Grease was made in year 1978. The story based on musical written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Director of the movie was Randal Kleiser and produced by Paramount Pictures. Grease was very big thing when it came on cinemas. But it is still very popular musical.
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are starring on the movie. Also Stockard Channing and Jeff Conaway have big roles on the movie. The movie is going through the ’50s. Film tells the story of the Danny Zuko’s (John Travolta) and Sandy Olsen’s (Olivia Newton-John) romance. The movie begins that when Danny and Sandy are on the beach and they think that’s what happens when school starts because Sandy have go back in Australia. Sandy unknowing goes to the same school as Danny. They fight at the bonfire night and the movie tells their doing. Sandy find a new boy and Danny is jealous. Danny start to play a sports and try to make effect on Sandy. It works and they go togehter in the dance. They fight again after the dance. But at the end they will get the agreed of course.
Because the movie is musical that have very great soundtrack and other sound effects. The movie contains a lot of original songs from the musical but a few song was composed specifically for the movie, like Danny’s and Sandy’s duet You’re The One That I Want and Sandy’s Hopelessly Devoted To You. Composers working Michael Forystek and Barry Gibb.
Because the movie is going through the ’50s grease is a key part of which is due to the movie name.
The movie is awesome and it is essential for all lovers of musicals. Harsh humor is also great in the movie.
Later has made Grease 2 but that is not as popular as Grease.
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Madagascar 3 : The most wanted
They are here again! Same old figures and the new one adventures in the third Madagascar movie: Europe´s most wanted. Madagascar is an animated comedy made by Dream Works. Madagascar 3 was released in 2012. It’s starred by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith with many other new actors.
Very popular figures Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria adventures in the most hilarious adventure ever. They are still fighting to get back to their home in New York zoo. The story begins from Africa where they are missing home and waiting that penguins would bring them by plane. Animals get tired of waiting and decide swim to Monte Carlo. Penguins and monkeys are found at casino and escape from there is eventful episode. They are chased by captain DuBois, who is hunting animals. On their escape animals end up in a circus train. The story tells how do a lion, zebra, hippo, giraffe, four penguins, two monkeys and three lemurs travel through Europe and get back to New York. Animals make friend with circus animals and on their trip they realise the importance of friendship and cooperation. Inside the story there is the thruth that when you belive yourself, you can make the impossible, possible. Film had a happy ending: animals get back to New York but they still decide stay at circus with friends.
The music of the film was great and riveting. There was well-known music and remixed music and of course the famous, original theme music remixed.
The tecnical fulfilment was also great. Enviroment was diverse and figures was lively. Also 3D fulfilment was good. Voice actors were very good both in english and finnish.
Madagascar 3 is very funny family film witch entertains both young and adults. Even the critics have praised the movie and it has got many stars in reviews.
The Naked gun 33 1/3
The Naked gun 33 1/3 (released 1994) is the final movie of The Naked gun series. It was directed by Peter Segal. The movie is an exhilarating comedy which contains lots of humour in all forms. Leslie Nielsen as officer Frank Drebin has retired from the forces just when he is most needed. A rumour is spreading that a terrorist act will occur in the near future, but no one knows for certain who is going to perform it and where.There are quite few special effects in this movie but it is also good because this movie doesn’t require much special effects.
The movie starts off with a short and humorous intro which is typical for The Naked gun movies. The plot of the movie was pretty simple but not in a boring way. First Frank retires from the police forces, but keeps investigating this one case. His wife Jane finds out that he haven’t quit his job which enrages her and causes her to move out of the town. After his wife gone Frank is sent to infiltrate a prison, because the rumour tells that the terrorist attack will be controlled from prison. In prison Frank ends up to the same cell as Rocco Dillon the mastermind behind the terrorist’s plan. After gaining the trust of this crook Frank escapes from the prison with him. Rocco’s mother is also involved in their scheme and she transports Frank and Rocco to their hideout. When they’re in Rocco’s hideout Frank finds out that the target of the terrorist act is the academy awards ceremony. In the meantime after ”a slight misunderstanding” Jane realizes that she was wrong and rushes to find Frank. When Jane finally finds Frank she is captured and forced to be involved in the scheme. Their plan is to blow the ceremony up with a bomb hidden to the anvalope of the greatest film award. Once the bomb is pulled form the anvalope it will detonate. Frank turns the ceremony into one big chaos but manages to get the anvalope without detonating it. The movie ends to a scene where Jane gives birth to their first-born.
Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin, the main character. Nielsen suits to his role perfectly. A little absent-minded but a decent police officer who tries his best to fight against crime even when he is retired. His age however remains a mystery in this movie.
Priscilla Presley as Jane Drebin, who is Franks wife. She would want to have a baby with Frank but he isn’t so excited about this idea.
George Kennedy as Ed Hockey, Franks good old friend from the police department. He was devastated when Frank had to retire.
O.J.Simpson as officer Nordberg, also Franks good friend from the police department. A rather silly character.
Fred Ward as Rocco Dillon, the bad guy of the movie. A somewhat skilled bomber who works for Papshmir.
There are also very hilarious parables e.g. ”I had to stand on my toes, like a midget on a urinal.” which of course meant that he had to be very careful. In my opinion it is delightful to watch the movie over and over again because of the little things you might and will not notice on the first time you watch it. All in all it was also very easy to follow beacause of the relaxed and smooth tempo of events in the movie. I would recommend this movie to anyone who has anykind sense of humour. References to other movies can also be seen for example:The scene where Jane and her men-hater friend leaves the town is referated from a movie.
(500) Days of Summer
(500) Days of Summer – Movie Review
(500) Days of Summer was released in 2009 and it’s comedy drama film. It’s directed by Marc Webb and written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. The movie is starred by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.
The movie tells about Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel), a girl who doesn’t believe true love exists, and Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a guy who falls in love with her. The story is not a love story but it is a story about love. Tom thinks that Summer is a love of his life, but Summer doesn’t even believe in love. They still start to date with each other but that doesn’t work out very well.
The movie is presented in a nonlinear narrative, as the movie jumps from various days within the 500-day period of Tom and Summer’s relationship. That’s why you need to focus on the movie that you know what day it is.
A soundtrack of this movie was released on July 14, 2009 and it includes 16 songs. The music is indie rock, alternative rock and folk.
I like the movie and I think it is great but sometimes I feel that it was hard to keep up with day it was because of that jumping back and forth between days but it also makes the movie interesting. I also like how the movie ends.
Transformers
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
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.
Requiem for a Dream
Requeim for a Dream was released in 2000. It a drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky, and it’s based on a novel with the same name by Hubert Selby, Jr. Starring in the movie are Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly and Marlon Wayans. The movie got a positive response by its viewers and critics.
The movie follows the lives of Harry (Jared Leto), his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly), his mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn) and his bestfriend Tyrone (Marlon Wyans). The movie is divided into three seasons: summer, fall and winter. The season reflects to the behavior of the characters during that time period. Harry, Marion and Tyrone are heroin addicts, who make the money for their drugs by dealing drugs. Harry’s mother Sara spends her time home watching television. After finding out that she is overweight her doctor prescribes her pills that should help her with the problem. The pills contain amphetamine and after a while Sara becomes addicted on them and starts rapidly losing weight. Harry and Tyrone have been able to save quite a lot of money from their drug deals and they both hope that one day they can move to a nicer place and live a better life, but one day when Tyrone gets arrested Harry spends all the money by bailing Tyrone out. During the movie the addictions of the four main characters get worse and the need for a bigger dose grows. During the final season (fall), all of the four start doing everything they can to get more drugs, and the viewer can see how low some people will go to get something they want.
The soundtrack for the film was composed by Clint Mansell. The music in the movie has a great effect and it really adds the dark feeling and sadness to the movie. It has been praised by many critics and websites. The music is mostly heard on the background and it’s not loud but so that the viewer can hear it. The movie also has some great special effects, they mostly occur when the people in the movie are on drugs. The special effects try to explain how the people feel.
Changeling
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.
Top Gun
Top Gun from year 1986 is an American action drama movie. It is directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps. The actors in the movie are for example Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards and Tom Skerritt
The main character Pete ”Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is a U.S. Navy fighter pilot who is known on his unruliness. His father was also a good pilot but he died in uncertain condition war in Vietnam. Maverick´s bedfellow is a co-pilot Nick ”Goose”Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards).
Despite of unruliness pair is send Top Gun-called Navy fighter pilot school at the beginning of the movie. Right at the beginning transpire that the course has two pairs above the rest. They are Maverick and Goose and Tom ”Iceman” Kazansky (Val Kilmer) and his co-pilot Ron ”Slide” Kerner. The pilots Maverick and Iceman have always disagreement and a small squabble about who is the best pilot. Both of them would like to have their names to trophy, which is given to the best pilot of each course. Maverick also falls in love with Charlotte ”Charlie” Blackwood (Kelly McGillis) who is an aeronautical engineer and civilian Top Gun instructor. Their relationship is not uncomplicated.
The film´s turning point comes when Maverick´s and Goose´s fighter plane falls into the sea in a training mission and Goose dies. Maverick get depressed on accident and he is giving up the course because he has lost his self-confidence. The chief instructor Mike ”Viper” Metcalf (Tom Skerritt) tells the truth to Maverick about what had happened to his father war in Vietnam. With Charlie´s and Viper´s support Maverick get back his self-confidence and he graduate from Top Gun.
The course banquet is interrupted, when fresh graduated students commanded to mission to the Indian Ocean. 24 hours later three pilot are in an aircraft carrier. Iceman and Hollywood are send to identify two hostile fighters. Soon discovers that there are six hostile fighters. Hollywood is shot down by hostile MiG. Maverick is send to help Iceman. They shoot down four MiGs and force the others to flee. When they come back to ship Maverick is celebrated as a hero. Maverick is offered the opportunity to choose assignment and Maverick decides to return to Top Gun as an instructor.
The film is a real box-office hit and it is one of the most famous movies from 1980s. Top Gun was the film that led actor Tom Cruise to global breakthrough mega stardom. When I first time saw the film, I was a bit disappointed because it has been highlighted heavily by the critics. My opinion is that Top Gun is a bit overestimated. The film is mainly based on very impressive looking flight scenes but the plot is quite weak. The storyline promote U.S. national spirit and I don´t be surprised if U.S. Navy is one of the financier of the movie. Top Gun won the Academy Award for Best Music in 1986. The good thing about the film is that the flight scenes are real and those are not ruined with digital effects. Obviously the popularity of the movie is mainly based on that it has created a new genre.
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
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.