The Lovely Bones - Movie Review

I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't expecting much from this film at all. I watched the trailer moments before I watched the film so I got a fair idea of what the film would be about, and the trailer did catch my attention.

So I sat down to start watching it, and the first thing I heard was narration. Now, narration isn't always that bad, however, I'm a bit iffy about it. So the film starts with a young girl who is the main character of the film, talking about death, and how she died. How she loved someone and how this murderer had ruined everything. 

Now there's really not much I can say about the film without spoiling it, but the acting was pretty good, the story telling was incredible in my opinion and if a film ever makes you think 'WOW' or 'Holy Crap' then it's done a good job, because it does a couple of times within the first half of the film.

If you haven't seen it before, then make sure you at least go and check it out, if you have seen it before, then hopefully you understand why I felt like this about this film. 

The film to me is a 7/10 as there was the odd moment where you did want it to just hurry up a bit, and it did feel like one or two scenes were just filler scenes. But a part from that, I did really enjoy the film.

7/10

Pan - Movie Review

I've never hyped myself up for a movie more than Pan. I saw the trailer the day it came out and watched every trailer since then. Well now I've had my chance to watch it... And well...

The best part of the movie was the credits. The music is catchy... That's about it. The animation and graphical affects were alright I guess. And some parts of the story weren't too bad. However the amount of plot holes made me want to cry, the relationship between Hook and Tiger lily, and Hook and Pan, and Pan and Tiger Lily, and all of them with Blackbeard was poor. The best character in it was Smeeh, but that was only in the first half of the movie, so anything past that first half for him was garbage. 

When I sat down and started watching it, I was disappointed by the beginning, but I sat through it anyway, in hopes that the second half would be phenomenal... And I can confirm it really wasn't. Nothing in the film made any sense. Nothing was ever explored or explained. Nothing was ever adopted on to get the main characters into their positions before we get to the Peter Pan that everyone knows where it is Pan vs Hook. There was none of that.

Hooks accent... Hooks freaking accent... Oh my god. It sounded so fake it was painful. I hate writing this review, but I can honestly say I don't think I've been more disappointed in the film... Whoever made the trailers deserves the biggest pay rise ever, because the trailers did look amazing, the trailer soundtrack was amazing. The movie did not look amazing, the soundtrack was also not amazing...

That's another thing, WHY WAS THE FILM A MUSICAL?! 

I didn't sit down to watch this so I could watch Blackbeard sing songs that hadn't been invented yet. Because I think three songs were in this film and every time I heard one, I was more tempted to turn it off.

Like I said, the graphics were good, the story telling wasn't that bad and costume design was also pretty good and sets and stuff. But the film as a whole makes me final thoughts 

5/10