The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
                                                 

Plot

Set in New York city The Mortal Instruments City of Bones follows the life of an almost ordinary teenager, Clary Fray (Lily Collins). Clary has lived in New York with her mother for as long as she can remember, but what Clary doesn't know is that her family are descendants of a large line of shadow hunters. Half angel half human demon hunters. They are a secret organisation who are sworn to protect the world from demons and other things that go bump in the night. After Clary's mother Jocelyn (Lena Headey) is taken, Clary must join forces with a group of young shadow hunters who introduce her to a dark dangerous world that she never knew existed. This world is called Downworld packed with demons, vampires, werewolves and other unearthly creatures Clary must fight to find and save her mother. 

What I liked

There are many points I liked and disliked about this movie here are a few things I enjoyed about the movie.

CGI was amazing on the movie with a budget of $60,000,000 (estimate) you would expect it too as well, I thought it captured and added great effect to the demons and all the other dark malicious characters in the film.

Furthermore, when I went to see the film the day of the release I finished reading the book 4 hours before leaving to see the film. Towards the end of the film you could tell the film makers really wanted to detail to the big finale they almost literally word for word acted out the book on the big screen which is an incredibly rare thing to see from a book to film.

What I disliked

From the beginning of the film you could tell it was rushed. The film makers obviously wanted to leave a lot of time for the ending of the film and make the start significantly shorter in time, but shorter in time means shorter in detail. I feel the audience wouldn't have had enough time to emotionally connect with all the characters therefore they wouldn't feel like they were deep enough into the story to really experience the story in proper detail. Lack of this early detail and having huge amounts of time for the end of the film made it drag slightly you didn't care as much for the characters and therefore really didn't care what would happen to them at the end of the movie.

Conclusion

Overall The Mortal Instruments City of Bones was an okay movie to watch I don't believe it was as good as the books, but then again movies never are. To Improve the film makers could of spaced out detail and time within the movie to allow the audience to gain a better understanding of the characters and there roles withing the story. 

    

                                                                        The Lone Ranger 

The Lone Ranger is a 2013 box office film produced by Walt Disney Pictures & Jerry Bruckhiemer Films it is directed by Gore Verbinski. The american western action film is based on a radio series of the same name.
Staring Johnny Depp as Tonto one of the main characters of the film, and Armie Hammer cast as John Reid the lone ranger. 

The plot carries a typical american western film feel, in 1933 an elderly Tonto tells the tale of John Reid The Lone Ranger to a curious young boy. John Reid is a lawyer in the late 1800's he rides with his fellow Texas rangers and brother, they are in pursuit of the notorious Butch Cavendish. 

Ambushed and left for dead John Reid is saved by Tonto who soon becomes his incomprehensible partner as they then pursue Cavendish and hope to bring him to justice. 

The film was predicted to be one of the summers biggest block buster hits, reuniting Johnny Depp and the rest of the Pirates of the Caribbean team. The film was a huge flop and is estimating to have cost Walt Disney up to $200m.

One of the reasons people believe the film done so badly is because the film makers believed having Johnny Depp on the cast for the film is an instant money maker, which obviously was not the case this time. Yes Depp has been in big hit films like "Edward Scissorhands (1990)" and "Pirates of the Caribbean (2003 on wards)". These films did make a great deal of money for the film makers back then, but now Depp has stared in films such as "The Rum Diary (2011)" and "The Tourist (2010)" which were huge block bluster flops just like The Lone Ranger. 

Other people say that the "American Cowboy" theme is dead and no longer as desirable as the new flashy super hero films that are being released. Everybody is craving new Captain America films and Spider Man films and Batman films. Introducing The Lone Ranger all over again can be boring to some people as they have seen it all before.

More reasons people disliked the movie were when the film was released in features it was contending with big hits such as "Man of steel", "Monsters University", "Despicable Me 2" this would of given The Lone Ranger a lot of competition on sales during that time.

Additional Reasons could be Western genre films have been very unsuccessful in the past few years examples being "Alamo(2004)" "Wild Wild West (1999)" these films floped pretty badly when they were expected to become big summer hits.

Color. A lot of people say that the film had a very dull color palette. The film lacked a sense of wonder and awe, films released such as "Avatar", "Alice In Wonderland" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" were incredibly beautiful colorful films which were all big hits. Color keeps the viewer interested it keeps them locked in so its no surprise people say that the lack of color caused disinterest towards the film.