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Film Review: “San Andreas”

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Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Cugino, Paul Giamatti

Directed by: Brad Peyton

Today I’ve just seen the film, “San Andreas”, the film about the Earthquake and here is my review:

Plot/Synopsis: In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his daughter.

I love movies about natural disasters but most of them were pretty bad and silly. Finally, we get a natural disaster movie about Earthquakes that is really great! Yeah, I was pretty impressed with the film, “San Andreas” starring the Rock. Some people may view this movie as a typical action flick like all the others but not really. The film is more than that. I thought the movie wanted to tell you a serious story. A story that could happen in real life. Some may think that an Earthquake won’t be able to wreck an entire city but yes it can. Earthquakes wrecked cities in the past before in real life. It doesn’t happen very often but it has happened before.

As far as the movie goes, some may say this movie has no plot but they are definitely wrong. I viewed this movie as them given you a safety lesson. They wanted to show you what to do during an Earthquake to protect yourself and to help others in danger. That’s pretty much the goal with the movie the way I saw it. The movie was more than special effects and action scenes… I think the film wanted to save lives in real life in case a huge earthquake ever happened like that again in the future, ya know? Yes, a huge earthquake can happen again. It can happen again anytime ’cause Mother Nature is unpredictable… she does what she wants to the Earth.

Anyway, yes, the action scenes were a blast to watch and a thrill ride. The action scenes were also pretty intense and kind of frightening. Of course, the special effects and cinematography was the most impressive. They did a great job with the CGI in this movie. Dwayne’s acting is improving in every film he does as I thought he did a really good job in this role, I was impressed with him too. Plus, Paul Giamatti is the shit!

This was a very good film surprisingly. I really liked it a lot!

I’ll give “San Andreas” a score of 4 out of 5 as in “Good”.

Kev

Random/off topic posts

Well, Hurricane Irene did hit NY pretty good, but not that hard as people expected…

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I predicted the Hurricane Irene wasn’t going to happen at all but look like I thought wrong.  A tree fell in my yard of my house. The tree didn’t land on top of my house thankfully. Only one tree fell in my yard, that was it.

Today was a great day to stay in the house, to do some reading or play with the computer or whatever. We didn’t even lose power here in Greenwich either.

I finished reading the fifth book of “The Song of Ice and Fire” series, “A Dance With Dragons” today, I will write a review of that book soon. I just started reading Jaycee Dugard’s book, ” A Stolen Life”, after that.

All day on facebook, people were posting songs that had something to do with storms or hurricanes. Of course, Scorpions “Rock You Like a Hurricane” was the most posted, but I posted songs about storms that people didn’t know about.

Like these songs in the videos I posted in facebook today.

I hope all readers had a safe day and hope your home didn’t get too much damage. Even if your home is destroyed, that’s not really important. Staying alive is important. We should all be thankful that we’re still standing because Hurricane Irene could have killed us all if she wanted to.

Today was interesting day.

Kev

Crazy stuff

Massive 5.8 quake shakes East Coast…

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I was reading a book on the front porch all afternoon (George R.R. Martin’s “A Dance With Dragons”). I go back in to check facebook, and almost everybody is talking an Earthquake that just happened in NY State. The quake came from Virginia and rocked almost all of the East Coast.

Did I feel it? Did I notice it? I think I did. I was reading on a couch that swings back and forth on the front porch. I felt it swinging back and forth by itself, and  I didn’t even move it. I think I did feel something, not quite sure.

A nasty rumor started in twitter that the Washington Monument tilted because of the quake, don’t believe it as of yet, folks, it could be a hoax. Even though it was brought up by FOX news and MSNBC, it still doesn’t mean it’s confirmed. I’ll believe it when I see the Monument myself.

We hardly ever get earthquakes around here, once in a while we do, but I think this is the first time we got a pretty big one.

Kev