This is where I leave you

Two months ago my mom was visiting me and since she arrived she was bugging me to go watch movies (I should mention my movie watching habits directly comes from her). Her obsession with family drama was the reason I picked this movie to watch with her.

The father of a family dies and all the kids gather at their childhood house for the funeral. The sister with her super busy husband, the brother who is trying but can't have a baby, the brother who has recently been cheated on and the smallest son who still needs to grow up. All of them bring their own problems and drama and on top of that , their dad's last wish was for them to stay for a week at the house. 

Many dramatic events and encounter happens and of course at the end they realize how much they love each other. Family drama in general can be a very cliche subject, I seen some good movies with this genre, my favorite is "Parenthood" tv series. In general this movie was a good one because of the cast and all the funny things that happens in it, but is not a very deep movie. There is specifically one thing I did not like was how cheating is pictured so ordinary and an every day habit, which pissed me off.

At the end, I would recommend this for a feeling good movie to watch maybe with family, or when alone and with low expectations , giving it a 5/10.

The book of life

Animations have always been my safe , to go choice when I want to watch a movie in the theatre. To my surprise, this year we have a good number of animations (good animations) out which I only got to watch this one so far.

Though this movie is about Mexican myths and legends, It is produced so amazingly that would keep everyone interested. I only chose to watch it by checking the poster, and for the first 5 minutes I was very doubtful, but soon It got a very smooth tone to it.

The story is about two young boys in love with the same girl with their own struggles.
Everything about this movie, from the pictures, to the music, the voices , they are all perfectly beautiful and heart stealing. It is obvious that a good amount of skills, thought and time have been spent on making this animation. I can even go further and say this animation was an absolute piece of art for anyone to enjoy.

I do certainly recommend this animation to everyone and would give a 8.5/10 to it.

Fury

It's been such a long time since my last blog and I know you all have been counting days for a new post. your WELCOME ;P

Honestly it was a pretty disappointing summer and only recently they realized if they wanna keep the theatres open they need to start showing good movies.I still watched a lot and I do have a couple of them that worth sharing.

The most recent movie I watched is Fury. A WWII Brad Pitt movie which I liked very much.They did a pretty good job in keeping the movie almost race neutral, even at some point (which I didn't catch and my friend reminded me :P) Brad Pitt says this is not about being good or bad , this is about killing or getting killed (I should add a disclaimer that I am VERY much against any form of violence and at some point thought maybe you didn't need to cross an ocean to make this choice, BUT, at least they didn't try to portrait a heroic American action to save the world)

The movie is about an innocent young type writer who is sent to the front in Germany as a replacement in Brad Pitts tank. He tried to keep away from the whole killing thing but of course it is inevitable in a war. from the very beginning Brad Pitt likes him and becomes some sort of a mentor to him and they bond very well. They also have 4 other people in the tank and their interactions is what a big part of this movie is about.

This movie has a lot of very violent scenes when I had to barricade myself behind my coat for a good chunks of time and I (very embarrassingly) had some tear shedding. To my defence where were lots of very strongly emotional scenes where you see how this innocent young boy changes into a killing machine or when you see Brad Pitt's role has softer sides to it also.

I do recommend this movie to watch to anyone who is even remotely feels interested and I guarantee they won't be disappointed. 7.5 is a very fair point to Fury.