Having watched the new Sacha Baron Cohen movie Bruno or Brüno, I feel rather confused about the movie. The movie is very funny at times as well as very shocking at times with scenes of homosexuality. The movie can be hard to understand at times. I feel the movie has two aims, one to entertain the viewer as well as get a message across that homophobic views are still very strong. There is a scene where Bruno is pretending to be a fighter and is bragging about his heterosexually to build up the crowd. There are people in the audience wearing t-shirts with homophobic words. He then lets someone into the ring only to start kissing the guy. I feel this scene really shows how much people still find homosexuality offensive. I do not feel the movie is as good as Borat and I did not feel it would be. I would say anyone who likes Borat or Ali G to give it a go but I do not know if I will watch it again.
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Monday, 20 July 2009
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
The Butterfly Effect and the Butterfly Effect 2
Having just watched the first two Butterfly effect movies, I can see that they are both with their holes and forgot all about the black outs from the first one.
The story of the first one is a man who suffers blackouts and memory loss as a child is told to write a journal. He has some very dramatic events in his live and manages to blackout during these events. During a date his date asks for him to read from his journal and he realises he has the ability to go back although believes it was only a dream. He tries again and burns himself only to have the scar when he awakes. The movie is good till about half way where he goes back and stabs his hands to prove to someone he has a connection to Jesus. This is forgetting the whole butterfly effect. If a young boy would have cut his hands like that his life would have been different.
The way I believe the above could be possible though is because they already were planning to see a doctor over the picture he drew, they may have managed to live the life the same way. But even going to the hospital and calling his mother up would probably have changed something.
The second movie was a lot better the second time around but still lacks something that the first had. The start of the second movie reminds me some how of a Final Destination movie. The blood to make the 2 in The Butter Fly Effect 2 logo was very comedy horror. The second movie is about a guy who gets to use the ability to see how his life would be if he would have had his girlfriend or made deals at work. The movies it makes everyone life have something very wrong. I would recommend the movies as I enjoyed them.
The story of the first one is a man who suffers blackouts and memory loss as a child is told to write a journal. He has some very dramatic events in his live and manages to blackout during these events. During a date his date asks for him to read from his journal and he realises he has the ability to go back although believes it was only a dream. He tries again and burns himself only to have the scar when he awakes. The movie is good till about half way where he goes back and stabs his hands to prove to someone he has a connection to Jesus. This is forgetting the whole butterfly effect. If a young boy would have cut his hands like that his life would have been different.
The way I believe the above could be possible though is because they already were planning to see a doctor over the picture he drew, they may have managed to live the life the same way. But even going to the hospital and calling his mother up would probably have changed something.
The second movie was a lot better the second time around but still lacks something that the first had. The start of the second movie reminds me some how of a Final Destination movie. The blood to make the 2 in The Butter Fly Effect 2 logo was very comedy horror. The second movie is about a guy who gets to use the ability to see how his life would be if he would have had his girlfriend or made deals at work. The movies it makes everyone life have something very wrong. I would recommend the movies as I enjoyed them.
Sunday, 5 April 2009
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelation
Having seen and loved the first The Butterfly Effect and seen the second The Butterfly Effect 2. I did not really like the second movie as I felt it would have been nicer to see a prequel to the first. I did feel it was an acceptable revisit to the universe. This movie was a mess. They were messing up the theory too much for it to be believable. I am a very trusting viewer and I like to accept that although a movie may seem unreal if it is real from within their universes then I accept it. The way I saw the theory and I am sure others feel the same is:
1. Objects such as photos, journals, etc can trigger a flashback where you can revisit a past moment. This is in effect time travel.
2. It would allow one with the ability to change their and those that is affected by their actions.
3. If one was to do something such as save someone from an accident upon coming out of the flashback. The time would have been fixed and the person would have lived and may or may not be alive still depending on weather or not they died since the flashback.
Where the movie goes wrong is it has now lost the need for photos or journals (point 1) and replaced it by the need of a dark bathroom with a bath of ice. This may be possible in their world given that it could induce a state that would allow the transportation into the previous moments/memories.
The movie is about a man who has the ability and uses it with the supervision of his sister to go to crime screens and witness them. He then sells the information claming to be a psychic. This goes against point 2/3 by moving ones self from ones pervious location they would change where they was before. Such as if one was buying food at the time of the murder and later revisited the moment and went to witness the crime, one would not have got food and would then need to still buy it and hence change the course of history. The first movie meant that every change (apart from the Jesus moment) always changed the time when they came out of it. The movie could provide a solution to this problem one being that his life is very boring and he does not change any events. The movie also fails by the fact everyone around him seems to know his ability and the common talk about these rules makes it more annoying than a pleasure to watch. The ending is well completely stupid with the murder unable to provide the information that they give at the time they gave it in the movie. He also breaks the ice rule at the end. Sorry if I have given to much information away I have tried to keep it as brief as possible. I would recommend the movie only to those who enjoy the theory. The movie is watchable and I would watch it again but is not a very believable story. One last point about the whole horror thing, these movies is better in my opinion to be thrillers not horrors, unless you can pull it off and in this case it really cannot. If you do watch the movie I hope you enjoy it as although I have complained a lot I did enjoy it and thought it was nice to go back into the Butterfly effects world.
1. Objects such as photos, journals, etc can trigger a flashback where you can revisit a past moment. This is in effect time travel.
2. It would allow one with the ability to change their and those that is affected by their actions.
3. If one was to do something such as save someone from an accident upon coming out of the flashback. The time would have been fixed and the person would have lived and may or may not be alive still depending on weather or not they died since the flashback.
Where the movie goes wrong is it has now lost the need for photos or journals (point 1) and replaced it by the need of a dark bathroom with a bath of ice. This may be possible in their world given that it could induce a state that would allow the transportation into the previous moments/memories.
The movie is about a man who has the ability and uses it with the supervision of his sister to go to crime screens and witness them. He then sells the information claming to be a psychic. This goes against point 2/3 by moving ones self from ones pervious location they would change where they was before. Such as if one was buying food at the time of the murder and later revisited the moment and went to witness the crime, one would not have got food and would then need to still buy it and hence change the course of history. The first movie meant that every change (apart from the Jesus moment) always changed the time when they came out of it. The movie could provide a solution to this problem one being that his life is very boring and he does not change any events. The movie also fails by the fact everyone around him seems to know his ability and the common talk about these rules makes it more annoying than a pleasure to watch. The ending is well completely stupid with the murder unable to provide the information that they give at the time they gave it in the movie. He also breaks the ice rule at the end. Sorry if I have given to much information away I have tried to keep it as brief as possible. I would recommend the movie only to those who enjoy the theory. The movie is watchable and I would watch it again but is not a very believable story. One last point about the whole horror thing, these movies is better in my opinion to be thrillers not horrors, unless you can pull it off and in this case it really cannot. If you do watch the movie I hope you enjoy it as although I have complained a lot I did enjoy it and thought it was nice to go back into the Butterfly effects world.
Saturday, 4 April 2009
X-Men Origins Leak
Having just seen the new X-Men movie called X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Yes it was the leak. I am very pleased with it and the movie is over twice as good as the fail that was X-Men the Last Stand. The movie really allows the viewer to learn about Wolverine which was always by favourite X-Men character anyway. The movie shows Wolverine as a child with his brother Victor/Sabre tooth. The movie introduction is also very nice showing Wolverine going through the various wars he took part in. I feel the movie is well done and the story does not fail to entertain. Finding out how and why and when Wolverine got his adamantium skeleton. I would recommend any fans to watch it as well as people who hated X-Men the last stand.
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