of star trek fan. Due to the massive popularity, people soon began to produce their own stories, short films, plays, and many more creative works of art.

Over the course of the many years, new shows were produced such as the animated series in 1973, Star Trek: Phase II in 1978, The Next Generation in 1987 (my birth year) to 1994, Deep Space Nine in 1993-1999, and Voyager in 1995-2001. Because of the fans, the Star Trek franchise has made it up to our present day.

And so…in 2009, in celebration of a 40 year old franchise, director J. J. Abrams and Paramount Pictures gives us “Star Trek” (2009).

As I was overly hyped out and excited, I noticed a very unfamiliar presence in the air. There were more old people then young people, but it didn’t bother me when I saw a group of thirty year olds cosplaying! Yes, I saw old school fanboys, and fangirls dressing up as their favorite character from Star Trek. It was pretty exciting to see this! I’m so glad my cousins came over all the way from Utica, NY. Because of them, I got to see one of the greatest summer movies to watch!

The story starts off as the film opens with the starship, USS Kelvin, where it was travelling in space until a massive black hole appeared out of nowhere. Moments later a space battle ship with very advanced weaponry comes out of the black hole firing at the USS Kelvin. The Captain of the mysterious battleship makes contact with Kelvin and orders that the captain come aboard their ship. The Captain had no choice, but to travel to an unknown ship in order to secure the safety of his crew, he tells First Commander James Tiberius Kirk he is now the captain and if he doesn’t return in 15 minutes, evacuate the ship. He heads out to the ship that is later told to the audience that it is a Romulan mining ship, the Narada, commanded by Nero, a rogue Romulan.

The captain of the Kelvin is killed in confusion when he was conversing with Nero when the captain revealed the year it currently was and where were they from. As Nero killed him, he ordered his men to destroy the USS Kelvin. Acting Captain James Kirk ordered everybody to evacuate as well as his pregnant wife who was delivering the baby at that moment. His wife shouts for Kirk to escape from the bridge to the escape pod, he tells her he will be on his way; he just needs to enable autopilot. As he attempts to tell the computer to set it to autopilot, the computer responds that the autopilot program was destroyed and only has manual pilot ability.

Over the headset, Kirk tells his wife that he can’t make it and hears the sound of his baby. As the ship is being destroyed, Kirk focuses on the conversation with his wife asking her what the name of the child should be. They decide that he should be named after himself, James Tiberius Kirk, Jim for short. The escape pod launches as the USS Kelvin is at a collision course for impact with Narada.

And so, from this point on, it explains the story of the child, James Tiberius Kirk, and his remarkable adventure that had very heart pounding thrill ride throughout the ENTIRE FILM from being a nobody to the future captain of the USS Enterprise and coming face to face with his unchangeable destiny.

I won’t be talking more about the story because I’ll just be giving out spoilers. Anyway, on to the next thing, seeing Zachary Quinto, the guy who plays Syler in Heroes, plays as Spock who is known to become the 1st Commander of the USS Enterprise (Co-Captain). Seeing him in the trailer, I laughed so hard, but when I was watching this film, he really did disappear into his role. He is definitely a great actor and has a lot potential for future films.

Asides from seeing Zachary, there is someone else in the film that made the audience literally pop their eye balls!!!!! I won’t spoil it, this is part of the movie experience, and when you see that person, YES that IS the ORIGINAL actor from the 1960 Star Trek series! ^_^

Sidd gives this movie a 10/10! I WILL WATCH IT AGAIN! INVITE ME IF YOU ARE GOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rear Windows (1954) - Time Blogger

Here I am in front of the movie theater as I see a news paper dating the year 1954. I look up to see many people in fancy clothing entering the theater so I thought I check it out. The feature film was Rear Windows by Alfred Hitchcock. I saw the ticket price and was stunned by how cheap it was compared to what year I am actually from. The price of a fucking hotdog, just one, (1), uno, and a small drink is 14.99 plus tax. What the fucking bullshit. I'd rather stop at Tommy's Hotdogs to get 8 hotdogs and a large soda for that kind of money. AMC is a failure when it comes to reasonable pricing. FUCK YOU AMC!

Attention people, it is better to sneak in food then to pay bullshit to retard prices for just food. Although, it is 1954, the prices for everything is CHEAP!!! And I brung 5 bucks with me!!! I'm the richest man alive.

(Sidd goes in and watches, shortly after the film he goes back to his own time and gets on the
computer to type a blog post about the film.)

Rear Windows, a 1954 suspense film by the amazing director, Alfred Hitchcock. The film was created solely in Paramount Pictures’ Studio. The screen writers are Cornell Woolrich and John Michael Hayes who work with Robert Burks, the cinemato-grapher, and George Tomasini, the film editor.

The story is about Jeffries, played by James Stewart, recovering from a severe injury to nearly half his body. He is wheel chair bound living in an apartment called Greenwich Village. He really has nowhere to go and thus spends his time looking outside the window. It was his television of entertainment to view a hot young lady dancing in her underwear who he calls Miss Torso, a woman who lives alone who he calls Miss Lonely-Hearts, a songwriter who plays the piano, married couples, a mysterious salesman with a in home wife.

He sees their life and their many actions as days go by, however one night, he sees the salesman making late night trips. He tells Stella, the home care nurse who is played by Thelm Ritter, about the odd trips and then later tells Lisa Fremont, who is played by Grace Kelly. At first the thought it was nothing to be troubled by, but after careful spying, all three characters soon to give interest and wonder what happen to the salesman’s wife.

Jeffries calls a detective, who also happens to be his friend, Doyle, played by Wendel Corey, about it and asks if he can do an investigation. There wasn’t much he can work from considering there was a long process before a warrant to search the salesmen’s apartment was signed and made. With no help from proper authorities, they decide to take action and solve the mystery themselves.

The music is pretty dynamic with the movie. From the beginning to the end, all the major background music smoothly transitions between each other to create a setting that is understandable when the time arrives. The music composer is Franz Waxman.

The scene work is really creative among the little space they used in creating the apartments. The way they set up all the apartments is to give our main character, as well as the audience, a chance to see every character in their living style through large windows which are sometimes covered with curtains.

The costume design is by Edith Head. The costumes are really just ordinary everyday clothing that is used in a day by day basis. Lisa was the only one who had somewhat of the high class clothing during the time with wide variety of fancy and unique style of dresses.

The pace of the movie lives up the title of suspense. It was slow enough to understand the film and fast enough to grasp the desire of all the characters needs and wants.

Overall, I enjoyed watching this movie. I’ve never actually seen Alfred Hitchcock’s work, only heard of him, but now I am interested in what other films he has created. The story was believable and the acting was perfect. Finally, it’s funny how a hunch can go so far into solving a murder mystery.

(Sidd heads to school on a sunday to do homework D:)

Watchmen Review (2009)

“Watchmen” (2009) is a superhero sci-fi thriller film directed by Zack Snyder, who also directed the film “300”, who works with producers Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, and Deborah Snyder. The screen writers are David Hayter, Alex Tse, and Dave Gibbons. Alan Moore was not credited however was involved.

The story is about a group of superheroes and their lives in the world set in an alternative 1985 era where Richard Nixon is elected for a 3^rd term as president of the United States. Masked superheroes have become outlawed as most of our crime fighting heroes retire from their roles as the tension between the US and the USSR (Russia) are heated up in a threat that their maybe a nuclear war.

The superheroes in Watchmen date back all the way into the 1940s. In the beginning of the movie, while the opening credits were being presented, the film showed us a brief history of the “MinuteMen”.

Like all superheroes, they wanted to save the world however, as we all learned in life, we can only save and intervene for a portion of time until something goes wrong. The intro showed us the timeline of superheroes from 1940 to 1985, where one particular superhero, Edward Blake by the alias “The Comedian”, has been an active hero throughout the entire time.

The story continues as mysterious person breaks into Blake’s place and successfully kills him by throwing him out the window. Well not be into the point, there was a big fight scene. The masked vigilante, Walter Kovacs with the alias “Rorschach”, begins to investigate the murder and discovers that the man who died was “The Comedian”.

He proceeds to warn his ex-partners about the murder and that someone is out to kill the group of ex-superheroes. He investigates further to find out why and visits Blake’s retired arch villain, Moloch the Mystic, but finds that he has nothing to do with it and explains about his last encounter with Blake and reveals that he was on his bedside crying and explaining that everything was “One big joke.”

Dr. Jon Osterman is a scientist who took part in the research and experiment in a nuclear research center, however was accidently locked in the test chamber and was disintegrated into thin air. His co-workers saw his body disappear as he screamed in pain.

They pronounced him dead, however came back as a God-like man with abnormal powers in the cafeteria of the facility, he names himself Dr. Manhattan. A scientist with a genius mind and God-like powers, this was the being of perfection. Dr. Manhattan has powers beyond your wildest dream, he can make himself tall, melt objects, and even duplicate himself.

Unfortunately, he lacks the understanding of emotion and cannot seem maintain a relationship with Laurie "Jupiter" Juspezyk, with the alias Silk Spectre II. They break up unfortunately after trying to have sex when Jupiter finds out that he was working on the Energy Reactor with one form of his body and trying to have sex with her at the same time. Shortly after the breakup between Jupiter and Dr. Manhattan, she goes to visit Daniel Dreiberg, as ex-superhero who calls himself Nite Owl II. She had nowhere to go considering she only knew superheroes in her life.

lol…

The Energy Reactor is made of the same particles and elements Dr. Manhattan is made out of. They call it Sub Quantum Unifying Intrinsic Devices (S.Q.U.I.D.s). It is funded by a successful business man and retired superhero, Adrian Veidt, who revealed to the world he was Ozymandias by going public and revealing his face from his mask. He aids Dr. Manhattan with the funds to create the energy reactor in order to provide free energy for everybody.

The mystery behind the death of the comedian continues on as the story explains the lives of our heroes in their past and present life.

How much does a previous generation of heroes influence the future outcomes?

Are we able to continue fighting evil forever?

What do you think society will do when time goes by, as you grow old, and make mistakes?

Is it really safe to call them our heroes?

Will we ever learn and understand society as a whole and in a personal level?

How much evil can a villain do to push a hero over the limit to actual commit murder?

Is our answer to global unity in the hands of global destruction?

Watchmen, a story of individual vigilantes fighting in the name of honor, justice, and righteousness from a personal level to save humanity.

This movie was long, but was perfectly done. It left no holes. A masterpiece and great original work. A must see. Seriously.

Yar..I had more to write about, but that's spoiling the movie, WATCH IT!

Sidd Rating: 10/10

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Now I noticed that people are giving it bad reps, but I don’t know why, however I come up with five facts why.

1.) You don’t think.

2.) You were doing something else then following the story or let alone watching the movie.

3.) You don’t know the history of the US past during the 1940s – 1980s (in-depth in all aspects).

4.) You never heard of these superhero characters and found it difficult.

5.) You can’t watch the whole movie through and lose focus.

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Hancock - Movie Review

*Spoilers to follow..*

Oh Hancock, what a great movie you could have been. Your star actor Will Smith is always so charismatic in every movie he's been in and we know he can do action movies. Bad Boys 1 and 2, I Am Legend, I Robot? All great action movies (alright I Am Legend was at least half decent..), so we know it isn't your fault. How about your co-star? Jason Batemon? No of course it's not your fault, you know how to play the straight man, just look at Arrested Development (a favorite show of mine.) Who could have possibly made a great idea like Hancock into such a disappointment? The female role played by Charlize Theron! You ruined this perfectly good summer blockbuster with your sappy drama!..Oh God! How could you?!

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Alright alright, obviously it wasn't her fault. She was just filling the female role, and for most of the scenes she was in she did a very good job. But of course this was all in the first half of the movie. The first half of this movie is exactly what you would expect from what the trailers (up to a week before they showed the new ones) were showing. I didn't even mind getting lied to in the movie. In the trailer you see a great scene where Hancock tosses a beached whale back into the ocean. A noble act..had it not hit a boat on it's way there. Now I thought this scene was going to be one out of many of Will Smith's antics as the once drunk superhero. But no, it's not. Instead the director Peter Berg (who made The Kingdom..a pretty good movie) decided that he would reveal these antics to Hollywood's new best friend...Youtube. God how I'm sick of Youtube or Myspace or Facebook or whatever showing up in movies. Har har. I get it. You know what idiots are into these days. Get over yourself and show me some good actions scenes.

Other than that little complaint the movie up until Hancock shows up as a sober superhero is just awesome. Everyone is doing their job great. That is..until the plot twist. Yes, the little twist that took Hancock and turned it into another wannabe movie. The audience finds out that Jason's movie wife Charlize has the same powers (if not greater) than Hancock. The movie's reason for this? Well you see, they were both Angels created long ago with many others, built in pairs to be complete soul mates. But you see, it isn't such a happy situation as it would sound. Because when the two are together they are no more powerful than any mere mortal. Leading to problems with people in society and after one such incident, Hancock was left half dead in Florida with the storytellers best friend, amnesia. The only way for Mary Embry (Charlize Theron)to save her destined love was to go as far away from him as possible. Maybe it wouldn't have been as bad in another movie, but this wasn't what I expected out of Hancock. The finale, for instance, isn't this big extravaganza that every other superhero movie has had already this summer. It's instead a weak showdown with the main villain (I guess..) of the movie, Red Parker (Eddie Marsan), who is just a normal bank robber that Hancock foils after he becomes sober(and he also takes his hand in a hilarious scene.)

This is probably the worst sin this movie could have pulled. Not having a main villain that is worthy of the superhero you're rooting for. Where is my Obadiah Stane from Iron Man? Where is my Abomination from The Incredible Hulk? Where is my Joker from Batman?!..

Sidd: "Where is my Lex Luther?!"

Sigh..this is sadly just half a movie and I can really say I only half enjoyed it.

Rating: 2/5
Pros: Great lead actor, some good action scenes, funny if anything else.
Cons: The entire second half of the movie. Lack of super villain.

WANTED - Movie Review

“Tomorrow, the day after today, what is in store for me, who will I interact with, what is going to happen, when will the event go for, how will it affect my life in the long run, where will it take me? The answer is simple, it’s the same as what I did yesturday and the day before that. What is the point of living a re-run for the next fifty years until death. Doesn’t anybody trapped in this cycle wish to be just a little…different? You go by, day by day, wishing for a change, an escape from this normal bullshit of a life.” ~ Sidd

Wanted, a film directed by Timur Bekmambetov. The story about a normal average grown up sucker by the name of Wesley Gibson who is played by James McAvoy.He has all the bad things pouring down on him due to his incapability to fight for himself. His job is frustrating to the edge of his insanity because of his boss, Janice. His beautiful girlfriend uses him to live in his apartment while his best friend has sex with her. The life of a true sucker, being pushed around and taken advantage of by anybody.

However, there is always a chance for every sucker to take a stand and do something for once. Wesley was given an opportunity to get control of his life back, but in a very dangerous way to which reveals his father’s identity as a great assassin that has ever lived. His father was in an organization of assassins, The Fraternity, the weapons of fate.

Wesley was picking up his medication as usual to notice a man lurking near the end cap of an aisle. He looks as the man clears himself from view, and pops out the lovely assassin, Fox, who is played by Angelina Jolie, reveals how his father died, who he was, and who killed him. Wesley smiled and took it as a joke and then directed her to where the liquor was.

Fox continued to explain the situation and announced that the man that killed Wesley’s father was right behind him, she pushes Wesley to aim and fire a gun at Cross, the villain of the story, who is played by Thomas Kretschmann.

And so after the incident at the store, he is taken to the Textile Factory, the hideout for The Fraternity, where he was told he has super natural abilities and is born to be a true assassin like his father, they also mentioned everything his father owned is now his. Wesley was afraid of what he was being told; he threatens everybody to stay away from him and to leave him alone. The next morning he wakes up to think everything was a dream, but ends up dropping a gun that belonged to his father. He checks his balance at the bank to reveal 3 million dollars.

At work he acts like a changed man. For once he feels he is in control. He snaps at Janice and tell her to go fuck herself and takes a keyboard and smacks his best friend in the face. Walks out the door and sees wanted ads of him and Fox. He looks up to see Fox waiting for him and he gets into the car and drive off back to the Textile Factory.

The story continues from there, don’t want to spoil the surprises in the film, its worth watching, not for children however, mature audience only. The reason for that is because some people may feel offended by the ending, but the message clearly states your status of where and who you are as a person. I personally thought it was hilarious. All in all, 5 of 5 stars. Action, Story, Suspense, Twists, Great Acting, and most of all, a message to the audience to make us think after the movie.

You Don't Mess with a Zohan - Movie Review

Well, this is yet another movie created by Happy Madison Production with your director Dennis Dugan. The writers are Adam Sandler, which also is the lead actor in the film, Robert Smigel, and Judd Apatow. This film is definitely not for kids and those that are offended by racial jokes. The target is mainly the mature audience that can take a joke without getting offended; at least that’s my opinion.

The story is about an Israeli counter terrorist, Zohan, who is the best of the best, the superman of Israeli (but he can’t fly, yet he can…yea I’ll not spoil that.) He is well known in his country and has everything he can possibly want, however what he didn’t have was his passion to style hair. During a mission with his arch enemy, The Phantom, he purposely faked his death and escaped to New York City to become a hair stylist.

Throughout the movie, he builds his character, meets new friend as well as old villains, tries to make his dream come true to be the best hairstylist, and finds true love in his life as well as in the community where the fighting between Israeli and Palestine continue where he works at. We all heard about the stories and wars between the two countries, creating a comedy film based on peace between two angered nations wouldn’t obviously be the solution, but at least a start to all the madness.

This movie was far out the funniest I’ve seen in Adam Sandler films, I really never laughed so hard. Most scenes in the movie are ultimately unexpected, especially with the old ladies! Let’s just say Zohan takes GILF or rather G-GILF hunting to the next level. (GILF – grandmother | GG – great grandma xD).

The music used in this movie are disco music and old school music we all used to listen to when our mom drove the car, which were pretty great when you think about it. I think I’m going to go through my old audio cassettes later on.

When I was watching it, I was laughing at all the jokes towards the Palestine and Israeli. Everybody was laughing at those jokes; however what Jeff noticed is when the jokes about the rednecks came, the only people laughing were at least 10% of the audience. I was too busy enjoying the film laughing my ass off to even notice that occurrence, but it’s pretty interesting on how the audience reacts isn’t it.

Overall, I give this movie a 5 out of 5 actually, I don’t care what others say, this is a must see movie. Great Job on making this film Happy Madison Production.

jb's input: o-o Seriously we were the only ones laughing at that joke. I'd buy the soundtrack but not the dvd, one time with that movie is enough for me.

Speed Racer - Movie Review

Speed Racer, an old 60’s anime cartoon is reborn in a Live Action film. If you’re an old fan of the anime series, love cars, or just want to see a kickass movie, then I recommend you to get your ass out of your chair and go watch it now! You will, without a doubt, have a great time whether it’s with your kids, friends, a loved one, or your mom. Yes, I recommend bringing your mom and dad because they probably have seen Speed Racer when they were five years old. It’s the cartoon they grew up on for crying out loud!

The main character is named Speed Racer, a young man with a passion to go behind the wheel and drive like a real race car driver. His influence of driving is his old brother Rex Racer, a very popular racer who set the world record. Ever since Speed was a young child his mind was set on race car driving. He wanted to be just like his older brother, but never intended to become the best.

The story is about Speed’s adventure to get revenge on the notorious Royalton. Speed was given an offer to race for Royalton Industries in the upcoming races. However, Speed declined the offer and Royalton got angry at the fact he wasn’t going to race under his name and threatened him about what will happen to his family as well as his racing career. In order to save himself and his family, he needs to take down Royalton Industries and the only way to do so is by automobile racing. The winner determines everything. However, not only his family is in danger, the entire aspect of racing is in jeopardy. Racing has become a game for the rich to rig and abuse for their own greed. Speed Racer has many challenges and obstacles to go through in order to stop Royalton and his company.

The visualization is very different from any other movie I have ever seen. From face monologue transitions to very high dynamic colors and finally to a kickass car races with tons of surprises and action (as well as a lot of explosions), it was very interesting to see a movie’s appearance such as this one. Brings out a whole new category of how to show a movie as well as broaden the ideas of other film makers.

Overall, I loved seeing this movie very much, I really enjoyed it, and I may even buy the DVD when it comes out. Five out of five stars. Excellent job, you made this $100,000,000 budget film a success. (Yes they spent $100 million.)

Iron Man (2008) - Movie Review

This movie is a must see. Of course every comic book reader will say that, they already know and familiarized the story and its heroes. This movie is something different however. If you’re looking for entertainment and a catchy story along with a lot of action and nice acting, you may want to consider this movie for the night. I recommend bringing all your friends.

The story starts out with a trip to the Middle East where Tony Stark displayed his newly designed weapon called the Jericho. However he was captured by a terrorist group and was forced to create the Jericho for them. The terrorist group supplied him with everything he needed, however to Tony’s surprise; all the supplies and materials were from his own company.

In utter confusion and a lot of questions to be left unanswered until further into the movie, Tony uses the materials given to him to create a suit of armor to fight the terrorists and fights his way out. He returns home safe and sound to eat a cheeseburger and to investigate how the terrorist got a hold of his weapons as well as to create a suit of armor, just like he did in the cave, and to upgrade it from the original model he made in the cave to which we know as, Iron Man.

Well, there was no doubt, I was going to like the film and enjoy it, and hell yes I did enjoy it. However, I have constantly bitched about the fact that they modernized the movie from its original comic book story from the Vietnam War to our little so called war against terrorist groups in the burning sands of our enemies in the Middle East. Now normally people will be saying our enemies are the Iraqi’s or another named country, but no people, we are only fighting the Extremist rulers who basically treat civilians like crap, dictator rulers. We aren’t fighting a country. =O

When I first saw the trailer of the movie, I was pissed at the fact they modernized the story a bit. I won’t lie, I constantly bitched about this to my friends that they are making this film to dominate a message. “America owns you!” Well, I was completely DEAD wrong, that wasn’t why they modernized it. It was simply because it’s in our time and it’s reasonable. I personally believed they were going to make the people, who live in the Middle East, look like savage animals that are bent on destroying the world, but no, they included a legitimate scene showing how life was in the Middle East, the suffrage of innocent people and what they have to go through for many years in dictator rules of Extremists, terrorist groups, and other forceful parties.

This movie may not seem a lot, yes another Marvel creation from comics to film, but I would recommend everybody to see this. The story is great, the action is filling, concept makes sense, the acting is original and clever, finally Tony Stark is a bad ass douche bag and everybody loves him and after you watch this movie, you are going to wish you were him.

The movie’s overall rating according to Sidd, 5 out of 5 stars! Great Job!

Cloverfield Movie - Movie Review

Ok I know I may be late to the party when it comes to this movie, but sooner or later it will be releasing on dvd and blu-ray discs for the home. SOOO...I thought I'd give a review from the bootlegged verision I watched.

What is Cloverfield? Cloverfield is a monster movie that doesn't give a f$%# about the actual monster and instead focuses on a small group of friends who happened to get caught in the middle or the beast's pms rampage. (PMS?..How do you know it's a chick monster? Well as soon as you meet the said Godzilla reject it sh%ts out little bug creatures that look oddly like the antlions from Half Life 2.)

While enjoying a drama filled going away party for their friend Rob Hawkins (Who ironically enough was heading off to Japan..har har.), the group you follow throughout the movie become aware of an odd sudden earthquake and what seems like total anarchy on the news. Thus begins the adventure of running away from the revealed creature and the eventual escape.

Now what seemed to be the main problem for most movie goers with this movie was the point of view of the camera throughout. Rather than have the cameras go the linear route of having panned shots throughout, the director decided to have one main camera (it was some sony hd model) tthat made the movie seem like one big youtube esque clip. The camera man (known as Hud...har har again.), gives you his first person view from the party on until his eventual death (yay spoiler). Now you may say, "Wow..that's actually a pretty cool idea." Just as I said. But you see the p#ssies who go to see this movie seemed to have very sensative vision and weak stomachs that they couldn't bear to see a little shaking in the video or quick movement that made this movie what it is today. I give a big F U to these f$ggots. I watched this entire movie and not once did I get this "motion sickness" everyone seems to bitch about.

Do you like horror-ish movies? Do you like the idea of gigantic monsters tearing up cities? Do you like tragic love stories? Do you love to see movies that are actually original and do something a bit different while at the same time being something watchable? Than why the F#CK haven't you seen this movie already? GO..NAO!..Your face is disgusting!

Rating: 4/5
Reason: I wanted more monster action. Yes..MOAR!
Pros: Monster movie.
Cons: P#ssy reviewers with delicate stomachs.