Ender's Game

This movie is based on the novel "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. It stars Harrison Ford as a Colonel, Asa Butterfield, the one who is destined to save everyone. It involves Earth getting attacked by Alien species called Formics, Hollywood please get original. This movie begins by a quote from Ender "When I understand my enemy well enough to defeat him, then in that moment, I also love him". That right away gave me an indication this movie is going to be about Morality of war.

My problem stared with the premise of the movie. Kids are being trained for war by playing video games, how can anyone not have a problem with that. Once I was able to digest that, this movie started shoving Ender's character down my throat. I understood he is a great tactician and strategist 10th time Ford said it, even though he looked like a psychopath to me. 

After saying he is the ONE for the millionth time, it is established that we have to cheer for Ender cause he is gonna save humanity. This movie never even tries to develop any characters except for Ender, I don't even remember one's name and I saw the movie only a few hours ago. It was established he cares for his sister and he is doing all of this to save her, which I liked for a kid nothing is more important than family. 

This movie reminded me of Harry Potter and Starship Troopers several times, which is not a bad thing but not a great thing either, for me this movie lacks a soul. Moral confusion is one of the biggest theme of the movie and it clearly says "you can't win if you follow rules" and but then the stakes never felt high cause we never saw what these aliens could do or did, so all of this felt meaningless. 

The biggest flaw of this movie is, it lacks seriousness, it needed a real galactic battle to show what the aliens could do but instead every action sequence was either inside a video game or a battle in controlled environment. So we never really cared for any of the character, it never felt that any of the character was ever in any danger of getting killed.

RoboCop

Hollywood is all about remakes and sequels, which is not a bad thing cause it makes a lot of money for the studios which in turn helps them produce more original content. RoboCop is one of those. It stars Joel Kinnaman, who I thought I will hate in this movie cause I didn't like him as much in the The Darkest Hour. The original RoboCop came out in 1987, and it was nominated for two Oscars. I remember watching as a kid, as it came out even before I was born, probably I saw it for the first time when I was 4-5 maybe, it was difficult for me to understand the original one back then.

This movie also has Michael Keaton(Batman) and Gary Oldman(Commissioner Gordon). I went to see this movie for these two alone. It also stars Samuel L. Jackson, who could have been edited out of the movie and it wouldn't have made any difference. Keaton plays a businessman who just wants to make profit, even if its unethical or against the law.

I have seen the original one several times since then and I love it but the remake caught me off by surprise it has depth in it, characters were well realized, I actually cared for Murphy through out the movie. Gary Oldman is like Frankenstein and RoboCop is his monster, which I really liked.



I also like the fact that they didn't too much screen time to his family, it was established that he cared for his wife and son. Abbe Cornish plays Murphy's wife and she was convincing enough to convey the pain his family felt. Child actor who played his son wasn't irritating and that's always good.

This movie has so many elements, Murphy's vengeance, corrupt cops, family dynamics and a selfish businessman. Towards the end suddenly they changed the focus of the film, which would have been a nice surprise, if it was not a Remake cause we knew what was gonna happen, so it felt a little forced to me.


This is the problem with Remakes, we already know the plot of the movie so it becomes predictable and when they try to do something really different it receives a backlash from the fans of the original. Unless Hollywood finds a way to make Remakes different, it's really not gonna work. In the last few years we have seen many Remakes like Planet of Apes, Total Recall, Spiderman, Dredd, Godzilla, The karate Kid, Conan The Barbarian and RoboCop but not many of them have been successful financially or were even watchable. Studios just need to be a little careful before they ruin their properties for good.

Although if you haven't seen the original RoboCop this is a must watch movie, it has some cool dialog and great action sequences.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Since the last Transformer movie my opinion about movies has changed, it turns now I hate explosions Thank you Michael Bay, you opened my eyes. Transformers: Age of Extinction or Transformers 4 has a different cast but the same plot points, government hiding and screwing the transformers and Transformers rebelling.



The only good thing about this movie is Mark Wahlberg, its not like his character was interesting enough so we would care for him but he was actually involved in the fighting which made him a valuable asset for the Autobots.

Stanley Tucci, I don't know why he agreed to do this movie, my guess is Pay Check. I will be honest I haven't seen him in so many movies but which ever I saw he always stood out for me except in the case of Jack the Giant Slayer, that movie was just awful. He is just a Michael Bay character replacing Agent Simons in a way.

This movie takes place 5 years after the last Transformers Movie and Humans are successfully killing Transformers. Optimus and Bumblebee are in hiding, later they are joined by 3 new team members, who are as pointless as the rest of the movie.

This movie is too much complicated, there is a bounty hunter hunting Optimus, dinosaurs were killed by aliens, humans are making Transformers, Mark Wahlberg can't pay his mortgage and I am writing this listening to the theme of Pacific Rim, this movie is a mess!!!



I understand why Bay makes this kind of movie(awful movie) cause most of the audience dig this kind of movies and makes a lot of money for the studio and movies like John Cater and Pacific Rim suffer.

Edge of Tomorrow (Non Spoiler Review)

This movie is based on Hiroshi Sikurazaka's novel "All You Need is Kill". This is the best Video Game movie we will ever gonna get although its not based on one. It feels like when you are playing Call of Duty to earn a medal, you fight and with each turn you get better, you are able to kill more goons, you score better its exactly that.


The video game thing might sound like a drag but its not, this movie inverts that thing and turns that thing into a comedy which worked, this is where Bill Paxton comes, he is the one who greets Tom Cruise after every reset and his lines were the best!!!

This movie doesn't explain the reset thing entirely and it did not need to, there was a small explanation and it worked. This was done by Emily Blunt, she is a Badass character in the movie and she guides Cruise how to deal with the situation


For me, if the score doesn't bother me a lot its good and it didn't bother me in this one maybe because the movie was too intense, Tom Cruise proved he can still handle action movies like he did 20 years ago. Emily Blunt sold the badass she was in this movie.

No need for Rating, go and watch this movie

My Memories with the Batman T.V series and Movies...

I have always been a fan of Batman. I haven't read its comics, but since I was a kid Batman has been my favorite superhero of all time...


I remember I was merely 6 or 7, maybe younger when I saw its T.V series. I don't even remember on which channel it was on, or much about it, but there are a few things I remember: Batman and Robin in their tights—those looked awesome to me at the time, but sadly not now—and I remember the Joker, Commissioner Gordon, the Batmobile, just a few vague trademarks of the series....

A few years after that I saw a movie called "Batman and Robin" on T.V. It was 2 or 3 years old at that time, and I think I must have been about 8 years old. Initially, I loved it; watching a Batman movie was all I ever dreamed of(before I discovered the other Batman movies that were already there and were better than this by many folds). I think I liked it because Arnold Schwarzenegger was in it; back then there were only a few Hollywood actors I was able to recognize and he was on top of that list. I had seen him in "Terminator", "Twins", "Predator", "Total Recall", and in "True Lies" a few years later...

A year later, I saw "Batman: The Animated Series" and it blew my mind. It was the best thing I'd ever seen on Cartoon Network, better than even "Tom and Jerry", a more commonly-loved children's show back then. I loved it and I wish I had a DVR back then so I could still have it recorded for posterity. Through this series, I came to know about Batman and his enemies. I didn't have any respect for any Batman movie at the time, maybe because none of them were made for my generation, or maybe because I liked the animated series on Cartoon Network better...hey, I was a kid, so I liked cartoons...



Then I grew up and I wasn't expected to watch cartoons anymore, so sadly, I had to let them go. It was hard... For a long time, there was no news from Batman...There was nothing...

When I was 13, I heard that a Batman movie is coming to theaters, and honestly, I came to know about this movie just a month before its release. My parents had stopped taking me to Hollywood movies by this time, so I was only able to see when by chance an acquaintance invited me to see it with him and his friend.

A few hours later, the three of us, accompanied by two of my cousins,were in the theater with popcorn in our hands. So finally I was watching a Batman movie made for my generation.That day, I had no idea who the director Christopher Nolan was, or that a movie called "Memento" even existed. Like many other people, I loved it, and I feel bad for people who have no idea about Nolan's Batman series before "The Dark Knight". Everything about this movie was classic—from the Batcave to the Batmobile, the Tumbler (to this day, it is the only vehicle I dream about), and there was Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne alias Batman. I had no idea about this Mr. Bale, and to this day, I haven't seen a single Christian Bale movie that pre-dates "Batman Begins"(the only exception being Empire of the sun which really doesn't count, as he must have been only 10 or 12 back then). Even now, he is one of my favorite actors, mostly because of the Batman series, "The Prestige" and "The Fighter"...

The movie touched a few things that I think were covered in the animated series(but I'm not sure; I was too young to remember anyway), this movie was nice and in the end they gave a hint that they will make another movie with the Joker in it, and like 90% of Batman fans, the Joker is my favorite character in the Batman series... I was happy my cousins and I all of us were excited and said we will come to watch the second part of the Movie but sadly there was no one to watch that movie with me...(Dark Knight is the first movie which I saw alone in a theater)...


In July of 2008 Dark knight came to theater for this one I was excited for months I had seen its trailer months before(It was the first trailer which I ever downloaded from the Internet) and I wasn't able to wait even for a single day... finally it was July and the Movie was released all across the country but not my town, and quite honestly I was pissed really pissed then finally after a month of no show at theaters it finally appeared in one.. so the next thing I remember my I was buying a ticket for the movie... after watching that movie I was angry... why? that theater sucked, for god's sake the Projection wasn't clear their sound system was crappy I can say my computer's sound system is better than the one in that theater.. later I saw that movie many times on T.V and on my computer(please don't ask me how :P)


Then came the news that Nolan is making another Batman Movie I was happy and sad that day cause it was also mentioned in that article that this one is going to be the last Batman movie by Nolan, I wasn't much happy about the news but after realizing that I will be able to see Batman again on the Big screen excited me...

It is releasing on 20th July of 2012, its been 7 years since I saw Batman Begins and about 14-15 years since I saw Batman's T.V series for the first time... Yes I am excited and emotional at the same time...

Nolan better brings his A-game cause I know we won't be able to see Batman for a long time on the Big screen unless Warner Brother finally achieves their dream of making a Justice League Movie.

The Amazing Spiderman: Amazing Indeed

As the title suggests, this movie is amazing. Many people will be saying that its just an minor improvement but its a little more than that...

Except for the part where a guy in spandex is flying in the city, it is quite realistic and honestly emotions in this movie looked really genuine and the characters are more real than ever.


The movie begins with a young Peter Paker playing hide and seek with his father, it was a sweet moment it was a nice way to show his relation with his dad, later in the movie it was mentioned that "he was secretive man" again and again but this sequence showed that he was close to his son.


The next awesome sequence was when Peter get his spidey powers and it is the best, expressions by Andrew Garfield were great, I wont take any thing away from you but you got to see this one by yourself... Emma stones did a nice job too, I wont say that she looked like a 17 year old one cause honestly I dont know how 17 year old ones look like in the west but acting wise spot on, she did a nice job.

The spidey suit in this movie is awesome, although before Parker comes by with the final suit he uses a mask and glasses which was super cool, I liked that one. There is a scene in which Peter is shown playing game on his phone to kill time in his spidey costume, that's the realistic part I am talking about an average teenager will do exactly the same thing to kill some time.

In this movie spidey's primary objective was to catch the guy who killed his Uncle but it changes when Gwen's dad talks to him and then he realizes that he can do more than just trying to find the guy with a star tattoo on his arm(watch the movie you will know what I am talking about) then he thinks about actually helping other people.

Action sequences in this movie are pretty good, visual effect made it even look better but the Lizard did not look good or realistic at all, its actually hard to imagine how a mutated Lizard will look like but anyway it didn't look realistic.

This movie is in 3D movie and its actually nice although they could have done a bit more but no problem there. I didn't went to see this movie because of 3D but for an awesome movie experience which I surely got, there are some movies in which you never realize how much time has went by and this movie is surely one of those.

This movie is funny at times also serious at time, they have used human emotions wisely. It is directed by the director who made "500 Days Of Summer" so he knows how to make a movie dramatic well, so no problems there.

To summarize it I liked this movie but I was hoping for a bit more and congrats to Marc Webb for a successful transition from Drama to Super Hero Action Movie genre...



Rating 7.5/10

Wrath of The Titans

Amazing movie, well it was fun watching this movie....

It had nothing for me in the beginning, a crappy start and the first action sequence just sucked.. it didn't work for me... then it became better and better.. but in many ways this movie is better than Clash of Titans, in the last one they tried so hard to make a story but they were not successful in doing even the 3D sucked, well they converted the movie just before the release so it was supposed to suck..

Lets talk about this movie for now... There are many improvements in this movie biggest one is the direction(all I know is they hired a better director), 3D was awesome and the biggest was Sam Worthington's acting all I can say is he did a nice job..

I never like to tell the story in my reviews so I am not going to do that here either... all I can tell you is some character in this movie are really awesome... all I will say is look out for the "NAVIGATOR"

they didn't tried to give any time for the characters to develop but there is a reason for that, they reserved the cast from the previous movie despite changing everything from Director to Story Writer


This movie is fun, there is just about a little comedy in it which is working, yes there is a fine cast in it but it is under utilized, the best part of this movie is the climax it is the most spectacular thing. Awesome visual, awesome concept watching Zeus and Hades fighting side by side(sorry this was a spoiler), I never though I would see that in a million years. They put up a nice show fighting Cronos. About Cromos I would say they he was under-utilized but his army was awesome.