Remember Me

Remember me (2010) is a romantic drama centered on two young lovers, which both are radically different persons and come from different life situations. This baseline is so last season. We all know how it comes to an end. Or do we?

Remember me is starred by Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin and Pierce Brosnan.
Characters are greatly chosen: even overrated Pattinson makes absolutely excellent job while acting Tyler. It’s easy to say after seeing this movie couple of times and I know how ironic it sounds, but I couldn’t come up with better characters.

The “Big Thing” in this movie is the plot. Yep, I’m serious. It all starts with basics: different persons, a heartless womanizer, tough but sweet girl, and then… A bet. So they fall in love, they do have fights, they do have break-ups, they do have everything that couples and movies always do. What movies and couples always don’t have, is a shocking beginning and a shocking ending.
In the first scene, Ally (Emilie de Ravin) is waiting for a subway with her mother, when suddenly two black men steals her mom’s bag and leave the station with the subway that just arrived. The last thing in the first scene, is when one of those two guys opens the door of a subway, takes a gun and shoots Ally’s mother in front of her eyes. After that Ally always uses a taxi instead of public transit.

In the end Tyler is visiting at his father’s work, when spectator finally gets it: it is 9/11. The plane hits the skyscraper, in which Tyler is visiting at. Ally, of course, takes that especially heavily. In fact, in the end the movie goes back to the beginning. That’s because Ally travels with a subway for the first time after the tragedy she saw when she was a kid.

I listened to movie’s music for the first time in the end, when credits were already running. Seriously, it was the first time in almost two hours. After all, now that I’ve seen this movie twice, I can say that I like the soundtrack. I do not love it, but I like it. It’s “okay”.

Genre itself is really worn. To be honest, I was sure this movie is going to be so dumb. And it was, of course, in places. It’s almost an impossibility to make a romantic drama without any recursions from other movies of same kind.
Afterwards I’ve been content for watching this film.

007 Skyfall

007 Skyfall is a bit different James bond-movie than others. In the beginning of the movie Bond has to get file back where is information of MI6 agents around the world.  The assignment goes wrong really badly and agents around the world are in big danger, MI6 is attacked. All these things cause M’s authority and place in  MI6 director in danger. Now MI6 is danger from inside and out, and M has only one man she can trust: Bond. Bond starts to investigate – with one starting field agent. And they figure out that the attacker was old agent who M has ”betrayed”.

Daniel Craig as bond has the lead role of course. This is Craigs third Bond-film And I think Craig is best Bond with Sean Connery. Judi Dench is M last time in Bonds because M dies on the movie. Javier Bardem is the best bond villain ever from my opinion. New M after Judi Dench is Ralph Fiennes. Naomie Harris as eve who became Moneypenny and Berenice Marlohe as severine who supposed to be the lead Bond women but her role was really small. Ben Whishaw as a new Q.

I dont know anything about the technical things in camerawork but I think movie was made reaaly good and it looks and sound good.

This movie dont contain as much special effects as Qunatum Solace and Casino royal, but there is still well made crash-scene right i the start of movie and other kind of stuff.

Genre is spyfilms but it is ver different  compared to other. This movie is very realistic as Craigs bonds and unlike other bonds, and I think its very good thing. Only scene I dont like in Skyfall is the scene where M dies and Bond start to cry, its just so not Bond. Also Adeles thememusic ”Skyfall” is suitable to the film.

Titanic (1997)

Titanic is romantic drama film in 1997. It is directed, scripted and producer by James Cameron. It tells the story of a fictional part of the Titanic sinking. The film is partly funded by paramount pictures and 20th century fox. It budget was 200 million dollars. At the time, it was most expensive film ever made before Cameron’s avatar (2009) film.

The film released in 19 December in 1997. The 3D version of the film released in 4 April in 2012 100 years after the sinking of the titanic. Soundtrack of the film is “My Heard Will Go On”.

The film’s stars are Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The film tells about Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater who falling in different social classes. On the ship they meet each other and fall in love.

In 1998 on Oscar-gala titanic were received eleven awards. It is won categories ”The best movie”, ”The best director”, ”The best music”, ”The best song”, ”The best recording”, ”The best special effect”, ”The best sound effect”, ”The best section”, ”The best description”, ”The best setting” and ”The best costumes”.

I have watched movie many times. The film is magnificently done and all effect is stunning. I like it the story of the film. The film is a wonderful love story about young people. I like also the history whose the film tell. I can recommend the film to everyone!

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

This Is Spinal Tap is a 1984 American Rock’n’Roll mock documentary directed by Rob Reiner. ”Mockumentary” is a type of film or television show, which fictional events are presented in documentary style and it’s a parody at the same time.

This Is Spinal Tap is a film about a 1982 United States concert tour for the fictional British rock group ”Spinal Tap” to promote their new album Smell the Glove. The band was founded by two childhood friends, David and Nigel.  Later they found from their band bassist, keyboardist and a series of drummers, each of whom mysteriously dies. So, without any damage the band will not survive. The tour continues, rescheduled into smaller and smaller venues. The gears are not working as well as it should be.

The movie ends, when Nigel already has left the band and coming to last gig of the tour and wishes to all others a good gig. Spinal Tap get up on the stage and Nigel (ex-guitarist) watching their gig from the side of the stage. It is last song of the gig, when David beckons Nigel to the stage. He grabs his guitar and plays with them.

Spinal Tap consists of heavy metal parody stereotypes of actors. Still, they have played in concerts and released albums. That is the point, when many people have thought that Spinal Tap is a real band.

Runnig time is 82 minutes, budget 2.5 millions and box-office 4,7 millions.

The movie is a great lesson that you should not take your wife on  the tour, because in this movie David’s wife first helps in practical matters and finally, she plays on the stage as part of the band. I have seen this movie many many times. ’This Is Spinal Tap’  is a movie that every rocker should be seen. One of the best ’movie’ on the world.

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Sleepy Hollow

”The heads will roll.”

Sleepy Hollow

The Plot

SPOILER WARNING

Ichabod Crane, an eccentric investigator leaves to Sleepy Hollow to investigate few brutal murders, the victims were decapitated and no one found their heads . The Dutch village community’s elders inform that the murder isn’t flesh and blood, rather a supernatural Headless Horseman who came back from Hell, Ichabod remains skeptical and claims that there must be a natural cause and the murderer can’t be a dead person . As soon Ichabod has arrived to Sleepy Hollow, the Horseman has claimed a new victim, Jonathan Masbath. After Masbath’s funeral the judge of Sleepy Hollow wants to talk to Ichabod about the victims, but the judge is stopped by the Horseman who cuts his head off, directly in front of Ichabod.

After the happenings Ichabod leaves to the woods to hunt the Horseman down to end these homicides. In the woods Ichabod meets a witch who tells to find the Tree of the Dead, because the Horseman’s tomb lies there.

Soon Ichabod finds out why the Horseman comes back to live, the Horseman seeks for his missing head. Little by little Ichabod discovers that there’s is a huge conspiracy in the village of Sleepy Hollow. The Horseman attacks to the village and the men who Ichabod suspected being part of the conspiracy got killed during the attack.

In the end of the movie Ichabod stops the Horseman by giving his head back and the Horseman rides back to Hell.

My thoughts about the movie

I have always admired Tim Burton’s movies and Sleepy Hollow isn’t an exception. The atmosphere of the movie is dark and in my opinion Sleepy Hollow it’s one of the darkest movies Tim Burton has ever directed. There’s a lot of violence in the movie and I don’t recommend if you can’t stand violence, but otherwise I recommend it. The cast work is really good and they take their roles seriously. And the role of Ichabod Crane is in my opinion one of the best roles of Johnny Depp.

I wouldn’t call Sleepy Hollow a horror movie, it isn’t scary or frightening at all, but it’s macabre. The Horseman isn’t fully made of special effects, I was surprised by the fact that they only used computer to remove his head from the film,  the rest body is all flesh and blood.

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She’s the Man

The movie She’s the Man (2006) is directed by Andy Fickman. It’s a romantic comedy and based on William Shakespear’s comedy Twelfth Night; or, What You Will. You can see that in characters and places names. The movie centers around Viola Hastings who pretends to be her brother so she could play with the boys soccer team. Leading actor of the movie is Amanda Bynes who plays the role of Viola Hastings. But all the roles are important for the plot. I will be telling about the characters later on.

The plot of the movie is humoristic and the personal relationships are complicated just like the ones on Twelfth Night. It all began when the girls’ soccer team in Cornwall got cut. At the same time Viola breaks up with her boyfriend Justin. Her brother goes to a music festival to London for two weeks. At which time Viola comes up with an idea to pretend to be her brother to get to play on the boys soccer team. The plan works well until some students are beginning to doubt. In the big soccer game it all comes clear and it gets some unexpected twists and turns. At the end there’s a dance in which personal relationships clears out.

The character s in the movie are typical high school students. The movie focuses on the soccer team’s players, coaches and their friends. Personal relationships are complex and in some way all relate to each other. Names and personalities are largely from Shakespear’s comedy but they have been modernized to the present day. The characters are humoristic which fits in comedy. The actors and actresses who were selected to the movie are popular among young people.

She’s the Man is based on Shakespear’s comedy Twelfth Night. She’s the Man’s plot is similar to Twelfth Night. Duke has a crush on Olivia and Olivia has a crush on Viola who has disguised herself as her brother Sebastian, Olivia kissing the real Sebastian not the disguised Viola and Duke learned from “Sebastian” how to get Olivia’s attention. In addition the names of the main characters are similar and there is lot of references to other Shakespeare’s plays and the names of the places are from the Twelfth Night.

I like this movie because it’s so fun and I don’t have to think about anything and still understand everything. It’s not those quality movies but it is the perfect movie for movie night with friends.

Revolutionary Road (2008)

The movie ”Revolutionary Road” is a drama film and it is directed by Sam Mendes. It based on the novel by Richard Yates. Revolutionary road is a love story but the happy one. The movie tells how April and Frank Wheeler strugles in their marriage and try to raise their two children at the same time. April is acted by Kate Winslet and Frank is acted by Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeas, the same couple as in the movie ”Titanic”, (they just aren’t as in love as they were in the Titanic.)

Wheelers family lives in Revolutionary Road which is suburban in Connecticut. Their children are called Michael and Jennifer. Wheelers have Campbells as their neightbours and they become friends. April wants to be an actor but her dream fails and Frank hates his job. They decide to move back to Paris where they could start over. But suddenly April is pregnant and the plans also fails. April doesn’t want to keep the baby but Frank disagree. They fight a lot about it. One day when Frank is at work, April sent the children at the Campbell’s house and do an abortion to herself. Of course It’s a very dangerous, specially at that time, in the 1950’s. April has to go to the hospital and have a cerdury. April doesn’t survive and Frank starts to live alone with the children. They move away from the Revolutionary Road and starts everything from the beginning.

Madagascar

Madagascar is an animated comedy made by Dream Works. Madagascar was released in 2005. It’s starred by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith.

Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo live luxury life on the Central park zoo. Marty is tired about his life and he wants to run away. Others don’t like about this idea, but Marty leaves. Alex, Melman and Gloria go to seek Marty. People catch the animals and try to transport them to another zoo. During the ship voyage runaway penguins take over the ship because they want to go to Antarctica. Because of this the boxes of animals fall to the sea and they drift to  Madagascar. The plot progresses well and something interesting is going on all the time. Only lemurs and wicked fossas live in Madagascar. Lemurs want Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria to join their pack. However Alex’s natural instincts awake and he sees other animals as walking pieces of meat around him. This brings a little bit thrill to the plot. Alex escapes deep to the jungle because he fears that he would otherwise hurt his friends . Marty, Melman and Gloria go to seek Alex, but fossas attack. Alex is a hero and he saves his friends. Friends are happy because they are together again and Alex learns to eat fish instead of meat. The penguins come to Madagascar and Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria want to go back to New York. The ending is good because it makes you to want to see next movie and because everything did not go as expected. If the movie was longer it would be boring because the plot is simple.

I like the voice actors and the voices fit their roles very well. I think that the Alex’s voice is the best (Ben Stiller). Also finnish voice acting is good. Melman’s voice is the best in the finnish dub.(Janne Reinikainen). The King Julien’s voice is funny and very good. I don’t have anything negative to say about the voice actors.

Music doesn’t play so big part in the movie. Only few songs are hear in Madagascar. I think that it is a good thing. ”I like to move it” is the theme song of the movie. That song is so catchy, but it can be so annoying. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don’t.

Madagascar is well done computer animation. All the Madagascar viewes and voices have been done very well. The movie is also funny. I think that it’s funny for children and adults. Madgascar is a movie for the whole family and I recommend it for all people, for kids and adults alike.  Madagascar is one of my favourite animated movies!

 

Marty: I wished I could go to the wild!

Alex: That is the worst idea I’ve ever heard.

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows part.1

The Harry Potter film series is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by the British author J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 is the seventh film and it is directed by David Yates. The series is distributed by Warner Bros. Harry Potter movies are located Hogwarts called School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main character in the Harry Potter series is, of course, Harry Potter played by Daniel Radcliffe. Other important characters in the film are his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley played by Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. the movie was released in Finland 17th November 2010.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 is a fairly dismal compared to the previous Harry Potter films.Harry Potter is no longer a child and that is why the film has changed.Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore ,who was beloved by many , died in the previous film and has left Harry and his friends in the legacy of clues to help them try to find out Voldemort’s Horcrux location, and to destroy them, and also to look into the secret of the Deathly Hallows. The film ends very exciting point. Voldemort breaks into Dumbledore’s tomb to steal one of the Deathly Hallows: his wand.

Movie Control has been very successful, and the actors are able to adapt well to the new movie darker nature. The film is very exciting and engrossing. I simply do not see anything bad in this movie. I have to admit though that someone who has not seen the other harry potter movies opinion may be completely different. You need to go into the movies so you can enjoy them and to understand all the small side plots. If you do so, the films provide an opportunity to dive into the world of fantasy.

FRIENDS

I’m going to tell you about TV-series named Friends. Show was on TV during years 1994-2004 and it has been one of the most popular TV-series in television history. The creators of the series are David Crane and Marta Kauffman and it has been produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions. The series got filmed in front of live audience.

The series tells about six friends who live in Manhattan: Monica Geller (Courtney Cox), Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), Ross Geller (David Schwimmer), Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) and Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc). The actors were in their twenties when the series started and they were not specifically well-known but the show has made them globally renowned. But anyhow series begins when Rachel Green has run away from her own wedding and she comes to the coffeehouse named Central Perk where the rest of the group is. She is looking for her old high school friend Monica Geller. Rachel is spoiled girl and now she has to learn to live without her dad’s money. She moves in with Monica and gets her first job as waitress in coffeehouse Central Perk, where the group spends most of their spare time. During the series she dates Monica’s big brother Ross Geller and they are in on-off-relationship during the whole ten seasons. After her job in coffeehouse Rachel starts to work in fashion which is her passion. Rachel and Ross have a baby named Emma in the end of season eight.

Monica Geller works as a chef and she is a little perfectionist, bossy and she has competitive nature. Monica starts dating her friend Chandler Bing after spending one night together in the end of season four. The relationships begins with sneaking around because they don’t want anyone to know about them. However, the relationship is revealed and Monica and Chandler get married in the end of season seven. They can’t have babies but in the end of the season 10 they adopt twins.

Phoebe Buffay has lost her mom and dad and she lived in the streets her whole adolescence. She isn’t traumatized by that and she is totally okay whit what has happened to her. Phoebe has also a twin-sister Ursula but they are not in contact very much. Phoebe plays guitar and her songs are quite unique and she is also a masseuse.  Phoebe has one serious relationship with Mike Hannigan (Paul Rudd) and they get married in the last season.

Ross Geller is a paleontologist and in the beginning of the show he is divorcing from her lesbian-wife Carol Willick (Jane Sibbet). In the end of season one Carol gives birth to her and Ross’ children Ben (Cole Sprouse). Ross has on-off-relationship with Rachel and when they are off several years Ross gets married with Emily Waltham (Helen Baxendale) in the end of season four. Marriage doesn’t last long because Ross says Rachel’s name at the altar. Rachel and Ross also get married in Vegas when they were very drunk and that marriage also ends in divorce. So Ross is divorced three times and he is often joked about it. In the end of last season Ross and Rachel finally get back together.

Chandler Bing is the humor-man of the group and he makes a lot of sarcastic jokes about almost everything. In the first seasons he works in big corporation but later he quits his job and starts working with advertising. He is quite scared of commitment before he gets married with Monica. Chandler has quite odd past, because he is son of an erotic novelist mother and his dad is drag-queen in Las Vegas.

Joey Tribbiani is an actor and he is good with the ladies and he has many short-term girlfriends. He is not one of the smartest one, but he is an innocent and caring character with good intentions. Joey lives with Chandler for several years but when Monica and Chandler move in together Joey starts to live with Rachel.

The soundtrack of FRIENDS is I’ll be there for you by The Rembrandts. It was sold 500 000 copies in November 1995. The song I’ll be there for you is written by David Crane and Marta Kauffman and in the music video of the song there is all the six main characters from FRIENDS dancing and singing with The Rembrandts.

In my opinion FRIENDS is one of the best comedy series there has ever been. All the actors and writers have done great job and the characters are lovable and the humor is good. I recommend watching this series for all of you!