Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

To start, I wasn’t a fan of them putting the last movie in to two bits. But it seemed to have actually been a good idea – financially and for us the fans.
The main line-up of movies has some differences from the book, and these last 2 movies don’t have as many, but I still must stress that the books are in most cases much better.

The movie starts off as you’d expect – Lord Voldies ending in Part 1, him with the elder piece of stick and he’s somewhat ready to do what he attempted to do ages ago – kill Harry Potter.
He supposedly has the power with the elder wand. As I usually do, I try not to spoil movies but I’ll do my best attempt.

The movie takes them all over the place – Hogwarts, Gringotts Bank (Diagon Alley) and Hogsmeade. They encounter various creatures and drink polyjuice potion, friends, foes and a blind dragon. They need to find out the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them. However it’s nothing like part 1 – there’s no camping at all!

The movie seems a little rushed to me compared to the book. It’s a bit weird in the sense I felt it was missing something. However the visuals, effects and acting is really good as you’d expect. It’s a great ending to the long franchise, and you finally get to see Ron and Hermione snog.

I’ve rushed the review because I can’t add to it without spoiling it.
I’d definitely recommend it to anyone who likes the franchise. But I must admit, books are usually better. It’s quite a long movie however.

8.5/10

Heroes of Newerth

Heroes of Newerth is a DOTA-like game.

I actually bought it for $10 when it wasn’t free-to-play but either way, it’s now free to play.

The game is practically like DOTA. You get to choose a out of a bunch of heroes – strength, intelligence and agility. Support, DPS, Tank.
It happens to have an item shop – which mind you is quite good. It’s not a pay-to-win game which is a good thing. However you can purchase early access to some specific heroes before they are released to the general public.

For free to play players, you don’t get access to the whole line up of heroes, which may put you off – however I’d look for a way to get them. I’m not too sure on how you’d do that though.

All in all, it’s a fun enough game, and will entertain you for many hours. But there is a major drawback which puts me off – and that it the community.
The community absolutely sucks. Whether you’re a newbie or an expert, public games are definitely full of cancer.
If you plan on playing this game, get yourself in to a clan as soon as possible so you don’t get cancer.
I myself actually tried to find someone who could mentor me early on. But after a week of no replies I decided to withdraw the application. I felt it would be a smart move to find someone to teach me the ropes, me being a 1500 PSR and all. But the players with a lot less PSR than I were getting mentors left right and centre. I’m still looking for a good group to get myself in to, but alas it may not be for me.

The game runs native on Linux, Mac and Windows. I’ve yet to find a bug or crash whilst playing it on Ubuntu 11.04, which is great!

Rating: 6/10. It’s fun, the graphics aren’t bad. But the community stinks.
I’ll definitely be getting DOTA 2 though.

So DLC For DA2

Ok, so Bioware announced a while ago (like a few days) that some expansion or whatever is coming to Dragon Age 2.

Amidst that, a trailer was released. I for one, will be getting the DLC. But I really didn’t like Dragon Age 2 all that much. It’s really pissed me off and I sincerely hope Bioware will improve on their already known Dragon Age 3.
However – the only reason why is because I hate leaving a story unfinished.

In other news, I’m eagerly awaiting Assassins Creed: Revelations. Ubisoft are truly one of my favourite RPG makers, along with CD Projekt RED, who funnily enough have released patch 1.3 for The Witcher 2.
(Be sure to uninstall any mods pre-patch, then install them again afterwards )

The Next Three Days

I like Russell Crowe.

In this movie, his wife is framed for murder. Basically more bad luck than anything. And it’s up to him to bring justice – break her out and escape to another country.

Not a movie to watch laying down. Edge of your seat, action suspense thriller.

Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) it arrested for murdering her female boss. With whom she had an argument at a dinner thing. When she was leaving – which is the scene of a crime she was seen. There’s also her fingerprints on the murder weapon. Her husband – John Banks would spent the next three days devising a plan in order to get her out. He has a son – Luke played by Ty Simpkins who happens to be quite a good young actor. Unfortunately the strain of a distanced mother gets to him. So he doesn’t play a major role really.

Naturally – there’s no evidence to prove she didn’t do it. He’s a bit of a thug in this movie – using bumper keys. Also going to a meth lab and setting fire to the place while escaping with a fuck-tonne of money in order to get the fuck outta the country. He gets help from Liam Neeson who tells him how to do it.

The plot takes a bit too long to get set up, so it’s not fast paced. But it still is edge of your seat. I don’t like spoilers so that’s all there is to it.

I give it an 8/10. It’s pretty fucking good.

The Adjustment Bureau

I also got to see this one at home. I like Matt Damon, he’s a pretty good actor.

This movie is quite different. People wearing Fedoras can travel through doors to end up somewhere completely different in a matter of time.
Matt Damon plays a politician, David Norris, and he has a glimpse into the future. His fate was planned for him, yet he wants something different. And to get it, he has to beat this bureau and pursue them under the streets and through a bunch of doors in New York.

He loves a chicken named  Elise Sellas played by Emily Blunt, who seems a little aloof. She’s not like anyone he’s met. And naturally and predictably he falls for her. But the Bureau is having none of it. He’s up against these Fedora wearing villains in order to get the woman of his dreams. He must either let her go – making the Bureau happy. Or fight them, and take a Fedora and do it himself.

It’s an interesting premise, but it falls a little short. It’s a bit of a clichéd love story.

I give it a 7 and 1/4 out of 10.

Unknown Movie Review

Seeing as I watched this at home (thanks Warner Bro’s for sending me the DVD), I had plenty of time to watch it, as well as could pause the movie to write down tid-bits.

I’ve watched a lot of Liam Neeson movies lately. Some were pretty shit. Some were decent. But this one is where he shines. He’s one of the actors that are pretty genuine. I was convinced he was actually who he said he was.

This movie has a hint of perhaps the Bourne series. Liam (playing Dr. Martin Harris) loses his memory in Berlin, when his taxi crashes then falls over a bridge into water. The taxi driver who happens to be an illegal immigrant saves him (he was unconscious) then re-appears some-time into the movie. He’s lost an integral part of his memory – the past. He’s convinced he’s Dr. Martin Harris. But unfortunately doesn’t have his briefcase. It was left at the airport.

The dialogue in this movie isn’t great. But it’s a good action-drama movie. With suspense. But not too much, which is what I like.
Action was great when it happened. But it wasn’t senseless, he had a reason (much like Taken) to hit people, kill people and so on.

It’s a decent movie, the camera work isn’t spectacular – but not so shit as Ladder 49 or something. He loses his memory, wife disowns him. Big twist at the end. Then they live happily ever after.

t’s not worthy of a 10/10 though. So I give it a 7/10. IMDB on this one is all right.

X-Men: First Class

I was gunna review this movie. But I can’t be assed. It was really good. So 10/10.

Anyway, anyone noticed that Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber make a cute lesbian couple?

Parke’s Final

I might be a little late to this, but I’ve got more stuff to do than just blog about Ronan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXVKNmZJfB0
Once again, embedding disabled.

I’m going to post some excerpts of news that has made this little boys life a little scandalous.
But before I do so, I’d like to commend The Daily Mail (Dailymail.co.uk) on their excellent use of having sounds played whilst trying to read the fucking news.

First up: Ronan Parke says he was upset by lies posted by an anonymous blogger that claimed Britain’s Got Talent had been fixed so he would win

Speaking to The Sun, he said: ‘I was really upset by those nasty words written by an anonymous person because it was all a load of rubbish.
‘It was a horrible thing for someone to do, attack me like that. I hope some people didn’t stop voting for me because of it.
‘I hate bullying – it’s a terrible thing to do and I hope that people will see that it’s wrong now.’

Secondly: The next Bieber? Simon Cowell apparently thinks that Ronan Parke will be Britain’s version of Justin Bieber

He narrowly lost out on the Britain’s Got Talent crown following claims online that the competition had been fixed in his favour.
But despite coming second to surprise winner Jai McDowall, it looks like Ronan Parke will be first to the coveted prize of a record deal.
Sources at Sony Music said they are still keen to offer the 12-year-old a recording contract estimated to be worth between £1million and £1.5million in the hope that he will become the ‘British Justin Bieber’.

He’s not the next Bieber guys… Justin Bieber does not sing what Ronan Parke sings. I also think that Parke actually has raw talent, and when live on stage, they can’t actually AutoTune.
Either way, they’re two very different people.

Now, word is that he might be gay… My opinion? I’m not too sure, he is a little camp. He likes fashion, and has pride in his appearance. It’s pretty obvious.
If he is? So what? I don’t think it’s a bad thing at all. Anyway, teenagers have enough troubles trying to find out what they are so I think you’ll have to wait for him to come out of the closet, rather than labelling him. Like some news reports have.

RED Review

Star studded cast, lots and lots of action.

Bruce Willis stars in an action packed comedy thriller thing.
He’s a retired CIA agent, and he gets threatened by some high tech assassins who try to kill him when he gets his Christmas on. The rest is followed by some awesome Malkovich and Morgan Freeman.

It’s honestly not a bad movie, it’s not got much of a story, but it really is quite good.

8/10 if I’d rate it. I wont go into detail, I’m bad at movie reviews.

Parke’s Semi Final

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRCDU6N3MCM

Embedding disabled… Again. Oh well, go watch it.

The Hoff is on Britains Got Talent. Haha.