91% on Rotten Tomatoes
Okay, I'm just going to say it. This movie is amazing.
Every second of it is so intense, so emotional and so crazy. I was literally constantly moving in my seat from uneasiness, heart palpitations and pure fear. Fear for the apes. Fear for the humans. Fear for the orangutans!
In an epic battle between humans and apes, you want both sides to win but you know that it doesn't work that way! And it's so terrifying!
But the movie delves beyond that. Deeper. The themes it goes through are so not what you expect. And it goes through them so spectacularly, with every minute of the film tugging at your heart strings as if it were just a mere marionette.
Not to mention the cast! The cast was amazing! Andy Serkis is a legend but Toby Kebbell as Koba really stole the show.
This is definitely a must-see. Definitely in the cinemas. And definitely rewatchable.
96% on Rotten Tomatoes
Ahh, lego, thou bring forth so many childhood memories...
I actually did enjoy this movie, but it wasn't as good as it was hyped up to be. We follow ordinary and very very normal construction worker Emmett, who is prophesied to be The Chosen One to save the Lego world from the evil Lord Business. The movie follows this in a ridiculous and humorous path with several cameos from beloved characters such as Batman, the Star Wars cast (including the actual voice of C-3PO!) and even Shaquille O'Neal.
To be honest I think the cameos and the pop-cultural references were the best part, because a lot of the humour was really forced. Don't get me wrong, it was a good movie and I laughed a lot, but the beginning really made me very worried because the humour was so overkilled and exaggerated, to the point where you were just sitting there uncomfortably thinking about the next few hours of your life and whether they would be wasted watching this. Fortunately, it picked up some 10 or 20 minutes into the movie and I had a few good laughs.
The introduction was also way too quick, it dived straight into the storyline and I wasn't even ready for the movie yet. However, the middle was definitely better and the best bulk of the film. That's when the plot really picked up and there was no sense of mindless filler jokes.
The ending was alright... I mean it was sentimental and your feels were supposed to start kicking in, but I guess I just didn't really connect well with it. In saying that, the idea was good but I felt like it was dragged out for way too long. I thought this movie would be like 90 minutes, and it was actually 100 minutes but it still felt very very long, and I think it was because of this dragging out of the ending.
On the other hand, this film had a lot of upsides. A lot of humour is thrown in the middle (the crazy ridiculous kind of humour that I love), which is made so much better with Morgan Freeman's buttery voice in the mix. As I said the cameos and pop-culture references (e.g. Middle Zealand) were great as well. The rest of the cast is also an amazing cast (Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, etc.) For some reason the film also reminded me heavily of The Matrix. Did anyone else feel that too?
All in all it was a good watch but I probably won't watch it again any time soon.
Okay now for some books!
I finally finished the Wicked series about a month or so ago, finishing the last two books off:
Out of Oz: 3.80/5 on Goodreads
Firstly, A Lion Among Men was extremely boring. It took me so long to read this because it was so droll and slow-moving that I actually read it as a filler book in between other books. I started reading this book before I started Divergent, and every time I finished a book I would read like a chapter of this book. It definitely did not pick up until the end.
However, Out of Oz was infinitely better. It's a whopping 500 pages and it really sucks that you have to go through the terrible third book to get to this, but right from the start it brings back beloved Glinda, it deals with Rain and the Lion and it even brings back Dorothy. It actually started off so great I read so much in the first few days because it was so clever and packed with movement. However, when it got to the middle it was a bit slow-paced and boring, although still quite interesting (and definitely way more interesting than book 3). The ending was so good though, it was so heart-wrenching and just ripped me up inside but that's just what made it so good.
So, the Wicked Series is definitely not for everyone. I really only started it because I wanted to read the first book (of which the musical is based off): Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. I then found out that it was a series, so being the perfectionist I am, I needed to read all the books. However, if you decide to read this and you don't mind skipping out on some stuff, I suggest you read all books except book 3, which you can probably just find a Wikipedia summary of.
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