Film Review: Alice In Wonderland

So today I saw Alice in Wonderland for the 3rd time today (2 times in 3D and this time in normal), i really liked the visuals and felt like watching it again, also since my friends kept inviting me i decided to tag along.

Film: Alice in Wonderland

Director: Tim Burton

Writers: Linda Woolverton (Screenplay)
Lewis Carroll (Books)

Site IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014759/

I really enjoyed the film because the visuals were stunning, creative, and imaginative which fits the original Alice in wonderland. I also thought it fits the type of movies Tim Burton does, where it has a crazy/insanity feel too atmosphere.
Though I did think the storyline lacked, it was a very boring piece which basically
*Spoiler alert don’t read if you don’t want to know*
It really is just like Alice in wonderland when she was a kid "the animated version" where she meets everyone they but the only difference is, she’s older and can’t remember them, then comes up with some really weird creature she has to fight which gets killed quicker than expected.

Though I doubt people will be remembering it for the storyline but more into the stunning visuals and CGI. I liked how it was shot too with a lot of close up's to show the characters emotions for example, Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, you had close up's of him smiling showing his insanity.

Overall it was a must watch 8/10

(-2 due to lack of storyline which could have been improved more detail, more action or anything)

Review: 2012

Film: 2012
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser
Site IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/

Music was really important in this movie, the movie consisted of many tension music to set the scene which you knew straight away danger. I also liked the effect they did showing previous dates before 2012, they have text and location which helped make sense of the time line of whats present and past.

The thing I liked about the film was instead making it a full tension film, which would of ruined it, they did have breaks with humor for example they had a crazy guy create a animation of the end of the world and made it pretty funny.

I also thought this movie had a lot of symbolism for example a quake in the store splitting up the couple apart, or when the church had a image of 2 people touching reaching out with fingers, a crack in the middle splitting them apart. Throughout the movie this was done in many ways people breaking apart.

Anyways overall the film was pretty good and would advice people to watch it
Overall: 8/10

Review - Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Ok now I finally sorted out my month free unlimited movies card, so I decided to start watching movies and reviewing them.

Since today I had just a hour tutorial I decided to watch a movie at the cinema, so I decided to pick....

Film: Cirque du Freak: The Vampires Assistant.

Director: Paul Weitz

Writers: Paul Weitz and Brian Helgeland

Site IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450405/

Ok this movie looked low budget with actors in the trailer, but it did look like a interesting and unique storyline which convinced me to watch it. I have never been so mistaken in my life when i finally watched it and thought how amazing it was.

Storyline: Ok the storyline was about a circus of freaks coming to town and changing a boy everyday normal life with unexpected twists. The boy called Darren then meets this vampire in the circus act which leads to events where he has to leave his life and become a vampire.

( very interesting storyline and unique, also a very magical and funny storyline as well)
Camera: Start of the movie there was a good panning shot left to right then vica verser to show the crowd at the funeral scene, this seemed effective.

Actors: Ok not exactly the best of acting seriously, it was really stupid in a lot of scenes though the characters and storyline supported the acting well, which means didn't care about the acting.

Special Effects/Edits/Other: The special effects I really liked, for example the vampire speed was a interesting way to represent it with a purplish color zooming everywhere. I also thought there was a scene which was done really well (Kid talking how all parents want off him is college, job, family, this had a cut for each one showing a preview). This reminded me something that the TV show Scrubs would do with funny cuts.

Watching this movie made me see how important color actually is since throughout the movie I can remember seeing a lot of red hinting danger/warning.
Overall: I really enjoyed this movie and recommend it to people who haven't seen it, very funny at least and interesting storyline
7/10