I was waiting forever for this movie to be released, and I really didn't know why: I'm not a big fan of superhero movies, but for some reason i Knew i really wanted to see this. And it wasn't until the credits rolled that I figured out why: it was produced by Chris Nolan, one of my favorite directors ever since i watched "Memento", and while he is not directing this feature, you can still tell his hand is involved in this, and I think that somehow I knew that, that's why I was really looking forward to watch this.

You can tell Nolan´s darker input on visual effects right from the beginning, as everything looks gritty and the whole atmosphere is eerily somber. Acting is on the part of Russell Crowe (as Jor-El) and Michael Shannon (as General Zod) is top-notch, and definitely balances the somewhat less than stelar performances of Superman himself (Henry Cavill) and his love interest, Lois Lane (Amy Adams). I'm not saying their acting was bad, it just felt uninspired most of the time, but like I said before, the movie had such great actors (including Kevin Costner), that this one factor was not so relevant to the entirety of the film.



Story-wise, this reboot of the Superman franchise does a really nice job of creating a new universe for this (and what I heard, other superhero characters) to live in, even though I felt the pacing was a bit clunky at parts (like Superman just happening to stumble on the Kryptonian spaceship for apparently no reason at all, and General Zod requesting Lois Lane to be taken on board their ship, also with no further explanation), but not enough to damage what is otherwise a very good and entertaining movie.



Apparently, a sequel is in the works, entitled "Superman Vs. Batman", which by its name alone should explain what the film is going to be about, so be on the lookout for that sometime in 2014, I definitely will!

Words fail me to describe how BAD this movie is, so much that I didn't even think I'd write a review for it... it's the first time I'm giving a ZERO rating to anything, and if I could give it a minus number, I would: that's how terrible this film is.

Where to start? The premise? Laughable! So, one day a year where all crime is allowed, except killing important politicians, solves all of society's problems?? Really? Yeah, if you could kill a senator or a President who is not doing a good job, yeah, maybe.. but that's not even allowed during the Purge, so what gives? Just the main concept of the movie makes everything else go downhill from there.

The acting? Worst I've seen in decades! What ever happened to Ethan Hawke? I don't remember him being such a bad actor in previous films… maybe he had to lower his acting level to match everyone else's in this crapfest?? Whoever played the wife was just sooo bad at acting, and so were the children… oh, wait, right: having the 18-year-old girl be wearing her "sexy" catholic schoolgirl outfit the entire movie, in order to lure the perverts in? Cheesy move. And the boyfriend, who had no relevance in the movie whatsoever, and who probably was there just to target teenage girls?  The casting for this was just so horribly bad, I mean, how was this movie a box office "success" is just beyond me…




The plot elements? So they made the little kid be a pacifist and so he harbors a fugitive from the purge, which starts the whole mess.. then they torture the poor guy7 in order to get him to cooperate to get him out of the house, then they ALL turn into moralmongers and go "oh no, we're better than, let's kill a lot of people instead of just one". Ah yeah, the Purgers! So they wear masks, even though there's no need, as all crime is legal for 12 hours, but still they felt the need to hide their faces, except for their polite leader, who's too cool for masks.. and then the neighbors trying to kill family just because they made a lot of money selling them their security systems, and then the black guy (yeah, they had to make the main victimized guy be black) saves the day, dad dies, the end.



I really had to put up with this just to write this review, I was ready to call it quits barely 20 minutes into the movie, and that still was too long a time for me. I'm not gonna say this is the worst movie I've ever watched, but it definitely ranks up there at the top. And they're gonna make a sequel? This world is definitely going to the pits…

What was this even supposed to be? I mean, I know it's the third and last installment of The Hangover series, but it felt more like "Leslie Chow: The Movie", as the entire film seemed made just to make us of his character, and to still profit from the success of the original title… but I saw almost no comedy here, and I think that may even have been on purpose.

Plot-wise, the producers seem to have taken too seriously the idea of "not ripping off the same movie for a third time", as they went totally south with the direction of the film: Leslie Chow escapes from prison, the "wolfpack" gets involved in a gold robbery, Doug is kidnapped, people die, Alan gets married, and at the end, another event where they remember nothing of the previous night. It's as boring as this summary is.

WHAT TO LOVE
Almost nothing good to say about this movie, other than "Oh, it's that funny Leslie Chow guy!", and maybe the inclusion of John Goodman… and probably that's just for the true fans of old comedy… which this film is clearly not. And probably we can love this series finally ended and there won't be a Part IV, luckily.



WHAT TO HATE
Pretty much everything to hate, again, like with Part II, but this time for different reasons? I don't know, it seems they tried to make this movie so different from the previous two, they went the other way around and ended up blowing the whole thing up. It was nice to see some connections to the first movie (with the return of "Black Doug"), but that was just about all that was nice about the entire thing.

WHAT TO IGNORE
The entire plot, I guess. Really, this movie pretty much had no reason to exist other than milking a dead cow and use the name of the series to make some bucks before the novelty entirely wore off… which I feel was the biggest mistake they made, and this had worn off already at the end of the first movie. But, they still made some money with this, so joke's on us, apparently.


THE VERDICT
A bad unfunny movie. They shouldn't have made Part II, even less this one. Just a dull, tepid and uninspired film, which served only to put an end to the "trilogy", if for anything else. Don't waste your time with it.

A documentary called "Sirius", that has NOTHING to do with Sirius, the star, at all. That was my first turn off about this new documentary which, pretty much, encompasses and highlights the whole body work of Mr. Steven Greer, who for years has been studying and promoting the UFO phenomenon throughout the world. And for those of us who are already very familiar with his work, there was nothing new here to watch.
And apart from being ticked off that this film had nothing to with studying the star Sirius as a possible source for human life, the whole documentary just looked as an enormous and lengthy tribute to Mr. Greer's work. This could have been called "Steven Greer: the Movie", and it wouldn't have made much difference in the end, since most of the documentary was just about his life and his beliefs… and this is another of the points i had a problem with.


As far as i understand, a documentary is supposed to present a neutral point of view about a topic, so the viewer can make their own conclusions and opinions about what's going on. But the whole time in this movie they presented New Age and meditation as valid and legit elements in human society, and they even went as far as to state they know what happens after death, as evidenced when they described the death of Greer's best friend as "she passed onto the world of light" instead of the neutral and objective "she passed away". Who are they to affirm there IS a "world of light" beside this one, and why would this friend go there and not somewhere else? I think stuff like this really ended up hurting everything that this film was trying to aim at, which was showing that the UFO phenomenon and extraterrestrial life was an actual situation in the world.
In that aspect, the whole buzz about this tiny humanoid creature was also, i felt, a huge disappointment, because the end result of the entire investigation about the creature was "inconclusive". It cannot be told if it's a deformed human, or if it's an alien creature. All in all, no one knows what it is.


In the end, i felt the only redeeming points of this documentary were the "Zeitgeist" moments, like talking about suppressed forms of free energy (even though they never managed to get that magnetic energy machine to work) and about all the money syphoned out of the American people that goes towards black operations by the US government.. and only that, because everything mentioned on UFOS and aliens was already pretty well covered in Greer's previous work, the "Disclosure Project" DVD, a much better rounded effort on his part. Compared to that, this documentary fell really short, and one has to wonder if a much better job could have indeed been done.
If you watched this film, what did you think of it? Please leave me a comment in the section below, thanks.

I have to admit this was my first time watching this show, and i mostly did it because of the many mentions on Twitter about how  Kya and Alyx, the two main subjects of this episode, had met in a website called VampireFreaks, of which I have been a member for several years, and i wanted to see how this fact was going to be portrayed on the show.

I was glad to see that, besides the snickers and scoffs when the words "vampire freaks" were uttered, they didn't fixate on that, and rather focused on the online relationship these two people had developed. It starts as your typical "two people who have fake online profiles start dating" type of thing, and I was already expecting to see some serious scripting and fake acting, but was surprised to notice that, as far as i could tell, everyone's reaction to the whole situation felt very genuine, specially when they find out that Alyx was not only who he said he was on pictures: he wasn't even a guy, at least not legally yet.



The disappointment in Kya's face when she learned this truth seemed very real, and the whole process of her getting over the fact that the boyfriend she had been in an online relationship with for the past 8 months was actually a transgendered girl, and learning to still love her in spite of that, i found it to be very remarkable.

This whole episode was a huge slap in the face for many of its viewers, I'm guessing, because not only they showed two people who don't conform to the beauty standards of typical reality TV stars (who are pretty much all fit and beautiful), they also showed that it IS possible that two people can truly love each other regardless of their gender or physical appearance, and to me, if nothing else, that was the main accolade this show got going on in their favor, at least this time around.

If you watched this show, how did you feel about it? Please leave me a comment in the section below. Thanks.

I guess i was as surprised as everyone else when i started seeing the Twitter feeds about Angus Jones saying that the show he's in, Two and a Half Men, is "filth", and urging viewers to stop watching the show. As a fan of the series since the first episode of the first season, i felt like giving my two cents about the whole situation.

First off, i fully and completely respect that he's a born again Christian… he has right to his own religion, and that's all good, but when he starts telling the fans of his own show, in which he's been for over 10 years, not to watch it anymore, that his character is nothing, non-existent, and starts talking about "the enemy", then i feel there's something seriously wrong going on with him. Like i said, i have nothing against religion nor Christianity, but when i feel something's odd, i just feel like commenting on it, that's all.


I watched the entire 14 minute video that Forerunner posted, where he makes his main statements about the show and about his new faith, and the words "brain washed" just pops in my head almost at every second. Pretty much he's telling us that we're all wrong (and possibly sinners) for watching the show now, and that if we keep watching, we're just following Satan's plan of some sort… i mean, what? And at no point he's saying that he's going to quit the show, or that he's trying to get fired, and no mention about donating all the money he makes per episode or anything else. I mean, if the show is "filth", then the money he makes with it should be filthy too, shouldn't it? In that case, is he going to get rid of it? I didn't see any mentions of that anywhere.

I don't intend to be judgmental or too critical on his new stance about a show that saw him grow up from a little kid into the man he is nowadays. I just feel that something is odd here, and i'd love to hear your thoughts about it in the comment section below. Thanks.

In spite of the many people who stopped watching this show after Charlie Sheen left, Two and a Half Men has continued thriving through its tenth season and it doesn't seem to be letting down anytime soon, and as a fan of the series, i am very happy for that.

This time around we see the plot progressing into what may be Alan's third wedding, with his girlfriend Lindsey pressuring him to tie the knot. We also see a turn of events for Walden when this time it's a rich lady who's taking him out and buying him stuff as opposed to what his normal routine would be. It was specially funny when the producers of the show made fun of themselves, by ridiculing both the old and new premises and story lines of the series during an after-sex exchange of words between Walden and his sugar momma. Being able to laugh at oneself is always important, so i give props to these people for being brave enough to do so.

The main novelty of this episode is the introduction of the new character, Sid Olsen, a grumpy and witty old man portrayed by none other than Jon Cryer himself, making this his second role after years playing Alan Harper exclusively. I'm not entirely sure how much of a good move this is or not, as at first i thought the series was gonna take a HUGE turn by adding science fiction to its plot (by making Sid Olsen really be Alan from the future), but when i realized he's just a new character and nothing else, i was a bit disappointed. I have to admit though, the way they showed both characters on screen at the same time was really, really well done, and i'm glad that technology has advanced so much as to being able to do this the right away.


I still remember series from the past when an actor would play twins in a show (think Phoebe and Ursula in "Friends"), and the execution was very poorly done, where you could tell the camera cuts, image quality of both versions of the characters was significantly different, etc.   Compared to that, Alan and Sid played next to each other flawlessly, so great congratulations to the visual effects team are in order. If Mr.Olsen will play an important role in the rest of the series or if he's just gonna be forgotten like Magilla (Walden´s gorilla brother), only time will tell.

What did you think of this episode? Did you also think at first that Sid Olsen was a time traveller Alan Harper? Please let me know in the comment section below. Thanks.

In what is probably the funniest episode so far this year, "The 43 Peculiarity" brought some surprises as well as some little disappointments along and set the tone for a really good rest of the season for this constantly funny and well produced series.

Talks of a parallel universe and Sheldon holding a secret were the two main elements at the beginning of the episode that i'm sure had most of us really intrigued, specially when the secondary story of Leonard being jealous of Penny's new classmate was not that surprising at all, as Leonard being doubtful about his ability to keep Penny's interest in him has been a constant throughout the whole run of the series.. but the climax that this situation lead to was definitely the cherry on the cake.

We also see that Alex (Sheldon's assistant) is converting her crush on Leonard into something a lot bigger, probably even infatuation, and it was truly funny to see him so clueless about her innuendos towards him (which were all sweet and super cute, by the way)… but of course Penny's accidental slip about her true feelings for Leonard was something that probably most fans have been awaiting for years, and it's gonna be really interesting how this revelation plays out in the upcoming episodes.

But the biggest surprise that, to me at least, turned into the biggest disappointment, was Sheldon opening a portal to a parallel dimension… my breath stopped for a second as i thought this series was gonna take a HUGE leap into new territory (by bringing science fiction into the show), but then was quickly corrected when realizing the whole thing was a prank on Sheldon's part. It would have been SO interesting to have such a new element to be developed in the series, but alas, it was not meant to be. In spite of that, i still loved this episode and i'm really looking forward to the next, to be aired on November 29th.

So, what did you think of this episode? Do you think that eventually adding science fiction to the plot would harm or improve the series? Please leave me a comment in the section below.

Really? They made a sequel of this… oh well, it couldn't be as bad as the first one, could it? Oh, wait… And so, since they made a couple of millions with the prequel, the producers decided to give it another go, and they didn't find any better way than making fun of all the online reviewers who panned their previous effort. Asshole move, of course, but since it sorta set the track for what the movie was going to be about, I think that not much can be said about it. A group of kids who saw the first film and believed it was real, decide to go to the same hospital and find out by themselves what really happened there. Of course, they had to put the token "hot girl" in there (Tessa) to lure in the male audience, and the pretty boys (Alex and Trevor) to target the teeny fangirls… all too predictable.



Anyway, I think that since this time around they went more for an actual film vibe, rather than a mockumentary one, they decided to be more outlandish with the plot development, starting with that Ouija board that moved by itself and told them that pretty much the hospital itself wanted them to "film everything". From then on, crap hits the fan and it's just one ridiculous moment followed by another (like the "fake escape", where they exit the building, go to their hotel, and then find themselves inside the hospital again).

The guys who are surviving the mayhem by this point in the movie, find the original guy from the first movie (Lance Preston), who is now all insane with long hair and really ripped (apparently feeding on rats is good for your overall fitness, go figure). Then, the final plot twist is revealed, with a red door that leads to nowhere being the key to everything: you just have to kill everyone else and promise to finish the film in order to be granted exit of the building, easy enough, huh? So a dimensional vortex opens, sucks Lance in, the one young guy kills his possible girlfriend, and leaves the place, the end.



Oh, wait, no.. then we see the same cheesy producer from the first film, saying that everything was fake and that the guy who survived was a really talented filmmaker and what not. At that point I couldn't care less, not even for the after-credits scene, which doesn't tell us anything we didn't know already.

Let's trust that they won't make a third part of this series, because two of this is all I can take nowadays. Not as bad as the first one, but really terrible regardless.