Fathers and Daughters

Love is hard, love isn't easy, find love and keeping it is the hardest thing, love is sometimes selfish, yet love at the end elevates you and lifts you higher, and surrendering to it makes you strong and happier.

 

This movie tells the story of a struggling single father who happens to be a  famous writer, is trying to do the best for his daughter Katie (Potato Chip), he's broke and he just wrote a book that got harshly criticized by others and now he's facing a lawsuit from his wife's sister that wants to adopt his only child as he continues to struggle to provide and raise her, he also struggles with a much stronger illness of mind and has several seizures, that corrupt his day and ruin his signings.

 

The girl Katie grows to be deeply mind sick as she thinks everyone that loves her will eventually leave her, so she destroys every relationship, she doesn't want commitments, until she meets Cameron who falls deeply in love with her and tries to show her his heart, but she strikes out and runs out.

 

In addition to that Katie works at a social center that helps kids, and she gets attached to one of them, and she tries hard to improve the girl's case she didn't want to speak, but later on bonds and they find something to hold on and raise upon in each other.

 

This movie just touches your soul, it helps you to coupe with your greatest fear, which is loneliness, it allows you to run and scream, it also leaves you satisfied with a beautiful happy ending for everyone. I myself was happily satisfied watching the movie end in that way, it was sweet and romantic.

It's like reading a story and jumping through time, back and forth. It's beautifully written and shot, the scene when she starts running that continues shot is very skillful.
 

It was all directed by the talented Italian Gabriele Muccino, who directed the Pursuit of Happyness and Seven pounds. Amanda Seyfried played the grown up Katie, while Kylie Rogers played the young Katie, this part was beautifully acted out by both of them, I felt every word the little girl felt and every emotion she went through. Russell Crowe was just brilliant as always and he embodied the role of the sick Jake Davis so powerfully, with the vigorous shakes and seizures he went through. Aaron Paul, was just the topping of the cake for this movie. This movie also included Diane Kruger and the amazing Jane Fonda.

Nawara.

Looking back at the trailer and how it was so intense and strong, I feel the movie was such a flop and it le me down and crushed all my high expectations of the movie.

 

The ending was terrible, it was just so unexpected and annoying I felt it was half time and it would continue after a while, I just couldn't believe it was over like that, it just ended all of a sudden, while it was boring throughout, why do I have to watch this woman named Nawara go to work, every single day while she's using different transportations. I already got the point that she's living a harsh life and that the world isn't kind to her and that there are millions out there that can't afford simple things in life as water. There was this scene that stood out, when her mother told her I'm scared of suddenly dying and you not being able to find some water to wash my dead body with, these words were chilling.

 

Another thing that really bothered me is the pace of the movie, it was so slow, no action or struggled happened for a long time, I almost forgot what was going on. I was bored at moments too.

 

However I can't deny there was some good framing thrown in there, yet there was also some weird camera movements and out of focus part that disturbed the viewing due to repeating it. This movie was directed by Hala Khalil, and stars Menna Shalaby as Nawara the main lead actress,

 

One last thing that was so very unnecessary, is the killing of the guarding dog Putch, he was brave and kind, and he was representing fear to Nawara and how she overcame it, but the dog didn't need to die to prove this point, and even if they killed him, they didn't need to show it dying and the blood, it was just wrong and too cruel, that if the director was there I'd had run over her the same way she did to the dog. I died crying in that scene, the whole movie theatre watched me cry instead of watching the dog die.

 

Other than that it was okay, just a failed expectation. I wouldn't give it much of a rating and I wouldn't recommend or ever think I'd watch it again, I still don't know how it won so many awards, where to me it was just a big lie and a flop.

It's all about number 7

Hepta

I entered this movie for one purpose and one purpose only which is to criticize the heck out of it!

Let's start from the beginning, I didn't expect much, I had no thoughts, no previous information about the book, I just knew it's famous, loved and the release of the movie has been awaited by many of the fans, so me and some friends of mine decided to watch it for fun.

It was the cheesiest love story and very expected dialogue and scenarios, to me at least it was, even though I haven't read the book it's based on, I just knew what was going to happen, maybe it's the way my mind is set or maybe just because I've seen to many of these movies in all languages so I knew somehow what was going to happen.

The saddest part though, the one that killed me, is the scene where the little kid, sat on the naughty chair thinking his mom left, because he wasn't behaving very well, so he just sat there for hours during the funeral until everyone had left..

I cried my eyes out watching this scene, it just hit you straight into the heart.

There are a lot of tear jerking scenes in this movie, it's cheesy, sad and cute all at the same time, I felt my heart being squeezed and then released all at the same time, you feel sad and hurt, you feel broken, it's a little devastating to enjoy it, but for a movie it's a wonderful roller coaster, a journey for the heart something you'd remember how you felt afterwards than what you saw, as it's all about the feels.

This movie is directed by Hadi El Bagoury and it stars a lot of big names from Nelly Karim,Yasmin Raes, Amr Youssef to Kinda Allouch and Maged El Kedwany who provided a beautiful voice over throughout the movie that just wrapped everything together, I loved the ending it was reasonable, it also had some young actors, they can't be considered new faces since they've been on the small screens before like Ahmed Malek and Jamila Adel Awad, it had many others who provided their own unique touch to the movie.

Hamari Adhuri Kahaani...

Our incomplete story...

Life is not how you always expect it to be, things change, things happen so very unexpectedly and at the weirdest times, you can find that someone even when you already have someone in your life.

Hamari Adhuri Kahaani, is a Hindi tragic romance movie that talks about a lonely woman named Vasudha, who lives with her son and dedicates her life to him, that works in a hotel as a florist.

One day the owner of the hotel which is basically her boss, comes by and he becomes impressed with her work as she was the only one who went looking for him when he sounded a fake fire alarm, to see who would give his life for the job or to save others and it was she who vacated the building and went to knock his door.

He offered her a higher place by his and to move her to his big hotel in Dubai as he wanted her to be the new manager, but she declined as she wasn't looking to leave her son behind, then she learned from the police that her husband who has been missing for 5 years is involved in a terrorist group and has killed 5 American Journalists. Scared for her son and herself she in roles him in a boarding school and reconsiders the job offer of Aarav Ruparel, who later on falls in love with her, and they begin a love story.

However this love story is incomplete, because she returns back to India to finish her divorce papers thinking her husband is gone forever and to check up on her son, yet she find her husband hiding at their house and gets scared and she forgets everything and tries to help him escape as she feels he is still her husband and that marriage is sacred and believes her husband Hari side of the story that he was kidnapped and forced to do all those terrible things which ends up being the truth.

The story here is not in the adultery she committed or the marriage vows that was broken, it is in the feelings and emotions of a woman and the things she suffered and dealt with as she was forced to marry Hari by her father and managed since then a hard life with him and after him she suffered as a single mother to their son.

This is a story of sacrifice, love and higher emotions of forgiveness. To understand what I'm talking about you need to watch the movie, I just mentioned the plot above, but that's not all of it, this movie contains a bigger complicated story than it seems to be.

I can't say anything bad about the movie, as it was spectacularly captured and directed there are scenes in this movie of flower fields that are just breath taking and heart warming as there are many scenes that are tear jerking. All you need is a box of tissues and you're good to watch it.

This movie is directed by Mohit Suri and produced by Mahesh Bhatt under the banner Vishesh Films and Fox Star Studios. The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan, and Rajkummar Rao. It is based on the love story of Bhatt's parents, Nanabhai Bhatt, Shirin Mohammad Ali and his stepmother.

The music in this movie is beautiful and it just completes and captures the emotions so very perfectly. At one point I couldn't wait to watch it listening to the first song release. Emraan Hashmi is a brilliant actor that just makes you melt with tears when looking into his dark brown eyes, his emotions are so intense you could feel it deeply cutting into your soul.

 

The Dawn of Justice.

Batman v Superman

 

The franchise is back and it's bigger than ever, it has the best of both worlds, superman and batman both heroes working against each other, which to a fan is very intriguing. Since if you're a fan of batman you'll be cheering him on and wearing bat masks and shirts, and if you're a fan of superman you'll be wearing your super "S" t-shirt to the movie theaters all blue and red and proud.

 

The thing is, what if I am a fan of both? What am I supposed to expect a battle between my two favorite super heroes? And even if I accept them fighting, what could they possibly fight each other over..when they're both heroes not villains and they both care for the people of their cities and would give their lives for. These are the questions that I entered the movie with, wanting to know what could possibly turn them against each other.

 

The movie is a hit for 2016 it topped the box office for weeks, and even though I hadn't had the chance to watch it the day it was released on March 25th, but last week I had the chance to go watch and I couldn't miss it. It's an incredible movie from the plot, to the effects, and it definitely takes you back to the beginning of it all and how they both came to be who they are today. However, I had a higher expectation for it, it didn't fail me that much, since I obviously enjoyed watching it in 3D, yet it wasn't as remarkable as it was meant to be, superhero movies usually have this effect and power that grabs the audience, this one well didn't have much of that attraction to it, it's mostly two super hero movies mashed into one, it was missing a third element.

 

Yet, even though it was missing an element, DC made something wonderful in the movie for their fans they introduced two new heroes/ heroine. They showed us wonder woman and her powers, she was there throughout the movie hiding and being suspicious, running around everywhere. In addition to wonder woman they gave us a glimpse of Aquaman, played by Jason Momoa who is set to appear in Justice League Part One, which is directed by Zack Snyder on November 17, 2017, followed by his own movie on July 27, 2018. While wonder woman which is played by Gal Gadot gets her own movie release in 2017 on June 2nd. Gal actually when she was auditioning for the movie, she wasn't clued in what her part was, she thought she'd be playing catwoman "Selena Kyle", until she flew in to test with Ben Affleck. Speaking of Affleck I think he did a good enough job not to mess up batman, he was okay. Unlike Henry Cavill, who fits the role of superman like a glove. He's just the perfect superman.

 

Last but not least, I think any DC comics fan or superhero fan would enjoy it, it's a good movie full of surprises and more characters than you think are involved. And for those people who aren't into superhero movies, well a movie is not a movie without drama and action and no one says no to that, and of course a little bit of romance too.

 

 

Death Note

 

 

 

The name describes it all, it’s the beginning of the end, a justice served from another perspective, and it’s a notebook from the other side, from another world.
 

This is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It was published from 2003 till 2006. The story follows Light Yagami, a high school student that discovers a supernatural notebook that belongs to a Shinigami named Ryuk, which grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose name and face he knows. As it also comes with its own manual written on it how to be used. The series focuses around Light's attempt to clean the world from criminals even the ones in prison already. And the detective L who is looking for the one causing all these sudden deaths, and keeps his identity a secret and no one knows his real name.

 

The story is unbelievably and masterfully played out, it opens your mind on what’s right and what’s wrong and what are our boundaries at serving justice.

This is not just any manga series this is a classic that has been turned into an anime in 2006, that is full of mystery and crime, it’s on the top spot of every single list that is recommended and demanded. And it’s worth every second and hour you spend. The way the story unfolds and the characters develop is brilliant in every aspect and way possible. It will shock and thrill you, it will keep you plastered to your screen wanting to know more and more and not wanting it to end. It’s intriguing, every character has his own power and dynamic that adds to the story.

This manga series has been written into several novels that follows up the series called “Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB case” which was published in 2006 and “Death Note: L: Change the World” in 2007. In addition to all this, there was an anime television film released in 2008 as well as a drama TV series in 2015. Last but not least, a film will be coming soon in 2016 captivating all the energy and power of the death note.

Once you read this manga or watch the anime version you can never unsee what you’ll see, it’s an experience of a lifetime that can’t be missed and has to be taken. It will expand your mind and show you how enemies think alike and cooperate. It’s a master piece.

Same story 3 different cultures.

You all know the story of the doctor, who pretends to be married and have kids just to score women, then gets caught up in his lies when he meets a girl he actually likes that wants to meet his wife and children. He then has to introduce them to each other by making his assistant to pretend to be his wife for a while and ends up actually falling for his assistant for keeping up with all his crap and for finally seeing her for the first time as a beautiful woman and not just his desk assistant in a coat.

It’s the same story recreated not once, not twice but three different times in three different countries with their own different culture.

Let’s begin with the Egyptian version since it’s the oldest produced in 1969, the movie was called “Nos sa3a Gawaz” which translates to “A Half an hour marriage” it stars Rushdi Abaza and Shadia, the due play the couple in the movie in the most classical way possible.

While in the Indian version, which was produced years afterwards in 2005, it starred Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif it was called “Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya” which means “Why did I love?” which shows how they’re focusing more on the romantic part of the story and how he keeps falling in love and of course as any other Hindi movie it’s filled with music and dancing, which adds to its flavor and gives it the Bollywood touch.
 

However, the latest version was in the United States in 2011, it’s called “Just go with it” starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, and choosing these two particular actors mean that they were focusing more on the comedy aspect even though the movie is very sweet and romantic, yet you’ll find yourself laughing more than aweing.

I really recommend the three movies even though they have the same plot, yet they’re different in every way possible and just watching purely out of fun of noticing the differences or just to laugh, they’re all perfect for that cause.

The Spectacular Now is not so spectacular.

First of all, how does this movie top ratings and romantic movie lists, I couldn’t feel anything while watching it, and I usually get moved easily.

It was on my “to watch list”, since before it was released, yet I took time to watch it and now I know why. Because, it’s not worth it. Sometimes you just have a previous hunch that you don’t know about, and then you find out and you’re like huh, I knew it.

This movie is just like that, the perfect actors, the perfect acting and everything is superb, but where is the story, where is the plot, where is the ending, I’m not satisfied, I’m not happy, I’m just like hello, what were you thinking when you made that movie James Ponsoldt, that’s the name of the director by the way. I bet that’s why he’s unknown, because his movies suck.

Sometimes the story needs to be as powerful as the tools you’re using, you have a great couple with an amazing chemistry and talent why not use that to your advantage?

This movie is just a waste of time from my perspective, I can’t watch it again. I really can’t put my hands on what went wrong, but since it’s supposedly adapted from a book of the same writer as “500 days of summer”, making me guess the mentality of the writer, however what I don’t get is why the movie is not good?

I wasn’t motivated, and at times I need to confess that I was bored. Maybe to others it’s a hit and a great story but to me it was a miss.

The only thing I got out of it is how dedicated the actors are, and the only thing that intrigued me was the scars on the lead actor Miles Teller. This caused me to go google him and find out how he got his scars, which made me end up reading articles about him and finding out he was in a car accident and almost died, which is a horrifying experience and to have the scares to always remind him what he almost went through is terrifying. Therefore, you should definitely check out his movies, because he’s really good and so is Shailene Woodley.

 

 

Mr. Right

Let’s talk for a second about Mr. Right, it is probably a myth to some, but to others it’s everything.

Every girl waits for her right man, for her one true love, her other half that completes her. However the thing is here, she stumbled upon him when she wasn’t looking, he fell for her, love at first sight, just like that, yup same old cheesy love story, I totally agree with what you’re thinking right now. But there is a twist you see. He’s a hitman, actually a retired hitman that doesn’t want to kill anymore, but he keeps killing everyone who tries to hire him. Therefore, leading to the girl he likes getting kidnapped and him trying to save her, and boom epic ending.

But wait, that’s the perfect romantic comedy, and add to that action packed! I was in awe, seriously as a movie junkie, I’ve seen a lot of bad movies and when I watch I usually have an idea of how it’s going to go and this one I tell you, exceeded my expectations meaning it doesn’t get the promotion it deserves on the internet or in the box office, cause I definitely did not hear about it from anywhere, but the internet upon searching pages for days.

Yet, you know what, that’s a movie I’d like to watch again, I’m happy, it’s a feel good movie, it gives you energy, and motivation and lots of love most of all which is everything you need to live happily back in reality. It puts you in a good mood.

In addition to everything above I’d like to say how Sam Rockwell never disappoints and he never gets enough credit for the work and effort he does in his movies, he’s extremely talented and charismatic and he need to be acknowledged, that’s one talented man, that is supper funny and cute when he acts, yet dead serious a combination like that is hard to find in actors these days. Oh yes and if you’re wondering who’s the girl with him it’s Anna Kendrick. Yes I get you it’s the weirdest couple, I didn’t think it could work, but they actually click and I don’t mind the age gap either, I actually think it adds to the whole story, which is super creative and let’s not forget Tim Roth! He’s like the ice cream topping to the movie.

The characters are all well played, and the effort done in the action is worth watching, my only comment is on the fashion, that it's extremely weird, yet appropriate to the characters. That's why I won’t say anything further about it, but that you should most definitely go watch that movie, if you want to have a good time and just smile and laugh for an hour and a half.

 

Beware of Crimson Peak!

This sentence have been ringing in my ear throughout the day. This is supposed to be a thriller movie that chills you to the bones. However, when I was watching it, the only chills I got was from the cold air in the room, I don’t deny the movie was good, but it had some flops.

Beginning with the plot, it seemed missing, there was something in the story that needed to be more powerful more deeply written instead of just a guy travelling to find a companion to steal her money, there should have been a reason why he chose her and a reason why he went to a specific place. Just as she had a reason to stay away from crimson peak, cause her mother kept warning her about that odd place, even though her mom has been dead for years and has been appearing to her as a ghost who frightens her each and every time yet warns her.

Moving on, the graphics for the movie was okay, too much flesh and blood on the ghosts though. However, my problem was with the colors. Back then no one used to wear bright colors, and the color red wasn’t used that much, even though I think it's such a daring move to do, since it foreshadows what the characters intentions are, yet the usage of that color in the movie is just overwhelming and I hate that color, which kept getting on my nerves while watching.

Last but not least, honestly I only watched the movie because of Tom Hiddleton. I like the guy, he’s a brilliant actor and he’s good with dark characters since the days of playing Thor’s evil brother “Loki”. I thought Mia Wasikow would be perfect for the role of “Edith Cushing” the young bride, however she was mostly unconscious and obnoxious throughout the movie and it was annoying to me and I couldn’t feel her frightened, but as if she’s pretending to be which made it hard to watch.

 

All in all I expected more of that movie and I didn’t get what I wanted out of it but Tom Hiddleton dying at the end and breaking my heart after turning righteous and being brave. That’s what they do at the end they kill the good people that are willing to sacrifice everything to save their loved ones, why do they always have to kill the antagonist once he become the hero ?