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50/50 (2011)
Not your typical disease of the week movie
When I first heard that Joseph Gordon Lewitt and Seth Rogen and were going to star in this, I realized I just had to see this movie. Then I found out that IMDb said that this movie was going to be a COMEDY about cancer and I became skeptical. However, the reviews then started coming in and were mostly positive and I went in the movie with high expectations. I promise you that they were not high enough for this movie not only met but succeeded them with leaps and bounds!
The plot is that Adam(JGL)has been diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer and has a 50% chance of survival, during his ilness, he learns more about what he truly had and life. His best frienld, played by the always funny Seth Rogen supports him along with his family and try to help him get through this.
This not your typical disease of the week movie in which emotions are constantly being forced on you till the end and they fail to move you. As the movie moves on, Adam becomes a character you begin to root for and all I could think of was, 'please let him live'. Joseph Gordon Lewitt gives a groundbreaking performance as Adam, his best moments were the scene in the car and in the last few minutes.
Seth Rogen provides perfect comic relief to this movie,this is my favorite performance from him so far and I see him in Big Roles in the future. and the jokes are balanced so perfectly with the script that they don't stray from the story. The movie is a perfect mix between comedy and drama. Its funny, it's sad and at many occasions, it's both.
The acting is superb, it's beautifully directed, the song choice is awesome and placed at perfect timings. Most Importantly, I appreciate my friends and family a lot more after watching this.(I swear I got up to hug my mom at the end) Very few movies exist that made my heartache and nearly brought tears to my eyes from the sadness of what's going on, this is not one of them...because it BREAKS my heart and HAS ME CRYING like crazy in the the last few minutes.
In my opinion, the best movie of 2011 and a definite must see.
I give it a strong 10/10 stars.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Well I pretty much got what I was expecting.
I'm seriously surprised at most of the reviews that streamed about this movie. I think that critics and movie reviewers need some perspective, this is a Michael Bay film about transforming robots that kids used to play with (including me), so I went in with the right amount of expectations and got a very impressive visual experience. Now I'm not giving Micheal Bay an excuse to make a bad film but as far his movies go, this is definitely one of his finer ones.
It has both its pros and cons. Pros: The story is a HUGE improvement over the second one, with some good twists added there and then, albeit a bit long. Now it's not Phenomenal story telling but acceptable enough for a good fun summer action film. The character development is able to keep me watching since the second one had absolutely NONE of it. The SFX are fantastic. This movie has the best CGI out of all 3 in the trilogy. Even the smallest robots look very realistic. The action scenes are AMAZING. I could actually differentiate between the good guys and bad guys this time, its amazing how much more depth it adds to the scenes. The highway scene is my favourite from the movie. The robots also get a lot more screen time and pay a more important part to the story than before. Unlike in the second one, each robot gets a fair amount of screen time and does something useful instead of just being the military's attack dogs.
The cons: The humor is unnecessary and unfunny, although it has been cu down to minimal amounts .The romance is useless and awkward. The two main leads don't have any chemistry and I don't see why Shia needs to be paired up with a hot supermodel every film (or why he still even needs to be there at all). The acting is meh, shia and josh are great but the rest of the cast is pretty...meh. Rosie has very little acting talent, although she is a slight improvement over megan fox in terms of acting. The soundtrack is awesome but it sounds very very similar to the scores in the Dark Knight and Inception. The decepticons are still portrayed as mere evil destruction machines who hate everything, i wish they were more developed characters and that the relationships between the robots were explored more, I mean, whenever any bot dies, the others are literally cool with it two seconds later and do not mention the incident again. (SPOILER) Megatron is no longer the evil villain bent on dominian, instead he's simply the anti hero who is solely focused on saving his planet, HE EVEN SAVES PRIME'S LIFE at the last second simply because Rosie called him sentinel's bitch(SPOILER).The biggest problem which I had with the ending is that it is wrapped up too quickly, another 2 mins would have been fine. The movie's run time is very long, the first hour could've been done in 10 minutes.
Overall I think the movie is able to deliver a very entertaining experience. Yes the trilogy would have been better in different hands but I was able to enjoy it as much as I did the first one. Just don't go in expecting anything revolutionary or brilliant, turn of your mind, ready the pop corn and enjoy.
My rating: 7/10