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I am planing to do a review of Lion soon but after only a day or two of playing around and discovering difference I won’t yet but I do have some lists for you to look at with my Likes and Dislikes of it.
Dislikes
Finder window new look
Launchpad - Duplicates and past programmes
Dashboard is seperate - I have changed it to an overlay though
No escaping full screen videos in iTunes with esc button
Resume - may be useful for working but not for Safari
Pages bounce when scrolled to top
‘Natural’ scrolling - or backwards
Can’t move core apple applications now - used to have them in a folder to stop clutter
Can’t delete core applications easily
Core applications reinstalled so now duplicated
No ‘key repeat’ function now, just an accent bubble
Spellcheck from iPhone
How panicky time machine is
Preferred black quick look to white
Applications have become the unofficial informal ‘app’
No more PowerPC support - Photoshop CS2
Cant full screen on external screens - cant remember if this was possible on Snow Leopard
Likes
New login window
Wider spotlight bar
‘Lookup’ function
Airdrop
Horizontal bubbles: Cross, minimize and maximize on iTunes.
Quick look enhanced for other applications
Full screen apps
Some gesture controls
Preview of last documents in right-click on dock icons
Overall
Too much of an iOS merge
Name and look of Snow Leopard was far cooler than Lion
Let me know what you think and I will do the review at some point but theres a lot to talk about and I have other film reviews to do too.
This third instalment of Transformers consists of a conspiracy that when the American’s landed on the moon in the 1960s they went to look at a crashed alien ship from the Transformers to research it. This ship has ultimately got one of the ‘Primes’ hidden inside it who escaped the large war on their home world ‘Cybertron’. The humans in the swinging 60s dont find him but do realise that we are not alone in the world, but the Prime is found when the Transformers go up to the moon to have a look around and find some ‘Pillars’ that can create a gateway to teleport matter; being everything and anything.
I saw this film in the cinema IN 2D (for 30p I might add, with orange wednesdays, student ID and a voucher) hoping it would be more like the first film than the second as the first is far superior. This one was good in parts but I didn’t think it was as good as it could have been story wise. I thought the visuals were still amazing as usual and I thought it was an improvement from the second (that didn’t have a script most of the time). One thing that did annoy me was that Megan Fox left, not because I think she’s fit, but I hate when the actor for a character changes; but luckily they did change the character instead of just replacing the actress under the same name. They are both terrible actresses but I did prefer Megan Fox over Rosie Huntingley-Whitley, as she is far more wooden; the film is also given a cheap tainted feel when the first shot is looking up at her bum as she walks up some stairs in just knickers and a shirt.
The film has a good story idea but not brilliantly executed as it’s a bit all over the place and some of the speech is terribly recorded, and sometimes you don’t know what is being said for a good few sentences; which leaves you confused as too what is about to happen. One of my other bugbears was the office section of the film when Sam get’s a job and you follow him for about 30 minutes which seemed unnecessary to follow him for that long.
I do have some parts of the film that I enjoyed, for example when Bumblebee transforms out of his car state with Sam inside to avoid some missiles and then catches Sam and transforms back into the car, afterwards Sam is screaming and screaming due to what has just happened. The fighting in it is also very good again this time with some excellent camera work (which is funnier to watch behind the scenes when it hasn’t been CGI’d in yet).
Overall the film is ok, other than some issues with story, understanding what is happening, and a cheap porno feeling at the beginning of the film; oh and the shot that is taken from ‘The Island’. But other than that the film is good to watch visually and still has better CGI than most films as everything looks like it was there when filmed.
I wouldn’t say you should rush to go and see it and I would definitely say don’t waste your money by watching it in 3D (or any film in 3D) but go see it anyway, it’ll be better in the cinema, as many films are, such as the other Transformer films and Cloverfield.
2/5
This is a horror film based on true events about 2 British girls and an Aussie bloke going to a site where an asteroid has fallen in Australia. They get car trouble at the site and someone comes to help them eventually in the night. They are towed for hours by this creepy bloke to his house where they sleep the night while he fixes their car. Low and behold they have been done. The next part of the story starts with one of the girls waking up hog tied in a hut for a couple of days until she finally breaks free.
I really enjoyed this film, I thought it started off very amateur and I was a little unsure about it thinking it was going to be quite shoddy. But the quality of the film improves dramatically as the story proceeds and has you tense on the edge of your seat wondering what will happen.
This was probably the only horror film I have ever enjoyed but I wasn’t scared just anxious and curious as to what would happen. The film is quite gorey and sickening in parts, things like: a girl is almost raped, murderer shot in the face/neck/ear, a girl stabbed in spine, man nearly eaten by dogs, old man shot in throat; just the usual.
I would really recommend this to anyone who loves horror films or anything a little sick and strange; or if you just love the Aussie accent. The production is great towards the second half of the film, cinematography is lovely, acting is pretty good, tension is good and the idea is just what a traveller doesn’t want to watch before going away so beware
4/5
I was disappointed with this film to be honest, but I didn’t expect much; as it’s a super hero film and they’re usually a disappointment, except The Dark Knight. But this film just wasn’t good, nothing much seemed to happen and even the climax of the film wasn’t that great and didn’t seem to pack the punch it needed. And I do not like the mask with the beak thing over his nose, just seemed too long, it should have ended at the top.
I’ll be honest, there wasn’t much I liked about the film, not even the lead actor; i’m not a fan of Mr Reynolds (probably because he ruined Blade trinity). He was funny in it but I don’t think he was the right guy for the job, as he isn’t a nerd and doesn’t fit very well but what’s done is done.
The effects on the film were good though, but you can’t expect less than excellent now at this stage in hollywood and film making. and overall I think the film was bad and not what it should have been, I don’t really know anything about the Green Lantern’s and it explained it to me but I’m not that bothered about it.
I wouldn’t say to anyone to watch it and instead to avoid it, but you could always watch it to see if you agree with me, go ahead a dare you. And is it me or does the picture avoid look like Robyn’s even camper brother? But I suppose a ring and a lightbulb in a box is all pretty camp anyway.
2/5
This is actually a good children’s film for once, a lot of kids films have come out in the last few years (cars, cars 2, despicable me etc etc) and a lot of them are bad films, even Pixar ballsed up with Cars; and that’s a first for Pixar. But this is pretty good, I don’t like the original Shakespeare play but this is a good re-write, the speech is funny and well scripted.
The film is all about the traditional thing of two families hating each other and one member of each family loving each other. This time it’s two gardens full of gnomes hating each other and they have lawnmower races in the back lane, between Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Tibult (Jason Statham) and Tibult dies in one of the races; and then Gnomeo and Juliet fall in love and you know the rest.
The voice acting is very good in this film, but you can’t expect much else this far in to animated films, and the cast is massive. With people as James McAvoy leading alongside Emily Blunt for the top cast followed by Ozzy Osbourne, Maggie Smith, Ashley Jensen, Michael Caine, Jason Statham, Jim Cummings, Stephen Merchant and even Hulk Hogan.
The film is pretty funny and a good watch even for adults as myself, and it kept me occupied for a train journey home from Manchester to Darlington. I was pretty interested in watching it when I saw the adverts and I wasn’t disappointed, it’s good. And I recommend anyone to watch it.
4/5
I’m going to split this game review into 4 sections (and will do from now on for any game reviews), into the sections: 1) Gameplay, 2) Story, 3) Graphics, 4) Multiplayer (if applicable).
Firstly though a small home written synopsis - the korean’s have combined forced and in 2 decades have decided to taken over the world by killing everything/everyone in there way and monopolising the world. They are not evil and destructive and wont stop until all is theres. They use whatever force is necessary, including shooting parents in front of their kids and probably do some raping and pillaging while they’re at it. If this had been turned around and was America doing the ‘taking over the world’ i’m thinking they wouldn’t have been evil and the enemy would probably be blue and have a git-load of fuel for the taking; but who am I to say.
1) Gameplay - I only played the career mode of this game and the gameplay can vary massively between modes (such as CoD, Halo and GoW) but I can’t comment on multiplayer gameplay for this, but for the career, it was dreadful. The controls are stolen straight from CoD, I don’t remember there being a control that wasn’t in CoD originally: B to crouch, LT to aim, RT to shoot etc etc. The gameplay is badly built, with enemies appearing from nowhere (sometimes in front of your eyes) and sections of it are just terrible, theres even a scene when you are in a watchtower that collapses which happens exactly like that in MW1 (more stuff taken from CoD). I suppose you can’t expect much from a company that only seems to make wrestling games like SmackDown.
2) Story - the story of this game I was looking forward to from the adverts, and the idea of defending my Homefront but it isn’t quite like that. It starts off with you in a flat being kidnapped by the Korean’s and thrown down some stairs to get to the bus you’ll be taken in to the concentration camp that any captured Americans are held in. I’ll be honest I didn’t finish the career, I was renting the game and was on a friend’s xbox so I didn’t get time to finish it but it’s the first game i’ve not finished and I wasn’t actually bothered, I didn’t really mind that I hadn’t finished the game; and i’m a bit of a perfectionist/completist, so what does that tell you?
3) Graphics - these are bad, very bad, almost PS2 graphics, or unrendered graphics, they are not up to scratch with HD or the xbox’s potential, enough said.
4) Multiplayer - I didn’t play the multiplayer but from the reviews of the game I read before playing the game, it is better than the career; not hard to beat though.
I was disappointed with this game to be honest, I was really looking forward to it and I wanted to play the game, and there seemed to be a bit of hype about the game before I got my itchy-trigger fingers on it; but I am very glad I didn’t buy the game and only rented it for free. Because it was a poor excuse of a game.
1/5
This film is a bit crap if i’m honest, it starts with a message from the director of how the film is trying to stretch what can be shown in films and how people are ‘raped’ from birth for they’re ideas and stuff; should have just made a film saying that rather than having to explain it to people, but whatever his loss.
The film is definitily like nothing i’ve ever seen before due to it being based on an ex porn star that is strapped for cash so agrees to one last video that will set him and his family for life…oh and I forgot to mention the film starts with his son watching one of his dad’s porn films, lovely.
The acting in this is pretty poor throughout the film (looked like they did just get a bunch of porn stars, excluding the kid, to just be in a film about porn-stars). The film initially seems like a normally weird film (unless you’ve read the blurb and watched the opening bit) but it does turn very quickly in the last half an hour when the main character wakes up in his house covered in blood and goes back to the house he was filming in to find all the DV tapes and goes to watch them in a wood (he does have a house but decided to watch them in a wood, as you do). He starts to watch them and realises all the things that he did when drugged with viagra for bulls, realising the film is about necrophilia and a little bit of pedophilia, so not the most normal film. The worst bit of the film (shock wise not just bad film wise) is the ending of all the tapes/memory when it gets really weird/sick when theres a twist.
Overall the film is bad and not something i’d recommend to watch unless you want it on in the background while doing work or something as you won’t be watching it properly anyway (i wasn’t) but if you want to see this film for how sick and weird this is then go for it but you might be sickened but you will be disappointed.
2/5
This is vietnam film 3/3 following Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now. This is better than Apocalypse but not I do prefer FMJ. But I do think this film is brilliant because it isn’t a traditional american war film with just shooting and blowing stuff up and screaming ‘Yee Haa’ when women and children are dieing. Instead this film shows war in a negative way, with Charlie Sheen monologuing throughout about how it feels wrong and that the people he’s seeing dieing doesn’t seem right; he even stops 3 of his squad mates raping a woman (obviously a pre Charlie Harper programme). The acting in this film is superb with Willam Defoe, Charlie Sheen and several others with brilliant performances. The tension is built brilliantly with the acting, especially when you see the ‘Gook’s for the first time when the watchman falls asleep and Charlie wakes up to find one hiding very close, then a bunch of others appear behind him. When the shootout starts everyone is freaking out and acting irrationally and shows everyone like fish in a barrel, which is closer to how I can imagine it being than the americans being amazing and ruthless and the enemy just being pitiful weaklings, instead they’re the same just shooting blindly and hoping to not die.Overall I was impressed with this film a lot and loved the film in general, how people change in the battlefield with backstabbing and being scared witless until the inevitable demise.5/5
