Forrest Gump 1994

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There are so many classics and in today's world we sometimes forget to give them recognition for the large parts they played in the cinematic world. One of the best classics in Hollywood is Forrest Gump. The story of a stupid but good-hearted young man just seemed to win the viewers hearts. It was also the winner of the prestigious Academy Award for the Best Picture. It was an amazing combination of the major historical events and the life of a young man who has great survival skills in every possible situation.

The movie starts out with a young Forrest who had braces on his legs due to some condition. His braces do come off due to some miracle, and I may as well exclaim that there were yet many miracles to come in the young Forrest Gump's life. In the small town in Georgia, the two most important people in his life were his mother and his childhood sweetheart Jenny. After Forrest grows up, he lands himself a position in the army and is in the team that goes to Vietnam during the war season. His friend Bubba dies there and his Lieutenant, Lt. Dan becomes crippled. Due to his bravery there, Gump becomes partially famous. His fame rises when he becomes a ping-pong champion and goes to China for the final match. He remains in an on-off friendship with Jenny whom he really loves. Jenny fails to understand him and goes on living her undisciplined life. Gump remains in contact with a crippled Lt. Dan. Forrest keeps his best friends promise and also opens a shrimp business as it was his friend's dying wish. It is no coincidence when Forrest Gump is seen to be part of many historical events and inventions such as the invention of the smiley face and famous "Shit happens" phrase.

The most notable scene of the movie is the one where Forrest is sitting on a bench and tells his life's story to strangers. If any of you haven't watched this movie, I recommend it greatly because in our lifetime, we must at least watch the classics.

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Split (2017)

Split (2016)

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In case you might have been wondering how Split is, I have got a review for you folks of it. I was all excited when Split was released in USA about a month ago. I didn't know when it would release in India, and I wasn't even sure it would be releasing here at all. I have watched all of Shyamalan's movies. All of them except After Earth and The Last Airbender were amazing movies based on human psychology in one way or the other. I love the way the guy thinks. We should all draw inspiration from him in the sense that he has the ability to transfer his other-worldly thoughts and stories into amazing movies with intricately bound plots and his usual shocky endings. Split is on par with his Sixth Sense. Though no movie of his will actually reproduce the excitement we witnessed in that movie, Split is almost an equivalent.

Split is based on a man, Kevin, who suffers from Disassociative Identity Disorder. Thus being, he has 23 psychological entities whom he manifests at different periods of time. At one time, he becomes a woman called Ms. Patricia while at some other time, he is a dumb 9 year old named Hedwig, etecetra, etecetra. One of his sinister personalities Dennis,  is compelled to kidnap three girls and he succeeds in doing so. He keeps the girls in some sort of a basement. Kevin's main personality is Barry, who visits his psychiatrist Ms.Fledger. She is a wonderful psychiatrist and she actually cares about all of her patients. She thinks of people with DID as supernatural entities. Anyways, she suspects Kevin of kidnapping the girls. reveals to a reluctant Fledger that there is a 24th personality of him called the Beast, whose skin is as thick as hide and who is really tall and has muscles. The other 23 personalities of Kevin are also dead scared of the Beast. Will the Beast rise, or will Kevin be able to keep it concealed within him?

The movie is very enticing and will surely keep you in your seat. There are really funny parts within the movie especially every time Hedwig arrives. James McAvoy has portrayed the role of Kevin fantastically. The special appearance of Bruce Willis at the end is really cool cause we never thought we would ever see him in a Shyamalan film in the future. Anyways, this is an awesome movie so you guys shouldn't miss it in the theaters because it is running in limited shows only.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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The first three Harry Potter movies were great but things really started getting worse from the fourth installment. From the fourth part, Voldemort started appearing, the trio's friendship started getting complicated with possible love triangles and more focus was placed on those boring Quidditch matches. Anyways, that is not a matter of concern as I am about to review the third movie of the franchise. The most fascinating part of the Prisoner of Azkaban is obviously the time turning part of the movie, when Harry and Hermione go back in time to save Sirius Black. I also found the Death Eaters enticing.

The movie starts out with Harry getting in trouble once again at his Uncle Vernon's home. Furious, he decides to leave home early before school starts (after performing a bit of domestic magical violence). From people at Hogwarts, he learns that he is being hunted by an escaped Azkaban Prisoner, Sirius Black, who betrayed his father and was assisting Lord Voldemort. Death Eaters were stationed outside of Hogwarts who were on parole to hunt the escaped Sirius Black. After repeatedly sinister encounters with the Death Eaters, Harry looks up to Professor Lupin to learn how to defend himself from the deadly creatures. Harry, Hermione and Ron go on a quest to find out the truth behind the mysterious Sirius Black and his involvement in the death of his parents. While searching for the truth, the trio encounter an unexpected visit from werewolves, the Grim and Peter Pettigrew. When things don't work out as expected, they also get a second chance to save two innocent lives.

Though not as interesting as the first and second parts, this movie was obviously better than the latter parts of the series, intentionally made complicated when it should have remained identical to three friends coping with the strange life of Potter. Sirius taught us that the ones who truly love us never actually leave our side and Harry taught us that within ourselves, there lays a power greater than any force in the whole world.

Dumb And Dumber (1994)

Today, I present my review on one of the funniest movies ever made. Dumb and Dumber is a classic comedy movie about two good-hearted, but incredibly stupid best friends who drive across the country to return a beautiful woman's lost suitcase. The movie is a classic masterpiece which couldn't have been reproduced. No wonder the sequel which released 20 years later was such a bummer.

Lloyd and Harry are two best friends who are trying to make ends meet and survive in spite of their incredible stupidity. Lloyd, a limo driver encounters a tense and beautiful passenger and instantly falls in love with her. She happens to forget her suitcase at the airport. Lloyd tries to return it to her, but before that, she had boarded the flight. Harry is a dog groomer and care-taker. Both of them happen to get fired that day and return to their one room apartment dismayed. Lloyd wishes that he could have a new life where he mattered and he wasn't a nobody. He decides to go all the way to Aspen to return the lady's briefcase. That being, the two dumb friends go cross country to Aspen, experiencing many adventures during their journey. They encounter criminals and drunk red-neck truck drivers, they cause somebody to die, and they take a wrong turn making them end up in Nebraska instead of Colorado. In the end, they do succeed in returning the suitcase to Mary, regardless of its contents, but the biggest thing they realize is that their friendship is unbreakable no matter how dumb they are.

The most noteworthy scenes of the movie are when the two dumb-asses hand over those so called bottles of beer to the police officer and when they accidentally poison the crook with rat poison after adulterating his burger with hot peppers. I couldn't actually figure out who the dumber one was out of the two, but I think it was Lloyd. Nevertheless, Dumb and Dumber is a great and entertaining watch no matter how many times you have watched it before.

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Scream 2 (1997)

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I hadn't watched a single movie for about 10 days. A pretty long streak for me. I decided to break the streak with a sequel of one of my favorite movies, Scream 2. Scream was a masterpiece, so I did expect substance from Scream 2, though horror movie sequels do not usually exceed the original. I can tell you people, Scream 2 was awesome. Though not as great and exciting as the original Scream, this movie was a good attempt in continuing the Scream franchise.

The movie starts out with a theater scene. Two teens are heading to the local theater to watch the Stab movie, a movie based on the Woodsboro murder book by Gale Weathers. The two teens are suspectedly killed during the screaning of the movie in disturbing ways. After that and the murder of another college student, the town goes into a frenzy with Sidney, Randy and Dewey scared about the fact that history is repeating itself. Dewey and Gale investigate the murders hoping to find the killer while a disturbed Sidney goes into deja-vu mode remembering the past and trying to connect it with the present. As Randy says, all sequels of horror movies have a higher body count and more disturbing murders. Such is the case in this movie too, because it seems that Ghostface is not only killing for revenge or for terror, but is killing for fun (not that he didn't kill for fun in the original).

The plot of the movie is similar to the first part. I could figure out who Ghostface was before his revelation, but the true mastermind of the crimes was a shocker. I would rather not ruin the movie for those who have not watched it already. Anyways, Scream 2, though not as exciting as the original , is a successful attempt in continuing the franchise. Currently saving the next Scream 3 to watch later.

Farewell folks.

The Spy Next Door (2010)

Jackie Chan movies can be a treat sometimes, especially the Hollywood movies. Shanghai Knights, Rush Hour and 80 Days Around the World were great comedies were Jackie Chan was the co-actor to another American actor. The Spy Next Door is another Jackie Chan comedy which is a tad different from those previously mentioned. In this movie, Jackie does not have a co-actor and he has to mess around with three kids. The movie is about a CIA spy juggling the task of taking care of his girlfriend's kids and facing the risks of his undercover spy work.

Bob(Chan) is an undercover Chinese spy who works for the CIA. He plans on marrying his girlfriend Jillian, who is a mother to three children. The children despise Bob terribly and he is determined to change that. He bravely volunteers to take care of Jillian's kids while she is away on an emergency. Knowing that things with the kids wont be easy, Bob tries to be friends with the kids. But the kids aren't willing to accept their weird next door neighbor, Bob, as their mom's boyfriend. Though things are difficult at first, Bob eventually gets the hang of taking care of the kids by utilizing his spying apparatus. While everything is going good, the boy downloads Stockholm GBS mistaking it for a concert recording. The Russian mafia trace the downloaded location to be Bob Ho's house and target Bob and the children. Jillian finds out and takes her kids away from him, though the kids like him want to spend more time with him. While Bob is performing his undercover work, the boy follows him and wishes to join his work. After the final encounter with the retarded mafia is over, the kids persuade Jillian to start a new life with Bob. They get married. The End. The plot may sound a bit boring, but the movie surely isn't.

The best parts are probably when the kid feeds their pet pig bacon and when the Russian mafia shoots the phone and the ridiculous outfits. The accent of the Russian woman is also funny. The stunts though not as good as other Jackie Chan movies are acceptable. Overall, I would rate this movie a 7/10.

Sherlock Holmes 2009

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I was sort of on a writing break, so I didn't post any reviews for about a week. Today I feel like discussing the Sherlock Holmes movie which released in 2009. People are really into the Sherlock TV series going on right now. I really do not wish to comment on the series because surprisingly enough, I haven't watched a single episode of it yet. Anyways, that isn't relevant to the movie I wish to discuss. I loved the original Sherlock Holmes movies in black and white and I feel that no adaptations of Sherlock Holmes will ever be that enticing. One of my favorites of the series is The Hound of Baskerville. Though it has probably been over 10 years since I watched it, I remember the crrepy environment of the black and white movie. The original Sherlock Homes was also awesome. The 2009 adaptation of Sherlock Holmes played by Robert Downey Jr. was also pretty good. It was pretty weird to see him playing Sherlock after watching him in the billionaire-playboy-sarcastic avatar in Iron man, but he gave the role hard-core justice. Being an American, I thought that he played the role of Sherlock pretty well with an acceptable English accent. The humour within the movie was fantastic and Downey Jr. really fit in the role of shabby-messy-sarcastic-egoist Holmes. The bond between Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes is also entertaining to watch.

Mysterious deaths start occurring in England, and Sherlock employs himself to the task of finding out the cause of the murders. Accompanied by his doctor friend, he sets out to investigate the truth behind the mysterious deaths. Though appearing to be the result of black magic, Holmes finds out that the happenings are not as they appear and that there is someone planning something very sinister. Lord Blackwood who was presumably incarcerated by Holmes and Watson appeared to have come back from the dead. Sherlock and Watson amidst their constant cycle of fighting with each other and saving each other's asses manage to solve the mystery in the end using Holmes sharp perception and Watson's resourcefulness.

The movie was filmed quite well and the scenery looked accurately like England in the late 1800s. With little bits of humor inserted within the movie, it was quite entertaining. Though not as mysterious as the original movies, this re-adaptation was nicely put together.