Now You See Me 2: 2016 IMDB: 7.1 Cast: Daniel Radcliffe (as Walter Marby), Dave Franco (as Jack Wilder), Mark Buffalo (as Dylan Rhodes), Lizzy Caplan (as Lula), Jesse Eisenberg (as J. Daniel Atlas) It's the second movie of Now You See Me, but you don't have to watch the first one. Basically there's a group of magicians called "the horseman" and they're being watched by other people. Those people reveal their secrets to the world and threaten them to expose them to the world. The leader of those people is Walter Marby. He invents a chip that can hack every computer on earth. No one knows that he's still alive because he's also a criminal. His chip is stolen and he has to get it back so he gets the horseman to get his chip back by threatening them. The horseman gets the chip but doesn't actually give that to him. Instead, they do something Walter Marby never would've imagined. Personal Thoughts: It was wonderful. Especially the parts where they did magic tricks. I think Jesse Eisenberg was pretty attractive:) I loved the scene where they stole the chip. Also everyone was playing each other tricks which was cool. You never know who played a trick on who. I liked Daniel Radcliffe and he was funny in this one. He was a bit crazy. I liked the scene where he kidnapped the horseman and took funny pictures of them while they were hypnosed and made a video from those pictures. I had a good time watching it. The ending was so cool:) quotes
Victor Frankenstein: 2016 IMDB: 6 Cast: Daniel Radcliffe (as Igor), James McAvoy (as Victor Frankenstein) The movie is based on Marry Shelley's "Frankenstein" novel. The story of Dr. Frankenstein is well known. In this movie, the unknown parts of the story has been told. Not only Frankenstein but the partner of him, Igor, has a major role in the story. It all starts with the story of a nameless hunchback that works in a circus. Works is not the right word. He's being tortured in front of people for fun. He doesn't know that he's being tortured because he never experienced kindness. If he disobeys, they lock him in an animal cage. The cage scene shows people's perspective about the hunchback. Still, it doesn't stop him from being a genius. He has to hide his intelligence and be trampled everyday to survive because that's the only way of living he knows. One day Victor Frankenstein comes to the circus and sees his medical talent. He helps the hunchback run away from the circus and gives him a name. Together, they work to achieve immortality. Frankenstein's reason to bring dead to life is because he believes he killed his own brother and feels like he owes this to him. The movie is based on his experiments. Personal Thoughts: I watched the movie today and it was a good especially if you like sic-fi. Of course I loved the character of Frankenstein because of James McAvoy. He did a really good job. I realised he always has charismatic roles in the movies and it fits him. I first saw James McAvoy in "Becoming Jane" and I was literally in love with him. Last week I saw him on "X Men: Apocalypse" he was great on both of them. You should see those too. The thing I liked most about the movie was the scenes that Igor was a hunchback. It showed how they've valued him back then before he turned into the person he is. Also I always tend to find the circus scenes interesting. Maybe it's because of the idea of people coming together to entertain others. Igor was being beaten just to entertain them. Daniel Radcliffe did a good job on being the hunchback. His moves were so realistic. It really looked like he had a problem in his spine. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the movie:) quotes
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.
