Bone Collector is a 1999 drama-mystery-thriller feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The film was based on a crime novel written by Jeffery Deaver, concerning the quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme. It was the first book of the Lincoln Rhyme series.
A quadriplegic ex-forensics specialist, Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) and a patrol police, Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie), team up to resolve a string of murders all linked to a serial murderer by his signature: a single shard of bone is removed from each of the sufferers. Rhyme is bed-ridden, but communicates with Amelia through phone as she examines the numerous crime sites and collects evidence and reports back to him. Lincoln is fully unmindful to Amelia's wonderful beautiful looks - they operate on a completely professional height, and Lincoln's almost gruesome fascination in her is based on her professionalism and knack for crime solving.
The executioner poses as a New York taxi driver, and kidnaps and kills those who get in his cab. The first two victims are a married couple named Alan and Lindsay Rubin, who get a taxi home but then find themselves captured by the executioner. Amelia finds Alan's body buried in a Civil War-era railroad bed. She also uncovers a piece of shellfish, which finally leads Amelia - working with Rhyme - to Alan's wife, and a piece of paper. The detectives find Mrs. Rubin, too late, at a steam junction in a below ground services region of a building in the financial district, secured using old handcuffs or shackles at the mouth of a pipe which emits steam. She has been burnt to death from the steam. The assassin has also removed a bit of flesh and bone from her arm. Amelia uncovers another scrap of paper at the scene.
The assassin then kidnaps an NYU undergraduate. He is taken to a derelict slaughterhouse where he is tied to a pole and gutted with a knife, and left for rats to feed on. Amelia and Rhyme, using the clue left by the killer at the sight of Lindsay Rubin's death, find the victim, but again too late to rescue him. Again, the assassin has took a piece of the victim's bone. Amelia is able to collect the data, including another scrap of paper. The stress of the tense inquiry and bureaucratic challenges to both Amelia's and Rhyme's involvement with the case are having grave impacts on Rhyme's health and stability.
chasing piecing together the message the murderer was sending using the scraps of paper, Amelia and Rhyme are led to an old book of short stories, which in turn leads them to the executioner's next victims, a grandfather and granddaughter tied to a pier as the tide rises. The girl is rescued, but her grandfather dies. At the scene, Amelia discovers another bone, an old police badge, and an old subway map. These clues, and an earlier hint left by the killer at the sight of Mrs Rubin's demise lead Amelia to an forsaken subway stop, in which Amelia sees some numbers which have been tampered with to spell out Rhyme's police badge number. Amelia then figures out that the bone collector is chasing Rhyme.
The bone collector comes at Rhyme's house, and chasing slaying Rhyme's nurse Thelma (Queen Latifah) and Captain Howard Cheney (Michael Rooker) it is revealed that he is the medical technician who cares for Rhyme's medical equipment. The technician, Richard Thompson (Leland Orser), is an ex-forensic cop who wants settle scores because in the past, Rhyme's evidence helped condemn the slayer of planting forged facts at crime scenes. The result is that Richard was brutalized in prison and his life ruined. Despite the helpless state he is in, Rhyme manages to jam Richard's hand by flapping his bed horizontal, and in effort to release himself, Richard pulls Rhyme with him and they both collapse to the floor. Rhyme then manages to bite Richard in the neck, causing huge bleeding. Richard once again manages to free himself, grabbing a big knife and about to finish off Rhyme, Amelia suddenly appears with a gun, killing him before he has a chance to deliver the fatal stab.
The picture ends at a Christmas celebration at Rhyme's apartment with his sister and niece coming to visit him along with Amelia, Dr. Barry Lehman (John Benjamin Hickey), Kenny Solomon (Mike McGlone), Paulie Sellitto (Ed O'Neill) and his family, Eddie Ortiz (Luis Guzman) and his mother, and Lincoln's new nurse.
It was released on 5th November, 1999. Based on 82 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, The Bone Collector has an average approval rating of 28%, with an average score of 4.2/10. It is like Pavement (2002, Darrell James Roodt).
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
OCEAN'S TWELVE
Ocean's Twelve is a 2004 comedy film that takes place after the events of Ocean's Eleven (2001), which was a remake of the 1960 picture of the same name. Like its predecessor, the film used a celebrity group cast.
Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) rounds up the eleven members of Danny Ocean's (George Clooney) mob, and threatens them in order to compel them to pay back the $160 million that they stole from his Vegas nightclub from their previous robbery, along with $38 million in interest, within two weeks. Collectively, the unit is less by nearly half, and is pushed to stage one more burglary to gather the resources. The unit pick a European aim as they are too good recognized in the United States. For their first aim, recommended by an informer named Matsui (Robbie Coltrane) the team goes after the world's oldest stock record issued by the Dutch East India Company in 1602. Kept in a private home in Amsterdam, the worth would not be adequate to clear up the debt, but sufficient to postpone their due date. While the unit is able to break the security of the house, including physically lifting the house to gain the correct line of sight to turn off the security codes, they find they have been packed down by one more main robber, François Toulour, also known as "The Night Fox" (Vincent Cassel). Toulour invites Danny to his home, and informs that it was he that tipped off Terry on Danny's nightclub robbery, due to being upset that his mentor Gaspar LeMarc (Albert Finney) has believed Danny was the world's best robber. Toulour bets Danny to see who could first thieve the Coronation Egg within the week, offering to pay off Terry's debt if Danny be the victor
As Danny's group prepares to steal the Egg during its display at a museum, Europol detective Agent Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who has long been on the trail of LeMarc and Toulour, finds the stealing of the stock record. She tries to relate the robbery to Danny's unit due to her previous courtship with Rusty (Brad Pitt) and begins to trail them. As such, many of the group are captured in their first effort to lift the Egg, leaving only Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), "Basher" Tarr (Don Cheadle), and Turk Malloy (Scott Caan) free. Linus comes up with a second plot, in which Danny's wife Tess (Julia Roberts) is to masquerade as a pregnant Julia Roberts as to allow them to get close to the Egg, but the group is inadvertently obstructed by the arrival of Bruce Willis (playing himself) who recognizes Tess is not the real Julia Roberts. While Lahiri prepares her case against Danny's team, they are banished by Linus's mother Mrs. Caldwell (Cherry Jones) posing as a U.S. official.
Danny and Tess come back to Toulour's estate at Lake Como in Italy, where he discloses his excitement at their destiny and that he had stolen the Egg at night using his alertness to sneak past the laser sensors. Danny informs Toulour that he still lost the bet. Danny explains that when they arrived in Europe, they were contacted by LeMarc and told of the plans to move the Egg from Paris to Rome by way of a non-descript carrier while a show of an official band was made. Danny's team was capable to change the courier's backpack during transit with a same looking one carrying a replica of the Egg with no note, thus stealing the Egg before it even went on display. Toulour is forced to admit his defeat and pays the balance due owed to Terry.
LeMarc discloses in a meeting with Danny and Rusty that he had been playing a long con. LeMarc wanted to humiliate Toulour by taunting him into the bet with Danny, as well as to regain custody of the Egg that he had stolen himself long ago, only relinquishing it due to his wife's nagging. LeMarc wanted to be reunited with his daughter, discovered to be Lahiri, which could only be done after Danny's team was banished. With Rusty's help, Lahiri is flown in to an emotional meeting with her father. The unit pays the money back to Terry, though under watch by Toulour, and then enjoys a private poker session, with Lahiri rejoining with Rusty.
The film was released in the United States on December 10, 2004. The film received halfhearted reviews overall, receiving a rating of 58% at Metacritic. Ocean's Twelve grossed about $125 million in the United States and $351,331,634 after its worldwide theatrical run, while Ocean's Eleven made about $184 million domestically and grossed $444,200,000 worldwide in its entire box office run.
Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) rounds up the eleven members of Danny Ocean's (George Clooney) mob, and threatens them in order to compel them to pay back the $160 million that they stole from his Vegas nightclub from their previous robbery, along with $38 million in interest, within two weeks. Collectively, the unit is less by nearly half, and is pushed to stage one more burglary to gather the resources. The unit pick a European aim as they are too good recognized in the United States. For their first aim, recommended by an informer named Matsui (Robbie Coltrane) the team goes after the world's oldest stock record issued by the Dutch East India Company in 1602. Kept in a private home in Amsterdam, the worth would not be adequate to clear up the debt, but sufficient to postpone their due date. While the unit is able to break the security of the house, including physically lifting the house to gain the correct line of sight to turn off the security codes, they find they have been packed down by one more main robber, François Toulour, also known as "The Night Fox" (Vincent Cassel). Toulour invites Danny to his home, and informs that it was he that tipped off Terry on Danny's nightclub robbery, due to being upset that his mentor Gaspar LeMarc (Albert Finney) has believed Danny was the world's best robber. Toulour bets Danny to see who could first thieve the Coronation Egg within the week, offering to pay off Terry's debt if Danny be the victor
As Danny's group prepares to steal the Egg during its display at a museum, Europol detective Agent Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who has long been on the trail of LeMarc and Toulour, finds the stealing of the stock record. She tries to relate the robbery to Danny's unit due to her previous courtship with Rusty (Brad Pitt) and begins to trail them. As such, many of the group are captured in their first effort to lift the Egg, leaving only Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), "Basher" Tarr (Don Cheadle), and Turk Malloy (Scott Caan) free. Linus comes up with a second plot, in which Danny's wife Tess (Julia Roberts) is to masquerade as a pregnant Julia Roberts as to allow them to get close to the Egg, but the group is inadvertently obstructed by the arrival of Bruce Willis (playing himself) who recognizes Tess is not the real Julia Roberts. While Lahiri prepares her case against Danny's team, they are banished by Linus's mother Mrs. Caldwell (Cherry Jones) posing as a U.S. official.
Danny and Tess come back to Toulour's estate at Lake Como in Italy, where he discloses his excitement at their destiny and that he had stolen the Egg at night using his alertness to sneak past the laser sensors. Danny informs Toulour that he still lost the bet. Danny explains that when they arrived in Europe, they were contacted by LeMarc and told of the plans to move the Egg from Paris to Rome by way of a non-descript carrier while a show of an official band was made. Danny's team was capable to change the courier's backpack during transit with a same looking one carrying a replica of the Egg with no note, thus stealing the Egg before it even went on display. Toulour is forced to admit his defeat and pays the balance due owed to Terry.
LeMarc discloses in a meeting with Danny and Rusty that he had been playing a long con. LeMarc wanted to humiliate Toulour by taunting him into the bet with Danny, as well as to regain custody of the Egg that he had stolen himself long ago, only relinquishing it due to his wife's nagging. LeMarc wanted to be reunited with his daughter, discovered to be Lahiri, which could only be done after Danny's team was banished. With Rusty's help, Lahiri is flown in to an emotional meeting with her father. The unit pays the money back to Terry, though under watch by Toulour, and then enjoys a private poker session, with Lahiri rejoining with Rusty.
The film was released in the United States on December 10, 2004. The film received halfhearted reviews overall, receiving a rating of 58% at Metacritic. Ocean's Twelve grossed about $125 million in the United States and $351,331,634 after its worldwide theatrical run, while Ocean's Eleven made about $184 million domestically and grossed $444,200,000 worldwide in its entire box office run.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
AVATAR
Avatar is a 2009 American science fiction movie written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang.
In the year 2154, the RDA corporation is mining Pandora, the blooming, Earthlike moon of the planet Polyphemus, in the Alpha Centauri system. Parker Selfridge, (Giovanni Ribisi), the administrator, employs former marines as mercenaries to impart safety. The humans aim to ill-use Pandora's reserves of unobtanium, a valuable mineral.
Pandora is occupied by the na'vi, a Paleolithic species of sapient humanoids with catlike personality. Physically mightier and some feet taller than humans, the blue-skinned indigenes live in agreement with Nature and venerate a mother goddess called Eywa.
Humans cannot inhale Pandora's air. In order to move in relation to Pandora open, human researchers have genetically manufactured human-na'vi hybrid bodies called Avatars, which are managed by genetically matched human operators. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic ex- marine, arrives on Pandora to replace his killed identical twin brother, an Avatar worker. Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), the head of the Avatar Program, thinks him an poor stand-in for his brother, relegating him to a bodyguard role.
While Jake is escorting Augustine and biologist Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore) in their Avatar forms, the group is assaulted by a big predator, and Jake becomes separated and helpless. Trying to survive the night in Pandora's hazardous jungles, he is rescued by Neytiri (Zoë Saldaña), a female na'vi, Neytiri gets Jake back to Hometree, which is inhabited by Neytiri's tribe, the Omaticaya. Mo'at, (C. C. H. Pounder), the na'vi shaman and Neytiri's mother, directs her to coach him their methods.
Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), the mercenary head of the armed forces, comes to know of Jake's love affair with the Omaticaya, and offers him to walk again in exchange for providing intelligence on the citizens and learning what it will take to make them forsake Hometree, which rests above a large deposit of unobtanium.
Through the next three months, Jake becomes intimate to Neytiri and the Omaticaya, and begins to prefer the life he lives in the Avatar. Jake's affection begins to corrode his loyalty towards the firm and the humans and when he is finally initiated into the clan, he and Neytiri choose each other as acquaintances. Jake's change of faithfulness is exposed when he disarms a bulldozer as it destroys the Tree of Voices; upon seeing this, Col. Quaritch forcibly detaches him from his Avatar, and presents Selfridge and Augustine with a vlog in which Jake had accepted that his operation was futile; that the humans had nothing the Omaticaya considered to be of value and that they would never leave Hometree. This convinces Selfridge that negotiations would be ineffective and he orders the demolition of Hometree by a military hit.
Augustine, whose experiments suggests that all organisms on Pandora are associated in a vast bio-botanical neural network, protests at the devastation of Hometree, but Selfridge persists, allowing Jake only one hour to influence the na'vi to depart before Col. Quaritch's army get there. When he reveals the true nature of his project to the Omaticaya, Neytiri accuses him of betraying them, which results in Jake and Augustine's brief confinement. Jake's time runs out and Quaritch's forces devastate Hometree. Eytucan (Wes Studi), Neytiri's father and race chief, and many others are killed in the attack. Jake and Augustine are once over again disconnected from their Avatars and held for betrayal against the humans. Trudy Chacon (Michelle Rodriguez), a safety force pilot who is sickened by the bloodshed, breaks them out but Augustine is wounded by the cruel Quaritch in the course of their escape. With Augustine in a grave state, Jake turns to the Omaticaya for help. Searching for a way to regain their faith, he recalls that Neytiri told him that only five na'vi had ever tamed the Toruk, an immensely powerful flying creature. productively taming it, he flies to the na'vis, who have gathered at the sacred Tree of Souls. He pleads with Mo'at to heal Augustine, who is now dying. They attempt to transplant her soul into her Avatar but fail.
With the help of Neytiri and Tsu'Tey (Laz Alonso), the new guide of the Omaticaya, Jake vows defiance against the humans, and assembles thousands of na'vi from other clans. Col. Quaritch, seeing the na'vi's rising force, directs a defensive strike on the Tree of Souls, as it is the center of na'vi religion and culture; its destruction would leave the na'vi too discouraged to continue resisting the humans. As the humans move against the holy site, the na'vi fight back fiercely, but human technology and firepower outweighs their gallantry; they suffer heavy fatalities, including Tsu'Tey and Trudy. When all hope seems alone, the Pandoran wildlife suddenly attacks the humans in great numbers.
Col. Quaritch directs the bombing of the Tree of Souls but Jake demolishes the bomber before it can reach its goal. Quaritch flees in an AMP (Amplified Mobility Platform) suit. He finds the Avatar interface pod, where Jake's human body is located, and strikes it, damaging it and exposing Jake to Pandora's atmosphere. Neytiri kills Quaritch and saves Jake, seeing his human form for the first time. With the human attack successfully repelled, they reaffirm their love for each other. The defeated humans are expelled from Pandora, while Jake and his friends remain. Jake is seen wearing the insignia of the Omaticaya race guide, suggesting that he has become the new chief after the death of Tsu'Tey. The movie ends with Jake's soul being fruitfully transplanted into his na'vi Avatar.
Avatar premiered in London on December 10, 2009, and was released theatrically worldwide from December 16 - 18. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 83% of 229 critics have given the feature film a positive review, with a rating average of 7.4 out of 10. The feature film earned $27 million on its opening day, and $77,025,481 over its opening weekend domestically, making it the second largest December opening ever, behind I Am Legend.
In the year 2154, the RDA corporation is mining Pandora, the blooming, Earthlike moon of the planet Polyphemus, in the Alpha Centauri system. Parker Selfridge, (Giovanni Ribisi), the administrator, employs former marines as mercenaries to impart safety. The humans aim to ill-use Pandora's reserves of unobtanium, a valuable mineral.
Pandora is occupied by the na'vi, a Paleolithic species of sapient humanoids with catlike personality. Physically mightier and some feet taller than humans, the blue-skinned indigenes live in agreement with Nature and venerate a mother goddess called Eywa.
Humans cannot inhale Pandora's air. In order to move in relation to Pandora open, human researchers have genetically manufactured human-na'vi hybrid bodies called Avatars, which are managed by genetically matched human operators. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic ex- marine, arrives on Pandora to replace his killed identical twin brother, an Avatar worker. Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), the head of the Avatar Program, thinks him an poor stand-in for his brother, relegating him to a bodyguard role.
While Jake is escorting Augustine and biologist Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore) in their Avatar forms, the group is assaulted by a big predator, and Jake becomes separated and helpless. Trying to survive the night in Pandora's hazardous jungles, he is rescued by Neytiri (Zoë Saldaña), a female na'vi, Neytiri gets Jake back to Hometree, which is inhabited by Neytiri's tribe, the Omaticaya. Mo'at, (C. C. H. Pounder), the na'vi shaman and Neytiri's mother, directs her to coach him their methods.
Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), the mercenary head of the armed forces, comes to know of Jake's love affair with the Omaticaya, and offers him to walk again in exchange for providing intelligence on the citizens and learning what it will take to make them forsake Hometree, which rests above a large deposit of unobtanium.
Through the next three months, Jake becomes intimate to Neytiri and the Omaticaya, and begins to prefer the life he lives in the Avatar. Jake's affection begins to corrode his loyalty towards the firm and the humans and when he is finally initiated into the clan, he and Neytiri choose each other as acquaintances. Jake's change of faithfulness is exposed when he disarms a bulldozer as it destroys the Tree of Voices; upon seeing this, Col. Quaritch forcibly detaches him from his Avatar, and presents Selfridge and Augustine with a vlog in which Jake had accepted that his operation was futile; that the humans had nothing the Omaticaya considered to be of value and that they would never leave Hometree. This convinces Selfridge that negotiations would be ineffective and he orders the demolition of Hometree by a military hit.
Augustine, whose experiments suggests that all organisms on Pandora are associated in a vast bio-botanical neural network, protests at the devastation of Hometree, but Selfridge persists, allowing Jake only one hour to influence the na'vi to depart before Col. Quaritch's army get there. When he reveals the true nature of his project to the Omaticaya, Neytiri accuses him of betraying them, which results in Jake and Augustine's brief confinement. Jake's time runs out and Quaritch's forces devastate Hometree. Eytucan (Wes Studi), Neytiri's father and race chief, and many others are killed in the attack. Jake and Augustine are once over again disconnected from their Avatars and held for betrayal against the humans. Trudy Chacon (Michelle Rodriguez), a safety force pilot who is sickened by the bloodshed, breaks them out but Augustine is wounded by the cruel Quaritch in the course of their escape. With Augustine in a grave state, Jake turns to the Omaticaya for help. Searching for a way to regain their faith, he recalls that Neytiri told him that only five na'vi had ever tamed the Toruk, an immensely powerful flying creature. productively taming it, he flies to the na'vis, who have gathered at the sacred Tree of Souls. He pleads with Mo'at to heal Augustine, who is now dying. They attempt to transplant her soul into her Avatar but fail.
With the help of Neytiri and Tsu'Tey (Laz Alonso), the new guide of the Omaticaya, Jake vows defiance against the humans, and assembles thousands of na'vi from other clans. Col. Quaritch, seeing the na'vi's rising force, directs a defensive strike on the Tree of Souls, as it is the center of na'vi religion and culture; its destruction would leave the na'vi too discouraged to continue resisting the humans. As the humans move against the holy site, the na'vi fight back fiercely, but human technology and firepower outweighs their gallantry; they suffer heavy fatalities, including Tsu'Tey and Trudy. When all hope seems alone, the Pandoran wildlife suddenly attacks the humans in great numbers.
Col. Quaritch directs the bombing of the Tree of Souls but Jake demolishes the bomber before it can reach its goal. Quaritch flees in an AMP (Amplified Mobility Platform) suit. He finds the Avatar interface pod, where Jake's human body is located, and strikes it, damaging it and exposing Jake to Pandora's atmosphere. Neytiri kills Quaritch and saves Jake, seeing his human form for the first time. With the human attack successfully repelled, they reaffirm their love for each other. The defeated humans are expelled from Pandora, while Jake and his friends remain. Jake is seen wearing the insignia of the Omaticaya race guide, suggesting that he has become the new chief after the death of Tsu'Tey. The movie ends with Jake's soul being fruitfully transplanted into his na'vi Avatar.
Avatar premiered in London on December 10, 2009, and was released theatrically worldwide from December 16 - 18. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 83% of 229 critics have given the feature film a positive review, with a rating average of 7.4 out of 10. The feature film earned $27 million on its opening day, and $77,025,481 over its opening weekend domestically, making it the second largest December opening ever, behind I Am Legend.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
THE LONGEST YARD
The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy remake of the 1974 picture of the same name starring Adam Sandler, Burt Reynolds, Chris Rock, Nelly and Michael Irvin and directed by Peter Segal.
Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) is a former NFL player dishonored for shaving points in a big game, after a heated argument with his well-off girlfriend Lena (Courtney Cox) about his failure. He locks her in a cabinet, gets drunk, and goes riding in her Bentley Continental GT throughout San Diego. After completely damaging the car, he gets arrested for three years in Ellenville Penitentiary in Texas, as it was set by the jail's superintendent Hazen (James Cromwell).
In prison, the superintendent asks Paul to aid the jail guards' football team. After being reluctant a bit, Paul decides to assist him. He informs the superintendent that what his players needs is a tune-up match. This gives the warden an idea: Paul, with the help of fellow inmate Caretaker (Chris Rock), will make a team out of the prisoners for them to play as their tune-up match. He starts off with a poorly arranged team, before being noticed by another inmate, former football player Nate Scarborough (Reynolds), who decides to help him by coaching the players.
Paul, Nate, and Caretaker find a rating scheme on the criminals (up to five stars, depending on how prone to aggression they are). They all set out to find and employ some five star inmates: linebacker Joey Battle (Goldberg); fullback Turley (Singh Rana); and at safety, Torres (Lobo Sebastian). Paul realizes he needs more players. Caretaker suggests that it is due to their lack of "brothers", as they only have one currently on their team defensive lineman Switowski (Sapp), an brainless, child-like, and friendly but large strongman.They go to the black prisoners leader Deacon Moss (Irvin), who declares that none of them want to play on his players because of Paul's point-shaving account. So Paul challenges them to a 1 on 1 basketball game where if Paul wins, the men will join the team. They play basketball and call their own fouls, with Paul getting physically punished during the match. Despite Paul losing, one of the black inmates, Earl Megget (Nelly), is overwhelmed by Paul's flexibility and joins the players. Megget becomes the team's running back by impressing Paul with his running ability.
After a tip from Unger (David Patrick Kelly) that Paul and Megget are the only real offensive threats on the team, Captain Knauer (Fichtner), the guards' quarterback, decides that the guards should try to stop Megget by trying to get him to attack one of them and sticking them in lone captivity. Three guards Dunham (Austin), Garner (Bosworth) and Engelheart (Nash) try to irritate Megget by using racial slurs and making him pick up books they dropped on the ground frequently. The guards give up after he does not react to their nuisance. Seeing this, Moss and Cheeseburger Eddy (Crews), convince the rest of black prisoners to join the football team. The warden and guards go to extreme lengths to stop Paul's squad, even flooding their field, but the players overcomes these problems.
Caretaker advises that since the guards have been playing dirty that the prisoners should swap Engelheart's anabolic steroids for estrogen pills, examining x-rays of guards with broken bones, and stealing tapes of the guards older games. The guards Garner, Engelheart, Holland and Lambert (Romanowski) then make a decision to do something about Paul, and have Unger plant a bomb, cloaked as a radio, in his chamber. After the final day of preparation for the big game, Caretaker leaves early and places a gift for Paul in his chamber and accidentally sets off the bomb, and is killed in the explosion. During game day, the prisoners overcome a rough opening and end the first half with the score tied.
The superintendent is enraged, and informs Paul that if he doesn't lose then he would be framed for the murder of Caretaker. Paul says meanly, "Fine, but you get a 2 touchdown lead and you coast". The superintendent accepts to Paul's face, but he tells the guards' quarterback to get ahead by three touchdowns and inflict as much pain as possible. After the guards score two touchdowns (and Paul steps out faking injury), they start hurting players before scoring a third touchdown. After the guards injure two of the players, Paul goes back in. The prisoners pay no attention to Paul, letting him get sacked twice and forcing him to run the ball himself. After losing his helmet and still getting the first down, Paul accepts his interference and they rely on him again. They get back in it, but Megget gets hurt. Scarborough comes in for one play as replacement, and scores a touchdown off a trick play involving a drop called a Fumblerooski. They make a decision to go for the two point exchange, and they succeed. They get up to the line and seem to be baffled, and Paul and Coach opening arguing. The play is really a trap, and then Moss gets the snap and passes it to Paul, who scores the winning exchange. Finally Captain Knauer respects Paul's move and lets him know he will testify that Paul had nothing to do with Caretaker's death.
The superintendent comes over and begins to scold Captain Knauer for losing a fixed match and notices that Paul is heading towards the exit along with the fans. Pulling a sniper over, he asks that Paul be shot for attempting to escape. The sniper hesitates because of the many people near Paul, so the warden grabs the gun and passes it to Knauer, demanding that he should take the shot. Knauer sights up Paul, but is reluctant, calling out Paul's name a number of times to get him to stay. Paul does stop, but he was actually going to pick up the ball and head back. Knauer furiously hands the rifle back to the warden and exits. Paul and Scarborough head back towards the locker room and agree that they should tell the others where Unger is hiding. As the superintendent watches them leave, Moss and Battle pour a cooler of Gatorade on Hazen in a mockery of a typical football game celebration
It was released on March 27, 2005. The film did well at the box office. Its $47.6 million dollar opening weekend was the largest of Sandler's career and only second to The Day After Tomorrow. It was rated 4.8/10 from 162 reviews counted by Rotten Tomatoes.
Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) is a former NFL player dishonored for shaving points in a big game, after a heated argument with his well-off girlfriend Lena (Courtney Cox) about his failure. He locks her in a cabinet, gets drunk, and goes riding in her Bentley Continental GT throughout San Diego. After completely damaging the car, he gets arrested for three years in Ellenville Penitentiary in Texas, as it was set by the jail's superintendent Hazen (James Cromwell).
In prison, the superintendent asks Paul to aid the jail guards' football team. After being reluctant a bit, Paul decides to assist him. He informs the superintendent that what his players needs is a tune-up match. This gives the warden an idea: Paul, with the help of fellow inmate Caretaker (Chris Rock), will make a team out of the prisoners for them to play as their tune-up match. He starts off with a poorly arranged team, before being noticed by another inmate, former football player Nate Scarborough (Reynolds), who decides to help him by coaching the players.
Paul, Nate, and Caretaker find a rating scheme on the criminals (up to five stars, depending on how prone to aggression they are). They all set out to find and employ some five star inmates: linebacker Joey Battle (Goldberg); fullback Turley (Singh Rana); and at safety, Torres (Lobo Sebastian). Paul realizes he needs more players. Caretaker suggests that it is due to their lack of "brothers", as they only have one currently on their team defensive lineman Switowski (Sapp), an brainless, child-like, and friendly but large strongman.They go to the black prisoners leader Deacon Moss (Irvin), who declares that none of them want to play on his players because of Paul's point-shaving account. So Paul challenges them to a 1 on 1 basketball game where if Paul wins, the men will join the team. They play basketball and call their own fouls, with Paul getting physically punished during the match. Despite Paul losing, one of the black inmates, Earl Megget (Nelly), is overwhelmed by Paul's flexibility and joins the players. Megget becomes the team's running back by impressing Paul with his running ability.
After a tip from Unger (David Patrick Kelly) that Paul and Megget are the only real offensive threats on the team, Captain Knauer (Fichtner), the guards' quarterback, decides that the guards should try to stop Megget by trying to get him to attack one of them and sticking them in lone captivity. Three guards Dunham (Austin), Garner (Bosworth) and Engelheart (Nash) try to irritate Megget by using racial slurs and making him pick up books they dropped on the ground frequently. The guards give up after he does not react to their nuisance. Seeing this, Moss and Cheeseburger Eddy (Crews), convince the rest of black prisoners to join the football team. The warden and guards go to extreme lengths to stop Paul's squad, even flooding their field, but the players overcomes these problems.
Caretaker advises that since the guards have been playing dirty that the prisoners should swap Engelheart's anabolic steroids for estrogen pills, examining x-rays of guards with broken bones, and stealing tapes of the guards older games. The guards Garner, Engelheart, Holland and Lambert (Romanowski) then make a decision to do something about Paul, and have Unger plant a bomb, cloaked as a radio, in his chamber. After the final day of preparation for the big game, Caretaker leaves early and places a gift for Paul in his chamber and accidentally sets off the bomb, and is killed in the explosion. During game day, the prisoners overcome a rough opening and end the first half with the score tied.
The superintendent is enraged, and informs Paul that if he doesn't lose then he would be framed for the murder of Caretaker. Paul says meanly, "Fine, but you get a 2 touchdown lead and you coast". The superintendent accepts to Paul's face, but he tells the guards' quarterback to get ahead by three touchdowns and inflict as much pain as possible. After the guards score two touchdowns (and Paul steps out faking injury), they start hurting players before scoring a third touchdown. After the guards injure two of the players, Paul goes back in. The prisoners pay no attention to Paul, letting him get sacked twice and forcing him to run the ball himself. After losing his helmet and still getting the first down, Paul accepts his interference and they rely on him again. They get back in it, but Megget gets hurt. Scarborough comes in for one play as replacement, and scores a touchdown off a trick play involving a drop called a Fumblerooski. They make a decision to go for the two point exchange, and they succeed. They get up to the line and seem to be baffled, and Paul and Coach opening arguing. The play is really a trap, and then Moss gets the snap and passes it to Paul, who scores the winning exchange. Finally Captain Knauer respects Paul's move and lets him know he will testify that Paul had nothing to do with Caretaker's death.
The superintendent comes over and begins to scold Captain Knauer for losing a fixed match and notices that Paul is heading towards the exit along with the fans. Pulling a sniper over, he asks that Paul be shot for attempting to escape. The sniper hesitates because of the many people near Paul, so the warden grabs the gun and passes it to Knauer, demanding that he should take the shot. Knauer sights up Paul, but is reluctant, calling out Paul's name a number of times to get him to stay. Paul does stop, but he was actually going to pick up the ball and head back. Knauer furiously hands the rifle back to the warden and exits. Paul and Scarborough head back towards the locker room and agree that they should tell the others where Unger is hiding. As the superintendent watches them leave, Moss and Battle pour a cooler of Gatorade on Hazen in a mockery of a typical football game celebration
It was released on March 27, 2005. The film did well at the box office. Its $47.6 million dollar opening weekend was the largest of Sandler's career and only second to The Day After Tomorrow. It was rated 4.8/10 from 162 reviews counted by Rotten Tomatoes.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
LOST IN SPACE
Lost in Space is a 1998 picture produced by New Line Cinema, starring William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Matt LeBlanc, Gary Oldman, Jack Johnson, and Lacey Chabert, and is an version of the 1965-1968 CBS TV sequence Lost In space.
In the year 2058, Earth will be not fit to live in after the unalterable effects of pollution. The United Global space Force serves as the planetary government. Professor John Robinson, main scientist of the Jupiter project, will lead his family to the livable planet Alpha Prime to prepare it for colonization by building a hyper gate in orbit. The Jupiter 2 is equipped with a hyper drive that allows faster-than-light trip, which will be employed to vacate the people of Earth. However hyper gates must be constructed on Earth and Alpha Prime to provide steady points of departure and arrival. The mission is accelerated. Major Don West, a fighter steer from the hyper gate defense force is unwillingly drafted as the new steer of the Jupiter mission.
The Robinson family is having troubles of its own. John has been neglecting his family due to his work. His second daughter, Penny is a rebel teenager who doesn't want to go away from earth, Will, the youngest and only son, is a sharp boy (he builds a "time machine").
Dr. Zachary Smith, the Doctor overseeing the Robinson's health conditions for the journey, is bribed by the Global Sedition to disrupt the project via reprogramming the Jupiter 2's robot's commands to "Sixteen hours in commission destroy Robinson family. Destroy all systems". However before Smith can escape, he is ditched by his employers. The launch goes ahead without any problems. The Robinsons and Major West go into cryostasis before lift off.
Dr. Smith wakes up to realize the ship has taken off and the robot comes online and after damaging of several systems, Will is able to disable the robot. The sabotage causes the ship to swerve towards the sun. Major West and Professor Robinson decide to fly through the sun, using the ship's hyper drive without a hyper gate to distort through, the ship and its crew end up in a random (and apparently uncharted) part of the galaxy. Dr. Smith is immediately confined. Upon arrival, they come across a hole in space. Major West takes the Jupiter 2 into the hole, against John's instructions, where the crew comes across the Proteus, an Earth ship from the future. Attached to the ship is an unidentified, deserted alien ship except for a innocent, child-like alien life form. All soon discovers the ship has been infected with carnivorous and cannibalistic silicon-based spider-like life forms. Amidst the battle to flee the ship, a blast destroys the Jupiter 2, and they crash-land on the nearby planet.
On the planet, they find a feed source in the middle of a huge bubble. Professor Robinson and Major West realize it is in fact an area of time distortion where alternate future versions of Dr. Smith and Will have constructed a time machine, power-driven by their Jupiter 2's power core, and are to Earth before time to check the family from getting lost in the first place. Will (armed) and Smith both enters the bubble in search for Robinson and West, Smith having manipulated Will into thinking that the two adults are in danger. When Smith and Will come across the future Jupiter, Smith disarms Will through further manipulation and both enter the future Jupiter and controls the robot, via the remote he lifted from the Proteus. They are all betrayed by the future Smith, who is revealed to have changed into a huge space spider/human fusion as a result of the spider scratch he received on the Proteus. He knocks the human Dr. Smith unconscious, and imprisons the Robinsons and West.
West and Prof. Robinson plan an flee but Will frees the robot by removing the remote, while the rest of the group with the lifeless Dr. Smith head back to the Jupiter 2 of their time.The alternate Will soon discovers that he repressed reminiscences of Smith killing all the women and alters the time portal's size, limiting the size of a "man" that can enter. Smith then tells his plan to go back in time to Earth and spread his spider race across the Earth. Robinson soon fights Spider Smith, while Major West returns to the other Jupiter 2, without the power source, to try to empty the other Robinsons. Will fruitfully stops Spider Smith by slashing him across the face with a dagger and sticking it into the egg sac on his back, causing the baby spiders to come out and start eating Spider Smith. Spider Smith dies when Robinson kicks him into the time machine's field while it is too small for his giant form, killing him.
The family tries to flee, but the time bubble has made the planet unstable, and it is fiercely breaking apart. As a result of not retrieving more power core, the ship still does not have enough power to reach escape velocity. The marooned John Robinson watches as the Jupiter 2 is hit by remains and explodes in the sky. Future Will realizes his father loves his family, and lets John use the time portal and trip back in time to the Jupiter 2 just before it launched from his planet. The power core could only feed one journey back through time, and Future Will stays behind, wishing his family luck. Instead of trying to escape into the surroundings, John commands West to steer the ship through the planet's core as it is breaking up, enabling them to use the planet's gravity to thrust the ship through the other side. They escape, but the collapsed planet forms gravity well that begins to suck in the Jupiter 2. Once again the Robinsons must start the hyper drive; however, this time they are able to aim Alpha Prime using data downloaded from the Proteus' more detailed star charts. The film ends with the Robinsons and West activating the hyper drive, carrying the ship to Alpha Prime.
It was released on April 3, 1998. Reviews were generally negative for Lost in space, with a 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is like Supernova (2000, Thomas Lee). It was rated PG13 for some intense sci-fi action.
In the year 2058, Earth will be not fit to live in after the unalterable effects of pollution. The United Global space Force serves as the planetary government. Professor John Robinson, main scientist of the Jupiter project, will lead his family to the livable planet Alpha Prime to prepare it for colonization by building a hyper gate in orbit. The Jupiter 2 is equipped with a hyper drive that allows faster-than-light trip, which will be employed to vacate the people of Earth. However hyper gates must be constructed on Earth and Alpha Prime to provide steady points of departure and arrival. The mission is accelerated. Major Don West, a fighter steer from the hyper gate defense force is unwillingly drafted as the new steer of the Jupiter mission.
The Robinson family is having troubles of its own. John has been neglecting his family due to his work. His second daughter, Penny is a rebel teenager who doesn't want to go away from earth, Will, the youngest and only son, is a sharp boy (he builds a "time machine").
Dr. Zachary Smith, the Doctor overseeing the Robinson's health conditions for the journey, is bribed by the Global Sedition to disrupt the project via reprogramming the Jupiter 2's robot's commands to "Sixteen hours in commission destroy Robinson family. Destroy all systems". However before Smith can escape, he is ditched by his employers. The launch goes ahead without any problems. The Robinsons and Major West go into cryostasis before lift off.
Dr. Smith wakes up to realize the ship has taken off and the robot comes online and after damaging of several systems, Will is able to disable the robot. The sabotage causes the ship to swerve towards the sun. Major West and Professor Robinson decide to fly through the sun, using the ship's hyper drive without a hyper gate to distort through, the ship and its crew end up in a random (and apparently uncharted) part of the galaxy. Dr. Smith is immediately confined. Upon arrival, they come across a hole in space. Major West takes the Jupiter 2 into the hole, against John's instructions, where the crew comes across the Proteus, an Earth ship from the future. Attached to the ship is an unidentified, deserted alien ship except for a innocent, child-like alien life form. All soon discovers the ship has been infected with carnivorous and cannibalistic silicon-based spider-like life forms. Amidst the battle to flee the ship, a blast destroys the Jupiter 2, and they crash-land on the nearby planet.
On the planet, they find a feed source in the middle of a huge bubble. Professor Robinson and Major West realize it is in fact an area of time distortion where alternate future versions of Dr. Smith and Will have constructed a time machine, power-driven by their Jupiter 2's power core, and are to Earth before time to check the family from getting lost in the first place. Will (armed) and Smith both enters the bubble in search for Robinson and West, Smith having manipulated Will into thinking that the two adults are in danger. When Smith and Will come across the future Jupiter, Smith disarms Will through further manipulation and both enter the future Jupiter and controls the robot, via the remote he lifted from the Proteus. They are all betrayed by the future Smith, who is revealed to have changed into a huge space spider/human fusion as a result of the spider scratch he received on the Proteus. He knocks the human Dr. Smith unconscious, and imprisons the Robinsons and West.
West and Prof. Robinson plan an flee but Will frees the robot by removing the remote, while the rest of the group with the lifeless Dr. Smith head back to the Jupiter 2 of their time.The alternate Will soon discovers that he repressed reminiscences of Smith killing all the women and alters the time portal's size, limiting the size of a "man" that can enter. Smith then tells his plan to go back in time to Earth and spread his spider race across the Earth. Robinson soon fights Spider Smith, while Major West returns to the other Jupiter 2, without the power source, to try to empty the other Robinsons. Will fruitfully stops Spider Smith by slashing him across the face with a dagger and sticking it into the egg sac on his back, causing the baby spiders to come out and start eating Spider Smith. Spider Smith dies when Robinson kicks him into the time machine's field while it is too small for his giant form, killing him.
The family tries to flee, but the time bubble has made the planet unstable, and it is fiercely breaking apart. As a result of not retrieving more power core, the ship still does not have enough power to reach escape velocity. The marooned John Robinson watches as the Jupiter 2 is hit by remains and explodes in the sky. Future Will realizes his father loves his family, and lets John use the time portal and trip back in time to the Jupiter 2 just before it launched from his planet. The power core could only feed one journey back through time, and Future Will stays behind, wishing his family luck. Instead of trying to escape into the surroundings, John commands West to steer the ship through the planet's core as it is breaking up, enabling them to use the planet's gravity to thrust the ship through the other side. They escape, but the collapsed planet forms gravity well that begins to suck in the Jupiter 2. Once again the Robinsons must start the hyper drive; however, this time they are able to aim Alpha Prime using data downloaded from the Proteus' more detailed star charts. The film ends with the Robinsons and West activating the hyper drive, carrying the ship to Alpha Prime.
It was released on April 3, 1998. Reviews were generally negative for Lost in space, with a 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is like Supernova (2000, Thomas Lee). It was rated PG13 for some intense sci-fi action.
Monday, December 21, 2009
RAMBO
Rambo is a 2008 action picture starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam veteran John Rambo. Stallone also co-wrote and directed the feature film. It is the fourth installment of the Rambo series. This feature film is devoted to the remembrance of Richard Crenna, who played Col. Sam Trautman.
Burma is under the iron-fisted rule of Than Shwe and takes severe stances against the nation's pro-democracy movement. Rebels are thrown into a mine-infested marsh and then gunned down by the Tatmadaw.
Former U.S. combatant John Rambo lives in a village near the Burmese border line. He makes a living capturing snakes and selling them in a close by village. He also transports roamers in his boat. A missionary, Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze), asks Rambo to take him and his associates up the Salween River to Burma on a humanitarian mission to give aid to Karen tribespeople. Rambo is reluctant but is won over by Sarah Miller (Julie Benz) to take them.
The boat is stopped by pirates who exact Sarah in exchange for passage, which Rambo knows will lead to her rape, torment and most likely death of all on the boat. After negotiations fail, Rambo kills them all. Although his motives save the missionaries, it deeply hurts them. Upon arrival, Michael says that they will go by road and will not need Rambo's assistance for the return trip. The mission goes well until the Tatmadaw, led by Major Tint, attack. They kill most of the villagers and two missionaries and capture the rest, including Michael and Sarah. When the missionaries fail to come back after ten days, their pastor (Ken Howard) comes to ask Rambo's support in guiding hired mercenaries to the village where the missionaries were last seen.
Rambo agrees to escort the armed forces. After seeing the destroyed village, they plan to rescue the hostages at a camp. The Tatmadaw unit finds the hostages gone and organizes a massive manhunt. Everyone except for Rambo, Sarah, and the mercenary School Boy is abducted. Just as the group is about to be killed, Rambo hijacks a truck-mounted with machine guns. Karen rebels join Rambo and the armed force to win. Confident by Sarah's words, Rambo comes back to the United States.
It was released on January 25, 2008. It was the second highest grossing movie for the weekend in the U.S. and Canada behind Meet the Spartans. It earned a 37% rating on movie review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes.
Burma is under the iron-fisted rule of Than Shwe and takes severe stances against the nation's pro-democracy movement. Rebels are thrown into a mine-infested marsh and then gunned down by the Tatmadaw.
Former U.S. combatant John Rambo lives in a village near the Burmese border line. He makes a living capturing snakes and selling them in a close by village. He also transports roamers in his boat. A missionary, Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze), asks Rambo to take him and his associates up the Salween River to Burma on a humanitarian mission to give aid to Karen tribespeople. Rambo is reluctant but is won over by Sarah Miller (Julie Benz) to take them.
The boat is stopped by pirates who exact Sarah in exchange for passage, which Rambo knows will lead to her rape, torment and most likely death of all on the boat. After negotiations fail, Rambo kills them all. Although his motives save the missionaries, it deeply hurts them. Upon arrival, Michael says that they will go by road and will not need Rambo's assistance for the return trip. The mission goes well until the Tatmadaw, led by Major Tint, attack. They kill most of the villagers and two missionaries and capture the rest, including Michael and Sarah. When the missionaries fail to come back after ten days, their pastor (Ken Howard) comes to ask Rambo's support in guiding hired mercenaries to the village where the missionaries were last seen.
Rambo agrees to escort the armed forces. After seeing the destroyed village, they plan to rescue the hostages at a camp. The Tatmadaw unit finds the hostages gone and organizes a massive manhunt. Everyone except for Rambo, Sarah, and the mercenary School Boy is abducted. Just as the group is about to be killed, Rambo hijacks a truck-mounted with machine guns. Karen rebels join Rambo and the armed force to win. Confident by Sarah's words, Rambo comes back to the United States.
It was released on January 25, 2008. It was the second highest grossing movie for the weekend in the U.S. and Canada behind Meet the Spartans. It earned a 37% rating on movie review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
PAPER HEART
Paper Heart is 2009 American film starring Charlyne Yi and Michael. The name "hybrid documentary" was made by the filmmakers to explain the blend of fiction and non-fiction substance in the feature film. The plot for the feature film is based on Charlyne Yi's first idea of a documentary, which Nick Jasenovec suggested would be accentuated with a fictional storyline. It is written and directed by Nicholas Jasenovec.
The film follows Charlyne as she embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one and only matter she doesn't fully comprehend, considering her complete understanding of all subjects except one: love. As she and her good friend. Nick hunt for answers and advice about love, Charlyne talks with friends, strangers, scientists, bikers, romance novelists, and children. They each offer diverse views on present day romance, as well as numerous answers to the age-old question: does true love really subsist?As the movie begins, Charlyne meets a young man Michael Cera. As their courtship begins, her chase to discover the nature of love takes on a fresh new need. Charlyne doesn't want to risk losing the person she finds closest to her heart.
It was released on 7th August 2009. Paper Heart received mixed reviews by critics and currently holds a 61% new rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is similar to Juno (2007, Jason Reitman, Joe Drake). One can grab the first DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can see for released.
The film follows Charlyne as she embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one and only matter she doesn't fully comprehend, considering her complete understanding of all subjects except one: love. As she and her good friend. Nick hunt for answers and advice about love, Charlyne talks with friends, strangers, scientists, bikers, romance novelists, and children. They each offer diverse views on present day romance, as well as numerous answers to the age-old question: does true love really subsist?As the movie begins, Charlyne meets a young man Michael Cera. As their courtship begins, her chase to discover the nature of love takes on a fresh new need. Charlyne doesn't want to risk losing the person she finds closest to her heart.
It was released on 7th August 2009. Paper Heart received mixed reviews by critics and currently holds a 61% new rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is similar to Juno (2007, Jason Reitman, Joe Drake). One can grab the first DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can see for released.
Friday, December 11, 2009
TRANSYLMANIA
Transylmania is a 2009 mystery/farce sequel to the 2006 comedy National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2, the film is directed by the brothers David and Scott Hillenbrand and written by Patrick Casey and Worm Miller, starring Patrick Cavanaugh, James DeBello,
Tony Denman, Musetta Vander, Jennifer Lyons, Oren Skoog, Paul H. Kim, David Steinberg and Irena A. Hoffman
A group of American high school students tour to Romania on an international studies program, only to find that the strange legends surrounding this odd land are all too real. Oren Skoog and Patrick Cavanaugh headline this horror parody skewering every ogre movie formula possible. The group does a semester abroad in Romania and find that if the celebrating doesn't kill them, the vampires might kill them.
It was released on 4th Dec. The picture currently holds a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, receiving not one positive review. The film received very poor response from the critics and the box office, making it one of the biggest flops of 2009. It is similar to Scary Movie 2 (2001, Keenen Ivory Wayans). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free movies online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for free.
Tony Denman, Musetta Vander, Jennifer Lyons, Oren Skoog, Paul H. Kim, David Steinberg and Irena A. Hoffman
A group of American high school students tour to Romania on an international studies program, only to find that the strange legends surrounding this odd land are all too real. Oren Skoog and Patrick Cavanaugh headline this horror parody skewering every ogre movie formula possible. The group does a semester abroad in Romania and find that if the celebrating doesn't kill them, the vampires might kill them.
It was released on 4th Dec. The picture currently holds a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, receiving not one positive review. The film received very poor response from the critics and the box office, making it one of the biggest flops of 2009. It is similar to Scary Movie 2 (2001, Keenen Ivory Wayans). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free movies online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for free.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
EVERYBODY'S FINE
Everybody's Fine is a remake of the Giuseppe Tornatore movie Stanno Tutti Bene that is written and directed by Kirk Jones and stars Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale.
Eight months after his wife's demise, a widower's kids all of a sudden cancel a visit to him that weekend. He decides to see all his four kids, discovering that their lives are not perfect. After visiting his physician and being cautioned about his health, Frank Goode (Robert De Niro) goes to New York, and sits on his son David's doorstep. David never comes, but Frank sees one of David's paintings in an art gallery. He slips an envelope under David's door.
Then he visits his daughter Amy (Kate Beckinsale), who says it's not a good time to visit. The next morning, Frank goes with Amy to her lavish office and hears her agency's pitch for a TV ad. She takes him to the bus station to see Robert.
As Frank travels to each of his kids's homes, the film cuts to phone conversations between the siblings. David is in some type of problem in Mexico, and Amy is going there to find out what is going on; the sisters and Robert (Sam Rockwell) agree to not tell their father about David until they know the fact.
Frank arrives in Denver expecting to see Robert perform the orchestra. It turns out Robert is only a percussionist. He also says Frank's visit is at a bad time, so within hours Frank goes to Las Vegas to meet Rosie (Drew Barrymore). Frank is adamant that each visit is a surprise, but Robert calls Rosie to caution her.
Frank is harassed by a assailant who destroys Frank's prescription tablets. Frank manages to escape and scrapes up some of the trampled tablets. He has a dream that his son David is in jail.
He arrives in Las Vegas. Rosie picks him up in a stretch limo and tells him she was in a big show that just ended. She takes him to her elegant apartment, where her friend brings over a child for last-minute babysitting. Frank overhears a message being left on an answering machine, indicating the apartment is borrowed from Rosie's friend. He is not happy, knowing all his children are lying to him.
Frank flies back home without his tablets when he has a heart attack in the toilet. Frank has another vision of his kids as young kids; in the vision, he knows Amy's husband has left for another woman and Rosie's friend's child is really Rosie's kid. The kids and their mother always kept the unpleasant truth from Frank. While Frank thought he was encouraging his kids, they thought he was pressuring them and would be let down in how their lives really turned out. Then in the hospital, where he wakes up in bed with Amy, Robert, and Rosie standing there. They inform him David has died.
Frank goes back to New York to buy David's painting but it has already been sold, the gallery sells him another painting by David that is more appropriate to him, a landscape showing PVC-covered power lines (Frank made PVC-covered cable for years). He visits his wife's tomb and talks to her.
The feature film opened on December 4, 2009. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 47% of critics gave the picture positive reviews based on 85 reviews with an average score of 5.3/10. It is a version of Everybody's Fine (1990, Giuseppe Tornatore)
Eight months after his wife's demise, a widower's kids all of a sudden cancel a visit to him that weekend. He decides to see all his four kids, discovering that their lives are not perfect. After visiting his physician and being cautioned about his health, Frank Goode (Robert De Niro) goes to New York, and sits on his son David's doorstep. David never comes, but Frank sees one of David's paintings in an art gallery. He slips an envelope under David's door.
Then he visits his daughter Amy (Kate Beckinsale), who says it's not a good time to visit. The next morning, Frank goes with Amy to her lavish office and hears her agency's pitch for a TV ad. She takes him to the bus station to see Robert.
As Frank travels to each of his kids's homes, the film cuts to phone conversations between the siblings. David is in some type of problem in Mexico, and Amy is going there to find out what is going on; the sisters and Robert (Sam Rockwell) agree to not tell their father about David until they know the fact.
Frank arrives in Denver expecting to see Robert perform the orchestra. It turns out Robert is only a percussionist. He also says Frank's visit is at a bad time, so within hours Frank goes to Las Vegas to meet Rosie (Drew Barrymore). Frank is adamant that each visit is a surprise, but Robert calls Rosie to caution her.
Frank is harassed by a assailant who destroys Frank's prescription tablets. Frank manages to escape and scrapes up some of the trampled tablets. He has a dream that his son David is in jail.
He arrives in Las Vegas. Rosie picks him up in a stretch limo and tells him she was in a big show that just ended. She takes him to her elegant apartment, where her friend brings over a child for last-minute babysitting. Frank overhears a message being left on an answering machine, indicating the apartment is borrowed from Rosie's friend. He is not happy, knowing all his children are lying to him.
Frank flies back home without his tablets when he has a heart attack in the toilet. Frank has another vision of his kids as young kids; in the vision, he knows Amy's husband has left for another woman and Rosie's friend's child is really Rosie's kid. The kids and their mother always kept the unpleasant truth from Frank. While Frank thought he was encouraging his kids, they thought he was pressuring them and would be let down in how their lives really turned out. Then in the hospital, where he wakes up in bed with Amy, Robert, and Rosie standing there. They inform him David has died.
Frank goes back to New York to buy David's painting but it has already been sold, the gallery sells him another painting by David that is more appropriate to him, a landscape showing PVC-covered power lines (Frank made PVC-covered cable for years). He visits his wife's tomb and talks to her.
The feature film opened on December 4, 2009. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 47% of critics gave the picture positive reviews based on 85 reviews with an average score of 5.3/10. It is a version of Everybody's Fine (1990, Giuseppe Tornatore)
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
UP IN THE AIR
Up in the Air is a 2009 American humorous-drama movie directed by Jason Reitman and co-written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner. It is a feature film adaptation of the 2001 book, Up in the Air, written by Walter Kirn. The story is about a corporate cut back in his travels and obeys his solitary life and philosophies, along with the people that he meets along the way. It casts George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick and Melanie Lynskey.
George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who travels around the country to terminate company workers.Walter Kirn avowed in the film's press notes: "Ryan is like a masseur who comes in and sort of rubs your shoulders while rolling your desk chair into the elevator." Ocassionally he delivers motivational speeches about the pro of a lonely life. He relishes the coziness of being anonymous during his perpetual travels. He does not have a personal life. His company chooses to ground him and keep him at the corporate H.Q. in Omaha, Nebraska. When his superior hires haughty young Natalie, she develops a method of video conferencing that will allow termination without ever leaving the office - essentially bullying the existence Ryan so cherishes. Confident to show the immature girl the error of her logic, Ryan takes her on one of his cross country firing expeditions, but as she starts to realize the frightening realities of her career, he starts to see the downfall to his way of life.
There was a limited release of this picture on 4th December 2009. The movie at present holds 89% 'Fresh' Rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 105 reviews, 93 of which are fresh, and 12 rotten. It is alike Jerry Maguire (1996, Cameron Crowe) The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who travels around the country to terminate company workers.Walter Kirn avowed in the film's press notes: "Ryan is like a masseur who comes in and sort of rubs your shoulders while rolling your desk chair into the elevator." Ocassionally he delivers motivational speeches about the pro of a lonely life. He relishes the coziness of being anonymous during his perpetual travels. He does not have a personal life. His company chooses to ground him and keep him at the corporate H.Q. in Omaha, Nebraska. When his superior hires haughty young Natalie, she develops a method of video conferencing that will allow termination without ever leaving the office - essentially bullying the existence Ryan so cherishes. Confident to show the immature girl the error of her logic, Ryan takes her on one of his cross country firing expeditions, but as she starts to realize the frightening realities of her career, he starts to see the downfall to his way of life.
There was a limited release of this picture on 4th December 2009. The movie at present holds 89% 'Fresh' Rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 105 reviews, 93 of which are fresh, and 12 rotten. It is alike Jerry Maguire (1996, Cameron Crowe) The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
Monday, December 7, 2009
ARMORED
Armored is a 2009 American crime suspense movie directed by Nimród Antal, written by first-time writer James V. Simpson, and starring Matt Dillon, Jean Reno and Laurence Fishburne.
Ty Hackett, a war hero, having bagged the Silver Star in Iraq (Columbus Short) is getting ready for work. He wakes up his younger brother, Jimmy (Andre Kinney), to get ready for high school. Ty is picked up by Mike Cochrone (Matt Dillon), and they carpool to work at the Eagle Shield Armored Truck Co.
Ty, Mike and Baines (Laurence Fishburne) go to a bank. They pick up the cash and on the way back, Baines notices a black van speeding towards them. The van stops, and cloaked men get out and attach an explosive machine on the back of the armored truck. Ty is scared and braces for the outburst, which turns out to be just a bottle rocket. Mike and Baines cackle hysterically, and the men take off their hoods: it was Ty's final test and now he is a full-fledged guard. The guys go out for drinks to celebrate.
While drinking, they tell him a story about a hijacked armored truck in Abilene years ago where they got away with $4 million; the thieves were never caught and the cash was never found. At work, Ty asks Ashcroft for more shifts; he is in trouble of losing his house to the bank. While they are driving, Mike talks again about the Abilene heist, and tells him that he thinks it was a false that the guards took the money.
At a hot dog stand, where local Sheriff Eckehart (Milo Ventimiglia) is there, Mike tells Ty that tomorrow they will most likely be carrying $42 million in their truck. Mike tells him that the other four guys on the team are in, and they are going to jack the entire $42 million, and sham they were really hijacked. Ty is in ordeal at the plan of robbing the firm and refuses a ride, and runs the whole way home.
Once home, Ty is met by a lady from Child Protective Services. Jimmy has missed more school than he's attended, and she is of opinion of putting him in further care, especially when she hears they may lose the home. The next morning, Mike is at the bus stop and waits for Ty, but he never does. In the locker room, suddenly Ty shows up and makes Mike promise that no one will be injured. Mike swears.The two trucks go the bank, and each has three agents: one team is Mike, Baines and Ty, and the other truck has Quinn (Jean Reno), Palmer (Amaury Nolasco), and Dobbs (Skeet Ulrich). The money is divided into the two trucks, while be guarded by powerfully armed guards. The two trucks drive off and radio in at the checkpoint. Ashcroft OK's the position and expects them in 51 minutes.
The trucks pull into an deserted steel mill, which is next to electrical transformers and they lose radio contact due to interference. Inside, they put it in duffel bags and then down deep in one of the smokestacks. They see an old homeless man move past a window, and chase him but he leaps off the barrier in a worried leap of faith. Ty rushes down and drags him towards a truck. Baines shoots the homeless man in the back. Ty is angry. Mike is angry at Baines for shooting him, but comes to know they had no other choice. Ty runs to one of the trucks, and locks himself in. Mike takes the other truck and follows him in a high-speed chase through the steel mill. Mike finally gets ahead and rams Ty's truck. The trucks crash. Ty turns on the siren, and Mike fumbles with the hood and then pulls out the fuse, turning off the alarm bell.
Meanwhile Sheriff Eckehart hears a faded siren, and goes Mike and the gang realize Ty isn't coming out, and they only have 40 minutes left, so they conspire to hit the bolts on the hinges of the armored truck's back doors. They will kill Ty and tell the cops he died a hero trying to stop the hijacking. They begin hitting the thick steel hinges. Ty whispers to Dobbs while the others are striking the hinge, and gets him to help him. Dobbs attempts to get the fuse from the other truck to give to Ty, and Baines catches him. He beats up Dobbs and then pours gas all over the engine. But Mike stops him. Palmer then stabs Dobbs.
Sheriff Eckehart drives around the lot, and loses radio contact. Before he can enter the building, Mike comes out, and tells him he is the security guard for the property and also the handyman.Ty makes an effort to hook up the siren, it sounds, and Baines fires the sheriff with his gun. While they are distracted with the sheriff, Ty sneaks out of the truck and lights the heap of stolen money on fire with a flare, and runs back. The guys run to the money, and Ty takes the sheriff to the armored truck and locks him in with himself. Without saying anything, Quinn drives the other truck away.While Quinn is gone, Ty sticks dollar bills all over the windows so they can't see in, and he sneaks out with the sheriff's radio, to go to the roof and try to get a signal. He does and gets a call out.
Quinn comes back with Jimmy, who he has kidnapped. Mike threatens to shoot Jimmy in the head, and so Ty opens the truck doors. After a long effort Ty wins over Mike and then Ty regains consciousness in the hospital. Ashcroft walks out, and tells Ty that Sheriff Eckehart explained all that Ty did to save him, and he mentions there might even be a prize.
It was released on December 4, 2009. The movie received mixed to positive reviews, getting a 57% (fresh) rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The cinematography of Andrzej Sekula (whose work also appears in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction) helps capture that mood, according to Scott.
Ty Hackett, a war hero, having bagged the Silver Star in Iraq (Columbus Short) is getting ready for work. He wakes up his younger brother, Jimmy (Andre Kinney), to get ready for high school. Ty is picked up by Mike Cochrone (Matt Dillon), and they carpool to work at the Eagle Shield Armored Truck Co.
Ty, Mike and Baines (Laurence Fishburne) go to a bank. They pick up the cash and on the way back, Baines notices a black van speeding towards them. The van stops, and cloaked men get out and attach an explosive machine on the back of the armored truck. Ty is scared and braces for the outburst, which turns out to be just a bottle rocket. Mike and Baines cackle hysterically, and the men take off their hoods: it was Ty's final test and now he is a full-fledged guard. The guys go out for drinks to celebrate.
While drinking, they tell him a story about a hijacked armored truck in Abilene years ago where they got away with $4 million; the thieves were never caught and the cash was never found. At work, Ty asks Ashcroft for more shifts; he is in trouble of losing his house to the bank. While they are driving, Mike talks again about the Abilene heist, and tells him that he thinks it was a false that the guards took the money.
At a hot dog stand, where local Sheriff Eckehart (Milo Ventimiglia) is there, Mike tells Ty that tomorrow they will most likely be carrying $42 million in their truck. Mike tells him that the other four guys on the team are in, and they are going to jack the entire $42 million, and sham they were really hijacked. Ty is in ordeal at the plan of robbing the firm and refuses a ride, and runs the whole way home.
Once home, Ty is met by a lady from Child Protective Services. Jimmy has missed more school than he's attended, and she is of opinion of putting him in further care, especially when she hears they may lose the home. The next morning, Mike is at the bus stop and waits for Ty, but he never does. In the locker room, suddenly Ty shows up and makes Mike promise that no one will be injured. Mike swears.The two trucks go the bank, and each has three agents: one team is Mike, Baines and Ty, and the other truck has Quinn (Jean Reno), Palmer (Amaury Nolasco), and Dobbs (Skeet Ulrich). The money is divided into the two trucks, while be guarded by powerfully armed guards. The two trucks drive off and radio in at the checkpoint. Ashcroft OK's the position and expects them in 51 minutes.
The trucks pull into an deserted steel mill, which is next to electrical transformers and they lose radio contact due to interference. Inside, they put it in duffel bags and then down deep in one of the smokestacks. They see an old homeless man move past a window, and chase him but he leaps off the barrier in a worried leap of faith. Ty rushes down and drags him towards a truck. Baines shoots the homeless man in the back. Ty is angry. Mike is angry at Baines for shooting him, but comes to know they had no other choice. Ty runs to one of the trucks, and locks himself in. Mike takes the other truck and follows him in a high-speed chase through the steel mill. Mike finally gets ahead and rams Ty's truck. The trucks crash. Ty turns on the siren, and Mike fumbles with the hood and then pulls out the fuse, turning off the alarm bell.
Meanwhile Sheriff Eckehart hears a faded siren, and goes Mike and the gang realize Ty isn't coming out, and they only have 40 minutes left, so they conspire to hit the bolts on the hinges of the armored truck's back doors. They will kill Ty and tell the cops he died a hero trying to stop the hijacking. They begin hitting the thick steel hinges. Ty whispers to Dobbs while the others are striking the hinge, and gets him to help him. Dobbs attempts to get the fuse from the other truck to give to Ty, and Baines catches him. He beats up Dobbs and then pours gas all over the engine. But Mike stops him. Palmer then stabs Dobbs.
Sheriff Eckehart drives around the lot, and loses radio contact. Before he can enter the building, Mike comes out, and tells him he is the security guard for the property and also the handyman.Ty makes an effort to hook up the siren, it sounds, and Baines fires the sheriff with his gun. While they are distracted with the sheriff, Ty sneaks out of the truck and lights the heap of stolen money on fire with a flare, and runs back. The guys run to the money, and Ty takes the sheriff to the armored truck and locks him in with himself. Without saying anything, Quinn drives the other truck away.While Quinn is gone, Ty sticks dollar bills all over the windows so they can't see in, and he sneaks out with the sheriff's radio, to go to the roof and try to get a signal. He does and gets a call out.
Quinn comes back with Jimmy, who he has kidnapped. Mike threatens to shoot Jimmy in the head, and so Ty opens the truck doors. After a long effort Ty wins over Mike and then Ty regains consciousness in the hospital. Ashcroft walks out, and tells Ty that Sheriff Eckehart explained all that Ty did to save him, and he mentions there might even be a prize.
It was released on December 4, 2009. The movie received mixed to positive reviews, getting a 57% (fresh) rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The cinematography of Andrzej Sekula (whose work also appears in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction) helps capture that mood, according to Scott.
Friday, December 4, 2009
KUNG FU HUSTLE
Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 Hong Kong action comedy movie directed and produced by, and starring Stephen Chow. Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Danny Chan Kwok Kwan and Bruce Leung co-starred in leading roles.
In the 1940s numerous gangs in Shanghai vie for power, the most feared of which is The Axe gang, led by the notorious Brother Sum. In the dearth of law enforcement, people live peacefully only in poor areas which do not charm mobsters. An example is Pig Sty Alley, a tenement home to people of various trades, administered by a lecherous landlord and his overbearing wife. One day, two troublemakers, Sing and Bone, come to the alley impersonating Axe gang members in order to command respect. This fails miserably and Sing's antics draw the real gang to the site. In the massive scuffle, the mobsters are conquered by three tenants who are in fact great martial arts masters: Coolie, Tailor and Donut.
After the war, Sing and Bone are in custody of Brother Sum for bringing problem and publicly embarrassing the Axe mob. The two barely escape death when Sing impresses Sum with his lock picking talent. Sum tells them that if they slay just one one, they will be accepted to join the mob. The next day the twosome goes to Pig Sty Alley to assassinate the Landlady, but foolishly fail due to incompetence. The two part ways and barely escape from the furious Landlady. Sing is awfully injured and works off his injuries in traffic control pulpit, he pounds the steel sides and floor with great force, deforming the solid metal with deep handprints. After he has fully recovered, he rejoins Bone but has no memory of his puzzling cure.
Sing and Bone lament their failure and Sing describes his childhood. He spent his measly life savings to buy a Buddhist Palm instruction booklet from a beggar He practiced his skills, but when he tried to protect a dumb girl from bullies attempting to steal her lollipop, he is beaten and urinated on. Sing concludes that good guys never succeed and decides to become a bad person. Then the duo steal ice cream from a street hawker, laughing maniacally as they escape from her on a tram.
Angered by his mob's defeat, Brother Sum hires the Harpists, a pair of skilled assassins who clash using a magical Guqin. They strike Pig Sty Alley at night as Coolie, Tailor and Donut are preparing to leave, having been driven out for upsetting the mob. The three are swiftly plagued, prompting the landlord and Landlady, discovered to be Kungfu masters, to intervene. Although the assassins and the Axe gang are driven off, the three evictees bear deadly wounds. The Coolie is decapitated, the Tailor dies from severe stab wounds, and Donut dies from a sustained injury. The proprietor and Landlady empty Pig Sty Alley out of concern for their tenants' safety.
The following day, after being humiliated and pummeled by a clerk he had previously antagonized, Sing mugs the female ice cream vendor from the earlier sight. She is discovered to be the mute girl from his childhood whom he had vainly tried to defend. He recognizes the old lollipop she offers him as a gesture of her thanks, but becomes upset, refusing her and scolding Bone. Later, while despairing in the gutter, he is picked up by the Axe mob and joins their ranks. Brother Sum, having earlier witnessed Sing's ability to swiftly pick locks, directs him to slip into a mental refuge to rescue a notorious executioner, the Beast, the Ultimate King of killers.
Brother Sum is firstly doubtful that Sing has freed the right man because of the Beast's flippant approach and casual look, but is eventually influenced when he stops a bullet between his fingertips. Immediately afterward, the Beast approaches the landowner and Landlady, who have come to Sum's casino. Landlady tells that the good cannot coexist with the bad, changing Sing for the better. The Beast, landowner and Landlady then engage in intense clash and, using a massive funeral bell as a megaphone to magnify the Landlady's Lion's Roar, the couple nearly defeats the more powerful Beast. His desperate move, however, successfully pins them in mutual joint locks. Sing, stimulated by his newfound virtuous personality, approaches the Beast and smashes his head with a table leg. The Beast furiously retaliates, pulverizing Sing. Fortunately, Sing is spirited away to safety by the landowner and Landlady when the Beast's back is turned. The Beast casually murders Brother Sum.
Back in the Alley, Sing, wrapped head-to-toe in bandages and treated with Chinese medicine, undergoes transmutation. He swiftly recovers from his wounds, and his latent ability as a Kung Fu gift is realized. He engages the Axe gang and the Beast, fending off the gangsters with ease. However, the Beast's Toad Technique sends Sing flailing high into the sky, where Sing realizes how to exert the Buddhist Palm and dives back downwards with his palm extended and body ablaze. He creates a giant hand-shaped crater in the ground and easily subdues the Beast's last move. The Beast concedes beat, and Sing tranquilly offers to make the Beast his student; weeping in appreciation, he kneels at Sing's feet and calls him "master".
Later, Sing and Bone open a candy store that specializes in lollipops. When the mute ice cream vendor walks by, Sing goes out to meet her. The two see each other as their childhood selves and managed happily into the shop. Outside, the same beggar who sold Sing the Buddhist Palm manual offers a selection of martial arts manuals to a boy eating a lollipop.
The feature film was released on December 23, 2004 in China and on January 25, 2005 in United States. It received extremely positive reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 90% fresh certificate. Its box office tally made it the highest-grossing feature film in Hong Kong history, surpassing the previous record holder, Chow's Shaolin Soccer.
In the 1940s numerous gangs in Shanghai vie for power, the most feared of which is The Axe gang, led by the notorious Brother Sum. In the dearth of law enforcement, people live peacefully only in poor areas which do not charm mobsters. An example is Pig Sty Alley, a tenement home to people of various trades, administered by a lecherous landlord and his overbearing wife. One day, two troublemakers, Sing and Bone, come to the alley impersonating Axe gang members in order to command respect. This fails miserably and Sing's antics draw the real gang to the site. In the massive scuffle, the mobsters are conquered by three tenants who are in fact great martial arts masters: Coolie, Tailor and Donut.
After the war, Sing and Bone are in custody of Brother Sum for bringing problem and publicly embarrassing the Axe mob. The two barely escape death when Sing impresses Sum with his lock picking talent. Sum tells them that if they slay just one one, they will be accepted to join the mob. The next day the twosome goes to Pig Sty Alley to assassinate the Landlady, but foolishly fail due to incompetence. The two part ways and barely escape from the furious Landlady. Sing is awfully injured and works off his injuries in traffic control pulpit, he pounds the steel sides and floor with great force, deforming the solid metal with deep handprints. After he has fully recovered, he rejoins Bone but has no memory of his puzzling cure.
Sing and Bone lament their failure and Sing describes his childhood. He spent his measly life savings to buy a Buddhist Palm instruction booklet from a beggar He practiced his skills, but when he tried to protect a dumb girl from bullies attempting to steal her lollipop, he is beaten and urinated on. Sing concludes that good guys never succeed and decides to become a bad person. Then the duo steal ice cream from a street hawker, laughing maniacally as they escape from her on a tram.
Angered by his mob's defeat, Brother Sum hires the Harpists, a pair of skilled assassins who clash using a magical Guqin. They strike Pig Sty Alley at night as Coolie, Tailor and Donut are preparing to leave, having been driven out for upsetting the mob. The three are swiftly plagued, prompting the landlord and Landlady, discovered to be Kungfu masters, to intervene. Although the assassins and the Axe gang are driven off, the three evictees bear deadly wounds. The Coolie is decapitated, the Tailor dies from severe stab wounds, and Donut dies from a sustained injury. The proprietor and Landlady empty Pig Sty Alley out of concern for their tenants' safety.
The following day, after being humiliated and pummeled by a clerk he had previously antagonized, Sing mugs the female ice cream vendor from the earlier sight. She is discovered to be the mute girl from his childhood whom he had vainly tried to defend. He recognizes the old lollipop she offers him as a gesture of her thanks, but becomes upset, refusing her and scolding Bone. Later, while despairing in the gutter, he is picked up by the Axe mob and joins their ranks. Brother Sum, having earlier witnessed Sing's ability to swiftly pick locks, directs him to slip into a mental refuge to rescue a notorious executioner, the Beast, the Ultimate King of killers.
Brother Sum is firstly doubtful that Sing has freed the right man because of the Beast's flippant approach and casual look, but is eventually influenced when he stops a bullet between his fingertips. Immediately afterward, the Beast approaches the landowner and Landlady, who have come to Sum's casino. Landlady tells that the good cannot coexist with the bad, changing Sing for the better. The Beast, landowner and Landlady then engage in intense clash and, using a massive funeral bell as a megaphone to magnify the Landlady's Lion's Roar, the couple nearly defeats the more powerful Beast. His desperate move, however, successfully pins them in mutual joint locks. Sing, stimulated by his newfound virtuous personality, approaches the Beast and smashes his head with a table leg. The Beast furiously retaliates, pulverizing Sing. Fortunately, Sing is spirited away to safety by the landowner and Landlady when the Beast's back is turned. The Beast casually murders Brother Sum.
Back in the Alley, Sing, wrapped head-to-toe in bandages and treated with Chinese medicine, undergoes transmutation. He swiftly recovers from his wounds, and his latent ability as a Kung Fu gift is realized. He engages the Axe gang and the Beast, fending off the gangsters with ease. However, the Beast's Toad Technique sends Sing flailing high into the sky, where Sing realizes how to exert the Buddhist Palm and dives back downwards with his palm extended and body ablaze. He creates a giant hand-shaped crater in the ground and easily subdues the Beast's last move. The Beast concedes beat, and Sing tranquilly offers to make the Beast his student; weeping in appreciation, he kneels at Sing's feet and calls him "master".
Later, Sing and Bone open a candy store that specializes in lollipops. When the mute ice cream vendor walks by, Sing goes out to meet her. The two see each other as their childhood selves and managed happily into the shop. Outside, the same beggar who sold Sing the Buddhist Palm manual offers a selection of martial arts manuals to a boy eating a lollipop.
The feature film was released on December 23, 2004 in China and on January 25, 2005 in United States. It received extremely positive reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 90% fresh certificate. Its box office tally made it the highest-grossing feature film in Hong Kong history, surpassing the previous record holder, Chow's Shaolin Soccer.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
EAGLE EYE
Eagle Eye is a 2008 action/thriller picture directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. The two portray a young man and a single mother who are brought together and coerced by an unnamed caller into carrying out a plot by a possible terrorist group.
The United States armed forces have a lead on a supposed terrorist in the Middle East, but as the man is a outsider, getting a positive ID proves difficult, and the DoD's computer system recommends that the venture be aborted. The Secretary of Defense (Michael Chiklis) agrees with the abort approval, but the President orders the project be carried out anyway. This turns into a political criticism when all of the victims turn out to be civilians, and retaliatory suicide bombings intent US general public in response.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) is a Stanford University failure who is out of way and faces monetary trouble. He realizes that his more ambitious twin brother Ethan, an Air Force lieutenant with expertise in parallel algorithms and quantum electronics, is dead. After the funeral in January 2009, he goes to take out some money from an ATM and is surprised to see that he has $750,000 in his bank account. When he comes back home, he locates his apartment filled with a large amount of arms, explosives, and forged documents. He receives a phone call from an unidentified woman, who explains that the FBI will apprehend him in thirty seconds and that he must escape.
Not believing her, he is arrested by the FBI and sent to an interrogation room where he meets Special Agent Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton). When Morgan leaves the room to meet with Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson), the mysterious woman arranges Jerry's escape over a phone and has him join up with single mother Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan). The unknown woman is coercing Rachel into assisting Jerry by menacing to assassinate her son, Sam, a trumpet player on his way to Washington, D.C., from Chicago for a band recital.
The woman helps the duo to avoid the Chicago Police and FBI units, representing the ability to remotely control virtually any networked machine, such as traffic lights, cell phones, computerized cranes, and even electrical wires. While Jerry and Rachel obey her directives, the woman has other 'agents' create a crystal explosive made into a necklace and its sound-based trigger placed inside Sam's trumpet. They reach a Circuit City electronics shop to which the woman instructs them. Over some television screens she introduces herself to them: she is undercover supercomputer called "Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst" (ARIIA) programmed with gathering intelligence from all over the world.
Because of the mistake made by the President at the, Ariia decided that the executive branch is a danger to the public good and must be eliminated. Ariia plans to destroy the President's cabinet, and calls this Operation Guillotine. She has decided to leave the Secretary of Defense, who had agreed with its proposal to abort the project, as the descendant to the presidency. Ariia does not disclose this to Jerry or Rachel, simply explaining that she is helping the citizens of the United States.
At the Pentagon, where Ariia is housed, Agent Perez discovers that Ethan worked as a technician for the computer and locked it down to stop Ariia from carrying out her plot. Perez warns the Secretary of Defense and they converse the situation in a sealed room to check Ariia from hearing their chat. Jerry and Rachel arrive at the Pentagon and are led to the supercomputer, where Ariia forces Jerry to impersonate Ethan and use his own biometrics to dominate the lockdown, letting her to go ahead with the plan.
Ariia shows Jerry CCTV footage displaying Ethan's untreatable car crash, explaining that she orchestrated his demise because he was a threat to her intentions. Ariia then instructs Rachel to eliminate Jerry to check the lock from being reinstated, but Rachel cannot do it. Rachel is led out of the building by Ariia while Jerry is caught by Agent Morgan. Having been cautioned by Agent Perez, Morgan believes Jerry's tale and takes him to the United States Capitol. Ariia sends a MQ-9 Reaper UCAV after them. They hardly escape the drone's first pass, and Agent Morgan sacrifices himself to eliminate the drone and save Jerry. Meanwhile, Agent Perez returns to the supercomputer and destroys it.
Rachel is unintentionally given the explosive necklace by an official who was also coerced by Ariia and sent to watch the President's speech. Sam's class, whose recital has been moved from the Kennedy Center to the Capitol for the President's State of the Union Address, starts to play. The trigger that will set off the explosive necklace is set to activate when Sam plays a sustained "high F" on his trumpet corresponding to the word "free" in the last verse of the U.S. national anthem. Jerry enters, dressed as a Capitol policeman and shoots into the air, hindering the feat and emptying the room. Jerry is then shot numerous times by a Secret Service agent, who is uninformed of the Jerry's actions.
In a trial, the Secretary of Defense urges that any more supercomputer should not be built, he warns them. Ethan receives the Medal of Honor while Jerry, wounded but alive and well, receives the Congressional Gold Medal.
It was released on September 26, 2008.As of November 29, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 27% of critics gave the film clear reviews based on 159 reviews. It is like The Game (1997, David Fincher).
The United States armed forces have a lead on a supposed terrorist in the Middle East, but as the man is a outsider, getting a positive ID proves difficult, and the DoD's computer system recommends that the venture be aborted. The Secretary of Defense (Michael Chiklis) agrees with the abort approval, but the President orders the project be carried out anyway. This turns into a political criticism when all of the victims turn out to be civilians, and retaliatory suicide bombings intent US general public in response.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) is a Stanford University failure who is out of way and faces monetary trouble. He realizes that his more ambitious twin brother Ethan, an Air Force lieutenant with expertise in parallel algorithms and quantum electronics, is dead. After the funeral in January 2009, he goes to take out some money from an ATM and is surprised to see that he has $750,000 in his bank account. When he comes back home, he locates his apartment filled with a large amount of arms, explosives, and forged documents. He receives a phone call from an unidentified woman, who explains that the FBI will apprehend him in thirty seconds and that he must escape.
Not believing her, he is arrested by the FBI and sent to an interrogation room where he meets Special Agent Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton). When Morgan leaves the room to meet with Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson), the mysterious woman arranges Jerry's escape over a phone and has him join up with single mother Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan). The unknown woman is coercing Rachel into assisting Jerry by menacing to assassinate her son, Sam, a trumpet player on his way to Washington, D.C., from Chicago for a band recital.
The woman helps the duo to avoid the Chicago Police and FBI units, representing the ability to remotely control virtually any networked machine, such as traffic lights, cell phones, computerized cranes, and even electrical wires. While Jerry and Rachel obey her directives, the woman has other 'agents' create a crystal explosive made into a necklace and its sound-based trigger placed inside Sam's trumpet. They reach a Circuit City electronics shop to which the woman instructs them. Over some television screens she introduces herself to them: she is undercover supercomputer called "Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst" (ARIIA) programmed with gathering intelligence from all over the world.
Because of the mistake made by the President at the, Ariia decided that the executive branch is a danger to the public good and must be eliminated. Ariia plans to destroy the President's cabinet, and calls this Operation Guillotine. She has decided to leave the Secretary of Defense, who had agreed with its proposal to abort the project, as the descendant to the presidency. Ariia does not disclose this to Jerry or Rachel, simply explaining that she is helping the citizens of the United States.
At the Pentagon, where Ariia is housed, Agent Perez discovers that Ethan worked as a technician for the computer and locked it down to stop Ariia from carrying out her plot. Perez warns the Secretary of Defense and they converse the situation in a sealed room to check Ariia from hearing their chat. Jerry and Rachel arrive at the Pentagon and are led to the supercomputer, where Ariia forces Jerry to impersonate Ethan and use his own biometrics to dominate the lockdown, letting her to go ahead with the plan.
Ariia shows Jerry CCTV footage displaying Ethan's untreatable car crash, explaining that she orchestrated his demise because he was a threat to her intentions. Ariia then instructs Rachel to eliminate Jerry to check the lock from being reinstated, but Rachel cannot do it. Rachel is led out of the building by Ariia while Jerry is caught by Agent Morgan. Having been cautioned by Agent Perez, Morgan believes Jerry's tale and takes him to the United States Capitol. Ariia sends a MQ-9 Reaper UCAV after them. They hardly escape the drone's first pass, and Agent Morgan sacrifices himself to eliminate the drone and save Jerry. Meanwhile, Agent Perez returns to the supercomputer and destroys it.
Rachel is unintentionally given the explosive necklace by an official who was also coerced by Ariia and sent to watch the President's speech. Sam's class, whose recital has been moved from the Kennedy Center to the Capitol for the President's State of the Union Address, starts to play. The trigger that will set off the explosive necklace is set to activate when Sam plays a sustained "high F" on his trumpet corresponding to the word "free" in the last verse of the U.S. national anthem. Jerry enters, dressed as a Capitol policeman and shoots into the air, hindering the feat and emptying the room. Jerry is then shot numerous times by a Secret Service agent, who is uninformed of the Jerry's actions.
In a trial, the Secretary of Defense urges that any more supercomputer should not be built, he warns them. Ethan receives the Medal of Honor while Jerry, wounded but alive and well, receives the Congressional Gold Medal.
It was released on September 26, 2008.As of November 29, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 27% of critics gave the film clear reviews based on 159 reviews. It is like The Game (1997, David Fincher).
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