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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Arrested Development - Season 4 + Movie

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

It was confirmed that Arrested Development would be coming back after years and years of waiting. I wrote about the show a while back. And some thoughts from Tobias Fünke (David Cross).

There will be a season 4 coming out sometime in 2013 and then a movie immediately following.

THEN

NOW

The great thing is that Michael Cera still looks like he's 15

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Moneyball

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Karrie and i saw Moneyball the other night. It was a great movie.

It's based on the true story of the Oakland Athletics trying to compete in baseball with only a fraction of the payroll of teams like the New York Yankees.

Brad Pitt was the general manager that realized that he could not compete by doing the same thing the other teams were doing.

Jonah Hill played the guy that majored in economics and calculated the players with the most value.

It showed cool inside meetings of how players were traded to different teams.

It was a little slow at times but overall really interesting and funny.

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Book Review - 3

Monday, 5 October 2009

Percy Jackson & the Olympians - The Battle of the Labrynth - by Rick Riordan

Book number 4 in the series. An improvement from books 2 and 3. It did a good job of setting up the final book and the final battle. The characters started showing their true selves and made me really want to read the final book.

an exciting 7 out of 10

Percy Jackson & the Olympians - The Last Olympian - by Rick Riordan

The last book, number 5. Well the story finally got back to what it did best...copy Harry Potter. The hero trusting himself to be the chosen one, epic final battle, prophecy revealed.

This wasn't just a cookie cutter "yaaay the hero wins, everyone goes home happy." There were some good surprises for the fight for Mt. Olympus. It brought all of the previous books together and did a good job of having it all make sense. Oh ya and the hero wins and everyone goes home happy... or do they????

even if it is a kids book i still liked it and think it deserves an 8 out of 10

The best way to best sum up these books is that it's "Harry Potter Lite", but instead of magic it's greek gods. Not as long and involved as the Harry Potter books but still good. Now i know this is going to sound corny but it really was a cool way of understanding about all the greek gods. It somehow made it interesting hearing about Ares, Hades and Dionysus. And how they battled against their Titan parents.

As far as the movie, it's suppose to come out in February 2010 with:

Pierce Brosnan as Chiron,

Uma Thurman as Madusa,

Sean Bean as Zeus, (he was Boromir from Lord of the Rings)

My prediction is that this is going to be a huge hit. It might be almost as huge as Harry Potter.

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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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