Wednesday, May 16, 2012

This means War (2012)


[complete failure of a movie by McG]

This means War (2012)
IMDB-6.5
RottenTomatoes-25
RJG rating-30

2 CIA agents who are best of friends ,get their friendship tested when both of them fall in love with the same girl.

Starring- Tom Hardy ,Chris Pine ,Reese Witherspoon
Director- McG

This Means War had a good concept and a great set of actors ,but McG fails to utilize both.

Tom Hardy & Chris Pine were nicely paired and both do their best to their given roles.Reese Witherspoon was horrible in this movie.She completely failed to stand up to the acting standards set up by her male co-stars.

The story had a tried out concept.But it had lots of potential to make the film stand out.Unfortunately it used all the good stuff in the first half leading to a very dull second half.

McG as a director completely falls flat.The movie had a slow pace in general.The movie is an action comedy, but Mcg does his best to insert some drama scenes too, and those drama scenes turn up so suddenly that the viewer doesn't know whether its a joke or some serious issue.The climax is poor too.

Action scenes were the usual fare.The movie had some good comedy scenes but 90% of them were utilized in the trailers.

Overall TMW is a poorly made movie with a weak script and poor direction.The movie doesn't make any connection with its viewers.

Acting-3/5
Story-2/5
Direction-1/5
Action-2/5
Comedy-3/5
Romance-2/5

Posters for Machete 2 & Sin City 2


   

Survivor:One World (Season 24)



Survivor:One World (Season 24)
RJG Rating-6


Survivor returned with 18 contestants ,all vying for the $1million dollar jackpot.The downside? Live in an deserted area for 33 days and do various tasks & puzzles .But that isnt what Survivor is mainly about.Its surviving the politics played by the other members.Would you devise your own strategy or would you trust another contestant.

Season 24 opened with a bang. The 18 members were split into 2 Teams according to their gender.Guys vs Girls.
The initial stages of the contests were easily won by the Guys and it seemed that the whole separation according to gender was a very bad idea.But the turning moment was the contestant ,Colton.
Even though he started off as a likeable character he immediately become the MOST hated character EVER in the history of the show.This was followed up with the most dumbest set of characters.From being a powerful team ,the Guys team,fell into unimaginable lows.The girls team picked up on this quickly and started their plan to vote out the guys once both teams merged.Colton had done enough damage to the teams and took out some very deserving members and also managed to drain the interests of all viewers of the show.Thankfully fate was merciful & Colton departed.

The second half of the season saw the guys being completely voted off by the girls and due to the in-fighting between the guys & the total idiocy from the guys side.In the end ,only Troyzan led the lonely fight against the girls.But in the end ,Chelsea,Kim ,Sabrina were the final 3.Kim won the season with 7 votes out of 9.


Kim was the main reason why almost half of the 9 voters got kicked off.Yet they voted for her.She was a great player but she attained that by lying to a great deal of people.This season,none of the contestants were likeable in general.The girls were too cunning while the guys were too dumb.Infact this season didnt put the survivors into any real hardships.Scarcity of food was a major point of most seasons in Survivor,but in this season,food was given out as reward every now and then.And Colton's attitude was a huge turnoff for the viewers.

So overall,this season was not the best for Survivor,due to unlikeable characters and the easy nature of the show this season.I hope the next Season learns from this ones mistakes and bring the heat back.

The Amazing Race (Season 20)



The Amazing Race (Season 20)
RJG Rating-10


The Amazing Race had 11 teams (of 2 members each) run around solving clues and puzzles in a race which took place in 10 countries spread across the world.

The finale had 3 teams racing in the final leg taking place in Hawaii.Brendon & Rachel (from Big Brother) came in 3rd.Art & JJ (Border Patrol Agents) came in 2nd.The winners were Rachel & Dave (Army Wife & Combat Pilot).

This season was a very pleasant show.It was not only exciting but also featured a good selection of the teams.Rachel & Dave dominated the race in the beginning and at the final stages and even set up a record of winning the most legs in a single season (8).

The finale was very exciting and there were some really emotional stories attached to some of the episodes

Overall,this season was very successful ,thanks to the likeable teams ,and the tasks and puzzles that were used in the show.

Kick-Ass 2 Greenlit


Kick Ass was one of the best movies of 2010.It was adapted for the big screens by director Mathew Vaughn ,from the comic books written by Mark Miller.The movie was a hit with critics as with the public.
Immediately after the movie,Mark Miller started work on writing Kick Ass 2 for the comic books.Even though it was expected to be a done deal having the sequel to the movie,it took Universal Pictures till last week to officially give the green light to making Kick Ass 2.
Director Mathew Vaughn being busy with directing a sequel of X-Men First Class wont be returning to directing the sequel.But he has already selected a director ,Jeff Wadlow (director of Never Back Down) ,and also adapted a screenplay for the movie.
Kick Ass 2 will bring back the main characters ,KickAss,HitGirl & RedMist along with the actors who portrayed them in the original (Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz). The story is adapted from Mark Miller's Kick Ass 2 ,and deals with KickAss & HitGirl recruiting more superheroes.
The movie will begin shooting this September ,and is given a release date of May 2013.

Harley Quinn's Revenge Teaser



Teaser trailer for Harley Quinn's Revenge (Arkham City Episode)

Teaser

Set pic from Jobs


Set image of Ashton Kutcher from the movie based on the life of Steve Jobs.Looks very much alike,dont they?
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