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Breaking Bad: Ozymandias (2013)
Better than the series finale ( no spoilers )
How can you describe how great this episode was, you can't, because there are no words.
Firstly I have to say that this was one of the best episodes I've ever watched not just of breaking bad but of any TV series I've watched.
The acting was great and by great I mean really really great and very believable. The story was also really really great , the story in this episode changed the way that I thought of many characters in breaking bad, no doubt it was better than the series finale too. If it wasn't for this episode I woudnt have thought of breaking bad as the best TV series ever made.
Have I ever shivered or teared up while watching an episode of a TV series before, no , but now I have . After watching this one I literally had to sit in front of the television for about ten minutes even after the episode had ended because I just couldn't believe it, six months later I still shiver when I think about what happened in this episode.
It also isn't just the beginning or the end of this episode that's soo great it's the entire episode, it has so much of drama and Skyler's character I though was acted out very well by Anna gunn ( if I am not mistaken).
this episode cannot be missed out by any breaking bad fans. best episode.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Days of future past vs what I expected it to be like.
I expected a lot after reading the reviews and watching the trailers and all but from the minute the movie started I knew that I had been tricked.
First of all the beginning of this movie wasn't as great as the beginning of first class. Due to this weak start my expectations for the rest of the movie lowered. A film like this needs a good beginning, which I thought the dark knight movies gave us. Days of future past gives us a very messy start and one might find it hard to concentrate or to watch the beginning because there was too much happening everywhere all together. There's something happening here then something else happens there and then we completely forget what just happened before that.
The acting was OK, but the directing was bad. Mostly because it's not possible to see most parts because it's really really dark. I do understand that they've done that on purpose as to show the darkness that there living in but seriously couldn't they make it just a little bit less darker. Also the slow motion, I loved the slow motion in the beginning half of the film. That part was breathtaking and it was one of my favorite parts of the entire movie ( of course I mean the pentagon part). But as you go more and more into the movie you can realize that almost half of the movie is in slow motion, some of it unnecessary.
The story was OK. It wasn't thought through well. Firstly it didn't make much sense. The story at the beginning half made it look like the story could have a really good prestige like, shocking ending but ended weirdly and not making sense at all. I have no idea how they are going to make a sequel for this with that ending. If they do make a sequel , I don't think it will have a lot to do with this. Also some parts of the movie were slow making it a bit boring.
I really preferred first class in all ways ( this didn't even have any humor at all.) anyways it was watchable but not what you might expect it to be.
Godzilla (2014)
So many movies to watch , is Godzilla the right choice
I When to watch Godzilla with high hopes but also with the fact in the back of my mind that it might turn out to be as bad as pacific rim. It did neither, it was in the middle.
There were some bad things about it and some good so as always I'll start with the good.
I went to watch Godzilla after making a very hard choice between the new X-men movie and edge of tomorrow. Before I went to watch it I read the user reviews and the critics reviews and after reading both I realized equal amounts of users and critics have liked it and equal amounts have, we'll not really liked it. So anyway, I thought why not and I went to watch Godzilla.
Opening scene and the few scenes following it, I thought was a very good start for a blockbuster monster flick. Throughout the movie there were nicely filmed scenes with different filming angles and all that made this film very modern and i believe the director of Godzilla is the director that's got the closest to being as good as Christopher Nolan in directing. With epic camera shots and perfectly timed sound effects and very well picked music that gives this movie a very grand touch in the same time making you shiver in excitement, especially the part with the U.S. Soldiers jumping off the aero plane with the red dust or whatever it was and not to forget Godzilla looked quite real and scary.
Now for the bad, the acting to start with. Acting was very poor I thought and especially when you take children as some scenes main focus, you must know that the acting should be good, the only acting I thought was excellent was Heisenberg's as always. Also the destruction scenes and the fight scenes and all that are supposed to be epic have been made too epic, which is a bad thing because it makes it all silly and sometimes I wanted to close my eyes and wish it wasn't there in the movie because it was making me well less like it. The storyline was OK, not that bad and as I said it was the fight scenes and the destruction scenes that looked a bit silly which also affected the storyline a little.
As I said the first half of the movie was good but as it got to the second half it only got messier and less realistic and by the time it got to the end the story and all was just chaos. Still it was a watchable movie and if you want to watch something else instead then watch something else as this won't be as great as the movie you'll be looking forward to.
Not as bad as pacific rim and I think it was the cool filming and the music that really got it at least seven.
Django Unchained (2012)
Great work with very few flaws
Trailers,shorts, all show you nothing but disappointment to look forward to but once you actually see this three hour masterpiece you wonder why you didn't think of this movie before. The great cast, the super storyline and the slightly silly but practical humor keeps you wanting to watch more of this movie.
The cast I personally thought was wonderful especially Cristopher waltz Performance as the German dentist I thought stole the movie. The humor was very well written although of cos some might not notice it like I did at the very beginning of the film but as you get to the end it's a non stop laughing festival.
The hair and make up was wonderful as Samuel l Jackson might not be recognized by a few.the setting of the film also I thought was exceptional as it gives you a sense of darkness and cruelty but at the same time it's easy and not overdone.
To sum up, django unchained was a great film with a few flaws such as a few unnecessary scenes that make the film a bit too long and also something that should have been reduced is the blood and gore that is visible when someone is shot, as it makes you want to vomit. But still it's a very watchable film that deserves it's Oscars.
The Book Thief (2013)
Very watchable
From the badly done trailer this may seem to be a boring movie but once you watch it you might wonder why it wasn't nominated for best picture. From the perfectly picked music to the flawless acting the book thief is nothing but perfection. In some cases I personally thought it was more entertaining than Schindlers list. It wasn't the normal World War Two movie. It had various side stories which in some ways all connected to make this incredibly powerful movie. The setting and filming has been done so greatly that it is so realistic and so intense but at the same time so very watchable. I was put off by the rating on some sites so I refused to watch it but then one day I found it in the DVD player so I watched it for the sake of it and by the end of it my heart was beating so fast from all that adrenaline and there were butterflies in my stomach from that great and very inspiring story. If I had nothing else to watch I wouldn't mind watching this again cause I know it wouldn't bore me to watch it for the second or even third time.
About Time (2013)
Great
This is one of the movies you have to add to your must watch list. I was expecting it to be a hilarious and sweet movie with a lot of secrets and drama and it did have it all. Except that it wasn't my type of humor it did make me laugh a couple of times. It's also sadder that one might expect it to be but they've made this movie in a way that when the scene gets sad it always changes into a happy mood. Just watch it you won't ever regret it.I also thought the acting was great especially the characters who aren't the main ones. The whole plot was really really good and it's not one of the typical time traveling kind of movie, it's really original and it's very very watchable. Just watch it no matter what the other reviews say.