2000s | Galactica

In the future, a spaceship called Serenity is harboring a passenger with a deadly secret. Six rebels on the run. An assassin in pursuit. When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an awesome action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But, the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.

Review:

Serenity is the sequel movie to the AWESOME Space Western TV Show ‘Firefly‘. Firefly was wrongly cancelled by Rupert Murdoch of Fox. Thus he is on the hate list of all geek like me!. Firefly was an amazing TV show with an amazing cast and great acting. The story was awesome. And what else do you expect from the man who would go on to make the best super-hero movie ‘The Avengers’. That’s right, Firefly was created by Joss Wheadon. And if you didn’t know that SHAME ON YOU! A quick re-cap- Firefly is about a ship called Serenity which is a firefly class transport ship. The crew consists of Captain Mal Reynolds, Zoe, Jayne The weapons guy, Inara The Companion, Kaylee the mechanic and Wash the pilot of Serenity. They get few passengers of which one is an alliance member and the other has a mysterious box and the other is a Shepherd. They find out that the mysterious box contains a girl, the mans sister. he is also a doctor. He, the girl and the shepherd are crew members on the ship and they carry out missions

Serenity continues where Firefly left off. It startes of by giving us an introduction to the firefly universe. And the transition from the Universal Studios screen to the main movie was awesome! The story was good. And the acting was awesome. Summer Glau has done an awesome job at portraying River Tam. She just beautifully brings out the cluelessness of River perfectly. And the end was amazing. In the last 30 mins I was upset that they killed Wash. Why???? The whole end was awesome! Some awesome scenes in the movie too. The dialogue was funny as usual and the direction was great too.

I finally understand why Sheldon (From TBBT) hates Rupert Murdock so much!

Now on to the Comics!!!!

Final Verdict:

8/10

GRINDHOUSE

Planet Terror

Cherry Darling: [astonished that Dakota has shot The Rapist with a syringe] Where’d you learn to do THAT?
Dr. Dakota Block: Useless Talent #37

Director:

Robert Rodriguez

Producer:

Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino & Elizabeth Avellan

Cast:

Rose McGowan as Cherry Darlin

Freddy Rodriguez as El Wray

Josh Brolin as Dr. William Block

Marley Shelton as Dr. Dakota Block

Jeff Fahey as J.T. Hague

Michael Biehn as Sheriff Hague

Rebel Rodriguez as Tony Block

Bruce Willis as Lt. Muldoon

Naveen Andrews as Abby

Julio Oscar Mechoso as Romey

Stacy Ferguson as Tammy Visan

Music:

Robert Rodriguez

Story:

After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it’s up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.

Review:

The movie is the first part of the second part of my “Midnight Features”. It was awesome (Obviously!). The scratched effect and the ‘missing reel’ were an interesting additions.

The acting was also amazing. This movie was intentionally made like a cheap horror movie. Or to put it simply a hindi horror movie.. 🙂

The movie is wonderfully made with an amazing cast.

The fake trailer before this movie is of “Machete” with Danny Trejo. The trailer is funny and later made into an actual movie.

“If you’re going to hire Machete to kill the bad guy… You better make damn sure that you are not one of them”

Final Verdict:

7/10

Death Proof

Stuntman Mike: [as he drives] Hey, Pam, remember when I said this car was death proof? Well, that wasn’t a lie. This car is 100% death proof. Only to get the benefit of it, honey, you REALLY need to be sitting in my seat.

Director:

Quentin Tarantino

Producer:

Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Elizabeth Avellan & Erica Steinberg

Cast:

Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike McKay

Rosario Dawson as Abernathy Ross

Zoë Bell as Zoe

Vanessa Ferlito as Arlene / Butterfly

Sydney Tamiia Poitier as Jungle Julia

Tracie Thoms as Kim Mathis

Rose McGowan as Pam

Jordan Ladd as Shanna

Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Lee Montgomery

Jonathan Loughran as Jasper

Michael Parks as Earl McGraw

Monica Staggs as Lena Frank

Marley Shelton as Dr. Dakota Block

Quentin Tarantino as Warren

Story:

Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his “death proof” cars to execute his murderous plans.

Review:

This is part 2 of my second “Midnight Feature”. This too was awesome. Quentin Tarantino is a SUPERB director.

This movie, unlike the previous, didn’t have scratches but had two ‘missing reel’ parts which made it even more better. The story is also good. The stunt called ‘Ship’s Mast’ was actually performed by Zoë Bell and it was amazing. The acting was also brilliant.

The movie is an orignal Quentin Tarantino movie i.e. AWESOME.

Final Verdict:

9/10

Quotes:

Stuntman Mike: Well, Pam… Which way you going, left or right?
Pam: Right!
Stuntman Mike: Oh, that’s too bad…
Pam: Why?
Stuntman Mike: Because it was a fifty fifty shot on whether you’d be going left or right. You see we’re both going left. You could have just as easily been going left, too. And if that was the case… It would have been a while before you started getting scared. But since you’re going the other way, I’m afraid you’re gonna have to start getting scared… immediately!

Movie Review: Serenity [2005]

Midnight Feature #2- Grindhouse