erkansirin78

IMDb member since June 2006
    Lifetime Total
    10+
    IMDb Member
    18 years

Reviews

The Last Thing He Wanted
(2020)

Is Ben the lead?
I thought I was going to see Ben Affleck. But He barely appeared, maybe less than 5 mins. I didn't get what was his relation to Anne. It was hard to follow what is happening, or I lost my focus at an early time. Costumes and cinematography from the '80s are good. I don't recommend it. Putting ben to trailers or posters is misleading.

Karakomik Filmler: 2 Arada
(2019)

Cem Yilmaz and His Gang in Action Again
I have watched all the movies of Cem Yilmaz. This one is the worst. Seeing the same players in every movie is boring. It seems they found a gang and don't let anyone else join. There is 2 movie and they are hardly related to each other except the initial and last scene. But these two scenes seem artificially put into movie to manipulate audience perception: "oh yes, these two is related". If we have to compare two: the second one is better.

Hababam Sinifi Yeniden
(2019)

Total disappointing
It's totally disappointing as if they need money, they set up the bench and they filmed it in a week.Characters half hababam half fake. Forced jokes and behaviors were so repulsive that I couldn't resist.

Secret Superstar
(2017)

The girl in the burka is human like us
I know He's not the director, but I'm going to make my review as if he is the director. I apologize to Mr. Advait in advance. We already know the producer company.

Aamir Khan plays in another movie social aspect is very strong. I don't know anybody in Bollywood who cares more about social issues as much as him. Besides, he handles the subjects he deals with perfectly. In this film, we can see that women can stand against what is drawn to them and impose as fate. Moreover, in the eyes of Westerners, under the burqa, which is almost identified with the terrorist image, there is a message that there may be a person who is cute, full of life and can play guitar. Why didn't Insia thank her boyfriend and Aamir Khan?

Falling Inn Love
(2019)

Turkish Series Like Movie
Quite mediocre like other Netflix originals. Totally predictable, no surprises. Bored American girl looks for solace in exotic remote land.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle
(2017)

Enjoyable but
1. Although it is enjoyable I don't understand how Harry get that Whiskey is a double agent and why Whiskey became like that. Did he really lose his memory or just pretended to and meantime he got who Whiskey really was. 2. High school girl friend's death is not convincing. It could have been more robust and grounded excuse which I would like to see clues to solve this. 3. Invincible Poppy is defeated so quickly which is not consistent her given evil power. 4. It was so sad blowing out Kingsman facilities with missiles. 5. Deficiency of scenario. 6. Where is the Singapore? 7. I expected Harry trained in order to gain his ex-power.

Iftarlik Gazoz
(2016)

Comedy or Drama?
Once heard Cem Yilmaz is starring I expected somewhat comedy, like GORA and Yahsi Bati, it was so though, until last ten percent. It suddenly turned into hard drama. I don't understand who the target audience are? Comedy lovers or drama addicts? Anyway, scenery, Aegean village, farmers, tobacco fields, spring, lulaby, open-air cinema were so nice. When compared with Ottoman period TV series scenery was far better, which are just composed of a bunch of Belgrade Forest and pompous costumes. But I felt like I was in the 1970's while watching it. Just a moment I thought the topic is just about a child's weird tides in Ramadan. In animation part, ant's "I'll die on my way" catchword was so cliché. I expected something more deep. Mosque scenes were unnecessarily long. Some players imitated pretty well Aegean sweet accent while others mucked up. Some latent messages were splattered through movie, especially on contrast with ordinary villagers and scholar boy, Hasan. Cibar Kemal resembles Iskender in Hokkabaz in many ways.

The Proposal
(2009)

Funny Romance
I missed out Proposal in the theater. A friend made me realized and recommended it while having nice dinner. Movie starts at classical New York working office and continues Alaska's outstanding nature and ends with happy ending in New York. I re-discovered that some feelings need some adventures and time in different context to show up. Knowing somebody more closely requires spending some time together. If Andrew and Margaret they had not had Alaska trip, their hidden feeling each other would have never sprouted and come to light, especially someone like Margaret who suppresses her feelings. I appreciate Andrew's generosity for sake of his friendship, mixed with subordinate obedience, then love, towards Margaret. Fictitious marriage ignited real love. I wonder what this will spark. Thanks again :)

Dügün Dernek
(2013)

Doomed to local absurdity
Having seen rated almost 8, I expected to see something good, something different from previous local absurdities. Unfortunately I disappointed. Hearing high box-office hit, I have begun to doubt local audience's health of sense of humor. Players' manners resembled Recep İvedik and were unnatural, artificial. They forced themselves to be comic but they exaggerated and finally failed due to falling far from natural acting. Plot was so absurd as much as manners. Beautiful Slavian girl who falls in love with Turkish guy and comes Turkey at the expense of her threatening compromised Ukrainian fiancé and his fellows' wrath. Many guys are fascinated by this type of relationship and in order to fulfill such a dream rush Slavian dating sites. There was nothing to stimulate intellectual indulgence. It couldn't survive but being some kind of Recep İvedik. There were no place for woman, all women were given merely unimportant roles including groom's mother and enchanted Ukrainian bride who hardly talked. It was nothing but man-to- man garbage. They could have been shown Sivasians' pure accent and the way of living and generated more quality comics and humors. İmitating Sivas accent was also awful and couldn't substitute it. I fed up with seeing same style of absurdities and impatiently wait for high quality products that targets international audience credits.

Jab Tak Hai Jaan
(2012)

Best SRK love story in last decades
I had been thinking that SRK was not gonna touch deep in my heart again since Veer-Zaara and Kal Ho Naa Ho. Once I watched Jab Tak Hai Jaan, I realized that I was wrong. Yes, I was really really and terribly wrong. What was that? It slugged me. Although I have same profession with major Samar, the profession which is supposed to be masculine :), I couldn't help but cry. Yes I cried. Raised in a culture where crying is perceived as a sign of weakness and femininity, I was not allowed to, but even so I let it go. SRK is so lovely, romantic and warm person. Who can resist his charm and sweetness? Despite in his late forties He can still play very well in love stories and preserves his appeal. I pray God to stop his aging so that he will be able to play more and more in romance movies like this one. As if He is sent earth to accomplish a mission which is love and to be loved and teach this all people. Heer echoed in my mind for days along, best song in the movie. Actually I don't know Hindi except a few common words in our languages, Turkish and Hindi, indeed I don't need to. We are all humans. Although we speak different languages, the language of feelings are always same. We are able to love, one of the most powerful feeling God had given us. I have realized again we need to love someone and to be loved in return and then life can become more meaningful and worth to live. I thank all staff who put so much in this warm and nice movie. It has succeeded to flow in my heart. I can still feel its warmth in there :) We are very close and alike.

Django Unchained
(2012)

Bloody
There are plenty of blood and killing. People are killed merely for nothing. Once a creature is hit, it flies in the air and all blood (maybe more than a normal human being and creature can have) blow out. Everywhere are full of purposeless people. For sake of catching an outlaw gang and saving a slave wife almost a hundred people have been killed. Killing people is like drinking water. Then we surprise hearing in press how possibly could a child obtain a gun, raid school and kill everyone and his brother. If you search for slightest humanity, you will return empty-handed. This Quentin Tarantino is crazy man. He always tries to surprise audience. He always suddenly kills my favorite character Vincent in Pulp Fiction and Dr. Schultz in here. I thought Dr. Schultz also was gonna meet happy ending but he got himself killed for nothing. A wise and smart man should not done such a stupid and silly move. He said: "I am sorry! I couldn't resist". Who knows maybe he is sick. Finally it is hard for me to understand which motives lie beneath to kill so much people. At the end of movie our charismatic negro saved his wife and they rode on towards mysterious future leaving back hundred dead. Maybe they even dare to hope to be happy. We'd better ask Tarantino :) how about...?

Uzun Hikâye
(2012)

Don't expect something very good...
I am not specialized in cinema, acting, playing etc. I am just an ordinary audience. So I review on this aspect and write what I feel.

I like Kenan Imirzalioglu. Maybe because He is my fellow countryman. But I have to critic him a little. On screens He all plays same character. This man always belongs to below middle-class, undergraduate. He is altruistic, straightforward, brave, gentlemen, devoted to his family but tough to bad guys. He barely has an occupation. What he does and how exactly earns his life we don't know. He always oppose, challenge and never surrender. This way of his personality attracts many hostiles and sooner and later those who are not get over with him try to take revenge from his family and beloveds. Though he is ready to die for his beloveds, his stubborn nature indirectly risks his family. He can't get out this contradiction. Although he seems to perform different character this time in Uzun Hikaye, there are many many similarities of his ex-roles. Yusuf in Deli Yurek, Mehmet Kosovali in Aci Hayat, Ezel/Omer in Ezel, Yandim Ali and Mahir in Karadayi. He failed this time too. I expect somewhat different roles which requires different personality and bored to see mono-type man.

As to movie. I couldn't get a clear message. I wondered from beginning to end how it was gonna finish and how all things bind together. Unfortunately it did not. The movie even don't point a serious critique judiciary although main character suffers from prosecutor's injustices. But Ali said that he was gonna campaign legal struggle that would exemplary to all town. An then I couldn't understand when and how Ayla and Mustafa fell in love and run. Anyway at last it was so simple and below the average. The movie was full of Turkish style conditioning, forceful and unnatural acting... Don't waste your time..

Fetih 1453
(2012)

Encouraging
It is far beyond the current Turkish movie standards and encourages further productions. The staff seems do their best. I congratulate the director, players and all other teams.

It is unfair to compare it with Hollywood history-war-action productions. Hollywood is a gigantic movie industry, dominant in the world and does not know any rival. But the topic, conquering the Istanbul, is one of the most important historical, cultural, religious and political event in the Turkish and world history. Consequently the expectations are very high and the movie is unable to meet those who anticipate to satisfy their national and religious feelings.

The movie may arise ordinary Turks', still have average adherence towards their soil, roots and ancestors, national and religious emotions. They may even give a cry in some scenes. I myself observed it in theater.

Certainly for the role of Sultan Mehmed Han, the director must have picked up someone else. Devrim Evin can't reflect the Great Conquerer's magnificence and his acting is poor. Ibrahim Celikkol is better than him both in shape and acting.

I think they cannot give up using women the way modern west mentality use it. Their approach on this matter is a little trendy. But, I give them right because they have to consider current audience demand for sake of commercial profit. The movie which deprived of love, attractive women and love scene has no much chance in box-office, especially in Turkey. Even so, I cannot help myself wishing their attachment to historical realities as Cary Fukunaga did in his Jane Eyre.

One of the absurd scene that draw my attention was Ulubatli Hasan's suppress rebellion attempt. He says to some of rebels: "Dogs! You have been eating our Sultan's bread" and other was in the Ak Shemseddin's advise. He says to the Mehmed II: "Strong winds blow in highs". These two scene were very funny. There is so much to review but i don't have too much time to write.

Finally, as a Turkish production, the movie is fine. I think it is one of the initials which hearten its predecessor. I believe Turkish movie industry will succeed more quality productions in a few decades. Turks have just begun which Hollywood and others did many years ago.

Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
(2011)

Real Deal
I anticipated when the movie was gonna start but it did not. There was no music, no surprise, no excitement, no fear etc. It flows calmly, no waterfalls at all. The characters are real, i know them very well. Because i am the child of that soil, Central Anatolia. Village headman's accent was marvelous, it is original. I thought he was performed by George Coloney at first sight. He is my favorite. That village house, hospitality, dinner, conversations, tea serving girl, police-prosecutor-gendarme NCO-drivers-workers-village headman relations are all consistent with the real life and original. There is no slightest exaggeration. To reflect Central Anatolian life more comprehensively, the director could have picked up other topics but buried man searching. Although the movie intended to show us real Anatolian life, it skipped some part of it. All characters are full of melancholy, there is no joy in it. It would be better they put some joy and music in it; bachelor party, sending off young men to military service etc. Even so I liked and rated 8 it. It is far above average Turkish movies. It has a style. But I still don't understand what is the production's connection with Bosnia and Herzegovina? All my respect...

Kurtlar Vadisi: Filistin
(2011)

Boosts up Turkish movie standards
First of all I should like to congratulate players, director, producer and other staff and Pana Film those who put so much work in this movie. It almost grabs Hollywood peer's standards with regard to action and engage scenes. It encourages Turkish movie sector. It hits the perception that The Turkish movies have poor quality once the Bollywood's had the same. Bollywood has improved its quality for ten years and is just about second movie industry around the globe. With this movie I am convinced from now on that Turks will be able to produce more quality movies.

Staff paid attention every details that is not likely to expected average Turkish movie. Action and engage scenes are so fine. Sound was great. Frankly I expected to see somewhat longer version of series broadcast on TV.

Finally, I must tell this as a tank expert: Mr. Alemdar you cannot drive and fire Merkava at the same time which did Rambo the same mistake in Afghanistan and at least should have send Memati or Abdülhey to driver section :)

Alageyik
(1969)

excellent
Aliye Rona performs great. Rona reflects, as mother of village, above the average an Anatolian mother in terms of compassion for a man even if he is not her real son. Bilal Inci plays bad man as usual that fits his nickname, unreliable Ali. Mine Mutlu fascinates us with her beauty and loyalty for Halil. As for Halil, what we can tell about him. He is the most wanted one who conquers all hearts. Defats Ali's men, gains friendship and support of villagers, proficient in using pistol, rifle and his slap on evil men's face. Story starts and ends in a little Taurus village which i desire to spend my holiday one of its wood hut. You can also see traditional wedding and witness people who waits for bridal chamber's bloody bed sheet in the next morning. The music of brown deer is also one of the great Anatolian folk song. Whenever i watch this movie i can't help myself wishing that i would be able to stop Halil chasing after false deer at the night of wedding. But every time he goes.. In short if you still didn't see it, it is strongly recommended.

See all reviews