Tuesday 31 May 2016

Rotten Potatoes Talken' Bout Movies


The Rotten Potatoes Crew decided to get together to talk about what they like best about movies and what movies means to them. Just a bit of fun or you guys.

Writer; Director; Editor and Starring:
Jarod Hogan

Also Starring:
Tasbir Wasi
HM Monajjek
Eddie Twair
Vinura Ukwatta

Talken' Bout Movies

Wednesday 18 May 2016

The Wolf of Wall Street

Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street takes us back to late 80’s New York City, where a young man Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) has been ambitiously working to get filthy rich in the finance industry. Jordan’s entrance into Wall Street unfortunately came to an end when the market was in one of its largest declines, leaving the wolf ambitious and hungry lost in the wilderness.

Jordan sniffs out a small penny stock firm, inside months he is instantly making money illegally. However this does not stop the Wolf as moves onto bigger endeavors, opening his own trading firm with the help of his pack who don’t mind stealing money from people for their own personal gain.

The Wolf of Wall Street from start to end is overflowing with comedy, drugs, money and women taking the viewer on a journey of the rise and fall of The Wolf, which is rewarded on of the best comedies based on a memoir. The film is everything you expect from Scorsese film, brilliant, entertaining and fascinating earning nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

THE REVENANT


Inspired by true events, THE REVENANT is an immersive and visceral cinematic experience capturing one man's epic adventure of survival and the extraordinary power of the human spirit. In an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a relentless pursuit to live and find redemption
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Tuesday 17 May 2016

Goodbye Mr. Loser

As close as should be obvious, no character is played by numerous performing artists in "Farewell Mr. Washout" in spite of the main part of the motion picture demonstrating these moderately aged characters back in secondary school, and the way that the producers assume this is a potential positive gives you an insight of what wavelength the motion picture is on. It's a suspicious comic dream, and just vacillates when it begins to get wistful.

It begins with Xia Luo (Shen Teng) going to the wedding of his still-lovely secondary school pulverize Qiu Ya (Wang Zhi) with the plan of looking so cool that she'll wonder what she passed up a major opportunity for before he vanishes once more, just for it to go in an unexpected way, as his better half Ma Dongmei (Ma Li) winds up pursuing him with a blade. He ducks into the restroom, however when he returns out, it's 1997 and he's in his old secondary school. Keeping in mind's regardless he bringing about upheaval, he's going to ensure things are distinctive as he seeks after Qiu Ya and records each hit Mando-pop tune of the most recent eighteen years before the first specialists.

This being an extensive plot point ought to serve as a suggestion to any non-Chinese groups of onlookers viewing the motion picture that this kind of "sentimentality comic drama" can be significantly less clever without the correct casing of reference; I have no thought whether the group was giggling with recognition at whatever point a tune went ahead the soundtrack or if movie producers Yan Fei and Peng Da-mo were accomplishing something especially subversive by utilizing those specific melodies. The subtitles are quite entertaining on a few, however, making me wonder in the event that they are unique for the film. Luckily, the film is not especially near dependent on learning of the popular society of 1997 China; being back in secondary school and knowing what's to come is more essential than the specifics of the past.

The stuff that Xia Luo gets up previously, luckily, are really damn clever. It's humorous in extensive part on the grounds that the producers appear to be genuinely apathetic regarding "great taste" as an idea; does Xia Luo act massively egotistically, as well as the whole cast of characters is somewhat strange, from expansive droll to jokes about how imbecilic one person is while another is spent. The jokes are frequently cheap as hellfire - people get hit with blocks, for the love of God! - yet there are a considerable measure of them, and they are executed with appearing relinquish yet brilliant planning and awesome accuracy. They go for an overwhelming kind of preposterousness, and the way that not very many look like real young people plays into the outlandishness.


There's a considerable measure of good jokes in "Farewell Mr. Failure", however, regardless of the possibility that it in the end wants Xia Luo to Learn A Valuable Lesson. In transit, however, it's extremely amusing, even to those of us who must acknowledge that we are going to have a critical number of the jokes simply fly past us. For it's principle Chinese crowd, it must be a genuine impact.


Batman Vs Superman

As all of you know a standout amongst the most foreseen Super Hero motion pictures turned out this weekend, and that is Batman versus Superman.

While I at first heard awful surveys about this film, I needed to see it for myself before I gave my judgment on it. In the wake of seeing it myself the previous evening I can say that while I don't abhor the film, I'm kinda baffled in it.

To begin off, let me first say that Ben Affleck was AWESOME as Batman. I had my questions about him at first yet he unquestionably demonstrated me wrong in this motion picture. Henry Cavill at the end of the day made an incredible Superman and Gal Gadot did extraordinary as Wonder Woman. Be that as it may, similarly as Lex Luthor goes, Jessie Eisenberg wasn't generally the best decision for a lowlife like Luthor.

All through the film it felt like I was viewing a socially cumbersome geek on break than a scary reprobate.

Something else that troubled me about the motion picture are the steady cutaway scenes and it appearing like that motion picture had excessively numerous plot focuses. You have one occasion where you'd be centered around Superman than out of the blue it changed to Batman, then Lex Luthor in plots that didn't generally make a difference or didn't generally bode well.

Presently for the genuine battle amongst Superman and Batman and after that Doomsday. The battle between these two would've been exceptional if Superman needed to battle Batman eagerly as opposed to being compelled to by Lex Luthor. Beside that the battle was exceptionally agreeable outwardly however. With respect to Doomsday we as a whole know he was there as an approach to unite the 3 saints to battle the "basic foe" which I do again concede was agreeable outwardly yet could've been executed better or put something aside for another motion picture.

With everything taken into account, Batman versus Superman is the main super legend film in a while that left feeling disappointed. Would I see it once more? I'm in no race to, however despite everything I say go out and see it to give your very own judgment on it. For me, out of 10, I give it a 6.



Gods of Egypt

For a brief, short lived minute in "Lords of Egypt," I was sure I was viewing my new most loved dreadful motion picture. For the initial 10 to 15 minutes, the motion picture falters between snickering at itself and considering everything excessively important that the unholy irregularity of tone gave a couple laughs.

What a nice sentiment that was, those couple of snippets of trust amid the trudge that this film ended up being. The motion picture's comical inclination about itself appeared to be excessively chicken, making it impossible to come into the closer view and immediately vanished and stayed away forever. Chief Alex Proyas gutted this motion picture and let its gold, metallic blood channel out (Egyptian divine beings drain metallic gold, don't you know?)

"Divine forces of Egypt" runs an amazing 127 minutes. That won't not appear like an inordinate measure of time subsequent to the normal film runs anyplace somewhere around 90 and 120 minutes. For "Lords of Egypt," 127 minutes feels like a lifelong incarceration. The couple of measly scenes that could have made this a "so awful it's great" sort of motion picture was in vain. "Divine forces of Egypt" is simply awful.

Where screenwriters Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless thought of the thoughts they did, we will never know. I would love to have sat in on a composition session with these folks and been there the day somebody said, "He ought to ride a chariot that moves by mammoth insects!" or "Lets give Geoffrey Rush's character no hair aside from an interlaced braid!" Yes, they got Oscar-victor Geoffrey Rush to sign on to play the sun god.

What's more terrible about "Divine forces of Egypt" is the means by which subsidiary the whole story is as well as that the movie producers think they can occupy us with shabby CGI deceit. You can toss your gooey $140 million impacts at every one of us day, Mr. Proyas, yet we won't purchase it. (The way that this film cost such a great amount to make truly asks the inquiries of who this motion picture is for?)


"Divine forces of Egypt" is basically - just about to a tee, truly - "The Lion King". Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), the child of Osiris (Bryan Brown), is going to be delegated divine force of Egypt. Heaps of individuals have accumulated to watch Horus' dad offer this honor to him. In any case, hold up, chaps and lassies, Horus' wrathful uncle Set (Gerard Butler), a Scottish Egyptian, clearly, has different arrangements. He murders Osiris and battles Horus for the crown. He usurps the throne by detaching Horus' eyes from his head. Did I specify that this whole fight is done after they shape-shift into phoenix/transformer thingys? That is the fun piece of "Divine forces of Egypt", which goes to a sudden end from that point.


Ant-Man

Artistic Universe – which, notwithstanding "The Avengers," additionally incorporates the individual movies and spin-offs highlighting its individuals, and also the previous summer's shock hit "Gatekeepers of the Galaxy" – "Subterranean insect Man" is the most family-accommodating of every one of them. It's beguiling, smart and stacked with cleverness, and that makes it difficult to stand up to. What's more, for a film that components the littlest superhero of the steady, it has a major heart, since Ant-Man's persuading variable is to improve as a father.

Taking into account the character made by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers for the 27th issue of "Stories to Astonish" in 1962, Ant-Man must be one of the more absurd superheroes ever, even by the gauges of its source material. In any case, through his modify inner self, researcher Hank Pym, he turned into a faction most loved among fans throughout the years and showed up nearby the Avengers in their first issue. That coordination is a piece of the arrangement with the film form as well, following two or three Avengers pop up all through the motion picture (and make certain to stick around for the two extra scenes that pursue amid and the end credits).

The true to life incarnation of Ant-Man concentrates on Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), a cheat, ex-con and separated father who's attempting to get it together and resemble a legend according to his young little girl. He gets his chance when he is enrolled by Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) to help him secure his imaginative innovation, which can recoil people in size, expand their quality and give them the clairvoyant energy to control a multitude of small ants. Be that as it may, Pym's energy hungry previous protégé (Corey Stoll) has greater arrangements to utilize that innovation for his own particular plan, and time is running out for the Ant-Man to prevent that from happening.

In the wake of being created for almost 10 years, "Insect Man" was good to go under the rudder of acclaimed British chief Edgar Wright ("Shaun of the Dead"). Be that as it may, when Wright and Marvel Studios went separate ways over "innovative contrasts," Peyton Reed ("Down with Love," "Bring It On") ventured into assume control over the rules. While Reed may appear like a far-fetched possibility for a film this way (despite the fact that he verged on coordinating "Gatekeepers of the Galaxy"), incidentally he was the perfect decision to make "Subterranean insect Man" emerge from whatever remains of the pack, since it's so beguiling and genuine while additionally conveying the activity stuffed merchandise.