Harsh J

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.

Ever bitten a spider? No, not ‘been bit by’, but bitten? No? Watch this movie and you’ll chew the tickets into pulp and spit them out. All cause the popcorn got over.

It starts with a kiddy Tobey and that’s all he is throughout the movie. Wait, the movie’s name was going to be Peter Parker 3 actually. Cause there simply is no need of a mask while fighting as shown by Peter. He thinks his face scares more shit out of the villains, and yes it does indeed, considering we, the tomato throwers, are them.

Sandman

The Sandman was well created but making him fly around in a sand storm was a fool’s idea. Did they even know that if Sandman loses a part of his integral sand molecules, he goes unstable and disintegrates and dies? And then, in the end, letting him learn the identity and leave was another big violation of the comic code of  ‘Whoever learns his identity, dies’. And his reason of fighting for his daughter’s sake was so useless. The game, instead, actually shows Venom using his daughter to blackmail him into fighting. A good character put to waste also by making him Ben’s killer. And why was it always black and white and so retro with slow motion in place? Sigh.

Venom

Venom was a fat thighed bad-fat-ass. Eddie’s face emerging from it was like the most comical thing I’ve ever seen. Eddie must have been much more muscled, for the real terror the character Venom causes into the viewer’s heart. They decided to stick to reality, in a comic movie. Best error one can make. And the final symbiote-only Venom, though looked real good, died just too easily. I mean, he is weak to fire but it doesn’t vaporize him like it did in the movie. And what’s with Eddie being vaporized as well? Poof.

New Goblin

A completely unwanted villain in middle of the movie. And they killed him off, but then, Goblins never die. Am sure you’ll see another goblin in case you do dare to watch the future movies, with 4 having either Scorpion or Lizard in it. And the Goblin was only as powerful as a small time crook on a flying LED decorated Skateboard. I mean, it’s another person of the Goblin ‘Osborn’ family. He’s supposed to be Spidey’s biggest villain of all time, striking flawlessly and only going down by the actions of a revengeful Spidey. Am sure killing Gwen Stacy off instead of Harry would’ve made more impact. But Gwen’s role wasn’t much more than another girl in Peter’s class, and not life. But Bryce Howard sure does look way better than she did or acted in The Village. I feel James Franco would’ve done a better job than Tobey Maguire in this one.

The Black Suit

Peter keeps his symbiote suit, a suit which’s supposed to bond to his cells and enhance his strength all the time, in a f_cking case! It’s like a costume too! Comic fans, kill Sam, kill him now!

And look, it’s raining symbiotes everywhere. Quick, go to a park with your girl and become Venoms. Recreate the Smith-effect of The Matrix in Spider-Man and perhaps it’d have gone well! Of Peter getting rid of the suit, was another big stupid thing. While he fights Sandman in the subway, the noise of the train should’ve affected his costume, but it didn’t. (The Game shows it does.) And he is actually supposed to go to a church not because there’s Jesus, but there’s the bell in it.

The movie was simply zero at logic. And dialogues? If the dialogues would’ve been more meaningful this blog post wouldn’t have existed. The dialogues were slow and were all attempting to be over sentimental. All the hype that was really worth watching for were the CGI effects they put in it. While swinging wasn’t a new thing, the sand monster and Harry’s Skystick were. A total of 120 bucks and 2 hours of time gone waste. It’s not even worth a kiddy watch. Not for anyone with a brain and above 5 years of age. I guess my friend liked it a lot

P.s. Did no one notice William ‘Norman Osborn’ Dafoe, the Green Goblin, sitting in the coffee place behind Harry?