Kick-Ass (2010)

I went to see it this weekend, and it was KICK-butt!
Totally fucking awesome

The movie revolves around teen-geek Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), who wonders why nobody hasn't tried to be a super-hero in real life ever. He desides to become a super-hero himself despite not having any superpowers or training or anything. He gets his ass kicked very much the first time, after recovering in the hospital he breaks trough in becoming a super-hero and saves a guy from a gang, he got filmed while saving the guy and the video breaks trough on Youtube and myspace and all sites and becomes inmeansly popular. Soon later he meets other Super-heroes: The Batman figure "Big Daddy" (Nicolas Cage) and the deadly "Hit-Girl" (Chloë Morez). Father and daughter super-hero seek revenge on crime boss Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong). They ruin Frank D'amico's bussines so D'amico goes after Kick-Ass thinking that he is the super-hero who is ruining his bussines.


Kick-Ass starts of for me as a realistic comic book feeling film about a regular geek seeking to pursue his fantasie of becoming a super-hero, he first fails and succees at this, while refering to movies like Spiderman and Watchmen. When Hit-Girl and Big Daddy enter the picture, the movie looses it's realistic tone, wich I found a downer, but pays amazingly off with KICK-ASS action scenes with Big Daddy and Hit-Girl (I hope some saw the Watchmen reference on Big Daddy!) The scenes are really comic book style stylish looking with great directing and great view on the action. From there the movie pretty much is what the title of the movie is + referring to other Super-Hero movies, although I hoped the realistic tone would return, but didn't. The acting is super sollid in this, people have been prazing Nicolas Cage in this one, but he didn't really do much for me though... (I've never have actually been pleased with Cage) The actor and character that captured me was Aaron Johnson as Kick Ass of course, I really could feel along with him when he becomes Kick-Ass and fails and succeeds, I found it a downer that he was sorta pushed asside when Big Daddy and Hit Girl came in the picture. The actress who did Hit Girl did a really good job at portraying this badass fowl mouth little girl. The movie ends pretty baddass and feel good, and also thinking... this needs a sequel... IF they have a original idea for it, wich I think wont come with the box office fail...
BUT OVERAL; Love movies, comics or both? DEFINATLY go see this Kick-Ass movie. it came close to brilliance

4/5

PS: Yes, the Hammer reviews are coming soon.

-Stijn Heirstrate

The Hammer Collection DVD Box

Last weekend I was in London, and I purchased The Hammer Collection, wich contains 21 Hammer films.
What is Hammer?
Well, it was a filmstudio in the UK that made hardcore horror movies for it's time, they brought back the horror classic monsters Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy, they also did some adventure films and Sci-Fi, but they are still very known for their Horror.
I recently got a copy of Dracula (1958), their first Dracula, and I loved it. It had huge hairy balls for a movie in the 50's, lots of blood!
So I decided to purchase this Hammer collection Box, the box contains the movies:

'Blood From The Mummies Tomb', 'Demons Of The Mind', 'The Devil Rides Out', 'Viking Queen', 'Dracula, Prince Of Darkness', 'Fear In The Night', 'Frankenstein Created Women', 'The Horror Of Frankenstein', 'The Nanny', 'One Million Years BC', 'The Plague Of The Zombies', 'Prehistoric Women', 'Quartermass And The Pit', 'Rasputin The Mad Monk', 'The Reptile', 'The Scars Of Dracula', 'SHE', 'To The Devil A Daughter', 'The Vengeance Of SHE', 'Straight On Till Morning' and 'The Witches'.


The box design is great, simple box, cool horror feel illustration with also Dracula and a girl on the side in a graveyard cross. Inside the box you get like 6 postcards with posters of some of the movies containing in the box on the front of the postcards + a little book on the history of Hammer films and info about every film in the box, you have the 21!movies and DVD's sorta placed in this book, but nicely keept and not to annoyingly to get out.
all the books stacked on each other makes a form of a graveyard cross, like the one on the cover of the box.
The menu is simple and not cheap, some movies has commentary's of actors, producers and director's, and there is a documentary on Christopher Lee and a Feature doc: To The Devil...The Death of Hammer + some trailers and stuff to waste a min or 2.
Over some next blogs I'll be reviewing these movies at 2 movies a blog. So get ready for some Hammer fun over the next few weeks from this blog!
There are some shit hammer flicks and some of the best Hammer flicks, I am prepared :)
The only dawnfall I find in this box is that there are only 2 Dracula flicks of them in it, they made 6 flippin Dracula movies, they could have added at least 1 more Dracula flick :-/
And a Frankenstein one...

-Stijn Heirstrate

Clash Of The Titans (2010)

I just got back from seeing Clash Of The Titans, and... it was.... not much, but fun.



Men declare war on the gods because... because.... they don't answer their prayers or something, I don't know.
Zeus, played by Liam Neeson, is pist of so he sents his brother Hades, played by Ralph Fiennes to earth to UNLEASH The Kraken onto the city Argos.
Meanwhile the basterd son of Zeus, Perseus, played by Sam Worthington, who lives on a boat with his family whome he was adopted by, get killed by Hades, wich I think everybody obviously saw coming, they see Hades attacking soldiers and Perseus suggest to get out of there, his father says: "no wait". IS HE A FUCKING MORON? THERE IS AN EVIL GOD BEFORE YOU, FUCKING RUN! And yeah, Hades kills them and Perseus survives...
Perseus is now out to get revenge on Hades.
Hades treatens the people of Argos that he will unleas The Kraken on Argos unless they sacrifice their princess to The Kraken
In Argos they find out that Perseus is the son of Zeus, a semi god (half man, half god) so they they come to him asking him if he would defeat The Kraken, he sees this as an oportunity to take revenge on Hades
Also Perseus learns the offspring of his existens, Zeus tricked some queen called Danaë into sleeping with him, hand so made her pregnant with Perseus.
and king Acrisius being pist off throws his wife and her baby son perseus into the ocean in a box. The Queen dies but Perseus survives and is found by his adopt father. He also apparently is being watched over all his life by some sort of... victim of godly powers, a woman called "Io". She is never able to grow older.
So Perseus and some Argos soldiers and Io, go on a journey to some witches to ask if they know how to defeat The Kraken.
Meanwhile Hades makes a deal with king Acrisius, who has been discarted by a olympic lightning, and as we remember was the husband of the queen Zeus slept with.
Hades asks Acrisius to kill Perheus and gives Acrisius some god powers to do the job.

Enough synoposis, from there on the movie gets fun with action packed scene's, with awesome CGI monsters (except for Medusa, she looked awfull....). Although expect some cheesy dialogue and some jokes that worn't really funny...
The visuels in this movie looked great, it's a real eye catcher
And The Kraken , WAUW, but still I love that stop motion Kraken more.
While they travel they get joined up by some sort of sandwizards. And if you have seen the original Clash Of The Titans, you know if you look at Medusa, you turn into stone, THIS HAD NO AFFFECTION ON THE SANDWIZARD... WTF.... Why couldn't Hades do the same sort of power for The Kraken???? DUUUUUh, HE DID A STUPID!
If a simple wizard has that kind of power, why not a god?
And that's not the only anti logic you will find in this movie...
adventually Perseus destroys The Kraken and saves Argos.
perseus goes back to his old life as a simple fisherman, and in the course of the movie Io was killed, but his father Zeus brings her back to life keep him company for... you know what ... He leaves a fucking prostitute with him instead of bringing back his dead family, yay!

This movie deserves a 3'5/5

Only go see this movie when your into kick ass entertainment and not really interested in a logic plot

Speaking of Kick-Ass, hmmm....

Alice In Wonderland (2010)

Finally I got to see it, unfortunately I was to late to get to see it in 3D so I had to see it in 2D, wich is good I guess cause I think it wasn't worth the 9 euro ticket I would have bought after I saw the movie, but my friend bought my ticket for my birthday so anyway.


The movie starts of pretty beautiful flying over London and meeting young Alice, by then she has visited Wonderland but can't remember anything, instead she thinks it's just a nightmare she has been having for years to come, we fly 12 years later I think, and Alice has grown up, she and her mother go to some sort of garden party but turns out to be an engagement party for her and a lord who is going to ask her to marry her, Alice runs away following the white rabbit (as she followed the white rabbit in the old "Alice In Wonderland"). And falls down a hole falling into Wonderland, this scene is pretty tense with some nice visuels, to this point the old Alice In Wonderland has been sorta remade, until she steps into the Wonderland, Alice admires her surroundings and is amazed by what she sees (I can't blame her). Until all the Alice In Wonderland characters show up and start dragging her around from place to fucking place, UUUUUURGHH.... seriously it was fucking annoying, from then the story went fucking messy with all this shit story dragged in you face, maybe it was Tim Burton's intention to make you feel dragged along with the character, IT DIDN'T FUCKING WORK TIMMY. But I don't think Burton isn't here to blame for, it's those fuckers at Disney, but I'll get back to that later...

We also meet up with the Red Queen played by the amazing Helena Bonhem Carter, and her head is fucking HUGE.... cool. Kinda heart shaped to. Carter did an amazing job performing the Red Queen, I can still hear her scream "OF WITH HER HEAD!". She really sticks into the role. But the only reason she probably got this role is because she is fucking the director.
Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter wasn't anything special, just a crazy Depp role. People have said that he is like Jack Sparrow at moments.... Only because he does a fucking raspy voice, WHO FUCKING CARES, I DIDN'T. POTC IS FUCKING DEAD PEOPLE, and there SHOULDN'T be a 4th movie of it, but I might discuss that in later blogs.
Now let's get into the actor who played Alice, Mia Wasikowska, She was pretty decent, I could believe she was Alice, but she definatly got Burtonized being a bit weird and have looking really white. She overall did a good job, I can't imagine someone taking of his eyes of her.
Adventually the story was a shit mess until the end, the epic battle at the end was pretty cool, although the Jabberwocky wasn't as awesome as I would have expected, it was fucking voiced by Dracula man!!! (Christopher Lee). But there are these thins at the end that pisses me of, Johnny Depp.... as the fucking Mad Hatter.... is dancing at a ridiculous sorta hip hop dance and wich we are all fucking expected to laught at... I fucking didn't, because it was fucking retarded, FUCK YOU DISNEY, and WTF with the end credit song... Avril Lavinge.... It made we wanna puke out of my ass and make diaria come out of my mouth. I guess there were trying to aim at some teenage girls for this film, But Pixar didn't do that shit and their movies can relate to ANY age or sort of person. This was the worst end credit song sinds I saw AVATAR.
Overall the movie was ok, not horrible, nor great, this wasn't a Tim Burton masterpiece by far, he made a way better movie last time (Sweeney Todd)
I really hope Burton will finally do a ORIGINAL script or something withouth Disney again, cause I felth in this movie he couldn't do some stuff he wanted.
Overall I give it a 3/5, it had nice visuels and had some funny and strong parts, but it's on the edge of a 2,5.

-Stijn Heirstrate

Introducing

Hello, I'm Stijn Heirstrate

I'm 17 years old and I love movies, and making them. For a while now I have been thinking on how to express my opinion on movies and DVD's, first I was thinking of making video reviews, but my face and voice arn't meant to be on the video screen on youtube, so I've decided to instead write my opinion about movies and DVD's in a simple blog. And oh boy I have some love and anger to unleash on this blog. Try to also understand that english isn't my first language, so you might bump into some typing errors of mine while I write these blogs.
I'll hope you'll read all of my blogs in the future :)

Thanks

-Stijn Heirstrate