Blue Jasmine

Nothing makes a Sunday afternoon more delightful than watching a good entertaining movie with a sweet friend.

Woody Allen always makes the most entertaining movies of all the time. Movies that are simple and you don't need to think so much about them, yet you don't feel there is nothing to it and you are bored. He focuses on a  simple life event and makes it so interesting that attracts all the attention from the audience and then suddenly lets it go and makes us think that totally can happen in our lives.

This movie was also the same. It is about a woman who used to be married to a crooked financier and now after the divorce and suicide of the husband she moves from NY to San Fransisco to make a new life. Meanwhile she stays with her "loser" sister. The woman " Jasmine" is going through a life crisis, she gets nervous break downs and pop xanax left and right. She has all kind of phobias, has no job and wants to go back to school yett doesn't know what she wants to study, AKA she is a mess and is ruining her sisters life also.

As you know Woody Allen, you shouldn't be waiting for anything spectacular happening at the end, but better enjoy the details throughout the whole movie.

I loved the story, the acts (except for the younger sister who looked like she is constantly ON something), the flow of the movie and everything about it and definitely recommend everyone to watch it. 8 out of 10 a fair ranking for this movie.

Only God forgives

Apparently a guy rapes a girl, the chief police officer makes the girl's to kill the guy,the guy's mom wants to get revenge and expect the guy's brother kill the girl's father.

How could this one and half line story was turned into a one and a half hour movie, that is the magic of the director.He could add a "Ryan Gosling", exotic Asian girls doing weird stuff, people killing each other randomly , cutting each others' heads and hands and chests and taking out the organs inside, Or he could simply refuse to make the movie.

Well in this case he chose the first option and for several minutes i had to close my eyes out of fear or sweat out of shame.

If you are into slow paced, connection in the other level, bloody movies , give this movie a try.Just make sure you are not under influence, extremely tired or have the option of watching anything else.

I think a 3.5 out of 10 is a fair ranking.

Stoker (Spoiler alert)

Nothing is more exciting than watching a movie without previously knowing that it is an awesome one.It happened to me last night when i started watching stoker with no hopes at the beginning.

This movie is about a young girl losing her dad (to whom she was very close) in an accident and sudden appearance of the dad's much younger and very charming brother who has been always travelling around the world.
The uncle tries getting close to the girl and her mom while those two are not close to and very fond of each other. Girl's mom gives in quickly and becomes very attracted to the uncle. But the girl being socially awkward is very suspicious of the uncle when their maid and the great aunt goes missing .

One night when a guy from school is trying to rape the girl after being seduced by her, the uncle appears and tries to kill the guy. Later the girl feels a sexual pleasure of seeing the scene which makes her close to the uncle.

Stoker has a very strong story line.It might sound like any other horror or mystery movie but it keeps you on your tippy toes till the end and surprises you multiple time. Director was very successful in creating and delivering all these mixed feelings of mystery,disgust and in the meanwhile understanding to the audience.
And of course the acts are very strong .Nicole Kidman as the mom is easily making you hate her while she can be the only victim in the movie or you barely feel the girl is dangerous because you can see the story from her point of view.

I would recommend everyone to watch this movie and give a good 8 to it.

Enjoy

Pacific rim (IMAX and 3D)

One of the problems of not going to the movies so often is not knowing which new movies are coming out and whether they are good or bad, that is why it is always recommended to get to the theater early and watch all the trailers they show before the movie.In conclusion i haven't heard about this movie until a week ago although apparently it was pretty high in box office because how would i? reading its plot also didn't motivate me that much, but since i never say no to a movie night.I watched this movie and my mind is still blown.

To begin i have to mention: watch this movie in IMAX and 3D otherwise you won't get the real experience you should get.

The story is about creatures coming out of a portal thingy from Pacific ocean and attacking the earth with the purpose of killing human being and conquering the planet.
only armies of man-controlled robots can fight back with those creatures that are getting bigger and wilder and stronger by time.

As we all know, movies from the top of the box are office are not meant to give you life lessons and change your perspective or make a better human being out of you ( some people are still able to get something out of them, like recently i heard one of my friend saying how the animation "monster university" helped her build a better character out of herself!!!!! ") .Pacific rim was not an exception, but the extraordinary fighting scenes, technology they used, concepts and all those special effects made this movie a must see in anyone's summer movie list.


I definitely recommend anyone who does or does not like action movies, robots and smart technologies to watch and get their minds blown by how awesomely this movie is made that is why  i give 7.5 to it.

Ginger and Rosa

This summer is turning me down cinematic wise, i mean if you want to stop all the good shows(well almost all the good shows) you gotta have good things on big screen, but except for some animations and some super hero movies nothing more ( i am pretty sure i am offending some audience ;P)

to cut the nagging short i decided to rent a movie and watch it (with my mom which was NOT a good idea). It has been a while since my movie list was piling up and i just rented the one on top of my list which was Ginger and Rosa.

The movie is a wanna be complicated relationship between two teenage girls in 1940s right when the anti nuclear bombs activist started protesting. One of the girls(Rosa) is from a strict family which made a rebel out of her in all the wrong ways and the other one(Ginger) is from a pacifist father and an artist mother.They have always been best friends spending every minute of their lives together but eventually Ginger starts setting her path by becoming an activist, attending meetings and writing and Rosa starts partying and sleeping around and one day Ginger finds out that Rosa is with her dad which ruins her world for her.

Well that was the whole thing, it was not a sophisticated movie or didn't have beautiful dialogues or incredible scenes. But i particularly like movies that are about young girls problems so i didn't hate it.

I don't want to recommend this and let yourself decide ;DDD

5.5/10 is probably enough and even a little bit biased.

Shaun of the dead

In our very normal daily discussions of our PhD life, i realized i have no idea about zombies, well i kinda knew they are very dangerous dead people but nothing more therefore as a literature study this movie was prescribed to me which was supposed to be a good PG 13 zombie movie to start with.

The movie in general is about a normal boring inertial guy whose relationship is about to be ruined because of his passiveness and his lazy friend. Suddenly he becomes the hero of a rising of the zombies. the character is played by Simon Pegg whom i love and find very funny.

The zombie part of the movie is very kid(me)-friendly and very informative, like i realized zombies die by having their head cut off or if a zombie bites you, you die and rise as a zombie(kinda like vampires, but vampires are much more sexy). This movie has a very subtle comedy theme and not boring at all. I liked the acts and the fact that it got 8/10 on imdb shows that i am not the only one who likes it.all the characters are in their own way weird, but it also has its own cheesy scenes.

But definitely, if you know you wont be disappointed by how not scary this movie is i recommend it to watch and give 6.5/10 to it.

Cloud Atlas

If you think i stopped watching movie, well you are kinda right, a month ago i found a TV serie called "Mad Men" which i am going to talk about in another post, and i absolutely fell in love and been watching it ever since, I had 6 season of 13 episode each and i still have 5 more episodes, but last night i decided that i need to watch a movie and i rented cloud atlas.

To begin with, please start watching this movie when you are going to have 3 hour free time because it LONG.

I watched this movie with my mom and she is a fan of action movies and special effects ( I am not) , and she enjoyed those parts of the movie. But for me, it was a series of different events which could be connected somehow to each other, but still it wouldn't make you say : "OHHH, that is what is happening, now it make sense ."

The movie consists of 3 or 4 main characters in 4 or 5 different places and times, meeting each other. One in a tribe far from civilization , one in 70s, one in 2012 and one if the future.in all of them somehow humanity is being save from destruction.

It was not a deep movie and carried no special message , which i guess was the main effort that was failed. The scenery were pretty, some action, some romance, but to me it felt like a patch quilt, but not a very pretty one. I am sure the budget for this movie was huge but for me it, specially the length of the movie and the fact that it could finish at so many times during the movie without you thinking what happened nex.

Maybe the whole point of the movie was watching it on wide screen and 3D, I wouldn't know.