Title: Miranda Hart: My What I Call Live Tour (2014)
Rating: *****
Genre: Comedy
Review:
About a week ago now I saw Miranda Hart Live, I know she's not everyone's cup of tea however she is mine, her humour is so simple but at the same time so utterly hilarious. Her stories and jokes are so easily relate able which is sometimes hard with comedians, she uses simple everyday topic and stories which makes you look at life in a very silly and bizarre way and realise how stupid some things are in life. For example how it's not acceptable to skip down the street and how everybody finds it awkward to suddenly turn in the street when you realise you're going the wrong way despite the fact everybody probably does it. My favourite thing about Miranda's show which comedians don't always do was get the whole audience involved. The reason Miranda is so likeable and funny is because she doesn't care what people think of her and isn't bothered if she makes a fool of herself she is just a comedian trying to have fun and make a few people laugh and have fun for a night. Her main audience is probably single women aged late 20's to 40's but when I was at the show in Newcastle Metro Radio Arena the was a varied audience of all ages from about 12 to 60 both male and female. Overall if you like weird you'll love her!
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Title: A Long Way Down (2014)
Rating: ***
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Genre: Comedy/ Drama
Review:
A Long Way Down was a very mediocre film, it did have its high points and I did get more from it than I expected personally, but it just never seemed to really go anywhere. I was expecting a more of a dramatic ending seen as though it was a film about suicide I thought it might of actually included it, however I did find it quite cute that two of the characters ended up together despite it being quite predictable. However I did realise that it wasn't the dramatic kind of film but more a sweet comedy that was just made to leave you smiling about life and that it can be kind sometimes. The film is humorous at times but only if you have a very light and dry sense of humour and most of the humour only comes from the character Jess but without her character it wouldn't be the same. But being a film based around suicide the humour does come at the right times and doesn't make you feel uncomfortable, it makes you look at suicide in a different light. Overall the film can be summed up in one of Jess's lines "Quite cute but infinitely forgettable". It's a film that will leave you smiling and content at the end if you are the kind of person who can just accept a film for what it is and try not to question it to much otherwise you will be left feeling more disappointed from it.
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Title: 300: Rise of an Empire (2014))
Rating: ***
Director: Noam Murro
Genre: Action
Review:
After watching the 1st 300 which I didn't enjoy very much I wasn't expecting to like 300: Rise of an Empire but it did exceed my expectations. However this may have been because I watched the first one on line so the cinema experience and the fact that it was on the big screen may have made it more exciting and intriguing because you feel more involved. Although the fight scenes yet again involved too much slow-motion and because we'd already seen it in the first film they weren't as interesting and new as they were before and its just what we expected. However they were a lot more exciting and intriguing through simply the fact they were fighting on boats and on the water and gave them more opportunities to make the fighting more unique and exciting to other war films. I also enjoyed the fact that this time it wasn't purely about fighting they told the background stories of some of the characters which actually to me made the enemy Eva Green more likeable once you knew her story of why she turned evil. I also found it very clever how they overlapped it with the 1st movie; and the good thing about this film is that you don't have to have seen the 1st one to understand it. Overall I do think it's worth a watch and even if you don't like these type of films there's plenty of pretty faces and bodies to look at.
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Title: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Rating: ***
Director: Wes Anderson
Genre: Comedy
Review:
I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel last week which I'd only found out about the week before and so I was only going off the trailer. But despite that I was expecting it to be a very funny comedy but like all movies they always put the best bits in the trailer so when it comes to watching the film you're expecting a lot more and something a lot funnier but it turns out you've already seen the only funny parts so aren't as good once you see them the second time and when in the context are dragged out too much for them to be as funny as they were in the trailer. However being the easily pleased girl I am I still managed to laugh and smile and the film despite already laughing at it from the trailer. So I would advise you if you're are going to see the film and if you already haven't don't watch the trailer! I was also expecting a better story line it always seemed like it was going to go somewhere very exciting but once it happened it wasn't as exciting as I expected it to be and the ending was very dull and to be honest pointless. Although I think this is mainly down to the strange style of Wes Anderson which I do happen to quite like it is different from other directors and can be uniquely identified as him. However the famous faces do make up for the mediocre film; its always exciting recognizing someone in a film and they also give very good performances even the new face Tony Revolori.
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Keeping a Media Diary was very interesting because I got to see
what typical programs I like to catch up on online and how often I watch them
and realize how bad and cheesy my usual taste in programs are such as musicals
like Glee and The Vampire Diaries, but realise I still love them. I can't help
going back to the same programs every week at the same time they are too addictive
and I can't wait to see what happens next. I also realized how addicted I can
get to programs as I just started watching a series called Once Upon A Time and
couldn't stop once I'd seen the first episode. It shows exactly the type of
person I am even in the title, that I love fairy tales and fantasy and a good
romance. It's exactly the program I've been looking for I can't believe I've
only just started watching it now, I've always loved Disney princess movies and
stories and this is the perfect series to satisfy my taste with the right
amount of cheese and romance but also the mystery and adventure side to it that
keeps you on edge and unlike films it lasts longer to keep the excitement and
drama going. This week has also made me realize that action is not my favourite
genre, but when in a cinema it does make the experience more exciting and
intriguing on the big screen. However the fight scenes in action films are still
too dragged out for me and it leaves my mind wondering to other places and
thinking I’d rather be spending my time watching a fantasy and or comedy.
Watching The Grand Budapest Hotel made me realize I am very easily pleased and
amused in a comedy even the simple things make me chuckle and smile and when
there's a famous face it does make the film more exciting and intriguing it can’t
be helped, but it does help when their performance is good. I think my media
diary does reflect my gender as it's mainly focused on girly programs that
would probably interest very little boys and men and even older women. My taste
does also reflect my age especially through the sit-coms I watch, I think they
would probably only be enjoyed by people my age as they reflect on younger/ 20 something’s
issue rather than middle aged and married. I think my blog is different in a
way in that I'm an older teenager who's not embarrassed or afraid to say she
enjoys watching cheesy programs and films and doesn't just enjoy the things
that everyone loves and watches (but I do love The Walking Dead). I don't think
there are enough reviews and blogs on typical girl programs like Pretty Little
Liars and Vampire Diaries apart from describing basically what happened and
what might happened next or criticisms. I think I can contribute to the
blogging world and tell people what I’m really thinking about my favourite
programs and try and show people how good they can be and tempt other types of
people into watching them.
My Media Diary
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