I cannot believe that they are making another Final Destination! Didn’t they have enough of this crap?
This movie, or should I say ‘these movies’, start out with the main character foreseeing a disastrous event where a lot of people die. He/She freaks the hell out, escapes the spot with a bunch of people who are either scared of what the main character says or concerned of the main character’s mental meltdown.
Then BAM. Mr. Death strikes the scene.
Everyone dies except the main character and the select few who have escaped with him/her.
But Death is a hard-working employee of hell, and he dawns to finish job, one by one.
People who have escaped gets killed one at a time due to supernatural events. Main characters and his/her friends tries to figure out what’s going on and stop it, but in the end, every damn character in the movie dies.
That’s how it was with the last three. The only difference that occurs between these movies one after another is the way the people die. They tend to make the deaths shocking and gruesome in order to attract audience.
In other words, sequels for a certain movie isn’t fun when they all have the same plot line. There’s a limit to getting creative with killing multiple people in one movie.
Director: Judd Apatow
Genere: Comedy/Drama
Release Date: July 31, 2009
This review is actually dealing with a “recent” film in a long time.
Funny People is a drama with comedy melted on top of it like a good omelet with cheese.
George Simmons (Adam Sandler) is a famous comedian that has everything that a man can want: Money, fame, and the babes. He lives quite contently until one day he is pronounced “terminal” by his doctor.
George meets Ira Wright (Seth Rogen) and decided to hire him as his assistant. As they began to bond as friends, Ira suggests to him that he has to spend more time with people that matter to him. So George takes a chance at getting his girl back from the days, Laura (Leslie Mann), and the drama begins. This movie is quite great. Like I’ve said, it’s like a cheese melting on top of an omelet. The comedic elements are presented in a very subtle way, but uncontrollable-laugh inducing at the same time. Because the laugh (cheese) is good, the drama (omelet) underneath it becomes less painful, but still sips into the mood. The two elements swirl together and make the screening intensely bittersweet.
Because these people that you seen on the big screen are funny, you can still see the envy, hate, fear, pain, anger, and love, you are forced to laugh while emotions twirl and twist inside your head. I mean, it’s like a subliminal message. I laughed through the entire film, but when I walked out of the theater, I felt like I’ve gotten hit in the back of my head with a frozen fish.
The stars of the film, Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen was impressive. There were some scenes where the emotions lacked, but Adam Sandler really pulled off the depressed guy. For Seth, it was a bit weird at first. Seeing him in Superbad (2007) and Pineapple Express (2008) made me expect him to be funnier in this piece. Then I realized that he’s character was completely different from what it used to be. He was shy, awkward, sensitive, caring, and passionate. No, not like the pretending-to-be in Knocked Up (2007). Oh, and Seth Rogen lost a lot of weight.
Basically, the film takes you through a journey or adventure, whatever you want to call it, of immature people learning to live with their mistakes past, and to sacrifice themselves for others’ happiness.
This is definitely a good choice of movie to see in the theaters with your pals, and girlfriend/boyfriend.
So pretty much all students who are entering college for this fall term had to do this alcohol education thing, am I right? I mean, we’ve got no choice here. Either we do it, or we can’t go to school! What a good waste of a perfectly fine time.
Come on! By the time people graduate from highschool, they know what alcohol is going to do to them and their lives. Even though the legal age to drink alcohol in the United States is 21, it’s not too hard to get hands on some liquor. So if an “innocent” students really wanted to experiment with alcohol, they won’t have any trouble in doing so.
There’s no point in telling people that drinking is bad for them. It’s like saying people shouldn’t use public transportation because there is a chance of disaster. People who are afraid of riding on planes will by all means avoid using them and attempt to ride trains or buses; same thing for the alcohol. People who wouldn’t drink won’t drink, and people who would drink will drink. The only fucking way a person would stop drinking is if Jessica Alba or Meagan Fox/Brad Pitt or George Clooney like person walks up to them and tells them “I like a man/woman that doesn’t drink.” Or, when they have the worst experience of their lives by getting drunk. And the funny thing is that some people would still drink after being T-Bagged and buttfucked by men in their mid 40s.
Conclusively, if they don’t bring bottles of vodka (sake/soju for the Asians) to our doorsteps and pour it down our throat, setting our livers on fire, and buttfuck us while we are blacked out due to the impairment of the hippocampus (part of the brain that makes new memories), it won’t really change our opinions about alcohol.
I understand that anyone can make videos these days and post it up on YouTube, the largest and the most active video sharing community on the internet, but I just can’t help but notice all the butt-fugly boring videos that these so called “youtubers” upload.
The worst part of these videos is that the people who put it up believe that it is the most awesome/hilarious thing that’s to ever exist. And the thing about these damn losers, they try to advertise or publicize their stupid-ass videos by commenting on other users’ videos (the good ones). They would write something like, “Wow, this video is funny. Check out my video.” I see this and I’m like WHAT THE FUCK!?!!! Really? I mean, goodness, you people can at least try! You know, maybe make the comment seem a bit more authentic instead of making yourself look like a lazy, desperate, attention-hungry, ass-kissing dumbass who’s only purpose is to get some views on their videos.
It’s as if they believe that good videos just “happen”. I will admit that some great videos are in fact some sort of home video or a recording of a certain incident (stupid accidents), but that’s not how they should do things. The popular videos that these people taint with their shallow cry for views are, believe it or not, planned, written, talent charmed.
So, you people who fall into this category, listen up. If you do not have the effort to make a nice video, do everyone’s brains a favor and go get a job, or a life for that matter. My personal belief is that talent is what you make it. Therefore, if you do not feel guilty about retarding people’s minds, you shouldn’t be making videos, kapeesh?
Another Nicolas Cage gone bad. I’ve decided not to see this movie the second that I’ve seen the trailer for it in the theater. The film deals with an MIT professor, John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) discovering a paper containing… umm… “codes”, which indicates every single disaster that happened, is happening, and will happen.
The movie has a very cliche background setup: a widowed man who has lost his love in a tragic accident, and a precious little boy, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury), who has to live with his depressed father and has to hide his longing for his mother.
I understand that John is supposed to be depressed, but does he have to drink liquor every other minute? The bottles were shown so frequently throughout the movie, I thought I was watching a commercial. I just wanted to yell at the television, “You are a sad alcoholic! I understand!”
Honestly, I haven’t paid attention to the movie at all because of its drooping flow and transitions that made the entire experience ever so dreadful. I see that the director was trying to set the mood of the scenes through the looooooooooooooong transitions and eerie music… but it just doesn’t work if it happens each and every time when a change in shots happen.
The way John figures out the codes do not bring any excitement to the audience whatsoever either, since the audience already figured that out when they saw the trailer! The numbers on the papers aren’t actually codes of some sort, but just a straightforward alignment of dates, deaths, and locations without slashes, commas, or dashes. Seriously, it does not take an MIT professor to figure that out.
Things that were mind crushingly hard to figure out was the god damn “whisper people” and their fucking pebbles (excuse my language). So, at the end of the movie they reveal who the whisper people are but the pebbles that the whisper people leave everywhere doesn’t get any explanation at all, and it is enraging as hell considering the fact that these stupid rock things took at least 10 seconds of screening time each scene they appeared.
If there was one thing that was cool about this movie, it would be the CGI. There are couple of really great scenes that is definitely enjoyable… except that burning moose that runs out in slow motion…
I am just not sure how to make a proper review of this movie, on the fact that I wasn’t able to pay my full attention due to many factors, and without too much spoiler (because there are so many details I hate about).
Posted in Film reviews on February 16, 2008 by hwamil
This movie just had my full attention since the novel it was based on! Yes, there is a novel called “The Jumper.” Basically, it has brought the physics and universe from the book, but changed the story entirely.
The basic outline is this : A kid, DAVID, who didn’t have a mother since he was a youngling, grew up in the hands of his abusive/authoritative father, and had the “LOSER” tagged on him all through highschool discovers his supernatural power, almost godlike almightiness; the ability to teleport.
He immediately runs away (more like teleport away) from home without anything… like a carpet-bagger, to New York.
The very first thing he does with his power was to rob a bank; dollars in millions. eight years later he found himself having the perfect life. No work, no obligations, no worries, just nothing bad. Then the “PALADINS” come in. They are the secret organization who search & exterminate Jumpers. They are religious fanatics who are either really jealous of the power or just has pure hatred and disdain for it. The leader of this group is a character named “ROLAND”(not sure of the spelling), which is acted out by Samuel L. Jackson. He finally traces down our hero of his bank robbery and attempts to eliminate him.
After being attacked, David feels homesick and find his hometown and his highschool crush “Meely”(Not sure of the spelling, again, never even heard of a name like this). David soon discovers that everyone he has come in contact with are now in grave danger.
The story gets somewhat predictable after once you are introduced to the basic thing. David attempts to fight off the Paladins to protect Meely, for the most part by teaming up with another Jumper named Griffin.
While screening, there were very natural comedic moments and dialogues that drew laughters from the audience, however, I was sort of disturbed by the cheesy romantic scenes of David and his girl. I’m sure it was necessary, and maybe it was suppose to appeal against the time of the year (spring, valentines), but it just kind of broke the pace and the moment of the movie for me.
The visual effects were amazing, a bit different from what I have thought it would be like while reading the book; and it was better than the book. The action scenes are must see! It is another sensation that differs in taste with the bloodiness of Rambo. The characters are very individualistic, in other words, interesting and likable, and my personal favorite character was Griffin. His outgoing personality, giving shit about nothing, perfectionism, thrive for revenge, and the accent makes his character rather spicy.
You have to go check this movie out, and I recommend that you read the book first, then it’ll help you understand how the Jumpers’ universe works; they don’t get into details on the physics; you’ll have to figure it out as they go, and it’ll distract you from the film.
I’ll give it three and a half stars, just because the story was not as appealing to me, but you won’t be disappointed.
Posted in Film reviews on February 10, 2008 by hwamil
Sylvester Stalone and Lionsgate has decided to make another Rambo sequel.
In this movie filled with awesome graphic violence and thrilling actions, John Rambo, a soldier without a country is still haunted by the past memories of his warring days. The civil war in this remote Asian country, which tearing its country and its people apart is underminded by the governments and nations around the world; even by our hero. A missionary group from an American church visits the country to help out the innocent civilian victims who are in desperate need of medical help and hope. Unable to find a way to get up the river where their victims await them, they request the assistance of Rambo, who is now a worn out snake hunter who has a boat that could take them up the river. Reluctlant at first, but Rambo is moved by one of the missioners and takes them to their destination.
The missioners are captured by the menacing government army and is confined, tortured, harassed, and killed, and the church hires a team of mercenaries to extract them and Rambo, joins them.
This particular movie is directed by Sylvester himself, which I always find intriguing for a main character to direct his own movie, is astonishing. Over exaggerated but still mind blowing actions captures you attention throughout the entire screening. Probably the best graphic violence I have seen this year and last year, 2007.
One disappointing part of this film, which is not very important, is that the depth of the characters are very shallow except for Rambo. There is no time to get to know all of your characters well enough to feel sympathy or hate; then again, it’s a kick-ass action thriller!
If you are blood thirsty, if you have the warrior’s blood in you, and if you are a previous Rambo’s fan, without a doubt you have to go see this.
I’ll give it Three and a half stars.
*WARNING* : Do not take your children thinking it will be alright. They’ll cry.
I cannot believe that they are making another Final Destination! Didn’t they have enough of this crap?
hwamil
