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'Drive' (2011) reviewed by Kazed

Synopsis: A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong. I like Ryan Gosling. He's not in a lot of things these days. So it was nice seeing him in something. I'll be honest though. I didn't like this film very much. It certainly had it's shining moments, and Gosling's character was well developed, I just felt that the pacing wasn't... well, paced enough. For something named 'Drive', it wasn't exactly 'Driving' fast enough. Okay, that was bad. Not to say it was a bad film, I'm probably not used to films which delve into the 'abstract' genre. It's something I just don't get. This film wasn't so bad, but I could think of a number of examples which will just have an overuse of experimental shots. Off track. The performances, however, from each of the cast members (Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, and Gosling) were far above what I had expected them to be when I started watching the film. Another thing which stood out in this film, as obvious as it sounds, was the sound. It may seem a little obvious when you give it a watch, but there were a few instances I really admired what was done with the sound editing, specifically Gosling's gloves in the film. Aside from the... 'abstracticity', if you will, visually, Drive is commendable. Same goes for the performances, too. In summary though: Performances: 8/10 Plot: 6/10 Visuals: 6/10 Dialogue: 5/10 Overall: 6.5/10 You can check out more films at MovieMail Ltd.

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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 red carpet event

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Kazed Blogs: Harry Potter and The City of Movieville PART TWO

This past February, I did a blog post on the first five Harry Potter films. Now that I've seen the whole series(excluding The Deathly Hallows Part 2, of course), my opinion is definitely a little more different than it was a year ago. It was the last film that completely changed my opinion on the franchise, because it was truly an amazing spectacle. You can check out the video review on YouTube. Anyway, after watching them all, it's the last one that impressed me the most. I mentioned this in the last blog, but the maturity levels in the entire cast just soared as the films went on, especially the final installment, was just beyond all of my expectations. In comparison to the first film, the last film was just amazing on so many levels, the visuals, the performances, the dialogue, exceeded the first film by a billion miles(or kilometres, whatever). The Harry Potter series is definitely a refreshing change from those preceding it, and it's continuity factor was a large part of it's greatness for me.      

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New EPIC trailer for Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows pt. 2 (

Check it, I've mentioned a few times I'm not the biggest Harry Potter fan there is, but I've admired the films for what they are. Not a big fan of them all, but I could watch them again. In my opinion, I thought that The Deathly Hallows part 1 was (so far) the best in the franchise. I may be wrong here. Check out the newly released trailer for Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows pt 2: Love it. Everything about that trailer was beautiful. Check out my video review of The Deathly Hallows pt 1. Kazed

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Kazed Blogs: Harry Potter and The City of Movieville n shit.

I'll be honest here. I never actually saw a Harry Potter film up until last December, only because they never really appealed to me, and now I know why. I'm 5 films into the saga, and there have been parts where visually, it's definitely impressive, but the performances were clichéd, although there were odd moments which made me chuckle. Granted, it's a family film, so expecting it to be full of "fucks" and "shits" is OBVIOUSLY not a good idea. I wanted to give the films a chance, I wanted to see why the series is the biggest grossing series of all time, and I can see why people love it so goddamn much. Really though, they're all pretty annoying and repetitive. All this equals to a pretty substandard viewing experience, and although the performances were subpar, one can't deny that Harry and co. have certainly matured, and their years on the set of HP has definitely improved throughout the series. What I love too though, was the many expressive faces of Hermoine Granger. That bitch can bust out all sorts of expressions which just light up the friggin screen. That girl can emote like a mothereffer. I'm intrigued to watch the last two, purely just to see how it unfolds, because obviously, I'm not gonna read the books. That would take too long. Although it would be interesting to see the comparisons between the source material and the film. The story itself is whatevs, you know, it's interesting enough, it grasped me long enough not to fall asleep, so I guess that's commendable enough. Thus ends my quasi-rant on Harry Potter. Kind of. Once I've seen all 7, I'll come to a conclusion. Who knows, I may end up dressing up as Dumbledore while writing it. Kazed.