Lets review movies Vlog- ISYS100

 The lucky last post for this blog must be a special epic one. So we have decided to make a video log also known as Vlog. You will get to meet all Team alpha members and see what they have been up to in their video filming skills as well as 3 short recommended movie reviews.

Over the past five weeks each team member has been posting up movie reviews of a random movie they have seen. We have finally reached our 20th post and last but not least the vlog that I hope you enjoy.

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The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

director:Frank Darabont

Awards it gained:American society of Cinematographers award for outstanding achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases

An excellent movie realeased in 1994 by Frank Darabont. An oldie yet a goodie. The movie duration is 2hr and 22m but trust me its definitely worth it. I mean look at that long award heading it won!!

This movie is about:

Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) being sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn't commit the crimes. While there, he forms a friendship with Red (Morgan Freeman), experiences brutality of prison life, adapts, helps the warden, etc., all in 19 years. I personally would rate this movie 9 out of 10 due to its content. Everyone maybe try to watch it on a weekend, It helps you to realise more about the value of freedom :) I mean what a lucky country we live in. Australia:) 

IMDb rated it 9.3/10

Check out the trailer below!!!

Mad Max: Fury Road

Hi everyone! so this week movie is Mad Max Fury Road!

Although the movie has just came out for several days, It receives alot of positive comments from the professional reviewers and the normal watchers. From my perspective, Its absolutely a must watch movie.

Here is the content of the movie:
Years after the collapse of civilization, the tyrannical Immortan Joe enslaves apocalypse survivors inside the desert fortress the Citadel. When the warrior Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) leads the despot's five wives in a daring escape, she forges an alliance with Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), a loner and former captive. Fortified in the massive, armored truck the War Rig, they try to outrun the ruthless warlord's henchmen in a high-speed, deadly chase through the Wasteland.

The movie is promised to bring to the audiences best experiences ever, to the next couple of 

weeks, I think Mad Max will continuo to bring millions dollars to the director.  It will 

possibly be nominated for Oscar movie winner this year, if not best movie director of the 

year. 

Check out the trailer !!

Boyhood

Boyhood
Main Stars: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Lorelei Linklater and Ethan Hawke
Director: Richard Linklater

What its about: Boyhood is a simple film in idea. It follows the character of Mason from early childhood to his life in college. What makes it special in my eyes is the time frame. This film took 12 years to film, do you know why? The characters actually age. Mason (the actor) and the other characters around him actually age throughout this film growing up into what they would and do look like.

Whats good about it? This film has integrity brought from the time spent filming. It is all about character development and it this aspect it shines, Ethan (who plays mason) does a fantastic job throughout the film and feels like this film is a documentary in some ways. Its story is realistic and somber at times.

What I think: This film is a good watch, as i watched as i myself finished high school I connected to this film and understood Mason. It was interesting involving and just to put it bluntly, nice. It was a film I probably watch again because of the nostalgic feel to it.  My biggest problem with this film was its end. It was unfulfilling for the reason I knew if this was real it wasn't the end of the story, it did its job but I think because of the type of film it was it was no great.
Check out the trailer below!!

Rating: 
I would give this film 3.5/5  (7/10)
Imdb gave this film 8.1/10 (4/5)

Ex Machina

Ex Machina
Main Stars: Alicia Viklander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac

Director: Alex Garland

What its about: Ex Machine is about a individual who is brought in for a though experiment on an artificial intelligence made by his psychopathic boss. He encounters Ava, an intelligent 'beautiful' android. He is baffled by the encounter and as he comes to understand Ava and deals with his boss and his fits of Alcoholism.

Whats good about it? Ex machina is a compelling story as it experiments with the idea of identity personality, artificial intelligence and the nature of man. The film is small with only 4 characters throughout the film and these characters are perfect in their roles. The relationships between the characters and the roles they play are simply amazing.

What I think: I loved this film, it was elegant smooth, clever and intriguing. With a refreshing take on AI and with great care taken into the small elements this film is one of the best i have seen this year. It will be in my top ten movies this year, and already it is my favorite for this year.


Check out the trailer!!

Rating: 
I would give this film 5/5 stars (10/10)
Imdb gave this film 7.9/10 (3.7/5)

Matilda

Matilda (1996)

An old yet classical American comedy. A movie that has been seen by almost everyone. The story of a genius girl with horrible parents and a very mean principal. Matilda is a genius that happens to live with some pretty dumb people.

Luckily, she has her lovely teacher Mrs. Honey that has been through hell as well. As Matilda gets older she discovers that she has special power, which she later uses to her advantage. She accuses Mrs. Trunchbowl of murdering Mrs. honeys father .

Overall the movie is very funny. It shows how a young girl as smart as Matilda has to deal with awful parents at home and a mean principal at school. After her parents find out that the FBI have been spying on them, they decide to flee as soon as possible.

Off course Matilda being the child she is, requests to be adopted by Mrs. honey and so it happens. Later on Mrs. Trunchbowl leaves the school and Mrs. honey becomes the principal. All thanks to Matilda using her super power to the best advantage.

This storyline has been taken from Ronald Dahl's book. It has been transformed in a book . It will also be released as a musical later on in the year.

Check out the trailer!

IMDb rated it 6.8/10

I rate it 8.5/10

Cheaper by the dozen

Movie:Cheaper by the dozen

Some of the stars:Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff

You might wonder why the movies I am posting are 'KIDS' movies. Well, having a younger brother pretty much forces me to watch these types of movies. I mean I have seen 'Cheaper by the dozen' so many times. I have almost memorised every scene in it. So the movie is about two couples that have a dozen of children. They both have sacrificed a lot for their children and have put aside their dreams and ambitions.

When the opportunity arises for both they decide to chase the dream and follow what they have always wanted knowing that there children are older and more mature. Off course, 12 are a large number to handle especially when they decide to move houses where the kids feel like outsiders.

The major problem is the mother being away for a few days on a business trip about her new book. Can dad deal with 12 children and manage a football team??

Off course not, the house is upside down and kids are up to no good knowing their mother is away.

Plan B is getting a babysitter, but who would be crazy enough to handle 12 children even if the pay was comfortable.

Besides having to watch this movie a lot of times I somewhat consider it one of the originals. Its a good movie with many opportunities to laugh.

Check out the trailer!

Imdb rated it as 5.8 

I give it an 8/10

Jupiter Ascending

JUPITER ASCENDING


This interesting movie is about a girl who was born to be a Queen of the Universe. However she didn't know that herself until one day when she's doing an operation in the hospital and is attacked by the aliens.

The adventure begins here!
A Hero was sent from another planet came to save her life, they are quickly become close friends. The alien prince who pretends to be a good guy and want to marry the girl, after turn out to be an evil and want to slaughter all people on earth. Watch the movie to know the ending. As I said above, this is an interesting movie but not very good with the story.


For entertainment, yes, for education and other values, no. Myself will rate this movie a 5 out of 10. However different people have different taste, I will leave the rating for you guys.

Also don't forget to check out the trailer below!!

Movie reviewed by Duy Nguyen.

V for Vandetta!

Plot:

Set in a dystopian future ruled by an oppressive government who has complete control of all of the United Kingdom that uses fear as a weapon to keep the people in place. A masked man by the name of V sets out to create a revolution inspired by a historical character Guy Fawkes, who decides to blow up the house of parliament to spark an uprising.

He decides to blow up the Old Bailey to spark his revolution. The Government uses the excuse of an emergency demolition to hide the fact that it was an attack on the government.

V soon takes over the Government propaganda TV station to send his message out to the British people. He urges the people of Britain to join him one year from that day to start the uprising


My Review
I enjoyed the movie it was very jammed pack with action and kept you interested to the end.  Not many movies are like this, so I found it rather unique. The movie was critically acclaimed, but I found some scenes to be rather dull and bland. However the movie a good one overall.



Check out the trailer!

Ratings

I give this movie a 7/10
IMDB gives it an 8/10

The Green Ogre

The green Ogre a.k.a  SHREK

A very interesting and well written movie. It had a budget of $60 million.  A movie you can watch over and over again without feeling boredom or lack of interest. Donkey is enough to entertain the whole family. Its not your traditional princess/prince story which really attracted me to it. Its a movie you can enjoy and watch at any age.

There are also subtle puns that only adults will understand such as the following, 'When Shrek wonders whether the small Lord Farquaad is compensating for something with his very tall castle'.

Favorite scenes are many, especially when donkey is in the image.Shrek's breakfast would definitely not be something I'd ever like to try.

Fiona, Shrek's future wife has a very strong and tough yet soft personality. Her fighting skills are really impressive for a princess. I mean usually princesses are portrayed as submissive beautiful helpless princesses but Fiona changed this idea.
I love the ending when donkey and dragon have cute donkdragon babies. The ginger bread-man is also so cute.

I think the characters, storyline and everything about the movie is spot on. I would not suggest nor change a single thing!!

Not to mention, part two was awesome as well!! Puss in boats is so cute. Oh those innocent eyes staring right back at ya!!   

check out the trailer!

Pirates of the Caribbean

Todays blog post is not your usual traditional one . I will be reviewing a movie or should I say a series of movies but in a slight different way. 

Pirates of the Caribbean is a very expensive film , I will tell you what I mean by this in a moment!!

In fact it is one of the most expensive movies in Hollywood. Believe it or not the budget for Pirates of the Caribbean:On stranger Tides was $378.5 million. The budget for PC:At the Worlds End was $300 million.PC: Dead Man's Chest was $225 million. The total four series film made a budget of $1 billion. That’s your university fees paid off, morgage done , Luxury house on the beach, retirement money and alot of other things taken care of for a long period of time.Did I mention living like a king !!

It was also ranked 10th in highest grossing film series. The total worldwide box office it made was $3,729,577,967. thats more than a six figure number !!!

Did you know that the fantasy films were based on a ride in Walt Disney theme park ride with the same name. Besides, all these numbers being thrown around I don't think I missing out on much. I mean its a fantasy movie. Maybe if it was called 'Somalian Pirates ' I would be more interested, but that's just a personal thing!!

Let me know in the comments below what you think of the movie series , I mean is it worth to watch the whole series?? or is this hype and money being thrown around all over nothing? 

Also don't forget to check out the trailers here!!