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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Daredevil S2

All 13 episodes to download at the link on this page
REVIEWED
This is  a review of the whole season trying not to give out any spoiler or reviewing in any order rather than the whole season review. Good Netflix TV series (or other that are released all at once) are series that are meant to be good. If not, I dont think the studios would want to take the gamble in releasing all of the episodes at once. Imagine series like Daredevil if released in the conventional manner would take the audience about 3 1/2 months to complete. But imagine a die hard fan of Red (As the Punisher called him) would take about 11 hours to complete. Thats super fast. So this fan would be wanting for more, too bad had to wait for another season to appear, which could be next year.


So Daredevil S2 had its pros and cons. The definite Pro is that you dont have to know the main characters like  Matt, Karen and Foggy as you know and love them in Season 1. And of course you know who is DD and why he is what he is. Definitely a plus here, you are settled with the red suit rather than the old black Zorro (without hat) kind of outfit. No doubt the suit is definitely his plus point as it is also an amour which is bullet and slashed proof. Even the horns on the head can be a lethal pair of head butt knives.


Now the con for me, maybe nobody quite agree, is that this DD Season had too much of fighting. Not that i dont like it as a matter of fact the fights are head above the previous season. But if you see them back to back, the fighting may be become too much to take particularly, its not your typical kind of fight, but the gory and bashing ones.


In Season 2 familiar faces that was introduced was Electra and of course The Punisher. Also William Finch finally declared himself as KingPin.

Now 2 comments for the whole season thou there are others, better not spoil the fun.

The final fight scene on the rooftop should have been with more ninjas and longer. Before it start you saw these ninjas running. Lots of em perhaps in hundreds. But when it come to the fighting it was only a handful. What happen to the rest ? One film that remind me of endless fighting was between Neo and the clone Smiths in Matrix 2. DD and Electra should have faced foes like this and it would be more satisfying.

When Karen met Matt (as DD) when he came to save her and the other hostages, at that close range and DD mannerism and voice maintain as Matt Murdoc, she could had spotted that it is the same person. They had kissy kissy, BTW. Or maybe it is such hard to believe that a blind Matt could be the DareDevil !


But those are small observations and a few more if i wish to comment. Its a awesome Superhero series. Must check back the movie version of DareDevil when Ben Affleck was donning it. Why so bad ? Anyway people are saying that he is the best Batman ever in Batman V Superman !
 


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REVIEWED
- 5th episode. Bye bye punisher and here comes Elektra just when DD is getting real closed with Katherine.
- In this season DD meets The Punisher and they are fighting like cats and dogs. Already seen 2 episodes we know who is  "The Forgiver"

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Bosch Season 2 is back !

     
 Bosch is a TV series released all episodes at the same time like House of Cards. Yup this is for cable TV. Saw the first season way back in 2014. Kind of slow but it was really like you are watching a real cop by the name of Bosch (presumably no relationship with the Brand that makes hardware). This season has 10 episodes. Check out the download link if you want to see the 10 episodes. But its advisable to check back season 1 to know the who Bosch is.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

House of Cards Season 4

Finally Seen Episode All 13 episodes


Its not over yet as there will be Season 5 which we will see more action now that the Underwoods had declared The War on Terror. This season was better than the last one. Undoubtedly the best episodes was directed by Robin W. 
Robin Wright chose the most vital episodes to direct especially when her character is portrayed the most. 3 more episodes to go before we wrap up Season 4. The Underwoods vs The Republicans.

The Underwoods are bad asses. Now the challenge for Democrats are over, they will be fighting the Republicans and guess who will be Frank's running mate ? New kid in town Conway is here (Joel K of new Robocop)

Robin Wright was on the director's chair for vital episodes of 3 & 4 and she did a very good job indeed.Seem that she'll be directing 4 more episodes !(Actually only directed 2 more making it 4 episodes)

House of Cards is back for a round of Season 4 !

This Netflix TV series is back and if you are a fan (like me)  you could be downloading the whole season of 13 episodes and watching them one by one making it another House of Cards Marathon like last season.

This is TV political drama at its best starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright as US President and Madam President. President Uderwood (KS) became the US president without even winning a single vote but through their cunning plans which include murdering his threats along the way.

If you are a fan, download the episodes by CLICKING HERE


Tuesday, March 1, 2016

The 88th Academy Award- REVIEWED

The Oscar for 2016 came and gone. The coverage was about 2hr 52mins long and that was without the commercial. The official results can be found here at imdb.

As we all know the Oscar for this year was faced with controversy even before it got started. The big issue was no blacks were nominated. Although there were  a few notable performances like Will Smith in Concussion and M B Jordan in Creed or even the director of Straight Out of Compton, they were all not listed. Some actors also boycotted the ceremony this year like Spike Lee with Will Smith and his wife.

To show that the Oscar is not about racism or they are trying to eliminate such notion, they have Chris Rock to host the show. And they were sporting enough to make jokes of the situation like putting footage of Blacks appearing on notable movie scene like LD Carpio was mauled by a black girl instead of the bear, Chris Rock stucked on Mars and Mission control were reluctant to rescue as he was black and a few more. But those are all accepted in good taste.


The film with the most wins I reckoned would be Mad Max Fury Road followed by The Revenant. A film that had made lots of money but loosed even to the low budget movie was Star Wars The Force Awakens. So did the Martian.

Now here are my review on some interested and important categories which I dont agree.

Special Effects
Although I like Ex Machina, it should not win this category beating Star Wars and even Mad Max. The effects of the film is good when you are watching it as a film. But when comparing to other bigger films it is not that great.

Soundtrack
Not Spectre ! This is after listening to the songs played live that night. Lady Gaga's song is more diversified and meaningful.

Best Male Supporting Actor 
Stallone should have won not the one in Bridges of Spies. It took real skill to do a character like Rocky in Creed as someone who is not only sick with Cancer but a coach. The character in BOS was contained all the time - who cant do that ?

Best Male Actor
Leonardo D Carpio won. If you judge from acting Eddie of Danish Girl is superb. But if you take into consideration the preseverance to be and act a character then LDC should win. But this is Best Male Actor not Best Male Committed Actor.

Best Female Actor
Have said it before. Alicia Vikander won as Best Supporting female actor which many said not to be her category. If she was in Best Female, and I am one of the judges, shes my winner not overated Bree Larson.

Well thats my review, see you next year.

Monday, February 15, 2016

Madoff - TV Series

REVIEWED
This is a short TV series which was shown in 4 episodes of about 42mins each. Stars Richard Dreyfuss as Bernie Madoff with other actors whom I am not that familiar except for the one playing his eldest son Mark.

Its based on Bernie Madoff the person exclaimed to run the most notorious scam in history involving Billions of Dollars in a Ponzi scheme. Even he claimed the losses to be in the range of $50 Billion even after paying back most of the "Redemption". The term is for people wanting their money back.

I like watching this type of movie as in involved trading and investments. I know of the character from the papers when he got caught something about running the Ponzi scheme but not in detail. After watching this I found out what was really going on and in a better position to give my view on what did happened.

Bernie runs his company with his family. He had his younger brother as the Chief Compliance Officer, his two sons in the investment department. His nephew and niece is also in the company holding some high position too.

But he also runs another office on the 17th floor of the building headed by his right hand man by the name of Frank. No one is allowed in this floor except the personnel working there, not even his sons. This place runs his shady business, with locked doors and no windows.

What attract people to put money in Madoff's business is his promise to profit their "investment money" by 12% a year. And he didnt charge any management fee for his service either. That attract a lot of investment for him, some with $Billions ! When he got the job as Chairman of Nasdaq his reputation strengthen even further. To the point that he didnt have to find clients for they find him !

So was he able to profit more than 12% a year so that he can give away 12% to his "investors" ? He cannot. Worst - he dare not trade due to his past bad experience in trading the stock market when he was much younger. The fact is, he kept his "investment" in a bank and earn a measly 2% profit a year.

The Ponzi scheme works in this way. Those who fulfilled their investment "period" would be paid back with 12% as commission as promised. So he used the other 10% from the later investment of other investors to come up with the extra (2% from his bank). Surely in the end he would get caught but he thought that would be much later. The market crashed in 2008 and his investors started to doubt Madoff's scheme as his investment was not effected !! In fact he reduced to 5% to cushion the market.

His investors were still worried and they wanted to withdraw their deposits. He managed to fulfilled this by paying the "early birds" "Redemption". But when a majority of his investors were withdrawing, he knew that he would hit the wall sooner than he anticipated. He went on to confess to his family. The unexpected was that his sons were the first one to betray him. Why not as he never told them in the first place. So they quickly went to see their lawyer and confessed to the FBI. On top of that, they cut all ties with their father and give the choice to their mother to choose between them or their father.

One thing about the family, they have some sort of Genetic disorder where a member of the family is highly likely to get cancer, leukemia and  anything related.

At the end of the film, Bernie did a Frank Underwood in House of Cards, he spoke directly to the camera in the jail. He said that he ran a ponzi scheme in a bigger ponzi scheme run by the government.Currently he is serving 163 years in jail. His wife didnt care less as she found out that he had an affair with one of his investors.

Mark the elder son committed suicide exactly 2 years after his arrest right to the hour and minutes. His second son died of Leukemia. So did his right hand man Frank died of lung cancer. His nephew died long long before he was arrested.

Now lets ponder - was Bernie that evil cunning enough to be prosecuted by the government ?
Yup he was evil of sort because I can figure out what ever he thought of a "way out". In a Ponzi scheme the bottom lines will get burned. Simple as that. When he is no where near investing his money or whatever means to multiply his funding, no way that he can fulfill his promise to his investors.

Somebody raised the flag much earlier in his funding scheme. Problem is nobody wants to listen and he kept on growing bigger. At one time the SEC (government agency for investing matters) had an audit in his office and they could not find a thing. He was devious enough to create false documents for the auditors to see. One simple phone call could had revealed that he is not trading yet he claimed to trade in millions of dollars. He was expected to be taken down that way, but he didnt. 

Good TV series definitely for those who love trading  and investing watching the length of 2 movies length in duration . RD might won an award for his role as BM next year. Finally at the end of the series, like most other true stories movie, they show the real character pictures with the actors. One thing for sure actors of this series looked quite similar to the characters they played
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