Movie Reviews with halochief996: Battleship and The Dictator

Man I've been going through so many games. I started playing games that I haven't touched for a while like Halo, Batman Arkham City, Toy Soldiers, and others. Also been trying to finish the previous two Max Payne games before diving into Max Payne 3. Other than that still keeping up with COD and Battlefield. You know my KDR is affected everytime I go back and forth playing those games. Other than that, this week there were many season finales of my favorite shows including:




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Well I guess I'm just trying to get all that fun out of my system because once its June and July, I'm not going to have any fun. Summer School:( Moving on

 

The Dictator

 

Ah Sacha Baron Cohen. This guy always seems to be in the most ridiculous roles for movies. He's funny and some of his jokes and sayings are in a way philosophical. But he can be kind of crude, weird, strange, and just plain disgusting. He is an actor that is able to cross the line on some issues and make offensive things funny. I watched Borat, and I have to say there were some funny parts and there were some WTF parts. Yep lets just say the WTF parts in Borat are the reason I skipped Bruno. Although he was pretty funny in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Anyway his new film The Dictator tries to make fun of all the dictators in the world. After all we already dethroned one, and another one has already died. Well his movie does a good job making him look like a fool.



Plot: The story of The Dictator is well, an interesting yet funny story. Admiral General Aladeen is the dictator of Wadiya. He hates democracy, oppresses his people, executes people that piss him off, and is trying to build nuclear missiles with pointy ends. Anyway he is summoned by the United Nations to give an address about his nuclear program, and what he is doing for his country. He goes but things don't go according to plan. His most trusted adviser goes against him, by having him kidnapped, and replacing him with a double. His adviser plans to make Wadiya a democracy nation. Its up to the dictator to stop his adviser and make sure his country remains a dictatorship forever. Like I said the story is fairly interesting maybe absurd. There is a lot of culture clash between Western Democracy and beliefs, and Middle Eastern dictatorship and beliefs.



Genre: The movie is a comedy. There are slapstick jokes and jokes about dictators of the world. At the beginning, they even make a message saying that they dedicate this film to Kim Jong-il. Along with that there are some terrorist jokes that actually made me laugh really hard. Everything about the movie made me laugh. Some not so hard. There are plenty of jokes to go around. From terrorist jokes to dictator jokes. I especially liked the one about Spoiler:throwing baby girls into trash cans, a funny joke about China under Chairman Mao's rule. However like Borat, there are some parts, well lets just say may be offensive to some people. Sacha Baron Cohen gives an excellent performance. He could pull off being a dictator, along with being gay french race car driver, a ignorant Kazakhstan person, and a crazy gay guy. Yeah he is still the actor that likes to go overboard. The other actors give a good enough performance to make this film funny.



Overall: A pretty funny movie, but not for everybody. There are parts that are really low class and just plain wrong and pointless. But the jokes, metaphors, and messages conveyed through this absurd Cohen film are funny enough to make me laugh through the entire film. Its not better than Borat, but its still pretty funny. I'm wondering should I give out the score or is the dictator going to come out and kill me if I do. Oh well.

8.3 out of 10

 

Battleship

 

When I saw the trailer for this film, I was thinking to myselfTransformers 4? I mean judging by the trailer, the movie looked like it was going to amount to anything good. The only reason I wanted to see it, was because Liam Neeson was in it. Anyway I decided since it was summer, I was going to go see the movie at midnight. The movie went beyond my expectations.



Plot: The story is very simple and easy to get. Basically during an international naval exercise between many nations, some weird objects enters Earth's atmosphere. The reason is some genius made a long range telephone that actually communicated with a planet that had life on it. Anyway those aliens traced the call back to earth and now have begun an invasion of the planet by sending a small scout army. The alien army has created a barrier around hawaii and has trapped 3 destroyer ships within the dome barrier. While the rest of the naval fleets are outside the barrier. Its up to Lt. Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch from John Carter), a very stubborn and destructive man, to take command of his ship and stop the alien invasion. The story is shallow and nothing that different from other alien invasion movies like Battle LA, War of the Worlds, and others.



Genre: The plot may be weak, but the action is intense. You see this movie may have a bad and unoriginal plot, but it makes up for it, with a lot of action and intense battle scenes. As the title says, this film is based off the board game that some of us had played. I remembered those days. Yep that was my second strategy game I played (chess was first, after that warcraft, starcraft, and a couple of Lord of the Rings strategy games took over; still play chess though). Yeah there is a scene where the movie is actually like the board game. But that is pretty much one scene, and the only connection to the board game. The rest is all character development, and STUFF BLOWING UP. The acting is good enough. I mean there is so much action and intense moments that you could probably care less about the acting. I mean its good enough to create a good atmosphere and setting for the movie. You'll have your hero who sounds like a Jimmy Tatro, the frat star. And you got Rihanna who is not bad, and Liam Neeson who still sounds like a badass.
The sound effects also are really good, and the music score by the end of the film is some good old fashion Vietnam-era music. The special effects are also really well done, but the aliens though could have been more creative Spoiler:They are basically lizards who hate the sun. The only thing that really makes me mad about this film is that they didn't make Neeson say They sunk my battleship.



Overall: I expected the movie to really not be impressive, but it was impressive. The action, special effects, and sound were awesome and make up for the shallow plot and average acting. Like Battle LA only better, this movie is a good tribute to United States military and its allies especially to the United States Navy and its allies.

9 out of 10

 

Asian Star of the Week

 

Lee Hyo-Ri (이효리, 李孝利)


A beautiful girl from Korea. She was the lead singer in a K-pop group called Fin.K.L. in 1998. Now she is a solo artist and has appeared in a few TV dramas. Anyway she is cute.













Well that's it for this weeks blog. Hope everybody's summer is going well. Until next time, happy gaming.

Movie Reviews with halochief996: The Raid Redemption

You know that feeling you get when you know you did good on a test but then you get the results and its not the grade you expected. Yeah I'm getting that feeling a lot, and this semester is almost over, and I really want to get good grades. FML. Oh well I guess we all have good and bad days. God dang this semester of college has been hell. My GPA I bet is going to go down. Whatever, as long as it is above a 3, I'm happy. moving on.

The Raid Redemption

When I heard about this movie, I thought it was some horror movie. But then I saw the trailer and it got me interested. I haven't seen a good action martial arts film since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This movie is one hell of a joyride.

Plot: In Indonesia, in the city of Jakarta, there is an apartment building ruled by a criminal boss that loans the rooms to his apartment to killers, gang members, assassins, and any other criminal bad guy you can think of. 20 cops attempt a raid on this dangerous building and take down the criminal boss once and for all. However things get out of control when there cover is blown. Now the criminal boss has unleashed all the criminals that live in his apartment. And lets just say they don't like cops. Its up to these 20 cops to survive and make it to the top of the apartment building and take out the criminal boss. Its the only way they can survive against the waves of vicious criminals. An interesting story that makes sense and has some twists. A good story for the great amounts of action this film has.

Genre: Like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, its an action film with martial arts and guns. There a few gunfights but not a lot. The good action scenes are the martial arts scenes. I mean there are some big badass moments. The punches, kicks, and slams are choreographed really well. The acting is not Oscar worthy, but good enough to really care a little bit. Also this movie is in another language, but there are English subtitles.

Overall: An awesome action movie. You have to see this film. If you are really into martial art, action films. You cannot go wrong with this one. An enjoyable thrill ride with plenty of action to entertain you.

10 out of 10

Asian Star of the Week

Lee Mi Hyeon 이미현

Another stunning model for South Korea. She is hot and cute.

Well that's it for this weeks blog. Thanks for reading. And Happy Gaming.

Movie Reviews with halochief996: 21 Jump Street plus Casa de mi Padre

Well Spring break is almost over for me, and I have to say I had a lot of fun. From playing video games, watching movies, doing some homework, and having fun. Yeah you can say I was productive during Spring Break. Moving on.

Casa De Mi Padre

Did I ever tell you Will Ferrell came to my school. Yeah apparently he visited my school to show off his new Casa de mi Padre. Yeah it sucks that I missed it, but whatever. People told me he was hilarious. I wish I was there. Anyway Will Ferrell is really funny. I mean he is hilarious. Every time I see his movies, I always get a good laugh. When I saw the trailer for this film, I was hooked. I mean its Will Ferrell talking in Spanish. This has to be a funny movie right?

Plot: The plot is pretty easy to understand even without English subtitles. Will Ferrell is Armando Alvarez, a dumb rancher in Mexico. Anyway his brother comes home to Mexico with a beautiful girl to ask his father for his permission to marry. However Armando is suspicious of his brother. And it turns out he is not really in Mexico to get married. Instead he is trying to take out his rival in the drug business, Onza. Its up to Armando to save his family's reputation and undo his brother's wrongdoings. Its a passionate story. Nothing really creative, but its pretty intense. Well it acts like its pretty intense.

Genre: Its a comedy movie. And its pretty funny to a point. I mean at first its hilarious because its Will Ferrell and he is speaking Spanish. But after a while it gets kind of dry and a little boring. I mean the other thing about this film is that it looks like a very cheaply made film. Its on purpose and its pretty funny, from weird mannequins to weird background settings to electronic animals. There is always something to chuckle about in this film, but other than that, the movie soon becomes tiring. And the only thing you can really laugh at is Will Ferrell speaking Spanish. The actors give good dramatic performances, and Will Ferrell can speak Spanish pretty well. Other than that there is some action and romance. And in a way this movie is kind of a musical. There is a lot of singing. And its in Spanish. And Will Ferrell is a good singer even in Spanish.

Overall: An interesting comedy film. I enjoyed the film and got a few laughs. Will Ferrell was pretty funny in this film. Like I said at the beginning its pretty funny, but after a while it becomes pretty much a grind and you will end up having a few chuckles. Of coarse there is some action and romance, but its not serious. More like dramatic. If you want a different kind of movie that is out of the norm. Check this film out.

7 out of 10

21 Jump Street

Channing Tatum, he has some good movies and some bad movies. I kind of see him as an action actor after seeing him in G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra and Haywire. Other than that he is especially good eye candy to girls. Jonah Hill on the other hand is funny and is pretty cool. So combine these 2 actors and you get 21 Jump Street, a pretty hilarious film.

Plot: This movie is based on an old TV show that aired from 1987 to 1991 starring Johnny Depp. From what I've read it was a pretty good show, and the movie is pretty similar to the show. Basically 2 cops, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are really young and immature. After failing to arrest a biker gang member with drugs because somebody forgot to read him his Miranda rights, Jenko and Schmidt are assigned to a new police unit run by Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) on 21 Jump Street. The police unit's specialty is to go undercover as high school students. Its up to Schmidt and Jenko to go undercover as high school students and make a big drug bust before the drug reaches other high schools and makes high school students OD. Its a funny story, and it has some great moments and twists. In a way it follows true to the plot formula that was set by the TV show.

Genre: Its a really funny movie. I had good laugh from beginning to end. I mean there are so many stereotypes about teen life, police work, drugs, school, and parties that makes this movie really funny. Channing Tatum can be a funny guy and Jonah Hill can be a really cool guy. Their acting performances are superb along with Ice Cube (who is also really funny) and the other actors. The few action scenes in the film are also nicely done with really funny events involving big explosions.

Overall: A very funny movie. Channing Tatum can be a really funny guy and Jonah Hill is still awesome. I had a good laugh from beginning to end. Don't take this movie seriously, just enjoy it and laugh at it.

8 out of 10

Asian Star of the Week

Park Soo Kyung 박수경

Another beautiful girl from Korea. Apparently she was Miss Maxim South Korea. She deserves it.

Well that's for this weeks blog. I hope everybody had a good Spring break. Hopefully Summer will come very soon and school will end. 7 more weeks for me.