Monday, October 14, 2013

Gravity

First a head up to anyone with any kind of motion sickness or claustrophobia, or any other kind of phobia ,
DO NOT watch this movie !!!

Ok, to begin with this is the story : a woman struggles to get back to earth from her spaceship , Done!

To get more into the details :
I didn't go to watch this movie with high expectations, it was obvious from the trailer that it is not gonna be anything special, and it was not. I don't get one week of sold out showtimes , or 987654321 people in the theater on a Sunday night. You can even bare the $$ and don't watch the movie in 3D cause honestly nothing special happens 3D wise.It is a movie about space with NO aliens in it, which made me very disappointed.

The spaceships were well made, and you could get a good amount of information about those missions if you are a beginner like me. There were actually some interesting points that i learned. One is that they seriously need to advance the technology of making spaceships, they easily get caught on fire and are out of use. second, the buttons for controlling the machine are not all in English (WFT, why?) , third, they easily lose their connections with their base on earth. and 4th , when you go that high, you start believing in God, because in all of them you could see a symbol of belief(a picture of Jesus, or a statue of Buddha ).
And the most important thing i learned was that Sandra Bullock is not defeat-able , her oxygen gets to %1 in many occasions, she hits multiple spaceships very hard, she gets lost in the space, her cabin goes on fire and every times she comes back stronger than before !!!

Anyways, I give 4/10 to this movie only because the view of earth from space is very overwhelming and George Clooney was on his best behavior.    

Sunday, October 13, 2013

The Bling Ring (spoiler alert)

I had this idea that Sophia Coppola is one of my favorite directors and i love all of her movies. Well i definitely loved lost in translation and virgin suicide, but this time i am still lost.
Did she want to make a movie t show obsession with celebrities? Or with getting famous? Or rich? Or she just made a movie just because.
Even if the movie is based on a true story, It could be a short movie, or a commercial, not a whole 1:30 having the audience in suspense that something amazing is going to happen.

The movie is about a group of teenagers obsession over celebrities' lifestyles so bad that they would go to their houses and steal their stuff. And finally all got caught.
Hmm, lets see .. yeah , that was all it.

For me who is personally obsessed with fine clothing, the movie was not that boring, at least i was seeing what i love the most, but for anyone else, it is not recommended. Unless there is a deep meaning in the movie that i yet have not discovered.

I am giving a 4/10 to this movie only because i love Birkins and Loubouis ;D, but see it for yourself cause it got 59% on rotten tomato .



Saturday, October 12, 2013

Fill the void (Lemale et ha'halal) , (spoiler alert)

Sometimes i accidentally find random movies that are so amazing that I feel i must have done something very good in my life before.

This movie was one of them that i found in my desperate search of something to watch on a Saturday afternoon. The movie is originally in Hebrew and is totally Jewish (I don't know how else i can say it to be politically correct). During the movie i had some problems realizing how things work and what are the roles of different people , but in general, the culture was somehow close to any other religious communities.

The story is about an 18 year old girl, whose time to get married is approaching when suddenly her pregnant sister passes away and the family decide to make the girl get married to the husband of their deceased daughter . ( I watched a Persian movie with almost the same storyline about 10 years ago, so i suspected maybe that is how they got the idea, but this movie turned out very differently than the Persian one).
At first the girl shows that she accepts the offer only because that is what is proper and everyone expect that from her, ( The husband apparently does not care that much who to marry , I wonder why ? NOT)

But at the end we realize the girl , herself had a forbidden love to her sister's husband, Or that i what i got from the movie ;D

In general , it was a very soft, emotional movie , good acts and i could easily connect to it , though it was in another language.

Something interesting i got from this movie was that though women in Jewish communities are valued based on whether they are married or not and getting married is a huge part of their life which to my surprise happens in less that 24 hour ( parents decide about your husband or wife, you see each other for some hours and then get married) , but the role of women in family is a very strong role , they are respected and they make decisions.


I would recommend watching this movie to any foreign movie lover ;D and give 6.5 from 10 to it.

Friday, October 4, 2013

The rocky horror picture show (spoiler)

A giat extravagant drag show and all kind of weird.
I've never before heard about this old musical which is apparently very famous both in UK and US and once when me and my friend were talking about something weird (which i don't remember because it happens often ;D) , this movie came up and i borrowed it from her to watch.

Like most of the other musicals, this one also does not have a strong story line : a young couple get lost on a rainy night and they find this huge castle owned by a transexual guy. At that night the guy reveals this pulchritudinous person that he made for himself. There are also a couple of servants and other transexual residents in the castle. The host ask the couple to stay there for a night and some weird sexual things happen and at the end of the night , the servants kill the guy and take the castle to transexual planet !!!!

The movie was weirdly interesting, catchy songs and nice choreography , well apparently if you watch this live it is very fun cause they do it interactively , but again even on dvd it was interesting and amusing.

I would recommend this to people who like weird things as a late night entertainment
and give 5/10 to it only because at first i tought it is a vampire, horror, frankenstein kind of movie and it turned out to be very erotic and also Susan sarandon plays in it whom i love so much.