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Serbuan maut 2: Berandal (2014)
Not really a review...
After reading all the reviews on this film I came to ask one question. Before I ask the question i just want to say that most reviews were dead on giving this film a 10 out of 10. I know that reviews are opinion not fact. However this film was absolutely INCREDIBLE. The 1st film was amazing and set a new standard for martial art films and action films. It set the bar really high. It had great acting and a really good plot too. Then comes the sequel and literally blows IMO of course the 1st film out of the water in EVERY single aspect. This movie had a great, plot great acting, but the choreography & stunt work was absolutely on a league of it's own. I have never seen in any action or martial arts film with the level of incredible stunt work and just brutal fighting in any other film. Most martial arts films (I've seen A BUNCH BTW) have great choreography and stunt work yet there imo is something always missing like a decent plot or it's campy. This has none of those. Also most leave out a lot of the absolute brutality. A fair warning this is probably the most brutal fighting film I've seen.
So back to my question almost every reviewer gave it 10 out 10. I'm just wondering for those who didn't. What isn't perfect about this sequel? What does it take to impress you? Could you do better? There isn't imo another action film like this at all. Again I've seen a lot. I try to avoid the cheesy films. Yet I can't believe these people have seen a better martial arts film or action film. I would like to know what the name of it is. So I can see for myself. There is no down side if you like the first and if you like violent martial arts films with gangster mafia style movies as well this hits them all. I doubt any of the people who worked on this film will ever read this but if you do Bravo gentlemen. Give yourselves a hand and a pat on the back.
As one reviewer said it became his favorite martial arts film ever & I would have to agree. The ending battle ALONE is worth the price of admission it is EPIC. Look at me I'm gushing like I'm schoolgirl. If you haven't seen this film yet and you want to. Stop what you're doing go buy this film don't rent BUY IT. Then show it to all your friends so they can BUY it as well. Standing Ovation on this side folks.
Are All Men Pedophiles? (2013)
Are All Men Pedo's? No. We're not.
I don't review many films on IMDb bc to me it's tedious and time consuming. For me I forget a lot of what I want to write about to begin with. So I'm not a very good writer. I can rate the hell out of something though. Anyways I wanted to come here and write a little about the film and what I thought, but more about what 1 reviewer wrote and rated the movie. This person gave it a 1 out of 10. Why? Because It brought up the Japanese Lolita Fashion or Loliicon and how it is directed at men for underage girls. This reviewer claims that the Lolita Fashion purposefully tries distance itself from any sexuality about underage girls attracting men & maybe it does. Yet the name Lolita is in it's titled a book written by Vladimir Nabokov about a literary professor named Humbert Humbert who is lusting after a young girl of 12 years old named Lo who he nicknames Lolita. Who if I am not mistaken he ends up having a sexual relationship with.
Anyways the reviewer clearly based him/her opinion not on what the film was trying to convey, but because this person is clearly a fan of Lolita Fashion. I recommend you watch the documentary for yourself and you decide. Another reviewer said that the creator has an agenda. At first I thought that as well & still do to a degree, but the as the film progressed I see that the lines are not so easily black and white. I see what the creator was trying i think to convey. He was trying to show how the pedophilia hysteria specifically in the west has become outrageous. That the media is spreading so much fear while simultaneously society and the fashion industry is promoting young nubile models in erotic or provocative clothes or poses. And if the underage model shows nudity bc it's in a magazine it's not child porn it's "Artistic". The hysteria and fear has become so ridiculous that laws are being written to arrest children to "protect" them from the pedophiles. Or teenagers sexting each other are being tried as adults for having child pornography on their phones. I had a friend who is married woman who used to babysit her friends 13 year old daughter who was sending sexually explicit photos online to different boys. Now if she hadn't found out and told the girls mother what she was doing and someone found those photos and reported it to the police. Do you think they wouldn't arrest the woman or her husband even though they had nothing to do with it? More so the husband I think.
Which is another point the film tries to make. I believe that there is a huge problem and a backlash happening because of this hysteria and fear. Mainly that every single man on the planet earth is a sick and twisted pervert. That we all think about sex and if we can't get it consensually, then we will take it by force. Which simply isn't true. There is a very small percentage of people who are like this. Yet this is what I mainly found interesting. It's a scary issue bc fathers are afraid to show affection, bathe, go to the park alone or change the diapers of their own children for fear of being accused a pedophile. Or men are being barred from entering nurseries even if your a 16 year old boy coming to pick up his siblings or their own children. Boys are being told in school that men are sexual predators and that they might or will in fact grow up to be one themselves. 99% of all teachers are women now bc men just don't want their lives ruined for being accused. How many people have seen some man on the news being accused of being a pedophile yet never hear if he is found not guilty? Because the news only wants you to see him accused and you to hear the guilty verdict, but if he's acquitted not a peep from the news. The film also brings up the glaring double standard about women being sexual predators as well, but are rarely convicted for sexual abuse or even brought to trial. Or if the woman has sex with an underage boy because she's a woman the media uses terms like "relationship". So women get leniency not just from the peers, but from judges as well especially if she's an attractive woman.
I believe the film also tries to distinguish the difference between men & women who are attracted to physically and sexually mature girls/boys versus men & women who attracted to prepubescent boys/girls. That if you have ever been attracted to a younger girl/boy 16-17 years old that looks like a man or woman physically then it's not pedophilia it's hebephilia/ephebephilia. That pedophilia is used a wide very general term. The term pedophilia means that a person is attracted to a boy/girl between the ages of 5-13. I don't agree with the entirety of this film b/c I think being attracted to underage girls/boys is wrong, gross, and creepy. I do agree that the media over saturates and perpetuates fear and I think sometimes they do it at the behest of the government. This was a very difficult film to watch but I think people should watch it because where does the hysteria & fear stop? Do we start chemically castrating men? Do we start locking up children to protect them from potential threats or from themselves?
Werewolf (1987)
Stupid Fox Executives ruined a great show...
I started reminiscing about this show the other day and as I was thinking about it. I asked a couple of people if they'd remembered the show at all. Of course and unfortunately most people don't. This is due to a bunch of Executive MORONs who worked over at early FOX channel back in 1987. I remember being a young boy and absolutely loving this show. I couldn't wait for it to come on if my memory serves correctly every Friday night at like 8 or 9 p.m. I was absolutely enamored with it. Of course I've always been a werewolf horror fan. After watching American Werewolf and then of course The Howling done by 2 masters of practical effects Rick Baker and Rob Bottin I was hooked when this show aired. Unfortunately was canceled after 28 episodes so you never get to fully see if Eric Cord breaks his curse. As I was thinking about it the other day I decided to see if I could find it listed on IMDb and was pleasantly surprised to see that I wasn't alone in loving this show. And to see so many people reviewing it saying when they were little boys absolutely loved this made me laugh, BC I could totally relate. This was an excellent show and I would love to be able to find the series on DVD or BLU-Ray somewhere. The special effects were amazing for the time and especially for a T.V. Series at a brand new network at that. As a kid not only did the werewolf designs frighten me but also made me want to be one when i was a kid. I still believe to this day that they're still some of the best looking Werewolves to date. They're some of the most menacing for sure. I've seen some clips on Youtube and the only issue is the body suit now looks a little cheesy. But back when I was 9 years old they scared the crap out of me. But every Friday I was waiting for the show to come back on. I wish a network would remake this with the practical effects and technology we have today, but no one wants to do practical anymore because of the cost. Yet look at The Walking Dead and how well it's done. Done with almost all practical make-up not CGI. Or even Game of Thrones incredible show and all the costumes are hand made if I'm not mistaken. One of the best shows to date. Honestly I would like to see a show based on something like this in the future. But if you have a chance of if you're just reminiscing this show was amazing. Totally underrated.
Supernatural: Bloodlines (2014)
Worst episode of the series....
Like many of the other reviewers I agree that this episode was absolute garbage. I know it was a back-door pilot for a spin-off yet, this had absolutely NOTHING to do with this past season of the show. It literally added NOTHING to the Supernatural storyline. Sam & Dean were in this show all of MAYBE 5 minutes. The acting for this episode for the new characters were wooden and had no emotion. I was so BORED with this Ep and disappointed I came on to IMDb to see if I was the only person who noticed that this was the worst Ep Supernatural has ever aired and saw that naturally I definitely wasn't the only one who hated this.
First the 5 Monsters who run Chi-town ala mob style was so ridiculous to buy knowing full well that NO HUNTERS including Sam, Dean, Bobby, Ellen, Joe, Rufus, Garth, or any other hunters has never ever heard of is ludicrous. Not even an angel Castiel has heard about this? Laughable! Nope I can't buy it. Then the so called mob families of monsters are all good looking men and women in the early 20's. This is clearly a way to try and get more tweens or young girls to watch the Spin-off. I swear all these shows are like Twilight made into a t.v. show instead of movies. Or maybe they're hoping to have the success that Vampire Diaries has had. I'm not sure, but at least in VD the acting is better. I feel like I just wasted 45 minutes of my life hoping to see more about where this season of Supernatural was going, only to be given a 45 minute wooden acted silly monster "mob" love story. I think one reviewer (Who is absolutely correct) mentions how Dean basically ignores the fact that he's partnering up with a Shapeshifter regardless if the shape-shifter is a good guy or not. Dean just accepts this and he hasn't even known the guy for more than 2 minutes. All true anyone who's watched this show and is a true fan would know that Dean would not just accept this shape-shifter as a friendly monster within 2 minutes and go to help out any he could. He would more than likely either try to kill him or bide his time take care of the immediate situation then try to kill him all the while making snide and sarcastic comments.
Another reviewer mentioned that after Season 5 Supernatural has gone downhill. I wouldn't agree with that. I would say that Season 5 was probably one of the best Seasons in the series if not the best, but I feel like the show has always been pretty consistent. Even the most hated season by fans which is the Leviathan season is still decent and has it classic Sam & Dean moments. Season 9 had one of the best Episodes IMO of the whole series. Which was at the end of Ep-9 and then into Ep-10.
However this Bloodlines Ep-20 is terrible. Even the worst of Supernatural Ep's the fillers which have very little to add to the overall plot are 100x better than this past show. I'm thoroughly disappointed. I'm a huge fan of Supernatural I've been watching the show since it started it's one of my favorite shows I literally put it on Netflix ever night and fall asleep watching it. It's one of those shows for me that I can watch over and over. I've never reviewed any episode of Supernatural bc I felt the show was pretty consistent always entertaining either through the joking between Sam, Dean, & Cass or through the drama great acting or plot, yet after watching this abortion I felt I had to come and review this 1 episode and warn fans away from Season 9 Episode 20. Skip it.
This 1 episode adds nothing to Season 9.Sam & Dean are in it for all of 5 minutes and when they are shown they act completely out of character. I feel like they were just phoning it in. I feel like the writing & acting was sub-par and this is a way for producers to try and get either more money or teenage girls to watch the new spin-off. Don't waste your time skip this Ep and the spin-off.
I think that fans deserve a different 20th episode and the creators of Supernatural and the Bloodline's Spin-off should publicly apologize and go back rewrite/re-shoot the episode without any of those actors or plot that has to do with Bloodlines, then focus the story back on Season 9 and say "Here is the real episode that should have aired. We are deeply sorry that we wasted 45 minutes of our fans lives on this trite. APRIL FOOLS! Here's $1000.00 for your pain and suffering."
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Terrible!
I mean I know some will disagree, but IMO this movie wasn't even good for action films. As soon as I saw Rza as the "Old Kung Fu Master" I checked out of the movie completely. I know that Rza is a talented music producer and hip hop artist, but his acting is GOD AWFUL. I also know he has an extensive library on Martial Arts films however this doesn't make you a Old Wise Kung Fu Martial Arts Monk Expert. Don't believe me try and sit through the Man with The Iron Fists. This is like some old Chinese monk trying to play the Hip Hop producer and rap star in a movie like Menace II Society and make it believable all bc he listens to a lot of hip hop and watches a lot BET. Just doesn't work. So for all the people who watch movies with terrible acting lots of gunfire and explosions with no plot. This maybe your kind of film. Sadly for most of us it isn't and this is a blatant and obvious attempt at making money. I guess sometimes people will put a movie on like this because they don't wanna think to much which is fine. However I found my self actually getting dumber as the film went on. Anyways I give this a 1 out of 10 this has no redeeming qualities and for all the actors in this film it was a paycheck only.
Lynching Charlie Lynch (2011)
Medicinal Cannabis should be determined by Science not Politics.
I thought this was a decent documentary. To the reviewer above mine he says can you take cannabis without smoking. The answer is yes. They have vaporizers so you get no carcinogens. You can also make it topical and cook it into foods. They have tried to synthesize these chemicals and put it into a drug called Marinol, but it doesn't seem to work. Also another called I believe Sativex. Not sure how well that works, but if the American Government is saying it doesn't work why are they asking Big Pharma to synthesize it? Because Big pharmaceutical companies want to make money off of a plant that can be grown just about anywhere. So they lobby millions of dollars to politicians to keep it illegal. Which is don't just that. If anyone is curious the Shafer Commission has done the most extensive and thorough review on Cannabis ever. It was appointed by Nixon along with the people who were on the commision. Nixon wanted them to come back with a view that it should be illegal to go along with his tough war on drugs. When they didn't he called them soft headed republicans who were probably smoking it themselves. Most people at that time who smoked cannabis was against the Vietnam War so he wanted to purposely target those people. Don't believe me look it up.
Anyways this movie is about how a law abiding man Charlie Lynch went through all the required laws to get a Medical Cannabis Dispensary. He had found that medicinal cannabis worked for him and wanted to help other potential patients. So where he lived in California there wasn't a dispensary. So after getting a business license that stated for Medical Marijuana on the license. After calling the DEA several times to find out the proper laws with constant run around. When he finally opens his dispensary on opening day the Chamber of Commerce and the Mayor were there to open his Dispensary. So after following all the laws provided this Rogue sheriff (imo probably running for a Political career) starts an independent investigation. After a year of investigating and not being given a warrant he calls in the DEA. I recommend everyone watching this documentary. It shows the hypocrisy of the American government on his Medical Marijuana trial they wouldn't let him bring in any Medical Cannabis evidence. They wouldn't let him bring in his patients to testify for him. The man who was charged with Child porn got a better defense.
I had cancer when I was 18 years old. For over a year I was in and out of the hospital. Through chemo and radiation I couldn't keep anything down so I went from 160lbs to 80lbs. I have never ever taken drugs in my life except what was prescribed for me. I can tell you from personal experience that the Big Pharma drugs for pain was probably the hardest drug I had to try and come off of. The withdrawal symptoms are the worst I have ever had. However when I was taking medical cannabis during the time when I cancer I was able to eat and to build up my strength. I was able to fight and continue to survive only because of Medical Cannabis. There were times during that time I wanted to give up. The pain killers they gave me sure took away the pain however it made me a drooling vegetable. Medical Cannabis helped me to survive and when I decided to stop using the medicine there were NO withdrawals symptoms. I also need to make this point that a lot of people have no idea about. There have been absolutely No deaths. None, zero, zilch, and nil associated with Cannabis. I mean directly attributed with it. I do believe it should be regulated and controlled like tobacco and alcohol. But I had cancer when I was 18 years old I am now 36 years old now and a cancer survivor. I believe if it wasn't for cannabis I would've died back then.
Race 2 (2013)
Terrible absolutely an abomination
Reviews are to only give you a inform the reader of how another viewer perceived the film.Then it's ultimately up to the reader to decide to either watch or avoid. I personally say at all costs avoid. This movie was absolutely ridiculous. I love Bollywood films but I believe that whomever wrote the Screenplay ahem.... Shiraz Ahmed. Believed the viewers where either completely retarded or in our early teens use the slight of hand by putting good looking people on screen while wiping their butts with the plot. The Director is just at fault because an actor is only as good as his or her director. The action was completely impossible and ignored physics. For example.
Spoilers The Boat/Car Chase Scene when our hero Ranvir Singh played by Saif Ali Khan is chasing in a boat a no named evil white dude in a rinky dink car. Our hero decides he can cut off evil white guy in the boat and somehow manages to JUMP the speeding boat onto the road without any ramp for said boat. All the while our hero is managing to climb out of the boats driver seat and maintain his balance. Then the rocket propelled boat that can jump with the need of any ramp lands on the road just in front of evil white mans car and crashed into the hero's speeding boat. At the last minute our hero leaps into the air and lands on the hood of the rinky dink car and of course thwarts the evil white man. Now anyone with at least a quarter of a brain can understand that boats don't just leap out of the water alone and for arguments sake lets say that the boat did indeed have a ramp then when the boat came to a sudden stop our hero would have kept going straight on through to the other side of the road not jumping on top of the hood of the vehicle that just crashed into the speeding boat.
The actors are no better than the producers and director. All they saw was their paychecks and ignored the script entirely. Then we have our antagonist Armaan Malik played by John Abraham and is the bad guy so we know how this will turn out. I nearly busted out laughing when after revealing he was a street fighter and says he has never lost a total of 125 fights. Come on how about 1,250,222.151,215 fights instead since realism and physics don't seem to be an issue. Let's go for broke. If you do intend to watch then I will leave out the absolute ridiculous ending in the airplane, but I will say this A pressurize emergency airlock in a jet takes thousands of pounds of pressure to release the emergency exit and can't be done with human hands while in the air it's physically impossible. Some Hollywood films are guilty of this as well as thinking the viewers are nothing but a drooling bunch of apes.
The movie was nothing but a way for the producers to make a quick buck and for the actors to ignore the screenplay and get paid. Please avoid this movie at all costs. It doesn't matter how much you polish a turd it's still sh*t.
Skyfall (2012)
Skyfall probably the most emotional Bond film I've seen.
I have read several user reviews and I respect everyone's opinion however I must disagree. Out of all the reviews I've seen most of them universally hated the film. Most of the time I'm on the side of my fellow IMDb users because I usually will read the so-called professional film critics and then completely ignore what they say and make up my own dang mind. I've also found that I trust most of the USER reviews over most Film Critics to be perfectly honest. Alas this seems to be one of the rare times I disagree with the users and actually agree with the critics. (GASP!) I know it shocked me too.
I'll try to keep this spoiler free as best as possible in fact I'll try only reviewing this based on how I felt about the film. OK Like all Bond films it opens up with a fast paced action scene with Bond chasing who could only be a bad guy and then quickly devolves into James Bond feeling like he's been betrayed by the Espionage MI6 company he works for. Typical plot points for spy films. However I noticed that they were putting a more realistic side to 007 that they have never really done before. Now I can admit I have never seen every single James Bond film ever but I did grow up watching most if not all the Sean Connery era Bond and some of the Roger Moore and I believe I have seen all the Pierce Brosnan along with all of Daniel Craig. So I hope I can give an informed review. Now to all the purist I know most of you feel that Sean Connery will always and forever be James Bond. I can agree that Sean Connery was the best Bond so far but the Bond films were not the best.
Skyfall is probably in my honest opinion one of the best 007 film I have seen. I say this because it's a more realistic James Bond. I noticed one reviewer listing either what he thought was plot holes or something he didn't like. One I believed he named was something to do with Bond running to catch up with the villain Silva (Javier Bardem) instead of stopping a police officer or getting a vehicle to catch up. It's such minor scene and yet they don't really show how Bond catches up so off screen Bond really could have stolen a car they just don't explain how it happens because it's showing M at a the hearing. Yet he mentions the older Bond films especially the Roger Moore Bond films and how they're so much more realistic. Seriously!? Like how a car can flip over and ski upside down while shooting its guns and killing the cannon fodder enemies? Or better yet the Buzz Saw in a yo-yo like device? Should I keep going the Laser Watch? The Invisible Aston Martin? How about the Hat that could cut your head off. What about the main villain telling 007 his whole plan of taking over the world then putting him in a ridiculous death trap and then walking out leaving the trap to kill Bond without actually verifying him actually dying. Instead of pumping 2 bullets into Bond's head? That to me is unrealistic and thank god the new James Bond doesn't follow these plot devices anymore. They even make a joke about it in Skyfall.
"No Mr. Bond I expect you to die!" Now the movie was longer than it should have been and I prefer Casino Royale's action to Skyfall. And I absolutely hated Quantum of Solace. So I'm not biased towards Daniel Craig and his Bond films I just think that they added a more realistic side to Bond films than any other film so far. Most Bond films always made James Bond as a super suave good looking spy who never let anything compromise his missions not emotion, losing a friend, always had the right gadget in the most dire of situations. It didn't matter if he was shot, injured, drunk, or completely tied up with no escape he would save the day and then have time to bang the hot chick who just met him 30 seconds ago. He was an unemotional unstoppable killing sex cyborg with a genius level intellect who never makes any mistakes. Which is why I like Skyfall because he isn't portrayed this way. He is still an incredibly suave extremely efficient killer, MI6 Agent, and generally will stop at nothing to complete the mission, but in Skyfall he's having to deal with feeling betrayed and being injured and loss. Also dealing with the fact that he's not a young buck anymore and it might be time for him to leave MI6 for the younger guys. The director (Sam Mendes) put in the human element. That James Bond is not perfect and bad things can happen.
Now it was a little slower than a lot of Bond films but for me that doesn't detract from the overall movie. I don't need explosions every 10 seconds or I'm falling asleep or start watching another movie in my head. I just think that overall it was one of the better Bond films. Casino Royale is my favorite still but Skyfall is definitely worthy of the title. So for other Bond fans who like the Daniel Craig films I hope you enjoy it. Don't take my word or anyone else watch it yourself and make up your own mind.