Non stop

I think we , in Irvine, are among the luckiest people in the world because we have a dollar theater in our city (well every movie is $4, but comparing to regular $18 it is almost %400 saving ). That is why I get to see most of the movies in the theater which is more than %400 more fun comparing to watch them at home, well most of the movies if not watched in the theater are useless to watch.

Non-stop is a very exciting movie, well almost your typical on-the-plane accidents but I think I made 100 wrong guesses before I realized who the bad guy is.So not your very typical on-the-plane movie.

A former depressed alcoholic air marshal is getting threatening txts of people being killed if they don't transfer some million $$ to a bank account. Through the course of the movie,he becomes the suspect himself!!!

The intouchables

This weekend in debate between watching labor day and the untouchables, this movie won (though I watched labor day also today (post coming). Sometimes you watch an older movie and ask yourself how on earth I missed watching this movie? and since this is happening to many times to me, I am realizing that maybe I donno what type of movie I like , lol well.

The movie is the story of an African American guy who just got out of prison and has no job. 

His family are very poor. To get unemployment money he needs to go to some interviews and in one of them he goes to a rich guy who is paralyzed from neck down. The job is as the caretaker for the guy, and because of his wit, the guy accept him. His funniness, and high spirit brings life back to the mansion, everyone is happy, he even helps the rich guy's troubled teenage girl.

This movie is based on a true story which help me restore my faith in humanity. The interactions and relationship between the two guys are so beautiful and heart touching ad the movie is full of events and very interesting that I didn't even realized it is a weirdly long movie.

I give 7/10 to this movie and recommend everyone to watch it cause you'll get something out of it. 

Divergent

Hunger game meets harry potter meets world war Z , is how my friend described this movie we I can not disagree.
By no means I am saying divergent is a bad movie, I loved it and I am looking forward to watch the other parts of it.

The story is about world, probably post apocalypse in Chicago, where they divided the society into 6 groups of people, thinkers, workers, helpers (also rulers), fighters and the judges ( those who can't lie) also there are fraction less people who don't do anything .
There are also few people who are called divergent and they don't fit into any of those because they have all the qualities. Those are the thread to the system because they can't stay in one fraction an be happy and do their jobs.
At one point one person from the group of thinkers (Erudite) wants to take the power, and to do so, is trying to control people's minds.


Anyways, I can go on and on and tell the rest of the story here, but I am gonna advise you to go watch this movie for yourself ! 8/10 is a pretty biased score but hey, I am feeling generous tonight...

The grand hotel Budapest

When I first saw the name of the movie, It reminded me of a friend of mine who spent a good length of his life in Budapest, So I got curious to check the trailer, cause I don't normally go and check every movie's trailer to see if I like it, Well most of the time I do, but not a movie called The grand hotel Budapest.
Anyways, The trailer did a good job and I found the movie weird enough to go and watch it.

I am not sure how to describe the movie, but Imagine something like Harold and Kumar going to white castle, but much more mellow. The story is simple, a drama that a famous hotel concierge falls into told by his favorite minion, the lobby boy, who himself is a refuge. People, cities and events are imaginary, but can be easily related to their real counterparts.

The film is very interestingly made, you don't need to remember people's names, or even the story. every scene is by itself entertaining enough. Characters are well exaggerated and well played by a group of stars, including Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Broady , Jude Law, Tilda Swinton ,etc.

I guarantee you will be entertained for the whole duration of the movie and will come out with no recollection of what happened in the movie. I would give 6/10 to it.

Nebraska

With only a couple of days to academy award 2014, I had enough motivations to go for a movie which didn't sound or look as appealing to me at the beginning, but as my special talent is to prove myself wrong I very much liked the movie.
My first impression was that I will not make a good connection with the movie because it happens in a very much American part of the US where I am not very familiar with the culture, but once I got to see past through that face I could feel the connections and conversations.

The movie is about a very old almost schizophrenic simple man in a city in Montana who gets an ad in the mail saying you are the lucky winner of a million $ and to get your money come to this address in Nebraska and the old man is very determined to go and get his money.Finally his younger son decided that he is going to drive his dad to Montana although he knew the ad is a scam.On their way they stop in the old man's childhood town where his family reside.

The interaction between the son and the dad, and how patient the son is, also the interactions between the dad and his family and other people from the town, they are all very beautifully written.The movie is very monotonic but will not make you bored at all, don't be fooled by it being black and white or not having violent or sexual scenes. You might not even connect with the film if you are not from a very small very "red neck" town, but again if you look at the bigger picture, you will feel a lot of the relationships and connections.

Her

Well, I survived watching this movie,even though it was long, and I hate the main ( and almost the only) character, and the story was such a cliche ...
I am still wondering what was the message they tried to deliver, do they want to show we are doomed and this fast paced technology obsessed world is going to nowhere ? If yes, I can say thank you, we already knew that,right?

Please ignore my frustration, I didn't have a very fun day today,But back to "Her" , the movie is about a relationship between a recently divorced man with his new generation OS which can grow her mind on her own by learning, I personally could enjoy the movie much more if the OSes would get super smart and attack humans physically in a world wide war over making them fall in love and break their hearts. I can see our everyday lives going through the same path, our unhealthy dependency on technology and how it is affecting all our relationships and we are losing human contacts, every once in a while we hear about virtual girlfriends and boyfriends, In my opinion even online ones are somehow virtual since you have no idea who is sitting on the other side besides the image they are presenting from themselves.

The movie is very believable since it is already happening in our lives but if they just could use a better actor, or a more lively environment or I don't know adding some flavor to the movie, I could enjoy it much more.The only exciting part of the movie was Scarlet Johnson sexy voice.

I am not recommending watching this movie to anyone and wonder how on earth it got nominated for academy awards,a 4/10 !

Saving Mr. Banks

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine.. go down.. the medicine go down...the medicine go down!!!
Mary Poppins is perhaps one of the Disney movies which is dear and near to my heart, I used to watch it over and over as a kid, sing the songs and to this day I still use her quotes when I talk, the movie has just the right amount of imagination and craziness in it and the characters are so believable...
So when I hear a movie is about making Mary Poppins, I would run to watch it and it didn't disappoint me.
Saving Mr. Banks is an amazing refreshing movie specially in this time and age where movies are killing themselves with special effect and sex, horror or violent scenes. It baffled me how it is well made, well played, simple and beautiful, not too long, not boring or whimsical, not too exciting, and at the end of the movie I told myself, Wow, so it is possible to make good movies, why don't they just do it more often?!?

The story about the woman who wrote Mary Poppins book based on her own childhood and her relationship with her dad, well now those who watched Mary Poppins would certainly realize how it works, but for other people, I simply recommend GO, WATCH Mary Poppins and you'll thank me for it.And It happens when Mr. Disney reaches to her to make the movie, how he tried for 20 years and finally she agrees but with a millon condition and her strict supervision, conditions and rules.

I am obviously in love with this movie and I believe among all the other movies this year, this one is extremely underrated,I advise people to go watch it and give a 8/10 to it.