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Muni Reviews: The Myth of The American Sleepover
The Myth of the American Sleepover Synopsis - Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer. It took me one whole year for me to finally watch this film. When I first saw the trailer to this film I was instantly hooked on the story the characters and the idea. It annoys me when small independent films with great stories don’t get an international release. But before I get off on a tangent ranting about the Hollywood monopoly system, let me get back to reviewing this film. I like to think we live in a world where everything is not black or white, you know everything is not as it seems, and good people can do bad things and vice versa. Life is complicated and growing up is the most difficult time for any teenager, especially in this day and age where everything you say and do can be scrutinised. The film follows a bunch of different teenagers as they come to the close of the summer holidays. The film spans across a day and tells the story of how both the male and female teens spend their night at sleepovers and parties. The story is told at a wonderful pace and the characters are likeable; you can sympathise with them and the emotions they go through when trying to find love. The director does a beautiful job in capturing the raw beauty of teenage suburban life. This is the first feature film by director David Robert Mitchell, and he's done a decent job in telling a story, which a lot of mainstream Hollywood films fail to do. At times the film does go off topic but quickly finds its way back and tells a good story. What really works for the film is the cast, the actors are superbly casted and bring something to their individual characters. They are believable and a lot of teenagers will easily relate to one or more characters. The attraction of this film is definitely the idea of how teenagers find love and define relationships; it gives a message of hope and promise. It’s a real shame that this film won’t be watched by many (as with a lot of indie films) because of its limited release. But if you ever get a chance to watch this film or want to legally download it and watch it I’d say go for it. It’s a coming of age tale of teens, hope, love and life. The film also has an impressive soundtrack to it, which definitely helps in capturing the emotions and the sentimental-ness of the heart. A thoroughly well written and directed film and a tremendous cast that will take you on a journey. 7/10 Muni
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A re-review of Avatar (2009) by Kazed
Okay, okay. It's been almost two years since this was released, and for a few months now I've wanted to 're-review' the famous Avatar - Lord of (Suicide) Dreams. This is something I wouldn't usually do- changing my opinion on a film, but at the time of it's release, I suppose I, like many others was amazed at how visually stunning the blockbuster was. Unfortunately, this was blanketed by the poor story and lacklustre dialogue. Yes, I gave it a 9 back in 2009, which is a near perfect score, but I guess visually it's a well deserved score. HOWEVER. Under the NEW rating system, Avatar won't hold up so well like it did back then. This was meant to be a short, nice little refresh for the previous review I had written a couple of years ago. The only reason I'm doing this was because it doesn't deserve the full 9 I gave it. For the most part, the previous review was right on the button, it's just the rating- it was too high. Here we have the new, revised rating: Performances: 7/10 Plot: 4/10 Visuals: 9/10 Dialogue: 3/10 Overall: 6/10 - THIS is what the original rating SHOULD'VE been. Luckily, the visuals saved it's ass, otherwise, it would've been a pretty below-average flick.0
Blu-ray review for 'THOR' (2011)
Synopsis: The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders. This'll be a first of what I hope to be a long line of home release reviews. First up though, THOR on Blu-ray. I'll run through the various features available on the disc itself, and write up a short little review for each section. The film itself, of course requires no review, as I stand by my original take back when it was released(You can watch it HERE) "Marvel One Shot - 'The Consultant'" This was a nice little short showing the events leading up to Stark's confrontation with General Ross regarding the Avengers Initiative. It's a short 4-minute clip, it's mostly Agent Coulson and one of his colleagues discussing the Avengers Initiative, but I won't go into much detail with this. It's better if you watch it for yourself, it'll give you a nice little insight into The Initiative, but not too much. This here's the first clip: You can find the rest in it's entirety on YouTube. I couldn't find one I could embed due to copyright restrictions. "Featurettes" The featurettes are an incredible look at how the various stages of the film were put together; from the conception to it's translation to screen from the pages of the iconic comic. There are some brilliant clips of the amazing set construction for the small town in New Mexico, the Throne Room in Asgard, and the Rainbow Bridge, to name a few. The featurettes are a delicious slice of the THOR 'making-of' cake, and provide a fascinating insight into how much thought, time and manpower went into creating such wonderful set pieces and character costumes. "Delete Scenes (w/ commentary)" Watching the deleted scenes with the commentary on was somewhat irritating, simply because the sound levels were all over the place. Director Kenneth Branagh's commentary was interesting, but the problem was, that his voice was a much higher volume than the actual footage, so when he had done speaking, the clip was quiet, and was difficult to hear what was going on in the clip. Yes, I realise by putting the commentary on, the idea is to listen to the commentator- not the clip. Other DVD's didn't do that. Just sayin'. Other than this minor issue, though, the deleted scenes were average at best, though some do explain how particular events led to one another in the film, like the coronation of THOR, and also expands a little on the characters development for The Warriors Three, for example. Overall there isn't much variety in terms of special features on the disc, although there is a choice of deleted scenes/featurettes, a bloopers/gag reel is something that is a rare addition to many home releases these days. Is it worth your money, though? Yes. Yes it is. Rating (out of 5):
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