Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

*Double post yay lol*

I watched this today in AVX and it was super amazingly aweomse! 

In the third movie of the series and possibly the last movie, we start off in 1961 where an aircraft from Cybertron, known as the Ark, is crash landing on the moon. Fast forward, the year is 1969 and the Apollo 11 lands on the moon in a secret mission to investigate the Ark. 

Now we go back to present day, and the Autobots are helping out the military to have peace on Earth and to live in peace with the human race. We continue to follow the life of Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), now that he's graduated college he's in Washington trying to find a job. We follow him through his interviews and how he doesn't like his girlfriend, Carly Spencer's boss. Now flash forward throug the movie some more, Optimus finds out that the Ark has been on the moon all these years and decides to make a trip to the moon to find the cargo that was inside the Ark when it crashed all those years ago. On the Ark they find Sentinel Prime*, Optimus brings him back to Earth and revives him. I don't want to give spoilers so I will just say that the rest of the story is pretty much how Sam and the Autobots try to save the planet from being taken over by Cybertron.

This movie was action-packed, the action scenes in these movies were crazy. There were explosions, buildings falling over, people disintegrating and lots more.  There were funny scenes, serious scenes, and there was even sad scenes. At one part I was almost close to tears. 

While I was watching the trailers and I found out that they had changed the actor for the female lead (from Megan Fox to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) I was a little upset. I liked Megan Fox's character in the first two movies and I wasn't too fond of Rosie. However, that changed after I watched the movie. I still do prefer Megan but Rosie did a really good job in her portrayal as Sam's girlfriend, Carly Spencer. So for anyone who was like me, watch the movie and give her a chance, she did a pretty good job. 

Now the movie is two and a half hours, its long but at the same time its good because it allows for them to go into detail and not skip over anything important. It goes into detail and it also talks about Cybertron and what had happen before the Ark landed. There were also a lot of slow-motion scenes while the Autobots are fighting the Decepticons. In this movie, it mainly revolves more around Optimus and Sentinel, there isn't as much Megatron was there was in the first two movies. So for any Megatron fans out there, you may be a little disappointed. 

This movie acts as a really good finale to the whole series and ties everything together and the ending makes it kind of hard to have a sequel to it which makes me believe that this is the finale to the Transformers movies. It's definitely a must watch, you won't regret sitting in the theater for two and a half hours.

Fun Fact: The robots in this movie are quite human, they bleed.

Rating: ★★★★★ (5 stars - absolutely amazing)

*Sentinel Prime was the creator of the pillars and before crash landing on the moon he was the leader of the Autobots. He was also Optimus' teacher.

Green Lantern Movie Review

So I  haven't done a movie review in AGES so I may be a little rusty.

“In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil’s might, Beware my power… Green Lantern’s light!

For those of you who aren't familiar with the comic (made by DC) of the same name it's basically about a group of people who were recruited by the Guardians of the Universe who use the green essence of willpower to form the intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps (you can find more info here). 

Now I for one haven't read the comics, I have only heard of the green lantern from the Justice League cartoon, so walking into this movie I knew absolutely nothing about the plot or story line. In this movie we follow the main character, Hal Jordan (played by Ryan Reynolds), and we watch how he gets chosen by the green lantern ring (*Abin Sur's ring), how he becomes the green lantern, and the difficulties he has to go through before becoming a true green lantern. All while trying to save his planet from Parallax, which is a fear-essence being who has broken out of his prison and is destroying not only planets but killing other green lanterns in the process.

I won't go in too much into the movie cause really I would recommend you to watch it, it's a pretty good movie, of course it's not as good as "Thor" and "Dark Knight" but it's still a good watch. The animation and graphics are amazing, there are serious moments, sad moments and even cheesy moments that will have you laughing so hard (I know I was). However, that being said, there is a flaw that I found, like I said before I have never read the comics so I was pretty new to the whole story line and plot. One thing that bugged me while watching the movie was the green lantern's names, cause there is a few green lanterns that get referred to in the movie and for someone who is new to the movie and comic, the names can get confusing at times. One part I did like about the movie however, was the beginning where they tell you the story of how the Green Lantern Corps came to be and I found that they explained it quite well, so even for a newbie like me I wounldn't be totally lost.

I think they couldn't have found a better person to play Hal Jordan as the green lantern. Ryan Reynolds played the role very well. I don't think anyone else could have made a better Hal Jordan, he did a good job protraying the various emotions without over-exaggerating them. Now this may be my little bias since I am quite fond of him as an actor and I have liked all the movies I've seen him in.

Overall, this movie was filled with humour and action and really gives you a background story on the green lantern. It shows you the hardships it took for Hal Jordan, a human, to prove himself to all the other green lanterns and show that just cause he is a human he isn't weaker than the other green lanterns (all the green lanterns are from other planets, he was the first human green lantern). 

Also, a little tip, make sure you stay till AFTER the credits. 

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5 stars - the names really got me confused)

*Abin Sur is the green lantern who imprisoned Parallax, who is later wounded by the Parallax and lands on earth where he commands his ring to find a worthy successor.