Life of Pi

Life of Pi is an american-chienese movie.The film is directed by Ang Lee. The movie based on same termed novel which Yann Martel released in 2001. Life of Pi is an adventure and a drama movie with 3D effects. In Finland the movie was published in 21st December 2012. In the United States it was already released at 28th September. The movie has Indian actors: Suraj Sharma, who plays the young version of Pi, and Irrfan Khan playing the old Pi.

Pi Patel and his family live in India. Father of the family is a zoo keeper and his has decided to sell the animals foward. Because they don’t have money they hitchhike in the same boat where the animals are. On their way to Canada the boat sinks and Pi find himself out in a boat with zeepra, hyena, orangutan and a tiger in the middle of the Pasific Ocean! This is where the adventure starts. Pi has to  learn how to integrade with these animals especially with the tiger. Luckily Pi forms unexpected connection with the tiger and they both survive. The journey has a bit drama when Pi fight with the tiger to survive alive and when he starts to loose his hope for saving. And at the end of the movie it seems like nobody don’t believe his story of the tiger because his the only one who survived.

Special effects have a huge part in this movie. Whole movie is filmed in the sea but in the reality they weren’t there at all. It is all of the special effects. And also the tiger and Pi never be in the boat at the same time. Special effects are amazingly used. You don’t even know where they have used those. Of cource when the storms come you can see it’s not real but otherwise they have used the effects in a great way.

In my opinion it’s amazing to use Indian actors in an american movie. Actors speak english well and how they show their feelings is tangible. Suraj Sharma plays his role of a survivor very well when you take into account that the tiger weren’t even the boat so he has to imagine the tiger and play with it.

When I went to see the movie I didn’t even know what I was going to look at. It was the kind of movie that I won’t watch again. In my opinion it was oppressive but there were funny moment too. And 3D- classes didn’t eve bothered me although the movie took almost 3 hours. If you like adventure films and you don’t bothered the ’brutal’ side of them and you don’t scary easily and love ’happy’ endings you should go watch it!

 

The Book of Eli

The Book of Eli (2010) (by Gary Whitta) is a post-apocalyptic tale, in which there are a lone man who fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book which is a Bible. Almost every copy of The Bible is burned after war. There is some enemies on his way and he will have to compete with them so he can deliver that book to safety.

Characters:

Eli (Denzel Washington) is the main character and he is on journey to deliver that Bible to safety on a museum. On his way he finds companion who helps him complete that task. 

Carnegie (Gary Oldman) is the main bad guy. He has guys looking for books, but really he wants to get his hands on Bible. Because he believes that with that he could rule the humankind.

Claudia (Jennifer Beals) is Carnegie’s blind mistress and mother of Solara.

Solara (Mila Kunis) becomes an companion for Eli and she helps completing the task. First Eli would not want Solara to come with him. He rather wants to complete his burden alone, but after when Solara gets caught by highwaybandits Eli comes to help her and they start to walk together.

Lombardi (Malcolm McDowell) is the owner of the museum and he re-writes The Bible as the Eli tells him.

Special effects:There is so much of them in fighting scenes. You can know that they are effects, but still they look so much alive. Also when the house is gunned down camera comes towards the gun you can see it shooting but you will see its just an effect.

Genre: The genre of this movie is action, adventure and also drama. Its wonderful tale about task what you can complete if you just want to succeed in it.

My own opinion about this movie is that its so good that you can watch it many times and just then you can understand all what it tells to you.

 

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.