Transformers

Directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg the film Transformers which premiered in the summer spectacle in 2007 enacted the first Transformers movie.This science fiction / action film carried out by the drawing of the characters of the famous cartoon animation series of 3D animated version. Idea for the movie based on the famous animated cartoon series, which was one of the most  famous animated series  of 80-90 centuries

Plot of the movie is based on the two kind of alien race coming out of space which are heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons, as well as mankind’s struggle for human freedom and Autobots against the Decepticons.

The main character in the movie is acting  Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, and Josh Duhamel.The main character Sam (Shia LaBeouf) is a teenage boy who has a crush on Mikaela (Megan Fox) who is the hottest girl in the school. Sam buys his first car, an old Camaro.In the long run it clear that this car is one of the Autobots. Before he can even notices he has a mission to save the human race fighting alongside with Autobots against Decepticons which ones have a plan to conquer the earth with changing its machines to the new Decepticon army.In my opinion, the actors take the character of the exhibition what’s best. They perform dramatic scenes so well that I actually like feeling involved.The movie is set just the right actors to play the roles.The film appears Autobot and Decepticon characters in the animated series of the Autobots and Decepticons like Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Megatron.The appearance of the robots and the target transformation is carried out well in my opinion, even though it has been given to the negative criticism. because many think that they differ so much from the original cartoon versions.Personally I like the most Bumblebees, and Optimus Prime, the new car transformation objects more than the old versions of the cartoon.

The special effects are most completely successful and the implementation of a robot character animation has been selected the best animators animate them.None of the robot animation has not been used for a second time, but each scene and the transformation is animated separately, which is rare and difficult.

Soundtracks are incredible. The most popular soundtrack in the movie is – Arrival To Earth by Steve Jablonsky. The soundtracks really gives me the goose pimples :’D At the end of the movie is played in Linkin Park’s song – What I’ve done

The film has action, drama , humor, and a great storyline and excellent animation, special effects and characters that make the movie perfect in my opinion. That’s why it is my favourite movie. 🙂

I admire this movie so much.I recommend it for everyone to watch who like to, enabling fast and noisy cars, great animation, robots, action and emotional as the movie can be. :’)

Black Swan is released in 2010 and it’s directed by Darren Aronofsky. It’s a psychological thriller. Black Swan has won many awards, for example Natalie Portman won the Best Actress award for the film. Black Swan is a story about a ballet dancer Nina who is so hard trying to be perfect but who slowly loses her mind.

The plot
The ballet studio, where Nina is dancing, is about to prepare a new version of the very famous ballet: Swan Lake. Of course there is a lot of jealousy among the dancers; everyone wants to be the Swan Queen. However, Nina gets the leading role. It would be her first big role in her career.
Gradually, Nina finds out that it’s really hard to play the fragile White Swan and the seductive Black Swan at the same time. Even though Nina is training like crazy, she isn’t satisfied with her dancing. The pressure increases all the time and Nina is having very hard times. Nina starts to have different kinds of symptoms. For example, she imagines seeing things around her. A couple of times she even thinks to have seen herself walking by or just staring at her. Also her skin starts to behave weirdly: inexplicable scratches, cuts and rush.
Nina becomes all the time more and more withdrawn. She won’t speak with her mother anymore. She wants to be alone and she spends all her time by training. Only perfection is good enough for Nina. Eventually, Nina is really paranoid. She thinks that other girls are trying to steal her role and she sees enemies all around her.
In the end Nina’s paranoia has become enormous. Nina wants so badly dance the role of the Swan Queen that she kills her biggest competitor – or thinks to have killed her. Nevertheless, soon Nina finds out the horrible truth: the one who is dying is Nina by herself. Despite the fact that she is about to die, Nina still wants to dance her role and gets up on the stage. In the very end Nina finally reaches the perfection. In the movie’s final scene Nina lies smiling on the ground after the perfect performance, unfortunately dying.

Characters
Nina Sayers is a young, dedicated ballet dancer. Nina lives with her mother, who has also been a dancer in the past. Nina practices all day long and aims to be perfect. It could even be said that Nina is a perfectionist. She has a very strict diet and her self-control is extremely high. Gradually it points out that it’s also her biggest problem. Nina doesn’t dare to let go which isn’t a good thing when the dance is concerned. I think that Nina’s character is psychologically very interesting. Nina’s symptoms refer to schizophrenia: she sees things which don’t exist, she hears voices and her sense of reality is failing.
Lily has just moved from San Francisco to New York. She is full of life and has a lot of passion that Nina doesn’t have even though her dancing isn’t technically as perfect as Nina’s. Nina never likes Lily very much and she sees her as a competitor.
The director of the ballet, Thomas Leroy, is a really demanding man. No matter how much Nina practices, nothing is good enough for him. Leroy thinks only the performance, not the dancers.

Casting
I think that Natalie Portman is a really good choice to act Nina. She brings all the character’s feelings up perfectly. Natalie Portman is also a delicate and graceful enough to act a ballet dancer. Natalie Portman just looks like an actual ballerina. Portman is a great success as the Swan Queen.
Mila Kunis as Lily is Nina’s biggest competitor. Kunis manages to reach just the right attitude, on the other hand as a nice “friend” but then again on the other hand as a wily competitor.

Soundtrack
Because Black Swan is all about dancing, of course music plays a huge role in this movie. Music makes everything seem more dramatic. I think that some scenes have even become quite scary and oppressive because of the certain music. Music has a great power in this movie. Soundtrack is composed by a British classical composer Clint Mansell.

Black Swan is absolutely the most upsetting movie I have ever seen but at the same time Black Swan is absolutely the best movie I have ever seen. There is something inexplicably addictive in this movie. I would recommend Black Swan especially for girls. If you want to watch a little bit different movie instead of one of those typical movies with happy ever after, you should definitely watch Black Swan.

Changeling (2008) is an American drama movie based on a real story of Christine Collins, a single mother who loses her son in 1928. The movie is directed by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski.

On March 10th 1928 in Los Angeles while Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) is unexpectedly called into work, her nine-year-old son Walter goes missing. She puts her faith in the Los Angeles Police Department from whom she five months later receives news that her son has been found. Christine doesn’t identify the boy and but for the police it’s important to just look like they have found the missing child.

Christine speaks to press and starts to fight against the police and ends up being in the psychiatric hospital. She gets out of there with a help of a minister Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich) who battles against police corruption. Christine believes that Walter is somewhere and decides never to give up finding him.

I would say Clint Eastwood cast the movie very well and many characters are strong. Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins I think is a perfect choice for the role because she does drama well and she can be emotional in front of the camera which was needed for the tough role. John Malkovich as Gustav Bliegleb has a smaller role but I think he managed in his role well and as a minister he had pretty funny way to speak. Other than Jolie and Malkovich, the performances are not that special even though many of the child actors were super cute.

Not only me but also the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences liked the movie – it received Oscar nominations from three different categories: Best Actress, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. I think the movie is a great story of justice and I’m sure it wakes people up thinking what the time was like in 1920s when corruption was on the air and the status of women was poor. I don’t think the movie would have been so believable if it hadn’t happened for real. I’d also say that the costumes really affected the movie’s believability in some way because they were just like at that time: straight and simple lines without any details.

At least Changeling affected me and made me think as a girl how cruel the world was before.

The comedy called The Heartbreak Kid is written by Scot Armstrong, Leslie Dixon, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly and Kevin Barnett. It is released in year 2007 and it’s directors are Bobby and Peter Farrelly. Ben Stiller is definitely the leading actor of the film.

The main character Eddie is experiencing a crisis when all of the people who he knows are married and he hasn’t found his soul mate. He meets a blond beautiful woman Lila and they get married after six weeks dating. In honeymoon Eddie finds annoying features of Lila and starts to date Miranda behind Lila’s back. Eddie leaves Lila and wants Miranda who doesn’t want him anymore. Eddie moves to honeymoon destination alone. In the end Miranda comes to vacation there and suggests a meeting which Eddie consents with and does the same thing to his new wife than Lila.

Ben Stiller fits well to his role as amusing and helpless Eddie. He has embraced perfectly his role as cheater who is benevolent man who would’t like to hurt anybody. Malin Åkerman acts Eddie’s first wife Lila. This movie tells that she can really be versatile actress and transform into her role. In the beginning of the movie she has to act innocent and kind girl with no faults and later become loony monster who has nothing but faults.She can act both sides respectable so I’m sure that Malin Åkerman is the right choice to this role.
Michelle Monaghan’s performance as Miranda is not so laudable beside Stiller’s and Åkerman’s. However she acts fine, just not brilliantly.

The sountrack of the movie promotes it’s atmosphere. All of the songs fit to the situations where they have put. There is suitably music in the movie, not too much or too little. You can here quite old but also modern music. The music is often very absorbing and makes even hardest things look not so hard. Without soundtrack this movie couldn’t get the atmosphere that it’s makers wanted. You can notice the genre of this movie also from it’s sountrack.

The plot of the film is not very predictable in the beginning of it. That’s why it is better than many other films. My favourite part of the film is the part where Eddie and Lila are going to the honeymoon (for example Lila sings all the way to the destination and Eddie can’t stand her). The film is quite easy to follow because the plot is very simple. The story is okay but the film is a little too long. I can recommend it for people who like it’s charactors and comedies and don’t suffer from nervous.

Saving Private Ryan is a graphic fiction movie about small group of soldiers of the United States of America. This movie is very straight with the horrors and happenings of the World War II and shows completely bloody and horrific scenes that truly show what was going on then. In Saving Private Ryan the action is centered to mission of few American soldiers.

The movie is written by Robert Rodat who was born in the United States of America and is citizen of the same country. Saving Private Ryan was released in July 24, 1998. Thinking that this movie is now fifteen years old, you can’t help but notice that the special effects and the way the movie is executed is very magnificent and realistic despite of its relatively old age.

Overall the execution of this film is magnificent. The cast is very known today here is few for example: Tom Hanks playing the role of Company leader John H. Miller, Matt Damon as Private First Class James Francis Ryan, Vin Diesel as Private First Class Adrian Caparzo, Edward Burns as Private First Class Richard Reiben and Tom Sizemore as Technical Sergeant Mike Horvath.

The filming itself, including the camerawork, music, special effects, the props etc. are so well done that you can’t notice a single flaw in the story or the making of the movie.

The plot of the movie is quite simple, Captain of United States army and company commander John H. Miller and his company was given a task to go fetch none other than Private First Class James Francis Ryan of Baker Company from the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division from France due to horrible incidences when his three brothers we’re all killed in the very same war he was fighting himself. James Ryan’s mother was telegrammed earlier that same day of the deaths of her three sons. General George Marshall was informed of this same sad story and decided that a rescue mission was necessary to retrieve the only son that was alive of this family and send him to see his mother unharmed.

This task was if possible even harder than you might think, because the whereabouts of this one exact soldier was still one big mystery. So did this little group of experienced soldiers begin their journey with them not so experienced private Upham, his attendance in this dangerous quest was very great because he worked as a translator to others when they are in need of knowledge of French or German language. Throughout this journey of theirs all but one of this squad questioned the reasonability of this act because many lives could be and was sacrificed to save one. Respected commander Miller kept his company in one and remained calm the whole journey. They headed to Neuville and there they we’re ambushed by a lonely German sniper and that lead to a loss of one man. That was tough for the whole group but there was no turning back and they carried on searching for Private Ryan and they found him almost right after that sorrowful episode. After telling Private Ryan that the meaning of their quest, they we’re informed that this was the wrong James Francis Ryan. After getting over the confusion this misunderstanding lead to, they carried on trying to find the right James Ryan who was missing.

From there the party headed to Ramelle and they noticed a small German military post with small amount of soldiers. The company commander Miller makes a hard decision and decides to attack the German. They succeed to conquer the post but with that small victory they lost again one man and this loss lead to big decrease of morale in the group. Decision to let the one alive German soldier go didn’t exactly lift the group morale much more than did the death of their companion. Again the leader of this quest remained calm and was able to influence his group with positive energy and their trip was ready to continue.

They finally arrive to Ramelle and there they find the right James Francis Ryan. But Private Ryan surprisingly decides that he wanted to stay there and defend his post with his own group. Miller and his group was furious of this because now all of their work and deaths of their friends we’re useless. But they all had now bigger things to worry about a battalion of German soldiers we’re approaching their defend post at Ramelle bridge. Miller decides to help defend this bridge with his and his soldier’s life. They begin planning their tactics and when the German soldiers arrive with tanks and light infantry they are able to prevent the German from crossing the bridge by blowing it up with dynamite. This victory didn’t come cheap since everyone but Private Ryan and few of other American soldiers are left alive from this battle.That battle of the bridge was a majorly important to the happenings of the World War II.

Saving Private Ryan was very dramatic yet so heroic and touching tale of soldiers of the United States of America and is amazingly known and respected war-movie. Watching this movie generates genuine sorrow for the deaths of this war and you can only be grateful for these relatively peaceful times in Europe.

Koijari

The Expendables 2 is an action movie which was released on August 16, 2012. The film was directed by Simon West and written by Richard Wenk and Sylvester Stallone. The movie is based on a story by Ken Kaufman, David Agosto and Richard Wenk.

The Expendables is an unauthorized mercenary group whose leader is Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone). The group performs different type of jobs, usually unlawful and violent ones.

The movie begins when the Expendables are on a mission. Their primary objective was to rescue Chinese doctor and bring him back to China. Accidentally the group rescued a rival mercenary, Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger,) who has been taken as hostage. Mission was accomplished and the crew returns home. Suddenly an old employer of Barney, Church (Bruce Willis), appears to collect his share, $5 million dollars, from Barney. Supposedly Ross is pennyless and he has to accept a new assignment to get rid of his debts.

The new missions fails in two ways: The group losts their objective and during the mission the youngest member of the crew, Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth), was killed by Jean Vilain (Jean-Claude van Damme). Vilain is an arm trader who wants an access to Plutonium recources which could be used in mass destruction weapons.

The team takes as a mission to revenge the death of the Billy while preventing Vilain in his evil intentions.

The Expendables 2 is a typical action movie where the special effects plays a central role. The sound effects, including gun fire, crashes, explosions etc., are realistic as well as impressive. The visual effects contains a lot of explosions with all the side effects and the film was even criticized because it has caused too much environmental harm in the set in Bulgaria. Also one stuntman was killed and another critically injured during the filming.

Lot of different angles of views are used to create a diverse and rich audiovisual experience. Soundtrack is inferior to the sound effects which suits this movie due to the central role of the sound effects.

In my opinion The Expendables 2 is a great movie for fans of this genre and I would recommend it.