Vlog Sign Off

Welcome to the final post for 50 Shades of Film. For our last post we have decided to each review one of our all time favourite films, and in honour of the media we have been reviewing, our final blog post is a Vlog. We have all chosen vastly different films which represents the diversity of interest in our group and we believe this makes for a more interesting and engaging audience experience (to gain insight from moviegoers with different interests and varied knowledge of various genres.

Our Vlog discusses the following films;

Fight Club
Pitch Perfect 2
The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift
Mr Holland's Opus
Inception

All films discussed in this video are reviewed similarly to the way we have been reviewing previously so the format is much the same, however the method of delivery is far different.

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So thank you for checking out our blog, this is; Alex, Brett, Jordan, Khoa and Scott signing out for 50 Shades of Film.

Shawshank...Light in the tunnel

The Shawshank Redemption is a movie released in 1994, Frank Darabont is the director and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. The main character Andy Dufresne played by Tim Robbins is a banker was sentenced to life for the murder of wife and her lover. As a former banker the warden used Andy in a money laundering activities. Andy befriends Ellis “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman) who is the prison’s contraband smuggler.

The whole premise of the movie is that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel because Andy knew he was innocent and for 17 years he dug a tunnel the lead to the prison’s sewage system and onto freedom.

10/10

Khoa Tran  

The Hottie and the Nottie

The main character called Nate moves to L.A in hopes of wooing the girl he loved during his childhood. Only to discover that he has to overcome a hurdle -the girls extremely ugly best friend.

The acting is abysmal. I can do better. I think the reason movie is so bad is because the entire budget was spent on making sure that the ugly best friend was the ugliest most disgusting thing on the planet. The movie is extremely unbelievable, nobody can legitimately actually be that ugly.

Paris Hilton who plays the main character is a terrible actress in this film, but I'd probably still go there, maybe.

This movie is probably the worst thing in the last 100 years of film making. However Paris Hilton goes aight

12/10

-Scott

Jupiter Descending

I watched this for Mila Kunis.

I was disappointed. The basis of the movie is fantastic, Jupiter Ascending creates a really nice sci-fi universe. The Earth and some other worlds are owned by a number of different families which act like corporations. Once the world becomes overpopulated, the people are used to create a youth serum which keeps those living in the corporate society young for ever. The family controlling Earth is named the Abraxis family, and each of the three heirs of Abraxis is trying to gain control of Earth. However Jupiter Jones, who finds out that she is actually a reborn mother of the Abraxis siblings, and claimant to Earth. You're probably thinking, that actually sounds like a pretty good story. You're absolutely correct for saying that, and it's easily the best part of the movie. However it all goes down hill from there,

The script is poor, the characters never become interesting, they're all one dimensional, using lines to progress the story that just appear lifeless.

The script completely ruins the film, and it's hard to look past. However the action is really interesting, space battles, choreographed martial art duels, some weird technology, gravity boots etc. Then the special effects are pretty cool too.

This film had potential, if they fleshed out the characters more then it would have been great.

5/10

-Scott

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

There are 4 types of movies, shit movies, great movies, average movies and movies  that you know are bad but you love anyway. 2014s TMNT is one of those movies, pure nostalgia made me enjoy this movie. The memories i had of watching the original animated tv show and my love of the turtles in general.

The plot is simple, teenage mutant ninja turtles with the help of april o niel played by Megan Fox save the city from the foot clan and their leader shredder. The only thing you need to know about the movir is it is directed by Michael Bay. Lots of expositions and lots of stupid dialog. But its dumb fun, i dont watch these movies and critique them, i turn my brain off and enjoy an average action movie just like bays transformers series.

The acting is nothing special and the only reason Megan Fox is in it is because she is hot, simple as that. The script is average, the cinematography is great the way the camera displays some of the giant set pieces and the special effects are really good.

If your bored on the weekend its a good movie to watch when your bored and feel like dumb fun.

6/10

Alex

John Wick

John Wick is being dubbed as Keanu Reeves come back movie. He has done some bad movies of late but this is not one of them. Its a different type of good though. There is nothing special about the acting although every word that comes out of Reeves mouth just sounds completely badass, the cinimatography isnt amazing and the script isnt incredible either. The movie is just amazing because of how badass it is.

The plot is very simple, John Wick is a retired assasin and after the receny passing of his wife she leaves him a puppy to look after and act as his companion, at a gas station some russian thugs take a look at him beautiful mustang fastback and ask if they could buy it, he says its not for sale and drives of. That night the thugs break in, steal his car and kill his dog. So John comes out of retirement, a man with nothing to loose to kill everyone involved with taking what he loved which means taking down the russian mafia.

The reason that John Wick is great is because of his reputation, even the mob bosses are afraid of him and call him the boogie man. In most action movies you get people with "stormtrooper vision" who cant seem to aim, John is the opposite. He is a professional and when he walks in the room everyone is shot in the head with one bullet unless he shoots someone else in purpose, its almost art.

In conclusion if you are thinking of a batshit crazy movie to watch without a confusing plot, John Wick will not disappoint,  its EXCELLENT  (air guitar plays).

7/10

Alex

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park, if you were a kid when you first watched this masterpiece of a movie you are lucky because you have fond memories of the movie and even trying to recreate it with action figures. With the reboot "Jurassic World" on the horizon lets take alook at how it started.

Jurassic Park is the story of Alan Grant, a scientist sent to an island where a billionaire John Hammond has created a theme park littered with dinosaurs created through genetic manipulation and along with Dr Ian Malcolm they are wanted to take a trial run of the park to approve of it when the power goes out and things go terribly wrong. Thats all ill say of the story.

This movie is just a kids dream. The acting from sam niel and jeff goldblum along with others is great. Goldblum really knows how to play a sarcastic asshole well. The music is amazing, when you have a soundtrack done by John Williams the same composer from star wars your bound for some memorable music, the theme song along is magical and brings back so much nostalgia.

The cinematography as well is amazing, the way the camera pans and shows wide fields with dinosaurs roaming is great and the way that the tention is built for the T-Rexs apearence through the camera work is great, the scene with the puddle rippling is chilling.

Overall this is just a classic movie and one of my favourites with great acting camera work and music. Hopefully the reboot can recapture that feeling for a newer generation not as familiar with the original and at the same time provide more great memories for fans of the series.

9/10

Alex