The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition Review (2002)

Faramir: [To Frodo and Sam] My men tell me that you are Orc spies.
Sam: Spies! Now wait just a minute!
Faramir: Well, if you're not spies, then who are you?
[they remain silent, Faramir sighs and sits]
Faramir: Speak!
Frodo: We are Hobbits of the Shire. Frodo Baggins is my name and this is Samwise Gamgee.
Faramir: Your bodyguard?
Sam: His gardener.
Faramir: And where is your skulking friend? That gangrel creature. He had an ill-favoured look.
Frodo: [reluctant] There was no other. We set out from Rivendell with seven companions. One we lost in Moria. Two were my kin. A dwarf there was also. And an elf. And two men. Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and Boromir of Gondor.
Faramir: [solemn] You are a friend of Boromir?
Frodo: Yes, for my part.
Faramir: It would grieve you then to learn that he is dead.
Frodo: [shocked] Dead? How? When?
Faramir: As one of his companions, I had hope you would tell me. He was my brother.

Bruce Allpress as Aldor

The two towers follows a fallen king, Theodon (Bernard Hill) who is controlled by his advisor Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) |in one of my favorite performances ever| and Saruman (Christopher Lee). Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Samwise (Sean Astin) have continued their quest and now are in Mordor after being accompanied by the Fellowship. Now Saruman is uniting the two towers with one another to give more power to Sauran and his army. Meanwhile Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and the rest of the Fellowship are healing the wounds of losing Gandalf (Ian McKellen).

John Bach as Madril

Now the quote up there wasn't that important to the entire plot but in a way it was. My point is that this is how great this very movie was, every quote, every moment, every scene and every creature was so well put together and well done that I don't dare to give this movie anything under a 10/10.

Oscar 2015 predictions

I'm sort of kind of in a hurry here so I'll just post my picks here and then will follow it up with the successful picks. Put your picks in the comments.

Best Picture: The Imitation Game or Whiplash

Best Actress In a Leading Role: Felicity Jones or Rosamund Pike

Best Actor in a Leading Role: Michael Keaton or Steve Carell

Best Director: Morten Tyldum for The Immitation Game

Best Foreign Language Film: Timbuktu

Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons or Mark Ruffalo

Best Supporting Actress: Emma Stone or Patricia Arquette

Best Animated Feature Film: The Tales of Princess Kaguya or The Boxtrolls

Best Original Song: "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond or "Everything is Awesome" by Shawn Patterson

Best Original Screenplay: Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler and Dan Futterman for Foxcatcher

Best Cinematography: Ryszard Lenczewski for Ida or Robert Yeoman for Grand Budapest Hotel

Grand Budapest Hotel

Ida

Best Writing Adapted Screenplay: Jason Hall for American Sniper or Damien Chazelle for Whiplash

Best Original Music Score: Johann Johannsson for The Theory of Everything or Gary Yershon for Mr. Turner

Best Visual Effects: Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer for X-Men Days of Future Past or Stephane Cerreti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould for Guardians of The Galaxy

Best Makeup: Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou for Guardians of the Galaxy and Dennis Liddiard for Foxcatcher

Best Sound Mixing: Craig Mann or Ben Wilkins for Whiplash

Best Costume Design: Anna B. Sheppard or Jane Clive for Maleficent

Best Live Action Short Film: Stefan Eichenberg for Parvaneh and Mat Kirkby for The Phone Call

Best Film Editing: Gary D. Roach for American Sniper or Tom Cross for Whiplash

Best Sound Editing: Aaron Glascock for Birdman or Becky Sullivan for Unbroken

DC Showcase: Green Arrow

Well, here is another great short film that I found on the inter-webs. I think its still up on Beyond the Lot's channel on YouTube, regardless I'll put a link in the description. I really love these DC Showcases because they introduce you to a villain that has nothing to do with the two major heroes (Superman/Batman) and keeping the DCAU tone while also staying faithful to the comics. Finally the voice acting is top notch as well. Green Arrow (voiced by Neal McDonough) is going to pick up Black Canary (voiced by Grey Griffin) from the airport on the same day that the princes (turned queen as of her father's death last night) of Lativa, Perdita (voiced by Ariel Winter) is arriving. Her uncle Count Vertigo (voiced by Steve Blum) wants her dead so he could become the king and Merlyn the Magnificent (voiced by Malcolm McDowell) is assisting him in his conquest. Ten out of freaking ten.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVRiADlDEig

Dumb and Dumber To (2014) review

Dumb and Dumber To promotional poster

Dumb and Dumber to is a sequel to the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber, directed by the Farrelly Brothers and starring Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas and Jeff Daniels as Harry Dunne, 20 years after the events of the original film Lloyd is put in an insane asylum after being completely frozen and shocked when he couldn't (spoiler alert for the first film) get with Mary Swanson but later it turns out to be a 20 year gag which he played on Harry who visited him everyday. When they go back to their old apartment, Billy (Brady Bluhm) now has a collection of birds and Harry has a new roommate who makes crystal meth named Ice Pick (Bill Murray). But Harry needs a kidney transplant surgery but has no donor since his parents adopted him and don't want to donate their own kidney. Later he finds a postcard from Fraida Felcher (Kathleen Turner) telling him that she's pregnant. So he makes a plan to get his daughter's kidney. But when they go to Freida's funeral house they find out her daughter was adopted by a rich professor named Dr. Pinchelow (Steve Tom). They go on a roadtrip to find Harry's daughter Penny (Rachel Melvin) and that kidney!

Laurie Holden as Adele and Rob Riggle as Travis in Dumb and Dumber To (2014)

I don't want to go further into the plot because there are so many well placed jokes in there that I might ruin it. I saw this movie in a jam packed theatre in KLCC and man, laughing out loud with about a hundred people is the best thing in the universe. I went into this movie thinking it couldn't outdo the original in no shape or form but would still be a great movie. But man was I wrong. It had the same amount of laughs added with new jokes and this time there was a serious emotional plot which made the movie less dumb. I also like how Harry and Lloyd evolve and do actually get smarter than the original, showing truly that 20 years has passed. Anyway the only complaints I can have is that there wasn't enough of Rob Riggle and this could have been an opportunity for the king of comedy himself Jim Carrey to pass the torch to one of the funniest comedy guys out there but alas. Anyway this was an awesome movie and made me laugh all the way through. 10/10