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Percy Jackson. You probably hate that name, after watching its film adaptation.

They got it all wrong, right from his opening scene underwater, his not-so-hyped up origin about being Poseidon’s son, the lack of explanation about the various camps in Camp Half-Blood and so on, till the end of the movie. Every chapter seemed to have been ‘hollywoodized‘. I watch many movies out of curiosity and I don’t feel bad about having watched this.

That is because the books were fun, Rick Riordan is quite a writer of teenage fiction books. I’ve read the first three in his series of Percy Jackson and found them equally enjoyable as the Inkheart Trilogy or The Inheritance Cycle. Right now, having found time and inspiration for revisiting a private library am quite fond of, I’ve laid my hands on the fourth book and its doing great in helping me erase those movie memories.

Got to be the best movie I’ll ever see this year. Truly amazing CGI!

I hadn’t heard about nor was interested in Transformers until two things happened. First, Karthik shows me this Second, I see this trailer of the movie (During Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix’s break) where an F-22 transforms into a huge killer robot cyber-being over the Hoover dam and that giant scorpion shaped cyber-being which jumps in and out of the sand. Never seen anything like that before for sure.

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Am no huge fan of TMNT nor a geek about it, but I like the turtles a lot. I remember watching those TV series and a movie with Shredder in it. The TV series was really good. Anyway, this post is about the recent movie, which was full CGI.

TMNT Movie Poster:

This new movie is pretty much the same legendary resurrection blah blah, nothing in it. What is good in it is its character detail of each of the four turtle brothers (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael).

And as you’d expect by the movie’s obvious title ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’, there are a lot of cool stunts and fights. Enough to set your eyes bouncing from one edge of the screen to another without caring anything about the plot. Overall, the best fight is between the brothers themselves. Raphael’s been ignoring Leonardo’s orders after the latter’s return from training and he challenges Leo for a fight. The rain and the stunts in that sequence was simply cool. The rest about stopping the 3000-year old legend and other monsters etc wasn’t really good.

I’d give this movie a 7.5/10 for its effects and a laugh here and there. And yes, the DVD’s out, go get it! (And did I mention that the music was good in the movie? Am getting myself its OST, for a while.)

This Mark Wahlberg starrer is simply excellent. Its about an abandoned top-class sniper working for the US Army being re-recruited into some ‘top secret mission’ which aims to *attempt to kill the US President* and not exactly kill him, for political purposes, of course.

The plot’s like they re-hire our hero, and he does his homework on finding a good shot to snipe the President. And when the real sniper fires, they try blaming our hero for the deed. Cause there’s more they can do when the security realizes that the threat is dead. About how he escapes from the cops and FBI and all and gets back at those who recruited him, forms the story. And mind you, he is deadly accurate. Mark Wahlberg’s acting is really good in the movie, just as good as he was in The Departed.

The ending of the movie was sort of faster than it should’ve been, which is probably the only few negative points of the movie. I’d give it an 8.5/10. DVD’s out as well, go get it. Action lovers will like it quite a lot.

Saw the movie today and it was very very good. In fact so good that I came out disappointed. But then, all Harry Potter movies except for the first have done that to you, or a few of you anyway. The few being the ones who’ve read the book.

I won’t go on and on about how bad they’ve executed it, but let me just tell this. A Fred and George product shown in the movie, is next shown (nearly similar) to be used by Voldemort in his fight against Dumbeldore. Heh, that was the only part I smiled at

People going to watch it anyhow better find something to do in the first half, cause its gonna be one long and slow ride till the intermission. Am pretty sure almost all the book readers aren’t gonna like the way they’ve changed things in the movie. Agreed its got to be shorter but the critical magical elements like the Fountain, for example, was missed. And Fred and George’s escape could have been a lot better than just fireworks and that little something Voldemort copies later.

Dumbeldore’s escape wasn’t as cool as described in the book, either. Alright, I’ll stop, go watch and enjoy.