Fifty Shades of Grey (the film)

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Fifty Shades of Grey is just about as lame as the novel. The leads do not have chemistry, the intimate scenes lack heat and all in all it is just bland. Don't get me wrong I love the "ugly duckling getting the hottie" trope very much but it just doesn't work here, somehow all is fake and shallow. However Jamie Dornan is a real eye candy so I have watched it to the end. 

Carrie (Remake)

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Carrie (Remake) is not as good as the original film (and neither are as good as the novel). I don't really like Cloe Grace Moretz and Julienne Moore, despite being very good was not that prominent. All in all this ended up being a wasted effort as far as I'm concerned.  

Unbroken

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Unbroken is an interesting film in the way that it is directed by a movie star. I didn't particularly like it except for the cinematography but I have watched it to the end and Miyavi was inspired casting. 

Crazy Rich Asians

Crazy Rich Asians was OK. I'm happy that I picked it up at a sale though since I wouldn't want to pay the full price for it. The typical romance novel with a background of rich Asian characters doing everything their western counterparts do. 

The Name of the Wind

The Name of The Wind is yet another fantasy novel I kept hearing about but for some reason  I was not eager to read it. I saw the above copy at LA airport and the price was good so I grabbed it as a last minute purchase (they literally were announcing my flight at the time).

And I loved it. This novel deserves all the good praise it got. I have cried during and immediately ordered the second novel on Kindle while on vacation and read and finished it too and it turned out to be even better (the subject of another post).

Sadly the series are not finished and I have to wait until the third novel is out. 

Dearest

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Dearest was welcome surprise on the festival channel. I like the director Peter Ho and went into this knowing nothing but that it is a film about a lost child (the film plot descriptions are not usually reliable). This is a film about child abduction and its effects on parents and kids. There is also another victim (acted by Vicy Zhao tyring to downplay her beauty) the wife of the abductor. She thought that her husband brought abandoned children home (in reality he abducted one and the other he just found abandoned) and she believes that she is barren. The abducted child's parents are divorced and they don't get back together even after the kid is found but they do go to the support group together and only they can understand how the other feels. This turned out to be a very interesting film and I didn't even yawn during it. 

Blood on Snow

Blood on Snow well this is more of a novella and it is not Mr. Nesbo's finest hour.