Happy new year once again, and what better way to look back on 2008 than to count down the best films to have come out of this year, thats right all you movie buffs out there it's the top ten best films of 2008, let's kick some ass.
Oh and just as a little not most of the films on this list I have either done reviews of on youtube or right here on blogspot so only ones I have never mentioned before I'll do Litlle reviews on.
10. Twilight - ***
See my Review of this on blogspot.
9.Cloverfield - ***
See my review of this on blogspot.
8. Taken
When I first saw the trailer to this movie I thought, "Liam neeson in paris rescuing his daughter and beating the crap out of some criminals", I thought, AWESOME!!!!
Honestly I have to say I was thourouly entertained by this movie, the plot, besides it's simplisity, actually turns out to be pretty clever and how Sam (Liam Neeson) finds his daughter was actually really cool and interesting to watch and as the film goes on it just gets better and better.
The actions sequences seemed pretty brutal in some cases and filmed with a very gritty style, now it's not filmed in extreme close up like a lot of other action movies you may have seen but it's still not filmed further out to get a total clear veiw, it's somehwere in between those 2 but you get the idea of what they're doing so no real confusion.
Liam Neeson gives a really good performance as the EX - CIA agent Sam and all the rest of the cast do a good job too, and realy there is not too many problems with it the only thing is, I wished it was a little bit longer (not that it was too short it was about 90 miutes) and in that extra length they could have gone into a bit more detail with the story, but what ever i thought it was awesome.
****/*****
And just as a little side note, the version I saw in cinema's was rated 15, but the dvd version is an extended harder cut rated 18. I have know clue what the extra footage will have. Will it make it any better? I'll just have to wait for the 9th of Febuary to find out.
7.Mamma Mia
A musical starring Pierce Brosnnan with all the music done by ABBA, ths might not be too bad.
Honestly, it's actually a pretty fun movie all the music by ABBA was awesome and Pierce is actually a pretty good singer as are all the rest of the cast, the story centers around the one girls, I can't remember her name, who is getting married and is trying to find her father and she sends wedding invotations to 3 men she believes to be her father.
Not a bad story line and it always has you asking the question who is the father, I'm not going to say anything i am not going to spoil it unless you've already seen the movie.
The acting was pretty well done and I believe that this movie was pretty well cast allthough, when the girls meet each other at the begining of the movie they do this rehearsed routine thing like they're quoting from a movie or something and they all scream, in all honesty I have never seen any girls, let alone fully grown women do that ever in real life so i thought that was kind of strange.
But once you get passed all of the strange moments you will actually be having a fun time and you will be laughing your ass off by the end of the movie I will garauntee you that.
So overall Mamma Mia was actually a funny and fun movie with a lot of good music although there just might have been a bit too many songs, but being that they are all by ABBA only sweetens the deal.
****/*****
6.Quantum of solace - ****
see my review her on blogspot.
5. Rambo - ***
See my reviews of this on both youtube and blogspot.
4.Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the crystal skull - ****
See my review of this on youtube.
3.Burn after reading ****
See my review of this on youtube.
2.Iron man ****1/2
See my reviews of this on blogspot and youtube.
1.The Dark Knight ****1/2
See my review of this on blogspot.
There we go, there are probably loads of other movies that could have made it onto this list and many of the people reading this may disagree with me but relax, it's my own opinion so do what you want but you can never silence me.
Thanks for reading and have a happy new year, all you hot chicks out there.
P.s. A breif recap of the best things to have happened this year.
-I have been to 5 parties this year.
-Been appart of 2 different bands this year.
-Played in 3 different concerts.
-Made loads of great friends.
-Got a drum kit for christmas
-Got a brand new electric guitar for my Birthday.
-Got and NES off of ebay.
-Bought a shitload of Cd's and Dvd's.
Awesome year 2008, now bring on 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
Disney Channel original movies
Oh dear, what have I gotten myself into.
Today I will be looking at what I know of the films produced by disney channel, and for those of you whoe don't watch disney channel, you might be thinking "Hey it's disney these might not be too bad", well all I can say is, thats wishfull thinking my friend.
But to be fair these movies were made for kids, but that doesn't give them all excuses to go of and write crap diologue and give us sometimes incredebly dumb storylines, lets get started.
High school musical - ***
To start off with lets go for a series which actually isn't too bad. The storyline Goes a basketball player named troy winds up falling in love with a freaking hot nerdy science girl named Gabriella when they first meet in a kareoke contest, and when Troy returns home he soon finds that his freinds and basketball team mates are not very accepting to his sudden interest in wanting to be in the school musical with Gabriella. To be honest the music in this film was actuall pretty good and definatly memerable, the actors and actresses to a pretty good job and this is probably the best disney Channel original movie. If you don't agree with me you obviosly haven't seen the others.
High school musical 2 - ***
Once again it was o.k. but not as good as the first one. Now the storyline goes that troy is looking for a good summer job to help raise money for when he goes to college, and throughout the movie we can see just how worried Troy realy is about actually taking charge of his life and being good enough to get to where he wants to go. The storyline once again does a pretty good job as well do the actors and actresses, but the songs aren't as memerable as the first one and sometimes Ashley tisdales performace as sharpey just seems to be a bit silly and kind of embaresing, but most of the time she does a good job of being that snobby girl who just wants to be a big shinning star in an effort to get Troys attention. If theres nothing else on i say watch but, if something else like Speed or Clerks is on, I say stop wasting you time and watch those.
Minute men - **
3 kids who build a time machine, create a black hole and save the world, thats it, nothing more simple but it seem they wre trying to make it seem complecated with some somewhat scientific diologue that I doubt any kids watching this would understand, but it would just make them go, "Whoa". The actors and actresses, some of them do o.k but sometimes it just isn't believable, espcially the jock named Derek, who for me throughout the whole movie had the same tone and look and only time he ever showed any different emotion was when he was calling Virgule a dork, please tell me do you know anyone who calls anyone a dork now a days? So overall Minute Men is nothing more than an ode to other time travelling movies, even the dance scene is trying be like the dance scene in "Back to the future", it's nothing more than chessy music, diolgue and a copy cat film.
Camp rock - **
First off i want to say that for a movie called Camp rock there was no rock and roll in the movie what so ever, it was all pop, R&B and some really bad DJ music. But lets really get going, the movie is about a Girl named Mitchie, played by Demi Levato, who wants to go to a music camp for her summer vacation, and while there all she wants to do is fit in with the popular but annoying crowed. Mean while the leader of a band called connect 3 (The Jonas brothers) called Shane Gray played by Joe Jonas is forced to stay at the camp and teach while he cleans up his attitude.
The jonas brothers all do a pretty good Job in the acting deppartment even though they had never acted before, and demi levato does a good job to, but it doesn't help the film very much, the music for me was in some cases just annoying except for 2 songs "Play my music" by the jonas brothers and "This is me" played by Demi Levato. The whole mvie is just filled with cliche's, bad jokes and there's also the camp director who in all honestly is probaly the worst actor in the movie because you just can't take him seriously and even when he's trying to be funny he's just annoying. There are some nit picks, but in the end the film makes you feel pretty good, but thats about it. Watch it once for curiosity and that should do you.
The Cheetah girls - **
It's a movie about a pop girl band who want to get big, all i can really say is, it's what you would expect. The actors and actresses, do an o.k job I guess for what there is, and really that's all I can say thats good about this movie, to be honest, it's all just one big blur, the music for me wasn't too good, don't get me wrong the girls are very good singers but that doesn't help the film to much. Most of the film is just girls getting mad at each other, getting mad at their parents, getting upset with each other and sometimes, just being abnoxious and unaware of how they are acting. The story for me was rushed into way too fast, they didn't give a lot of time in some cases to develope some of the chararcters espcially how Gabrielle becomes such a snobby bitch who thinks shes a total celebrity. All it does for you is just annoy you to a certain extent and you'll be shutting off your T.V half way through when you eventually realise what you watching, sorry girls but this had to be done.
the Cheetah girls 2 - **1/2
This one did a little bit better than the last one, the acting once again was o.k, but really all the diference is, is that now they are trying to make it big in spain when they sign up for a music festival in Barcelona, and this time there is some stuck up bitch who wants her daughter to win the competition and trys get rid of the Cheetah girls and thats it. It's just the same old spontanious Dance movies and music however i will say the last song in the film was actually for me pretty enjoyable to watch, good job girls you did a little better. Now with the 3rd one coming out, they are now in india, for whatever reason and to be honest it doesn't look so good and as always disney chanel is over hyping it, Great fucking job.
Wendy wu home coming warrior - **
The storyline for this one goes that there is some girl Named Wendy who wants to become home coming queen of her high school, but she soon descovers that she is a yen Warrior who has to save the world from some old chinese monster guy, now that is just a really stupid plot. The acting is not that great but for the most part isn't bad. and to be honest the fight scenes were pretty cool too, but when I hear some of that really chessy diolougue in the later scenes and also some embaressing moments with the monk Chen, it just annoys me a little bit, and near the end wendy just decides who cares if the world becomes evil I want to be the home coming queen. Now tell me whats wrong with that............FUCKING EVERRYTHING!!!!!!!
Overall it not the worst thing to have come out of disney channel but believe me when I say this I have seen so much better, the special effects are just crap and i have seen better acting in other disney films.
O.k I'm getting tired lets rap this up. here's a short list of the other films on disney channel I have seen.
Twas the night - ***
The ultimate christmas present - **1/2
Halloween town - **
Halloween town 2 kallabars revenge - *1/2
Halloween town high - *
Return to halloween town - *
Twitches - **1/2
Twitches 2 - **
Go figure - ***
Jump in - ***
Theres probably more that I have seen but to be honest I can't remmember them all, maybe some day I'll post another artical on those other ones but not for a long time, only when I can be bothered.
Happy new year!!!!!!!!!
Today I will be looking at what I know of the films produced by disney channel, and for those of you whoe don't watch disney channel, you might be thinking "Hey it's disney these might not be too bad", well all I can say is, thats wishfull thinking my friend.
But to be fair these movies were made for kids, but that doesn't give them all excuses to go of and write crap diologue and give us sometimes incredebly dumb storylines, lets get started.
High school musical - ***
To start off with lets go for a series which actually isn't too bad. The storyline Goes a basketball player named troy winds up falling in love with a freaking hot nerdy science girl named Gabriella when they first meet in a kareoke contest, and when Troy returns home he soon finds that his freinds and basketball team mates are not very accepting to his sudden interest in wanting to be in the school musical with Gabriella. To be honest the music in this film was actuall pretty good and definatly memerable, the actors and actresses to a pretty good job and this is probably the best disney Channel original movie. If you don't agree with me you obviosly haven't seen the others.
High school musical 2 - ***
Once again it was o.k. but not as good as the first one. Now the storyline goes that troy is looking for a good summer job to help raise money for when he goes to college, and throughout the movie we can see just how worried Troy realy is about actually taking charge of his life and being good enough to get to where he wants to go. The storyline once again does a pretty good job as well do the actors and actresses, but the songs aren't as memerable as the first one and sometimes Ashley tisdales performace as sharpey just seems to be a bit silly and kind of embaresing, but most of the time she does a good job of being that snobby girl who just wants to be a big shinning star in an effort to get Troys attention. If theres nothing else on i say watch but, if something else like Speed or Clerks is on, I say stop wasting you time and watch those.
Minute men - **
3 kids who build a time machine, create a black hole and save the world, thats it, nothing more simple but it seem they wre trying to make it seem complecated with some somewhat scientific diologue that I doubt any kids watching this would understand, but it would just make them go, "Whoa". The actors and actresses, some of them do o.k but sometimes it just isn't believable, espcially the jock named Derek, who for me throughout the whole movie had the same tone and look and only time he ever showed any different emotion was when he was calling Virgule a dork, please tell me do you know anyone who calls anyone a dork now a days? So overall Minute Men is nothing more than an ode to other time travelling movies, even the dance scene is trying be like the dance scene in "Back to the future", it's nothing more than chessy music, diolgue and a copy cat film.
Camp rock - **
First off i want to say that for a movie called Camp rock there was no rock and roll in the movie what so ever, it was all pop, R&B and some really bad DJ music. But lets really get going, the movie is about a Girl named Mitchie, played by Demi Levato, who wants to go to a music camp for her summer vacation, and while there all she wants to do is fit in with the popular but annoying crowed. Mean while the leader of a band called connect 3 (The Jonas brothers) called Shane Gray played by Joe Jonas is forced to stay at the camp and teach while he cleans up his attitude.
The jonas brothers all do a pretty good Job in the acting deppartment even though they had never acted before, and demi levato does a good job to, but it doesn't help the film very much, the music for me was in some cases just annoying except for 2 songs "Play my music" by the jonas brothers and "This is me" played by Demi Levato. The whole mvie is just filled with cliche's, bad jokes and there's also the camp director who in all honestly is probaly the worst actor in the movie because you just can't take him seriously and even when he's trying to be funny he's just annoying. There are some nit picks, but in the end the film makes you feel pretty good, but thats about it. Watch it once for curiosity and that should do you.
The Cheetah girls - **
It's a movie about a pop girl band who want to get big, all i can really say is, it's what you would expect. The actors and actresses, do an o.k job I guess for what there is, and really that's all I can say thats good about this movie, to be honest, it's all just one big blur, the music for me wasn't too good, don't get me wrong the girls are very good singers but that doesn't help the film to much. Most of the film is just girls getting mad at each other, getting mad at their parents, getting upset with each other and sometimes, just being abnoxious and unaware of how they are acting. The story for me was rushed into way too fast, they didn't give a lot of time in some cases to develope some of the chararcters espcially how Gabrielle becomes such a snobby bitch who thinks shes a total celebrity. All it does for you is just annoy you to a certain extent and you'll be shutting off your T.V half way through when you eventually realise what you watching, sorry girls but this had to be done.
the Cheetah girls 2 - **1/2
This one did a little bit better than the last one, the acting once again was o.k, but really all the diference is, is that now they are trying to make it big in spain when they sign up for a music festival in Barcelona, and this time there is some stuck up bitch who wants her daughter to win the competition and trys get rid of the Cheetah girls and thats it. It's just the same old spontanious Dance movies and music however i will say the last song in the film was actually for me pretty enjoyable to watch, good job girls you did a little better. Now with the 3rd one coming out, they are now in india, for whatever reason and to be honest it doesn't look so good and as always disney chanel is over hyping it, Great fucking job.
Wendy wu home coming warrior - **
The storyline for this one goes that there is some girl Named Wendy who wants to become home coming queen of her high school, but she soon descovers that she is a yen Warrior who has to save the world from some old chinese monster guy, now that is just a really stupid plot. The acting is not that great but for the most part isn't bad. and to be honest the fight scenes were pretty cool too, but when I hear some of that really chessy diolougue in the later scenes and also some embaressing moments with the monk Chen, it just annoys me a little bit, and near the end wendy just decides who cares if the world becomes evil I want to be the home coming queen. Now tell me whats wrong with that............FUCKING EVERRYTHING!!!!!!!
Overall it not the worst thing to have come out of disney channel but believe me when I say this I have seen so much better, the special effects are just crap and i have seen better acting in other disney films.
O.k I'm getting tired lets rap this up. here's a short list of the other films on disney channel I have seen.
Twas the night - ***
The ultimate christmas present - **1/2
Halloween town - **
Halloween town 2 kallabars revenge - *1/2
Halloween town high - *
Return to halloween town - *
Twitches - **1/2
Twitches 2 - **
Go figure - ***
Jump in - ***
Theres probably more that I have seen but to be honest I can't remmember them all, maybe some day I'll post another artical on those other ones but not for a long time, only when I can be bothered.
Happy new year!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, 28 December 2008
Twilight - 2008
When I first heard about this movie, to be honest, the idea sounded kind of cool, it's a love story but with vampires, now I've seen a lot of vampire movies in my day but none like this especially one rated 12A, but the age doesn't matter to much as I'll explain.
The story is simply about a girly named Bella who goes to stay with her father while her mother and new husband go traveling, and while there she meets a somewhat strange boy with super strength, speed and agility, only later does she descover that he is a vampire. Many people may class him as vegetarian, now just to say in this case it means he drinks the blood of animals rather than humans, much like Angel from Buffy the vampire slayer. so to be honest the plot for me was pretty cool and it was a cool take on the love story idea.
How were the actors and actresses you might ask? Well to be honest, they all did a pretty good job delivering some beleivable perfomances with some rather casual diologue, some of the diaologue in some places was a bit monotinous but appart from that it was pretty cool.
In some secenes you might begin to think that you watching an extened music video, as there are many scenes that are just taken over by music and montages of shots of the girl and the vampire Edward. A good example of this would be the scene wher we see edward playing the piano and rather than it just being casual, it's more like a music video.
This movie rather than being hell of violent like other vampire movies you may have scene, it focuses more on the story, now there might be some assholes out there that will think that this is a bad thing but it is actually a good thing as rather than focusing too much on violence, they focused on the more important things, like the story.
There are also some pointless scenes, the best example of this would be the scene when Bella and Edward and his family are playing baseball, now all this scene is, is them playing baseball with music and a bunch of slow motion shot and fog, it was kind of pointless, but not dumb like some people might put it.
So overall Twilight wasn't too bad, it's enjoyable and will satisfy many crowds, movie buff, vampire fans, and love story fans, for me it satisfied all ranges but only to a certain extent.
***/*****
It was o.k but not great, acceptable.
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Ace Ventura movies
Merry christmas to all, now right now I am not going to be reveiwing some christmas movie, however I might do that later in the month, I don't know what movie but you never know, right now I'm going to reveiw the 2 Ace Ventura movies.
Ace Ventura - Pet Detective
The first in a halarious franchise starring the mad man himself, Jim Carrey.
Seriously though who else could play Ace Ventura, I'll tell you who, no-one thats who, I cannot begin to describe how brilliant Jim's performace was in the movie , in fact just the sheer fact that his name is on the package is the soul reason to buy this film, because you know if his name is attached to a comedy it's bound to be good.
the plot is essentially that a dolphin masscot is stolen from a football stadium and Ace is highered to find the criminal, and what follows is a serie of hallarious gags, and a somewhat clever way the Ace actually solves the mistery.
What else could you want from a Jim Carrey movie nothing that's what, but all I can say is that this movie is so much more than a stupid crime comedy I can tell you that now.
O.k let's move on.
****/*****
Ace Ventura - when nature calls
A sequal, hell yeah the man is back kicking some more ass.
This time, the movie was written and directed by the man who brought us Kung Pow, Steve Odekerk, AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
In this one Ace is in africa and he is assigned to find a sacred white bat and return it to a group of tribes men to prevent a war between 2 tribes, that pretty cool.
As far as gags go it's still pretty funny but there are some moments which are just plain desgusting, stupid and a bit cofusing .
The cast, once again Jim Carray does a brilliant job as Ace and the suppoting actors do an O.k job but they could have done better,
So all and all it is pretty much what you'd expect in a sequal but it's not as good as th first.
***/*****
Merry christmas to al.
"Like A glove!".
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