The way back

I am sure I said it enough and you guys are probably tired of reading this, but I love WWII movies, from any perspective.Putting aside the ugly face of war, there is always that elements that makes you restore your faith in humanity. But what makes this specific movie very special is that it is not dissing any of the sides to make the movie commercial or political.

This movie is simply the story of 6 people, trying to run away from a camp in Siberia and go to India. Among them are an American, a Polish guy who knows the wilderness and survival, a Russian thug, a priest ,a guy who draws and another guy who has night blindness. Along the way a younger girl also joins them. They pass through cold snow packed Siberia, the deserts with no water, Himalaya and any hard wild natural condition you might imagine.

What I loved about this movie is the interaction between people, how they trust each other, help each other and try to survive which made me wonder If I ever again have the rights to nag about my life.

This movie is based on a true story, in which these people walk about a year and around 4000 miles and at the end only three of them survive.

I for sure recommend watching this movie and give a 7/10 to it.

Transformers: age of extinction

Muhahaha, I finally watched the new transformers' movie and my mind was blown away.Whether it was the good theater, IMAX screen and Dolby digital sound, OR the movie was really that good (which it was, seriously!) , the 3 hour felt more like an hour and I really wanted to see more.

There is just something about robots, and nice cars with new technologies , smart hot Asian  police girls and aliens with huge spaceships that makes me excited so very much. Especially when you see nice shiny  or carbonized race cars turning into giant robots and they fight and fly and kill, it is just amazing.

Well enough about that, this movies is about when human authorities decoded the transformers brains and they are mass producing them to kill the aliens, but the real transformers rise and try to stop it from happening because of a ... (well I guess I need to stop it otherwise this is gonna be a spoiler).

BUT, then there is the side story of the muscular poor heroic dad trying to save his even hott daughter and of course there is boyfriend who tries hard to be hot but fails. And what really annoyed me was the girl, with those gorgeous 2 meter of legs she could stop whining and actually be someone in the movie, and I waited and waited and waited for her to do something other than asking her dad and her boyfriend alternatively to protect her. The movie was extremely sexist because other than the Chinese lady doing some karate chopping and the geologist who was supposed to be the brain of the story but she did nothing, not even ended up falling in love with someone!!! the guys were doing all the work Good thing there was enough story with robots that they simply could remove all the humans and the movie would stay as interesting.


Go watch the movie already, 7.5/10 !!! XO

Nigh train to Lisbon

People would be amazed by knowing how many good movies are out there and they never heard about them.Every time I watch one of them, I am both excited because of the promise of good movies out there, and stressed out of what If I never find them.


The movie is about a professor from Swiss who accidentally helps a young girl while committing suicide and this gets him involved in an old story happening  I believe in 30s or 40s, when Portugal is dealing with their dictator of the time.The main character is a young doctor who joins the resistance group against the regime and falls in love with a girl in that group.A love triangle, the doctor helping an injured person from the regime, running away with the girl and all these make this movie something worthy of being watched.European themes movies are most of the time exciting, specially when they have a political element.

I believe when a movie doesn't need 3D effects, hit and run scenes, robots and strippers to keep the audience, It is indeed a must see, and this movie was one of them.There is not a lot of dialogue happening, but both the background music and the dark environment and the fear  are among the strong points of the movie.


I would definitely recommend watching this and give 6.5/10 to this movie.

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.