Why Did I Hate The Ghostbusters Reboot?

Ahahahahaha... Gotcha! I actually liked it. What do you know!

Okay okay calm down. Of course is not like the original. But what did you expect? That is a classic movie with legendary actors that came out in an era that this variety of high quality movies weren't being made. It was special and we grew up with that. It's just like saying that todays, I don't know, icecream doesn't taste as good as it used to. It's a good memory from our past and a reboot is of course not going to replace it; it's not even what they aim to do. We all know it's because of the current lack of content and creativy in Hollywood right?

So, I'm going to make my review disregarding the whole existence of the previous Ghostbusters movies.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

I have to start with how I loved seeing literally my favorite female comediens in the lead. I am a big SNL fan (I acknowledge that SNL is also not what it used to be; but they still introduced us to amazing talents) and I must say in my opinion Kristen Wigg is the queen of the comedy world. I can't even start explaining how much I adore this multitalented gorgeous woman. So I won't cause I think you got the idea.

Melissa McCharty is one of the rising stars of a decent amount of years now; and I have been vigorously following her since she made me fall in love with the lovely and clumsy Sookie St. James in Gilmore Girls. Considering her performance in this movie, she wasn't any short on the perfection as usual.

And then there are the relatively less experienced however still as talented Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.

Kate McKinnon also seems to be very popular these days and I can totally understand why. She is very funny and of course her blonde beauty doesn't really hurt her case. But I have to say even though she provided a whole lot of laughs through out the movie, her character just seemed a little too forced. Until the very end of the movie she acts more like a brilliant but a bit miswired robot showing absolutely no emotion whatsoever.

I personally really value the character depth and she simply had none. I'm not sure if it's the director effect or the writing but the actor always has a responsibility towarda their character to make them feel more human and I'm afraid Kate McKinnon was not so successful in this area.

In SNL Leslie Jones almost always plays characters that are intimidating and with a quality of extreme insanity. She still had that lively and full of life style of hers in this movie however, it was refreshing to see her tone the crazy down a bit. If you have ever seen her play herself in the News Update with Colin Jost then you know what I mean. She really added a different kind of joy to the ensemble performance.

Not all of the major characters were women of course. Along side of the Ghost Busters crew, we got the incredibly stupid character of Kevin the secretary. I have definitely, totally, absolutely no objection to the casting choice. Oh holy Chris Hemsworth! (Drool)

He is definitely very easy to eyes and his acting was quite charming. However, the character was written very poorly once again. His stupidity sure causes some laughs at first. The glasses bid and the telephone being in the fish tank was really funny. But after some point the repetative phone jokes and the constant reminder of the glasses with no glasses has become very annoying.

I actually really started enjoying his performance after he was possesed by the antagonist ghost and it only lasted until he was back to being plain Kevin again. Again there was no sign of character depth he was just hot and stupid. That was his whole persona. This bid may work for a short sketch but for a character that has a lot of screentime in a 2 hour movie, it is just poor work.

If we stop ignoring the fact that there were 2 other Ghostbusters movies before this one for a while, I have to say that although the cameos from Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Sigourney Weaver was far from satisfying, they were nice to see. 

Ozzy Osbourne was a good touch though. ("Sharon! Am I daydreaming again??")

The two cameos that I actually enjoyed were of the Marshmallow Man and of course Slimer. Ghostbuster is really nothing in my eyes without those two. I am very happy that Slimer found himself a Mrs. Slimer. (Man I so identify with that character, I don't even know why)

In overall I don't think that it was a 5.7 rating movie. I personally voted with a 7. But despite all the good thoughts and wishes from my side, unfortunately today, at the almost end of its 3rd week in the box office, with a $144 million budget, the movie has only made a $135.4 million worldwide. Which makes it very unlikely that the studio will shine a green light for the sequel. But who knows, maybe Sony will make a second mistake.

If you enjoyed the movie as I did leave a comment. What the hell, if you didn't enjoy it just feel free to shout how wrong I am in the comments also. I'm open to all. Don't be shy.

As usual, thank you for reading my humble opinion.

Why was X-Men Apocalypse A Disappointment?

Some call him Apocalypse, he's some kind of god... who got beaten down by a bunch of kids who are not even at the top of their game.

Fair warning: This entry involves spoilers!

So Apocalypse was supposed to be "bigger and even better than Days of the Future Past". We were promised BIG! What we got was...... mediocre.

I'll be honest as usual; as time gone by and we saw new trailers I started to lose my enthusiasm long before the movie came to the theaters. The trailers were just... not good. And it's never a good sign for the trailers to disappoint you.

What kept my hopes up was the success of Days of the Future Past (I saw it in the theater 5 times and I swear I lost count of how many times I've seen it after it was on digital release.) and of course the already amazing cast being supported with new amazing cast members.

So let's begin with the cast then... (Did I say cast too many times? Cast, cast, cast, cast)

One of the most popular actors in the past few years, the great Oscar Isaac, was the mighty Apocalypse. The problem was that neither Oscar Isaac was great nor Apocalypse was mighty.

I don't find the blame in Isaac in this one don't get me wrong. There was just not much for him to do. The character was written so badly into the screenplay that under all that makeup it could be an Oscar Isaac look alike and we wouldn't notice for as long as I'm concerned.

There is a great destruction but no motive.

Then there's the 4 horsemen. I get why Magneto and Angel would like to join Apocalypse to a certain level. Storm... okay he makes you more powerful and stuff but you are striving for good. You are looking up to Mystique for being a hero (don't even get me started on that). Why would you be a part of this immense destruction?

And Psylocke... I was so excited for this character to finally enter the X-Men universe, expecting so much from her; and I was sure that Olivia Munn was going to do justice to her being a big fan of the character. But again I was disappointed.

In the movie Psylocke was no more than a layerless, brainless, power hungry mutant that not only has a motive in life, except for jealousy towards every single soul she sees but really has no opinion of her own at all.

Thank God, at least Fassbender did justice to one of my favorite characters, and even though towards the end of the movie it is oddly vague what he is doing just floating around with a bunch of metal and doing some kind of a magnetic yoga (?), Magneto was one of the only well written characters in the story.

We also met some of the new students of Xavier's school for gifted youngsters.

I've never liked Cyclops and I never will so I'll just leave that there.

But I actually like the character Jean Grey (not in the movies but in the comics and cartoons etc.) but it had been destroyed for me by Famke Janssen and I was hoping for Sophie Turner to make it better for me in this one; only she didn't.

I really like her in Game of Thrones and I believed that she was a good actor until now. But the horrible accent and those empty eyes proved me wrong. I hate to say this but Turner was not a good Jean Grey.

I really liked Nightcrawler though. Kodi Smit-Mcphee's Nightcrawler really was one of the highlights for me in this movie. I wish they didn't delete so many good scenes of him in the final cut but at least he was in the final cut right Rogue?

Speaking of being left out of the movie... Did you see Jubilee? Because she was nothing more than an extra in the film.

I was just so excited that Jubilee was finally finding her place in the movies but... I don't remember did she even have a line? Did we even hear her speak? If you haven't read the comics or seen the cartoon tell me, do you know what Jubilee's powers are?

Did you also notice that at least 1/10 of the movie was scenes from First Class. At this point we have to admit that Brian Singer was too lazy to place clever dialogues to explain/remind us of the past events and just preferred to embed tiny flashbacks all over the movie. I don't know about you but I don't respect that.

Of course it's not fair to say that it was all bad.

Quicksilver again did his thing and signed for another unforgettable moment in the movie (probably one of the two best scenes in the entire movie with the Wolverine cameo).

If you've read my Quicksilver vs. Quicksilver entry, you know that I have a special place for Peters' Quicksilver in my heart. But still I can't help but admitting that at one point the school rescue scene (or whatever you would like to call it) seemed a little bit forced to me.

The kitchen scene of Days of the Future Past had a well deserved great success and I'm pretty sure a lot of people still watch just that scene particularly on an on again just like I still do. And even though the school scene was a great comic relief and it was really good, I can't help feeling like it was just a copy past of the kitchen scene in a different setting.

At the end of the day, I have no choice but to say that X-Men Apocalypse, even though it was a fun movie to watch, was not really what I expected.

It probably could be perceived better if we saw Apocalypse first and Days of the Future Past later; because I admit it was a though act to follow. But whether you enjoyed or were annoyed by it we have to agree in one point: it had the potential to much a much better movie. Let's hope the final Wolverine movie will erase our memories of this tragedy.

Anyway, at least we always have Deadpool :)

Thank you for reading my humble opinion.

Arrested Development, Revival and Re-Revival

Do you remember Arrested Development? Do you remember it in a good way? If the answer to the second question is yes, then you obviously haven't seen the 4th season right?

(I'll give it my best not to give any spoilers so take pity on me!)

I don't know what it is but I could never, like the slightest bit, could like Jason Bateman. I can't really explain it, I just don't like the guy. That was the sole reason why I resisted watching Arrested Development for all these years despite hearing great things about it.

Anyway, being a huge Harmonian, I caved it when I heard Dan Harmon talking about it so I downloaded the entire show.

Now, there are a few things that I hate in a TV show. First of all the cliche premise. Second of all Jason Bateman... The story of a family that lost everything and a Jason Bateman that had no choice but to keep them together... That is kind of a nightmare to me.

However, as I got to watching the show, I... yeah I loved it. I'm not gonna lie I even liked Bateman. It is a perfectly structured comedy that really makes you laugh. I'm not talking about a grin or a smile, I'm talking LMFAO kind of laugh. I really did laugh my ass off.

Then came the 4th season...

I usually trust Netflix when it's about making shows. I haven't seen a Netflix series that I didn't like... until this week.

Every episode was about an individual character that we came to love. What we learnt however is that what made us love those characters was the unity of their existence. And because they hardly could get more than two characters in one scene together, Buster's immaturity and Gob's stupidness and Tobias' weirdness just didn't have the same effect on us.

At the end the whole of 15 episodes was just a pile of old jokes reheated and served tasting dry.

Scheduling problems, I get it. It's not easy to gather that many big names in front of one camera at the same time especially after almost 10 years. But if you can't do it, don't do it. Just don't half ass it!

What is special about this show is the relationships and yes all the events somehow get tied to each other at one point and the intricate storylines, I like; but it just lacked that thing that I can't really name.

It must be the confused feedback that the show got after its revival season that even though it's not canceled there hasn't been a new season for the past 3 years. Movie sequels come faster than this right?

Anyhow, according to the "mega producer" of the show Brian Grazer, season 5 was "definitely" coming in 2016, starting production in January and airing summer. You know... this summer... like... now....

Then a few days ago Mitch Hurwitz, the creator of the show, made this statement:

"It'll happen. It'll definitely happen. Not before the election, but it's definitely going to happen." (I'm not kidding, this is a direct quote)

And after this statement we are sure that... it's soooo not going to happen. Maybe another 10 years late. Who knows.

As I said, I really did my best not give any spoilers because if you haven't seen the show, I would really really recommend you to see it. It's a great laugh. But I would also like to warn you. Take caution in watching the final season. Sometimes it's better for things to die young so that you'll remember them well.

Thank you for reading my humble opinion.

Captain America: Civil War

But both of your mothers are named Martha!..

Sorry, wrong movie =/

We have been waiting for this for a long time haven't we? To be honest I was dreadful first after I heard that they were going to make Civil War into a movie because Age of Ultron...

Civil War is an amazing comic with an amazing story and as it is so easy to turn it into an amazing movie it is also very, very easy to fuck it up. Thank got in the hands of more than competent hands of the Russo Brothers, it is safe so say that Captain America: Civil War is my favourite MCU movie so far.

Now, Captain America is far from being my favourite Avenger and I was extra worried of Civil War becoming a Captain America movie rather than making it like an Avengers movie or something. Just felt too specific and I wasn't sure what they were going to do with it. However, not only giving equal and enough focus to every and each character, they even made Cap into a somewhat lovable persona in my eyes.

Don't get me wrong I'm team Iron Man forever! (In the movie; in the comics team Cap was more appealing to me. They've got the Punisher for God's sake!) But knowing the origin of the story, it's easy to say that they did justice to both sides ideology and point of view.

Without giving out too many spoilers I want to talk about a few things that I am so excited about in the story. First of all is of course our brand new Spider-Man.

Oh had I have my doubts!

I did get extremely excited, almost at the edge of having a heart attack, just like millions when Spiderman made his debut in the second trailer? third? There were just so many of them, I lost count. But it was really great. Yet, right after his big debut a huge worry started to haunt us: Trailers are made to make the movies look good. So what if that "Hi everyone!" was the only exciting moment we will get from our itty-bitty Spider-Man?

Thankfully, Tom Holland made an amazing Spider-Man (did you see what I did there?). I understand there is some controversy on Holland being too young comparing to the rest of the cast. But Spider-Man is supposed to be young. He is supposed to be in college age. He is supposed to be significantly younger than rest of the mighty Avengers. So SHUT UP! Ehmm. Sorry.

Another brand new addition to the team was the Black Panther. Chadwick Boseman gained my approval as the king of Wakanda. Wasn't he the most badass cat you've ever seen?

Nonetheless I have to say that I'm still a little upset him being separated from his lovely wife. (For those of you don't know the origin of T'Challa a.k.a. the Black Panther, he is married to the X-Men's very own white haired queen, Storm). Let's hope for the better days with no copyright restrictions, separating the people in love.

Speaking of love... If you've seen the movie you may have noticed a little thingy going on between Scarlet Witch and Vision. In the comics they are married; they were married... It's complicated. But at least both of their rights belong to the same company right? So that's good.

To tell the truth, despite hating the guts out of Captain America: The First Avenger, I really, really liked the Winter Soldier and I would like to give the credit to the Russo Brothers. Of course they did win my heart years ago with Community, and seeing with both of these Cap movies that it is not a coincidence.

I can say with my mind in peace, that this is the best Marvel Cinematic Universe movie I have seen so far.

Anthony and Joe Russo, I raise my glass and tip my hat to you sirs. We expect great things from you with the upcoming Avengers movies.

(By the way did you know that the next Avengers movies are going to have a change of name and be something different than Infinity Wars? Now you do!)

Let me know which team are you on in the comments? Team Cap or Team Ironman? Also if there is anything you want me to wright about, I'm always open to suggestions.

Thank you for reading my humble opinion.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Everybody has an opinion good or bad, mostly bad, on the highly anticipated, greatly overestimated movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. So do I! Then let's begin... Fair warning beforehand: if you haven't seen the movie, this entry involves spoilers! (May also involve some swear words, I would like to apologise but this movie deserves it!)

Finally I got to see that epic failure of a movie everyone is talking about and boy was it bad! I had this feeling for months that it was going to be bad and to be honest the casting of Ben Affleck did have a major effect on this feeling, but to my surprise I found Affleck's performance pretty satisfying in the majority of the movie.

I have never had a problem with Henry Cavill. I am not the biggest Superman fan there is but Cavill sure turned the character into a much lovable hero I must day. His performance in Man of Steel was really good and he kept up the good work in this one too.

Since we started from the cast let's continue with Gal Gadot before we move on to the atrocities of the screenplay. Honestly, I couldn't have imagined a better casting for the wondrous Wonder Woman. (See what I did there?)

However, the great performance and an amazing character was wasted with so little screen time. Yeah yeah, Wonder Woman will get it's own movie and there will be Justice League blah blah... Still, I think that they either should have given her a bit more focus or should have excluded her entirely for this one.

The over-crowdedness of the storylines probably is the thing that messed up everyones opinion of this movie in the first place. The single movie which is approximately of a 2 and a half hours length involves 5 different storylines that deserve to have their own individual screen play about themselves.

At the end of the movie Man of Steel we were given the hints of people's potential for fearing Superman's power. The storyline of people versus Superman is big enough to make a movie but okay so dear Snyder decided to add Batman into the mix. Batman siding with the people against Superman a whole other storyline that should have been handled on its own. But it's not enough. Because there is also Lex Luthor to fuck the things up. You apprehended Luthor? Then here is BAM! here's Doomsday!

And Zack Snyder wanted to add the Joker and the Riddler in this movie too! It was almost going to be the entire DC universe under 3 hours.

The whole movie just jumps from vine to vine swinging between major plot points without doing justice to any of it.

Ever since his appearance in the trailers there has been huge controversy on Eisenberg's Lex Luthor. I personally like new approaches to old characters; and I definitely enjoyed Jesse Eisenberg performance. What was problematic to me in the character that the character was so manic that at moments I felt like I wasn't watching Lex Luthor but I was watching the Joker. The laugh, the mimics and gestures... It was a good performance but I though it was a bit too much for Luthor.

There were a lot of things that were problematic in the movie. First of all, there were many points that seemed important during the movie that are left unexplained. For example, after Batman wakes up from his second? dream (this movie by the way had more dreams in it than inception) a mysterious person comes through the screen rambling things about Louise Lane and am I too soon, I'm too soon... Thanks to my comic book fan boyfriend I learnt that was the Flash. Despite being very familiar with the character and his abilities, I wouldn't have guessed it on my own in a million years.

And why the hell Batman wears a coat on his bat suit? Just why?!

Two of the milestones in the movie that disturbed me most firstly was of course (as everybody has been complaining about) is the point the dispute between Batman and Superman was resolved. I mean if only Superman said the name Martha in the beginning of the movie, the city would be saved from a lot of destruction. Plus I don't get it; Lex Luthor knows that Superman is Clark Kent but "the worlds greatest detective" Batman doesn't? It's just plain stupid.

Second of all, in the second part of the movie we see Diana Prince fleeing from every scene that has a conflict in. Towards the very end we see her basically running from the city, until she sees the electric waves, or whatever they were, and she says "oh well, I have been running but what the heck, maybe I should go and check it out."

Also if you didn't already know that Diana Prince is the Wonder Woman, you can't figure it out just by watching the movie. Because her name is not mentioned once in the entire movie. Not once!

This has been a loooooong entry. But finally I have to say this: Jason Momoa as Aquaman is most likely the best casting I have ever seen. A character that is this humiliated can only be dignified this brilliantly. I can say that despite having this low opinion of this movie, I am looking forward to the Justice League; mainly to see Aquaman =))

Maybe not let Zack Snyder direct the next one? Pretty please?

And I leave you with Sad Affleck.

Thank you for reading my humble opinion.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Recently I don't get much time to spend on watching movies and I keep disappoint myself with the movies I choose to when I get the time.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't so bad. Just... I haven't seen Batman v. Superman yet and yesterday I sat down to watch this. (Not that I hear good things about Batman v. Superman.)

Quick acknowledgement: I'm a Whovian, my favorite doctor is 11th (Matt Smith), Matt Smith is dating Lily James in real life, and as the duty of a fangirl I dislike her.

To be honest before seeing the movie I really didn't know what to expect. I mean the cast looks amazing but the premise... As a Jane Austen fan and a fan of the creepy stuff, I wasn't sure if this was the best thing ever or the worst thing ever. Because sometimes no matter how good two things are separately they don't mix well together. But then again sometimes we try things and get the sweet sour sauce.

Just let me say this movie was no sweet sour sauce. As I said before, I can't necessarily say that it's bad. But it wasn't good either.

I confess long before the movie was made I thought of reading the book but not being the biggest book worm it is hard for me to steer from Neil Gaiman. But given the premise of the book, I kinda knew what to expect and the casting was pretty satisfying towards my expectations.

No matter how much I oppose being a fan of Lily James, I have to admit she was really good in her role of Elizabeth. Yes she's pretty, yes she's a good actor; fine I'm over it. Whatever.

I was very... very surprised to find Matt Smith in the role of Mr. Collins (Sorry Parson Collins). And even though I am very confident of his talent I wasn't sure if it was the right choice. But it was. It really, really was. I have seen my fair share of Pride and Prejudice adaptations and this was the first time I actually liked Collins. I can really say that Matt steals the show from every other character. Good job Smith!

Lena Heady, oh God that was the perfect choice for Lady Catherine de Bourgh. But Charles Dance, in my opinion was a wasted talent as Mr. Bennett. Too passive of a character for such a treasure.

I can't say that I am satisfied with the entire cast though. Sam Riley kinda disappointed me. I really liked his performance in Maleficent so I didn't doubt that he wasn't going to be able to carry the role of Mr. Darcy. I should have. The whole movie was like Sam Riley's audition for Batman. I can easily say that the majority of the points lost  of this movie (acting wise) is because of Colonel Darcy.

Now, my copy of the movie was not brilliant so the colors were a bit confusing and when I get confused I absolutely can't focus on the cinematography. But I'm guessing that if you watch Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, you don't watch it because you expect it to be a piece of cinematic art.

So let's  talk about the screenplay. First of all I wasn't expecting for the story line to be this similar to the original. At least for the first half. In the beginning this caused a bit of a confusion in me. The evolution of Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship has always been the best part of the story and in the movie it was depicted in the worst way possible. One second they hate each other and the second they are totally in love. That's not how it goes. But of course this movie is not supposed to be a love story as it originally is; in fact I have no idea what genre it fits into.

Visually I believe it lives up to the grotesqueness of the zombie apocalypse. This statement is also a warning to you if you have a sensitive stomach. Just because it is combined with a classic love story doesn't mean that they went short on displaying the savageness. Blood, brain eating and rotten flesh (lots of gross rotten flesh) is a common sight throughout the movie. If you don't like seeing your characters eating other characters, you have been warned.

In a nutshell, I can say that this movie is watchable if you don't have great expectations. If you don't mind the blood and not looking for a great screenplay also if you think Batman sounds cool, this is the movie for you.


Bu hey, it's just my humble opinion.

What do you think? Feel free to leave a comment.

Until next time, thank you for reading. =)