Remember the opening episode of season 1? Like when we were introduced to the characters that we didn't know even a friggin think about, then how the hell could they have had more depth back then than now.. I remember Tyrion meeting Jon in the first 20 minutes, this was some good writing back then, there was a fresh take on something, finally. The characters felt fresh, the setting , everything i admired about this show is getting wretched, season after season .. The writing was getting stronger, the tragedy of each character was so majestic to watch, the sweet unfairness of Westeros and those rare little moments of unfairness that existed between them, they gave the real taste of game of thrones. No doubt, the absence of Martin had it's effect , it wasn't that obvious at season 6 as it hadn't gone that far from where the source material ended.
Season 7 where things really got out of hand, the dialogue was flatter, the characters were bland, it was more cinematic but just less game of thrones, and now this? I'm heartbroken, this series which later introduced me to the books was without a doubt one of the best entertainment experience I've ever had, so , no matter how I tried I can't hate it .. but this episode as someone mentioned feels just like an extension to season 7 and isolated from the previous seasons, it just feels like it's too late to compensate, we'll get the fights , we'll get the multi million cgi effects but we'll not have what we started with.
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Clash
(2016)
A fresh restart to Egyptian cinema.
28 July 2016
For all of you who don't know, back in the 40's and 50's .. Egypt had one the best movie industries in the world, it was an equal to Hollywood back then .. but as our fellow writer lemony Snicket says due to a series of an unfortunate events, Egyptian cinema went downhill starting from the middle 60's .. there were some exceptions and some great works done by independent filmmakers such as chahine and atef eltayb and mohamed khan .. and yet there was still hope in Egyptian cinema .. but it was all gone starting from the middle 90's .. Very few movies i can recall that was OK in this period till late 2000's ..and then starting from 2010's we saw some real potential in a new generation of filmmakers that can actually restore Egyptian cinema legacy such as Amr salama and Mohamed diab .. and here we have on of the best Egyptian movies in the past two decades and the most thought provoking one.
Clash takes place in only one setting a 8m police truck .. from the beginning .. You would have this Claustropohbia even if you don't have it, Diab wanted to tell us than the true claustrophohia is in our thinking, in the narrow thinking that could end all of us, this movie isn't pointed toward a single audience .. it's a movie about humanity, about how to accept each other even if sometimes we can't stand each other but in order to move forward we have to, and it's done in a beautiful symbolic way .. It also have a political background and it may seem at first that's it's the movie's story but actually no, the political purpose is there i won't deny but it's crafted in a light way that Foreign audience can still watch and enjoy and have the same impact as Egyptian one's ..
The casting was superb, everyone did their job in a stellar, outstanding way .. I won't talk too much about it but it's truly one of the movie's positive sides.
The direction and the cinematography are the ones that truly deserves to raise the hat for, an exceptional work done, and take in recognition the budget of this movie that won't actually exceed two million dollars and maybe even less .. considering the budget of this movie, it's a splendid effort done by the whole crew ..
It's a movie experience in which you'd feel a mixture of emotions, You'd feel for an hour and 36 minutes like you're being trapped with the characters, and ironically it's Egypt's political situation now.
Clash takes place in only one setting a 8m police truck .. from the beginning .. You would have this Claustropohbia even if you don't have it, Diab wanted to tell us than the true claustrophohia is in our thinking, in the narrow thinking that could end all of us, this movie isn't pointed toward a single audience .. it's a movie about humanity, about how to accept each other even if sometimes we can't stand each other but in order to move forward we have to, and it's done in a beautiful symbolic way .. It also have a political background and it may seem at first that's it's the movie's story but actually no, the political purpose is there i won't deny but it's crafted in a light way that Foreign audience can still watch and enjoy and have the same impact as Egyptian one's ..
The casting was superb, everyone did their job in a stellar, outstanding way .. I won't talk too much about it but it's truly one of the movie's positive sides.
The direction and the cinematography are the ones that truly deserves to raise the hat for, an exceptional work done, and take in recognition the budget of this movie that won't actually exceed two million dollars and maybe even less .. considering the budget of this movie, it's a splendid effort done by the whole crew ..
It's a movie experience in which you'd feel a mixture of emotions, You'd feel for an hour and 36 minutes like you're being trapped with the characters, and ironically it's Egypt's political situation now.
The Martian
(2015)
There's one problem with that movie .. We watched Interstellar.
12 November 2015
It's not mind blowing , it's not heartbreaking .. has the same idiotic scenes that was repeated in billion movies before but all in all it's watchable .. The well made visual effects saved this movie but it's incomparable with interstellar .. Interstellar left the solar system .. it gone beyond our minds .. things you didn't hear from your science teacher but the martian wasn't the same .. I mean what the hell , suddenly .. people started to care about one person .. all of them watching in the streets .. Hundreds die every day in a way more heartbreaking but suddenly out of nowhere they started to care .. This movie is the definition of cliché.
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