White House Down

These films are always the same. Americanised, over violent and force a romance. Well that's what I thought this film would be like. However I found myself stuck on the edge of my seat, biting my nails not daring to blink. Yes, a very good film indeed.

I did really go to watch this film with a closed mind, even when it first started I turned to my friend and sighed, distort it would've been one of 'those' films. However the story-line was incredibly gripping and the fate of the characters were completely unknown and left you guessing until the end. The plot had many twists and the way in which the director, Roland Emmerich let some of the main characters be killed off gave it the realism that it needed.

Channing Tatum, the star of the film playing John Cale is often seen as the ron-com actor, however there wasn't much romance about him. INstead his heart was set on finding his daughter and showing her that he is her true hero. Whilst the film was a bit sketchy in places and you cringed back into your seat, I felt that this was a very good film, and those parts had to bring you back down to reality, otherwise I wouldn't have wanted it to end!

-The Slug

Film Review on "Beautiful Creatures'

If you compare this to twilight I can give you a hundred reasons why this should be seen and read by more teenagers. For a start the characters are not perfect, I'm not saying they are ugly but the main character, Ethan played by Alden Ehrenreich is not (in my opinion) the hottest actor on the block, but then again Robert Pattinson doesn't do anything for me either, and Lena played by Alice Englert is not the prettiest (nor ugly) actress out there and yet these two characters you people can relate to and find more realistic (Even with witches) then two perfectly formed human-beings. Also Alice gives Lena a personality, something that twilight lacks immensely with Kristen Stewart.
This film, as well as book had an interesting story-line, however many things could've been portrayed differently and the plot was not very unique and even though it did not fall into usual cliques with supernatural stories it wasn't something that blew me away, although it is the perfect Valentine film to watch!

The problems with characters in books nowadays

2012 has given us 50 Shades of Grey, you may not have read it yourself, however it's most probable that you have heard about it. I read about the first 30 pages and refused to go further on. It was just unbelievable. Many people seem outraged about the sex, however I had read other books with maybe not as illustrated as that but still containing pretty raunchy bits, and they have not sold half as much as 50 shades. The problem is however 'Anastasia' is meant to be the heroine in this story and it's the same in Twilight and other novels like that. They are portrayed as this generation's women. Young girls will be reading these books and looking up at the women. I mean one woman in a novel which girls should be looking up to is Elizabeth Bennet, from Pride and Prejudice who accepted that she was beautiful and even when Mr Darcey proposed to her and she denied even when he could've solved all of her problems because she did not love him then. It's completely controversial to characters like Bella from Twilight, who can't accept that she's beautiful even though she has all of the men after her. Also all of these women have no personalities whatsoever and have no ambition in life whatsoever. We need some more books with real women, not these teenagers running of  with men for money, sex and a supernatural life. Also the men in these books are practically another form of Mr Darcey, Tall, dark, mysterious and rich, although he is not a control freak, and arrogant man like the rest of them. Really there needs to be a change in the way many people are portraying their characters.

Best films of 2012

10. Magic Mike - To be quite fair this was an awful film, but somehow it was enjoyable and a great watch!
9. James Bond, Skyfall - This was different from the other James Bond films, but it was brilliant nevertheless
8. Rock of Ages - Fantastic, can't fault the casting and the music. Amazing!
7. Ted - Hilarious.
6. Life of Pi - This was mesmerising and powerful. A film that you could watch over and over again.
5.The Hunger Games - Haunting and damn good.
4.The Master - brilliant!
3. The Hobbit- May just be better than The Fellowship of the Ring.
2. The Perks of being a Wallflower - Didn't do complete justice to the book and that's why this is second, but it was fabulous and made you feel young!
1. The Dark Knight Rises - Nothing I can say will do this film justice. It is simply the film of the year.