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Real Steel but Human Compassion
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“If you get one shot, make it real. – Real Steel”
“When you feel weak, you feel like you just wanna just give up but you gotta search within you, try and find that inner strength And just pull that shit out of you, and get that motivation not to give up And not be a quitter no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face.” – Eminem
Real Steel - Rotten Tomatoes
Real Steel
Set in the near future, where robot boxing is a top sport, a struggling promoter feels he’s found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.
IMDB Rating – 7.5 / Rotten Tomatoes Rating – 5.9/10 / MY RATING :- 4/5
This month from Walt Disney Pictures and Shawn Levy (also the Director of Date Night, Night at the Museum, The Rocker) comes an action movie – Real Steel and proves the Shawn Levy is master of many trades. Shawn Levy is known for making Romance Comedies. His “The Rocker” was my favorite one, until I saw Real Steel. It’s a story about a guy abandoning his son when he wasn’t even born and then reconnecting with him 11 years later. It’s about a kid’s love for a Robot he scavenged from garbage. It’s about giant robots kicking each others goddamn-iron-asses.
The movie is epic, it is on acme of epicness, in fact it’s epic on so many levels that it redefines epicness. :-p
The Tech Side: The movie is set in 2030 where remote controlled humanoid-robots fight for pleasure of mankind. It’s Rocky Balboa Meets Iron-Man. The movie is about the robots but they’ve put some great attention to details on other technologies. Hugh Jackman uses a mobile, laptop and remote control which is fully transparent. The gadgets are great. Talking about the robots, they look real enough specially the HERO of the movie – ATOM. It is mentioned in the movie that ATOM is an old robot, built in 2014. 3 years from now? WAH! I can’t wait :p
The Human Side : Aside from kick-ass robots, this movie is about Hugh Jackman reconnecting with his son and realizing that abandoning is a sign of cowardice. The love and trust of a four year old for a Robot he built and trained, his will to fight to save his father’s ass…. Emotions through experiences is Shawn Levy’s signature style which we see again in this movie. We can actually relate to one character or another in this movie. There are some really lighthearted funny moments in the movie like when Hugh jackman’s 11 year old son asks Jackman- “You Sold Me?” “Yes!” “OK, give me half the money and I will be outta here.”
If you thought Evangeline Lilly was LOST, well she is back in Real Steel and she’s still smokin’, though she isn’t more than a cheergirl for Jackman and son here.
There is one more good thing in movie – The Soundtrack. Saying it’s awesome is understating it. Two Words – “Eminem ROCKS!”. “Bad Meets Evil – Fastlane” and “Eminem’s Till I Collapse”fills you with adrenaline rush. Other songs are equally great.
There are few lines I wrote in movie-hall inspired by this movie:
To reach the stars, I rose from the dirt;
Thousand punches, and see- I am still not hurt;
Now are you annoyed by my style- happy and pert?
I am the strongest and always will be- I reassert.
Now from this path of glory, you can’t make me sway;
I got the rhythm, you can’t take it away.
You thought I was down, and my hope was gone;
But it was dusk, and I was waiting for the dawn;
Just waiting for a chance to show my brawn,
and it’s the right time cause the war is on.
You just can’t win by the dirty games you play;
I got the rhythm, you can’t take it away.
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows : 2 – End of a Saga?
0“After all, to the well-organized mind
, death is but the next great adventure.” – Albus Dumbledore
“After all, to the well-organized mind
, end is but the next great adventure.” – Ashwin Saxena
Can you ever forget the joy of reading a Harry Potter book? 
With recently released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2, the epic saga that’s been running for 14 years comes to an end(:?:). Since the release of first Harry Potter book on 30 June 1997 to the release of last HP movie on 15th July 2011, everyone got hooked to the magical world of J.K. Rowling. Do you remember when you picked up your first Harry Potter novel? How magical it felt when you finally finished it? When you speculated the future of series? How you discussed with your friends about the illogical differences in books and movies?
I remember too! I am one of those people who read books first and watched movie later. I read the first book back in 2002 when I was 14. After that I read Harry Potter books multiple times. I used to troll around MuggleNet forums discussing theories, reading editorials and dissing people who believed Harry & Hermione will pair-up eventually. The fun days!
Yesterday I watched the final installment of Harry Potter movies – Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows : 2. The movie is great for those who’ve only watched HP-Movies till now. It summarizes the novel very well, but for novel fans like me, the movie felt rushed and had a number of logical inconsistencies. For example why Crabbe (the disgraced Jamie Waylett) was replaced as Malfoy’s henchman by Blaise Zabini in the climax’s Room Of Requirements sequence? The sequence in mystical King’s Cross feels too final, it seems ridiculous that Potter still has another big duel with Voldemort to come. What took an instant (Voldemort’s death) in book took 10 minutes in the movie. The battle of Hogwarts while had some awesome special effects, it didn’t feel as much epic. Where was Hagrid? Why add a throwaway line to create a romance between Neville and Luna?
Still I’m not disappointed with the movie. When it comes to book’s based movies, you can’t satisfy everybody. Some sequences in movie were clearly a work of art, Snape’s flashback, for example, is as emotionally devastating in the film as it is in the book, revealing him to be the greatest hero of the series in a sequence of ever-more-poignant vignettes. Snape did it all for love – which is the basic theme of the Harry Potter books. In fact if you ask me, the only love more stronger than his was of Lily Potter who died to protect her child.
Danial Radcliff, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are fantastic actors and I hope they don’t meet the same fate as of Elijah Wood (Froodo of Lord of the Rings, where is he anyways?).
I was too happy to see the ‘After 19 years’ sequence in the movie. It gives the story a proper closing. But is it really the end?
J.K. Rowling made sure that people won’t be able forget Harry Potter so soon. With the The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™ theme park at Universal Orlando now open for public and the new Harry Potter themed social networking site by J.K. Rowling herself- PotterMore coming this October, I don’t think potter-mania will go away anytime soon. J.K. Rowling has promised 15000 words of extra content, related to books to be available in PotterMore, that should keep most of the fans hooked.
In the end I would like to say that Harry Potter books were a great influence on me. Because of them, reading and writing became my passion and after them, I read many amazing novels, some even more satisfying than even Harry Potter books. If you have only watched Harry Potter movies till now- I suggest you go grab a book right now!