Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Back to the Future Part two (1989)

Warning there will be spoilers. Leave now if you don't want to be spoiled.
 

Back to the Future: Part two (1986)


It starts off with the original ending of the first film, it starts off with future Doc "Emmet Brown" (Christopher Lloyd) arriving to Marty (Micheal J. Fox) and Jennifer Parker (Elisabeth Shue).

Doc tells them about they need to go with him to the future and of course they go with him. Marty says that they don't have enough room, to go to 88 Miles per-hour, With the upgraded DeLorean, it can now fly, so they go to 2015 to stop Marty's son from being arrested.
Then about 10 minutes later in the film, old Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) grabs the sports almanac that Marty bought earlier, and takes the DeLorean to 1955 and give his younger self the sports almanac, which then causes him to be rich and make 1985A.

The effects are great, especially at the start, when they head into the camera. The music once again is fantastic, like the hole film's music is fantastic, nothing bad about it. The acting is good aswell, but some parts are bad, like where Marty is stalking Biff. You would think Biff would notice someone following him half way through.

The story is really good, well if you are like me and like time travel movies that messes with your head. I find this movie a bit better then the original mainly because there isn't any awkward parts, well one, but not a lot. The ending is also good, loved it when they added the trailer for the third film.

In 1989 there was of course, NES, Atari's and so on. In the future part, they have a NES arcade machine with a shooting gun, I found it really odd, I expected something else, but they are in 1989 at the time, they could of like played a video clip of someone running and the kid hooked up to the machine and running. But besides all that, I really hate the Chicken joke, it got old very fast, you'd think Marty would be better with it.

I give it 7/10 I didn't really enjoy it much.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Back to the Future: Part one (1985)

Warning there will be spoilers. Leave now if you don't want to be spoiled.
 
Back to the Future: Part one (1985)
One of the greatest movies I have ever seen, Back to the Future takes place in 1985 and 1955.
Staring Marty Mcfly (Michael J Fox),  Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd), Lorraine Baines (Lea Thompson), George Mcfly (Crispin Glover), Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) and Jennifer Parker (Claudia Wells)


The movie starts off showing Marty going into Doc's house in 1985 to see Doc, but he isn't there, so Marty starts up this large Amp to play some guitar, turn it all up to max and starts to play, but gets pushed back to the wall.
The phone rings and Marty answers, it turns out to be Doc, and he mentions not to use the Amp since it is broken (I don't remember what he said) and that the clock is set 15-30 minutes back, Marty then realizes that he is late for school, he arrives to school, and Jennifer takes Marty a different way in, to avoid the principal. He then goes to enter in a band contest (I think it is), but fails, later on Doc rings Marty to go to Twin pines mall to meet him there, when he arrives, he gets the Delorean out.
Doc puts Einstein (His dog) into the time machine (Delorean), and sends him one minute into the future, and then some gang arrives to kill Doc, they shoot him and they go after Marty in the Delorean.

The music is fantastic, the whole movie is hilarious. The acting is really fantastic, the best I seen, the storyline is fantastic, but there are some awkward parts, and honestly, I do not like awkward parts, but nearly all movies (Not just BTTF) have awkward parts, the editing is fantastic for its time.
I would of liked it if they mentioned the way Doc and Marty met, even if it was a bonus feature, and for the ending, It is the best, honestly if this was re-made in 3D, the ending would have been better.

Overall I give it 8.5/10

Monday, March 19, 2012

Wayne's World SNES (1993)

Warning there will be spoilers. Leave now if you don't want to be spoiled.
So I am mixing it up a tiny bit, not going to be doing alot of movie reviews like before, so to fill in the times without movies, I decided to also do game reviews.


Wayne's World (1993)
For the Super nintendo entertaintment system.

Now I have not seen the movie that the game is about.
But I have heard about some scenes and Characters from friends.

You start off playing as Wayne (Mike Myers) in this what I assume, a recording station, the enemies in the levels are instruments. Such as bagpipes, trumpets, broken amps, etc.

I would actually played more but the game is really hard, The whole level is a maze, there are walls in certain areas that you can not go pass, which I assume is to help people not get lost. You have to collect power ups, I am actually not sure what to call them since it doesn't tell you. The thumbs that you pick up basically add "health" to the health bar, which isn't very obvious I actually didn't know I had a health bar till I was at the end boss.
The rest are just arrows pointing up that you collect and some others I forgot, you do have a set of lifes, total of 5 which is basically enough for everyone..Well if the game wasn't completely hard, Level 2 after the Recording station is a Cafe, which is really odd since you are about the size of a cup. Which I found very odd, but this level was much easier. There are some weird enemies and of them which I assume is Mr. Doughnut man head. It is really hard to tell what it is at first, since it seems to have different colour doughnuts.

The controls, they are bad, but I wouldn't go as far to say that they really are bad. Basic actions, jumping, shooting from your guitar, which I find amusing. Graphics in gameplay are fantastic for its time, but the "Cutscenes" are bad. The voice clips are re-used over and over, and does get annoying and the same with the music, it is repeated, and I am pretty sure I heard a bad remake of foxxy lady in one of the levels. You can not shoot up, and the bossess are hard which I very much like in a video game. The player head reminds me of bobble heads and south park, but I would of liked it to be smaller. I also forgot to mention the flying Discs (I forgot the name) that are on drums, they make a real annoying sound when they are near you.

But overall, I enjoyed the game, could of been better. I give it 5/10.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Planet of the apes 2001 remake.
There will be spoilers, becareful. Also LONG READ
 Ah, a remake from the greatest movie in the franchise.
The only problem is, that this is CRAP.
This is like an insult to the original movie.

The year 2029, aboard the United States Air Force station, Leo (Mark Wahlberg) works closely with apes who are trained for space tasks. His favorite ape co-worker is a chimpanzee named Pericles. With a electromagnetic storm approaching the station, a small space pod piloted by Pericles is used to probe the storm. Pericles's pod heads into the storm and disappears. Against his commanding officer's orders, Leo takes a second pod and goes in pursuit of Pericles. Entering the storm, Leo crashes on a planet called Ashlar in the year 5021. He discovers that the world is ruled by apes who can speak human language and treat human beings as slaves.
Leo comes across a female ape named Ari (Helena Carter), who protests the awful treatment humans receive. Ari decides to buy Leo and a female slave named Daena (Estella Warren) to have them work as servants in the house of her father, Senator Sandar. Leo escapes his cage and frees other humans. Ari sees them, but Leo manages to convince Ari to join a human rebellion against the apes.

General Thade and Colonel Attar march ape warriors in pursuit of the humans. Leo discovers Calima, a forbidden, but holy, site for the apes.

Now on to the bad parts of this movie.
In the original movie, the humans would be mute and couldn't speak, even the main character didnt speak since he got shot in the throat. But in this one, they all talk even before being captured.
They broke a rule mentioned in Battle of the planet of the apes (Ape shall never kill ape), of course Aldo did it then, but they never killed an ape in the original movie. Anyway like I was saying, Thade (who actually looks like ceaser from TROTPOTA which I find nice), kills about 2 apes, and Attar kills 1 ape.
They tried to fit two movies in, Planet of the apes (original) and uh, Conquest of the planet of the apes. It kinda worked, but it never happened like the way in the original, I actually forgot if they did add one, but I remember it was nothing like this if it was in the original.

4/10

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

Well, I finally managed to find the movie, I would fit the 2001 movie in, but uh, not enough room.
There will be spoilers, becareful.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

This sequel follows the ape leader, Ceaser (Roddy McDowall), many years after he led the revolution in the previous film, Caesar tries to cultivate peace between the apes and the surviving humans. A gorilla general named Aldo (Claude Akins), however, Caesar is married to Lisa (Natalie Trundy), the female ape of the previous film.
They have a son, named Cornelius (Bobby Porter) in honor of Caesar's father.

Caesar regrets having never known his parents until his human assistant MacDonald (Austin Stoker) tells him about film archives of his parents, The archives are located in the Forbidden City, after obtaining weapons from the armory, Caesar travels with MacDonald and Virgil (Paul Williams) to the Forbidden City and sneaks in to find the archives. However, there are radiation-scarred humans still living there under the command of Governor Kolp (Severn Darden). Caesar and his party view the recordings of Cornelius and Zira and learn about the future of the world, but barely have time to study the tapes before they have to escape being captured. Caesar assembles a meeting to report his discoveries at the Forbidden City.

Most of the time the apes mouth wouldn't move with talking, but now it hardly does, you do notice it, but not alot like the other movies, so I am happy they were working on it.
Ceaser, Virgil and Macdonald were pretty stupid in the forbidden zone, if they wanted peace, wouldn't they stop, put their hands up and say "We come in peace"? I seriously expected that, but uh, I guess it is hard when you are being shot at. The mutant radioactive human well, not really mutant, even tho they can contact via thoughts, are also stupid.
If they wanted them captured, why shoot them? Seriously, why not firstly say "Freeze" or "stop"? Nope, they didn't, they just wanted to shoot them. By the way, I understand if it was just apes, but there is Macdonald with them.

There was mutant radioactive human thing, that actually said to the governor of the forbidden city, that maybe the apes and the human was just searching for something, and was there in peace. I suspected that he would go warn the apes, what did he do? Nothing, let them set a nuke up, let them gear up, do not tell the apes and play checkers, yes...He really did play checkers.

I give it 7.5/10

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

Hey guys, I got a movie review, and I decided to review ANY movie I see, instead of the cinema ones.
THERE will be spoilers, THIS is a review site, becareful.

Resident Evil: Extinction 2007
I have not seen the other movies, I only found this when I was randomly searching through the TV.

The film begins with Alice (Milla Jovovich) waking up at the mansion, just like the end of the first Resident Evil. Alice defeats the usual obstacles, Her body is taken outside and dumped into a pit. The pit is then shown to be filled with hundreds of Alice clones. The shack is surrounded by a high fence and hundreds of zombies trying to get in the facillity.
A couple of years after the T-virus escaped Raccoon City, it has spread around the world. Umbrella (I have no idea what that is, I am actually reading the wikipedia to remember some stuff) has placed underground facilities to prevent anyone from the survivors to find out about Umbrella.

Later in the film, there is a cargo in las vegas, with the eiffel Tower and other stuff from all of the world, which I find weird, but I never seen the other films and maybe they kinda explain it.
Anyway, the cargo has zombies in it, but there is only one on set, and there is about a hole town in it, but a cargo could not FIT half a town in it, which I found stupid, they either put more cargo's around the town, or not. I did find it cool that some one climbed the eiffel tower for a sniping spot.

I really enjoyed this film, but the cargo part was stupid in my opinion, was there more? Were they lying down? Or is it a portal in it, but yes, in alot of films it tends to happen, but still, I find it kinda stupid.
I also did kind of expect Jill valentine or Claire to be the main character, but from what I know, Jill was not mentioned and Claire was in the movie but still. Didn't notice she was.

The acting is good, the zombie costumes kinda are okay, they from a 6 from the 1 to 10 scale, they should of explained it abit better, the ending was fantastic, seriously, I really want to see the other films. So much for infomation, it is pretty late, and I do not remember alot.
5/10.

Friday, January 20, 2012

No new reviews this month

I got bad news and good news. The bad news is, me volunteering is still going BUT, instead of two movies a month, it is one, and let alone, its a 50% of a good film of one happening.
Good news, I will be doing other reviews such as video games.

And the planet of the apes reviews will continue, just none this month. Sorry everyone, that is if anyone reads this. I shall see you next month.