The beast and hunter

Recently I just watched Pacific Rim. I thought it will be a rip-off from Transformer, battleship and battle Los Angeles but it isn't, far from it! It looks more like Code Geass and Gundam Seed where humans enter a big mecha to fight off another mecha in a war between two mechas. But Pacific Rim needs two humans to control one mecha which is called as Jaegers in German as Hunter to fight off the Kaiju in Japanese means strange creature, or beast as used in this movie.

Strangely enough the movie started with the main character losing his older brother in the battle, which is the same as the Battleship and the title only released after an epilogue which is the same as Transformer movies (I believe it was the 2nd and 3rd, not certain about the 1st movie). Hence there is a resemblance from other movies.

I find the storyline progresses really slowly where after they have search the main actor and invited him to rejoin the group. It was good that they give an insight on how the group was reform with bigger and better Jaegers from other countries, after the government intend to shut everything. The fight was intense and a definite watch with spectacular effects that will make your eyes ogle on the screen and jump off your seats!

However, is it just me or have anyone realize that the settings is always raining?

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The Man who is Super

Helloooo my junkies! Hadn't wrote any movie reviews for a long time, was quite busy and lazy at the same time. Well to top it off, I am now a graduate! WOHOOO! Currently searching for a job but the outcome is devastating as I get more rejections than approvals.

Anyhoodle, I'm here to talk about one of the remake of superman movie with a new title "Man of Steel". I was never really a huge superman fan, because I have always laughed at him wearing his undies on the outside but nevertheless, I still watched it.

The movie started where superman came from and how he landed in Earth. That was a good start, but with the frequent flashback, sometimes it is not easy to figure out which is the present and past. The camera is not steady at some point where it moves along with the actors and that causes a slight motion-sickness. Also, the fight is tremendously long, too much action of throwing, flying, fighting, and buildings falling. Moreover, I thought I would have seen the end of the movie where General Zod, the villain surrendered and kneel before Clark Kent (superman), but it wasn't!

Krypton exploded like this

The fight goes on until they enter a building where a family was crouch at the corner of the building and General Zod wanted to kill them with his laser eyes. That's where superman got really angry and break Zod's neck, and yeap that's the end of the General's life. The ending is rather too simple and mundane in my opinion where he just a break of the neck-snap- and he's dead. How easy, why wouldn't he do that in the beginning?

Guess we have to see the fights, superman's emotions with his father, and a little romance with Lois Lane (ohh laa laa) to make the movie worthwhile. However, it was not how I anticipated.

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