Anchorman 2 Trailer

The LEGO Movie Trailer

After being in production for almost five years, this movie is set to release on February 7, 2014. Lego has always been among my favourite toys, making me excited. The voice actors for this movie include some serious heavyweights such as Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Will Ferrell and Elizabeth Banks.

Yours Truly

Movies: Oblivion

That new Tom Cruise joint. Sure people think he's a tad silly in real life, but you have to admit, the guy puts out good movies. Oblivion was no different.

Oblivion is a post-apocalyptic film that takes place in 2077 after earth had been left in ruins thanks to a war against the alien Scavengers or 'Scavs'. Although humanity won, earth was left heavily scarred by the use of nuclear warfare against the Scavs. With the earth so polluted with radiation, humanity, or what was left of it, abandoned earth to colonize on Titan, one of Saturn's moons.

Jack Harper (Tom Cruise), one of the last drone technicians on earth, discovers a crashed spacecraft which ultimately makes him question what is he actually doing on earth and what actually happened during the war.

I went into this movie not knowing a whole bunch aside from the fact that it looked pretty in the trailers. Damn did it ever look fine on the big screen, but it was no mistake. Joseph Kosinski, the director of Tron: Legacy just so happened to be the director of Oblivion.

I just want to say that I am so happy that this movie wasn't in 3D. Like most movies, it doesn't have to be. I would have to say that this movie was the most visually appealing movie I've seen this year, especially for creating a post-apocalyptic world.

There were a lot of nature and wide shots in this film, which would seem kind of risky, but it did a bang up job of convincing me for two hours that this is the world around me.

Audio? Even better than the visuals. Up until the credits, I didn't know M83 scored much of the soundtrack. Best way I can describe the soundtrack is, it was a mixture between Inception, Tron: Legacy and Mass Effect. Like a sci-fi Hans Zimmer.

Plot? At first it was a tad confusing and sometimes predictable but what didn't make sense was very nicely tied together at the end of the film.



Should you go see it? Hey (wo)man, if you liked Tron: Legacy, you should give this film a chance, even if the plot sounded kind of hokey, at least go for the eye candy. It's a handsome looking movie. If you do decide to watch it, just turn off your head and leave the questions for after the movie. It's science fiction, you just gotta flick the brain off sometimes y'know?

Movies: Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino has such an aura around him that whenever most people hear that he's making a new movie, they’re immediately interested. From such films as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Volume 1 + 2 and Inglorious Basterds, it’s safe to say that he’s made quite a name for himself.

Set in the mid-1800s in the deep south of The United States, the movie follows Dr. King Schultz, a bounty hunter, and Django, a freed slave whom Dr. Schultz trains to become a bounty hunter, as they head on a journey to rescue Django’s wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from a cruel plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

First off, every single actor in this movie is phenomenal. And to have this calibre of actors in a Quentin Tarantino film makes the film even better. I could really go on and on about the actors (mostly Christoph Waltz because he's the finest), but for the sake of the wall of text, just take my word for it. The acting is A+++++ and it deserves every award it gets.

If you're unfamiliar with Quentin Tarantino films, they have a tendency to jump all over the place, between groups of people and/or between points in time. Such as Kill Bill, as the Bride goes through her kill list, the film doesn't go in chronological order, but that's just Tarantino's style.

Django Unchained has to be his most easy-to-follow film since the events take place in chronological order and there are only a handful of characters you have to keep track of. Inglorious Basterds was pretty bad for that in which characters would be introduced out of the blue and killed off in the next scene. (Still a great movie though).

I'd say something negative about the film, but there really isn't anything. Maybe the length of the film, which sat at 2:45. But it is what it is and unlike The Hobbit, I was all attention all the time.



Every review that I write makes it seem like every movie is super awesome great time, and the truth is, this year has been pretty damn good for movies, but if there’s one movie that I’ve written about that you must watch, it’s Django Unchained. Which is my favourite movie of 2012.

Case and Point
Django Unchained is: why I watch movies.

Movies: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

I'd just like to point that I'm not crazy about the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I did thoroughly enjoy the movies. Well from what I remember at least, it’s been a while. So after the nine year wait (nine years already? Man…) The Hobbit finally graced its presence on the screen, and in select theaters, in 48 frames per second.

All movies up until The Hobbit were shot between 25 - 30 frames per second. With 48 FPS, it allows for a more fluid look of the film, almost lifelike, which takes a lot of getting used to. With the added clarity, at some points in the movie you can tell that the actors are on a set rather than a scene in a movie which kinda takes away from the feel of the movie. But with that all being said, you can still go see The Hobbit in regular 24 FPS in other theaters, which I might actually do.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Grey and a band 13 Dwarves (Nori, Ori, Dori, Fili, Kili, Oin, Gloin, Bombur, Bofur, Bifur, Balin, Dwalin and their leader Thorin) who take on the quest of reclaiming the Dwarven land: The Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug.

Initially the movie was to be only two parts, but a few months before the release of the movie Peter Jackson had announced that it would be three films. I can’t say whether or not this is the best of ideas since The Hobbit is only one book compared to the LOTR trilogy.

But I think the whole reasoning behind this was the added back story of who's doing what at any given time and/or the development of the characters in this film. From what I was told, the dwarves were seen more as one entity rather than 13 separate dwarves.

I wasn't a big fan of the 48 fps, it seemed distracting and like I had mentioned before, it added another level of clarity in which you can tell when they were on a set and when they were on some landscape which kind of takes away from the film’s feel. But that being said, I somewhat got used to it, so visually, the movie was beautiful. It is exactly what you would expect of a Peter Jackson film.

The Hobbit is definitely a lot easier to follow than LOTR seeing as there aren't as many characters you gotta keep track of. LOTR, I got confused pretty easy. I should just rewatch those damn movies.

Some scenes in the movie seemed unnecessarily drawn out, like when Bilbo meets Gollum for the first time. But maybe it was necessary? I never read the books so I can’t say for sure. I'm just a guy who goes and sees movies.



Seeing as An Unexpected Journey was the first of three movies, this film was a good stepping stone to what we can expect in the next two. This movie introduced such characters as Smaug and the Necromancer, a man who can conjure the dead, both of which are played by Benedict Cumberbatch, you might know him from the UK TV show Sherlock or the bad guy in the new Star Trek movie, Star Trek into Darkness.

So should you go see it? Definitely, if you’ve seen all the LOTR films, you may as well keep the ball rolling. But if you do go see it, do yourself a favour and just watch it in regular 24 FPS. 48 FPS is pretty distracting.

Case and Point
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is: experimental.

Movies: Skyfall

I feel like I’m too young to review a James Bond movie. So if I were to say Daniel Craig is a damn good Bond, I’d probably be stepping on a lot of toes. So let’s just keep it between Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, the Generation Y Bonds.

In my eyes Pierce Brosnan, will always be the Bond. I grew up with his face plaster to the name, whenever somebody says Bond, I think Brosnan, but that being said, they’re both great Bonds but in their own way. So I won’t draw comparisons between the two, rather I’ll just review Skyfall as if it’s part of a brand new trilogy of movies unique unto its own.

Unlike Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, Skyfall doesn’t follow the story line of the former, instead it is its own new story. In a sense it was a mini reboot of the Bond series within this era in that it introduced all the pivotal types of characters to the movies before the Daniel Craig era, that being the gadgets, Q, the classic cars and so on.

After a failed mission with the apparent death of James Bond and the retrieval of a hard drive containing a list of national agents that are working undercover within various terrorist cells around the world, MI6 falls under the attack of a cyber-terrorist organization with no clues as to who is heading this terrorist organization.

Bond, completely off the radar thanks to his apparent death, discovers this via news and returns back to duty. In a newly relocated MI6, Bond is put back in the field to find and eliminate the leader of the organization behind the attack.

Of the three movies, Skyfall felt like the Bond movie. The others I felt like they were trying to humanize Bond a lot. Which is ok, not that I have a problem against it, but it felt like it lacked a certain charm that most Bond movies had.

Easily, this was the best of the series. It captured all the necessary Bond moments, like the car chases, the action sequences, the lovely women. But to top it all off, the villain, was truly a villain. Instead of some sort of white collared, “just wanna get rich” villain.

Bardem played Raoul Silva, an ex-MI6 agent turned rouge, on a little revenge trip, looking for those he felt had betrayed him while in captivity. Ranging on genius, Silva’s tactics were always precise, making him consistently two steps ahead of MI6. This guy was a villain, like an, “I just want the world to burn” kind of villain, which is exactly what this series needed.



Should you go see it? Totally. If you've ever seen a Bond movie, and were kinda ho-hum about the last two, this will definitely make up for it. For it is, more or less, a homage to what Bond films should be.

Case and Point
Skyfall is: what GQ would be if they had a gun collection.

Movies: Silent Hill: Revelation

You know those movies that come around every so often that are so bad that they're funny? Silent Hill: Revelation is one of those movies.

I don't know what it is, but movies based off of video games are usually horrendous. I don't know what possessed me to go see this, but I did anyways. Maybe it was because the first Silent Hill was ok.

So, Silent Hill: Revelation follows Heather and Eddard Stark Harry Mason, Harry Mason being the husband of Rose from the first movie, as they try and settle into a new town under the guise of Sharon and Christopher Da Silva.

Why are they on the run? Because a cult from Silent Hill is looking for Heather and they wanna bring her back so that she can be the capsule for the cult's new god... or something like that.

Day one, Heather goes to school and meets Jon Snow Vincent, then she returns home to find that her dad is missing and finger painted on the wall with blood, a message: "Come to Silent Hill". So then begins the adventure to Silent Hill, so that Heather can retrieve her father and figure out the truth behind everything.

That's the shorten version of it. The entire movie I was completely confused, the plot was messy and a lot of the actions from the characters in this movie didn't make sense.

For example: two Silent Hill Cult guards walk into a horrified, rusty emergency room with a man on a gurney. Inside this ER, are creepy nurses that cannot see, and only respond to sound. So these guards roll this gurney in causing all sorts of audible ruckus, stirring the nurses.

When the nurses wake, they slash at anything and everything.

You'd think that being a guard, in Silent Hill, for however many years, and knowing the location of this room, you would know that there are blind psychopath nurses that slash at any sounds.

You'd think when pushing the gurney into the room, they'd do it with extreme caution so that they don't get stabbed and mutilated.

Nope. Instead they ram the stupid gurney into the room and start screaming at the nurses trying to push them back with their hands and cattle prod acting like they're SWAT in a giant riot. But of course, the nurses overwhelm the guards and do what they do, which is stab and mutilate.

What did you expect? Was this your first time coming into contact with these nurses? Who hired you?

Anyways, that didn't make sense and to think that this was just one scene. Try and hour and a half of this stuff.

I guess on the upside, if you stop trying to make sense of the movie, it becomes really funny, but unintentionally, because this is a scary spooky horror movie.

But what makes me the most sad is that Sean Bean and Kit Harrington are fantastic actors. They have the chops and you can see that in Game of Thrones. In this movie they seem like B-Movie actors trying their hardest to mask their English accents.



Should you go see it? No man, just go to Hi-Tech Gametraders, fork over the same amount as you would for a ticket and play the game(s).

Case and Point
Silent Hill: Revelation is: as confusing as realizing that girls don't have cooties anymore.

Trailer: Iron Man 3

Hey check it out. The first Iron Man 3 trailer is now out.

Movies: Looper

So this review is long time in the making.

I went to go see Looper a few weeks back with JJ and his friend. I really wanted to see it, but I didn’t make any active plans to gather people to actually go see it. Luckily JJ asked if I wanted to join, so I did.

The film follows around “Joe” who is a looper, which is a specialized assassin that contracted by the future mob. In the future, where time travel is possible and pretty much banned right away (butterfly effect and stuff like that), it is near impossible to kill and dispose of a body.

So what the future mob does is: they grab the hit, throw a bag over their head, executioner style, send him back in time (even though it’s illegal, but it’s the mob, what do they care?) to a specific location where a looper will be waiting. Once the hit appears, the looper simply kills the hit and disposes of the body.

Once the future mob is finished with a looper, they “close the loop” by finding the looper’s future self, grab him and send him back to the past where the past looper eliminates himself. Closing the loop leaves the looper with a handsome amount to retire with so they can get on with their lives and do whatever they want.

But for Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) here, future Joe (Bruce Willis) is a little too crafty for that. So crafty that future Joe manages to escape, which is bad news for past Joe.

I’m so bad at describing and explaining things, Looper is probably one of the most difficult things I’ve ever have to explain. But that’s done with.

Looper has such a great, great, great story. Explaining it is more difficult than actually understanding the movie when you watch it. There probably hasn't been a good time travel movie since Back to the Future. But what probably gets me the most is that this is a unique story line. Not a remake, which seems to be every movie this year.

Without giving too much away, the way they utilize certain time travelling elements with the movie is pretty damn unique. The movie does take a turn that you do not expect at all. All of a sudden it becomes a whole different movie, which I definitely did not anticipate. But it takes a good turn. Like a right turn into a Tim Hortons drive thru with nobody in line. A good turn.

But that being said, after the movie, JJ noticed a handful of loop holes that could probably be debated until the end of time. Like the ending of Inception. But it’s one of those things I really can’t say because it’d take away from the movie. Which is sort of a bummer, because I’d like to tell you more but I just can’t!



Should you go see it? Absolutely. It’s a smart movie but not overwhelmingly confusing, it's not like an episode of Lost. Although my feeble attempt at explaining it doesn't help. So just go watch it, then you'll get it.

Case and Point
Looper is: metaphoric.

Movies: Dredd 3D

Bloody remakes galore in this latter part of the 21st Century. Dredd being one of them. Sorry Dredd 3D. Because it’s in 3D. They should’ve just emphasized the D’s in Dredd, to signify it was in 3D.

DreDD 3D

Dredd 3D is a remake of the 1995 film Judge Dredd. But in a way, it’s not quite a remake. It’s more of a same-universe, same-name, no-story-relation kinda thing. You know how I am with explaining things. Very poor.

This movie stars Karl Urban as Judge Dredd, Olivia Thirlby as Judge Anderson and Cersei Lannister Lena Headey as Ma-Ma.
In the future, North America is a wasteland with new cities built on top of the old called Mega Cities. The only policing forces in these cities are Judges who act as the judge, jury and executioner.

Judge Dredd is tasked with evaluating a sub-par Judge in training, Judge Anderson whose doo-doo test scores were overlooked due to her keen psychic abilities. Bear with me here.

The two go on call to a slum mega structure apartment called "Peach Trees" which is ran by a gang overlord named "Ma-Ma". Upon hearing that Judges are in the premise, Ma-Ma locks down the apartment complex and orders the execution of these two judges.

Dredd 3D was as action/popcorn movie as a movie can get, which is a dang wonderful thing. I love these kinds of movies; it was just like The Raid: Redemption, just turn off your head and watch the movie.

There wasn't any forced romance in the script or any wannabe mind melting plot twists in the movie, it was a straight forward plot. Go in, do your job, get out. That's it.

In terms of an action movie, it's 18A or Rated R for a reason. The action sequences usually ended with très brutal results. And frankly, if I mention any of them, it'd spoil the movie, spoiling it more so than me actually telling you the ending.

This movie didn't really have to be in 3D, the only parts in the movie that really utilized the 3D were the scenes where people would get high off of "slo-mo".



It was pretty in 3D. But really not necessary. 3D in general isn't necessary. Man I hate 3D.

But in the end, my favourite part of the movie is Judge Dredd's frown progression. It goes from neutral line to extreme lost faith in humanity arc.



Anyways, if ultra-violence and gun fights are your thing. This movie is your jam. I enjoyed it, and for a matinee movie, definitely worth the price. Shoot, I'd go watch it again.


Case and Point
Dredd 3D is: what you'd watch after waking up in your jeans.

Movies: The Dark Knight Rises

On Wednesday I got to watch the wonderful conclusion to the Nolan Batman series.

Did it live up to the hype? It certainly did. But of course everybody asks, "Well, will it be as good as The Dark Knight?"

No.

Heath Ledger did a bang up job on The Joker and I don't think anything can really top that. So let's just... like... leave it at that. The Dark Knight Rises is its own movie and a good ass one at that.

The Dark Knight Rises takes place eight years after the events of The Dark Knight. Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is currently laying low, without spoiling anything from The Dark Knight (also if you haven't watched The Dark Knight at this point, then you're just being silly), because Gotham City is in peace time and they don't need Batman right now.

Then Bane (Tom Hardy) comes along and starts messing with stuff, essentially throwing Gotham City into disarray with the whole notion that the rich must be knocked down several pegs. So now Batman's gotta CLR the rust and get going so he can stop this Noob-Saibot-Mask-Wearing-Terrorist-Mastermind-Beefcake.

Like most Christopher Nolan movies, he shoves you in media res and expects you to figure it out as the movie plays out. Granted it wasn't too hard to understand, but some things just didn't make sense up until the ending of the movie.

Even for a two and a half hour movie this movie felt very "straight to the point". Like conversations. I'm used to listening to characters banter about so and so until they actually get to the point.

One thing that I wanna pick at is: Christopher Nolan must be messing with us. When his characters talk, they always seem like they have to pop out, not only in actions, but also vocally.

Every time you hear Bruce Wayne talk, he's fine.

Every time you hear Batman talk, he sounds like he's been trapped in a desert for eight months and all that he had to sustain himself with was 100 cartons of cigarettes.

This time around we have Bane who sounds like an old eccentric billionaire talking through a 1940s AM radio station.

It was to the point where every time Bane started talking, all 13 of my IQ points had to adjust itself to understand Bane and his radio play filter voice. Basically 79% of the time Bane started talking, I would miss what he would say.

But hey, it's a fresh take on Bane right? They could've just copped out and just made Bane have an angry muffled growl the entire time.

At first I thought the addition of Catwoman was gonna taint the movie a bit. But Anne Hathaway played it off very well. Maybe it's just me but I've had a crush on her since Get Smart.

Catwoman was something of a middle point in regards to morals. On one hand she's a cat burgler, who will do whatever it takes to get that $$$. But on the other hand, she will only steal from the extremely wealthy. Sorta like Robin Hood, but instead she takes from the rich and gives to herself.

What I love about every Nolan movie is how you're left in a suspense with a dash of confusion throughout the entire film, but by the end of it, he ties everything together.

Naturally TDKR was no different.

Everything I had said earlier were the only gripes I had with the movie. Aside from that this movie was bueno with a very satisfying ending to the series.

Of all the rebuilds of Batman, The Dark Knight series truly captures the darkness that surrounds Batman. It's the closest a comic book movie can get to reality without having the over-the-top comic book feel.



Should you go see it? Absolutely.

Comic book movies always suffered from this stigma where they would seem too over the top and cheesy or that they'd be horribly off from the original material making the die hard fans lose a part of their souls every time somebody mentions it.

The Dark Knight series shows that comic book movies can be done extremely well if you spend the time into such a thing as opposed to just making a movie about whatever just for the sake of making it.

Case and Point
The Dark Knight Rises is: The unofficial film of the 99%.

Movies: The Amazing Spider-Man

There's no denying that this summer is the summer of superheroes. The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider Man.

I will say this now, The Amazing Spider Man is definitely no (The) Avengers, but that being said, it's still a good watch.

Yesterday afternoon I got a call from a friend saying that there were advanced screenings of The Amazing Spider Man for 8:00PM. I didn't think I had anything to do yesterday, so I agreed to go.

The Amazing Spider Man is a reboot of the Spider Man film series, starting off with new cast and directors. Andrew Garfield plays Peter Parker / Spider Man and Emma Stone plays Parker's original love interest, Gwen Stacy. So it's the whole origin story all over again, but this time with The Lizard as opposed to the Green Goblin like the first trilogy.

The Lizard is an excellent stepping stone for the first of this series, he's not too critical of an antagonist, but is still crucial to the development of Peter Parker's story.

Remember this show?



Well the first bad guy was The Lizard. So there we go.

This movie did a way better job of portraying Spider Man than the previous trilogy in the fact that he is more of a wise cracking smart aleck than some sort of introverted teenager.

Also, he made web shooters. They weren't natural web shooters like the other movies. That always bugged me.

Hell, even the fighting scenes in the movie felt more like Spider Man than the last movie despite it being 85% CGI. His fighting style was a lot like a... well, a spider. Instead of kicking and punching, Spider Man was all over the place, completely utilizing his environment to his advantage as he should be.

In its own way, this movie subtly set the tone of what's to come in this new series of films. The most significant of it all had to be the nonchalant introduction to OsCorp, which is Norman Osborn's (The Green Goblin) company.

So you know The Green Goblin is gonna pop up. Maybe the next movie? Maybe the one after that.



Alright, maybe I compared this movie a lot to the original series, but that doesn't mean you absolutely have to watch the original series to like this movie.

It stands on its own as it should, seeing as it is a reboot, with new characters and stories.

Should you go see it? Definitely. Instead of Hollywood butchering most adaptations of novels, movies or video games, this movie will give you the same feeling as if you were reading the comic books.


Case and Point
The Amazing Spider Man is: as close to reading a picture book you can get without the reading part.

Durr Movies: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Alright, normally I try to stay away from being crabby when watching a movie, even more so when I'm reviewing it. But not today.

Today I review Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the film adaptation of the 2010 book of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith.

I should've stuck to my gut and abstained from watching this movie, but my brother wanted to go watch it so I impulsively went along.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter tells the fictitious untold story of Abraham Lincoln. Before Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States, he was a vampire hunter. Taught in the ways of vampire hunting by Henry Sturges, a veteran vampire hunter, Lincoln learns the skills needed to exact his revenge on the vampire that killed his mother.

Probably 75% of the movie is a flash back. I assumed when the narrator (Lincoln) rambled on about his "untold story", that it was just gonna be a 20 minute scene where he sees so and so get killed and then showing honest Abe getting all angry and what not.

Nope, the entire movie was his origin.

So the entire movie, I was kinda just sitting there thinking, "this is a really long flash back". I blame the narrator's wording.

It might as well have been a flash back because the scenes in the movie moved so bloody fast. At one point you see Mr. Lincoln swinging an axe with kung fu fluidity, next he's in Illinois looking for work. The segue with the scenes was brutal. It was a keep up or die, I mean, not that it was hard to follow this movie at all.

I think the problem was that this movie tried so hard to be blade, but it couldn't pull it off.

The fighting scenes were highly stylized in that every. little. thing. had. to. be. bullet. time.

It drove me insane. Every axe swing, every decapitation, every gunshot, was all slowed down. Like, I realize that this was super cool at one point, but I think we've passed that point. It was almost as bad as if a movie were to parody the famous bullet dodge scene from the first Matrix.

You can do better dang it.



Should you go see it? Probably not. Just buy the book, it'll benefit your brain.

Case and Point
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is: like getting dumped; it gets worse the more you think about it.

Taken 2 - Trailer

Released today is the first trailer for Taken 2. Sequel to Taken, clearly.

If you have never seen Taken, I suggest you watch it. It's Liam Neeson at his finest, doing what he does best, which is be grizzled and old and hurt people with various chops and grapple holds.

It's scheduled to be released worldwide October 5, 2012.

Durr Movies: Prometheus

Damn, this year is doing good in terms of movies. Every movie I've seen so far, I'd definitely recommend. Prometheus is just another on that list. Maybe even more so. Please keep in mind that 70% of the stuff I say in this review will sound hella corny/cliché.

Prometheus is about a team of scientists that traverse the deep void of space to find the beginnings of human kind after discovering a similar star map among several ancient civilizations separated by centuries that in no way shape or form had any contact with one another. As they reach their destination, they slowly discover that it is not all cracked up to be.

Avatar was great in getting the foot in the door in terms of 3D effects, but Prometheus definitely developed on that. As opposed to simply using 3D to make people and the landscapes pop out, Prometheus utilized it further in ways that were truly unique. I hate 3D movies, but the integration of the 3D in Prometheus felt natural without pushing too much on you. Maybe I'm just getting used to these movies or something.

I was so wrapped up in this movie when I was watching it, it felt like I was watching a live feed of humans actually discovering new life in a far away system. It was like a connection between the characters in the movie and the audience in which everybody honestly had no idea what to expect. Each new thing that was uncovered for the team of the Prometheus, was all new to the audience as well. What they knew was all we knew and so on.

One thing I didn't quite enjoy about the movie though was it felt like there was no character development. Ironically enough, the only character to actually develop was Michael Fassbender's character, David, who was an android assigned to the ship to serve as, more or less, a butler for the team. But maybe that was the point of the movie? Some sort of gold lining? I'll never know.

That being said, Michael Fassbender definitely stole the show in this movie. I'm not just saying that because I have a man-crush on the man, I am saying that because he honestly did do an excellent job. Any actor can act as a human, but it takes a lot for an actor to act like a convincing android, as bizarre as that may sound.

I read in various interviews revolving around Fassbender saying that his portrayal of David was heavily based upon Peter O'Toole in the 1962 classic film Lawrence of Arabia. Even in the movie they note this where you would see David walking around quoting lines from Lawrence of Arabia, even showing David watching the film while fixing his hair to mimic Peter O'Toole's.

Something rather subtle I noticed was that even though David was an android, his mannerisms were highly childish in which he would always act before thinking things through. While the entire crew of the Prometheus was in statis, David remained awake for the two years that the ship was travelling through space.

Between watching lessons through videos or keeping busy by playing recreational sports (at the same time), David only watched one movie, Lawrence of Arabia. Once again like child behaviour, he could have watched any other movie, but he always chose to watch Lawrence of Arabia, simply because he liked it.

It just makes you think how much thought can go into one character for a two hour movie.



Should you go see it? You'd be silly not to. You don't have to watch Alien to appreciate this movie, but it certainly adds to it. If you don't wanna watch Alien, just go watch it for its great sci-fi story and stunning visual effects.

Case and Point
Prometheus is: 21st Century technology and Ridley Scott's love child.

Django Unchained

Today was the trailer release day for Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's new movie. It stars Jamie Foxx as Django, Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz, a bounty hunter that frees Django and Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, a sadistic plantation owner who currently owns Django's wife.

A combination of the western genre, a bounty hunting and revenge plot with Quentin Tarantino sitting at the top of it all, this movie will be great.

Prometheus

Out next Friday (June 8, 2012) is Ridley Scott's return to the Alien universe: Prometheus.

I didn't think much of Prometheus up until I watched the David 8 trailer.



The promotional work for Prometheus has been A+. Most of the time, movies will release a trailer with that voice guy and he would say some tacky crap like:

"After the height of space exploration... The crew of the Prometheus stumble onto something... Something that will change the fate of humanity."

Or whatever.

Granted, I'm sure that trailer exists somewhere on Youtube, but the majority of the promotional work that I've seen, it's all been tied in with things that exist in real life. Like the trailer below, Peter Weyland giving a speech at a TED conference in 2023. I'm not good at explaining things, but you'll get it when you watch it.



Almost immediately after watching the David 8 trailer, I decided to watch Alien. I don't know what I've been doing up until I watched the first Alien. Just like Refused, it was way ahead of its time.

Mind you I didn't bother watching the other Alien movies because I hear they're kinda 'eh', but maybe one day I'll get around to it.

So once again, June 8, 2012, Prometheus hits theaters. You bests believe that I'm gonna go see it opening night. Hell, if there's a midnight showing, I'll probably go to that.

Here's a regular trailer:

Durr Movies: Chronicle

Normally I'll review movies that are currently in theaters, but let's make an exception for this movie.

Chronicle is about three high school kids that discover a supernatural structure that grants them all telekinetic powers. After tinkering with their new found powers, one of them begins abusing it for his own personal needs.

Initially when I first saw the trailer for Chronicle, I didn't think too much of it, but after a while, everybody I had talked to about it insisted that I watch it. So low and behold on this chilly Monday I decided to see what all the fuss was about.

First and foremost it was filmed in the whole "found footage" style in which a character in the film is the cameraman, like Paranormal Activity or The Blair Witch Project.

Found footage films aren't really my cup of tea but I'll watch them anyways, so as long as I'm not in a theater. I get harsh motion sickness watching these movies on large screens.

The movie could have strayed off path with stylized action, but I'm glad they gave the movie a bit of humanity. It could have been extremely over the top especially with a concept like this.

If you have ever watched Akira, you can definitely see it in this movie which isn't a bad thing at all. It's the closet thing to an Akira live action adaptation we have, until somebody decides to revive the actual production of the live action Akira film. Which will probably be awful.

With all that being said, I thought Chronicle wasn't as great as the hype made it out to be. I felt like I've already watch this movie, the plot was quite straight forward and you could probably imagine what the ending would be like. Granted it's still a decent movie, with moderately believable high school student acting.



Should you watch it? Eh. Sure.

Case and Point
Chronicle is: a masculine ego trip gone worse.

Durr Movies: Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Ever since my friend Josh showed me the trailer of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, all I've ever wanted to do was to watch this movie.

Lucky for Saskatoon, and myself included, the cool cats at The Broadway Theater began showing this wonder of a movie.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a movie about 85 year old Jiro Ono and his mastery of sushi and whether or not his son Yoshikazu Ono has what it takes to carry on his father's legacy when the inevitable comes to light.

Jiro Ono is the owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, the first sushi restaurant to be presented with three stars on the prestigious Michelin Guide, and recognized as a national treasure in Japan for his contributions to Japanese Cuisine.

Quite the name to live up to.

This movie was shot sublimely from start to finish. It paints a perfect picture on how something so simple such as sushi can be so beautiful.

The entire time I was watching this movie, I sorta had this grin on my face. Suffice to say I was in awe. I don't know why, it was just a great movie.

This may be way off, but the thing that bugs me about documentaries is that they always have to have some sort of antagonist in it. This movie had none of that, it was just, "Here's Jiro, and here are his sons, look how they're doing. Here's how sushi is made, pretty isn't it?"

Damn straight.



Should you go see it? Absolutely, while you still can, catch it at The Broadway Theater. You will gain a new appreciation for one of the world's most simplest of dishes.

Case and Point
Jiro Dreams of Sushi is: art.

Durr Movies: The Avengers

Five Marvel movies and four years later, the long awaited Avengers movie has arrived.

I'll be honest, I wasn't overly excited nor was I expecting much from this movie. A lot of superhero movies tend to have that effect on me. Especially with a movie of this stature, how were they gonna make it fair for this ensemble cast?

Don't worry. They pulled it off well. Actually perfectly I'd say.

We got:

• Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man / Tony Stark
• Chris Evans as Captain America / Steve Rogers
• Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk / Dr. Bruce Banner
• Chris Hemsworth as Thor
• Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow / Natasha Romanoff
• Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye / Clint Barton
• Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
• Tom Hiddleston as Loki

All respective actors / actresses in their own little way.

The short and skinny of it is: Nick Fury, directory of S.H.I.E.L.D., puts together a team of superheroes, comprised of Iron Man, The Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye, to stop Thor's estranged brother Loki from opening up a portal, with the help of The Tesseract (a cosmic cube that can control matter and energy), to allow the Chitauri to invade Earth.

I had a few qualms going into this movie, but after watching it. They were immediately squashed.

My biggest concern was The Hulk. Judging from the previous movies centered around him, I thought he was just gonna be a moping giant beast, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stuff, but as a supporting character, he works best.

Initially Edward Norton was supposed to reprise his role in this movie, but things fell through and Mark Ruffalo took the reigns. To be honest, I'm happy that that happened. Mark Ruffalo fits this role like a glove.

The biggest surprise in this movie had to be Black Widow. Since she was played by Scarlett Johansson, the majority of the people thought that she was gonna be eye candy and that's it. But nope. She was a bad ass in this movie. Black Widow held her own, especially when everybody else is a demi-god, billionaire playboy, super soldier, The Hulk.

The humor was the very fine stitching that kept the movie together. It was very reminiscent of Iron Man. A lot of quips that get a good chuckle out of the audience. It gave all the heroes a bit of humanity instead of being so serious all the time.



Should you go watch it? God yes. This movie sets the bar high for the superhero genre and frankly it's the best action movie out right now.

Case and Point
The Avengers is: satisfaction.