Premiere Screening of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Storyline:

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield and the Company of Dwarves. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor tohoard it as Bilbo's frantic attempts to make him see reason drive the Hobbit towards a desperate and dangerous choice. But there are even greater dangers ahead. Unseen by any but the Wizard Gandalf, the great enemy Sauron has sent forth legions of Orcs in a stealth attack upon the Lonely Mountain. As darkness converges on their escalating conflict, the races of Dwarves, Elves and Men must decide - unite or be destroyed. Bilbo finds himself fighting for his life and the lives of his friends in the epic Battle of the Five Armies, as the future of Middle-earth hangs in the balance.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies presents the story prior to The Lord of the Rings and makes a very clear connection between the two stories. The ending especially of this story is a great cinematographic effort. 

If you had doubts about the other two previous instalments, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies provides most of the answers. Although the storyline is pretty tight and serious it does carry some light moments of humour. 

Kili’s death and the scene of Tauriel holding his body is such an emotional. And the way Saruman strongly saying that there will be another encounter with Sauron will give you goosebumps. Also the scenes of Bilbo trying to hide the truth about the ring is pretty funny as we have already know what happened in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. 

Bilbo, Gandalf, Legolas, Tauriel, Thorin, Bard the Bowman to the smallest character are given a moment to shine, so the whole movie is so full of life and colour.

Make sure you will catch up with this amazing movie experience of a life time. Guaranteed you will have a remarkable time.

 Thank you so much Nuffnang. Thanks for the opportunity to catch up The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (3D) premiere screening at the IMAX one Utama.

Director : Peter Jackson

Starring : Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Luke Evans, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly, Aidan Turner, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Lee Pace

Genre:  Action and Adventure, Fantasy

Running Time : 144 minutes

Rating: 9/10 

Premiere Location : IMAX TGV, One Utama
16th of December 2014

Premiere Screening of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)

Storyline:

The story follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life-a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him. He soon learns that he's not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette) and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn't had one. 

Beginning to the end it is a painfully hilarious story that narrates a simple day to day life and how things can go wrong. It reveals the characteristics of highly positive minded family members who only see the best in everything opposite to Alexander who finds every day is a struggle. To make things worse his family ignores the difficulties he goes through.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a pleasant comedy that is in its simplest form. There is so much of humour derived from the day today shenanigans throughout this 80 minute movie. Though it focuses on the entertaining aspect of this family drama it does brings out the good morals a family should uphold.

 The father’s character by Steve Carrell is really charming as he brings in his usual charismatic personality. His character is amazingly optimistic putting even our best days into shame. Even during his worst day his presentation of frustration is just too good.

 

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a family movie that everyone can have a great entertaining time together. Thanks to Nuffnag for providing the chance to catch up the premiere screening.

Director : Miguel Arteta

Starring : Ed Oxenbould, Jennifer Garner, Steve Carell, Dylan Minnette, Kerris Dorsey

Genre:  Comedy, Kids and Family

Running Time : 80 minutes

Rating: 8/10 

Premiere Location : TGV, One Utama
2nd of December 2014

Premiere Screening of Gone Girl (2014)

Storyline:

On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behaviour have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

The Gone Girl (2014) is created based on Gillian Flynn’s novel on the same name. Throughout the film you can see the narration done by the key characters of Nick and Amy. 

It is a thriller bringing suspense throughout the running time, the performances of both Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike are remarkable. Their performances continuesly push you to think what is the truth and the right and wrong.

It could have been presented with short and sweet manner than dragging the story for too long. There are moments the audience lack interest. Nevertheless it carries some moments of high level of suspense and unusual twists that the audience feels curious to know the truth.

Director : David Fincher

Starring : Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry

Running Time : 149 minutes

Rating: 8/10 

Premiere Location : TGV, One Utama
9th of December 2014

Premiere Screening of Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

If you have already watched the Horrible Bosses (2011) it is really normal for you to be curious over its sequel which is to be opened to the public tomorrow, 27th of November 2014.

The Horrible Bosses 2 stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Chris Pine, Kevin Spacey and Christoph Waltz. It is directed by Sean Anders, produced by Brett Ratner, Jay Stern and John Morris and the screen play was written by Sean Anders and  John Morris.

Story Line:

After Nick, Dale, and Kurt decide to launch their own business, Burt Hanson, a savvy investor, appears to take them down. With no other viable option in sight, the trio decide to kidnap Hanson's son Rex in order to put up a ransom to take back their business.

Similar to the  previous one the story line is a not so complicated piece that focuses on bringing humor in every situation. Even if the movie does not carry a strong storyline, simply the presence of  Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis gives a really good edge for the comedy loving fans.

I will stiff prefer the first one compared to the sequel although I did enjoyed the movie. A really big thanking note to Churp Churp for giving the premiere Screening tickets to catch the Horrible Bosses 2 yesterday. If you are searching for a stress reliever this can be the perfect remedy. :)

Director : Sean Anders

Starring :Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Chris Pine, Kevin Spacey, Christoph Waltz

Running Time : 108 minutes

Rating: 5.5/10 

Premiere Location : TGV, One Utama
25th of November 2014

Premiere Screening of Interstellar (2014)

As I expected, Christopher Nolan's new movie is one of the best movies that you will be watching in this fall. And of course a combination of Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine and Anne Hathaway has a very slight chance of going wrong.  

The storyline is as follows. In Earth's future, a global crop blight and second Dust Bowl are slowly rendering the planet uninhabitable. Professor Brand (Michael Caine), a brilliant NASA physicist, is working on plans to save mankind by transporting Earth's population to a new home via a wormhole. But first, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and a team of researchers through the wormhole and across the galaxy to find out which of three planets could be mankind's new home.

 
Specially if you are a sci fi movie freak this is going to be the perfect recipe in this season. The length of the movie is rather long so there are moments that you will be lost in thoughts. It will give you ample of aspects to think about if one day life on earth face extinction. Nearing the end this movie will remind you of Inception (2010) because of the settings and themes.

Despite all the hardships everyone go through it keeps bringing hope, telling that human race always finds another way. I think Christopher Nolan tries to explore the many possibilities on earth and universe that one day human race will learn to survive all the obstacles they have faced.
 

Its good to watch a scifi movie that opens our understanding of the Earth's future and where we are heading. It provides food for thoughts. :)

Director : Christopher Nolan

Starring : Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Micheal Caine and Jessica Chastain

Running Time : 169 minutes

Rating: 7.5/10 

Premiere Location : GSC, One Utama

Premiere Screening of The Equalizer

The Equalizer (2014) is a action thriller genre movie based on the television series on the same name staring Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloe Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Haley Bennett, Bill Pullman and Melissa Leo.

The plot unveils introducing Robert McCall a retired black ops working in a hardware store having a quiet life.  He has given a promise to his late wife he will not go back to his old life, yet when his friend a young girl was beaten by a Russian mob member he involves in a series of fights with them. McCall learns that he can continue to help the desperate people in need and identify himself as 'The Equalizer'.
 

I thought it would be a lone ranger movie that does not carry any authenticity. But then with the Denzel Washington charisma it could not go wrong. Even the other characters, specially the sociopath Russian fixer also deliver a strong performance. And Denzel Washington has given some cheeky one lines throughout the movie only to find that in some scenes it sound s off the storyline.

One negative aspect of this movie is that it carries higher level of violence. Even the fighting and killing scenes are shown in a slow motion that almost looks creepy to the audience.  And the length of the movie is longer than the usual time, so the viewers find many dull and unexciting moments.

Nevertheless The Equalizer  is a entertaining movie one will not regret watching. Thanks to Nuffnang for providing the premiere tickets.

Premiere Screening of The Boxtrolls

The Boxtrolls (2014) is one of the best animations movies of this season as it is a movie that you expected to show the children for sure.

The Boxtrolls (2014) is a 3D motion animated movie based on a fantasy comedy novel 'Here be Monsters'.  It stars Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Ben Kingsley, Elle Fanning, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade and Tracy Morgan.

It is a story about a boy named "Eggs" (you have to watch and get to know why this weird name is given for him) who was raised by the trash collecting trolls. The story unfolds relieving his adventures to save the destiny of the boxtrolls from the hands of evil pest controller named Archibold Snatcher and eventually finding his lost family. 

The storyline is very effective in bringing out the adventurous journey Eggs takes to bring peace to the boxtrolls. It is one of the animation movies that will bring so much of entertainment for the children and the adults.

This wide eyed boxtrolls who wear empty boxes as clothes and run around collecting garbage are the most innocent creatures one can ever create. Although they are harmless the legends about them says that boxtrolls are destroyers, man eaters and steal children. The truth is they are so frightened of the humans.

It is a good movie for children, as it shows the importance of not believing everything they hear but to learn to explore the world. 
Overall it is a pretty awesome movie that cannot be missed. I bet you will have a good time watching it. 
 And not forgetting a huge thanking note for Nuffnang for giving the premiere screening movie passes to watch The Boxtrolls. 

Premiere Screening of Planes: Fire and Rescue

Planes: Fire and Rescue (2014) is a American animated adventure film which is a sequel to the 2013 movie Planes. It is produced by DisneyToon Studios. The voices for the main characters are given by Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Danny Mann and Cedric the Entertainer.

 
The storyline is about a plane named Dusty Crophopper finally gives up his famed role as a racer as he finds that his gearbox is damaged and that specific type of gearbox is out of production. He then gets an offer to become a firefighter, which eventually teach him winning is not the most important thing in life.

Although the storyline is a clear and a simple one, it represents some of the negative aspects in the adult world such as competition, work politics and bureaucracy. So I don't believe that this movie is only intended for children.

It carries amazing images of the landscape when dusty fly over the mountains of the national Park will remain in the children's mind for along time. And this movie is dedicated for the firefighters, which indeed is remarkable as the children are given an opportunity to be open for the sacrifices the others make each day to make this world a better place.

When comparing to the movies such as "Up" this movie lacks certain aspects of bringing out emotions, even-though can recommend as a suitable movie for the children.

I would like to thank Nuffnang for giving me the movie passes for the premiere screening of the Planes: Fire and Rescue (2014) and for the merchandize.