they stepped up too many times

source: wearemoviegeeks.com

People who love dancing and like the “Step Up” movies, will be happy to hear that they have come back with a fourth movie in the step up franchise, hopefully this is the last. They are all starting to look the same, boy meets girl, girl meets boy, they share a passion for the dance, they fall in love and win a contest.

The first three movies were exactly like that. In this fourth installment of step up they don’t dance to win a contest though, they dance to save their neighborhood. Out of all four movies, the second step up movie was the best, in my opinion.  Don’t get me wrong the third one had its moments, like the introduction of robot Rock and the tutting guy during the end credits now he was cool, but moments don’t make a movie.

If you watched step up 2 and then step up 3 you’d see that they repeat some of the dance sequences, the water scene, is in both movies. The choreography keeps changing atleast.

 I do believe that summit and touchstone should have stopped with the step up movies after the second one, it’s just too much now. We may never get tired of the dancing but the movies and their silly plots, I’m not so sure.

Tutting = changing the angle of your arms to the beat, dancing with your hands and arms practically.

the true meaning of bravery

source: en.wikipedia.org.

Disney and Pixar brought us an animation movie that explores the never ending struggles between a daughter and her mother, and customs set by lords and the right to choose your own path, that’s what the movie BRAVE is all about, this movie is the perfect blend of defiance, adventure, magic, humor and desire. The daughter of king Fergus, an over indulgent father who just wants to keep her daughter  happy,  Merida decides to go against custom, when she decides she does not want to marry any of the suitors chosen for her from the other clans.

We are sent on a wild adventure in old Scotland following Merida as she challenges custom by entering a challenge to win her own hand in marriage and to find the witch that tricked her into turning her mother and three brothers into bears. She finds herself in an odd situation, when she has to save her mother, who is now a bear, from her father king Fergus, who hates bears, for good reason even, as a bear once robbed him of his leg. I like how the movie never loses the humor of the whole situation, a daughter who was only looking to change her mother’s mind has now changed her mother’s entire outlook. In the end it all comes together when Merida saves the day.

for more info disney.com/brave

a dark knight for batman premier

A man shot 70 people, killing 12 and injuring 58, at the premier of the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, in AURORA, Colorado, USA, on July 20^th 2012.

The man responsible for the shooting was later identified as James Eagan Holmes. He allegedly walked up to the moviegoers waiting in line and threw a smoke bomb, and then started shooting.

 As many people where happy about going to watch the batman movie, another was planning his own rendition of the movie in real life.  The guy later handed himself over to the police.

 What set him off is only something that he knows, or does he hate the Batman movies so much so that he would kill those that like the movies? After this incident security at the movie theatre in AURORA, was tightened up.

Christian Bale went to visit some of the victims of the shooting; he was spotted in a photo taken by one of the people injured in the shooting.  It’s a good thing that Christian Bale did, but he should have went to visit the people injured in the shooting as Batman, just to show the victims that even Batman cares, this would have been more for the fans than anything else.

a fitting end to the batman legacy

source: wearemoviegeeks.com,  Picture of batman signal.

Xan Brooks a reviewer for “The Guardian” had this to say about “The Dark Knight Rises”, “Christian Bale’s tormented Batman duly rises for Christopher Nolan’s bruising saga of revolution and redemption.”

The Dark Knight Rises would be the last Batman movie, from Christopher Nolan.

Christopher Nolan decided to put his Batman movie making days behind him and he did so on a high note. The Dark Knight Rises would be the third and last batman movie by Christopher Nolan, it is not clear on whether they are shutting the franchise down or that they will return to it in later years with a different director and writer at the helm, but this batman movie will be a tough act to follow if they do decide on returning to the batman movie making business.

The Dark Knight Rises is a great close to the batman franchise, the movie picks up where “The Dark Knight” left off. In this third movie the writers brought out the human side of batman, his vulnerability and his insecurities to the surface. The movie reminds us that at the end of the day Batman is only human, unlike other Superheroes. Batman for the first time in all three movies takes a serious thrashing from the evil villain BANE, this was a refreshing angle by the writers. The Dark Knight Rises was released on the 27th of July 2012.

As fans of the Batman franchise we were only happy that they ended it all on a high, as sequels tend to be very bland.

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