Aihearkisto: Cinema

Summer Wars

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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

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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

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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

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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.

 

 

Twilight Breaking Dawn part 2 – Film review

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Twilight breaking dawn part 2 is one part of the The Twilight Saga. There have been former sagas, called: Twilight (2008), New Moon (2009), Eclipse (2010) and Breaking Dawn (2011). All of the sagas are based on the novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer, who has gained the worlds stardom with The Twilight Sagas translations into 37 different languages. The Twilight Sagas are romance fantasy films, which includes also a bit action and adventure. Leading actors of the film are Kristen Stewart (who acts Bella Swan), Robert Pattinson ( who acts Edward Cullen) and Taylor Lautner ( who acts Jacob Black). The last part, Breaking Dawn part 2 had its premiere in November 2012 when it also achieved a great success.

 

The plot of the film is slightly simple minded, yet in this part it is the most surprising and has some unexpected twists. The movie starts of the situation that Bella has turned into vampire since the childbirth. Now they have a beautiful baby with Edward, but the situation is very complicated because Jacob has become marked to Bellas daughter Renesmee and the situation doesn’t ease off while clan of the Volturi is coming for the Cullens in order to kill them for the huge crime they did, because of they believe that they have done immortal child on purpose, even that’s not true. There is enormous battlefield between the Volturi and the other vampires, but how does it end up? That you can find out by watching the movie.

 

I have seen all of the Twilight Sagas and even I have heard a lot of opinions that it’s ridiculous and so on, I still think that it is quite fine collection of movies, which are particularly suitable for teenagers. I was amazed of this part, for it was so much better illustrated, scenes were more believable and for all that the role performances were also very successful. Of course there were some scenes, where for example the moves were a bit implausible but mainly I enjoyed of watching the movie. Especially I would like to recommend the movie for prejudiced people and in my opinion it is most suitable for women but men should also watch the movie before to judge it.

Tower Heist

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I selected movie Tower Heist. It is crime comedy film. It was released on 2011 and it have been very famous. So it’s genre is crime comedy and i think it is very good movie. In the movie is so much good jokes and funny footages. It must be good comedy because there are Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy acting in leading roles.

Ben Stiller is named Josh Kovaks. He’s character is kind hotel workman and he is best in his job. But he turns to criminal because of ”evil” rich man. Eddie Murphy is named Slide. He is little thief who robs for instance balcony stuff. Josh needs his help for the big gig and Slide accepts it. Films evil man is Arthur Shaw , real name is Alan Alda. Arthur steals his clients money and is very rich. Of course , in happy ending he must go to jail and everyone gets his money back. In other sight roles are for instance hotel workers and pedestrians. Important sight roles are Casey Affleck as Charlie , Matthew Broderick as Mr.Fitzhugh and Tea Leoni as Claire.

In this movie are almost none special effects. There are no big explosions or something like that , and that’s one reason why I like this movie. This film works fine without big explosions or car crashes. It’s good comedy and totally no action comedy.

Filming have started on November 2010. The whole movie is filmed in New York and it’s budget is about 85 million dollars. For the producer it was hard to find good hotel which fits in this movie , but eventually he got luckied.They wanted to have art or something on the walls that shows people how rich peoples are in there.

The Tower Heist soundtrack released in first of November.It consist 22 different tracks and it’s about 40 minutes long. Varese Sarabande has created this soundtrack.

By: Ville Nieminen

Friends with Benefits

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Friends with Benefits is a comedy directed by Will Gluck. It’s premiere in Finland was in 30th September 2012 but in America it was already in 22nd July. The movie is all about comedy but the further it gets on it shows pinch by pinch more its romantic side. The cast is amazingly the best: Justin Timberlake as Dylan and Mila Kunis as Jamie. Jamie is a head-hunter (actually an executive recruiter) from New York and her job is to recruite Dylan, who’s an art director from Los Angeles. When they meet each other, Jamie takes over to adapt Dylan to New York City lifestyle.

Jamie and Dylan are in their thirties and are both singles and their love life hasn’t been prosperous. Jamie’s been often told that she’s emotionally damaged and Dylan was told by his ex-girlfriend that he’s emotionally unavailable. At the beginning they just laugh about it and start hanging around together. One night after they watched a movie and hung out, they came up with an idea that they could have sex together without any emotions or commitments and no stings attached. At first it was awkward but soon they dealt with it just fine. For a while everything went ok but soon they both note that they are having feelings to each other. Both start having some doubts about their situation. And at some point Jamie starts seeing other guys and they won’t be anymore friends with benefits, just friends. At the end everything however turns ok and they confess their feelings to each other and everything’s smooth and easy and they have their happy ending.

Soundtrack of the movie were pretty good. Semisonics ”Closing time” plays in movie’s trailer but also in the movie. There’s also this scene where Dylan sings the song during the sex. Train’s ”Soulsister” appears also in the movie and is very matching. In the movie there’s a flashmob at Times Square and people dance in time the ”New York, New York” by Ray Quinn and Ultra Love. One mentionable song is Kriss Kross’s ”Jump”. It’s hilarious song from the ’90 and in the movie it’s Dylan’s favorite song from his childhood.

About the camerawork, there’s not much to say. Nowadays there’s pretty decent cameraplay and the quality is very high. You can’t see any microphones nor assistents. The view angle doesn’t vary so much (except most sex scenes are shot from above the characters). The movie has few special effects but not much. Lots of extra people were used especially in the flash mob scenes.

I personally liked the movie. It’s very hilarious and Timberlake and Kunis are great partners, they matched well. The movie was pretty similar as No Stings Attached (2011) but still so different on my opinion. Friends with Benefits won’t maybe fit everyone because of it’s ”naive” plot but many male and female friend of mine have praised the film, and so do I.

Bridget Jones – Diary

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Hello everyone! This is a blog post about my favorite move; Bridget Jones – Diary. The film is based on the book. It is written by Helen Fielding and it is published in 2001. Director of the film is Sharon Maguire who is close friend to Helen Fielding. Soundtrack of the film is ”Without you” which is written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans. Mostly the film is comedy but there is some drama in it and it is also very romantic. Leading actors of the film are Renée Zellweger who plays a main part Bridget Jones and Hugh Grant plays her boss in the film as Daniel Cleaver. Colin Firth also has a fairly large role as Mark Darcy. I will tell more about them later on.

The plot of the film is actually quite simple. Bridget is 30 years old frustrated office worker. On New Year’s Eve she decides to change her life. She wants to lose weight quit smoking and alcohol and mostly find a good man. Starting that by keeping a diary which she will always tell the complete truth. But then she starts to flirt with her boss Mark and things go wrong many time. Mark Darcy is Bridget’s parents friend who has a crush on Bridget. But how everything will work out in the end? You will find out that by reading the book or watching the movie!

I have seen this film many times and read the book. I absolutely love the film! And the book is also brilliant! My favorite part is the end because it is so lovely. During the film there are many feelings. It makes me laugh and sometimes almost cry but mostly of the time it makes me really happy. I would recommend this more for women but why not for men too! It was so easy for me to follow the film without subtitles because I almost remember the film inside out.

Hilarious movie moments for everyone! =)

The Blues Brothers – The movie review

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The Blues Brothers is a classic action-comedy film filled with music and famous musicians. It was released in 20th of June in 1980 by Universal Studios. The films budget was 30 million American dollars. The film has been released on VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray. There are two versions of the film: theatrical cut and an extended version.

The characters in the film are very memorable and their actors are very fitting to their respective roles. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd are the actors of the main characters Jake and Elwood Blues. Their band called The Blues Brothers has 10 members. The other members include Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn, Murphy Dunne, Willie Hall, Tom Malone, Lou Marini, Matt Murphy and Alan Rubin. They appear in the movie with their real names. Most of the smaller roles are police officers and other authorities. The movie also features famous musicians such as Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Ray Charles.

The plot of the movie is simple yet it features some twists. The movie starts with Jake coming to pick Elwood up from prison, where he stayed for three years for armed robbery. They then go to visit their childhood home which is a Roman Catholic orphanage. They find out that they need to collect 5000 dollars in order to save the orphanage from being closed. The brothers then visit a baptist church and Elwood gets an idea to get the needed money by reforming the band they used to to have – The Blues Brothers. After the brothers have started to gather the band back together, they start to encounter all kinds of problems, for example, some of the members now have jobs with good salaries and because of that, they are a bit curious, whether or not they should quit their jobs and join the band. Despite the hardships, they manage to get the band back to the original composition. After that, they start trying to get a gig at a larger consert than before.

I think the movie is very good. It is made nicely from pretty much every aspect. I recommend the movie for everyone who like films with a lot of music but people who just want to watch a comedy film might also enjoy it.