While LotS isn’t quite new, and it’s currently cancelled. I believe everyone should give it a go. I’m currently re-watching it with my family, and I must admit, even the second time around, I do enjoy it.
I wont review it, as it’s 2 seasons long, and over 40 episodes, but I will say this: it’s an epic adventure, well thought out and planned, all from the works of Terry Goodkind. I will read the books soon enough, as in most cases, books are better than movies.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, or Wall Street 2 is a confused movie.
It doesn’t quite know which story to follow. It’s a series of stories, while telling a main story, it tells another.
I’m quite terrible at writing reviews, but this one I will try to keep to the whole no-spoiler thing.
I like and hate this movie. I like it because it’s a really cool story. I hate it because I might have to watch it a second time – it kind of rams information down your neck, with multiple stories, and plots and other shit, so quickly, that you can’t quite understand it. At least I had that kind of experience. It might not come across like that for some. But it did for me.
It’s got some good actors. Shia LaBeouf – playing Jake Moore, who has got it on with Michael Douglas’s (playing Gordon Gekko) daughter Winnie Gekko (played by Carey Mulligan, who is a pretty decent actress IMO). And Frank Langella (Louis Zabel – his character), who is kind of unknown, but I really like his movies he’s in.
It basically follows Jake Moore in his attempts to take down a finance executive. He enlists the help of Gordon, who happens to be a disgraces finance legend at the start of the movie, but somehow becomes a legend again. And he also would like him and his daughter to be loving again, and what-not. In the end it’s pretty much a “happily ever after” ending, how? I don’t know. Why? I also don’t know. But it needs a bit of a back story, and since I didn’t watch the original Wall Street, is why I’m probably all confused.
Anyway, I can’t exactly review this one, I’ve only watched it once, but all in all, decent time sink. Maybe not enough time for character and story development, or maybe too rushed.
Overall – 5/10 I wouldn’t exactly keep this movie on my favourites list. But I’m no financial advisor. Not my scene though.
I’d probably recommend watching the first one before this. Though the first one is kind of aged, but don’t let that put you off it.
The Kings Speech movie is brilliant. It’s a movie of tests, and success of the hardship of King George VI.
King George VI (played by Colin Firth) has a stammer, throughout this movie is his attempts to rid himself of this annoying speech impediment. The movie opens up with The Duke of York (George VI) making a Christmas speech, to which he fails miserably.
To help rid himself, or at least lower the stammer, enlists the help of Lionel Logue (played by Geoffrey Rush). And must I say that his first speech of wartime (and the end of the movie) goes without a hitch.
I cannot go into detail without giving spoilers. But let me say that the movie is not all about his impediment.
It shows his family, the Queen Mother and their two children, Elizabeth II, and Margaret. As well as the other lot, such as his father, and brother – who abdicated to marry a divorcee.
It’s the story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne and much more.
I highly recommend this movie for all. A movie for all ages.
Don’t let the title fool you. It isn’t boring, it’s brilliant.
10/10
