Scotty Newton - All Round Entertainer

2013 Movie Reviews and Awards! There were a few movies released this year and I'm sorry I didn't find the time to post more critiques on them but here's what you need to know, in short. Pacific Rim  is GREAT. It doesn't try to be pretentious at all. It knows that its characters can't do the accents it's trying to. It knows that the dialogue is as ridden with cliches as it is cringeworthy. It realises that Ron Pearlman is a joke in it. But it doesn't pretend to be anything else. It is over the top. It is simple. It is a giant robot attacking a giant alien with a sword. And it is bloody entertaining! The Wolverine  is SMART, for the most part anyway. How do you approach the superhero genre after we have witnessed the Avengers? Are you going to try and beat it's Outrageous battle scenes? Try and better the special effects? Try and compete with its action scenes? With aWolverine film you could be tempted but they went down a different ro...

The Hunger Bore The Hunger Games Review I'm probably going to get a ton of hate mail for this but I didn't like this movie. There, I said it. Don't get me wrong, it's not Wrath of the Useless  or Ghost Rider: Spirit of Humiliation bad, but I really don't see where the hype's coming from. I'll keep this one short and sweet, due to a painfully bad essay looming over me and getting ready for my new tablet =D Doing my Susan from Narnia impression For the second time in as many trips to the cinema, I was bored . The film dragged out, from the long build up to the games and then during the games itself. In a build up for a fight to the death, I don't want to see the combatants on a talk show, I want to see them training and atmosphere building, maybe alliances being formed and some fierce rivalries. I did appreciate that this was to show the themes and distance itself from just being another standard action flick but it just didn't ge...