jensenbr-85012 Reviews

Milk Men: The Life and Times of Dairy Farmers (2015)

The Life and struggles of Family farmers in the dairy industry

[7/10 · 17 August 2016]

After watching this Documentary, I wanted to save up money and buy my own farm. Always been a hard working honest man. Seeing the families and their relation to one another, makes one proud of the farmers.

This documentary isn't necessarily about the glory life of the dairy farmers life, but rather of how much the industry has evolved and what they have to do now compete against large corporations that are seeing a huge profit to be made. You wouldn't think that dairy farmers are over billion dollar industry with so much development and strategies being used to enhance and enrich the farms and the way they have to work. Also never realized how easy it is to lose everything in one bad season.

Milk Men: The Life and Times of Dairy Farmers is an insightful look into the life's of every day farmers and their ability to sustain not only the business that was passed on to them through the family, but also trying to get the new generation to understand the fundamentals behind being good milk men, as well as their ability to always adapt and not fall behind the corporations.

I give this Documentary a solid 7.5/10

Lost in the Pacific (2016)

A Hidden Gem of Block Buster on display for every one to enjoy

[8/10 · 28 July 2016]

Writer-director Vincent Zhou has shown the world what the Chinese Blockbusters can be if they are not about martial arts. Although this film does have some really cool fight scenes too. Zhao has delivered a successful summer blockbuster which is on par to anything that Hollywood has to offer. Lost in the Pacific is a complex story, which is full off action, suspense, drama and romance. The main stars of the film are Brandon Routh (Superman Returns 2006) Yuqi Zhang (The Mermaid) which also came out this year, and Russell Wong.

Like I wrote before the story is very complex. But i'll try and explain it anyways. Wong plays the CEO of an airline company where has invested everything into a new type of luxurious planes. Any mishaps and it is worse tragedy then the Titanic.

While trying to show off the new plane, he invites V.I.P passengers with an interest in investing in the company, so all of them are high profile figures or super rich, including main investor Prince Khadsa played by Tazito Garcia, while on board the plane Wong's personal assistant goes out and manages to get the winner of the voice who is a very close friend of Prince Khadsa to be on board too. He just happens to be the only son of Wong's character. While on board the plane we get to see some awesome set decorations, brilliant acting by all of the cast and some great work on CGI. Without going into to much detail about the film.

I will simply say this, mutated animals, Super soldiers and great musicians all come together in this fun and entertaining film.

Dragon Ball (1986–1989)

The Greatest Anime ever!

[10/10 · 12 July 2016]

I do not know if my tastes have changed over the years, but once I used to say by far the best incarnation of Dragon ball was Z. However, upon watching this entire series on DVD uncut I now have to say that this one is equal or maybe a notch or two above Z. Though I can still say quite easily that GT is the worst of the bunch as while this one needed a continuation, Z did not. This one follows the young boy Goku as it chronicles his friendships and adventures while finding the mythical dragon balls that number seven and when gathered together summon the dragon, Shenron to grant one wish. The show started out as more of a comedy, a comedy with at times quite perverted humor in it. As the show progressed though it would more and more rely on action to the point that near the end of the show it closely resembled Z, most of the pervert nature of the show would be gone near the end. Why? I have no idea, but it would make a reappearance here and there near the end, but nothing like it was in the beginning. In fact, Z and GT would see virtually no humor of this type with the exception of Master Roshii. This show is sort of made up of three adventures involving the dragon-balls. After each of these adventures there was a world martial arts tournament story. The first adventure involves a plucky teen named Bulma finding Goku and the two end up going on an adventure to find the dragon-balls. They meet Yamcha here as well as Oolong and Puar. They also meet the nefarious Emperor Pilaf who has to be the funniest villain in the dragon ball universe. This story would become Goku training under Master Roshii and meeting Krillan during the world martial arts phase. Then the Red Ribbon Army would be next as would be the meeting of Goku and Tien. Finally, Goku would have to face off against the evil King Piccolo in both the adventure and the tournament. Then for some reason the show keeps going on about five more episodes than it really needed to. Still, this one was fun and the fighting would become really cool near the end.

XKWX (2016– )

A Hidden Gem on display for every one to enjoy

[8/10 · 12 July 2016]

A Hidden Gem on display for every one to enjoy: When I stumbled on to this web series, I thought that it was going to be another one of those cheaply made web series that every one seems to be doing these days, I was wrong. Don't usually write reviews for shows, to many episodes to discuss and review and some may be good, while others may be bad. But XKWX is a great little web series. Each episode is different and unique, but still manages you to assume that they are still connected.

I have always been a fan of mystery and thrillers, and this is a great addition to those genres. Written and directed by Jim Bromley, who did a brilliant job of not only creating original and interesting stories, but also throwing all of the small details that makes the show so much more entertaining. It is one thing to have a great story, it is another to know how to execute it correctly, and Jim Bromley, certainly did that.

XKWX is a radio station that no one listens to, which gives the people the chance to tell their most unbelievable stories. It is up to the audience to think if the stories are true or not, but with every great story, there are those moments where you are captured by the story and no matter how the unbelievable the story is, some aspect of you thinks that this is all connected and that the universe that has been created is one that is similar to the Twilight Zone or X-files.

5 Days of War (2011)

Propaganda film at its finest

[5/10 · 12 July 2016]

Well, all kinds of things went wrong with this movie.

For starters, the opening sequence is awesome. One thing this movie really had was best camera crew ever. Everything feels very intense all the times, very close to the real war footage. Also, all the props, vehicles, uniforms, even explosions look very real. This is the good part.

The mediocre part is main story. It's a mix of Hotel Rwanda and Tears of the Sun, but feels like a bootleg version, a cheap knockoff of those.

And then there's the bad part. Just after awesome intro, you get "treated" with shots of Tbilisi, with landmarks, people smiling, and god forbid, trances music in the background. It looked like a commercial for some travel agency, with only "Visit Georgia" message missing from the scene and was most tasteless thing I've ever seen in a film. I live in similar post-soviet country and I do understand the mentality in desperate desire to explain your culture to the world to get less looked as some remote hellhole, but this is outright tasteless and maybe Georgia hasn't come to this yet.

The script had generally no direction. Awesome war scene here, some corpses there, cameramen and photography director knew what to do... But director didn't. First, that simple shot with church and bloody river from 'Tears of the Sun' gives 10 times stronger emotion than whole pile of bodies shown in '5 days of August'. Even though latter tries so hard to portray Russians as savages.

Second, despite awesome camera and props, fighting had no point in this movie. You see soldiers shooting stuff and each other, but it's unclear why or what's their plan. I don't think any people who had any idea about how soldiers and military works were on the set. Mi- 24 choppers shooting random buildings with rockets? And here I thought that every pilot is given orders and targets to waste expensive munitions on... Also, MI-24 sports a deadly cannon, but it's used only once, missing everything, and soldiers act as chopper had blind men for pilot and gunner, not taking cover. Tanks constantly missing targets and not using machine guns? Taking down a chopper with a single LAW rocket?bombers taking down a restaurant residing in basically nowhere? This all felt very bizarre and pointless.

I could go on, but there's no need. Let's just say that this movie is very average, has some good moments, lots of unmemorable moments, and some outright stupid ones. So pick it up from bargain bin, but don't expect too much.

...as for amount of propaganda, this movie is 100% okay, considering what comes from Moscow. Sure it's all bloated and overrated but this is how we rock in those former USSR satellite countries. Even 50 of such movies can't counter a single evening news show from random Russian TV-channel. For westerners, you just have to accept that rules are different, but watching all those Normandy landings in every Hollywood movie and video game, maybe not as much as you might think.