Batman v Superman - Spoiler talk

Before we started, I'm more a Batman person than Superman person. So you know which team I am in right now. hahaha

This is a spoiler talk, so if you don't want to get spoiled or you don't mind about it, you have been warned!
My non-spoiler review that this movie is not as bad as the reviewers says about it, but it's not as good as the fanboy says about it. But it's entertaining to watch! if you haven't watched it, go watch it!

So let's dive into it shall we?

This movie opens up with the obligatory Bruce Wayne's parents death scene, and then it jumps to the scene in Man of Steel where Superman fights Zod on Metropolis and destroys like 80% of the city.
I think Superman is going to be an overpowered unlock-able character in Rampage game (I loved that game seriously haha)

So Bruce Wayne rushed into the Metropolis and told the PIC on his office to evacuate all the employee on the building. But when Bruce arrived there, it was too late...
He saw his office building crumbling because of Superman's laser eye

Before we continue let's compare one small thing here.
Here's the difference between normal human and Bruce Wayne

Normal People
>building is falling down
>runs away from the falling building

Bruce Wayne
>his office building is falling down
>he runs INTO the building because he wants to save his employee

Badassery and selflessness we saw there, ladies and gentlemen!

After that, he saw his employee's feet getting crushed by steel while screaming "I can't feel my legs"
and he saw one of little girl who wants to meet her mom in the office, and he holds her right in the time before the debris dropped onto her.

and he said "where's your mommy? Don't worry, I'll find her"

and she cried while pointing to the wrecked building. Her mom obviously didn't survive that.
And he holds her while menacingly looking at Superman & Zod's fight.

"I swear to god, I will make you bleed, Superman!"

that

was a good opening scene!


in here we can see Batman's reason to fight Superman. Many people died because of his fight with Zod.

and then we switch to Lois Lane getting somewhere in, I dunno, middle-east location *I forgot* lol.
And she was kinda hold hostage and apparently it was a setup by the CIA to frame Superman. Superman saved Lois Lane, again.

and then some lovey dovey scene between Clark Kent and Lois Lane.of course it is censored here in Indonesia haha

tbh Superman's part of story was not really interesting to me haha

And after some exposition and political issues on Superman's presence in the Earth, we finally introduced to Lex Luthor, I watched Christopher Reeve's Superman and watched a few episodes of Smallville when I was a kid, But I know for sure, this is a very different Lex Luthor that we used to know. He is not a corporate bastard anymore (well he is in this movie, but less corporate vibe here) He is kind of a psychotic/spastic/OCD/atheist main antagonist now. Many people said that he is a miscast, but honestly I'm okay with this Lex Luthor. A breath of fresh air.  

 

u mad bro?

He proposed to the Senator to asks for permission to import the Kryptonite to his lab in order to make a "deterrent" to the Kryptonian aka Superman

We switched to Bruce Wayne again, he is currently looking for "White Portuguese" which he believes that he has the weapon that must be stopped. or that what's he told us/Alfred so we believe that he is into something completely different with the story. But later on Alfred knows that Bruce is after something big, which is killing Superman with Kryptonite!

Btw, this Alfred is the best sassy/sarcastic Alfred ever! He delivers some sarcastic one-liner that made me laugh through out the Movie.

 

"I'm not great at the advice, Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?"

And then we switched to Lois Lane again that apparently found that the bullet that pierced her note is not registered everywhere, and she looked everywhere to find where the hell does that bullet came from. Later on, she found out that the bullet is made by Lexcorp.

and my question is, so what? That bullet can't hurt Superman. does that really matter here?

Bruce Wayne suspected that Lex Luthor could be the White Portuguese that he's been looking for, and he wanted to sneak in to Lex's house as Batman, but Alfred was like

"nah bro! you don't need to, just go there, here's an invitation to the event in there"

and he goes there to hack the computer to get some encrypted information from Lex Luthor's house. And he met Clark Kent there, and he was interviewed by Clark Kent. and he asked 

"Bruce Wayne, what's your position on Batman vigilante?"

and Bruce was like 

"bruh, seriously?"

at that scene, Clark Kent already suspects Bruce Wayne as Batman, because he can hear the communication between Alfred and Bruce from Bruce's earpiece. Alfred told that the data transfer is already completed. so yeah, he runs to the computer room, but he can't find it there, and he saw outside, and there's a mysterious woman who took it from him. and she runs away with Bruce's hard drive.

later on, Lex Luthor's request to the senator regarding the kryptonite import was rejected. and he threatens the senator about it.

Lex Luthor is very menacing on this scene!

later on, Bruce Wayne manages to find the mysterious girl who stole his hard drive, apparently she is looking a photo of her on that Lex Luthor's computer. she told him that she put the hard drive on his car. 

That scene with that mysterious woman, reminds me of Catwoman and Bruce Wayne scene in The Dark Knight Rises. 

After he arrived at the batcave, he decrypts the data that he got. While decrypting it, Bruce fell asleep.

Ok, honestly this is the part where it goes, WTF happened!?

this part is a setup to the Justice League. If you don't know Justice League, it's an equivalent of Avengers to the Marvel universe

I think this part is kinda out of place since it doesn't add up anything to the story, and it runs around 15-20 mins. This could be better if this was a trailer to the Justice League. better not shown at all at this movie.

Bruce finally woke up and found that white portugese was a ship, not a person. And he rushed himself to go there. He placed a tracer to the container that contains the Kryptonite. I dunno why he have to chase it after he placed the tracer. but who cares, there's a smokin' sick badass car chase scene between Batman and Lex Luthor's thugs! 

and then, I don't know why, suddenly Superman showed up and stopped Batman and tear his batmobile apart. 

It just doesn't make sense here, it looks like that he is protecting Lex, and why did he suddenly told Batman "Turn off the batsignal, your bat days are over, consider this as a warning!"

like

why??

what's the reason he tell that to Batman?

and then Batman replies with that epic line, yes, that epic line

It IS a badass line, 

but still, it doesn't make any sense, why would Superman say that to Batman. 

and finally Bruce Wayne found out that the Kryptonite is stored at the Lexcorp's HQ.

And then Superman finally get summoned to the court to be questioned about his motives when he fought crime and saving people, does that act was on his own will or based on government's will. 

Lex Luthor set things up to frame Superman by blow the shit out of that courthouse. after that, Lex Luthor went back to his company, and he found out that his Kryptonite is stolen by Batman. 

Finally we came down to the moment of truth, Batman v Superman, yay!

Batman already set things up in Gotham, he made a spear out of Kryptonite in order to kill Superman. The thing is, 

Superman still have no reason to fight Batman until now, but Lex Luthor wants to made him fight Batman. 

First thing first, he kidnapped Lois Lane and push her out of her building, and Superman saved her, again,

and then he told Superman that he got Superman's mother kidnapped, if Superman didn't bring Batman's head to him in 1 hour, Superman's mom will die!

I find it kind of weird, Lex and Batman didn't cooperate on this, but why did he know that Batman is going to fight Superman at that exact day? I know that he set up to provoke Batman by using his ex-employee that loses both of his legs since that superman incident 2 years ago, Lex didn't know about Superman who told Batman to turn off his batsignal. And now Batman turning on his signal to call Superman to fight, isn't that weird? how did Lex know about all this? 

So both of them finally have the reason to fight each other. and you know what, Batman kicks ass here, and when he almost deliver the final blow to Superman while holding the Kryptonite spear, 

Superman shouts to him, 

"You're going to let them kill Martha!"

and to Batman's surprise, he replies 

"WHY DO YOU SAY THAT NAME!?"

and Lois Lane told him that it is her mother's name. 

It's a good coincidence that their mother shares the same first name, my dad was confused at first and he told me that "What, they're brothers?" that could have been the best plot twist ever in 2K16

and then Batman throws the spear and didn't kill Superman, and he promises Superman to save Martha for him and he will deal with Lex by himself.

at this time I was like

wow 

they're bros now,

their fight ended just like that.

if only Superman manages to tell him sooner before they fight, there won't be any fight between them, and this movie title would be very misleading hahahahaha

you know this conflict is actually can be avoided if they talked things through before they fight, but that won't please any comic book fans, we want to watch our biggest nerd wet dream by looking at two iconic superhero from DC comics smash each other! 

later on, Batman saves Martha, and yes he is very badass, my friend told me that that scene was like the Arkham Knight style of fighting. I have to play it if I can. 

Superman meets Lex, and Lex created Doomsday on Zod's ship

oh I forgot to mention something's bothering me

in the first act of the movie, Lex cuts zod's fingerprint and in the last act of the movie he brought Zod's body to the ship. And he used that fingerprint that he cut in the first act to enter ship

why did he do that? why doesn't he just use Zod's hand to enter the ship? it's really inconvenient for him to be honest. 

And Doomsday fights Superman, and Superman brought him to the atmosphere, and for some military reason, they decided to NUKE Superman and Doomsday there. 

I mean,

why should they do that? they think the casualties would be only Superman, but it IS still on earth, and that nuke will have some serious radiation contamination on the atmosphere. and apparently President of America agreed to launch that nuke, 

wow

can you remind me again that we have global warming issues right now?

hahaha

but who cares about that, as long as we see flashy fight amirite?

Doomsday falls into the earth, and superman floats on the atmosphere

Batman says that Doomsday is a kryptonian, so the thing that only be used to kill him is Kryptonite.

this is where things gets so out of hand on this movie

After Batman and Superman's fight, Lois Lane threw away the Kryptonite spear to the pond. 

Yes, she was like "yeah, that thing is dangerous for my bae, I just throw 'em out on this pond!"

and when Batman says that, Lois Lane wanted that spear back, 

"oh may gawd, my bae's besties needs this spear to defeat that thing, better take that spear out of from that pond!"

Superman returns from the atmosphere and suddenly Wonder Woman showed up, yes apparently that mysterious woman was Wonder Woman all along!

and the three of them, oh no, 2 of them (Batman can't fight Doomsday head on since he is too stronk!) fight Doomsday

while fighting Doomsday, Lois Lane was trapped on the pond because there's a debris that falls on to the pond, and thankfully Superman hears her almost died there.

and Superman saves her, again, for the n-th time. goddammit lane, she's nothing but a damsel on distress!

Superman sacrifices himself by lounges the spear on Doomsday heart, and Doomsday stabbed him. And the result is

double KO!

both of them dies..

yes

Superman is dead! 

another thing that bothers me, why didn't Superman asked Wonder Woman to stab Doomsday with the kryptonian spear while he hold Doomsday? Superman's death could be avoided!

Lex finally got bald in the prison, and Batman warns him that he always look for him if he did something bad again. 

Right at the end of the movie, we saw Superman's coffin there's some pebbles are lifting, and yeah...

he is not dead...

whew

that was a long ass post that I write there,

here's the tl;dr version

The good

1.  A good cinematography, and well directed shots, intense and awesome fighting/car chase scene
2. Ben Affleck is the best Batman: At first, I have doubt that he will be a good Batman, but he is indeed the best thing from this movie, he gives his best for this role! and yes he is the most brutal Batman ever.About the "no-killing" policy which what makes Batman is Batman, he totally killed a lot of thugs in this movie, but he mentioned to Alfred that he didn't think that he is a hero. "We're criminals, Alfred, we always are!" I know Batman should be a morally conflicted character since he is a borderline between a hero and a criminal, but in this movie, he clearly stated that they are criminals, so I'm totally okay with this brutal Batman who killed thugs.
3. Hans Zimmer's score! Especially when Wonder Woman shows up!

The Bad

1. As you can see on this post, yes, the plot is a scatter mess and didn't really linked up to one and another. So much things happened in this movie!
2. They tried to set up the Justice League, but it seems like out of place and context in the movie, they should have made a post credit scene or make a trailer out of it
3. Lack of character development: especially Superman, his character is still the same on Man of Steel
4. Lois Lane : welp, she is a damsel in distress who did some stupid things and tries to be relevant to the plot. and she did almost nothing to the story
5. Lex Luthor's motive to hate Superman is unclear. Is there any particular reason why he hates Superman so much in this movie? I don't think so 

I honestly entertained watching this movie despite of the flaws and the problem on this movie, it could have been better. One thing for sure, this movie is much more watchable than Transformers : Age of Extinction. 

okay guys, this is the end of the post, I hope you enjoyed this long ass spoiler talk on this movie

Thanks for reading!

Bakemono no Ko - Movie Anime Review

To be honest, I'm a very rational man when it comes to spiritual or mystical things. I believed that every spiritual/ghostly phenomenon can be explained by science. But, when it comes to the fantasy settings or story, I always love those kind of stories! When I was a kid, I really loved "Spirited Away" by Hayao Miyazaki and I rewatched that movie over and over again. Even the adult me still loves it when I rewatched it again. The same thing happened with this movie anime that I'm going to review on this post. Bakemono no Ko or in english title, The Boy and The Beast (this is not the sequel nor prequel to that Disney Princess Movie, okay?). I was sold when I know that this movie is directed by Mamoru Hosoda. If you don't know him, he is the one who made Toki o Kakeru Shoujo (The Girl who leap through time), Summer Wars, and Wolf Children. Honestly I haven't watched Summer Wars and Wolf Children. But I really really loved Toki o Kakeru Shoujo! Don't worry, I'll watch both of them soon! XD
So without further a due, let's jam!

The story started on a boy named Ren who is running away from his family because his mom just passed away and his dad didn't take care of him because his dad was divorced to his mom before.
Off to a great and uplifting start, isn't it? 

When he walked on a street, he accidentally met Kumatetsu who is a Bear Beast that is looking for apprentice because it's one of the requirements to become the lord of Jyutengai (one of the district in Beast's world). He is one of the two candidates for the lord of Jyutengai.
Ren accidentally found a portal to the Beast's world and later on he met Kumatetsu again, finally he accepts to be Kumatetsu's apprentice.

Kumatetsu and Ren always fight each other, they never get along.
Kumatetsu tried to teach a lot of things to him but the problem is he is not a good teacher for Ren.
Finally, Kumatetsu and Ren learn from each other and it becomes vague whether Kumatetsu is a master or apprentice here and vice versa since they teach each other.
Will Kumatetsu finally become the lord of Jyutengai? Will Ren go back to the human world again?

This is a family friendly movie, and the theme is about parenthood and adulthood. The main dish of this movie is the relationship between Kumatetsu and Ren. Kumatetsu is like a father figure for Ren, but Kumatetsu is like a very childish father, easily triggered, and cocky at times. While Ren's character is a likeable angsty teenager. So to sum up his character, he is an angsty teenager with some daddy's issue ^___^;
But seeing them grow and developed by teaching each other really entertains me and feels uplifting.

 

Kumatetsu is trying to teach Ren how to swing a sword

You will see them arguing over something, like, a lot!

 btw is it just me or that pigman looks like Patkay from "Journey to the west"?

The animation is stunning! The fight scene was really fluid and felt real. That to be expected from Mamoru Hosoda's movie! The visuals are beautiful. And the soundtrack was good too!

This is just beautiful, dude!

This is one wallpaper material 

My minor problem with this movie anime is I wished that we see more of Kumatetsu and Ren together in the later arc, because I really like their relationship in this movie.


So should you watch it? Yes, you should watch this movie, it's not as good as Toki o Kakeru Shoujo, but it's still entertaining and enjoyable to watch. It's a family friendly movie, go watch this with your parents or your family since it's really rare to find a "family friendly" anime these days. hahaha!


That's all from me guys, I hope you enjoyed this short review of mine,

Thanks for reading! :D

It's been awhile!

Hey guys! It's been....

welp


Awhile I guess hahaha!

I think this is my very first entry for 2016, hahaha! So I hope I'm not too late to say this,
*clears throat
Happy new year!
*looks at the calendar
*it's the end of march
I'm too late, don't you think? hahaha

So, I've been through quite a lot for these couple of months, but what's more important is that I'm still alive and capable of writing this blog again


I post this because I want to announce an important update,

yes, this blog is going to be revived again weekly, and I hope you guys are as excited as I am right now!
Time to catch up those anime/movies/series that I've been planned to watch last year hahaha


Couple of days ago, I watched Batman v Superman : Dawn of Justice, and I'm going to review it on this blog, but I need to rewatch it again, so I think it won't come today, please look forward to it! XD


So I will post a movie anime that I just watched yesterday, which is "Bakemono no Ko" or the english title is "The Boy and The Beast"

If you feel that this post is not really visually entertaining, here, have some doge!

That's all guys, I hope you guys will enjoy my rambling or posts here!

Thanks for reading!

Top 5 Anime 2015

Finally we're at the end of 2015.. My god time flies...

So as you read on the title, this is my top 5 Anime that aired in 2015! I will state some rules for this ranking.
1) It's my choice, so it's not objective, it's very subjective, these are my top 5 animes that I enjoyed the most for this year's season
2) I have to watch it until the end of the episode and it has to finished airing as well. I haven't finished watching Arslan Senki and I really want to put Gundam Iron-blooded orphans, but it hasn't finished airing yet.
3) I didn't managed to watch all the anime that I plan to watch. So don't ask why "Hey why there's no Yuru Yuri San Hai! in the list?" because I haven't watch it yet. Since I've been so crazy busy this past 3 months and honestly I didn't watch a lot of anime this year T_T

So are we clear? Ok, let's jam!



5) Ore Monogatari

First of all, "Ore Monogatari!" or My Love Story is not a part of Monogatari series (Bakemonogatari, Nisemonogatari, Kizumonogatari etc). I really enjoyed watching this because this show  really shows a  positive outcome of having a relationship with someone you love. Normally a romance comedy anime or shoujo romance heavily relies on how someone is feeling hurt when s/he can't confess his/her love to his/her loved ones or how indecisive the main protagonist *cough Ao Haru Ride cough*

And this anime is different, the main protagonist is a big ogre gorilla guy who is in love with a girl, and he misunderstood that the girl is in love with his ikemen friend but apparently the girl is in love with him.

The story is almost like Shrek. Shrek the anime or should I say. hahaha!

I really enjoyed watching this anime, but the lack of conflict might be a turn off for any body else. 

4) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure : Stardust Crusaders - Egypt arc

This is the 2nd season of Stardust Crusaders, and I really enjoyed watching it! The finale is really hype as hell! There's a lot of funny and hilarious moments, intense fights, and also  friendship that makes me feels sentimental whenever I see their group photo. T_T

It's hell of a journey, or you can say, a bizarre adventure! I really can't wait to see Part 4 next year! XD

3) One Punch Man

Yes! THIS ANIME SHOULD BE ON THE LIST! I just finished watching it yesterday and my god, the fighting animation is really really really cool and hype as hell! I read the manga before the anime project was announced. And I really like the manga, I laughed a lot on this, I feel thrilled with the awesome battle scenes, and also I also shed manly tears on my favorite arc. The opening song is my favorite anisong for this year! Thanks to Madhouse studio who made this anime with amazing quality! 

2) Shirobako

Have you ever wondered how does it feel like working on Anime industry in Japan? Well, this anime is your perfect answer! I watched this anime when I was still looking for a job and until I managed to get my current job right now, so I can relate a lot to this anime! I can feel the struggle of looking for a job and get rejected over and over again. And also the struggle of facing a client who wants to change before d-day and makes you have to make things from the scratch again. Yes, it's really hectic! For those who always say "Where's my 2nd season anime!?" well, watch this anime first, so you can understand that it's not easy to make an anime series. PA Works really makes a great job on making this anime! 

1) Kekkai Sensen

Kekkai Sensen, my god this anime, I really missed the times when you watch the anime and you just enjoyed the anime like this. It's really chaotic and fun to watch! You see a group of badass people who kick some ass! The engaging and fun story telling, love-able character, awesome animation, awesome BGM, and also the super catchy ending song, what's not to love from this anime?

If you loved Durarara! or Bacanno! type of anime, you'll love this anime as well! And the ending makes me want for more! 

Some honorable mention anime : 

Gangsta : this anime cliffhanger ending is killing me, and knowing the fact that the studio who made this anime, Manglobe went to bankrupt, makes me even sad, will be any other studio wants to continue their work? I highly doubt it since manly anime like this is not really selling compared to moe/ecchi anime. 

Arslan Senki : I just watched 3 eps of it, and I really liked this anime! I watched the OVA (the old one) and the story is really engaging and I loved the kingdom setting. 

Gintama : Well, this anime is a hilarious one, and now it's entering the serious arc! And I heard that the manga is going to end next year! Damn, didn't expect that this awesomely hilarious manga is going to end T_T

That's it guys my top 5 anime of 2015, do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know on the comments below! I really want to know other's opinion and I might have missed some good anime this year. haha

Happy holidays from me! This is Reikichi, signing out! 

Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens - Spoiler Review Talk

Okay, this post is going to contain full spoiler review talk from this movie, if you want my non-spoiler review, you can click it here

If you haven't watched it and still reading this, you have been warned!

So Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens opens up with the title screen
(me and my girlfriend was squealing when watching the title exposition lol)
and it states that Luke Skywalker is missing.

When I saw that line, I was thinking to myself.
"Oh crap! What happened? Is he going to be evil in this movie?"
But we'll get there later

The story opens up with Poe, which is the best Rebellion pilot (yeah the movie told us so and it was true, All of it!), getting a map that contains Luke Skywalker's whereabouts and he put that map in to his Droid, BB-8 and he told BB-8 to run away from that place and bring back the map to the Rebellion base.

At this point, I was like "Yes, this is familiar, I've seen this on Episode IV"

And then we encounter the First Order that blasted through the place. And we see our main Antagonist here, Kylo Ren!

I really like this reveal seriously, He is just menacingly killed everybody on the camp. And the most epic moment when Kylo Ren stopped a laser blast with the Force. That scene there blew my mind and made my jaw dropped. My god he is a badass!

and later on Poe got captured by the First Order.

I really like the scene where there's a stormtrooper dying because he got shot and he tries to reach another stormtrooper while dying and his blood just marked his friend's helmet. And we can see humanity side of Stormtrooper for awhile.

And it was revealed that the stormtrooper that has been marked with blood was Finn, our main character (or that's what we believed in because the trailer cues that)

and then we switched to Rey, the other main character! She is a scavenger and she lives on a Jakku, a desert planet (which I initially thought that it was Tattooine, but it wasn't)

After Rey's brief introduction, we see that Poe is getting tortured by Kylo Ren to get information about the map (which finally he get the information)

Later on, Poe was saved by Finn and both of them escaped from the First Order ship and get shot and crash landed on Jakku.

At that scene, Finn and Poe feels like a true bro who helped each other and mind you that it's the first 5-6 minutes of the movie and we can see a better bro relationship than Anakin and Obi-Wan in the prequel did on the Episode II and III. *seriously tho hahaha


Finn believes that Poe didn't survive the crash and he walked and met Rey.
They got attacked by the First order and they try to escape it while bringing BB-8 together and look for a spaceship and Finn and Rey's conversation was like
"Hey can you pilot that thing?"
"Yes I can"
"How about that one?"
"That one is garbage!"(at that scene I was like, "I think I know what ship that you were refer as garbage")
And a ship that they headed got destroyed and Rey was like
"The garbage will do"
damn that scene was hilarious.XD

And the garbage was of course The Millenium Falcon! And then an awesome dog fight scene. I really liked Finn and Rey's chemistry during this dog fight scene.

And then we met Han Solo and Chewbacca (This scene makes me emotional for a sec, damn it's really good to see them back)

Okay, let's talk about Kylo Ren, He is revealed that he is Han Solo's and Leia's son. And that makes me feel like "OMG! This is going to be a family matter again".

And we see that Kylo Ren is actually not a Sith Lord, I should have noticed it because there's no Darth title on him. But Snoke (which looks awfully similar like Gollum from The Lords of The Rings) didn't have Darth title as well. I'm not really sure what happened and this plot hole bothers me and I hope they will explain it in the next movies.

It wasn't explained in detail but Luke Skywalker trained some people to be a Jedi and some of his apprentice betrayed him and it makes everything wrong. And we can assume that traitor was Kylo Ren and he was seduced by the Dark Side. Before this plot point was revealed, I was thinking
"Is this some kind of trend? A Jedi Master goes to exile and hide in the unknown planet."
But Luke's action makes sense, because Kylo Ren is Han Solo's and Leia's Son, He feels ashamed that he couldn't trained Kylo Ren better and failed them as a friend and as a Jedi Master. He feels guilty about it.

Kylo Ren is also still young and haven't finished his training as a Sith. We can see that when he tries to get the information from Rey. Because she fights back by using the Force and he couldn't do anything about it.

We can also see him having a dilemma of him about going back to the light side. That kind of struggle makes me think that "Damn, Anakin's dilemma should be executed like this"

I think people will start comparing him to Darth Vader and the fact that he loses to someone who never fights using light saber before will make people say "Man, Kylo Ren is lame"
but hear this
Kylo Ren is neither a fully trained Jedi nor Sith, So I find his lack of skill is not disturbing (see what I did there? lol)
While Darth Vader, he was almost a Jedi Master (even Obi-Wan himself acknowledged his skills), and he have fought countless battle during the Clone Wars.
So I can see potential of Kylo Ren's character development in the next 2 episodes.

And now let's talk about Rey. My god this girl is a badass! In the trailer, we saw that Finn is going to be the main character and he is going to be a Jedi. But it wasn't! It was Rey all along!

(I really loved that Trailer because it didn't reveal any plot points)

She is Force sensitive, and I really like her natural Jedi Ability and she might be a better Jedi Master than Luke someday. She used the Jedi Mind Trick on the Stormtrooper when she was captured (which people next to me thought that she was reading the stormtrooper's mind, yeah, I facepalmed at that too)
even though it takes 2-3 times before she manages to pull it off.

And I really love that scene where Kylo Ren is trying to pull the lightsaber by using the Force and it pans out and BAM! the lightsaber flew through him and Rey holding up the lightsaber. My god that scene makes me thrill seriously!

And there's this scene that shocks me, when Kylo Ren (or Ben Solo) killed his father.
And that scene feels like Game of Thrones, where it was emotionally touching at first, but then that person just get ruthlessly murdered.
When I watched that, I froze because I was too shocked!
I can't even feel mad about the fact that Ben killed Han Solo!
And Chewbacca was like "YOU BASTARD!" and he shot Ben from the distance and he managed to shot him which makes Kylo Ren during the final fight beating his chest to endure the pain.

damn I didn't really see that coming
Apparently Han Solo's death scene was spoiled on the internet before this movie came out, but I managed to avoid it because I decided to signed out from the Internet before I watched the movie. And boy I'm glad that I did

After Kylo Ren is defeated, Snoke was like, "Bring him to me, I will complete his training"
Ok, the next movie, he is going to be more badass *hopefully*

After that, Rey goes to the planet where Luke Skywalker is hiding, and she showed the lightsaber to him and..... the movie ends!

and that makes me wanted to see more of this movie! Seriously! This is a very well directed movie that has  great script and very engaging story telling! It's awesome! I really can't wait to watch the next episode! XD

Okay that's it guys, Hope you enjoyed my spoiler review (or rambling to be precise), If you are a Star Wars fan, this movie is a MUST WATCH! XD

Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens - Movie Review

Hey Guys! It’s been awhile! Sorry I’ve been so crazy busy with work this past 3 months and didn’t have the time to write a lot ^_^;

I hope I will be able to post weekly just I used to be next year... hahaha!

So I just watched Star Wars VII The Force Awakens yesterday with my girlfriend. And boy...

IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME! XDDD

In this post, I’m going to post my non-spoiler review since I really embrace the idea of enjoying something without getting spoiled. But I will post a spoiler review in the next post.
So without further a due.. Let’s jam!

The events on Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens took place 30 years after Episode VI. So I wouldn’t recommend this movie for those who haven’t watched the original Star Wars trilogy (Episode IV, V, VI) because it will make you ask questions like.

“Who is this old man?”

“What is that furry guy thing?”

“Why is everybody understand what does the furry guy say
while he is just saying ‘AURGGHHHHH!’ ?”

“OMG! DID SHE JUST READ THAT ROBOT’S MIND?” -> actual question that emerged when I watched this yesterday, and that person sits right next to me.

This movie is directed by J.J Abrams. When this movie is announced and heard that he is the one who is going to direct this movie I was like

“Okay, he did very good on Star Trek movie. I hope he won’t make this movie suck like the prequel trilogy.”

And J.J Abrams’ signature (If I can say it that way) is he tends to give a lot of lens flares, which is kinda annoying for me. If you watched the Star Trek movie, you’ll know what I’m saying.

And thank god he didn’t do that on this movie hahaha.

I really like how J.J. Abrams shot the scene on this movie. There are some cinematic scene that makes me think like “Man, I’d screenshot that scene and make a wallpaper from it”

Unlike the prequel trilogy, I really really care about the characters on this movie! I even care for the stormtroopers. Because this movie actually gives them humanity and more personality.

Finn and Rey’s chemistry is really great! I really love those two new star wars character!

Rey as character is really cool and her actions always makes me want to say “You go gurl!” during the movie

Poe is an amazing character! His piloting skill is superb.I just wished I see more of him.

Speaking of piloting, the dog fight in this movie is really amazing! 

Kylo Ren is an amazing antagonist character. Unfortunately I didn’t see Captian Phasma doing much on this movie but I really liked the character design.

And there’s Yayan and Iko Uwais, 2 famous Indonesian actors from “The Raid”

as an Indonesian, I’m really proud seeing those 2 on this movie
and they actually have lines to say. TvT b

Oh I forgot to mention that soundtrack is amazing and John Williams is back to compose it, and I really love the music XD

This movie is 2 and a half hours long and I didn’t feel any single dull moment on this movie. And when it ends I was like “AAARGHHH!” and I looked to my girlfriend and asked her

“EPISODE VIII WHEN?!”

Yes, this movie has its flaws as well, some plot holes, but the thing is, this is a trilogy, so I hoped they will answer and cover up the plot holes in the next episode.

So, does this movie worth the hype? Yes, it does deserve the hype and it does lived up to the hype and as for me, it exceeds my expectations.

Should you watch it? If you have watched the original trilogy, yes you should watch it! If you haven’t watch the original trilogy, I recommend you to watch it first before watching this movie. And if you have watched the original trilogy and haven’t watched Episode VII, well, what are you doing? Stop reading this post and just go out and watch it now! XD

Gakkou Gurashi - Anime Review

From left to right : Kurumi, Yuki, Rii
Sitting down : Taroumaru (the dog) and Miki

So today I'm going to review an anime which is quite popular last season, which is Gakkou Gurashi. This anime wasn't in my "to-watch-list" at first but when everybody on the internet be like
"OH MY GOD! THIS IS THE SHOW OF THE SEASON!"
welp....
I'm curious about it so I watch it... so does it live up to the expectation?
I'm honestly a skeptical person when it comes to something popular... Because I believe that popular does not equal good

Since this anime is hard to review without spoiling it.. so this is going to be a total spoiler review..

Do you want a non-spoiler review? okay, here's a short version
Bunch of girls living their life at school and they spend their day on club activity named school life club....... the end

Since my usual format review is such a hassle to write, so from here and out, I will shorten my review.. *since I reviewed JoJo here, I feel that I should shorten my review hahaha* and I'm also currently writing a "Hunter x Hunter (2011)" review which contains 148 eps... so yeah... That'd be a long ass review if I stick with my older format XP

So let's just jump to the spoiler review shall we?

Yuki

The first episode kicks in with the daily school life of Yuki, the pink haired girl who is cheerful and apparently a dojikko and she spent her days learning stuff at school and so on.. And she chased a dog on a school
So at first 15 mins, I was like "ok, nothing's really going on here, just a girl chasing a loose dog in a school"
apparently in the last 2 mins of the first episode it is revealed that everything that we saw in the whole episode was only her delusion.. all hell broke loose! Apparently they are in zombie apocalypse!

I was like.... "Whoaaa~ that was interesting"

Yuki was like that dog comic where everything burns up and he said, "This is fine"

Up to that point I was thinking "Well that was an interesting theme" and I'm a zombie genre fan.. and this kind of theme is unique
"The psychological impact on zombie apocalypse"
You know when we watch The Walking Dead, the theme was "Human drama in zombie apocalypse"
or Shaun of the Dead "Humor on zombie apocalypse"
or another genre like High school of the Dead "Fanservice on zombie apocalypse"

but that was what I perceived after I finished watching the first episode......

I was expecting something more dark and psychological impact on the team...
but
nope
the anime just say "Hey you were expecting a psychological impact anime? But it was me, MOE!"
to me


yes dude... I can say that 70% of this anime is just moe shit with slice of life theme. with extra zombie as a gimmick


just look at the zombies! They are the least threatening zombies I've ever seen!

booo... I'm scary

I can't even see their face! Even mysterious black guy from Conan have some expression!

hi we're zombies...........

The story itself is actually quite engaging if there's no Yuki around... seriously tho.. I know they kept her on the show because the other characters wants to be reminded of how things were supposed to be before the zombie apocalypse.. but she make everything become moe and cutesy.. which is kinda kill the mood sometimes...

this anime makes one thing clear for me.. Moe and zombie just don't mix well...
Well maybe they want to follow Madoka Magica's formula, moe girls with dark theme

At the end of episode 8, it is revealed that the school that they stuck in (which contains a lot of things that is very CONVENIENT for survival. i.e : Garden, food stock, solar panel, water purifier etc) is actually a shelter built by the government in case zombie outbreak happened and they were given an instruction manual to evacuate immediately in case zombie outbreak happens

at that point I was like "*sigh* Finally we got to see something interesting"

but what did they do in the next episode?

THEY STARTED IT WITH AN OBLIGATORY SWIMSUIT EPISODE! BECAUSE EVERY MOE OR SLICE OF LIFE ANIME NEEDS THAT ONE EPISODE AT LEAST IN ONE COUR AIR TIME!

My god... After the huge reveal and they decided to "pretend" as if the last episode didn't happen... I was like "SERIOUSLY?!"  =___=;

But I have to admit that the episode 10 and 11 are the best episodes the entire series. when everything went wrong and these 2 episodes was something that I expected from this anime.. A psychological turmoil and dilemma on zombie apocalypse
for example when Kurumi (or as the fan says, the shovel girl) got bit by a zombie, and in the previous episodes Rii made a promise with her,
"When I am about to turn into zombie, just kill me! Do not hesitate!" 

but it is depicted that Rii is morally conflicted, should she kept the promise? Should she let her become a zombie? but that isn't that too risky? what should she do?
that is the kind of psychological impact that I was expecting from this anime!

Kurumi got bitten by Megu-nee (their teacher who turns into zombie which caused Yuki's shock which leads to her mental disorder) because she hesitated to kill her. That kind of dilemma is also shown in the first episode of The Walking Dead when the guy who helped Rick (totally forgot his name) is unable to kill his wife that has been turn into a zombie.
That what is interesting to be shown to the audience! That what makes us human a human!

which leads us the final episode, the ending is a cringe material for me

So in the last 2 episodes, the zombies finally raiding the school and everything just went wrong.. but Yuki has an idea to the broadcasting room and her plan was to distract the zombie with all of the speakers around the school

and you know what she said?

*I don't really remember how it goes but I think this is basically what she say*

"Dear zombie-san, the school time is over, just go home now.."

and the zombie just leave... and never go to the school again.....




wat the actual F????




THAT PLAN WORKED?!?


My god this anime...


And they just leave the school afterwards... and before they leave they have some kind of graduation ceremony bullshit because they are at school...


the opening song and the ending song doesn't suit me because it's just #2Moe4me

but the BGM is quite good honestly, the song that I love is when the groups saves miki from the mall. that song played in the car when they are on the way back to school..


so here comes to the final section.. should you watch it?
If you are a zombie genre fan, well, this thing will let you down, so don't... don't even think about it...
but if you are a moe lover, you should totally check it out.. if you are into that kind of thing...

I'd recommend you to watch a better zombie movie like Dawn of the Dead *yes I'm recommending you a live action movie not anime* which is my all time favorite zombie movie!


That's it guys, hope you find this review useful and fun to read of course!

This is Reikichi, signing out!