Monday, 23 March 2015

Injustice: Gods Among Us (iOS) review


Man, the moment I saw this on the app store (before having a console) I marked out big time and immediately downloaded it on my phone. It was free and I have played all the way through it. I realized if you have the patience it takes to grind a bit you can get through the whole game without micro transactions. It is a basic fighting game with tag team elements. I've played nothing like this on the iPhone unless it was paid for. Collecting cards of DC characters has never been more fun and NetherRealm Studios have realized their fanbase on the mobile apps because they have added a mobile exclusive character, Darkseid. My own favorite is Wonder Woman (Regime) and after a while of coming back it has changed a bit with more levels and a gear system.

Lex Luthor's quote that appears at the beginning of the game

Regime Superman lives a life of wreaking havoc

My collection of Wonder Women

I got Joker by logging in daily and getting alliance points

Here he is, the mobile exclusive character, Darkseid

Bane (Luchador), was obtained by completing a challenge

Deathstroke is my favorite Silver character 

Here, Solomon Grundy (Regime) is maxed elite

These are some of my best characters

Lobo is the beast!

GET OVER HERE!!!!

Deathstroke hitting his third attack

Grundy hits his third attack on Harley Quinn (Insurgency)


Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

Movie's Poster
 While trying to get a divorce from her high school sweet heart Charlie Bodell (Nicholas Cage), Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) attends her high school reunion with her daughter and meets old friends from the high school. Among these friends Richard Norvik (Bary Miller) is the most successful having written multiple books. But when she and Richard are chosen as the king and the queen of the reunion she passes out and wakes up in her high school in the 60's. Having the experiences she has had as an adult she tries to make her life better by doing better things for her friends and herself.

An ensemble cast of Jim Carrey, Nicholas Cage and Kathleen Turner
The reason for watching or even stumbling onto this movie is the involvement of Nicholas Cage (Kick-Ass) and Jim Carrey (The Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind). There are parts in this movie which are worst for me since I don't get it but mostly it is a great story about reevaluation and rethinking your choices in love and life. The movie might start a little slow with some downtime but it picks up real fast and starts becoming an awesome romantic story. By the way did I mention Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part II) directed this awesome movie? 8/10

Sunday, 22 February 2015

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


Friday, 20 February 2015

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

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

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