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Girl fight is a movie which is inspired by true events, but names has been changed and history of every character is fiction. It’s released in 2011 and from genre it’s full of drama. Girl fight was wrote by Benita Garvin and directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal.

Story is telling about the girl, who’s name is Haley Macklin (Jodelle Ferland). She is successful and hardworking sixteen years old high school student with bright plans for the future. She didn’t have much friends and that irritated her. But suddenly she find herself around with popular senior girls, whose habits and bad influences affected to her. Before Haley get to know those girls, she wrote her opinions of them on internet (she didn’t like them at all then). But when senior girls found out everything what Haley has wrote, they wanted to teach her a bit. And so they did, they beaten her and took that on video, just for fun. That video also ended on internet and spread all over the media. Haley’s parents started demand justice for their daughter in courtroom.

Even this movie is released in 2011, the quality of that isn’t so good and sharp than others movies from that time, but that is just my opinion. Despite that, all the situations were filmed well. Movie does include violence, but those scenes have been given to imagine yourselves mostly, so it didn’t shown violence that much. In that case, this is appropriate for more sensitive viewers too ( but not for little children though ).

For actors I could only say good things, because they did their job more than well. Every character were realistic and they were like from real life. Haley’s dad Ray’s ( James Tupper) behavior was something that I could suppose, if someone’s child changes like Haley did without any expect. He just wanted to pull Haley back to home and keep her there until she behave better. In Haley’s mom Melissa’s (Jodelle Ferland ) case, she shows the other side of parenting. She tried to understand more Haley and be like friend to her. But when girls caused injuries to Haley, Melissa started war in courtroom against them. Her determination was something that I respect.

After seeing this video, I can’t stop thinking about the girl, who was victim in real life for this. After beating, hospital and with all the traumatic memories, there is every kind of media behind you with hundreds of questions. It’s of course important, that people knows what happened in that kind of cases but seldom anyone thinks how media affects to victims and their family. Aren’t they suffered already enough without every hours of day’s attention? With that and other things in Girl fight, it gave me a lot of things that I haven’t before contemplated. Everyone should have seen movie like this and learn about it.

Brothers is a very emotional film directed by Jim Sheridan. The main characters are Tommy, Sam and Grace Cahill. Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a brother of Sam and he just got out of prison after robbing a bank. Sam (Tobey Maguire) tries to help his brother to move on with his life and to forget his past. Their father doesn’t appreciate Tommy because of his life choices. He makes it clear that Sam is better and he thinks Tommy should learn from him. Grace (Natalie Portman) is Sam’s wife. They have a beautiful relationship and two sweet little girls, Isabelle and Maggie. But she is afraid that someday something bad is going to happen because of Sam’s dangerous work. And someday it will.

Sam is a Marine Captain. He has never been injured seriously because of his work, not until something horrible happens. Sam heads for Afghanistan, where his helicopter is shot down. Everyone, including his family think he is dead. Luckily, or in this case i may say unfortunately, he was the other of the two men who stayed alive. They were kept prisoners, tortured and forced to do what the kidnappers wanted. The most horrible scene of the movie was when Sam had to kill his friend, Joe. He was threatened that either he kills Joe, or they will kill him. It made me feel terrible. But so did him. After being rescued he was withdrawn. He just couldn’t be the same man he was before because of what he had to do.

Before the accident Grace had always hated Tommy because of his rude behaviour. However, the sorrow creates feelings between them, when Sam is considered dead. But nothing more happens. Step by step the girls become attached to Tommy. When Sam gets back home, everything has changed. He believes something has happened between Grace and tommy, even though that’s not the truth. After having a professional help because of his traumatic experience he decides to go back to work. Still, his life is different than before.

The film was horrible but at the same time i liked it. By horrible i don’t mean I hated it. It was just violent and showed what kind of life some people have to live. Their life may be a constant struggle of survival in the middle of war. I experienced a lot of feelings. Mostly anger and sadness. I even cried. I was relieved that the most awful scenes weren’t shown, at least not entirely.

The casting I think was perfect. The actors did their job very well and they were just right choices for this film. Considering their looks, the brothers looked a bit same. At times I even pondered if they really are related, but afterwards checking their names I noted they aren’t.

The soundtracks of the movie were chosen well. One of them was for instance United States Navy Hymn. That song really highlighted the theme. Most of the songs were slow and kind of sad. Three of the eight soundtracks were from the albums of U2.

I don’t usually like this kind of movies very much. But in this case it didn’t hold true. So, in conclusion I can say the film was very well executed and worth to watch.

I watched a movie called Sinister which is directed by Scott Derrickson. It is a horror movie starring Ethan Hawke. The movie was released on October 12 2012 in United Stated.

I am not really an aficionado of horror movies but i always end up watching them. Although this movie surprised me positively because it had no jumpscares which i really don’t like. Instead the plot gathered and held on tension all the way through the movie.

The plot was quite simple. Let’s open it a little bit. The film starts by a pretty creepy way. With a one whole family hanging from a tree with ropes around their necks in their backyard. Months later a true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt moves into that same house with his family to write about the murders. He knows about them but his wife and children does not. But his wife, Tracy will soon find out (like women always do). Oswalt finds a box from the house’s attic containing an old projector and films. He find also some drawings. The drawings and the film are about the same thing. A demonic character called a ”Boogieman” killing people with many different disgusting ways. Oswalt starts to investigated the murders from the film and he will find out that the murders were made in different times and in different states, but there is one thing that’s same in every murder, one child is always missing. Oswalt goes to talk with a local professor whose expertise is the demonic phenomena. The professor find from the murder films some symbol about a pagan Babylonian deity named Bughuul who would kill whole families and then take one of their children. That’s when things start to go totally wrong.

My opinion about the movie is that it is very good horror movie. It does not have a boring hour-long beginning like many other horror movie. It goes straight to action and starts to gather up thrills. Although it has a shady part somewhere in the middle which i had to watch twice to understand what was really going on.

Music in the movie was maybe a bit too simple. But it also raised some goosebumps occasionally. The actors also did a great job casting Sinister, which is also a big plus,because usually horror movies have kinda bad actors.

In summary i really recommend this movie to anyone who likes horror movies. Sinister is very exciting and surprising scary movie with a great plot.

Repulsion was released in 1965. The film was directed by Roman Polanski and the story was written by Roman Polanski and David Stone. Some of the leading actors were Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser and Helen Fraser. It was a mix of drama, horror and thriller.

The movie tells about Carol, a girl that is really beautiful in a classic film star way but highly sensitive. She finds it difficult to deal with things like her sexuality and sex, and attention from men is just too much for her. When her sister and roommate goes away for a trip, she starts losing it.

I thought the film was aesthetically pleasing and edited well, though some scenes were maybe too long for my liking. Black-and-white suited it well and was part of its magic, and I can’t imagine it being half as good if it was a colour film. The language of the film was a bit oldish – most likely because it was after all filmed in the 60s – but it was still easy to understand so that didn’t bother me too much.

The actors were all great, especially Catherine Deneuve as Carol. I kind of identified with Carol, being also a somewhat sensitive person myself. She was also really easy to sympathize. Her sister was also a well written character, offering some contrast since the sisters were like night and day. The relationship between them was great and they cared a lot about each other even though they also fighted a lot and had their differences.

I enjoyed the movie quite a lot, in fact I think it became one of my favourite films. I would recommend it to people who like films that really make you think about things and who don’t have a problem with old films.

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The Conjuring, directed by James Wan and starring Lili Taylor as Carolyn Perron and Ron Livingstone as Roger Perron, is a horror movie which was released in 2013. To cut a long story short, the movie tells about the Perron’s family, which includes parents Carolyn and Roger, and as much as five daughters;  Andrea, Nancy, Christine, April and Cindy Perron. They all have been menaced by ghosts since they moved into an old, bit creaky, rural house. The house and it’s surroundings are, of course, the reason why the family’s life changes at short notice.

Albeit I think the movie was pretty boring and foreseeable due to millions of clichès it had, I enjoyed watching it. It’s probably because of, granted that I’ve seen many horror movies, this was the first one I watched without being frightened at all, which may also tell you how lame it must have been. Some of these of clichès were, for example, that exorcists Lorraine and Ed Warren found this case the worst they’ve ever known, the house, where the Perrons live, belonged to an witch, and the house had a cellar which was obstructed before children found it – and, of course, the cellar was the centre of the evilness. Actually, every single change in the storyline was easily deduced, which makes me think what was the director thinking when he made this movie?
Anyway, the filming was pretty good, and the actors and actresses did their job well, but this movie would’ve needed something more from them, too, to be impressive. I didn’t feel much sympathy for anyone, and I wasn’t even able to put my soul into the movie and it’s multi-phased story, but I really appreciate that this is not ruined with jumpscares. There was some scenes in the movie, which I couldn’t connect to the main story. As an illustration, the first scene in the whole movie is about Ed and Lorraine showing a film about one cursed item, and the same item is shown later few times.

Finally, the movie has an interesting storyline in it’s own way, but likely will be kick in the teeth if watcher is looking for a horror movie with heavy feel. This doesn’t seem to have any kind of tone at all. This could be good for extremely skittish person only.

This sci-fi film was released in 2011. It was directed by Jonathan Liebsman and the story was written by Chris Bertolini.

The film tells about an attack on Earth by extraterrestrial beings. The interstellar soldiers want to get all the water from Earth and therefore they had to erase the leading species. The squad of William Martinez (Ramon Rodriguez) including the veteran Michael Nantz (Aaron Eckhart), who was already retired, is the pivotal team in the fight against the breach. During the battle they experience great losses of soldiers, but they keep on fighting.

The first thing that should be mentioned about the movie is the teamwork of the squad through the whole movie. All the characters stand up for each other and give a helping hand when one is needed. The team members and even the civilians are risking their own lives for common good. And this point impresses me the most, because it’s important to have friends who would put their hands in the fire for you.

Secondly I want to point out the whole story. The timespan of the battle is only two days, but it’s fascinating, how all the happenings are fitted into such a short period of time. It’s normal that the wars in movies last for weeks or even years, but this one is compact and in my opinion it clarifies the already easy followable plot.

One more thing I want to tell is the awesome animations and special effects. Even if the movie was quite violent especially against the human, all the explosions and shots and impacts worked seamlessly together and there wasn’t a single scene where could’ve been a doubt about the ”reality” of what happened.

I think this is a awesome movie which tells about faithfulness to each other and never giving up. I’d recommend this movie to everyone who, if only in the smallest way, likes ski-fi movies. Though the atmosphere was at some points very sad, the rest of the group could make my day in the end of the movie.

The movie Confessions of a shopaholic is a romantic comedy that’s based on the two first books of the Shopaholic book serie written by Sophie Kinzella. There’s just one movie even though there are seven Shopaholic books. The movie is directed by P.J Hogan and it’s published 2009.
The movie starts with a little sneak back to Rebeccas(Isla Fisher) childhood. Her mother always bought her cheap and ugly clothes and that explains why Rebecca as an adult is like she is. As you can guess from the movie name Rebecca is a shopaholic. The movie is all about following her life. She gets a job from a finansial magazine, but infact she doesn’t care or know anything about finansial things. She wanted the job just to get easier to work for a fashion magazine. She has a problem because she has a lot of debt. During the movie she tries to solve her problems but at the same time she falls in love with her boss Luke(Hugh Dancy). Rebecca is really energetic and a little silly. During te movie she struggels with meny funny things.
The movie is a bit predictable. It followed pretty mutch the formul of the romantic comedy genre. It’s almost always the same: the main character has a problem and at some point she or he falls in love and after all gets the problem solved. While watching this movie you don’t have to think all the time and try to understand the ”message” of the movie. The movie topic isn’t emotive and doesen’t really try to amaze the viewer. The acters are really good and they are credible and look good together. And for a finnish watcher the movie is very funny because there is quite much references to Finland and one finnish actor(Janne Virtanen).
I myself like to watch this kind of movies. It’s just nice to watch a funny film where you can laugh and it’s also nice because of watching the clothes that the actors use. Because it’s a comedy and not for example a fantasy movie there aren’t any massive speciall effects but the movie was made good . Some of comedys are made so that they look a little cheap and i think that that kind of movies are really easily movies that people don’t want to watch till the end. I would deffinetly watch more Shopaholic movies if they were made. For people who want to watch movies wich have a meaning this movie perhaps isn’t the right decision but for people who want to watch ”nonsense” movies this might be a good one. In my opinion this movie is directed more to girls than boys.