The Amazing Spider Man 2

The Amazing Spider-Man 2: 2014

Cast: Andrew Garfield (as Spiderman), Emma Stone (as Gwen Stacy), Dane DeHaan (as Harry Osborn/ New Goblin)

IMDB: 6.7

The Amazing Spider-Man series has continued with the second movie. The movie is about how Peter Parker deals with the family secrets while his girlfriend is going away to England and his friend requests his help which he can't offer. His friend Harry is dying because of a genetical disease and asks Peter to get Spider-Man's blood to  help him cure himself with the special feature in the half-spider blood. Nevertheless he isn't aware of the fact that none of the people except from Peter's blood line is suited for it and it can actually kill him. When Peter (Spiderman) refuses Harry, he chooses a much different path which includes getting involved with a guy that has turned into an electric-person because of some accident in the Oscorb centre. When Electro is released, he tries to wreck the whole city to get back to Spiderman while Harry finds another way to cure himself. He finds the special projects which includes the spider project and injects himself a liquid and turns into the Goblin. He finds out that Peter is the spiderman and hates him for betraying him and not offering his help while he was dying. While they fight, Gwen gets involved and she dies eventually which makes Peter depressed.

Personal Thoughts: It really was amazing. I liked the story line for different reasons. When people watch Spiderman, they usually focus on Spiderman's side of the story but this movie gave an insight to the side of the "bad guys". To be honest, I find Electro really interesting because of his past of being almost invisible to people even if he was so important to the city. He has turned into a mutated person and I think that's a part of the reason why he became so angry all of a sudden. He had been ignored for so long that when he became another person, he automatically abandoned his old self because people actually acknowledged him and that was as good as it could get for him. I found it sad because the day he turned into that person, it was his birthday and since he didn't have any friends, he was celebrating his own birthday by his own. I think these people in movies represent the people in reality so much that it adds even more to the movie. Also, the reason why I watched the movie was because of Dane DeHaan and he truly was amazing. He's probably my second celebrity crush and he's married. Anyway, he was also great. I just find his voice and look so captivating that he can suit any character and make them seem dramatic and elegant. His desperation was really visible in the movie. I believe he became so cold because of how he was treated. He was all alone even if he didn't look like it. He had to look strong even when he was dying and nobody was helping him. It was the part where the lawyer guy said that he was basically a nothing to the world that affected me the most in his scenes. Also his personality as Harry, not the Goblin, was funny in a weird way. I think in some parts of the movie he was the funniest character (of course that's before he turned into a green skinned ginger who flew around the city on a board). I used to look at Marvel movies as simple super hero movies but I think some of them are more than that. They portrait the bad characters so well that it foreshadows the good ones to be honest. Ps: I know it sounds irrelevant now but Gwen's death was sad.

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Kill Your Darlings

Kill your darlings: 2013

IMDB: 6.5

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe (as Allen Ginsberg), Dane DeHaan (as Lucien Carr), Michael C. Hall (as David Kammerer), Ben Foster (as William S. Burroughs) and Jack Huston (as Jack Kerouac)

It's a biographical movie of Allen Ginsberg's life when he first gets into the University of Columbia. He first starts as an inexperienced but talented freshman and soon meets Lucien Carr who is impressive, handsome, revolutionary, rowdy. Ginsberg gets impressed by Carr's thoughts about a revolution in literature. Soon, Ginsberg gets to meet Carr's friend (ex-lover and stalker), a literature professor David Kammerer. He finds out that Carr only uses his thoughts and makes him write all of his term papers to stay in Columbia. In return, Kammerer wants his love but Carr doesn't give that to him because of some uncertain reasons related to their past (it's not completely mentioned in the movie) Ginsberg doesn't seem to mind it but later he gets annoyed by Kammerer following Carr. The reason why is that he falls in love with Carr. They, (Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs) write poems that might be considered as "immoral" and that doesn't fit into classical literature rules. After some time, Lucien Carr realises Allen Ginsberg's in love for him and makes him write his term papers instead. He runs off and tries to join merchant marine with Jack Kerouac without saying goodbye to Allen but he finds out  David's still following him like he always did since he was a child. He stabs (and perhaps drowns) him and goes to jail. Lucien asks Allen to write his deposition for him but after digging up the whole story, Allen rejects to do it and writes a fictional but perhaps also a little bit truthful story called "the night in question" 

personal thoughts about the movie: The movie is a bit strange because of the unknown facts like Lucien's love life, Lucien's reason of killing David, things that have happened in the past between David and Lucien etc. but still, I liked the movie because of the revolutionary thoughts and characters, especially Lucien. Dane DeHaan was a perfect fit for his character and so was Daniel Radcliffe. I personally love both of them. I made a small research about Lucien Carr because after I watched the movie, I was a bit curious about the reason why he killed David and stuff but unfortunately I couldn't find much about him. In an interview with Dane DeHaan, he said that since there wasn't much record about Lucien Carr, he had to read Allen Ginsberg's diary to find out more about him. That's another reason why I liked the movie. It told a lot about an unclear character that a lot of us wouldn't know if we didn't watch the movie. I was literally in love with Lucien Carr after this movie. It's strange to not know if he was gay or not because he had romantic relationships with a bunch of guys but we still don't know if he was just using them or really loved them. The movie makes you think, and for me, that's something I look for in a good movie.