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Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street is a musical horror film. It was published at 2007 and directed by Tim Burton, who is one of the world-known directors. Tim Burton had directed many famous films, like Nightmare Before The Christmas and Sleepy Hollow.

This movie has very famous actors: Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd, Helena Bonham Carter as Nellie Lovett and Alan Rickman as judge Turpin.

This movie is based on a legend of serial killer named Sweeney Todd. Movie takes place at the 19th centurys London.

The plot shortly: Sweeney Todd returns in to London, after 15 years, to revenge judge Turpin’s terrible plan. Turpin had falsely charged and banished this barber from London, to get his wife, Lucy. Sweeney Todd settled down to his old barber shop, right up the meatpie bakery. He heard about his wife, who had poisoned herself and about the child his wife got. He ends up killing his own wife and meatpie baker Nellia Lovett, who told Lucy was dead. 

This is a great movie, because Tim Burton is my favourite director and Johnny Depp my favourite actor. I like the idea of the film, because I love horror and musicals. The soundtrack of the film is very different in every part of it. Johnny Depp is shining in his role, and Helena Bonham Carter is crazy woman as always. They play well together.

Mamma Mia is a very popular musical which was released in 2008. Right after it became a big worlds knowledge, it became also a huge prosperity.  Mamma Mia is truly joyful and compelling movie and I think it really has deserved its place in spotlights.
Mamma Mia is a wonderful story about a girl, Sophie, who is going married. There is just one problem: She wants her dad to the wedding, but she doesn’t know who her dad is. But Sophie reads her mums diaries (in secret) and finds three possible applicants to be her dad. She is sure that right when she meets her dad, she will recognize him. Everything was supposed to happen without her mum knowing anything. But it’s not that simple, men came to the island where the wedding was meant to be and soon they all said they are Sophie’s dad. And her mum soon finds out that the men are in the island and old memories come out. Shortly nobody really knows what is happening and the story begins. It contains a lot of laugh, singing, bubbling relationships but also sadness and crying, and of course love.
        All the actors and actresses did very good work in this musical. They were very personal and piquant, and pretty good singers. You could see amazing interpretation while watching the movie.  Especially Amanda Seyfried (Sophie) and Meryl Streep (Donna, Sophie’s mum) performed a wonderful role. You just can’t help smiling during the movie.
        A good musical of course needs good music and that is no problem in Mamma Mia. You can hear a lot of lovely and vivacious interpretations of very popular Swedish band Abba’s songs in movie. They all fit perfect to the plot of movie.
        I really love this movie and I have watched it about five or six times and every time I cry and laugh in the same scenes. Mamma Mia is perfect film when you’re tired and you’re not even able to think, you can just watch and enjoy. If you prefer speed and suspense, this is not maybe the best movie, but it’s good variety!

The Lucky One is an american drama. It was release April 2012. The Lucky One from the author of The Notebook. Running time is 100 minutes. The Lucky One movie director is Scott Hicks. He is a film director from Australia and he is best known as the screenwriter and director of Shine. Leading actors of a movie are Zac Efron (Logan) and Taylor Schilling (Beth).

The Lucky One movie tells about Logan who is peacekeeper in Iraq. He finds a picture of some woman and that picture brings a lot of good luck for Logan. When he come back home, He starts to look for the woman whose picture he has. He find her in Hamden, Louisiana, USA. Logan find out why Beth’s picture was in Iraq. They fall in love. But Beth ex-husband try to get between Logan and Beth. Becauce Beth and her ex-husband have a boy, Ben. The ex-husband doesn’t be so nice to Logan. The situation get totally out of control. The end is not so good to everybody.

Plot is almost same than everyone other drama and romantic films. But I like this movie. I enjoy when I watch this film. That is touching and interesting film. You could identify everyone because they are so real. The actors were great and they fit good their role. It is easy to follow what they say. They speak very clearly. Music was good and beutiful. The music is compose Mark Isham. The movie don’t fit so young people because they don’t understand everything. If you like romantic and drama films I recommend The Lucky One movie to you.

The secret life of Walter Mitty

”The secret life of Walter Mitty” is for everyone who needs some inspiration in their lives. This movie is released in 2013 and directed By Ben Stiller, who is also one of the leading actors. The movie is a mixture of comedy, fantasy, drama and adventure. In addition to Ben Stiller(Walter Mitty), other leading actors are Kristen Wiig(Cheryl) and Sean Penn(Sean O´Connel).

I have always liked movies containing comedy and fantasy. You don’t get bored, because the movie is full of excitement and funny parts. And that’s why I wanted to see this film.

The movie tells about Walter Mitty, middle-aged shy and quiet man, who works in “Life”- magazine. Walter doesn’t have an exciting life or that many friends, but he has everything in his day dreams. In his dreams he saves the world and gets the love of his life.  One day when he almost gets fired for work, he realizes that he had to do something with his life and travel to make memories. And while thinking a moment he travels to Greenland and Iceland, where he unexpectedly swims with sharks and climbs to worlds highest mountains.

After watching the movie, my first impressions were that it was great. The story was well done from beginning to end and it was also very instructive. All of the actors were plausible with their own way, and that’s why many people could identify to them. I could identify to main character, Walter, because he was like any normal person, who wanted to achieve something in his life. He fought hard and reached his target.

My favorite part of the movie was the scene, where Walter won his fear and spur of the moment jumped to the helicopter where he was afraid to go. But after jumping to helicopter, he realized what he has done and got nervous, but still was very proud of himself.  That part made me understand, that it’s good to be fearless and spontaneous sometimes, because then you can do what you have always wanted to do.

The atmosphere in the film was inspiring and rapid, but still warm and nice, that made the film very easy to follow. I didn’t even notice the time pass. After watching the film I realized that I can do anything I want, if I just work hard for it.

A few best men (2011) is Australian-British comedy film written by Dean Craig and directed by Stephan Elliot. The film is about four friends and one of them is getting married. David Locking (Xavier Samuel) and Mia Ramme (Laura Brent) meet each other in vacation in Australia, and fell in love with the first sight. David returns home and tells the story to his friends. Now it is time for wedding and David wants all his friends Tom (Kris Marshall), Graham (Kevin Bishop) and Luke (Tim Draxl) come to wedding as best men. And so all four travelled to Australia.

Tom thinks that you can’t have nice bachelor party without weed, and with Graham they go to get some. The next morning there is a lot of trouble. The guys don’t remember anything. Havoc ensues when the trio accidentally steal a lot of drugs, are chased by a mobster, and get the father-in-law’s sheep stoned. That was not the kind of wedding day they planned. Mia’s relative are conservative and they don’t look the ”bumbling around” in any good.

I didn’t give much attention to music. It fit in the movie, but it didn’t give you overwhelming experience. It’ actually the same with camera work. I think it is generally pretty rare to be praising the camera work.

The plot wasn’t so bad but it was made badly. It’s sad to see a movie like that. I don’t know why it is like that, but my friends agreed to it. Because of the poor story, the ending was predictable.