Movie Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past

This is a super late movie review. This was in my draft folder for a month now HA HA :) I have the luxury of time to post this review now.

Anyways, I know most of you have seen this movie. By far, this for me is the best Marvel movie in the making. I know that the movie and the comic book world doesn't seem to be parallel when it comes to story telling but heck...it also goes the same for novels and movies - we can't expect it to be exactly the same because the director adapts his vision of what he reads through cinematography. 

Preview

Anyway...to warn you, I'm not a die-hard comic book fan but I know a little history about the Marvel universe. This movie was adapted from Uncanny X-Men Days of Future Past #141 - #142. In the original comic series, it was Kitty Pryde who went to her younger self to save the future. In the Uncanny Xmen Series, it was Bishop who was sent to the past to save the future.

Storyline 

In the movie, we see two settings, the future where all the mutants are being killed and the past where Wolverine goes back in time to save the future with the help of the other Mutants. Kitty Pryde sends Wolverine back in time to seek the help of the young Dr. Charles Xavier. They need to stop Raven/Mystique from assassinating Trask. Moving forward, they were able to reverse the past and Wolverine wakes up in an alternate future. 

Movie Raves

By far, this is the best X-men Movie that I have seen. Story-wise and CGI-wise, this is one of the best in my list for 2014. I like the scene of Quicksilver. I think it's very fun and playful. The cast were superb and I felt like I was a part of their journey to save the world. It also makes me look forward to the next X-Men movie which is Apocalypse. In the extra scene we saw a very young Apocalypse in Egypt. I am very much looking forward to watch the next Marvel movies in line which are Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant Man, X-Men Apocalypse. 

Rating

I'll give this movie 5/5

Movie Review: Transformers Age of Extinction

I'm back! Finally have the time to update my blog. It's been so crazy lately that my body clock is not functioning correctly. Not that I'm on a different time zone but my husband's shift is on a different time and it affected me as well that's why I haven't been blogging lately.

Anyhooo...

Last Thursday, we were able to watch the 4th installment to the Transformers Franchise which is Age of Extinction. We were supposed to watch it at Suria but for some reason everybody was there to watch and all seats were selling fast. We then moved to Bukit Bintang and watched at the Pavillion Cinema.

We managed to get a free Optimus Prime Magnet. We bought the popcorn and the drinks bundle and the lady said we can choose to get Bumble Bee or Optimus Prime. We got Optimus Prime. 

***Spoiler Alert***

Okay, if you haven't seen the movie I suggest you skip this part...

The story is nothing new to the previous movies. It continues from where the last story ended but the plot seems nothing new. The same thing, Auto-bots and Decepticons are in the planet but this time the humans do not work with the Auto-bots. They hunt them and their main target is to find the location of Optimus Prime. Same plot about alien invasion with the twist of having the "seed" in play. 

What I liked about the movie:

As far as CGI is concerned, there is no doubt that this movies is seamless. It gelt like the robots were actually there. Great job on the CGI aspect. 

What I don't like about the movie:

I didn't like the story. I think it was poorly written. There's no adrenaline rush to it unlike the previous Transformer movies. 

Poor acting. I didn't felt the actors connect with their audience. When you watch a good movie, you should feel the emotions of the characters. It was just like watching a rotten egg. Good exterior but rotten and smelly inside. 

The story was too long. I felt there were scenes that were like "What? Why is this fight scene happening again? Oh yeah...never mind..." 

My Overall Rating

4.5 out of 10 (just because it had good CGI but other than that, there's nothing to rave about the movie)

Have you seen the movie? What are your thoughts about it? 

Movie Review: The Great Gatsby

Title: The Great Gatsby
Cast: Leonardo Di Caprio (Jay Gatsby), Tobey Maguire (Nick Carraway), Carey Mulligan (Daisy Buchanan), Joel Edgerton (Tom Buchanan), Elizabeth Debicki (Jordan Baker), Isla Fisher (Myrtle Wilson)
Genre: Drama Romance

The movie revolves around the story of Nick Carraway, a yale graduate who rents a house in Long Island where he resides near the mansion of the mysterious Jay Gatsby.  He visited his cousin Daisy who is married to Tom Buchanan. He then meets Daisy's friend Jordan Baker. Jordan asks about Nick about his stay in Long Island and they discover that Nick and Jay Gatsby are neighbors. One day, the mysterious Jay Gatsby invited Nick Carraway to his party and then the story begins.

The movie is very true to the story. If you've read the book, you will not be disappointed because it sticks very much to the book. Baz Luhrmann made a very astonishing movie. Very pleasing to the eye and it incorporates the whimsical effect that Baz Luhrmann gives to his audience. A little bit disappointed on the part where Nick and Jordan's love story evolved because it was not explained in the movie. The whole focus of the film was about Daisy, Jay, and Tom.

Overall, it is a must-see film. It makes you love the Jazz age and the flappers. I would give it a 4.5 out 5 stars.

Movie Review: Side Effects

Title: Side Effects
Cast: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Crime



***Disclaimer***

This entry might have a lot of spoilers so I must warn you.

Since it's summer vacation, I have nothing to do but watch and watch a lot of movies and shows and I stumbled upon this movie called Side Effects. I'm not the type of person to watch horror flicks because I'm a scared-y cat but I saw that Channing Tatum was one of the lead in this movie...hence, I gave it a shot.


The movie is about a woman called Em (Rooney Mara) who is married to Martin (Channing Tatum) who has been in prison for about 4 years. The time came that Martin is about to leave the prison and live a normal life with his wife. Then one day, Emily decided to ride the car and crash the car onto a wall. She was then sent to the hospital for minor injuries. With that, the doctor on call, Dr. Jonathan Banks (Jude Law) talks to her if she was suicidal or if she was thinking of committing suicide. Emily said she was fine and then she said she needed to get out of the hospital because she needed to work. The condition for Dr. Banks to release her was for her (Emily) to take therapy sessions with Dr. Banks outside the hospital. When they met outside the hospital they had therapy and Dr. Banks gave her prescription medicines.

To cut the story short, Dr. Banks prescribed Emily some medicines that caused her abnormal behavior thus putting Dr. Banks' career in jeopardy thus came the title Side Effects.

The movie for me is a good movie. It's a crime thriller and the story evolves. It has a lot of twists and you'll never guess some of the plot or the motive of each character.

Overall, I think this is a fun movie and I would give it a 4 out of 5 stars.

Movie Review: Jack the Giant Slayer

Gino and I decided to watch yesterday. We went to Rockwell to watch a movie. We weren't quite decided if it'll be Jack or Silver Lining Playbook but bottom line, we ended up watching Jack.

Overall, it's a nice adaptation of Jack and the beanstalk. It's great for kids because it's not the intense gore and action kind of movie but you get the essence of it. It's also the kind that adults will not get bored of. I thought I'll be bored but I watched the whole film without yawning.

Movie Review: John Carter

After eating, we watched John Carter. For everyone's reference, here is the movie trailer from youtube.com

I thought the movie looked good. Animation wise, it really looked enticing but this movie bore the hell out of me. Sad to say. The start of the movie was toooo slow and confusing. My boyfriend slept the for like 30 mins after the 10 mins it rolled. When he woke-up, the movie was not even at the climax yet. It was confusing and the whole thing was  2 hours and so....I died of boredom watching this. 

Animation wise, movie was spectacular. It looked like a star wars movie but story wise and progression wise...I'd rather sleep than watch this.