Showing posts with label Leonardo DiCaprio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leonardo DiCaprio. Show all posts

Watch The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Kick Ass This Labour Day!

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Hi Huneybees,

Spidey's here to save the day!
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be in cinemas this Labour Day and I was fortunate to have the privilege to catch it tonight, right before everyone else did! I couldn't stop replaying the movie in my head and I knew I would definitely be "swooping" by the cinema for a second round!

It was as though they were playing their usual dating selves in real life.
So much love ~


This second installment was a more solemn one compared to the previous prequel. More emotions were revealed as each character represented one each. For Spider-Man/Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) and Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), it was the love that tore them apart, loving each other, whilst having a promise to keep. Peter Parker felt so lost, as he was reminded of his dead parents and a soon-to-be lost love, when Gwen revealed that she would be going away.



The super-charged villian Electro (Jamie Foxx), represented the desire for attention, to be wanted and needed, when he thought the world was turning against him, even his idol - Spider-man was not supporting him, he turned this desperaton into ager and wanted to literally turn the city lights out.



As for the introduction of an old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) who later turned into Green Goblin, he was filled with desperation as his dying father revealed to him the ugly side of their family genetics, which he would die at a young age.

The revelation of perhaps a cure, saw him doing a silly step, of not only unleashing Electro into the city, but also himself, turned out to be worse than just an ill patient. It reflects the choice one makes, due to fear, desperation and anger, one might choose the wrong path and turn against the world.


That is also why the makeup for the characters were not too cartoon-y,  like painting the Green Goblin green and giving him a witch nose. I liked how they made Harry looked as though he was plagued by a disease, the greenish tone was coming from within and not changing too much of his human form.


Electro on the other hand reminded me way too much of Dr. Freeze, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Batman & Robin (1997), he could be a little more burnt or pale, but hey, it could be just me, who have been watching way too much of the America TV game show - Face Off.


Some might see this emotion play a little too draggy, a little too boring, but for me, it was nice to be able to be see things from the superhero's POV as he reveals his emotions, heroes are humans too, they still need the support of family and love.


Everyone were raving about Jami Foxx's acting in the movie and though I did like how he played Max Dillion as the dorky, unseen engineer, someone else caught my eye...


Dane DeHaan, had that bad vibe, that might have won over James Franco's character . With his glass-ball light blue eyes and his young Leonardo DiCaprio vibe, he got me going "OoOoo" as the other girls were drooling over the "brown doe-eyed" Andrew Garfield.



Big Spidey fans might know what the ending might be like, but for those who don't, you might be in for a tear jerking moment! I can't wait for the 3rd episode as towards the end of the movie, you would be seeing another villian - Rhino (Paul Giamatti) as this might be the groundwork for the introduction of the Sinister Six!

 

So, be sure to catch The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in cinemas this 1 MAY 2014 in 3D and IMAX® 3D!





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[Movie Review] Django Unchained

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Hi Huneybees,


Quentin Tarantino picked up the "Best Original Screenplay" for his film "Django Unchained" at this year's Academy Awards. And when I was invited to catch the movie, I was a happy queen bee on the receiving end of the honey pot!


Not only is this a reputable movie, it is A QUENTIN TARANTINO MOVIE! The man behind "Kill Bill", "Pulp Fiction", is back with a movie on the brutal revenge western, set among the slave platations of pre-civil war America with the leads - Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz.

The movie is partly based on the 1960s cult Django westerns starring Franco Nero (who cameo-ed in this movie) and partly on the notorious 1975 exploitation picture Mandingo.


Two years before the start of the Civil War, the unlikely partnership of German bounty hunter Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) and Django (Jamie Foxx) – the slave he recently freed – set about making money tracking and killing outlaws. But Django also has plans to rescue his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from ­charismatic but cruel Mississippi plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) with the help of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), the malevolent house slave who is the real brains behind the plantation.
 

Like any Tarantino movie, violence is rampant throughout the movie, but this time I must say, it's a physical and verbal affair. Racism is much seen in the movie and the N-word is drawled and snarled perhaps hundreds of times. It is seen here again how his lead character turns from an underdog to a hero forced under circumstances and very much relate back to his previous movies.


Alot of the audiences were ranting about the violence and gruesome acts but I was in fact watching for the story (there was some moments my eyes welled up for Django) and to be honest, focusing on understanding what the actors were saying behind that heavy Southern accent.

How adorable Jamie Foxx look here! Everyone laughed when he appeared in this...
Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz and Washington being the amazing actors they are in the movie are utterly upstaged by Samuel L Jackson.


As Stephen - Candie's household attendant, Jackson plays an Uncle Tom figure utterly loyal to the white master, with a deathly stare, a disturbing Parkinson's tremor and a habit of dropping the N-bomb even though he is part of them. He stands as Django's final stage to victory and his character was simply so loathsome that I seriously wanted to kick him in the balls!

I give the movie 3.5 out of 5 popcorns.


Django Unchained is recently nominated for 2013 MTV Movie Awards for "Movie of the Year", "Best Male Performance", "Best On-Screen Duo", "Best Fight", "Best Kiss", "Best WTF Moment" and "Best Villain".
Be sure to catch it in the cinemas!

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