Hunger Games - Movie Review

Friday, 23 March 2012

Last Friday was the premier for the movie The Hunger Games. It was based on the book by Suzanne Collins, which is the first and best book in the trilogy. Several months ago i listened to the audio books for all three. The first book was definitely the best, but the 2nd and 3rd were good too.


It stars a girl named Katniss who has to fight to the death against other kids from the 12 districts. It was set in the future but it reminded me of communist Russia, where everyone in lives in poverty except people from the Capital.

The movie was almost 2.5 hours long and was actually really good. Though it seemed rushed near the end. But as with all movies that are based on books, like Harry Potter, they always have to cut out several scenes and characters. Otherwise it would be a 6 hour movie.

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Movie Review - 3.5

Thursday, 12 August 2010

I've been slacking with the reviews but now there's 2 that i think are really good and worth writing about. Earlier i wrote about Inception which is still by far the best movie i've seen this year.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

First off, it's not what you think. From the title i thought it was going to be some teen girl movie starring Hanna Montanan or something. Ooooohhh but it wasn't. It was based on a best selling book by Stieg Larssons. Who i'm guessing is from Sweeden because that's what language the movie was in. You have to watch it with subtitles. It's more then two and a half hours long and the first half of the movie made me feel very uncomfortable. It was weird. They showed stuff you don't normally see in movies from the USA. It's about a 40 year old movie that the two main characters are trying to solve. It's really well thought out and easy to get drawing in to the very in-depth story and characters.

Great movie, but still creepy and uncomfortably weird, 8 out of 10.

The Book of Eli

Simply put, it's Mad Max, except replace gasoline with a "special book." And replace Mel Gibson with Denzel Washington. And there's this annoying girl that follows him around. But other than that it's basically the same. Even though the entire movie was this sort of grayish color, visually it was awesome. The story was cool too, except for the annoying girl. And, at least for me, there was a huge twist at the end that i didn't see coming.

Looked cool, the action was good, the story was ok, i'd watch it again, 7 out of 10.

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Inception

Monday, 26 July 2010

This movie basically has everything, great story, great acting and great visual effects. It's one of those movies that sticks in your head even a few days after you see it. It's reminded me a lot of the Matrix. It was a little confusing at first, then got more confusing, then got really confusing but you should still definitely see it if you like sci-fi movies at all.

9 out of 10

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Movie Reviews

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

The rating system is out of a total of 10 thumbs up

terminator salvation
This movie was unlike all of the 4 previous terminator movies. It didn't have the same feel, the storyline wasn't as clear as the others and i didn't feel like after the movie was over that everything had been explained. There were some scenes where you may have been confused if you hadn't seen the previous movies, but not really.

At times it was kind of interesting, kind of exciting, and kind of funny. But overall... just average.

So it gets 5 thumbs up







the hangover

I've been saying for years that zack galifianakis is super funny and in this movie he was by far the best part. Here he is on his fake cable access show between two ferns

I know this is a crazy concept but funny characters and well written storyline equals a great movie...ya nuts i know. I'd definitely watch this again.

Oh and by the way, the credits at the end are basically X-rated. I don't know how they got away with that.
Super funny the whole way through, it gets 8 out of 10



harry potter and the half-blood prince
This was my favorite book out of all of them so i was pretty excited to see it. I have to say that visually this was one of the greatest movies ever. It reminded me a lot of the Lord of the Rings movies in how it just looked amazing. They were able to cram a lot of the storyline from the book into the 2-1/2 hour movie. Though it did seem kind of confusing at times. For example in the book it might have a whole chapter where it described harry going to see dumbledore, why he was going, how he felt. The movie just skipped to the key part then hopped ahead. But i guess basically all movies do that or else it would be 9 hours long. It just seemed like they rushed to cram everything in.

Also the movie lacked a lot of action. The suspense leading up to the final scene in the book was awesome, but the movie didn't really have that same excitement. When the movie was over it felt more like just a lead up to the final movie and less like the story i remembered.

Actually these are all kind of nitpicking comments on the movie. It was actually really great and i think if i watch it a second time it will be even better. But like i said, this was my favorite book of them all so i guess i just had very high hopes. Although the day that harry takes "felix felicis" was the funniest thing i had ever seen in any harry potter movie.

So visually it was an absolute 10 but overall it still scored a very high 9

Oh and by the way, according to mugglenet.com, it is confirmed that the final book Deathly Hallows will be split into 2 movies. I think that's great, instead of having to cut or shorten scenes, now they can make two 3 hour movies and have everything in full detail.

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