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.

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!!!