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Godzilla (2014)
"we call him... AWESOME!!! (sorry. i mean Godzilla)"
Being a fan of monster movies i always go into these films with high hopes. sometimes i walk out of the cinema expectedly disappointed and sometimes i walk out feeling satisfied. Godzilla i immediately got hyped for because i was dying to see if it could be worse than the Roland Emmerich one. but after seeing the first trailer i was intensely surprised at the first 20 seconds of that trailer.
i went into this movie really exited and of course the outcome wasn't what i wanted but what i knew it would be. i'm not saying that i predicted the ending i mean that i thought the movie looked good but i wasn't expecting "the greatest movie of the year" type thing because the film clearly is not.
first of all i will say that the cast of the movie is great but my only casting problem was Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Not that i am saying he's a bad actor i think he's a great actor but his character was just an emotionless statue. from the start of the movie i was seeing a lot of emotional entanglement with Brian Cranston but that's where i got my biggest disappointment of the movie. after we get through his great performance he gets killed about a half hour in and that really disappointed me because he was doing such a great job at solving this mystery but even when he gets killed his own son is barley showing any emotion at all. i will say i liked Kim Wantanabe's character but i didn't like his acting. every scene he appears in he has the exact same expression on his face i am being serious, nearly every scene.
but onto what everyone is talking about in this movie, Godzilla. the biggest complaint i have heard is that Godzilla is hidden from you but i was glad that they were keeping Godzilla away for a while because i didn't want them to just be throwing huge monster fights on screen, no you can leave that to Pacific Rim. if you were getting the big monster fight from the mid section of the movie there would be nothing to look forward to at the end and the wait is worth it because of the climax of the Mutos life.
the build up and tensity of this movie i really loved, people keep complaining they kept hiding Godzilla but surly you are enjoying these big Mutos that pretty much look like a cross between Clover and the Arachnids from starship troopers.
all and all i would say that Godzilla is a very enjoyable movie the build up is great, the fights are great, the monsters look fantastic and probably only but biggest let down was the characters.
Dead Rising (2006)
"i've covered wars, you know"
zombies has always and will always be a strong and overly entertaining Genre in the video game world. games like resident evil showed us the terror of what video games can be along with many others but dead rising just shows you the sheer fun of slicing and dicing zombies.
you play as photojournalist, Frank West who, just like every paparazzi wants pictures, names, details, secrets, lies, truth etc and he will even put himself through a mall full of zombies. yes we all know the first thing that you think of but forget it. Frank West is a pretty funny character but relying on a camera and being a bit of a douche can get annoying at times. other characters you will meet are the DHS agents or psychopaths. the psychopaths are a brilliant aspect for this game because it is possibly one of the things you are going to run into most often. some of the psychos are funny, some are weird and some are just plain creepy.
this is a game that makes you work a little bit because it is like every game made, you will start out as completely nothing but the more survivors you save the more PP you will get and the more your health will go up and your speed, attack, item stock and special moves will upgrade. because you can go to your status screen you know when something is fully upgraded and when it's not so you will want to see what it is like to have all upgrades. from start of this game you only have three life bars which if you are starting from scratch will be almost impossible to beat because by the time you meet the first psychopaths (which is either Carlito, Adam the clown or the convicts)you will only have about four life bars by then and that makes this game really hard but that is what cap com does, they give you a challenge.
but the game is not all slice and dice you can rescue survivors as well as but survivors are all over the mall so you could be miles away from the security room (that you can only access through the air ducts)but escorting these survivors is one of the most annoying things to do in video game history because they are absolutely useless, you need to pretty much baby them. they won't use weapons when necessary they will stop move randomly and they will run into a crowd of zombies even if you have cleared a path for them. but if you do succeed in taking about four survivors back to the security room you will feel pretty good about yourself.
the game play itself is pretty good but it does get really annoying when you can't move while aiming. in a world where pretty much anything can be used as a weapon you can still find the time for other stuff such as changing clothes or doing survivor missions. the game has several endings and the story is broken into case files that have specific time limits. you don't need to do them but if you don't that's when you can try and save survivors because if you try and do it during story mode you need to keep track of time and you won't be able to help them if you are late for a case file but you can save survivors but i wouldn't suggest trying to save survivors on the third day while you are doing the story, because by then Zombies are shoulder to shoulder in the mall.
all and all dead rising is a very fun game, it has loads to look at and loads to find, the game play is a little stale but we forgive that when we get used to it.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
a 142 minute post-credits scene
(NO SPOILERS WILL BE IN THIS REVIEW)
I went into this movie with such high hopes for a number of reasons. one is because i thought that the first amazing spider-man movie was a great reboot. although i still do like the Sam Raimi spider-man movies but i felt that the first amazing spider man told Peter Parkers story much better and that Andrew Garfield was a better Peter Parker.
i think my main problem with this movie is that it is hardly it's own movie it relied way to much on build up for the sequels rather than the premise of it's own movie that this film is starving for. a lot of peoples worries in this movie was that there were to many villains but honestly you don't need to worry about that.
i think the weakness of this reboot is probably the villains. the first amazing spider-man movie had lizard who by the end of the movie wasn't even that memorable he just seemed like that big cliché of a superhero movie and that is what electro is in the amazing spider-man 2. i won't talk much more about electro because that will be in a different review. the peter parker and Gwen Stacey story line is really good because the relationship that they have is in a word, sweet, shall we say and the conflict that starts going on between them is overly realistic but with what's happening, their story line keeps jumping back and forth to the point that it starts to annoy you. Jamie Foxx as electro was really really good but the biggest let down was that even though he is the villain mostly seen in the movie, he is not the main villain.
i didn't expect this movie to be fantastic but i didn't expect it to be as bad as it was.