Change Your Image
abdulhares
Reviews
Devil (2010)
Come on Shyamalan, think something else.
I actually liked the movie, well it was not one of my favorite movies but i must admit that it has a go. But there is one think i hated about this movie. Something that Shyamalan had already done in Lady in the Water. Yes, i think you know what i mean. There is a bed-time story which gives all the answers AGAIN. No matter how skeptic one is, he/she believes in the story easily and the story always give the answers they need. And it is never wrong.
Come on man, people are not really that ready belief-hungry, believe me. People don't seek the answers of murders in stories. It would be okay, if this movie was meant to be watched by children, but it is not. I can't picture a police officer advising Tina Gray to turn around and defy Freddy Krueger when she sees him in her dreams again, because his mother used to tell him stories. In real life, nobody believes in those stories.
Like another commenter also said above, people don't need to be told about the devil too.
I would recommend you to watch this movie. But I wish Shyamalan would stop putting such things to his movies.
Osmanli Cumhuriyeti (2008)
Worth watching, considering and trying to understand.
I see many people regarded this movie as an insult to the mightiness of the Devlet-i alâ Osmanlı (The Great Empire of Ottoman)... No, it isn't. It simply aims to make people ask one of those magical questions, that begin with "What if?". And for those who can't answer by himself, the director gives his answer: It would be a tragedy.
I don't know in what mood did those people watch the movie, or their level of knowledge and capability of understanding the history. Or even whether they watched the movie before making comments here, or did they just read the pilot and raged. But I can't help wondering; how would Ottoman be able to re-gain its freedom, after it completely lost it, after all the troops were dissolved and everything is captured by the Great Forces of the World? How? Many nations around the world would like to hear about your big idea. There are numberless examples for these kind of situations throughout the history.
Gani Müjde doesn't insult the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman was one of the greatest empires of the world, once. But when the golden-haired little boy (at the beginning and the end of the movie) grew old enough to be sent to Samson, as an army officer with a command to dissolve all the troops that were resisting against the invasion, and to collect all the weapons and the ammunitions they had, Ottoman was just a "Dying Man". And the vultures were flying over this dying man desirously, to get their shares as soon as possible. But Mustafa Kemal didn't only disobey the command, but he also did the opposite and united the small troops and people from all ages, all regions of Anatolia together and created a great army from the ashes of Ottoman.
Some may say, if there were no Mustafa Kemal at all, Turkish nation would have created another Ataturk anyhow. (For those who are not familiar with Turkish history; Mustafa Kemal's surname wasn't Ataturk at the time of Independence War of Turks. Turks didn't use surnames until 1934. His surname was given by the Counsil of Republic of Turkey in 1934.) They are right in some points, I must admit. Even in Ataturk's time, there were another heroes who helped him in his "adventure". But ask yourself this question, people: How would today's Anatolia be like, if Mustafa Kemal obeyed the command given to him, and did his job with all his strength? Today we would be haunting his name, for he just did his job. One way, or another. This great commander held the fate of his nation in his hands, and he managed to save his nation. We have to admit, he did a great job, by not doing his actual job.
So, could the movie have been better? Sure. One point that i didn't like about the movie is the accents of the foreign people. When they speak English, it is obvious that they are Turkish actors, who are trying to speak English like a native speaker. And when they speak Turkish, again it is obvious that they are Turkish actors who are trying to speak Turkish like a non-native speaker. I would have acted there, if Gani Müjde asked me to. Although i am not a native speaker of English neither, my accent is far better than those.
And the make up... One can clearly see that most of the people's beard and mustache (like Ibrahim Pasha's) were simply glued onto their faces. Considering that this is not a low-budged movie, it is hard to understand why they didn't give any importance to this.
And finally, those "funny" characters in a coffee-house in Ankara? The ones that seem like they have escaped from a child play. What was it all about? Trying to make explosives from animal feces? Like the explosives made of fertilizer. Get out of here! They didn't make the movie a comedy at all, they made it a bunk. Without that so-called funny scenes, Gani Müjde could have made it a drama, and it would be far better than this.
To sum up; this movie has both good and bad points. It doesn't seem to be #1 in top 250, but it is still worth watching. Maybe people who don't know anything about the Independence War of Turks may find some points difficult to understand. But it is absolutely not fair to claim that it is just a waste of time. At least I don't feel like I've wasted my time.
Pulse 3 (2008)
God, how could you let me watch this?
OK, lets be objective; this movie is awfully bad... i watched the first two movies of this series although people on this site warned me not to. and i even kinda liked them. but this one? just a waste of time!
i think the director or whatever said "i've shot the first two movies, why not make it a trilogy?" he then probably went to a pub and announced that he was making a movie and asked for volunteers to take part in it and they didn't have to have any kind of acting skills and everybody acted as they wanted to because they didn't have a screenplay...
there are so many blanks in the story and after almost every move of Justine, you can't help asking "Why would she?" if you wanna watch this movie and if you care what other people think; take my advice: Run to the hills! Go like the wind! See the first two movies but save yourself from seeing this stuff!!!
Night Skies (2007)
Under-rated, absolutely worth watching, and scary.
Actually i found this movie quite good.
I don't know what you people are thinking while watching a movie. I mean what are you expecting from a movie? To enlighten you, or to show you the meaning of life? Come on people, you take things so seriously... I couldn't see anything wrong with the acting or the story. I liked the idea lies beneath the story "Aliens may not be that friendly."
Okay, some may think that the acting could have been better, but it was good enough. I have seen much worse alien attack movies or youngsters-go-to-vacation-and-get-killed-by-something-very-scary kinda horror films with higher ranks than this one.
could it have been better? Of course it could be, any movie made by now could have been better with small adjustments. But i find it unfair to claim that it is not worth watching.