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Fantasy

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G. I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra

In a summer where most blockbuster movies were all glamorously flashy with pretentiously convoluted storylines like Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, G. I. Joe distanced itself slightly from the pack by being honest.

This was an action movie through and through. Audiences going for it expected it to entertain hard with action, [...]

Filed under: Action and Fantasy by delrondu - 1. September 2009, No Comments

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince

As the fans of the gigantic franchise of Harry Potter grow older year by year with their favourite characters, the stories by J K Rowling also move more and more away from being innocent and naive.

The Half-Blood Prince was dark and menacing and was far from what this series was when it started with The [...]

Filed under: Fantasy and Thriller by delrondu - 4. August 2009, No Comments

Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian

Just as quickly as Ben Stiller’s sudden ingenuity has brought on some form of credibility for himself, he just as quickly dissipated the idea of a repeat performance with this new effort.
Not that anyone was betting on him to deliver another brilliant idea like Tropic Thunder, but with the sequel of Night At The Museum, [...]

Filed under: Adventure and Fantasy by delrondu - 10. June 2009, 1 Comment

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

How closely the movie adaptation followed the original storyline is an entire review on its own because there wasn’t a whole lot that’s similar to what fans have come to know of the man known only as Logan.

The original Logan was born a mutant with feral instincts, as well as feral ferocity, and was constantly [...]

Filed under: Action and Fantasy by delrondu - 9. June 2009, No Comments

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

It’s not a coincidence that this movie reminds a fair bit of Forrest Gump since both were adapted by Eric Roth. But Roth took more liberties here from the short story by F Scott Fitzgerald.
One word to sum up this movie would be “life” – which is also what’s written in beautiful cursive fonts behind [...]

Filed under: Drama and Fantasy by delrondu - 10. April 2009, No Comments