2012 Doomsday

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132130/
In Mexico an nature disaster and radical changes in the climate is about to happen, the climate quickly goes from sunshine to snow.
In San Diego a gigantic tornado sweeps across town, In Iran, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Russia strange weather activity starts to unfold.

Dr Frank Richards (Dale Midkiff) and his team are in the middle of an vulcanic eruption in Mexico and the clock is ticking down to the possible last 36 hours of mankind.

In another part of Mexico a young doctor, Sarah (Danae Nason) tries to help a small village and the people living there. She meets a young pregnant woman, Wakanna (Sarah Tomko).
Wakanna













In San Diego another woman Susan Reed (Ami Dolenz) and her mother (Shirley Raun) tries to reach the Mayan pyramids in hope to find out why the clock is ticking down on mankind.

Those of you who wants to see this in hope of getting an action packed CGI movie do rewatch 2012 instead.
2012 Doomsday are full of religious talk about how great and mysterious god is. I don´t mind movies who mixes in religion, not at all, but in a apocalyptic full scale disater movie I don´t need to be reminded by it in every scene, more or less.
The carachters sure believes in it and with a doomsday just hours away it is somehow understandable that your mind starts to question a lot of things - but that´s another topic perhaps.

The reasons why I wanted to see this movie in the first place are that the whole 2012 myth is interresting, believable or not, it is something that we all can in some way reelate to. Mankind has always been afraid of the final hour/the final judgement and so on. So as a movielover I ain´t no different.
The mainreason however I was interrested in this movie was that Sarah Tomko stars in it.

2012 Doomsday is more about the carachters journy towards a goal; ending the end of times, then a CGI blockbuster movie that Roland Emmerich made. How strange and akward it may sound, this version has more heart then the 2009 version. Interresting to campare them and in some way it may be a misstake doing so. It also remins me of the apocalyptic warnings(?) in the 1988 movie The Seventh Sign.
We all have our beliefs and or doubts, 2012 Doomsday doesn´t make me a believer, just convincing me more that Sarah Tomko is a beautiful actress who I wanna see more of.













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-The world is ending Frank.
- No it´s not, it´s changing.
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Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_nhbBciFOE


A site on the whole 2012 myths
http://www.december212012.com/

Inception

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/
Take some of the ingridience from the matrix trilogy and some parts from Oceans 11,12 & 13 and you got a big, sometimes, confusing big massive.. over rated movie.

Sure some gonna stop reading this review after that.
I checked the rating on imdb and it was a massive 9.0. My question was a mix of confusion and chock; Had we seen the same movie?
The director screenwriter is Christoper Nolan, the same man who fooled everyone with the overhyped The dark knight. Why that is so overrated and considered a dark epic movie? Well since the poster shows a skyscrape in flames with the Batman logo in it… or, is it the simple fact that your unconsious tells you that it recembles the horrific picture from the Twin tower buildings on 9/11?

So, what is Inception about?
It is a science fiction tale about a burgler named Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his close friend Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). They aren´t your regular burglers who likes to break into houses or banks and steal money or jewelry, These steal ideas.. From the mind of people. And I just felt like I was robbed of my intillect.

The sound that echoes thrughout the entire trailer (more or less) and in the more science fiction action scenes are somehow reminding me of how the tripods from War of the worlds sounded like.
In all honesty there was nothing from the trailer or the fact that Ellen Page was in this, she playes Ariadne, who made me wanna see this. The only reason was that Ken Watanabe as Saito was in this and he is the only actor who does a good job.

So, Ariadne who study under Miles (Sir Michael Caine) gets the job as a architect, she will create a world within a dream. The dream is gonna be planted by Cobb inside the mind of Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy) so Saito can get in total control of.. something.

Ariadne starts to bend houses and streets but our hero; Cobb, sees the danger and the tripod music is played (ooooooooh scary). And then our team are thrown into a washing machine, but it is in a hotel corridore, but inside a dream, emh, that is a fantasy… of Robert Fischer..that Cobb has created, and Ariadne also..

I might not have been in the mood watching this, so I watched it again, same feeling, it is a rip off from the semi intelectual/quasi intelectual movie about philosophy and life (read; The Matrix). Inception doesn´t go that far, it mixes in some action scenes every now and then but mostly Leonardo looks tired and a bit chubby.

It is told that this movie is a groundbreaking movie, the only ground it breaks is that once again people have been fooled to believe that a big block buster movie with sometimes nice camera setting is a masterpiece.
Ask the producers to give you your money back, or else you are indeed a part of this movie; your mind has been robbed!

Official site
http://inceptionmovie.warnerbros.com/dvd/

Machete

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/
Once again Jessica Alba gets tied up and gagged in a movie, she has a remarkable career and stats ending up like that in movies.













Beside Alba there is also Michelle Rodriguez as Luz,













Lindsay Lohan as April Booth












- Lindsay is however Not being topless in the pool.
You who have seen the fake trailer from Robert Rodriguez Planet terror project (he co wrote and directed that with Quentin Tarantino) knows what poolscene I´m referering to. The poolscene isn´t the only scene from the trailer that are edited into the full lenght movie - wich in all honesty makes this a wierd semi sketch movie - now I´m being way to mean.

As you all probably know by now Machete (Danny Trejo) is a bad ass mexican who have been doublecrossed after he has taken an asignement of killing George W Bush..no wait, I ment Senator John McLaughlin (Robert De Niro).

















McLaughlin uses the same phrases as W did; Fight terrorism etc etc.
Beside all the kick ass action scenes Rodriguez also manage to show more humor then any of his earler movies (haven´t seen spy kids so don´t blame me to hard) but he also makes a lot of political statements.
We maby should see Machete both as a political satire as much as a action packed A list B movie(the cast is impressive). It might not be the movie of 2010 (henche the sketch type feeling I got from different scenes) but who cares really?

The reson why the most of us chosen to see this is for the fact that Alba is being nude in the shower(she did infact had a bikini on but it was edited out afterwards).













Lohan walking topless in the pool (but it´s the scene where Machete makes out with April and her mom that has another actress then Lohan). But the real tip of the cake is Michelle Rodriguez ….. … yum yum, she is way hotter then I ever seen her before.














So with all those things out of the picture (or how you wanna say), let´s talk a little more about the movie.
Machete is an former Mexican police that has been doublecrossed and now he tries to live an normal life in US.
A man with political ideas contacts him on the street and gives him an offer; either you shoot and kill a politician or you are sent back to Mexico.
Ofcourse our hero Machete is doublecrossed, again, and that is where all "hell" brakes loose.

Luz (Michelle Rodriquez) works by the corner of a street selling coffe and fastfood, she is being harassed by Sartana Rivera (Alba) a cop who, according to Luz has turned against her own people (hispanic/Mexicans) and trying to ship them back to where they came from.
Luz, on the side, also has an army ready to strike back at the corrupt politicians and cops all she need is someone who can join all the people, someone like Machete.

Mexicans and other hispanic people joins in and fight against the evil corrupt police and politicians. There will be explotions, gunfights, naked women, a white guy acting like wato locos, a mute guy who draws his answers (he even draws the final battle) blood, guts and more.

Beside the fact that Machete feels like a sketch movie, the camera work are infact a little to good for being a B movie tribute. It may sound strange, but if Rodriguez would have kept the style he had in Planet terror (for example), Machete would have been better. Even these minor faults(?) Machete is a really funny and entertaining movie with an impressive cast, even Steven Seagal is funny and that is something I didn´t expect.
Allthough this movie has DeNiro, Jeff Fahey, Don Johnson, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, Danny Trejo, Cheech Marin, Tom Savini in a funny cameo., Machete is all Michelle Rodriguez movie ^_^

If you haven´t seen this allready, or if you allready have - do watch it (Again).

Jessica Albas shower scene, aswell as her scene being gagged and tied are brief.

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We didn´t cross the border! The border crossed us!!
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Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIxcVzwLR1k

Official Japanese site
http://www.sonypictures.jp/movies/machete/

Official US site
http://www.vivamachete.com/

Ninja Assassin

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186367/
Do you want a bloodbath? Then this is the movie to watch. Oh and two women are being tied up aswell.

Raizo, played by the Korean pop singer Rain, is a young man that has been trained (and even tortured/trained extremly hard) in the mythical style known as ninja.
We follow Raizo and Mika (Naomie Harris) who is an europool investigator. She investigates why so many politicians and other top key people are being killed in the most brutal way.
The legend says that when the light goes out, the ninja is coming for you.

One of many deathscenes













Raizo has turned his back against his master and now a bunch of bad ass ninjas are after him. Why he abondened the ninja clan? Without giving to much away it is becouse someone close to his heart has been killed infront of his eyes. So Raizo sets out for revenge, an revenge that will leave a lot of men and their bodyparts in his path.

Ninja assassin is a ”all boy” movie, what is there else to expect from a movie about a revengefull ninja anyway? The over the top violence is in the same style if you mixes the first Matrix (the bullet time scenes) with the most brutal/violent scenes from Frank Miller´s 300. I actually think that ninja assassin outclasses 300 on that level.

Mika on her way to rescue Raizo













The actionscenes are both mixed with slowmotion scenes and ”realtime” scenes so to speak. The actionscenes are well done, but someway so over the top that it almoust becomes laughable in the end. The movie is ment to be a serious (in those terms as a serious pop corn movie) and not an ironich movie, even though there is some tounge in cheek jokes here; as for when Raizo is captured and a police say - He doesn´t look like a killingmachine to me sir. Looks like he belongs in a boyband.

Despite all the killings, the choped off heads, legs, arms, fingers, slized bodies there is a short lovestory involved. Not that it is your thypical kind of lovestory, but it is there. Through flashbackscenes we are being introduced to Kimiko (Anna Sawai)
and how she finds her way into the soon to become coldhearted assassin Raizos heart, a heart that he has explained to her that he doesn´t have.







If you have missed this I suggest you atleast watch it once and enjoy the carnage that a ninja can leave behind.













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You have a heart, it said hello.
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Just becouse I was sleeping didn´t mean I didn´t hear you.
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Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZa8E7pQAQ


http://ninja-assassin-movie.warnerbros.com/dvd/

http://www.ninja-lefilm.com/

http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/ninjaassassins/

Monsters

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470827/
Mix War of the worlds, District 9, Stephen King´s The mist with the political racial tendencies of US against Mexico and you get Gareth Edwards Monsters.

The scientists as NASA has sent a spacecraft to outer space in hope to find alien lifeform or data that they exist. 6 years later the probe crashes between Mexico and US.
Aliens or new lifeforms as they are called starts to florish. The US and Mexican military fights together against ”the evil” creatures.
In the midle of it all an american tourist; Samantha Wynden ( Whitney Able) tries to leave Mexico and the ”infected zone” where the new treathening lifeform lives. An photographer; Andrew Kaulder (Scott McNairy) gets the job to escort her safe back to the US.

The phase of the movie is kind a slow and not so much action are happening, thank you for that - after the overhyped and rather boring District 9 - it was fresh to see a science fiction movie about aliens as the ”good guys” and the people as the ”bad guys”. Well it is more obvious in District 9, but it is actually more fitting and told in a more sad way in Monsters. The way the aliens call out to one another are similuar to the elephants funny and cute sound. The aliens itself looks like a mixture of the tripods from War of the worlds and a gigantic octopus - nice tentacles.

The strenght of Monsters are the two leads who are very humain in their roles and the feeling that we as a viewer actually are with them on their journey from the poor Mexican city via the jungle and reaching a gigantic wall on the US boarder.

As much as Monsters is an semi apocalyptic story it can be seen as a political statement (if you want to); the growing fear of Mexicans or other ”illegal immigrants” or in this case illegal aliens that are ”on it´s way to US”, the military are set in to Control the masses. But these huge aliens (they are mostly hiding and only shows themself at night) are not exactly a threat.

If you are into monster movies, science fiction or films in general do watch this.














Official US site
http://www.monstersfilm.com/

Official UK site
http://www.monstersthemovie.com/

Gurotesuku

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1352369/
A young new couple out on their first date are being attacked by a man, they wake up, tied and ballgagged in a room full with tools, one of the tools is a chainsaw and he gonna use it.
But first he gonna make them both cum.

Tsugumi Nagasawa as Aki (she has worked as an AV idol under the name Asami Tachibana) and her date Kazuo ( Hiroaki Kawatsure) and Shigeo Ôsako as the sadistic torturer (he looks like a young Bīto Takeshi or Kitano Takeshi as he´s more known as).

Shigeo Ôsako as the mad doctor













Gurotesuku is the new and extreme wave of japanese torture movies, it was banned in UK and in some cases I can understand why. It is in some parts disturbing and if that has something to do with the fact that Kazuos penis and balls gets tortured or that Aki has her nippels cut off… hoops, I guess I spoiled a lot there. See it as a warning instead, since this movie ain´t for everybody.
Those who have seen Ginī Piggu knows what to expect.
The difference between these movies are that Gurotesuku has a lot more dialog and that the sound effects are more nasty. For example, when he fingers Aki we clearly hear the squishing sound from his fingers rapidly working her pussy.














Despite all the grusome torture there are some wicked humor in this, hey it is after all an japanese movie. A conversation takes place between Aki and Kazuo where they promise to stay together, Kazuo then says; I´m so happy now that I have to poop.

On the other hand, no wonder why it´s banned in the UK. If the madman plays Pomp and Circumstance while he torture them, ofcourse a bann will follow. Those brits has no sense of humor.
I say, buy it, becouse this is not only brutal it is also funny.

The mad doctor. Aki and Kazuo













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- What a delicious cake.
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- Would you die for her?
Kazuo nods his head while the music from Swanlake is played
- You both are gonna die here.
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Brum brum brum...













Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NQ5XYpw3fw

Official site
http://www.grotesque-movie.jp/

Tsugumi Nagasawa
http://www.nipponcinema.com/tag/tsugumi-nagasawa