TV | Attack on Titan (2013)

Japanese Cast: Yūki Kaji, Yui Ishikawa, Marina Inoue.

American Cast: Bryce Papenbrook, Trina Nishimura, Josh Grelle.

Summary: After his hometown is destroyed and his mother is killed, young Eren Jaegar vows to cleanse the earth of the giant humanoid Titans that have brought humanity to the brink of extinction.

Genre: Action, Adventure

Seasons: 1 and 2 (currently showing)

Attack on Titan is based on a manga comic of the same name that tells the story of a world where humanity lives in cities surrounded by three gigantic walls, the outer Wall Maria, the middle Wall Rose and the inner Wall Sheena. These walls are used to protect humanity from titans, giant humanoid creatures who eat humans for unknown reasons.
The majority of people inside the walls have never seen a titan and have lived a life of relative peace, but when a giant 60-meter Colossus titan mysteriously appears and breaches the outer Wall Maria, hundreds of smaller titans invade the town of Shiganshina.

The story initially focuses on Eren Jaeger, his adopted sister Mikasa Ackermann and their childhood friend Armin Arlelt, whose homes are destroyed in the Shiganshina titan attack. Eren and Mikasa's mother is also killed in the attack, which leads Eren (followed by Mikasa and Armin) to enlist in the military as he vows to kill them all.

It sounds pretty bizarre and I thought I would hate it straight away but I absolutely loved it! I was hooked from the first episode after hearing the first line of the theme song "Guren no Yumiya" (Crimson Bow and Arrow), "Are We The Pray? No We Are The Hunters!"
I was so upset when the theme tune changed after the first 13 episodes, but after watching a few more episodes I fell in love with the new theme song, "Die Flügel der Freiheit" (Wings of Freedom).

I did get a little bit confused at times, as the episode are roughly 20-25mins long I felt like a lot of information was squashed so I felt as though I had missed a few important details. I also found myself struggling to keep track of who is who as more characters are introduced when the story jumps ahead 5 years after the attack in Shiganshina.

I also watched the dubbed version rather then original Japanese as we weren't able to read the subtitles at the time. To be honest I probably wouldn't have watched the Japanese version anyway.

I really enjoy the story and I can't wait to see what happens in season 2, but I'll definitely by watching season one again to make sure I understand everything!

Rating: 7/10
One Final Word: Great!

Dragonball Evolution (James Wong, 2009)

Cast: Justin Chatwin, Chow Yun-fat, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, Joon Park

Summary: The young warrior Son Goku sets out on a quest, racing against time and the vengeful King Piccolo, to collect a set of seven magical orbs that will grant their wielder unlimited power.

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Adventure


When I was in primary school (eek, we're talking over 12 years here) I was absolutely obsessed with shows like Dragonball Z and Yu-Gi-Oh, so when I heard about this film and that Justin Chatwin was going to be in it, I was super excited!

This film is awful. What an absolute load of rubbish! I don't know what I watched, but it was absolute nonsense. This is definitely up there in my list of worst films.

The story was told at lighting speed but not only that but the acting was absolutely horrendous, from Justin Chatwin to Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, basically everyone's performance is painful to watch.

The only decent thing about this film is the kung fu, and that was only alright.


Rating: 2/10
One Last Word: Rubbish

Sanctum (Alister Grierson, 2011)

Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Rhys Wakefield, Richard Roxburgh, Alice Parkinson, Dan Wylie

Summary: An underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world.

Genre: Adventure, Drama

I first watched this film a few years back and I just can't get enough of it.
It's not the best film but it's one of the films that for some reason, I love even more every time I watch it.

Ioan Gruffudd's acting is horrendous, I haven't seen him in much but his acting has been pretty bad in almost everything I've seen and his accent is just awful. The characters on a whole are a bit bland, but I love Rhys Wakefield so that's one reason to keep watching it.

For me it's definitely the locations and shots that make the film as good as it is. Pretty much all of them are absolutely stunning.

Rating: 7/10
One Final Word: Very Good

Tomorrow, When The War Began (Stuart Beattie, 2010)

Cast: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Licoln Lewis, Deniz Akdeniz, Phoebe Tonkin, Chrs Pang, Ashleigh Cummings and Andy Ryan

Summary: When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight unlikely high school teenagers band together to fight.

Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure

Watched: March 20th, 2016

I can 100% say that I wasn't expecting this film to be as good as it was. I wasn't expecting much so I had been avoiding watching this film, which doesn't really make much sense seeing as though I added it to my list of films to watch.

Every Sunday my parents and I try to watch a film together and one week I thought let's just give it a watch and see what happens.

I really like the characters, a couple of which I actually recognised from my Home & Away and Neighbours watching days.

There were a couple of things however that confused me. My parents and I kept questioning how old everybody was, I think even from the start (despite their mentioning of school and classes) I just couldn't think of these people as being school children.

Secondly I spent while thinking that the town had been taken over by aliens (why I don't entirely know), I think I definitely need to watch it again to fully understand everything that is going on.

Overall I really enjoyed this film, definitely one to watch and I hear that there is now TV series.

Rating: 8/10

The Last Witch Hunter (Breck Eisner, 2015)

Cast: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood, Michael Caine and Julie Engelbrecht

Summary: The last witch hunter is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history.

Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure

Watched: February 14th, 2016

I had heard a little about this film but I wasn’t really interested in seeing it until Jonathan Joly (I'm a massive Sacconejoly fan!) posted this video on How To Become a Witch Hunter ft. Vin Diesel.
Yes, that's right people he made a video with Vin Diesel, and it was only after hearing about this that I thought I definitely had to watch the film.

Now I'll start off by saying that the film wasn’t awful, I did enjoy quite a bit of it but overall I just found it a little disappointing. I think it could have been much, much better.

I wasn’t super keen on Vin Diesel in this film, I found some of his acting a little dodgy at times. I also wasn't sure about Rose Leslie or Elijah Wood, I’m not too sure what it was but something about their performance just seemed a little off.
I just found the whole story a little confusing; I felt as though I had missed part of the story.
Like I said the film wasn’t terrible, I did enjoy it, but it felt as though it was lacking something. I remember looking over at my Dad when the film had finished and saying that there wasn’t anything super exciting about it.

I think one of the reasons I was disappointed is because I really, really like Vin Diesel and I had just seen Pitch Black which was so, so good.

Rating: 5/10

Fantasitc Four (Josh Trank, 2015)

Cast: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E. Cathey

Summary: Four young outsiders teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe which alters their physical form in shocking ways. The four must learn to harness their new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure

Watched: January 31st, 2016

I wrote in my Most Re-watched Films: Part 2 that I was super obsessed with Fantastic Four (2005) when it came out. I pretty much knew the whole script (I know I was quite a sad child), so when I heard that it was being remade I was pretty darn excited.

However after watching it I can safely say that I was quite disappointed, and in my opinion I think the 2005 version is a lot better although I can now see that some of the acting is absolutely horrendous.

I found it difficult to connect with the characters; I really struggled to understand them and their choices. I've never read a Fantastic Four comic but I'm pretty sure this is nothing like what happened in the comics.
It took a long time for the film to really get going, but it also felt like they were trying to explain everything and create relationships in about 30 seconds.
I really didn't like the film, it reminded me too much of Green Lantern (2011), which I hated.

Rating: 3/10
One Final Word: Rubbish

Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011)

Cast: Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Riley Griffiths, Bruce Greenwood, Noah Emmerich

Summary: During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Mystery

My dad signed up to Netflix towards the end of last year and this film caught my eye.
I've already seen this film, it was one of the few films I actually went to the cinema to watch when it came out and I remembered really enjoying the film so I thought lets watch it again.

Boy oh boy this film is good!

I really love the relationship that Joes has with his friends and although his mom has passed away and that his dad isn't around much, he still has a family.

I think one of the reasons I really liked this film is because the kids are doing something that I really enjoy and that's filmmaking! I love it when a film makes me want to go out and get involved with something, and this film certainly make me want to go out and help make films again.

As much as I don't like to admit it, I'm definitely one for crying at films and this film certainly made me a little teary especially with the last few scenes.

Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Rob Marshall, 2011)

Cast: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Sam Claflin, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally

Summary: Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Adventure

I absolutely loved the first two Pirate films (The Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man's Chest), but I didn't really get into At World's End and I thought it tended to drag a bit; but I still found myself excited to watch this new one.
However I must say that I didn't think this film would be as good as the previous ones as both Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly were not in it, but I think it was actually pretty good.

I wasn't 100% convinced with Penelope Cruz's character, there's clearly some kind of back story between her and Jack and I think they could have gone into a bit more detail as to what happened between them. Johnny Depp was excellent as usual but I don't think Penelope Cruz was quite able to match up to him.

Overall I thought it was a good film and I'm certainly excited to see the next one.

Also shame on you to those in the same screening as me who didn’t stay to watch the scene at the end of the film; real fans know that there has been a scene at the end of all the films.

My Rating: 7/10
One Final Word: Quite Good

The Book Of Eli (The Hughes Brothers, 2009)

Cast: Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Gary Oldman, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals

Summary: Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads West along the highway of Death on a mission he doesn’t fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

I absolutely loved this film but I don't want to say too much about it because I really don't want to spoil it for anyone that hasn't seen it!

Unfortunately I already knew what the twist was before I had even seen the film (the downside of coming from a family of film lovers with big mouths). Despite this I was still able to enjoy the film because I didn't know much else about it or how to twist was revealed.

Denzel Washington is fabulous as Eli, I believed everything he talked about, including walking the earth for 30 years in order to complete his mission.

I think the big reveal was really well done, even thought I knew what it was, I have to say I was still a little bit shocked when it all came out into the open.
I found myself looking back and thinking but then how did they do this or how did that happen, as there were absolutely no visual sign to reveal what the twist was

This post is a little cryptic because I don't want to give too much away, I may come back to it again another time and redo it with spoilers.

Have you seen The Book of Eli? What Did You Think?


My Rating: 9/10
One Final Word: Wasn’t expecting that!

Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie, 2009)

Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan, Kelly Reilly

Summary: Detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn against a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Let's start off by saying that I absolutely loved this film. I don't know the ins and outs of the character Sherlock Holmes and I've never read any books, I do enjoy watching the TV show The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes so I knew I would definitely like this film.

I thought that the roles of Sherlock and Watson were played incredibly well by Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law. The chemistry between them is totally believable, to me they come across as brothers rather then just colleagues or friends.

My absolute favourite scenes are the two where Sherlock is shown fighting an opponent in slow motion while he explains what he is going to do and what the damage will be, before the scene goes back to the beginning and we're shown the fight in full speed.

My Rating: 10/10
One Final Word: EXCELLENT