BEDTIME STORIES

Title : Bedtime Stories

Cast : Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Courtney Cox

Genre : Drama

Rating : Average

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Synopsis:

Mr. Bronson owes a small hotel, and dedicates his life to run the hotel as a nice hommy and comfortable place for the guests. He's a good father and a good person but never good businessman. He is broke and sell the hotel, but before he makes the buyer, Barry Nottingham, promise to give his son a place in the hotel.
Years after, Nottingham Hotel now is a well known hotel, Skeeter Bronson never has his change to run the hotel, but he survives for almost 25 years as a janitor and never lose his hope to be a hotel manager someday. One day Barry Nottingham announces that he will open new hotel and appoints Kendall to manage the new hotel and left Skeeter disappoints once again.
While babysitting his niece and nephew, Skeeter tells them a bedtime story, and magically, the story comes true. He has the opportunity to show his ability for manager position, more bedtime stories come true but other unexpected things are coming.

Comments:

Just like other Adam Sandler's movies, Bedtime Stories was the same. Funny and light. It tells you that sometimes tales stories comes to reality, though not always a happy ending. A safe family movie, and quite entertaining. Though for me the film was quiet boring, but this is a family movie, you still having fun watch it together ^_^

Fun facts:

• The bulldog shown in the movie is 'Adam Sandler''s beloved pet, Meatball.
• In the scene where Skeeter first spends the night with the kids, Jill and the kids are making signs. Bobbi is working on first the C is not colored in. A little while later the C is almost completely finished; a few seconds later the C is just started, and a few seconds later it is just a little bit less colored in than just a second before.
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CITY OF EMBER

Title : City Of Ember

Cast : Harry Treadaway, Saoirse Ronan, Bill Murray, Tim Robbins

Genre : Adventure

Rating : Average

Pic : 21cineplex.com

Synopsis:

The movie was opened by several old people gathering to save a deposit box that contains manual life rescue which is set to open after 200 years. The box should be past to the major and his next descendant. But things changed and the major is killed and the box is forgotten. Years gone by, the box is opened without anybody ever noticed.

Doon Harrow and Lina Mayfleet are school graduationg, they join with other children in the city hall to have their working placement, Major Cole hands them a bag, in which their future is fixed. Doon gets messanger job and exchange it with Lina's pipe works.
One day, Lina finds an old box which looks like what she saw in the major paintings. She opens it and find ancient paper wrote by the builders. Soon, they find out that the city generator, the heart of their city, is creeping to end. The blackouts are frequent and they realize that their city is almost collaps. Doon and Lina start to follow the builder's clue and soon they find out that ther is another place outside Ember

Comments:

Well, i haven't heard anything about the movie before and i haven't read the synopsis. And that's quite disappointing. The movie was not that great, i don't have any idea why they build an underground city, not before i finished to watch the movie. Very frustating, boring, but the adventure was quite entertaining, but they supposed to make it a little more thrilling than it is now.

Fun facts:

• Ember is Hungarian word for man or human
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Oh well, that's my opinion anyway, maybe you'll like it

Movie Of The Year ^_^

Ok, i have to admit, that this is the worse moment of my life T_T

Why? Because this movie and stuffs have become my worse addiction ever! Arrrrggggh!
Sigh, not that i never have any addiction before T_T, but this is just simply the worse hi hi ^_^. I watch the movie 7 times (yes, you read it correctly T_T) and i read the books, all series both indonesian and english series, almost everyday during my free time. Oh well, not exactly free time since it absorbed me too deep so i just feel hesitate to do any other things! Oh God! I really need to come back to my sanity (har har, too much? hi hi ^_^)

Ok then, ladies and gentlemen, i proudly present my verse movie of the year!!

TWILIGHT!

Oh well, i'm probably an inch to craziness, that's fine, this is my blog anyway, sigh...

Enjoy ^_^

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Paris, je t'aime

During my plain weekends, my sister frequently surprised me with her movie collections. Some of them were hard to understand and the other were just not my favorites. But mostly i watched them T_T hiyaaaa, i'm a movie freak remember? Hikss...

Anyway, during her passion to french (she really is working hard to manage french, ffiuh!). I found this unusual movie. Gee, i don't even know how to spell it right *-*

Ok, so, Paris Je t'aime, was one film contained several short films. And it told you lots of kind of love. I had my favorites but i wouldn't say they were easy to understand, hmm...

The first cut was telling us about a guy whom has almost everything, not that everything but normal things you should have when you're grown up and mature. But he finds himself lonely, until one day he helps a fainted woman and their story begin afterwards.
The other cut was telling us about a single mother, and life simply very ironic to her, while she struggles hard to leave her infants, put her only child in a nursery, she has to take care other people baby.
My favorite was, the married couple. The husband was tired and bored with his marriage, and prepare to divorce his wife by asking her to meet in a cafe. But just before he starts to say anything, she cried, and her husband almost think that the wife has already known that he was about devorcing her. But then he realized that the wife was dying to cancer. To know that his wife life was very short, he decided to give her sweet memories. He leaved his mistress, supported and loved his wife more, and by things, at first, ment to be a simple last give, the husband felt in love again with his wife and they have a loving life and by the time the wife past away, the husband was still found himself sad to meet women in red coat, just like what the wife used to use.

I think i need to watch it again sometimes, when i need to realize that there are many kinds of love, many sides of love, sometimes a happy ending, sometimes in the other hand ^_^

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

Title : The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Cast : Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson

Genre : Drama

Rating : Very Good

Pic : wikipedia.com

Synopsis:

Elder Daisy is on her bed in a hospital with her daughter Caroline as hurricane Katrina approaches in 2005. She then asks Caroline to read aloud a dairy written by Benjamin Button.

Benjamin Button was born in early 1900, abandon by his father since he was a baby whom born like 80 years old guy, full of wrinkle, almost blind and deaf. His father, Thomas Button, left him in a nursing home and was found by a couple Queenie and Tizzy.
While Benjamin growing up, he physically growing younger. At early 30, still appearing at his seventies, Benjamin met Daisy, whose grandmother lives in the nursing home. They play together and listen to daisy's grandmother read from a storybook.

A few years later, Benjamin met Captain Mike, and work in a tug boat. The captain also brings him to a brothel for the first time, and Benjamin met his father, Thomas, though he never reveals that he is Benjamin's father. Later, Benjamin leaves New Orleans with the tug boat crew.
In Russia, Benjamin meets a British woman, Elizabeth Abbot, and falls in love with her. They have a short affair before Elizabeth leaves Benjamin.

Benjamin gets caught up in World War II when Captain Mike's boat and crew are enlisted by the United State Navy. During a battle, the tugboat rams and sinks a German submarine. Most of the sailors on board the tugboat, including Captain Mike, die of wounds received from the battle.

In 1945, Benjamin comes back to New Orleans and meets his dying father. He reveals and lefts everything to his only son.
Benjamin meets Daisy, whom a famous ballet dancer. While he attends one of her performance in New York, Benjamin realizes that Daisy has fallen to her fellow dancer. Later, Daisy had a car accident and broke her leg, and ended her shinning carrier. Benjamin immediately fly to Paris to see Daisy, her first comment upon seeing Benjamin is "you're perfect" – referring to his youthful appearance – but she turns Benjamin away, telling him to get out of her life.

In 1962, Daisy returns to New Orleans and meets Benjamin again and falls in love. They have a perfect lives and while Daisy aging, Benjamin, in the other hand, is younger. And one day, after Daisy gives birth to their first daughter, Benjamin leaves her and their daughter, gives all his wealth to them, since he feels he will never be able to be a father with his never ending younger age.

Realizing that Benjamin is her father, Caroline become upset to her mother, later she finds postcards sent by her father every year and he writes how he feels about Caroline.
in 1980 Benjamin comes back for the last time, looks even younger and meets middle aged Daisy, at that moment, Daisy is married to a widower and Caroline is 12 years old. A few years later, someone called Daisy form a nursing house, and they shows her 10 years old boy, confused and remember nothing of his past. Daisy moves to the nursing house, taking care of Benjamin, growing younger, throwing tantrum, and finally died as an infant in Daisy's arm.

Comments:

While reading some newspaper, i had a good feeling about this movie, and last week i accidentally found it in my sister computer. The story is unusual, quite touching and very very long. He he he, it took me almost 3 hours to watch, and prepared to be very very bored if you don't like drama ^_^. But i think it's not really boring at all. To see Benjamin growing younger, is quite fascinating. And to see Daisy's never ending compassion was definitely touching ^_^

Fun facts:

• Brad Pitt needs 5 hours make up session for his role in the movie
• Shiloh Jolie Pitt played as Benjamin and Daisy's daughter.
• In the hotel lobby, the cigarette pack Daisy put in her pocket was red, but the pack laid on the kitchen table was green.
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