Thursday, July 31, 2008

Batman begins

Batman begins pretty well, with him as a child. I found out where the bats obsession comes from. When he was a child he fell in an abandoned wail and was attacked by some bats. From that moment on he has nightmares with bats. His parents are killed on the back alley of the Opera by a burglar. He cannot find his peace as an adult, you know seeing you parents die leaves some marks. He gives everything up and goes to find himself. He does this with the help a stranger that ends up being his mentor and later on his enemy.

Do you feel that this story is long? Hang on, I've only covered a small part of the movie. I like the part with his training, this was definitely new and interesting in Batman's story. The rest of the movie, I found it crazy annoying. To be honest, I skipped a lot of fighting, car chasing, house burning, final battle and some things I will never know. All these scenes I skipped were incredibly long, and some of them really useless, if you ask me. While watching them, besides boredom, I thought about the people that pitched the ideas. They probably opened the TV and saw what has the highest audiences and blended those elements into the movie.

There's hardly anything you can do with a superhero like Batman. So many movies were done before this one that someone like me can get pretty fed up. And what with the leading actor? I could tell that he is acting in most scene. To sum this up, it is unbelievable that a movie with such great actors can be so bad. Morgan Freeman was in it, for God's sake!

I love to watch movies

And series, and documentaries and cartoon, anime, trailers, clips. you name it.I love to watch all these. I sometimes watch them untill my eyes hurt or untill I see yellow spots.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Medium

It started like this: I was bored and wanted to watch some TV. And I stumbled into Medium. After some episodes, I couldn't stop watching it. But not for the reason producers hope: that the series is so good that it gets addictive. No! Simply because I waited for an episode where Allison Dubois will wake up like a normal person. I mean without a nightmare scaring the heck out of her. I'm watching season 4 now and nothing yet. But to be honest, I lost some episodes.

Allison Dubois is a psychic that work with the police in different cases. Yes, i know, nothing new so far. TV used the psychic "element" for a long time. Sometimes the cases are interesting, sometimes completely predictable. They would be boring if not for the nightmares, the way she wakes up from them and the hot husband.

Why should you watch this show? I got nothing.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Kung fu panda

How would you feel to see new movie? But "new"is too much to say about Kung Fu Panda. While seeing this film could shake the idea that I saw it before. Maybe the fact that it uses the same old looser getting better idea that a lot of movies used before.

A panda works in his father restaurant and wants to be a kung fu fighter despite him being fat and terribly clumsy. And, of course she becomes a flightier and not just any fighter, but the Dragon warrior. Then he and his master discover that under all that fat there is a warrior, it just needed some more food to come out. He fights, wins and the village is saved.

This cartoon was not funny, did not bring anything new and simply insisted on the fact that any looser will prove himself if a crazy luck hits him. To this all, the characters seemed a little scary. I mean, Paul really looks like a toy from a horror movie.

I think kids will love this movie, but grown ups will feel like they are having reheated soup. Again!

Sunday, July 27, 2008

You don't mess with the Zohan

First, let me just say that I'm not big Adam Sandler fan. I do think that his comedy with a touch of moral at the end is silly. But then, I'm sure that if I asked him, he would agree.

You don't mess with the Zohan is a nice, light comedy that you should watch when you are a bit tired and don't feel like thinking too much. Also, you will need English subtitles because the actors fake a pretty good Arabic accent. Watching without subtitles, I didn't get some jokes.

The story is not new at all. A very good Israeli agent wants to be "hhhhair stylist" and make everyone "silky smooth". When he tells his parents, they have a good laugh and their reaction makes Zohan cry his eyes out and then create a diversion so he could run to the US. In the US, he goes straight to his idol, Paul Mitchell to ask for a job, but the idol is not available. He ends up working in small saloon, and you are not sure if he becomes so popular because he makes everyone " silky smooth" or because he sleeps with his lady clients. He fells for his boss, a beautiful Palestinian that is actually his life long enemy's sister. Guess how the movie ends? All the matters are solved and everyone is happy. Who could have suspected such a twist?

What I loved? "Nononononononono" I keep using this in my conversation now. See the movie and tell me if it doesn't stick to you.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

My name is Earl

Season 3 of My name is Earl brings a long line of twists. Earl in prison, comma, married and then separated or divorced, I'm not really sure. All these are bound to keep you in front of the TV, especially if you are a fan. I am one and I truly enjoyed this season. I was somewhat nervous because season one and two seemed to have worn out the do-good-things idea. But that was when Earl did a great thing and got in prison for it: confessed for the kidnapping Joy did. He did this, not because he feared that Joy can't handle prison, but because he would have broken up a family. I particularly like the scene where the offensive Joy saves pudding for her children. The first episode begins with: "My name is inmate...".

How can you not love this?