Hachiko

Hachico is a drama film which was released in 2009. It is directed by Lasse Hallström. The film is a remake of the previously published A good and faithful servant(1987). The film is said that it is story about loyalty.

The film is about a dog and a host between loyalty. The main character (Richard Gere) save a dog named Hachico in the street. Dog and owner develop between the unbelievable  bond. Hachiko followed his master to work every day, and the train station to wait for him until the host can access from work. When the host dies, Hachiko will continue for many years to wait for the train station at a certain time.

The movie is very sad but at the same time lovely. I can almost promise that it will make every spectator even touched in some way. It is the reason why I love the movie so much. Even though I’ve watched the movie so many times I cry every time still as much.

I recommend the movie for everyone. It does not matter whether or not you do you like dogs but yet I believe that this affects even more dog people. It may even be that the attitude of dogs will change after seeing the movie.

 

P.S. I Love You

P.S. I Love You is a american romantic comedy directed by Richard LaGravenese. The film is released at the end of 2007 and based on the novel of the same name by Cecilia Ahern. P.S. I Love You takes the topics of death and grieving and turns out a romantic comedy that’s played mostly for laughs.

There are two leading actors in the film. Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler star a married couple, called Holly and Gerry, who are deeply in love but they fight occasionally. Gerry is going to die and after his death Holly realizes how much he means to her. Holly is miserable and depressed and withdraws from her family and friends. Luckily Gerry has found a plan to help his wife make it through the grieving process. He has left 10 messages to Holly to help her pain and start new life, each of them ending with ”P.S. I Love You”. Eventually Holly gets over that her Irish husband has died and she have to move on her life, but how? That you will find out by watching the film!

The actors suit in the film perfectly. Hilary Swank does a good job by acting Holly who is so sensitive and pretty young woman. Whereas Gerry’s actor Gerard Butler is charismatic and he has a good singing voice.

The plot of the film is unusual for a romantic comedy but I think it works. The entire story is very touching and impressive and it makes me cry. The soundtrack is a well-selected love song. It suits in the theme very well and it’s so romantic with the film. While listening the soundtrack you could just replay memories that you might have on your own. I really enjoy listening to it. Because the film is a romantic comedy there’s not any special effects and the film is filmed in a normally way.

I think that P.S. I Love You is just a great film. I could watch it again and again. I recommend this film to all that loves romantic films. Prepare to cry!

Inception

Inception was released on July 8, 2010. It is a science fiction film, written and directed by Christopher Nolan. The movie is starred by Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy in the forefront.

The main character, Dominic Cobb is a little bit extraordinary professional thief. His specialty is breaking into people minds, through their dreams, and get the information from there. He has a small group of people helping him at his jobs.

In the starting position Dominic has been charged for the murder of his own wife. He gets a job offer from very rich and powerful businessman, Mr. Saito. If Cobb and his team could do an ”inception”, plant an idea in someones mind, Mr. Saito would in return get him out of the charges and back to his family. The thing is that planting an information is far more complicated thing than stealing information. For all that Dominic decides to take the risk and so starts an epic journey through dreams and dreams within dreams.

When I saw the film, I was positively surprised. Critics and magazines had praised Inception, and so I had very high expectations, which were exceeded highly. Particularly the very ending of the movie was amazing in all its simplicity. Hans Zimmer, ”the man who hears what others don’t” has made a spectacular work with sounds and musics. I’d say that the best word to describe this movie is masterpiece. Inception won’t get boring no matter how many times you watch it, I recommend it to everyone.

A walk to remember – movie review

A walk to remember is made in 2002 in the United States. It based on a novel by Nicholas Parks ”A walk to remember” and the film was directed by Adam Shankman. Mandy Moore and Shane West play a starring there. The film is a romantic, which tells about discreet, believer girl, Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore) and popular, as well as rebel boy, Landon Carter (Shane West).

Jamie is not popular at their school and she know Landon, but they have never become friends even though they have been in the same school since childhood. However, Landon must take part in the school play and provide remedial instruction to students, because of punishment set by the school. As a result, they get to know each other better and even though at first Landon feel ashamed to be seen with Jamie, because of his reputation, in the end, he falls in love with Jamie and throw away his pride and defend her when his friends make fun of Jamie.

I like this movie a lot and that’s why I chose it. Actually, it`s one of the best movies I have ever seen, even perhaps the best. It`s the first movie that I watched without subtitles, but still I understood what was going on. It`s very touching film with all the great music, composed by Mervyn Warren. I liked the fact that the movie was a restrained, and there was no naked sex scenes. The love of two people described with expressions, words and music and that is admirable. It`s rare that nowadays people films this kind of movies.

The movie is very educational too. When you have seen it, you will understand the fact that it`s childish to pretend something else that you aren`t because of your reputation. The film gives also bravery to people who are bullied because of they believe in God, when they have seen what Jamie answered to her teasers. After watching film, you can realize too, how Landon changed and became a better person, after he fell in love with Jamie and began to date with her.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a sequel to the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes and both of the films are based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional characters. Main characters of the film are detective Sherlock Holmes, who is acted by Robert Downey Jr. and Dr. Watson, who is acted by Jude Law. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is action mystery film and it has released on December 2011. The film has directed by Guy Ritchie and written by Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is founded on 1890s’s Europe, when threat of the First World War was close. Holmes’s and Watson’s enemy Professor Moriarty, who is acted by Jared Harris, tries to debase attitude of nations by different betrayals and in that way to help the First World War to start. Holmes and Watson try to stop Professor Moriarty with their new ally Simza, who is acted by Noomi Rapace. They travel along boundary of France and Germany and end up at last to peace negotiations in Alps of Switzerland. In the peace negotiations happen something unusual but if you want to know what, you have to watch the movie!

Sherlock Holmes’s actor must be sarcastic, narcissistic, selfish and a little irresponsible, wise and shrewd but actor still need to be person who really cares, though he shows it lamentably rarely. That’s why I think Robert Downey Jr. is perhaps the best actor to play him; Downey really knows how to act that kind of person.
Jared Harris comports with Moriarty’s role well, because Harris looks like conveniently egoistic and mean scientist.
There is at times slow-motion scenes in the movie when characters fight or they escape. This helps to understand those scenes much better and it makes movie original.

I liked Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows much, because it is very brilliant movie. It is fun, there’s action in there and it expresses meaning of friendship. There’s many opinions of that film: some loves it and some don’t. Your own opinion you get only watching it.

 Enjoy the movie! =)

The Baytown Outlaws

The Baytown Outlaws

The Baytown Outlaws (2012) is a film directed by Barry Battles and written by Battles and Griffin Hood. The movie tells about three rednecks called Lincoln Oodie (Daniel Cudmore), McQueen Oodie (Travis Fimmel) and Brick Oodie (Clayne Crawford). They agree to save young mentally handicapped kid called, Rob (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) from his godmother Celestes (Eva Longoria) ex-husband Carlos. Celeste pays them 25 000 $ for this job.
After they’ve saved the boy they come across very different opponents who work for Carlos and try to kill them and get Rob back to Carlos. Also one ATF agent tries to catch Oodie brothers.

The Movies plot was very interesting and suprising. Oodie brothers are un-educated and pretty dumb. They’ve born and raised in southern states and they’re true rednecks and it gave suprisingly good nuance for the plot. Also Oodies relationship to Sherriff Henry Millard (Andre Braugher) reveals to be pretty shocking as the movie goes on. Turns in movie were not boring and they kept interest on all along the movie.

Characters fitted in the plot very well. They were desingned quiet good and adapting the plot. Especially Lincoln Oodie is very interesting character because he is very strong and big. But the thing that makes him special is that he can’t speak. On the other hand McQueen character is stereotype of rednecks because the way he talks and acts. Brick is the smartest one. He is the ”brains” of the brothers and he desings all the gigs.

Camerawork is really good and it creates awesome athmosphere for the plot. Especially the fights, shootings and bloodsheds were quiet dashing.

The movie is categorized as action and comedy, but I think that it contained also drama. Especially Robs situation and how the movie ended was touching and dramatic.

I recommend this movie to all who like action films with the nuance of comedy and drama. Also if you’re into guns, killing and sweet rides this movie is must-see film.

Summer Wars

Summer wars (originally サマーウォーズ) is animated movie directed by Mamoru Hosoda and scripted by Satoko Okudera. Summer wars, putting it simply, is about saving the real world from Love Machine, avatar who took over the virtual world OZ. This Love Machine is controlled by no one. It learns itself and likes to play games.

I like it how every character is important to this movie. Even though there is so many of them. Main character is Kenji Koiso, a match genius. He receives an e-mail with a mathematical code and cracks it.  Love machine steals his account and avatar from him and attacks with it, causing widespread damage in OZ and lot of troubles in real world. My favourite character is Kazuma Ikezawa and of course his avatar King Kazma.

He is 13-year-old boy who uses all his time to train his avatar in OZ. Second favourite character is Wabisuke Jinnouchi, a cool and sardonic 41-year-old computer expert who created Love Machine (I also like this avatar very much, poor thing) and sold it to USA.

There are a lot of soundtracks in this movie, but my favourite is King Kazma’s OST (07). I don’t know why, maybe just because it reminds me of King Kazma and it’s used in the best parts of the movie.

The main reason why I choose this film was because I adore its animation. Red lines and simply colouring is just beautiful and really well done, I really like it. Summer wars is animated by Madhouse. I adore Mamoru Hosoda who is a Japanese film director and animator. First films he got public attention was two films in the Digimon Adventure and 6th movie in the One Piece series.  And not to mention The Girl Who Leapt through Time. Studio Ghibli also commissioned Hosoda to direct Howl’s Moving Castle, but he left the project during the early production stages.

Iron Sky

Iron Sky (2012) is an action scifi comedy film directed by Timo Vuorensola. The story was made by Johanna Sinisalo and Jarmo Puskala, who gave the original idea for the story. The film was released on February 11th 2012. It was shooted in Germany and Australia. The film is mainly in English, though German is used much too. The running time is 89 minutes.

Iron Sky is a film about Nazis, who escaped to the dark side of the moon on 1945. On 2018, the current president of US sends two astronauts to the moon. They discover the hideout of the Nazis, which leads to Nazi’s attack to Earth, in order to assassinate the president of US.

The actors were well chosen and they suited their characters. I liked Renate Richter’s character the most. The special effects in the film were well made and it was a great experience in the movie theater. When I heard about this movie for the first time, I thought the idea itself was so weird that I just had to see it for myself. I have seen Iron Sky twice now and I enjoyed it just as much on both times.

Austin Powers goldmember

Austin Powers in Goldmember is a 2002 American spy comedy film. It is the third and final installment of the Austin powers trilogy. The movie was directed by Jay Roach. The main actress is Mike Myers who plays Austin powers, Dr. Evil and Fat bastard at the same time.  Austin power movies are parodies from James Bond movies and this one is from the movie ”goldfinger” and ”you live only once”.Running time is 94 min, budget 63 millions and  box office 296,6 millions.

Plot: In 2002 Austin Powerses rival Dr. Evil has kidnapped Austin Powerses father with the help of a guy named ”goldmember”. In order to rescue his father Austin has to go back in time in 1975. Goldmember runs away with austins father back to 2002. Austin travels back in time and continues to find his dad and Dr. evil.

Thoughts: The movie something what comes from TV every year, and I have seen the  movie couple of times before, but I remember when I first saw it when I was a small kid I laughed really hard. Now there were a few joke what made me fell like a child again the movie itself is not anything special it is all about making fun of every movie.

 

Law Abiding Citizen

Law Abiding Citizen was first released in North America in 2009. The film is an intense thriller and it is directed by F. Gary Grey. To put it simply the film is a classic battle between the good and the evil.

There is two main characters. Jamie Foxx stars the Philadelphia district attorney called Nick. He is a well-to-do attorney who lives a happy life with his wife. Gerrard Butler plays the role of Clyde, the evil of the film. Law Abiding Citizen begins with a cruel murder. Clyde is forced to watch when two murderers kill his family. Our attorney Nick gets the case. The first killer is sentenced to death, but the second one doesn’t confess,so Nick needs to make a deal with him: no death penalty.

After prologue Clyde gets angry with the system. He hunts for revenge. Committing a murder Clyde is imprisoned. But it doesn’t stop him. Many murders are still about to happen while Clyde is in prison. Does he have an accomplish or only unlimited resources and such a clever mind?

The camerawork of the film is just like in other thrillers but it works. Everything is dark and chilly. The colors are very much faded. With the soundtrack the film creates a creepy feeling. It is a big part of the excitement.

I was surprised because the film wasn’t rated that good at the IMDb (only 7,3/10). I liked it very much myself. The main thing that fascinated me was that Clyde was always a step ahead of authorities. It was spooky to watch all the murders to happen and Clyde just sat confidently in his cell with a little bit mad and cold smile on his face. I would recommend Law Abiding Citizen to those who seek after excitement and a bit of fear. The plot is pretty complicated and I didn’t fully understand it until the second viewing but it din’t make any difference to my opinion of the film.