No, I'm not crazy nor drunk, that's the title of the movie released by the Romanian company "Media Pro Pictures" last Christmas. I wrote this review in February, as I didn't have time to do it before, but, anyway, you should just be grateful that I actually wrote it.
I watched this movie a while ago, so I'll try to explain the plot from what I remember. It's like this. A kid lives with his mother - the father left them - and the mother gets out of work a bit too late to reach the stores on time and buy her kid a present. Therefore, she tells the kid they'll go to the mall together the next day and buy a present from the money Santa left them. They reach the parking lot and their car breaks up (it's a fucking Dacia 1310 what would you expect?!), so the mother calls the repairmen and lets the kid wait for her at the mall restaurant. The repairmen were very funny, and in my opinion, their best scene is when they blow the engine and the hood flies away.
Back to the kid, he meets a gipsy guy who's up to no good and always gets into trouble by stealing from customers. The guy's name is "Gipu" and he always gets angry when he is called "Gicu". So the first kid, called, I think, Horaţiu, goes with Gipu through the mall and get into some trouble. At one point, they get separated and Horaţiu meets up with a guy dressed as Santa, called Ion (played by the Romanian Elvis - Ştefan Bănică Jr). This guy is part of a band of robbers who are there to steal some jewels. If at first Ion is a big fat jerk, he turns out to be a real nice guy in the end. Then there's this new security guy, played by Pavel Bartoş, who is a bit stupid and messes up a lot of times. The security guy - Marin - and Ion have a quarel, as Ion stole his girlfriend some time ago. Their fight is very funny, specially when Marin acts like a gay ninja.
As you'd expect from a Home Alone like movie, there are a bunch of bad guys, all dressed like Santa Clause, which want to kidnap the kid, because he heard their plan of stealing the jewels. The plot is full of funny stuff and in the end it has a happy ending, as all christmas themed movies should. I won't spoil more of the story, because you may just want to see the movie, so I'll get on to the final marks.
So, here I go:
Story: 8/10 (because it kinda has a lot of cliffhangers and it copies Home Alone)
Acting: 8/10 (because all actors get into their roles surprinsingly well, but there are certain flaws)
Fun factor: 9/10 (because I laughed a lot when I watched it)
Originality: 7/10 (copying Home Alone is not what it takes to get aknowledged by critics, but it still has some original stuff in it).
Effects: 8/10 (not too many effects in this movie)
Soundtrack: 9/10 (even Ştefan Bănică Jr contributes with a song).
Overall: 8,16/10
Conclusions:
This is a fair movie. It's a step ahead for Romanian cinematography, which, ever since the 1990's kept going downwards.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Jeremiah (2002)
After my abrupt decison of cancelling the freewebs site, I decided I should write my reviews right here. As of now, all my reviews will take place on this blog and nowhere else. That is due to the fact that freewebs has a shitty page editor which loads hard as shit if you don't have a very good internet connection, which I have to admit, I am lacking right now.
Anyway, let's get on to the review. I know I planned to release it on January 22nd, so it's too early to write it according to my standards, but it's a pleasure to me to write on my good ol' blogger blog I haven't been using for a few months now. Well, that time passed! It's long gone! Now, this blog turns into my own review shrine.
Jeremiah was a science - fiction show aired by MGM (Metro Goldwin Mayer - the worst producers that could have done this show in my opinion! They suck at getting along with people for too much time). It stars Luke Perry, well known from the Beverly Hills 90210 show as Jeremiah, the main character, and Malcolm Jamal Warner (from Malcolm and Eddie) as the other main character, Kurdy, Jeremiah's partner along the series. I can say this is one of the few SF shows I liked, except for Star Wars, of course. That one is so awesome that no SF can go before it. But let's leave Star Wars for now.
In "Jeremiah", the story focuses on the main character, living in a post-apocalyptic world. A world that has been struck by a disease called The Big Death (apparently created by people), a disease which wiped out everyone over the age of poverty and left children take care of themselves. Jeremiah searches for his father, who went to a place called Walhalla Sector. A lot of background story emerges during the episodes, as we find out more about the characters, despite the fact that every episode has it's own main story. Anyway, let's get back to the main plot. Jeremiah and Kurdy reach Thunder Mountain, former military base, now refuge for people that want to form a new civilisation and restore the world as it used to be before The Big Death. At the end of Season 1, Walhalla Sector's secrets are revealed, and finally Thunder Mountain defeats them. Season 2 focuses on a "new enemy". He stays against Thunder Mountain leading the new world. Apparenly his name is Daniel, but, in fact, that turns out to be just a name. OK, that's enough spoilers. All that's left to say about season 2 is that Sean Astin joins the cast, as Mister Smith, a guy that can talk to God. This new character turns out to be a great addition to the series. At least I liked it.
The only minus I've got is that the producers didn't get along with MGM anymore and dropped the show when Season 2 ended. Damn!
The Soundtrack is composed by Tim Truman (got Looking at Forever - season 2 intro theme - in my playlist) and it's made out of some great songs.
OK, now for the marks:
Story: 9/10
Acting: 8/10
Effects: 8/10
Soundtrack: 10/10
Overall: 8,7/10
Anyway, let's get on to the review. I know I planned to release it on January 22nd, so it's too early to write it according to my standards, but it's a pleasure to me to write on my good ol' blogger blog I haven't been using for a few months now. Well, that time passed! It's long gone! Now, this blog turns into my own review shrine.
Jeremiah was a science - fiction show aired by MGM (Metro Goldwin Mayer - the worst producers that could have done this show in my opinion! They suck at getting along with people for too much time). It stars Luke Perry, well known from the Beverly Hills 90210 show as Jeremiah, the main character, and Malcolm Jamal Warner (from Malcolm and Eddie) as the other main character, Kurdy, Jeremiah's partner along the series. I can say this is one of the few SF shows I liked, except for Star Wars, of course. That one is so awesome that no SF can go before it. But let's leave Star Wars for now.
In "Jeremiah", the story focuses on the main character, living in a post-apocalyptic world. A world that has been struck by a disease called The Big Death (apparently created by people), a disease which wiped out everyone over the age of poverty and left children take care of themselves. Jeremiah searches for his father, who went to a place called Walhalla Sector. A lot of background story emerges during the episodes, as we find out more about the characters, despite the fact that every episode has it's own main story. Anyway, let's get back to the main plot. Jeremiah and Kurdy reach Thunder Mountain, former military base, now refuge for people that want to form a new civilisation and restore the world as it used to be before The Big Death. At the end of Season 1, Walhalla Sector's secrets are revealed, and finally Thunder Mountain defeats them. Season 2 focuses on a "new enemy". He stays against Thunder Mountain leading the new world. Apparenly his name is Daniel, but, in fact, that turns out to be just a name. OK, that's enough spoilers. All that's left to say about season 2 is that Sean Astin joins the cast, as Mister Smith, a guy that can talk to God. This new character turns out to be a great addition to the series. At least I liked it.
The only minus I've got is that the producers didn't get along with MGM anymore and dropped the show when Season 2 ended. Damn!
The Soundtrack is composed by Tim Truman (got Looking at Forever - season 2 intro theme - in my playlist) and it's made out of some great songs.
OK, now for the marks:
Story: 9/10
Acting: 8/10
Effects: 8/10
Soundtrack: 10/10
Overall: 8,7/10
Monday, January 25, 2010
Nothing in a long time, eh?
I've been lazy lately... or not really. I made a reviews site, on freewebs (and now I regret my choice, because they managed to piss my off high time by undoing every editation I'm making to the home page. IT SUCKS! JEEZ! I HATE FREEWEBS! Anyway, for anyone who wants to see my freewebs site, it's address is: www.thepr.webs.com. Of course, the review blog is locked and you need to make an account on my site before you can read my reviews, but I don't think that should be a problem for you people.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Just trying a random widget...
I'm a big anime fan, specially a Naruto fan, so I thought I should give this one a try.
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
A movie's game
I'm 100% disappointed by movie games. I played the latest "Harry Potter" game (torrent of course, so don't ask!), made for the upcoming movie. I can say this loud and clear, with not a bit of shame in myself: the game SUCKED! I hated what they did to the Harry Potter games ever since part four. The first three games were fine with me... I mean the characters were kids for God's sake, the engine was fit. But starting with game four, everything went to hell. Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire was the greatest disapointment: movie and game (the books were all great, nothing to comment). While the movie lacked key scenes and details, the game was a total mess. They made like a few levels you could choose from the main menu and play them one by one until you unlock them all. I hated this game. I had to use a trainer in it. The only fucking Harry Potter game I used a trainer in. Damn it! And I thought I was setting a record. In part five, I was happy to see that I could yet again roam free around the castle. Of course, the camera was crap (as it is in part six too, believe me, nothing changed), the controls suck (well, the spell controls are good, but the rest suck) and since we're talking controls, I noticed a huge problem nobody gave a damn about: neither in part five nor in six the character could jump. What the hell?! What kind of a wizard is Harry Potter if he can't jump?! The story is definetly worth a very big F. This is because they only make a resume of the story when they could put in a lot more gameplay. You can extend the story a lot in the game, it doesn't have the two hours time restriction. But NO! They shorten the story in the game and they even skip important stuff or change it! They were too fucking lazy to design anything but Hogwarts and a little scene at the Burrow (when I saw that I nearly threw my monitor out the window!). That scene fucks the whole movie/game. I mean, isn't there a lot of story already?! Why add a sensless battle at The Burrow?! They can't burn it down! It's an important location for part 7, which I sense it would suck more than this one did. For this game, I would have expected a bit more gameplay at the memories scenes (like a walk in the forest or some spell casting or something) and way more action at that cave Harry goes to with Dumbledore. Also, they didn't do Diagon Alley nearly at all! Where are the stores?! Where is Gringotts?! No, they just showed the stupid shop... where a ritual takes place! They completely changed the story! This is supposed to be an action-adventure game! But the game has completely no action (except the fact that you have to collect some stupid crests to finish the game 100%). The graphics sucked even if I set all options to maximum. They tried to put the actual faces on characters to make them look more real. Well, it obviously didn't work. So, EA Games guys, quit your jobs and go take a walk!
So, my final marks for these loads of rubbish (so I wouldn't call them different) are:
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 2/10 because the crappy levels, because you took away my only pleasure in the Harry Potter games - wandering through Hogwarts. And because it's far too fucking difficult!
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: 5/10 because the stupid controls, vague story telling, crappy graphics, no action, too easy to play (just look at those duels!)
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: 4/10 because they added some story parts and made the whole story look stupidly simple instead of concentrating on the events in the book. I have a lot of points to express, but I'll keep them until further notice. Also, too few locations. The game is poor. It's obviously commercial crap, not intended to please fans but to irritate them.
Overall deduction: These are commercial games made for the purely purpose of getting money out of them. Had they thought about the fans they would have worked harder.
Future expectations: I think this applies for the movie too, so that part 7 will be better. Instead of adding stupid scenes like the battle at The Burrow that do not exist in the book, CONCENTRATE ON THE EVENTS THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN IN THE BOOK! THAT IS YOUR SOURCE, PEOPLE! SO FIRE THE SCRIPT WRITER AND GET TO WORK! WE WANT TO SEE SOME REAL HARRY POTTER OUT THERE!
So, my final marks for these loads of rubbish (so I wouldn't call them different) are:
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 2/10 because the crappy levels, because you took away my only pleasure in the Harry Potter games - wandering through Hogwarts. And because it's far too fucking difficult!
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: 5/10 because the stupid controls, vague story telling, crappy graphics, no action, too easy to play (just look at those duels!)
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: 4/10 because they added some story parts and made the whole story look stupidly simple instead of concentrating on the events in the book. I have a lot of points to express, but I'll keep them until further notice. Also, too few locations. The game is poor. It's obviously commercial crap, not intended to please fans but to irritate them.
Overall deduction: These are commercial games made for the purely purpose of getting money out of them. Had they thought about the fans they would have worked harder.
Future expectations: I think this applies for the movie too, so that part 7 will be better. Instead of adding stupid scenes like the battle at The Burrow that do not exist in the book, CONCENTRATE ON THE EVENTS THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN IN THE BOOK! THAT IS YOUR SOURCE, PEOPLE! SO FIRE THE SCRIPT WRITER AND GET TO WORK! WE WANT TO SEE SOME REAL HARRY POTTER OUT THERE!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Impressions on SH5
I played through Sherlock Holmes vs Jack The Ripper, and now, as I finished it, I can say a few things about it:
The graphics have improved from the other games, mainly because of the new PhysX by nVidia. Characters look more real, even the movements are according to their physical or psyhical state. Their clothes look more realistic. And now a minus at the character point. The faces. I mean, Frogwares should've worked on new faces. There are a few new faces (of the characters that are included in the storyline), but through Whitechapel I could see a lot of familiar characters, and, to my astonishment, I could see a few Arsene Lupins amongst the other people. I noticed a lot of people mind their own businesses, so I minded mine too. I also consider it a major disadvantage that you can't walk around Baker Street anymore. Only through Sherlock's apartment, and then through Whitechapel. It's nice to have good ol' Barnes back, even though he just opened the bookstore in this game, as the events take place before "The Awakened" and "Nemesis". Also, it's notable that the system requirements aren't too high.
The control is great too, except for the fact that you can switch to Third Person too. I think that's a feature we can live without, as I only played the game in First Person (much more realistic!). IF and only IF in Third Person view Holmes could be controlled by keyboard, I would've accepted it. But like this, no way!
The story. Well, what can I say about the story?! The plot is very well made, consisting of a lot of REAL facts about Jack The Ripper. A great Holmes adventure whatsoever.
Last, but not least, a big bug! I've been in Mitre Square, that's a dark level if you didn't know. And there, Watson had to turn on a flashlight to see better. He did so, but instead of seeing better, everything got darker! With a capital D! I struggled an hour to win that level. Couldn't find my way in the least! Also, I asked Technical Support about this, but they didn't answer my question, not even after a whole week of waiting. I'm thinking I should return them my game from Torrentz and claim my money back because of this!
Anyway, I kept my conclusion for the final part. This game is a masterpiece when it comes to adventure gaming. It has all it takes for a Sherlock Holmes adventure and it also has the right environment for the story. Whitechapel is brilliantly designed to fit with the sinister story. So, go on and catch Jack The Ripper! You won't regret it!
The graphics have improved from the other games, mainly because of the new PhysX by nVidia. Characters look more real, even the movements are according to their physical or psyhical state. Their clothes look more realistic. And now a minus at the character point. The faces. I mean, Frogwares should've worked on new faces. There are a few new faces (of the characters that are included in the storyline), but through Whitechapel I could see a lot of familiar characters, and, to my astonishment, I could see a few Arsene Lupins amongst the other people. I noticed a lot of people mind their own businesses, so I minded mine too. I also consider it a major disadvantage that you can't walk around Baker Street anymore. Only through Sherlock's apartment, and then through Whitechapel. It's nice to have good ol' Barnes back, even though he just opened the bookstore in this game, as the events take place before "The Awakened" and "Nemesis". Also, it's notable that the system requirements aren't too high.
The control is great too, except for the fact that you can switch to Third Person too. I think that's a feature we can live without, as I only played the game in First Person (much more realistic!). IF and only IF in Third Person view Holmes could be controlled by keyboard, I would've accepted it. But like this, no way!
The story. Well, what can I say about the story?! The plot is very well made, consisting of a lot of REAL facts about Jack The Ripper. A great Holmes adventure whatsoever.
Last, but not least, a big bug! I've been in Mitre Square, that's a dark level if you didn't know. And there, Watson had to turn on a flashlight to see better. He did so, but instead of seeing better, everything got darker! With a capital D! I struggled an hour to win that level. Couldn't find my way in the least! Also, I asked Technical Support about this, but they didn't answer my question, not even after a whole week of waiting. I'm thinking I should return them my game from Torrentz and claim my money back because of this!
Anyway, I kept my conclusion for the final part. This game is a masterpiece when it comes to adventure gaming. It has all it takes for a Sherlock Holmes adventure and it also has the right environment for the story. Whitechapel is brilliantly designed to fit with the sinister story. So, go on and catch Jack The Ripper! You won't regret it!
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