Have we not seen this before?



Kronos (left) and Perseus riding Pegasus(right),
 Wrath Of The Titans 3D movie poster.



‘Wrath of the Titans’ is the sequel to “Clash of Titans”. The movie promised so much and delivered so little.

Wrath of the Titans is similar to Clash of the Titans, actually it’s the same plot, the film makers just added a few new faces, changed the dialogue and changed the threat that threatens to end life as they know it.

If you had not watched Clash of the Titans this movie would have been a great movie to watch. The movie suffers from “the hangover” syndrome.

There is nothing spectacular about Wrath of the Titans, the movie does not grab you, you sit there feeling like “I have seen this before” you would have more fun talking to your date (if you brought one along).

The film makers where just unimaginative and pulling a fast one on the thriller hungry public, the nerve of them to make people pay for the same movie twice

Perseus goes on a quest in search of something, he finds a friend(s) to help, they get into trouble, they escape, they find what they were looking for and then he has to get back in time to stop the godly monster before it does real damage and he stops the monster in its tracks. Yeah, that’s the whole plot of both movies in a nutshell.

We keep being palmed all this sequels that do not live up to the first movies reputation. I will not deny that the first TITANS movie ended on a sour note, but it was entertaining, it was not so entertaining that you would want to see it twice. Movies such as Wrath of the Titans help us escape our everyday lives and we like that, but we can’t keep escaping to the same place all the time.

Highly Anticipated



The Battleships movie poster



The film BATTLESHIP was directed by Peter Berg, the man that brought us “HANCOCK”.

BATTLESHIP is a 2012 sci-fi movie based on a game of the same name. The movie is shaping up to be a world-wide hit, grossing more than $58 million at the box office in just a few days of its release in a few countries in ASIA, it is due for release internationally on the 18^th of April 2012 (that was yesterday).

The concept of making a movie out of a board game must have been a hard idea to pass by producers; the involvement of certain individuals in the movie must have made financing this film a lot easier, like Peter Berg, Liam Neeson and Rihanna.

 During the making of the movie they took an odd route and actually used actual U.S Navy sailors as extras on the ship, the movie is Rihanna’s film debut,  we will get to see her acting talents (if she has any) we will have to wait and see, let’s hope she does. I am not quite sure of what the Aliens supposedly invading our planet look like but I do know they wear some sort of metal suit to shield themselves from the sun.

The action sequences are really good, so I can gather from the trailer and Liam Neeson is in this film, he alone is enough to make you drag yourself to the cinema.

Peter Berg’s movies are always a huge hit with the fans, they are all hoping that this one will live up to the standard set by all the other movies he has made, BERG fans are ridiculous, it does not matter if the movie does well or not they will support him and go watch.

The film is a must see.

Failed to Transform

The Transformers movies are like the best thing to ever happen to modern day film. All Transformers movies are great, they gross more than expected at the box office. The trouble here is that the movies are not on the same level.

Many fans of the Transformers trilogy will say that the first movie was the best, but I will have to strongly disagree “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” the second Transformers movie was un-questionably the best. It was non-stop kick-ass action from beginning to end. The second movie in the Transformers trilogy made more sense to me, as opposed to the third movie in the franchise, which was just plain ridiculous in my view.

The most horrible thing to ever be done by any movie trilogy, is kill off the villain that tied all three movies together, we saw Megatron come to his untimely end in the third movie. I hated the third movie for doing that, why would you kill off one the most interesting characters in the movie?

The film makers killing off Megatron, sets us to believe that there will never be another TRANSFORMERS movie, that this is the end of the franchise, if that is true then the trilogy ended on an anti-climax. The third Transformers movie “Transformers: Dark Of The Moon” as compared to Its predecessor “Revenge of the Fallen”, was a complete bore, it was one of those movies you regret watching, they took forever to get to the action scenes, and once they got to them, they did not live up to what was advertised on the trailer. All Transformers fans know that the Transformers movies are very long, but ‘Dark Of The Moon’ felt like it was 10 times as long. My thoughts are, the film makers came back for a third movie a little too early.

District 9

our first Sci-Fi Movie

District 9 the movie that showed South African film makers that they can go big… International big, Big budget big, Box office #1 big, that kind of big. District 9 was basically South Africa’s first sci-fi movie.

District 9 was about aliens that came to our planet lost and they landed in Johannesburg (well their spaceship was hovering right over Johannesburg for the first time ever aliens had landed somewhere other than America.) so our governments and others decided to let them stay on our planet, the governments set aside a certain area in JHB for the prawn-like aliens, it was called DISTRICT 9. Wikus Van Der Merwe, one of the operatives in charge of relocating the aliens from District9 to District10, finds an alien container, that has an unknown chemical in it he gets exposed to this chemical and he slowly changes into one of the prawn-aliens. He then discovers what our government and the MNU are doing to this aliens and what they intend on doing with the alien technology and weaponry that can only be controlled by the aliens and Wikus now that his DNA is changing alien like. Wikus and Christopher (one of the aliens) try to stop them while Christopher and his son try to get back home to their planet.

District 9 was the first sci-fi movie to come from South Africa, it changed the movie landscape of our country. It moved us away from those documentary films South Africa is famous for. Our film makers usually made movies about struggle heroes, movies with serious human issues or comedies, mainly by one man Leon Schuster, yeah for some time in our film making history this man monopolized our movie industry… Oh shucks.

The movie District9 set the stage for many films/movies to follow, it moved our film makers away from making one dimensional movies, forced them to get creative, soon after District9 we had our first movie on Vampires in Johannesburg it was called “ETERNITY”, we had cool vampires though, Then a horror movie about human hunting or smuggling body parts, I don’t know, Len from Isidingo was in it. Needless to say District 9 opened the door of creativity in our film makers’ minds and they gave us movies that made South Africans want to go to the cinema more and moved us away from the bootleg market. Pirating of movies in South Africa actually around the world is a big problem, but hopefully more creativity when it comes to movies will push people away from this trend.

Ben 10 vs Ben 10-nyson

Cartoon network and the animators of Ben 10 really lost the plot, failing the Ben 10 brand on so many levels. Ben 10 is a 10 year old cartoon character who found alien technology in the form of a watch called the OMNITRIX. It (the Omnitrix) allows him to transform into ten amazing aliens; FOUR-ARMS, HEAT-BLAST, STINK-FLY, WILD MUT, RIP JAWS, DIAMOND HEAD, UPGRADE, XLR8, GHOST FREAK and GREY MATTER. The animators decided to make a few changes to a working formula, so they gave us a teen Ben 10. Their first mistake, then they killed off the 12 aliens he transformed into and gave us 10 new ones no one knew or cared about, their second mistake, then the animators gave us a shaky story-line, the final nail in the coffin that housed the Ben 10 brand.

The story-line on Ben 10: Alien Force made no sense, it feels as if the animators were scrambling for ideas, anything and everything they thought of they put into the cartoon series, too much is going on in the older Ben 10 series. One could say this is why Ben 10: Alien Force the movie failed, fans could not understand nor could they follow or relate to the story and this taller Ben 10. I know that Cartoon Network and the animators of  the cartoon knew that the younger Ben 10 is and forever will be loved by fans, so why would you make a series and a movie about an older Ben? Unless if they were trying to fail on purpose, because I don’t see any other just reason for it.

The animators failed the brand, themselves and more importantly the fans on a monumental scale. Even when it comes to Ben 10 branded material the younger Ben features on and sells a lot more products because fans relate to him and kids love him. I will admit it change is good, but too much change kills a brand and the loyalties it enjoys, ask the Spider-Man franchise. Lets not aim to fail Ben 10, the brand might seem too big to fail but running around trying to change anything and everything you think you should just might change all that.