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.

Memoirs of a Geisha is a book written by American author Artur Golden. Genre is historical. Movie was released in 2005 and it stars the Chinese actresses and only one Japanese, even if much of the movie is set in the popular geisha district of Gion in Kyoto in Japan

At the age of nine, Chiyo Sakamoto (Suzuka Ohgo as a young Chiyo) is taken from her home with her older sister Satsu and sold to an okiya (which means  a geisha boarding house).

Other people living in the okiya are another young girl named Pumpkin, elderly and grumbling Granny, money-obsessed Mother. Also the famous, but mean, geisha Hatsumomo (Gong Li), who is disliking Chiyo, and sees her as a threat.

Despite warnings, Chiyo plans escape with Satsu, but is caught. Enraged at her for dishonoring the okiya, Mother makes Chiyo pay off her debts as a slave.

While working as a slave in okiya, Chiyo meets a kind man who gives her money. Chiyo starts calling her as a Chairman (Ken Watanabe) and he’s her first love. She donates the money, praying to become a geisha in the hopes of seeing him again. Soon an older geisha called Mameha (Michelle Yeoh)  persuades Mother to pay  Chiyo’s training. When she can restart her training, Chiyos geisha name becomes Sayuri (Zhang Ziyi as an older Chiyo) and Mameha is acting as her mentor. And at the one point it is clarifyed that Chairman have sent Mameha to help Sayuri.

But because Hatsumomo sees Sayuri as a possible rival she tryes to destroy her fame and take all her customers. But as always, bad people has only bad endings and Hatsumomo losts everything that sha had and is ejected to the streets.

Same time Japan is on the brink of entering world war 2 and many Geisha are evacuated.  Sayuri is  send  far north to work as a kimono maker.  At the end of the war, customer visits Sayuri and asks that if she would return to Okiya and work as a geisha again.

Eventually Sayuri and Chairman confess their love to each other and teh film ends in the words: ”To a man, Geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet to learn of kindness, after so much unkindness… To understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find that her prayers were answered…can that not be called happiness? After all, these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.” – Sayuri

 An Education is a British film directed by Lone Scherfig. This film is a coming-of-age drama film from it’s category and it is based on a book of the same name by Lynn Barber.

The plot is that a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl Jenny meets a charming Jewish man called David who takes her to beautiful places such as clubs and fine restaurants. Jenny falls easily for David and he also gets her parents appreciation. Soon Jenny starts to notice that David makes his money trough a variety of shady practices. Initially Jenny is shocked but she tries to forget that because she still likes David.

David also takes Jenny to Paris for her birthday, the place where she has always wanted to go. Soon David proposes marriage and Jenny accepts. That makes her to leave her school. When she has left school she finds out that David is already married to an older woman. When Jenny tells him that she knows, David disappears from her life. Jenny feels she has nothing left and finally gets help from her favorite teacher, who helps her back to her old school.

Jenny Mellor (Carey Mulligan) Jenny is the main character. She is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl who loves french culture. She listens a lot of french music and speaks it often with her friends.

David Goldman (Peter Sarsgaard) is a charming Jewish conman. He has a lot of money and he goes often to fine restaurants and luxurious places. He values arts and music.

Danny (Dominic Cooper) is David’s partner in crime and of course his friend. He likes valuable instruments and expensive decor.

Helen (Rosamund Pike) Helen is Danny’s girlfriend. She is into fashion and she is not as clever as the others in group.

This film’s soundtrack includes a lot of french music and lively music which is played by the piano. The soundtrack includes also old classical hits which are played in the clubs where David takes Jenny.

I’d recommend this film to everyone because it’s interesting, and sad when you identify with the main character Jenny.

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