Rocky 4 is a great American film and that is written by, starring by and directed by Sylvester Stallone. Its premiere was 1985. The film is the most successful in the series of Rocky.

In the film Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) has retired his career and he is spending peacefully time with his wife and son. However he and his good friend Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) sometimes miss to come back in the ring.

Soon Soviet boxer Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) arrives in America with his support troops. Drago is very big fighter and his manager says that he is the most trained athlete ever. Creed who has also retired decides that he challenges Drago to fight.

Rocky train Creeds for the match and they believe that the fight will be easy for them. The match got weird start because Creeds entrance is really arrogant. In the entrance Apollo is dressed up his old Uncle Sam outfit and he is singing “living in America” song. The fight was really unhappy because Drago hit so hard and so many times so that Apollo died on ring.

Few times after apollos death Balboa decides to fight against Ivan Drago. Match will be in Russia on Christmas Day. Rocky pack his baggage and headed in Russia with his coach Duke (Tony Burton) and his wife brother Paulie (Burt Young). In Russia Balboa train very primitive he example run in mountain, chop down trees etc. Instead of Drago uses modern technology on his training and he also uses anabolic steroids. During preparing for the match Rockys wife Adrian (Talia Shire) came here in Russia because she is not sure is everything okay about rockys training.

The fight was a spectacle. They both give hard hits and they both receive hard hits. During the match even Russian audience started to encourage Balboa because his stamina was admirable. However like many other fight movie the hero survive to champion so it happen also in this movie. Rocky gives few hard straight and Drago drop at floor.

The film is came out when cold war was action and this film take a stance on it. Because the movie is American it praise America and underestimate Soviet Union. Arms race so reached also in film industry not only nuclear rearmament.

Rocky IV made worldwide 300 million dollars the most of any other rocky film. Dolph Lundgren won best actor trophy at the Napierville Cinema Festival. Rocky IV won Germany`s Golden Screen Award.

I like very much this film because the story was good and anyway fighting movies are in my opinion pretty good even stories are not always as good as Rocky IV. (434)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Forrest Gump is a drama/romance movie about the life of a man named Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump was released on 6th of July 1994.
The stars of the film are Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, Robin Wright as Jenny and Gary Sinise as Lieutenant Dan Taylor. The film is directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Winston Groom and Eric Roth.

 
The film is about a man named Forrest Gump from Alabama telling his amazing life story to bypassers at a bus stop. Forrest begins to tell his lifestory from his childhood when he was bullied by some kids because he was crippled and couldn’t walk normally. But then he met Jenny and they became best friends like Forrest said ”we go together like peas and carrots”, Forrest always loved Jenny eventough Jenny did all kind of things for example she went roadtripping with strangers and smoked weed.
Forrest was accepted to play football in university because he was so fast runner, he couldn’t actually play football but he was chosen to All-American football team and got to meet president John F. Kennedy. He graduated from university and went to army and he was called to war  in Vietnam.Forrest learned to play ping-pong in Vietnam while he was injured and he was so good that he was chosen to All-American ping-pong team, with whom he travelled to China to play ping-pong. Forrest got discharged from the army. He met a man called Bubba while he was serving in Vietnam and they became friends. They had plans to buy a shrimping boat and go shrimping when they get out of Vietnam but Bubba got shot. Forrest kept his promise and bought a shrimping boat and went shrimping with his friend from Vietnam, Lieutenant Dan Taylor. They caught tons of shrimps by coincidence and became millionaires, Forrest didn’t care about money so Lieutenant Dan Taylor handled the money and invested in Apple. Forrest leaves shrimping industry and moves to cutting grass and he enjoys doing it.
Forrest’s loneliness leads him to take a run ”for no particular reason.” At first, he decides  to run to the end of the road, then across town, then across the county, then all the way to the Mississippi border. Eventually, he criss-crosses the country several times in three years. In the end of the movie Jenny tells to Forrest that he has a son. Jenny dies to HIV and Forrest moves to home Alabama with his son.

 
Tom Hanks plays amazing role as Forrest Gump and he is awarded the Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar in 1995. The visual effects are well implemented and they were also awarded with an Oscar for best effects in 1995. In total Forrest Gump won 6 Oscars and lots of other prizes. The movie is successful from all perspectives in my opinion. It gets better and better everytime you watch it, I recommend it to everyone.

Howl’s moving castle (Original name:ハウルの動く城) is a well known animated fantasy/romance movie, directed and scripted by japanese Hayao Miyazaki, one of the most famous animators today. The film had it’s world premiere in 2004 and was released in japanese theaters later in the same year. The film is based on a novel by a british writer Diana Wynne Jones. The soundtrack of the movie is composed by Joe Hisaishi, who has composed the scores for many other Miyazaki’s works as well and is known to be an excellent composer. I enjoy the soundtracks of the movie greatly myself, especially the main theme of the movie called ’merry-go-round of life has always been my favorite out of them all.

The events of the film are placed in a fantasy world where the main character’s, Sophie’s, home country is caught up in the beginning of a war, the cause being the sudden disappearance of the neighbor country’s prince. The tale starts by introducing Sophie, who works as a hatter in a small hat shop. She is on her way to see her sister when she suddenly encounters a mysterious man called Howl, who also appears to be a wizard. Later that night, a witch who is pursuing Howl curses Sophie and turns her into an old woman. Sophie is terrified at first, but soon accepts the situation and leaves her hometown and family to seek a cure for her curse. Almost as soon as Sophie starts her journey, she accidentally saves a living scarecrow. As a show of gratitude the scarecrow takes her to a moving castle owned by none other than the same Howl Sophie had met earlier, and soon she is caught up in an adventure she could have never dreamed of.

Sophie is a quiet and responsible 18-year-old girl. She’s the oldest of three sisters and works in her late father’s hat shop with her mother. Sophie has brown, long hair which she keeps in a braid. She’s not very self confident and is always wearing dull clothes, saying that she’s not beautiful or interesting at all.
Another important character, Howl (who is my own favorite), is a powerful wizard who values his privacy, avoiding all kinds of conflict. He has shoulder-length blonde hair and light blue eyes. He is also very tall and slender, looking slightly feminine. Howl has a kind and forgiving heart, but he also tends to be a bit flamboyant and cowardly at times.
Witch of the waste, the woman who cursed Sophie is a talented and once beautiful witch who tried to use magic to keep herself looking young. However later in the movie she becomes one of the protagonists after her magic powers are drained off, leaving her as a harmless old woman.
There are also several other characters worth mentioning in the movie, for example Howl’s apprentice Markl and the antagonist of the movie: Madame Suliman who hunts down wizards and witches for military purposes.

I’ve watched the movie several times, and it’s probably one of my top favorites from Hayao Miyazaki (another one being spirited away). I enjoy fantasy movies a lot, and Miyazaki’s movie adaption makes me really want to read the original book too, even if it’s said to be very different from the movie. The finnish dub of the film is allright, but I’d still advice to watch it in it’s original language, since the voice acting is much more enjoyable that way.

This film tells about a young lady who has left her world of movies behind. Years ago she was a child filmstar  and everybody knows her. Now she is studying a builduing champion and she is going to renovate the manor of her grandmother. Grandmother was mysteriously died more than thirty years ago. Strangers terrorize Cilla’s working with the manor. The unknowns do not want that Cilla examines issues like the letters of her grandmother. However, Cilla regardless founds out that her grandmother was pregnant when she died. Cilla finds a comforter living the next door, Jason the comic book artist, who  helps her to explain the weird mystery.

The movie is naturally carried out and the characters are plesants to watch. The director Martha Coolidge has done his best, compared to some of her other movies. She carries the story smoothly from scene to scene, creating a whole. The end of this movie was not foreseeable, like usually love film’s are. There are not any special effects, because this movie does not need them. The only special effects is the flashbacks that Cilla sees at times. Furthermore, the soundtrack is not very special. Camera men are normally placed.

All in all, Tribute is a syrupy lovestory like the other movies or books by Nora Roberts. This movie was supposed to contain the excitement, but it had not it that so much. The film was a hit when it was released in year 2009 and it is still popular.

Black hawk down were made in 2001 in United States of America. The film won Oscars from best editing, best sound and were nominated for best director and cinematography. Black hawk down is a story of American elite strike teams mission to release small city from withering warlords grip. Sounds Like a basic American super soldier movie right? However it´s different from others because it´s based on actual event.

The battle of Mogadishu happened between October 3, 1993 and October 4, 1993. The battle of Mogadishu were joint ops mission witch goal were to capture Somali warlord  Mohamed Farrah Aid-id and the movie focuses on rescuing party for crew of two shot down Black Hawk helicopter. A lot director didn’t  change the code film is still a triumph for American ”saviors”.

Storyline is still old same first 30 minutes is spend to watch bald people speaking meaningless fuzz and showing how evil hostile is. When the battle begins, it´s same old story: American propaganda: hundreds of Somali militia are shooting group of American soldiers on a ground without any effect. However after couple minutes Americans are forced on defence still they seem to get over whit it without a scratch. The rest of the film is just meaningless stuffing when rescuing party is trying to get to crash side. however in that stuffing the secret of success is hidden, because that’s where the tide changes and Americans are starting to drop down, which brings the movie more realistic. of course Americans are not going to lose but in this movie they don’t get any miracle power but air support which is much more acceptable. Another funny fact is that everything else than American things seem to blow up Movie doesn’t show much about the citizen’s view or even the city it’s purely about soldiers.

Personally I think that movie were made to defence USA:s massacres and to get more soldiers to world. During the raid more than 1000 Somali got killed by ALL forces and 19 American were killed.

The movie is not to be recommended for those who require a deeper meaning or something stimulating. but those who enjoy action and all that other stuff its very enjoyable.

Bridget Jones:The Edge of Reason (2004) is a romantic comedy film of the life of Bridget Jones. It is a sequel to Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), based on a novel written by Helen Fielding and directed by Beeban Kidron. Starring is Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, Hugh Grant as Daliel Cleaver and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy.

Bridget Jones is a chubby, awkward but very funny english tv-journal whose lovelife is a mess. In the first movie Bridget Jones’s choose polite and civilized Mark Darcy over cheating and arrogant Daniel Cleaver. Now Bridget is happily with Mark but not for long. Mark and Bridget break up because of a misunderstanding and Bridget ends up in Thailand to business trip.Of course Bridget’s ex-boyfriend Daniel is on board and as Bridgets work partner. Bridget isn’t far from falling for Daniel again until it turns out that he hasn’t changed a bit. The real problems start when Bridget is about to get back to UK. In the airport a sniffer dog finds cocaine from Bridgets suitcase. Bridget has unwittingly tried to smuggle drugs.
Bridget stays in Thailand in prison, but luckily Mark comes and saves her. Traditionaly, Mark and Daniel get into a fight for Bridget. In the end Bridget and Mark get back together and Mark proposes to Bridget.

Bridget Jones movies differ much from other romantic comedies. Bridgets charachter is easy to identify with. She hasn’t got the most amazing bodyshape nor is she rich. She cant stop smoking and she rarely acts the way that’s supposed to. She embarreses herself often but she always gets back on her feet and she also doesn’t care about what other people think of her. That is something to admire.

The most fun part is Marks and Daniels fight. It wasn’t ”cool” fighting like in most films. There was two men slapping, kicking and trying to hit each other, thats what fighting really looks like between men. The seem made the movie even more plausible. The atmosphere is very casual and comical. The film is very light to watch, it is no Schindlers list. The movie is suitable for young and older women.

written by: Anniina Laino

Now you can believe in Santa Claus!

Joulutarina (Christmas Story) is a finnish film, which tells the orugin and life of Santa Claus. A film is directed by Juha Wuolijoki and written by Marko Leino. The film is released in 2007.

The story begins when Santa’s (whose name is Nikolas) parents and his sister died in an accident. Nikolas (Otto Gustavsson) started an orphan child’s life. Every family taking him for a one year and then moving him on to the next family. Nikolas starts whittiling toys out of wood as a gift for the children, whose home he has lived. The last year none of the families can not take him to home the next year. The villages hermit Iisakki (Kari Väänänen) take him to his home. Iisakki doesn’t like Nikolas. After many years Iisakki grows to love Nikolas as his own son. Nikolas makes toys out of wood every year more and more. He grows old and he becomes the figure know as Santa Claus (Hannu-Pekka Björkman).

The film is touching and wonderful. Especially the
film is suitable for children. If you do not need action, that film is right for you!

Written by Krista