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7 years ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

After a gap of many years, Jigsaw the 8th installment in the Saw series is back and is just as good as before. OK, so there's nothing new or different from the other entries (i.e devious games and gory deaths) but that's what fans of the series want to see. What I liked about this movie is that it gives the impression that Jigsaw is still alive even though he is supposed to be dead and the payoff behind this illusion is neatly done. The deaths aren't too bad apart from the final one which is really cool involving lasers. I wouldn't say the games are half as deadly as they were in previous entries. Still, it's a solid and entertaining horror movie and fans of Saw should enjoy it.

7 years ago

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7 years ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

Jackie Chan's best movie in many years! JC plays Quan, a London Chinese restaurant owner whose daughter is killed in a bomb planted by Irish terrorists. He swears revenge and goes all out to find the terrorists who destroyed his family. This is such an exciting action drama and although JC shows his age here, he can still perform in top notch martial arts scenes. Pierce Brosnan is also brilliant as a suspicious NI politician whose past in the paramilitary comes back to haunt him. Director Martin Campbell has picked himself up from the disaster that was The Green Lantern and given the viewer a gripping tour-de-force thriller. There's not really that much else I can say apart from this movie will keep you mesmerised from start to finish. For those that think JC is now over the hill, this movie will make you change your mind. Go and see.

7 years ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

This is an alternate retelling of the anime series which I've yet to see. It's about a young man Yukito who comes to a seaside town to find out more about a legend about a winged maiden and makes friends with a girl Misuzu and her mother. Yukito then discovers that Misuzu is slowly dying and that her condition is linked to a story about a princess that lived in the past named Kanna who has a 1000 year old curse placed on her. The movie goes back and forth between the two different tales which are beautifully interwoven together. The ending though tragic felt a bit rushed but then again it is difficult to compress a 12 episode anime series into a movie. Overall, it has made me want to check out the series to see how different it is to the movie.

7 years ago

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7 years ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

The President of an all girls school Literature Club Itsumi Shiraishi is found dead clutching a lily of the valley flower in her hands. It is said she has been murdered and the rumour flying around is that somebody from the club killed her. Each member of the club relates a story during one of their meetings of how they got to know the President and the events leading up to her death. Each one accuses one another of being involved in her murder. But which one is actually telling the truth? This was quite an interesting and intriguing tale and each story by a member uncovering another layer to the President's death. It keeps you guessing to the end who is behind her murder and there is a twist to the tale. To me, it was obvious from the beginning who the murderer was. It also seems that each member of the club has a dark secret they want to keep hidden. The young female cast are great in their roles. This is a movie that will keep you glued to the screen as the mystery behind Itsumi's death is finally revealed in the climax. I enjoyed it very much.

7 years ago

AKB48Fan rated TiMER

 TiMER 6/10

7 years ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

An interesting concept, in a world where nearly everyone has a timer that tells them when they are going to meet their soul mate. It counts down and will beep once you make eye contact with them. But only when your soul mate gets a timer does yours start counting down. The main character Oona's timer has yet to start and kind of countdown. Her sister's timer says that she won't meet her soul mate until she is 40 years old. This movie has a storyline that is unique and entertaining. It's a fun movie to watch when you just want something simple and pleasant. I liked Emma Caulfield as the lead. I've only seen her before in Buffy The Vampire Slayer so she was great in this movie. Well worth taking a look.

7 years ago

AKB48Fan rated Strange Days

 Strange Days 7/10

7 years ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

This is an interesting movie with a great storyline. It also happens to be well-executed, for the most part. The LA of the future (well, future back when it was released in 1995) is quite dystopian in nature, and the movie manages to present all facets of that using Taxi Driver-influenced car rides through the city while observing the chaos on the streets. The plot is intriguing, and it flows quite smoothly. A lot of the dialogue is really quite interesting and gives the movie a nice feel (not to mention the actors do a pretty good job with the material). The characters are three-dimensional and interesting. While the beginning parts were somewhat disjointed (at least in terms of plot), they did serve as an excellent setup. The movie is at it's best during the middle section and sadly it then goes downhill resorting to awfully cliche ideas complete with plot elements seen a million times before. While Strange Days is still a fascinating movie, it just isn't as superb as it could have been. Nonetheless, it does succeed on many levels and is well worth watching.

7 years ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to Ikou! - Anime Watched In 2017 list

7 years ago

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7 years ago

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7 years ago

AKB48Fan rated Star Wars: The Last Jedi

 Star Wars: The Last Jedi 3/10

7 years, 1 month ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

Hands down the worst Star Wars movie ever made. Thanks Disney for ruining the franchise. The Force Awakens and Rogue One were both very good but this one is a complete disaster. It's an incoherent lazy mess with a poor plot and clunky dialogue. Nothing in this movie seems to serve a purpose. New dull and uninteresting characters are introduced and what really brings this movie down is the pathetic forced humour which is so out of place. In my opinion this movie wasn't written by people who really care or know a lot about Star Wars, but solely by the influence of producers and marketing people who are only after a fast buck. I absolutely hate what they did to my childhood hero in Luke Skywalker. I'm so disappointed and heartbroken in this movie and I can only hope that JJ Abrams can get the franchise back on track with Episode 9.

7 years, 1 month ago

AKB48Fan rated The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale

 The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale  8/10

7 years, 1 month ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

On paper it sounds like a simple tale - that of a group of Japanese soldiers and an ageing hunter trying to kill the last known tiger in Korea but there's more to this than meets the eye. The tiger is a symbol associated with Korean people and their resilience to keep their culture, identity and values alive despite the hardships the people have gone through and is still going through today. The screenplay is written perfectly and narration is astounding but the movie is a little long and some of the scenes could have been chopped easily to make it flow better. The cinematography is exhilarating and each scene has been captured beautifully. Min-sik Choi is fantastic as the old hunter who has a connection to the tiger as he let it stay alive when it was a cub instead of killing it. Very enjoyable.

7 years, 1 month ago

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7 years, 1 month ago

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7 years, 1 month ago

AKB48Fan rated Kino's Journey

 Kino's Journey 9/10

7 years, 1 month ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to Ikou! - Anime Watched In 2017 list

7 years, 1 month ago

AKB48Fan rated The Villainess

 The Villainess 6/10

7 years, 1 month ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

The Villainess could have been one of this year's greatest movies. The first-person action choreography is absolutely stunning, the characters are interesting to profound and the story is filled with numerous twists and turns. However, the movie loses its potential due to a messy script. Instead of telling us the story of the main character in chronological order, the movie starts in the middle of nowhere, shows us numerous flashbacks in random order and meanders in such a vivid manner that more than one viewer will get lost trying to keep track of characters and events. The storytelling tries to be as much over the top as the action sequences when it should be the exact opposite for a balanced experience. Those who are looking for pitiless action sequences have to sit through an hour and a half of romantic slices of life interwoven with random flashbacks. I'm rather disappointed if I'm being honest.

7 years, 1 month ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

This movie has already been torn to shreds by most critics and rightly so. It is a mess of epic proportions and features some outright bizarre creative and technical choices. The structure and plot of the movie is predictably generic and par for the course as far as team up superhero movies go. A superhero team comes together, superhero team fights big bad, superhero team eventually defeats big bad and saves the world. In this case the team consists of Bruce Wayne/Batman and Diana Prince/Wonder Woman who are looking to assemble a team of people with special abilities to combat a huge alien threat that had been alluded to by Lex Luthor. As far as the performances go everyone is fine and give serviceable turns apart from Ezra Miller who eventually becomes annoying and almost cringe worthy in his role as Barry Allen. However this isn't entirely his fault. In fact the writing of his character is the main culprit as most of his screen time is comprised of forced jokes and childish humour. In conclusion, if you can tolerate the scattershot comedy, the often distracting CGI and the rather weak villain in Steppenwolf, you might have some fun with this movie.

7 years, 1 month ago

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7 years, 1 month ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

Yet another teen romance/weepie about a young man diagnosed with a serious illness and unless he is operated on he will die within a year. He starts dating a clumsy girl who is being bullied at school with her only friend being her pet parakeet called Sensei. Japan keeps churning out these type of movies with the same recycled plot in the majority of them and whilst you will know from the beginning how it will all turn out in the end, it's still worth watching due to the great performances from the young cast.

7 years, 1 month ago

AKB48Fan rated Sky Pirates

 Sky Pirates 4/10

7 years, 1 month ago

AKB48Fan added 1 item to The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 list

So and so Australian adventure movie set during WWII about an ace pilot and his crew whose plane gets pulled into another dimension whilst transporting a mysterious stone tablet that glows yellow. This tries so hard to be like an Indiana Jones movie but fails on so many levels. Some sequences are even copied. Despite the low budget, some parts of the movie come off quite well but other parts are terrible. The acting of the cast come across as wooden. The poor ending doesn't help things either. I wouldn't say this movie is worth seeking out.

7 years, 1 month ago