I am NOT a critic. I'm merely an observer. (Books, movies, plays, musicals etc.)

( source ) My eleven-year-old nephew loves to play BORDERLANDS , which incidentally was featured in this trailer: The movie is stupendous, spectacular, exciting, nail biting and a lot of other superlatives that you could think of in a positive way.  It's like Christopher Nolan's INCEPTION, but not.  It is designed for the younger viewers that even older ones would appreciated.  As one of the critics mentioned(not verbatim), it's a Steven Spielberg 1980s movie at its best. The music and the games are from the 1970s and 1980s.  John Hughes films are mentioned and a whole lot more. Since Ernest Cline is also one of the screenwriters, he was able to convey to Steven Spielberg how he envisioned it to be, and thankfully, Mr. Spielberg interpreted it very well and even made Mr. Cline's imagination more believable. The movie and the story is set in the future around twenty-seven years from now.  It's a dystopian future...to live in the mind or...

With my "twin" The first time I watched Mockingjay Part 2 , my heart felt so heavy, but I still tried to see it in a good light.  It wasn't bad, but I was disappointed with a lot of things.  Suzanne Collins' message is very strong and powerful, but when I looked around the theater, almost everyone was forlorn, like they were expecting the movie to be better than expected. Well, there's that, and the fact that there were a lot of heart-wrenching scenes too, enough to make people feel morose and that's how the book made a lot of people feel too, anyway.    Jennifer Lawrence did great acting wise.  Probably that's why she is the highest paid actor, even if I still think that it is unfair.  Again, I'll leave the technical aspects to the experts.  I don't have the right to judge  or criticize  those things.   What about the other actors?  I cannot complain.  They all did their jobs well, most especially the ve...