This movie was pretty good. I was worried that the charm of the movie wouldn’t last through the entire 1 hour and fifty minute run time, but where the charm failed, the dry humor was there to pick up the slack.

As the summary said, Bill Murray is hunting down a shark that killed his friend, and the movie is about this journey to get revenge. The plot is simple and it has some pretty fun moments with a few twists and turns that at least keep you interested into it. Wes Anderson Movies are always that way, Charming and slightly awkward. They defiantly have the cringe factor but it does it in such a way where it really works. The story was alright but it’s the interactions between the characters that really make this movie. While they never really go in depth with many of the characters the characters that they do go into have a very interesting relationships.

The music is really, really good. It’s David Bowie songs covered and translated to Portuguese by Seu Jorge, and it is fantastic. If you want a movie with a great soundtrack this is a movie for you. They cut from the actual story just to have Seu Jorge sing a part of the song. This sounds like a bad thing but I really like it actually. The music really adds some atmosphere to this movie and it’s simply put nice.

Awards

Best Soundtrack

A charming story

First off this review will contain spoilers, which is fine because no one should watch this movie.

You know how some movies can be vague but still give enough answers where it feels like you can watch it and know what’s going on the first time watching it? we this movie tries to do that but it completely fails at it, it does not explain practically anything. The movie follows a group of mercenaries, what they’re doing you don’t find out till the end of the movie. They have these two hostages, why they’re there? The movie keeps it extremely vague. On a farm the mercenaries leaves one guy and finds another girl. why this girl is important to the story, no one can say. I could literally ask a thousand more questions, like why did they feel the need to have a pooping scene, but honestly there’s really no point in asking these questions because for most of them they’re not going to have any answers. Movies that keep things purposefully vague for the sake of adding a feeling of tension are alright if they do it well, but this one doesn’t.

The twist of the movie is that this was all an experiment by some amoral company to test… some sort of orange powder. This movie is also really slow and nothing really noteworthy happens in it. I’d say the only reason someone should watch this movie is if they wanted to waste an hour and a half.

AWARDS!

One Million Questions!

least adventure in an action adventure movie.

This first part of the review will be thoughts and comments that I had while watching the movie.

• The first thing this movie shows you after the studios is this quote from some sort of ghost hunting book written by the main character.
• “OBSERVATION: Between 1914 and 1919 war and influenza have claimed more than a million lives in Britain alone.
• CONCLUSION: This is a time for ghosts.”
• -Florence Cathcart ‘Seeing Through Ghosts’ p7.

• This is just silly to me, she sounds like a middle schooler trying to be all macabre and edgy. I think I now have a better idea of what this movie is going to be like.

• I always feel weird watching movies set in the time right before world war two, seeing all these kids running around and knowing that in a few years they’ll be shipped off to war. This would set off a second time for ghosts, well I guess they’ll always have content for a sequel.

• It’s super odd how they’re getting a hoax critic to solve a very real death even if it may have been a spook that killed him.

• They’re using the same building as the one in a version of pride and prejudice I had to watch for highschool and it made me instantly dislike this movie.

• It also has the actor who plays bran stark from Game of Thrones which makes me feel bad about myself because someone younger than me is way more successful.

You know that one cliche where they finish a conversation about going somewhere and the next scene they’re already halfway there? Well, this movie does it but she never actually agreed to want to go, and there wasn’t even any indication that she was going to change her mind, which leads me to believe that they forgot to make the scene where she finally agrees or they didn’t care enough to actually put it in.

Okay, this is one of those twist movies that attempts to explain scenes that didn’t originally make sense, and without giving away the twist I have to say it’s one that originally got me. That is until I thought about it more and realized that there was ZERO indication of the twist. well there was some things but you really have to watch it a second time, but there also some scenes that really didn’t show this off too well. It just kind of changed everything and said: “this is how things are now, this is what happened”.

I’m writing this while watching the end of the movie and it’s pretty good, you just have to think about it. But I don’t like thinking while watching movies. I’ll have to give this movie the prestigious “a smart movie for smart people” award.

Awards

Most Twisty and probably best twist I’ve seen

Movie that Demands a second watch, in a good way, you know kind of like Sixth Sense *cough cough*.

This movie was not a very fun one to watch, Nick cage’s ability to see 2 minutes into the future is used quite extensively. It even has some decent story points but halfway through the movie, they change it to where he can actually see what’s going on with the nuke. It’s pretty much only functions as a way for the story to continue, and aside from the first 10 minutes or so doesn’t really feel all that neat. The characters were all fairly decent, I didn’t have a problem with any of them for the most part, although Nick Cage is always a weird actor who, at least to me, seems he’s always miscast.

This movie also plays around with the whole, scenes in the movie don’t actually happen it was all in the hero’s head, which is one of the most dangerous things a movie can do in my eyes. In fact, pretty much the entire second half of the movie is one of these, The whole second half of the movie is just a vision that Nick Cage has. This instantly makes me really dislike this movie. Movies like “The Last King” or “Wyrmwood” at least have some irredeemable qualities, but this movie is not one of those. The story is boring, Nick Cage just make things awkward, and the good points are all just decent. Bottom line I don’t recommend this movie.

Awards

First Bad Movie I reviewed

Making half of the movie completely useless with one scene

(I’ll try to keep the spoilers to a minimum)

What promised to be a fun friendship filled Pokemon adventure turned out to be a horror movie with not even a mention of a haunter. I was kind of expecting this, though hoping for it to not be the case. Anyways the movie itself was actually pretty decent all be it fast, although I don’t think that this is a completely negative point. The speed makes the movie makes it feel like the story is unfolding rapidly and it really makes the movie feel like this whole thing is the climax of a much larger story.

The movie starts out with the “rebellious teenage girl” archetype, she also plays a clarinet which you never really see in movies, being trapped in the movie groundhog’s day. She lives the same day with her family who are conveniently oblivious to this. She spends a while trying to figure out what’s going and through the use of a Ouija Board, she actually manages to find out that she is in fact dead and is being tormented by a much more powerful ghost who had a hand in her death. This all happens in the first part of the movie and happens fairly rapidly. The rest of the movie his her trying to convince her family that they too are dead, saving a girl from falling into the same fate, and freeing her family from the evil dead guy.

This is a pretty decent movie, if you like fast paced movies this one is a good movie for you.

Awards:

An actually decent horror movie

Got away with the name Haunter (Nintendo is pretty touchy when it comes to their intellectual property)

This movie was not great, it certainly wasn’t bad, maybe even alright if you only take the second half into consideration, but it really just wasn’t that interesting to watch. It does alright at explaining the story and the motivations of each character, but it’s really just run of the mill standard motivations. The two guys end up taking care of the baby in order for Norway to maintain it’s independence, on top of that the main guy hunting down said baby does a good deal of murdering the protagonist’s family which only furthers the staleness. This movie is nothing special and the entire first half of it can be chalked up to political rabble, there is very little action, and the second half is pretty much all action which is pretty cool due to all the people with swords skiing at other people with swords.

This movie was made in Norway which is pretty interesting, but this version is dubbed to be English which only furthers the disconnect between what the movie is intended to be and what it actually is. I think that this movie would have been ten times better if they kept the language Norwegian and only had  English subtitles. It feels kind of like this.

The movie is just terribly average, you might like it, but if you’ve seen a movie that takes place in the middle ages and has a political problems you’ve seen this movie. Overall skip unless you really like this type of movie.

Awards :

Best Brutal Ski Battle

Participation Ribbion

This movie was a lot better than what I was expecting, it wasn’t a man vs nature conflict which was what I was expecting, but a man vs man conflict. The Hunter was done in a really unique way, as in the story was very slow and meticulous, so pretty much the exact opposite of Wyrmwood which played the fast and loose game. The Hunter makes an effort to naturally explain the plot and for the most part doesn’t really have any unexplained plot holes. The only one that I can think of is the boy showing the main character where he can find the Tiger by drawing the lakes like they would be shown on a map. I mean it’s possible, his dad was also trying to track them down, but it seems highly unlikely that he would know where to find the tigers. That specific example felt very artificial, but those instances are few and far between.

The Film didn’t feel like a action adventure movie, it was more or less all over the place. At times it felt like a fun family movie and at other times it felt like hunting thriller, but very rarely did it feel like an action movie, there were only ever a couple of scenes that any action in them. There for I feel like this movie was mislabeled, it functions more like a mystery film. The man is mysteriously followed and he is not only trying to hunt for a single specimen of a nearly extinct species, but find out who is messing with him. Overall this is a really neat film with a lot of good story telling.

One of five scenes where he actually uses his rifle

Awards:

Best Australian Movie I’ve watched so far

Wisconsin Native Lead

So for this review I’m going to put in the same amount of effort explaining things as they did.

This move was weird, there really isn’t any other way to put it, as in zombie powered car weird. The movie starts off halfway through the story and flashes back to the beginning of the story for the first half of the movie. On a side note I hate when writers do this, it makes it feel like the plot doesn’t move along and it’s just super unnecessary. The plot feels like it doesn’t go anywhere until it’s there, one second they don’t have a working car, and the next they’re in a car chase trying to out run the soldiers that have “A Man’s” sister. Who got super powers from getting injected with zombie blood and can now control zombies. There’s really no reason for this to happen, it just kind of happens.

The characters are all slightly bland, you never really learn anything about them aside from what happened to them when the Zombies first showed up. They also never expand on any of the characters, and in the end of movie a man and his sister send a horde of zombies to kill some soldiers who really never did anything wrong. In fact they never actually say what the supposed bad guys was even trying to accomplish so it’s extremely likely that these guys were actually the bad guys the whole time. That’s actually a decent twist if that’s what they were going for.

Pictured: Probably (Defiantly) Bad Guys

Overall this movie was not bad as long as you take it at face value and not look to far into the technical stuff.

Awards:

Only use of a Zombie powered car I’ve ever seen

Either the Smartest or dumbest movie I’ve ever seen