Solomon Kane

I didn't like this movie.
It wasn't interesting, no matter how many twists they put up. The climax was weak, incredibly weak! And the main caracter was just boring to follow!

What's it about? Redemtion... Haven't heard that one before! And there's not really any surprises. One man, Solomon, was a warrior in a time of war. And in the beginning he was greedy and didn't care if his men died as long as he got the gold... NEVER ADRESSED AGAIN! Then he comes into a temple after he escapes from the Devils reaper, you don't see him again. And at this temple he learns the way of God in one year, I might add. But then the priest tells him that his home isn't here. So he must leave the temple to go on a journey and find his true path. So on this path we learn that he doesn't fight other people anymore and he is "a man of peace" and then he comes across a family which accept him even if he was a killer because "God speaks of forgivness". But then the family gets killed except for the little girl who instead gets kidnapped. Solomon tries the peaceful way to get her back and fails so he says "screw you God I'm gonna do things my way and... hopefully you'll like it." The father's lasts words are: "Save my daughter and God will forgive you." So the movie is mostly about Soloman going after the bad guys and getting back the girl.

The story is really boring and really clumsy handled. But since I want to avoid spoilers in the beginning we'll talk about the that last. So let's move on to the main character that was also boring. I've seen this character SO many times and I'm starting to get sick of it. He's just a character that will fight because... The director really wants it! He tries the peaceful matter but he's REALLY not good at it. Ever word that he speak is not belivable. When he tries to speak calmly to a "monster"... Yeah, you can see what's wrong there. It's like talking to a bear who's trying to protect the cubs with you pulling up your arms and say: "Let's just talk about things"... It doesn't work! And there's a bunch of other things like that, it was repeated over and over and I had no idea how this man was thinking and he was REALLY weak minded. One simple thing could destroy him! Weak main character, let's move on!

There wasn't much bad about the movie it was just the story and the villain and the main character, the music.. I didn't hear much of it since I was so bored with everything else. The special effects... They were OK, I've seen better but I've seen worse too. The lightning was Ok, the other characters were OK. Nothing much to say about it really.

Before the spoilers I'm just gonna say: Yes, this movie has like witches and vampires, but it's pretty downplayed. The vampires were really out of place, I don't really know if they were vampires but they looked and acted like the creatures from "I am Legend" so... Feel free to think what you want about that. And the witches... There were one witch in this movie and I have no idea why she was in here. And everyone kept saying that Solomon was a sorcerer but he never did anything magic at all. Just some tatoos that were supposed to protect him from the devil.. I don't know.

Ok! Now spoiler alert! The climax of the movie... Up to here we've seen Solomon gain his faith, lost his faith and now gain it again. I'm gonna tell you more about that before I go to the climax. Solomon is being told that the girl he's supposed to save is dead. So of course he's going to a dark place...... A dark place in a bar! ... In a movie with witches and vampires and the devil... I really didn't expect for any of the characters to be placed in a bar! So he gets really drunk and he keeps saying "there's no point, because she's dead" even though someone is just asking "Are you Solomon Kane?"... We are supposed to LIKE this man! Aren't we? He's the main character! And he fight's the devil and God is supposed to be with him! NO! And also before this, before he was told that the girl was dead, he kept saying that the world isn't a good place to live in, where is God in all this suffering. That doesn't fit his character at all. Even though he doesn't believe in the peaceful way he still believes that God is watching over him and stuff like that... It frustrates me.

So now, the climax, sorry for the delay but I needed to go over some problems with the main character first before I take you to this place. Solomon thinks that he killed his brother, that was his first kill. But then we find out that the masked man who infects people and turns them into slaves is his brother who has a master who the devil is the master for... Yeah. But the twist isn't good because of this reason: Solomon tries to take the peaceful way again, and he fails with that. So he then kills his brother for real this time! ... THAT'S YOU'RE FAMILY!!! YOU SHOULD NEVER KILL YOUR FAMILY NO MATTER HOW EVIL THEY ARE!!!!! ... So that happens! Really quick! So the brothers master called: Malacaid (Don't care about the spelling) then "frees" the devil so that he can come into the human world.... You know the devil in "End of days"? ... This was like that except this time he is a monster. He looks kind of like the Balrog from the Lord of the Rings but with a mind like the cavetroll from the same movie. The devil gets stuck between two pillars! He can't see Solomon when he hides behind a pillar and he's REALLY slow so Solomon pretty much WALKS away from a blow! ... So Solomon shoots Malacaid in the head and then God banishes the Devil back to hell and Solomon gets his salvation. ... ........ Solmon killed hunders of innocent people though they were just infected by his brothers sickness, he killed his father, he killed his brother... but he shot Malacaid in the head and saved the little girl! That's all that counts! ... NO! NO! NO!!! no! .. no... NEVER

I did NOT like this movie, there's nothing in it that I liked! .. I don't recommend it. no...

Rise of the Guardians

Incredible Movie!
Disney has disappointed me, as you all know if you read my blog... DreamWorks on the other hand... They continue to amaze me and never disappoint! ... Except for Bee Movie... And Kung Fu Panda 2... Other than that! They're great!

Anyway! Rise of the Guardians! It's about believe and hope and all that good stuff in kids movies. Every kid believes in the easterbunny, the toothfairy, Santa Claus and Sandman! But nobody believes in the Boogyman. So the Boogyman wants to proove to the kids that he's real. But to do that he needs to take away their hope first. Can't be afraid if you're hopeful. So one by one the kids start to doubt the Guardians and get more afraid for each day. And if you don't believe in the holidays... they disappear.

Ok, negatives! ... There's only one negative element that I can remember... And that's the ending. So we're gonna take that last. So what I'm gonna talk about now is some good parts and this movie had a lot.

First off the design. The animation in this movie is GORGEOUS!! It blew me away, not as much as Legend of the Guardians.... But still some great animation! And the angles, the shadows and the design for everything is great! I love the hair and the sandmans.. sand! It was just great to look at and they kept building it! At first it was grand with some nice colors and some animals that the kids were dreaming about and they kept building it to the larges animal in history! It was just beautiful and amazing. It was a nice movie to look at and I'm so pissed I didn't get to see it in the cinema.. Sweden, they only showed it in swedish... Oh well!

Then we have the characters and they were great! I remember every character that was in this movie (I think, most of them anyway) and that's hard to do. I can't even pick favourite character because everyone was unique in their own way and likeable in their own way! And yes, everyonw stayed true to their character... You should know what that means by now. I think I've explained it in every blog post here!

The story.. I didn't expect this story when I saw the trailer and the poster, even if it was kind of predictable.. And let me tell you, I follow DreamWorks on their FaceBook and.. I was hyped to see this movie! I waited for it to come to Sweden days after it aired in America! ... And then it only came in swedish and... I have to hear Jude Law as the Boogyman! And Alec Baldwin as Santa! So I had to wait until it came on Blu-ray... Damn that I missed it on the cinema... Oh well! Liked the story exept for the ending that was weak!

The jokes... I don't really like when the whole movie is all jokes.. I didn't like Pirates of the Caribbean 2 because of that and many other Disney movies because they make it all about jokes. This movie kind of does that too.. In the middle of the battle they can throw in a joke or before the villain is supposed to be threatning they throw in a joke. At one point it flew me off, first I was laughing but I cut the laugh because right after the villain was doing his thing. So that's not really good.... But I think I laughed at every joke they put in. I have no idea how they did it, but I was just a little bothered by the jokes, not by much and to do that... that's good job. I guess something with the story and the characters... It worked! So yeah, good job!

And the music... I want to listen to this music seperatly because I heard some good tunes, but I couldn't concentrate on the music because everything else was so awesome! So it caught my ear and I wanna hear more about it. It worked perfectly with the movie for the mood setting though and everything like that so.. Well done on that part too!

Now! Finally we get to the negative stuff... The ending, well.. I guess I'm just saying that it's a little weak. Not that I didn't like it but for everything else to be so amazing and they kept building it up and everything like that... It was a pretty weak ending. Maybe it would've worked if the guardians decide not to cast of the boogyman but they're saying that they need him to help kids with the hope. Without fear you can't have hopes, something like that, and maybe after that the kids can finally see him even though they're not so scared of him anymore, give him some happy ending too instead of the whole "you're evil so we don't want you here!", that's been done in every fairy tale. They tried to give him depth with the same story as Jack Frost, but they didn't quite get that right... So that was a little weak, but yeah.. What are you gonna do?

So that's it! I really liked this movie, and I'm definitly gonna see it again and again and again and again... and listen to the soundtrack while I'm waiting for the next DreamWorks movie to come to Sweden IN ENGLISH! .. Thank you for reading! See this movie!

Ink

I liked it!
I'm not sure why all these things happened, but even so, I liked it!

So, OK, I'm gonna try my best to summon what the movie is about. This movie doesn't explain much, if anything at all but I think it's about a reunion between a father and his daughter. After his wife's death , John was find unfit to take care of his own daughter due to some drug problems and alcohol. The girl named Emma is now living with her grandparents and one day she has a seizure and is taken into the hospital. Even so, the father feels betrayed by the law and the grandparents so he doesn't visit his daughter. What they don't know is that the daughter actually was taken by Ink, a creature that can walk through worlds. In one of these worlds lives other creatures that can control humans dreams, either give them a pleasant dream, or nightmares. The creatures that gives out pleasant dreams needs to save Emma and bring her back to the human world before the creatures that gives out nightmares does something... But only John has the ability to wake her up. So the pleasant dream givers has to take John to Emma in the hospital and protect him from the nightmare givers.

I don't really know why they need Emma or John, they don't really explain that well. I think the most important thing was the relationship between Emma and John so they concentrated on that. But it's good. You can see Johns pain and confusion, he doesn't really know what to feel so he becomes angry, and they show that really good. Ehum... But yeah! The only negative thing is that you don't really know the goal of the bad guys in the movie so it fails a little in that.

At first I thought the edeting was really bad but then it became a style and a dance between the camera, the caracters and the story. So it's stylish when the edeting goes by very fast, when it needs to be slow, it's slow, in a fighting scene it jumps around a lot. They knew how to work it though and I was never annoyed by the camera movement.

And second thing I thought was bad but then turned out stylish was the lighting. There was expaned lightning and it looked really weird, but then I noticed... It's to show the different worlds. The creatures that give dreams, they are in the human world but they can't interact with the humans, so everytime the camera is on them the lighting is a little brighter and when it's on the humans it looks normal. Another plus went up when I discovered that, it's actually kind of clever. And then when the bad guys appeared it turned green and they really knew what they were doing with the light so... GOOD FOR YOU!

The music is kept in the background and I LOVED that. It felt like the music was shy, it wanted to do something grand but someone was keep telling it to stay in the background and... Damn that was a good decision. I don't like it when the music takes over when it's not a musical and you can't really hear the actors because the music is SO LOUD! But here, it let the actors and the camera do the work. It was just there so it wouldn't be silent. And don't get me wrong, there were some silent moment of course! But yeah! I liked it! More plus!

The actors in this movie did a GREAT job with portraying every caracter they were supposed to be. The design of everything was just perfect, and I'm talking about the clothes the hair and... beard. It was just perfect! Fit every caracter and the child did a great job of portraying, scared, angry, happy, determind... It was great seeing this child. So yeah.. Actors great job!

Now, the caracters... I found three caracters that I loved in this movie. Three caracters in ONE movie that was my favorite... And they didn't disappoint! That's pretty amazing! So yeah, you can pretty much guess that everyone kept their caracter through the movie, the comedy was the comedy and concistant! I loved that, the warrior was a warrior and Emma was still a child even though she became braver and stuff like that. I hate it when the child stops being a child just because she's brave... You know what I mean, hopefully. So yeah, great caracters, great actors... where can you go wrong?

This movie has only one negative thing that I can think of and a million things that are great! So, I recommend this movie and see what you get out of it! I'm definitly seeing this movie again! And I so want to see behind the scenes to see what they really wanted to get across and how much fun they had making this movie!

Yeah! So, see you next time! GO SEE INK!

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

This was a very emotional movie. The people who worked on this knew what they were doing. They knew what they wanted to get across and they did it wonderful. They thought about everything and... Yeah, this is a great movie!

The movie is taking place during the world war two, yeah, how many of those haven't we seen yet? And it's about a child... Wait what? That's right! This is a movie about world war two from a childs perspective! And it's perfectly done! It picks a serious tone and keeps it through the whole movie, even if the characters are having fun and laughing the movie is still serious.
So the movie starts with showing the main character, Bruno, who's eight years old, playing with his friends. They're just having fun like childrens do, without a caring in the world. Then Bruno comes home and notices that some soldiers are moving out their furniture. His father tells him that they're going to move to the country since he got a job offer, a promotion. And oh, his father is a soldier. Anyway! So Bruno is leaving his home and all his friends to a house which he can't leave. He can only play in the front yard or in the house and also, he's not going to school, so where are all these new friends his father was speaking of? This movie, really shows the emotion Bruno is feeling, the lonliness and boredom of being on your own in a strange house you can't really explore. But one day his boredom takes over and he goes to the back and further into the forest. There he comes across a farm where strange people are living, they all wear blue striped pyjamases and an electric fence is surrounding the farm... He befriends a small boy there and yes, he finally has a friend in his new home. He also has a older sister who finds the soldier men interessting and she takes in everything she reads in the newspapers and the home tutor who's only teaching them history... she likes going to school now. She grows up with thinking what her wants her to think, but Bruno is only thinking about his friend in the striped pyjamas...

... I love this story! It's perfect! First I thought that it was going to be that they grow up and Bruno is going to hate his friend and bla bla bla... But.. No. They're keeping him at age eight through the entire movie and I loved that! It was a whole new experience and it kept my interest all the way through.

Good parts? Everything!
All the actors are doing a great job in this! I believed everything they were saying and doing! No character overstepped their personality or anything, every character held to their... well.. character. So that was really great! What I mean about this is, you know where a character can seem unsuportive or angry through the entire movie and at one point it can turn and that character says a line that is REALLY suportive? And the one who's positive and happy can suddenly be REALLY angry and stuff like that? The one who's usually calm is the first one to get a mental breakdown? I hope you know what I'm talking about... But that doesn't accur in this movie. Every character stays in their character and I'm SO happy for that!

The edeting and the shots are beautiful in this! Especially the shots! I loved the shots, because they really thought about how a scene should look, how to edit and how to aim the chamera through a scene. It's a really good looking movie and more than once I thought how perfectly shot the scene was. It helps set the mood so... WELL DONE!!

The music is also well handed! They used the music very calmly to a beginning, it keeps it in the background and just let's the characters do the mood and of course the camera work. But what they really did was building up the drama to the ending and then the music really builds to a clichendo and then... silence. Very nicely done! As I said, they thought about everything in this movie!

They really got across the relationships well here too. Between the mother and the father is really dramatic, but again, it's through a child's eyes. And Bruno between his sister is great, the sister is also played well and everything she says.. Yeah, everything is great. So I'm just gonna say every relationship is played and written well in this movie.

Yeah! ... I gotta name something I didn't like right? Well, there was only ONE thing I didn't really like, but it didn't really take me of the moment so it didn't spoil everything. I'm jusr gonna say: SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER but yeah well, there was one reaction that I didn't think they were keeping in mind and that was, well, Bruno's grandmother dies after a bombattack to their house and Bruno doesn't really seem to care after the funeral. He just thinks of the funeral not at the fact that his grandmother just died.. I don't even think that he cries! And.. A eightyear old boy who loses his grandmother, they seemed pretty close... shouldn't he cry? That was disturbing but other than that... I can't think of another thing I didn't like.

So yeah, I recomend this movie! See it with your family, it deserves to be seen by everybody! It's a REALLY sad ending though so... Be aware of your teary eyes. Until next time! See you! Thanks for continue reading even though my "break" through in December and half of November!

LOL

It's a New year! And as promised, you're gonna get a new review from me! Happy new year everybody! Now let's begin this year with a movie that I .........

I really really really did NOT like this movie. I didn't even watch the last minutes! I knew how it was going to end and I was sick of waiting for the end credits! It was so boring and... yeah.. It was a mess and the best way to tell you on how much it was a mess I'm gonna tell you the story, but it's a lot of spoilers this time so I'm just saying: skip my explaining of the plot and hop to the other section, no spoilers there.

So OK! The story then: This movie have the same problem as Love Actually. It throws in a lot of characters and it wants you to follow everyone! But this movie however, have no idea how to do work with atmosphere or characters what so ever! So here's what it's trying to throw at you all at the same time: First: The main character, Lola, finds out her boyfriend, Chad, cheated on her. After that she's getting closer and closer to her friend Kyle (a guy), but between that her mother, Anne, is dating her ex husband again, Lola's dad. So Lola is bothered by that for one scene. Also her friend, Emily, is in love with the teacher and is always trying to get a date with him. So Lola and Kyle get together during a party, and after that Anne is meeting up with a detictive that is flirting with her, and Emily is in a chatroom where she meets an annoying guy in school and she's starting to fall for him (anonymus chatroom). So Lola and Kyle hooks up, but then Lola thinks he's cheating on her too after a missunderstanding, but it was really Emily and that annoying guy she heard in the bathroom. So Lola tries to apologize to Kyle but his dad has taken his phone and computer because..... he's a jackass. But during a schooltrip to Paris Kyle and Lola hooks up again, Emily comes out that she's dating that annoying guy and Anne is hooking up with that detective. Oh! But all is not well! Because when Lola gets home from Paris her mother is reading Lolas diary (here it's only 15 minutes left on the movie) and Lola is calling her mother bitch for reading her diary and spends the days at her dads. But soon she and her mother is friends again and Kyle and her dad makes up too.... THE END!!! ... You see what I mean? You see why I don't like this movie? Who would ever think all of that would make ONE GOOD movie?!

I didn't connect with these characters at all. It was like they were following a script, a straight line through the whole movie! The actors were trying their best, but the direction, editing and writing were horrible! If we're not connecting with the characters we won't connect to the message they're trying to get across.

And yeah, I mentioned before that the pacing and atmosphere were really bad... I'll say: Try to find a scene that lasts more than 15 minutes! It's really hard! The scenes just throws by! I think it's just "We'll show you what's important with this scene and... that's all you need!" Because of this, the relationships between the characters doesn't matter because they just want the message of  "be yourself!" to get across, and it doesn't -.- We need to follow the characters and if you don't care about those, we don't care about them! So what they say is completely useless!

Yeah! ... Now I'm tired... I've said the important stuff and now the movie is over... Screw you guys! I'm going home!

Have a great 2013!! Bye!

Merry Christmas!

Hi, everybody that are reading this!

This is just gonna be a BIG apology post so I'm just gonna say it right now before I type like crazy... I'm SO sorry I haven't posted any reviews lately. I know I'm supposed to have one for November and December but.... I'm gonna tell you why in short. Just, you're not going to get any reviews until hopefully January, most likely January, so it's just for December because....

I have reached a mental break, I had a bit of a personal chrisis that broke me down compeletly so I'm trying to recover from that. And also, it's christmas so I'm a bit busy with other projects and presents for the family and friends and.. yeah, it's been really busy for me with everything that has popped up these mothns so, I'm trying to recover from everything.

And yeah, I mentioned I had other projects, and I do. Nothing is settled yet, but hopefully I'm gonna start on a photostory all by myself so that's time consuming and takes a lot of energy and due to the personal chrisis I don't have that much energy as I used to so I just haven't gotten around to watching movies or anything really.

So that's what's going on and now you know why I haven't posted anything here in a while. But I'll be here soon enough, I'm hoping and typing like crazy so... Hopefully I'll see you again in January! Take care and as the title says: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! HUGS TO EVERYONE that are following me here on this blog!

The Secret of Moonacre

Honestly.... I liked it! Probably more than liked it. I saw the trailer for this one before I watched it and I thought I was going to dislike it. But the movie hooked me in pretty early and it just became better and better... Except for the ending, but that could have been A LOT worse! So good on you movie!

The story... It's a little confusing on where everything takes place, but I think it takes place in ancient time in a world where magic excists, not in a magic world. First I thought it was going to be like Narnia from watching the trailer, a girl comes to a house and find a door to another world.... It's not. After her father dies she moves in with her uncle who is very rude to her, but still says that she belongs there. Confused she tries to find someone else in the house to talk to that hopefully isn't rude to her and can explain some weird things that are going on in the house. She finds a weird man, wizard, that tells her that the house and the land around it is cursed and only one girl can save it. She is that one girl.

What I liked about it is the characters. Some of you might say that they are bland and boring but I, who have seen characters that doesn't stay true to themselves, say that these characters are better than a lot better than those we see today. For one: they never break their character. If a character is brave, it's brave. If the character is the comic relief, it is. And if the character is a broody man who is rude, he is like that for the majority of the movie until the ending where he of course learns the lesson. I really liked that and that's what I'm talking about when I'm mentioning the characters in this blog. They need to stay true to... Yeah, you get the idea.

The other thing I liked was the story. It's a pretty simple one, but it doesn't really follow the old clichés. For one SPOILERS SPOILERS the thing that breaks the curse isn't love. The thing that creates the curse isn't just because people hate each other because of one thing that happened millions of years ago.  I thought this was very refreshing, yes it happens more often that love doesn't save the day, but it was the "evil" part that this movie did great. Not the hero part... If you get my meaning. So that's what I really liked with the story.

NO SPOILERS HERE: Then there were these other things that I liked about the movie, like the music, the clothes, the setting, the lighting(they really thought about it!), the make up and small stuff like that. The majority of this movie I really liked, but the big things are the characters and the story so... Moving on to what I didn't like.

I didn't like the special effects for this one. Sure it looks nice, but at times it looks SO fake! But if you can overlook those things, that's just a minor problem and it just appears with two animals that they were using. Also I have to tell you they are using both a real dog and mix it with CGI so, there you have it! They were just half lazy.

And yeah, the ending was a little messy with everything, I think they didn't want to do the cliché but at the same time fool the audience that they were going to do the cliché so... It wasn't really clear on that part and I didn't really like SPOILER SPOILER that the little girl could save the day by herself. In the end everyone is gathered in the same spot and they're trying to break the curse. At first the little girl is trying to get everyone to apologize for their mistakes, but nobody wants to. So she then tries to do it herself and it works... I did not like that. Even though it was done with some thought in it, but yeah... Not enough I must say. Still, it kind of works.

And that's all I'm going to say about it! I recomend it. It was a fun watch and I found many characters I liked and loved to follow them on their journey and see them progress forward so... Yeah. It was a good movie! I will definitely see this movie again!

Dark Shadows

Breath... Just remember to breath... I thought this movie was... Dare I say it? ... Boring.
It frustrates me because this movie had SO much talent in it, and NONE of it was being used! Before I rant about this movie, let me tell you how I was introduced to it:

After Twilight, everyone became obsest about vampires... And after a while I saw the newspaper writing about Tim Burton and his new movie Dark Shadows. They said that he wanted to try to reintroduce us to the "old cursed vampires"... Tim, you're not BRAVE enough to do it! Sorry to say it, but you're not.

I'm not gonna get into what vampires are because everyone has their own adaptations and stuff like that and so have I so if you're curious... You probably already know what they are. So yeah, I'm not getting into that.

I can explain the plot very simple: The humans act like humans and Johnny Depp does funny poses. That's the movie for ya! Intrigued?
This movie has several plots in them that doesn't really go anywhere. There's the first and main plot that Barnabas Collins is in love with a woman and of course she loves him back, but there's this other woman who loves him too and can't see them two together so she devote her entire life to tear them apart. She has some magic behind her to help her with this task and of course a hot body to go with it.
Another plot is that the family business has collapsed and of course Barnabas don't want to his family business tear apart so he restors it.
Another plot is that Barnabas wants to fit in with this new colture that he's not familiar with because he had been inprisoned in a coffin for 200 years! Why was he inprisoned? Boy, do I wonder! They do explain it in the movie but the logic behind it was not there so I missed it!
And that's the best I can give on the plot. Here's why it doesn't work:

It's chaos! So much happens yet so little happens that it's just... No! It doesn't work! It feels like three short movies were cut together that they just calles an hour and 48 minutes long movie! In the beginning you'll see Barnabas waking up as a vampire killing people, then you see him acting weird with this new things in the world because he has slept in for 200 years! And then we see him rebuild the family business and after that we see him getting seduced by a which and he falls for it, wait what?! He's a vampire and still he falls for a human seduction? ... No, sorry, but NO! And then we have the ending... which I'm NOT gonna say here. I'll save that for the end but yeah! ... It's just chaos!

What was good with this movie? ... Wait! Let me think.... Well... Johnny Depp, as much as I don't really like him.. I must agree that he's a good actor and he really lives into every role that he has. That's the only good part with this movie. I'm do frustrated because there was so much talent behind this movie and NONE of it was being used... Absolutely none of it!

When I watched Alice in Wonderland, the Tim Burton version, I said that Johnny Depp can do better. This was actually giving me satisfactory with his performans. He gave his all into this role and that was great to see... For everybody else in this movie... I felt they were just thrown away just so Johnny could shine even more. Well, OK, Eva Green gave it her all too and that was a great performance also, but still... It was such a waste of talent! Helena Bonham Carter, I love her, she has a lot of talent but... Non of it were shown in this movie. Michelle Pfeiffer, her performance in Stardust was excellent! Not so much in this movie.. Christopher Lee is also wonderful talented in everything he does and.. The screen time he gets is lesser than it was in Sleepy Hollow! Danny Elfman does the music! ... He does the music for the climax anyway! In the other part of the movie there's just constant pop songs! Waste of talent!

I also felt like this story wasn't made from its characters... The story made the characters, which made them stiff. I felt like I was watching plastic dolls moving around the sets that a recorded uninterested voice spoke for them! The characters was as dull as my wardrobe door, flat and colorless. They had backstories and actions, but no reasons for their actions. They had no personalities and to watch a doll drift around on the set... It becomes pretty boring pretty fast. This movie had no purpose. The characters had no purpose other than to be funny.. Ever tried to be funny to your friends? It never works. Those things comes naturally not when you're trying to be funny! If you have no characters you have no story! The story comes from the character NOT the other way around! No matter how much you try to do that!

Without purpose the scenes that are put together doesn't matter so why should I be invested in a thing that doesn't matter? There were so many things that just seemed they were thrown together in the last minute! The main plot which should be about Barnabas and the woman that he loves right? This movie concentrates on Barnabas and the woman who seduces him. Victoria, the woman he loves, get's SO little screen time. We see her in the beginning getting introduced to the family, we see her getting introduced to Barnabus, we see her for a five second long shot with the popsong singing, we see her kissing Barnabas, we see her in the ending... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!!! Develope her character! Develope their love!!! I hate when, in books, characters get together just because the author wants them to get together! NO! Give the character life! How do you do that? Get the character to ask questions! Why are we humans? Because we ask questions, that's how it works! Do something with it!!! That's were the audience can get sucked in by the story because the character feels something because it asks questions.
And then we have the part where the father cheats with another woman and Barnabas gives him one choice: Either be the kind of father his children diserves or leave and never come back. The father leaves... Nothing came out of that scene! The son cries for one scene and then he's back to normal, his actions doesn't change or anything... He didn't have a personality to begin with so why would he get some personality now?!
And then there's this... In the climax, in the beginning of it (don't need spoiler alert because it won't spoil anything for you, I promise) we discover that their daughter has been a warewolf this whole time.... Why? .... Why? .... WHY?! They do explain it, but the explaination is SO weak and... Why haven't this been seen earlier? Why haven't we seen this before and no.. NO! That's NOT a WAREWOLF!!!! What happened to the good old warewulfs?! I'm not a warewolf fan, never was, but... I still don't want to see those warewolves be forgotten. But anyway! Sidetrack! I think they mentioned it ONCE and it was during a popsong so... That doesn't count! Why was she a warewolf? It doesn't make sense! You didn't need it!

I think I've gone through everything... The bigger things that disturbed me anyway. Now I'll be talking about the ending. If you haven't seen the movie yet and doesn't want anything spoiled for you, stop read here. Here I go..

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!
The climax... If I tell you it's nothing but chaos will you believe me? THE REST OF THE MOVIE IS NOTHING BUT CHAOS SO WHY WOULDN'T THE CLIMAX BE NOTHING BUT CHAOS?!!!!!!!!!!! ... Breath... Remember to breath.. First it's the fight between Barnabas and the which like it should be. And I was finally recognizing Danny Elfmans music that just gives me shivers everytime I listen to it... Then a gun comes in the way. A woman that owns the Cullins house shoots the which and says "Get out of my house!" ... Did I really just hear that cliché line? I thought we were passed that line. And yeah, then their daughter shows up and she's a warewolf.. She get's killed in a second... OK, we don't see if it kills her but she faints or something! And you know what stops the climax? Not Barnabas, no no... He's a vampire! He's not a hero in this movie! He doesn't stop the evil which no no! ... Turns out the son to the father who left have been talking to his ghost mother the entire movie and it's the ghost mother who we have NOT seen before.. SHE'S the one who kills the which! ... Kind of. I wanted to strangle the movie when I saw that! The climax is as long as Optimus Primes fight with the Fallen and SO many characters gets in the way of it... That just frustrates me!
And then Barnabas goes after Victoria to stop her to commit suicide (it's a whole story), but yeah.. He doesn't really success and in the fall he turns her into a vampire... There is no way in HELL he had the time to bite her, suck her blood until she was near death and then give her his blood in that fall! No way in hell! Also they forgot a small little detail.. Her mouth didn't have ONE drop of blood around it! So not only must he have had the time to turn her, he also had the time to wipe her mouth?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!! Why didn't she die?! The movie would be SO much better if she had died! Then I wouldn't be as frustrated at it as I am! Then the movie would've had some kind of dignity! But NO! We have to make the whole movie a clichéd joke! Why?!

This movie made me so frustrated it made me cry. I have NEVER felt so bad about a movie before. I have NEVER cried out of frustration for a movie before in my entire life! It just felt like a waste of time for all those people who worked on it. They're talented people! Why not make something good?!
Maybe you think I'm being unfair, but this is really how I feel. You're here because you want to know what my feelings towards this movie was, I'm just giving you that. What you think about the movie is up to you.

.. So frustrated! I'm gonna watch something I like now! Bye for now! And Happy Halloween!!

Men In Black 3

This movie... I didn't really like it, but it was OK. Also I'm angry with it... Yeah! So now I'm gonna tell you in more detail, but first a look back!

Men In Black 1
I secretly liked it at first but I was scared of it. I was really frightened when I was a child and I sat with my family, my mother and my brother, and saw this film at home. My mother liked it, my brother loved it, I liked it, but was scared of it. Now when I'm older.... Loving it! The soundtrack is much better in the movie than just listening to it, Danny Elfman has done a fantastic job as always. The acting is top! I love the man who's playing the bug because he is doing a splendid job here! The colors, the make up, the special effects are all so fantastic! The characters are great also, the partnership between K and J.. Do I even have to mention it because everybody knows it and loves it. Tommy Lee Jones always so fantastic and Will Smith as well! The story is just another perspective, a what if story, what if there were aliens on earth and why we don't know about it.. is because someone is hiding them. That's the story, but why it's so good is because we're introduced to another world through the characters and we follow them in their "every day life"... Yeah! Why this movie was scary for me was because of the performance of the bug and the make up they gave him. That's why I love him today because he is so believable! Anyway! I'm babbling here so I'm gonna move on to the next movie!

Men In Black 2
I've always liked this movie. When I was a child and this one came out I watched this because it was more "kid friendly"... It was! It was more humor, no scay man where a bug wears a humans skin. Instead we have a woman that you can see walking down the street.... If you're lucky. Who isn't the least bit scary. She has a sex appeal... Yay! Anyway! I'm trying to remember right now what she wanted... But I don't really remember.... So we're skipping that part, watch the movie if you're curious. But yeah, this one was more "kid friendly" with more humor and stuff like that... Instead of K we now get Franky and... no.. He's just in it for comedy.. Last movie was just J for the comedy, but around him was pretty much all seriousness... In Men In Black 2... J isn't the only one that's funny! So yeah, but I still liked it, I still do because the comedy is still contained and funny. It never get's emberassed funny like they can do.. And yeah, I like the worms in this one. Anyway!

I'm not actually here to talk about Men In Black 1 and 2... I'm just telling you my oppinion on the previous movies so here goes.. The one I'm gonna talk about... Men In Black 3.

The story is something like this: J and K are partners, K get's threaten by someone he injurnerd and put to jail a while ago. That someone travels back into the past and kills off K. J is the only one that knows about the "other future" that might have happened if K survived his future threat. So he has to go back to the past and save K. Also he has to save the planet from an invasion.

Like many third sequels this one tries to follow up the first movie... But they forget about the details! That's this movie MAIN problem. They don't take up the details. Like the opening: When I first saw it, I sat back and the movie began.. I heard the original soundtrack and I got goosebumps. I was screaming at the screen "That's how you begin a Men In Black movie!" ... Then the visuals didn't match up... How did the other two began? The first one began in space, and then we follow the camera to a dragonfly that's flying on the road while the music is playing and showing off the credits and then the bug dies on the window to a car. Perfect! The other movie starts first with a backstory on a TV screen, then a shot in space as the original soundrtack is playing and we follow a spaceship flying through the universe and destroys planets. Then it lands on earth, let's out a... alien who then scares a dog. Great! ... Not this movie.. It starts with a prison escape on moon... All I could think to myself was: TRANSFORMERS! Transformers 3 were on the moon, the story came from the moon... Did Men In Black run out of ideas so they had to steal from Transformers?

Details is the most important thing to remember, it can ruin a whole movie if you miss them. Just asking a couple of questions... If K dies 40 years ago, how could he have recruited J? K was the one who came to the police office and talked to J about his alien accounter, after that they went out and talked about something that only K would talk about then they went out and had a talk and it was after THAT that K told James about the Men in Black. Only K could have done this thing because J and him have this conection that started from the beginning. So... If he didn't do it, who did? The day when K disappears, everybody didn't know who K was, but they did know him... Why? It doesn't make sense..

There's all these other stuff that K did that would happen if he died before the first movie so... I don't get it, but! Moving on! The main problem with this movie is that J has become a symbol, not a character. K has become a symbol not a characters... These are not characters anymore like they were in the first one and half of the second one... They are just tools that are trying to follow a path that happened years ago! J has no other purpose than being funny. K has no other purpose than being broody... It's not very interesting to watch.
K was a fast talking guy that tried to have fun but was always interrupted by his job, by the things he know. Like in the restaurant where J and K meet for the second time to have pie, he is laughing! Hard laughing, but then he has to come back to reality and that's why he's brooding. He can't enjoy life anymore because he had to give up his dreams, his family everything he enjoyed in life because he knew too much. That's why he wanted to forget everything and trained J to take over for him. In the third movie... He's brooding because he's K and he does that! .. I'm just.. Why doesn't K ask J again to make him forget his life with the Men In Black? Why isn't he angry that J never can do anything for himself? He had a chance for a normal life and J took him back from it because he needed help... I would be angry, if I've been brooding for sooooo long and then I'm finally rewarded with another life and then someone takes it away from me.. I would be like: "Fine! I'll help save the world for one last time... again! But then I want a freaking big vecation and a restrainingorder from the Men In Black!"

Men In Black worked because of the monsters and the characters.. If none of them work.. What else do you have left?
Also there was another thing that they forgot about the Men In Black.. They're secrete! J originally was from the police and then acted like a police would do, shoot the bad guy if he was a threat, shoot at the car to get him to slow down. That's why K taught him that he couldn't do that with these weapons. Far too many people would notice and they could only live a happy life if they didn't know that alien existed!
They really ignore that sentence here! "They have one of these neuralyzer that they use all the time!" ... No they didn't. That was used in special cases and interviews. NOT so they could do whatever they wanted!

Now I'm just gonna talk about the small details that drove me nuts but aren't that important so... If you don't care about that, go see the movie and make up your own oppinion. Have fun watching!

Yeah! So... Details... First one was Z dies and there's a funeral. At this funeral K speaks and it doesn't really makes sense, but what doesn't makes MORE sense is that the one that takes Z's place is starting to talk an alien language... The most annoying part is that J gets surprised and can't seem to understand her... YOU DID THE SAME THING!!! Did you forget? You did the beatbox thing with the aliens in the post office when you were getting K! Why are you surprised when another member from the MIB are ding the same thing?
The second thing! The elevator... No, this is interesting! They've been upgrading the elevator from the second movie, in the first and second movie it was a regular elevator with a front and back door, but now they've upgraded it into a glass, round elevator that only opens in the front..... I think. The thing about details is... you have to think about them. Why would they have that glass elevator in the 1969?! I don't blame them for keeping up the technology with the weapons and stuff because they could have gotten that from the aliens. If they had that elevator in the 1969, why switch it to a box elevator then?! And then keep it until year 2012... or whatever that year was? It just... It doesn't make sense.
The third thing! The technolgy... They have the same guns, the have the same elevator... But they don't have hyperspeed in the cars? ... WHAT?! You know what we get instead? Jetpacks... No no! Not the kind of jetpacks in Spy Kids and GTA, no! These are bigger, I don't really know how to explain them, but they're as tall as a human and you kan stand on them and they're half a orb... Ish. If you can build those jetpacks... Why couldn't you build a little red button that takes you into hyperspeed in the cars! Oh! And you know what else they got? Motorcycles that.... No! I can't... This is too much! The logic has gone to outer space and then exploded while crashing into the alien ship that attack the creators brain while making this movie!

... Details people. Can be fateful. Bye for now!

MirrorMask

I don't really know what to say about it. I definitly didn't hate it or dislike it. But I don't know if I like it... But it was a series of weird stuff put together so probably when I think about it I'll realize that I like it.

It was the Jim Henson company that also created Labyrinth. First I thought about Never Ending Story but something didn't feel right about that... No, it wasn't like the Never Ending Story. Then Labyrinth came to mind and yes. This was like Labyrinth but with a much better twist. I'm not gonna tell you the twist because it's REALLY good to my oppinion and I don't want to ruin it. So I'm gonna try and tell you the story.
This girl is pretty unhappy with the life she has... well, at first it appears that way, but due to her mother being sick and getting to the hospital she gets a reality check and is concerned when her mother is getting an operation. Suddenly she wakes up one night and finds that her world isn't what she thinks it is. She had woken up in a mysterious and weird world where darkness threaten to swallow the whole kingdom. We discover pretty fast that the things that are happening in this world are pretty simular to a story our main character came up with in the beginning. So it is pretty simular to Labyrinth but where in Labyrinth they only left a few hints that it was her imagination she was reliving this movie shows that it's her imagination. And that's pretty much the story. She of course comes across many different people on her journey to solve the clues to get home and to save the kingdom and it's very entertaining.

So the bad thing about it... It's fast paced. It threw me off very much and that's a major thing to why I'm a little confused on what I think about it. It's many "and then suddenly this happens!" and it throws you off, especially in the beginning.

The other thing I didn't like.... I'm not sure that I like the main character. She's not really interesting and it feels like she's just playing a role. That can be because it's so fast paced because she changes expression pretty fast. She can go from exploring seriousness to giggle and enjoying. So that threw me off too.

Also the music some times doesn't mach but it's not that many times I felt like that so it's just a nippick.

So what's good about it? Two major things.. That is the artistic way they shot it and the story. Damn! This is a VERY good looking movie. The lighting and the make up in this movie are FANTASTIC! It looks great! Also even though it's fast paced the story really is good. The twist I loved and you can never guess what's happening. I tried to guess but never figured it out and the use of the MirrorMask... I thought it was brilliant. I was impressed that they actually could come to this conclusion. Lately I think movies are forgetting the little details they have in the movies because it's little details. But here, I didn't have any question left in my mind because all the questions I had were answered... OK, maybe not all, but most of them. So I really liked that!

So that's my review. I don't really know what to think of it because of the disturbences, but I'd say GO SEE IT!! I'm gonna recomend it to many of my friends, don't know if they'll like it but it's an art that you need to see, doesn't matter if you like it or not. So! There you go! See you next time!

(I appolgize if there's gramatic mistakes and spelling mistakes and everything but... I'm writing this when I'm sick and yeah... I apologize but hope you enjoy it anyway ^^ Good night!)

The Hunger Games

All right... This movie... I don't know what to think of it. It isn't bad... It isn't great, but it's... Ok... I think I like it.. the first half anyway. And of course I'm gonna tell you why.

First a quick sum up of what the movie is about. It's pretty much Battle Royal. Although I don't remember that movie too well, there was a lot going on that I didn't understand. And for you who haven't seen it yet... Go see it! If you wanna stay here and read my review further first, but you have to promise me that you'll see Battle Royal. Good. But this sets around the future pretty much, but a future that have ranks... Kind of. There are those district that are poor and don't have much at their feets while others are pretty rich and have all that futuristic things. So one woman and one man are being chosen for a thing called the Hunger Games... Why they have a game like this I don't know... They explain it briefly in the movie and yeah... After a two hour movie you've forgotten what that reason was because a lot of other things happened. Why is it called Hunger Games? They don't explain. So that was a little disappointing. But yeah! Anyway... They send this woman and man to a city where the games take place and what is this game? 24 people is put together in the same stadium but there's only 1 that comes out. It's a game of survival and kill. So a lot of stuff happens in between as you can guess but that's the summary of the plot pretty much. If you want to know more, proceed, but the next context have spoilers in them so if you don't want to ruin the movie go see it. For the others... I'm gonna sum up now what I liked and disliked.

What I really liked about this movie was that they could get the feeling across in some of the scenes. The first scenes are put there to see how our main character is living her life and what she deals with everyday. She is pretty much living in the past, with old clothes, bathtubes and houses. Those scenes are pretty long, but they're there to build up what she experience later. They're not too long though, but yeah. you get the feeling of how she sees the world. Then she valonteers to the hunger games and is send off to this futuristic world with... Yeah, those houses you pretty much can see today and in Star Wars. And I really felt what she was going through. The running scenes they did great. They went by quick and the camera angles are great, I didn't feel dizzy like I can feel in some movies when they run and have a moving camera, but this movie did that great. There is a sadful deathscene in this which they handled great, but I have a little nippick about it, I'm putting that to the things I didn't like, and you really felt the sorrow out main character was going through. And she wasn't sad in like five minutes and then she forgets it, no. She is sad in about twenty minutes and then she forgets about it....... She had taken out her sorrow, so it's fine! She was still in the game and that pretty much distracted her. But yeah.. They got the emotions in the movie really well and I think that's what makes it SO good.

The music I liked. It fits in with the tone it was going and it helped with the story and I didn't felt distracted by it. It's not like with Tron where I only thought of the music because it was so damn good, but it's not like with 7 Ghost where the music was so bad that I got distracted by it. So the music was good, especially the end song. That I actually pointed at the screen and said: I want that!

The makeup was good, the clothes design was good and yeah, the design in generall I liked. So yeah... Nothing groundbreaking but it was OK. Although the make up artist must have extra credit because that was great. There were many times I thought it was good make up.

All right... Now to the things I didn't like..... The small ones first. This is to my personal oppinion and so here goes. I didn't like the first action scene. There was this first battle and think about that. So far they've played with this is a new world for our main character, she used to a crappy bathtub and old clothes and suddenly she comes into this world where everything is bright and big and stuff like that, the clothes are on fire and she's fine! ... Then to the first battle... They plat music over it! ... What? This is the time where you should have no music playing and we only hear screams and bones getting wrecked and.. This is a serious moment, because before this everything was happy, they were just nervous over the games but everything was bright and they still had time and so on and so on.. The first battle is the sign of "this shit just got real" and you don't play music over that scene! The sound of the battle should play there to show the reality of it. You were so good with the emotions in the rest of the movie, why not there? Was the guy sick that day or something? I don't know, but that threw me off a little...

The other little thing was the death of that one caracter where you should feel sad... Yeah, the main character mourns and stuff and calms the person down and then screams... But then she picks flowers and lay them around the body and puts a BUQUET on the chest.... Did you just forget that you're in a freaking killing game? Where everyone is trying to haunt you down? When did you have the time to do this? And after that she sits down on the ground and cries.. Ok, fine, do that but look for shelter first!! Find a safe spot to cry! Then you can cry how much you want! ... That threw me off too, sure they were trying to get the emotion down, but... Calm the audience down first! If it's open they're just gonna look at the background or wait for one of the other game players to sneak up and kill her. That's the best way of getting this emotion down to the audience.

Yeah.... Now we come to the third thing I didn't like.... This thing is pretty much making me dislike this movie... But the first half is so good that I can't ignore it. Damn you movie! Oh well! The supporting character.... The man from the same district... I HATE HIM!! All he is a dumb fake smile. Through the entire movie and he's just unpleasant to follow. I shall explain why. The first time we see him is when they pick his name for the games. There he looks like a scared little boy who just want to wake up from this nightmare. The second time we see him, he is trying to get through to his survival, he's talking with everyone, he's tring to be optimistic and stuff like that, he get's on a TV show and pretty much says that he's in love with our main character. OK... We have no idea who you are, our main character doesn't really seem to know who you are... How can you say that you're in love with her? But they do explain it so it's OK. But then the game starts... The first thing we see him do is co-operating with the other team and tries to haunt her down... The woman you said you loved in TV.. you are just trying to kill the first thing you do! All right, maybe he did for just the crowd, playing with their heads to his advantage, Ok, I'll by it... It's not. They don't explain why he suddenly changes, they don't even talk about it. But wait! There's more! After the sadful death they announce that there can be two winners if they're both from the same district. So our main character naturally thinks of this man.... She just forgets that he was trying to kill her, wanted her dead, when the game started. Just forget about trying to co-operate with him and just kill him! You can't trust him! So just go out and try to win.... No. She finds him of course, and even he has forgotten that he wanted her dead in the beginning of the game.... He's not sayind sorry, he's not explaining why he did that nothing! They just forgets about it! All together!! .... I HATE HIM!!! He was pretty much unnecessary!! Stupid character...

Oh well! The last thing I'm gonna talk about is the ending. I didn't like it. It just stopes in the middle so it feels like it's going to be a sequal... But I don't know how they're going to continue it while keeping the tradition of "hunger games" The game is over and if you're having a sequal where they go through the game again... You can't do that. Because then you wouldn't continue on this story. You would create another story! But yeah... There were a lot of questions I didn't get an answer to and I hated the last part.... But the first part is so good!! It really is a split movie, it's a schizo movie! One side is good while the other is bad! That's what I really think about it.

So.. Do I recomend it? ... I'm split about that. The first part I recomend but the second part I think you shouldn't see. There is nothing there worth seeing. So... Go see it and get your own oppinion.

Brave 2012

I'm going to talk about the build up I had with this movie, because I think it affects the way I saw it and therefore what I thought about it. So before I say what I think I'm gonna talk about it from the beginning.

I hadn't heard about this movie until I saw a trailer for it on Youtube. Then I saw that it was a Disney movie and I've had my history with Disney. I grew up with it and most of what I say, what I've learned comes from those movies, my humor comes from Disney, Disney is my whole childhood...... So, lately I've had my share of disappointments with Disney. I've noticed more and more that they're just doing a movie for the money, not to have a lesson learned or... yeah, a good moral to teach your children. Lately they haven't succeeded my expectations and they've just disappointed me al together so for a while I stopped watching Disney because I was tired of being disappointed of a company that practically raised me...

Then this movie popped up on my radar and I watched the trailer, american version.... I thought they were going to do another movie where they concentrate too much on the comedy and screw the story, like they did with Pirates of the Caribbean 2. But then I watched the japanese trailer and DAMN! That trailer made me shiver. I was intrigued to see the movie thanks to that trailer! That trailer was awsome! After that I was stuck on the movie, I listened to the music, I watched clips from it.... I was hooked and I just wanted to know more on how the story would be and what they were doing with it!

.... I must stop watching the new Disney movies... Another disappointment... I'm getting so tired of this! What's happening to you Disney?

Ok, so what's the story? .. Freaky Friday. Yeah! It's Freaky Friday! From the trailer and the beginning the narrator talks about fate and how she wants to change it and the movie is called BRAVE and... You're doing a Freaky Friday story..... *dies of disappointment* ......... OK, I'm back!
So it begins with our main character, the princess, is getting married. But she doesn't want to get married. She wants to be free and have an adventure, to go out and do whatever she wants! So she goes to a witch in the forest and asks for a spell that would change her fate. "Change my mum! That would change my fate right?" ... What?! You could've..... You could've gone SO far with this! Another fate! Another world! Start off with the cliché and then go for another thing in the end, something compeletly different! Do something with this!! No... We get Freaky Friday ><!!! So yeah, after this..... Her mother change into a bear. ... what..? And after that they're just learning from each other and of course they learn something about the world around them as well... It's Freaky Friday meets Brother Bear ><! Haven't you gone further from that?! ... Apparently not.

The things that are good, because I actually liked a lot before the story ruined everything! The animation is great of course! At least there they are improving. So it was really nice to look at... But really.. I just rather watch How to train your Dragon because it's the same animation and a better story.
The music is FANTASTIC! Check out the Soundtrack because it's really beautiful!

The witch I liked! I thought they were gonna go for a really comedian witch and screw the character. But no! They went for a really beliveable side to her and she was really funny to watch!
So was the princesses father! He was hillarious! And I really loved him! They didn't went too far with this character like they could have. I was so satisfied with that character! And it made sense that the princess would want to be a free spirit because her father was a free spirit and she looked up to him.
Her brothers were really enjoyable too. Once again, I thought they were going to go too far with these character too, but... At one point they do, but they're not in the movie for that long so that's fine. Most of the characters were really funny to watch......... They're just in the beginning and the ending... The rest of the movie focuses on the princess and the mother.

The mother is terrible! I'm sorry, I did not like her! She was just stereotypic! They wanted a mother that didn't listen and were just demanding and..... Yeah, that's it! She doesn't listen and she's demanding but the WORST part is... In the end SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER!! she doesn't learn anything! It's just the princess that learns a lesson and not the mother! So in the end she's still probably demanding and doesn't listen because she doesn't learn anything! I HATE THAT!!

I'm gonne be quick here because I have a time limit so I'm just gonna talk about another thing that bothered me... The pacing of this movie was HORRIBLE! It went through too fast, and there was just two scenes in the whole movie that took it's time and it was in the beginning before the princess meets the witch and at the ending when you have the little cry scene. And it was really annoying! It went really fast so you werent really allowed to take in the beautiful sets or to glance over the character when they interacted with each other! It just passed through really fast, if you blinked you probably would've missed it.

So to sum up... The things that was really bad about this movie were just three things. The story, the mother and the pacing. That's it! And apperantly that's all you need to destroy a movie! You have to think about the story first! And role with it! Think about what you've done before, how you can improve something you've already done and if you can bring something new in a well way... If you can't? It's just a waste of time, energy and money! THINK PEOPLE, THINK!

So that's my disappointment of Brave! .... I'm never gonna trust a commersial from Japan again... They make it too great -.-

The three Musketeers

... I didn't like it.

I've seen many The three Musketeers even the Barbie one and it's embarrassing to confess that The Three Musketeers was WORSE than the Barbie one!

I'm talking about the one with the Orlando Bloom in it and I happen to like Orlando Bloom so that's not why I didn't like it! So let's move on!

There's really no reason to explain the story because you all know it. Some person working closely to the king wants more power so he's scheming to achive that goal and so on and so on... I have no idea how his plan to achive power works so don't ask me! I wasn't really paying attention to it because to me, it didn't really matter. So the movie is much about the three musketeers have broken down and trying to find their way back to the justice and everything.... Well... As much justice as the musketeers could give being so impatient and rebellious. Oh well! Little story, many flaws so let's move on!

I'm gonna start with the things I did like. The acting was pretty good. And the casting was good too. I liked seeing the people interact with each other... OK, I didn't like the King... But still, the actor who played him did well. I saw what they were going for and they successed with the very scene he was in because they had cast that person perfectly. So yeah, the acting was good and the casting.

The other thing I did like was the music. When the movie opened I thought I was going to have another experience like I had with TRON Legacy. But no, the music wasn't THAT awsome but never the less.. It was still pretty good and suited well with the theme.

Ok, now move on to the things I didn't like... Which one do you want to hear first? The biggest one? Ok!

It's actually two big things and both of them have to do with the style. I don't like that this movie has been told A MILLION times.. When this came out I was really sceptic to another Three Musketeers movie because... How can they do another version of this? Everybody has done it allready so stop it! Yet, I think it came at the same time as the Sherlock Holmes movie and that movie I liked. So I wanted to see this to see if they could do something diffirent like that movie did.... No. They don't. The style, characters, story, EVERYTHING has already been done in a MILLION movies involving the Three Musketeers. Why was this movie made, lots of money put into a story we've already heard SO many times -.-? Seems like a waste of time and money.... Oh well!

The other big thing was the humor... Damn this humor -.-! It feels like the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie where they were taking too much concentration to the humor and forgot everything else! They should be writing a adventure but the comedy came in the way... So the comedy was EVERYWHERE and it was childish and... It just made me sigh and not laugh and I was quickly bored by the movie just because of all the laughter they were trying to pull out of me.

So there's the two big things I didn't like... It pretty much sums up why I don't like it. It's done and tries too much.
Now I'm going to talk about the ending so... SPOILERS!

SPOILERS!!
The ending is... I have no idea... It just shows that this movie was unenesessary... To my part! Nothing really changes from the beginning of the movie.. The evil man isn't brought to justice, the king is still a brat and the people haven't been freed from an unjustice world. Nothing was accomplished! The only thing that were was the four people coming together and fight for another day. Nothing else changes. And it's pretty frustrating! Isn't the meaning of showing a piece of someones life that the person accomplished SOMETHING in that time period? Isn't that the meaning of showing it, or telling it? Have I missed something o.O?

I don't recomend this movie. I recomend the Barbie version instead of this! o.o ... That's bad. But the movie is good, so you shuold look into it. For a Barbie movie.. It's more than I expected. So.. yeah... I'm out...

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 - On stranger Tides

I can't really talk about this movie unless I mention what I thought of the other movies.. But I'm gonna keep it short.

The first movie.. LOVED IT! It was SO good and I remember that it brought back the pirates and EVERYBODY was talking about this movie and the characters and everything in it! It was SO good! I've lost count on how many times I've seen it and heard about it.

The second movie... Damn! They really lost it here. I don't remember much of it because I've only seen it once and that was enough! The comedy took over and it was nothing but jokes through the whole movie and that was really painful to watch because it's not a comedy! It's an adventure movie! So knock it off!

The third movie... I remember everyone said in the papers that this was going to be the next "Lord of the Rigs" .. So of course they were going to do a third movie... Of course they brought up a fellowship then! After I saw this I could point out SO many things that were in the Lord of the Rings that they had stolen! .. or borrowed! .. Either way I didn't like it. This movie only left me with ONE good scene that was enough that I watched it twice. And it had some good jokes here and there and the CGI looked nice at times.

Now we got the fourth movie.......

Can I please erase this movie from my memory? Please dear God, let me forget this movie ever exist?
... Yeah, this is going to be a negative review and if you REALLY love this movie and can't handle another persons oppinion... Go away! For the rest of you... I'm gonna try to be fair to the movie, but it's probably going to be really hard since I'm very disgusted by this movie. With that said, let's summorize the story.

The plot in short is that Jack wants to find the Fontain of Youth so he comes across Blackbeard and his daughter. He has to cooperate with them to find the Fontain of Youth and they have to cooperate with him... for the exact same reason. Yeah, these movies don't really explain how they come to certain solutions. At least not what I've noticed. But as what I can coprihate is that Jack knows the way to the Fontain of Youth and that's why Blackbeard cooperates with him and Jack needs a ship and that's why he cooperates with Blackbeard. Something like that. So on their way they come across the England crew and the Spanish crew that are also in it for the Fontain of youth.... So there is three crews that are looking for this one thing.... This is going to be needlessly complicated. Oh! And there's a romance in there... Ok, two, one with Jack and one with a guy that they met on Blackbeards ship... And that romance is only revealed in the mittle of the movie. And that's pretty much the story. Three crews are looking for the Fontain of youth and we follow their path to equir it. ... That's it! Next step!

So what did I think what was good with this movie... Actually I found two things I liked. I liked the lighting. It was REALLY nice and it helped feel the mood in every scene. Also the colors really poped with this lightning and it was SO good so thank you guy who did the lighting! If I ever make a movie, I will call you!

The other thing was the mermaids. I know people really like these mermaids but... Yeah! They're really good! The design of them is... OK. I'm going to be fair, they were a little stupid, but yeah, I kind of liked them anyway. The lightning really helped and the fact that they looked wet all the time! I've seen some mermaids that are dry the minute they're out in clean air. So I really liked that they were wet all the time. Second, I loved how innocent they looked before they became these evil, hungry monsters and they were really beautiful actually... At least I thought so! The song the first mermaid sings stuck with me very long and that scene was FABULUS! The mood was set SO well and it looked great and I was really hooked by it! So yeah, that scene was great! What I didn't like about them was when they turned into the hungry monsters.... Hear me out on this. The design was silly because I thought about this: They were mermaids who got bitten by a spider and a vampire.... Doesn't that sound silly? How I got to this conclusion: They had teeth like vampires (If you're going to make a monster mermaid, why not look at predator fishes? Like sharks or piranha?) and they could shoot seaweed out of their arms! .... That's silly. But other than that it was great!

The things I didn't like? ... Everything else? Ok, to be short I'm gonna say that the things I didn't like was how much they did the first movie again, or destroyed it like HELL! So now I'm probably gonna do some spoilers so... Be careful because they're coming now! Ok! So you can really play the first movie bit by bit except for a few things that was even worsely(is that even a word?) done here than in the first movie! First of, the reveal of Jack Sparrow isn't anything groundbreaking! It's like: Yeah! You know what he looks like by now so we're not going to bother with a big reveal! We give him a giant wig and some white beard and disguise him as a judge and you'll still be able to spot him by the way we are shooting! Isn't that fun? ....... Is the pirate who tricked Will Turner into coming with him to capture the Black Pearl without ANY disguise what so ever, disguising himself as a judge to free another man from hanging? ... Is the same man who dodge a hanging  himself without any disguise really disguising himself as a judge?! ... You've really lost it on who Jack Sparrow was in the first movie right? Oh, well... They at least try to connect him with the first movie since they have him REPEAT the lines from the first movie!! I'm not even kidding! The first half is pretty much made up by the first script! He says SO many lines that he said in the first movie but they did not connect as well as they did then! Here they really sound out on what lines they have stolen as to say: Do you remember this line from the first movie? ... YES! I do! So can you please leave them to that movie so that I can't quote them to THIS movie! .. Does that make sense? No? Good! Then you have some sense!

SPOILERS
And also... Why is Jack blond in the first half of the movie? .. Does he have time to dye his hair? Does he really have the money to dye his hair? Could you really dye your hair in that time period?! Oh well! So yeah, Jack is a repeatment of the first movie, do you want to talk about someone who's not? .. Are you sure you're ready for that? Really? This hurt me.. Real bad. Everytime this person cam to the screen I cried because it was so bad! ... Barbossa. They killed him. They brought him back to life so they could slaughter his whole existant in a slow and painful death and we had to watch them do it! .. I can NOT watch the first movie and have some dignity for Barbossa while the memory of this movie is still in my brain! They killed him for me! ... MAJOR SPOILERS now... Barbossa have joined in to the English crew and are now working for the King and are the leader for the crew and he is leading them to the Fontain of the Youth. .... Can you believe that? The captain that was so scary in the first movie, the man who really was a pirate and stole jeweles from pretty ladies and went all out of his way to have the biggest treasure in the world not caring of the course it brought with it! This man who lured so many, killed his own crew to proove a point... This same man... is working for the King, in an honest way. Not killing or stealing anyone/anything. ... They destroyed him. ... Please God, let me forget this horrible crime of making Barbossa into an honest man? Yeah, he's really doing this undercover to take Blackbeard but.. He didn't need to. He didn't need to... *cries*

SPOILERS
Oh! And while we're on the subject of destroying the dignity of something.. Let's disguss the Black Pearl.... Damn what a horrible fate she suffered. The fearsome ship that had black sails and a crew black as night that didn't leave any survivors and were like a ghostship that swooped in, took what she needed and vanished into the fog... She sank! End of story!

And to you who thought this was only going to be a Jack Sparrow story? HAH! Jokes on you! Since Orlando and Kieara said since the second movie that they didn't want to do any more Pirates of the Caribbean they had to work in another love story! It's between the guy who is very religous (they don't make him as annoying as they could have so that's great!) and one of the mermaids! And really.. I had no problem with this. It was a story that I had heard before, but it was such a long time ago that I wouldn't mind see it again with this modern technology. The mermaids was the only thing I liked so to see this story again with those kinds of mermaids and that lightning and those colors... Damn I would be so satisfied... But no, we get a fourth movie with the title Pirates of the Caribbean because the fans really wanted to see more Jack Sparrow... Go see the first movie again then o.o He is still there if you see it again, I promise! So can you please leave the movie makers alone so they can devote their energy into making a piece of art instead of just a "request for the fans" because it doesn't turn out well then ><!

So yeah... I really didn't like this movie. It hurt me. Physically and psycological! I don't want to remember I saw it! It was THAT bad! So now I'm gonna devote my time to get it out of me!
Have a good day! Bye!

Inu x Boku SS

Here's another anime.... Bear with it!
It's twelve episodes so if you're interested.

The story is... Interesting. It satters around a bunch of magical creatures and in their fun way they tell us about these creatures that we come across. However when I'm watching something for the first time I don't really read these long texts and stuff so I have no clue about these creatures but that didn't suck me out of the story. It's mostly the typical thing where a girl that wants to be alone and grow up on her own find that people around her is much more fun to be with than just being on your own. We spend the first ten episodes learning about those characters. Nothing more than just character studying... Sounds boring? It isn't! These characters were really funny and they worked off each other very well and I personally wanted to see more of those characters just having fun. It felt like when you're with your wierd friends and you're just sitting around saying nothing, but enjoying every moment because their actions were so much fun. That's what it was in the first ten episodes. I won't spoil the last episodes for those of you who haven't seen this yet but I can at least say this: At first I thought I was going to be disappointed with the ending. I was really sceptical and thought this was going to be one of those animes that tries to have a story in the beginning but then, we were just having so much fun so the story doesn't matter anymore! But no! They really tie everything together and I was pleased with every single thing this anime gave me. It didn't disappoint me one bit. This also gives you a hint of balance since the main character and the love interest help each other to get stronger and together they can grow into strong people. That is so awsome to come from an anime like this!

I guess I should talk about the things I disliked about this but... So far I can't come up with anything! It probably have some problems but I'm just so damn in love with this anime right now that I can't see it's flaws so... Congratulations anime! You really succeeded! *claps hands*

So the good stuff... I will be really quick, I won't mention everything. But yeah, the characters were great! Event though you didn't get a backstory of everybody it really fits. The're are sidecharacters and not everybody is a main character that I've seen in some other animes that looks like this. The focus is still the main character and the love interest. But you still want to enjoy everyother character that this anime present....... Well, most of them. It's probably just my persobal oppinion but one of the characters was just... He irritated the shit out of me! Luckily he just shows up in like three episodes and he's not very long in them so... Lucky me! This anime is listening to me!

The music... I can't really remember the music so it musn't have been too horrible but nothing spectacular. So it doesn't stand out too much and it definitly doesn't drag you out of the moment so it's good enough.

The animation... Damn this animation. It was SO beautiful! The colors and the design of the characters and the whole animation... It was really well done and I'm picky with my animes must be well drawn or otherwise I can't concentrate on the story. This animation really fitted with the story and the type it was going for, in my oppinion so eberything really worked!


Now I'm gonna talk about the ending so... Yeah! Lots of love for this anime and I think you should definitly go see it and get your own oppinion about it!
The last three episodes we take a deeper look into the main character and her "bodyguard" (who are suppose to build up a romance between each other) and see their bakstory and much more on how they came to know each other and.. It's really well done and it's so interesting that you feel really emotional between these two. I haven't heard this veration of this story before, I've heard parts of it, but never a whole story that was like this... Or if I have I don't remember it.

And... I don't think I want to talk about that more. I don't want to spoil to much for you because it was a really nice surprize that this was in there. But it's so good that it deserved a mention of it. I haven't read the manga on this but with me loving this anime so much I don't think I want to. It feels like it would spoil the anime for me if I realize how much of it actually was changed around and stuff. But anyway! I think I've talked about how much this was great long enough so.... Yeah, go see it! ... Not in english dub though... I'm sorry but the english dub on the japanese movies are horrible. See it with english subtitle and you'll get everything much better. Also the voices mach their characters very well in the japanese version. Enjoy!

One Day

Ok, I've watched three movies in three days now and I'm starting to get frustrated because I didn't like any of them! Althuogh this is the only one I could properly talk about so... Here it is!

I was searching for new movies to watch and came across a movie that was called One Day. I saw that Anne Hathaway was going to be in it so I got hyped. So I read a little on what it was about got about... "Two people met at 15th July 1988 and decided to go on a date but stayed friends..." after that I stopped reading and watched it instead.... I wish I had read further because I have no idea what this movie was about.

I can't even summon the movie since I don't quite understand it. At first I thought it was going to be: we follow their development through every year on the same day... Well, yeah, just not every year.... OK, so the movie want to show how much everything changes in a couple of years? ... Well, sort of, it's more the cultural that changes than the people. Do we at least get development in their relationship? ... Well, no not at all.
So I'm really confused on what this movie wanted to do with this story. If you want a better summary on the story you can search more on google. I'm confused and I'm gonna tell you why.

The edeting in this movie helped with that confusion. In the beginning it felt like they didn't really cared on what was going on a year after they showed us a clip of their life. So we were given one clip and then when it's not really ended they cut to another year.... It was just one scene that wasn't even finished! But hey, that's not important! It's just filler because we need to get it into a 2 hour long movie! ... There was even a scene in like 5 seconds that represented one year and you only saw Anne Hathaway swimming.... "This has been another: pointless moment." So yeah, the editing was really distracting.

I said that the character didn't develope either. That's because they don't really have a personality. They have actions, but they lack motivation for their actions, or emotions all together. They show anger and sadness but when the movie tries to show when a character is in love.... They smile right? They kiss each other? Yeah! There's nothing more than that! They smile so smile a lot and act in love! ... Yeah... continue to think that and you'll be spinning on a pink cloud round and round in a circle too.

So the things I didn't like was the story, the characters and the editing... Is there something I liked? No! I couldn't even appritiate the acting because the characters weren't given any personalities! It was just what the movie wanted them to act and followed that... Motivation? Know what that is? You don't need to spell it right just understanding the word is enough. I got so bored with this movie that in the last hour I checked how much time it was left every ten minute! It was really boring and it felt like the movie was done two hours ago! So it felt really long, it was boring and I don't understand it. I don't know if it was written as a book before the movie but as a movie... It doesn't work.

So I don't recomend this movie... It wants to show something but it doesn't work at all. Hope the fourth movie I see I'll like.