THE EYE

Title : The Eye

Genre : Horror

Cast : Jessica Alba, Parker Posey, Alessandro Nivola

Rating : You have to see this

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Synopsis:

Being blind since 5 years old never stop Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) become a well known classic violinist. She has a perfect and happy life in her darkness. One day she has the opportunity to have cornea transplantation. The operation is succesfull, Sydney also make a new friend named Alicia, a girl with cancer in her head. Finally doctor is gonna lift her bandages, nervous Sydney is accompanied with her sister Helen (Parker Posey) which is more nervous than her sister. The bandages are removed, but Sydney sight isn't getting better since she only see blur images. The doctor said Sydney's operation is a great success, and he recommend her to another doctor for her vision problem. While spend the night in the hospital, Sydney is awake because of a weird noise beside her bed, she hears somebody is asking Mrs. Hillman (the patient beside her) to go but she refuses. With her blured vision, Sydney sees Mrs. Hillman wakes up. Her curiosity leads Sydney to wake up from her bed and find Mrs. Hillman. No body in the hospital ally, Sydney is trying hard to see what is going on, she sees Mrs Hillman appears and disappears, it's frightened her but she still can not figure out what's going on. The next day, Sydney wakes up when nurses clean the bed beside her and said that Mrs. Hillman is passed away last night.
Before leave, Sydney meet Alicia to say goodbye, and her little friend is asking to take picture of both of them. Leaving the hospital, Sydney's vision is getting more and more freightening, she sees things which are unreal. Her doctor, Paul Faulkner (Alessandro Nivola) assured her that what she see isn't real, and it just because Sydney was blind too long so she can not differ what's real and not. Apart from the weird and scary vision, Sydney begins to have nightmare, exactly at 1.06 am, she also see her room is constantly changing. This weird things cause Sydney a paranoia and affects her life. The horror is too much, She begins to watch terrible things around, and Sydney is desperate, she breaks all lamps in her house, covers all the window and wrapped her eyes, locking herself in her apartment for the whole day. Helen which is affraid because Sydney did not pick any of her calls, call Paul, and together with the building manager, he enters Sydney's apartment and pushes Sydney out of her despair. Sydney tells Paul what she sees, but the doctor refuses to believe. One meter away, Sydney sees the woman is lying dead. Sydney walk away as fast as she can and enters a chinesse restaurant. Frightened, she calls her doctor, Paul and tell him where she is. Sydney then calls the waitress but she seem ignores her. Everything around the restaurant felt weird, and suddenly the stove in front of Sydney is burnt and the whole restaurant is burnt down. Paul is coming and find Sydney in a old ruin restaurant, devastated Sydney is pushing Paul to help her to find her eyes donor and to get rid all the horror

Comments:
Like always, i really need to collect my courage to see the movie he he, horror is really not my type ^_^. So, i choose midday to see the movie, the sun is out there so no reason to be afraid.
I don't know the original korean movie, i kind of like the movie. Moderate creepy ^_^, the ghosts were still frightening but no crazy sounds which will cause you a heart attack. That's one good thing about the movie. The story was quite interesting, though the line was a bit slow. The end is quite unpredictable. One thing i want to complaint is the slow story, and Paul seems an addition character, since without his presence, nothing is affected. His relation with Sydney is rather awkward. One thing for sure, to see this movie is almost the same with seeing Shutter. The same taste ^_^

Fun facts:

• Renée Zellweger was cast as leading actress
  
• Jessica Alba has to take violin class for 6 months and basic braille for her role as Sydney Wells
• During the scene where the dead "report card boy"'s mother gets on the elevator. Helen asks what floor the lady is on the lady replies "14". When they go up the lady gets off first, when Sydney lives on the 13th floor.
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CLEANER

Title : Cleaner

Genre : Drama, action

Cast : Samuel L ackson, Eva Mendez, Ed Harris, Luis Guzman

Rating : Not so bad but boring

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Synopsis:

Have you ever think, if a crime scene is happening in you place, blood is scattered everywhere and the smell of rotten body is the room odor, would you like to clean it yourself?
Tom Cutler(Samuel L. Jackson), is a police retirement, doing such business. Everytime a crime is occured, he will be there to clean all the crazy mess. One day, he received a job order for a family called Norcut. And like always, Tom is coming with his white van, entering the quiet big house. The client is specifically write down where he put the key and which place should be cleaned.
Tom finds blood splasing and scattered in the living room, stained the white couch and the windows, the table and the floor. A real mess. Tom takes picture everything before starts to clean. Finish with the job, his old friend Eddie Lorenzo (Ed Harris), meet him for a drink nd they are talking about their current life, while Tom is noticing the news, which is showing the missing of a famous businesaman called Norcut. Tom soon there is something wrong with his previous job, when he comes back to the Norcut's to collect a signature as a proof that the job has been done. Ann Norcut (Eva Mendes), the house lady, doesn't seem understand anything. Tom keeps his mouth shut and not even tell a story when Ann finally come to his office to ask what kind of job has Tom done to her house. The case is growing, and Tom's past life begin to haunt him, he face his police buddies and doesn't know who to trust.

Comments:

Samuel L. Jackson definitely awsome playing his part ^_^. The movie is quite nice for a drama movie, but absolutely boring as an action movie. One thing i like, the end is unpredictable, however the story line is just simple. In the movie Tom is said to do some dirty works for his previous boss, and he also in "the list" made by Norcut, where everybody in the list has received money from him, i saw nothing linked to this. Norcut is just missing, and everybody forgets about the list. That's absolutely weird, oh well, what can i say. I don't like the movie verymuch tough it's not worst movie ever. A bit boring but still go ahead if you like to watch ^_^

Fun facts:

• As Tom is sitting on the bed thinking of his wife he reaches under the bed for a box and the clock in the background reads 11:40. We then see a close up of Tom smelling her perfume and the clock now reads 11:38.
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JUNO

Title : Juno

Genre : Drama

Cast : Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner

Rating : Very nice ^_^

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Synopsis:

Juno Mc Guff (Ellen Page) is 16 years old girl, the kind of girl which love to see old horror movies and doesn't care too much of others saying, one day discovers herself pregnant, fathered with her friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). At first she was thinking about abortion, but then she and her friend, Leah, choose to give the baby for an adoption. Leah encourage Juno to tell her parents about her pregnancy. Instead being hysteric, Juno's father and step mother accept the bad news and keep supporting their daughter. Finding paper ads, Juno then decides to meet the couple. Accompanied with her father, Juno is meeting for the first time with The Lorings, an upper class young couple that desperately want to have a baby. They reach an agreement in a munute and Juno will hand over her baby as soon as it borns. Meanwhile, Juno and Bleeker relationship is not growing, but Juno is angry when Bleeker ask someone else to prom night. The two is quarreled and Juno left. June then finds out that The Lorings are gonna break up, and she feels very upset since she wants a perfect family for her baby. Will Juno change her decision and how is her relationship with Bleeker?

Comments:

Nice drama movie ^_^. Seeing the title i tought Juno was comedy, but i was wrong. A drama that show there are a lot of options around. Which way to choose or how we react is just depend to us. I love to see how supporting Juno's father and step mother Bren to their daughter during the pregnancy, and instead off yelling at Juno, the father accept it very well and he also show his support by accompany his daughter to meet the future foster parents. Juno was also make a good decision by hand over her baby for an adoption rather than have an abortion. The best part is when i saw how supporting Bren (the step mother) and Leah (the friend) while Juno was giving a birth to the baby. It's like not too many people has the privelege experiencing such condition, right? Well, not that i agree of being pregnant at 16 and no husband, but this movie show a better way to solve problems. And i also love when Juno realized that there was someone that love her no matter what, tough the movie does not show in a proper way if there was somebody which head over heel to Juno. The movie is ok, go ahead and watch ^_^

Fun facts:

• The hamburger phone that used by Juno is belong to the writer, Diablo Cody
• The first film released by Fox Searchlight Pictures to gross the $100 million mark at the box office.
• Juno was the Roman Goddess of childbirth and marriage.
• When Juno is talking to Leah on the phone, she says, "It's Morgan Freeman. I was wondering if you had any bones that need collecting." Morgan Freeman wasn't in The Bone Collector (1999)., it's should be Denzel Washington.
• When Juno and Leah are at the mall, a Rogers Communications kiosk can be clearly seen in the background. The film takes place in Minnesota; Rogers Communications is a Canadian cable company, there isn't any in United States.
• Juno explains that her name comes from the mythological wife of the Greek god Zeus. In Greek mythology, Zeus' wife's name is Hera. Juno is the wife of the Jupiter
• When Juno takes the pregnancy test at the store she opens the box and there is no inner wrapping, no directions, nothing. She just opens the box and there it is.
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THE HUNTING PARTY

Title : The Hunting Party

Genre : thriller

Cast : Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg

Rating : Not that explosive :(

Pics : Amazon.com

Synopsis:

Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) and Duck (Terrence Howard) are the best team of war specialist reporter and cameraman. Both of them team up to covering news directly from the battlefield. One day, while on live news, in Bosnia battle field drunken Simon messes up during reporting. The incident makes Simon's career drowned, but Duck in the other hand, begin to have an extraordinary live because of his rising career. Five year after, in 2000, while Duck is coming back to Bosnia, Simon is suddenly appears, asking him to team up with him in hunting down a war criminal named Fox, which has been killing thousands of moslems and has granted 5 million dollar for his capture, for an interview. Along with Duck and Benjamin, the network vice president's son, Simon starts to track Fox. Which is very dangerous and hard, since Fox is the most wanted war criminal, and he has so many people protecting. The searching is begin by meeting a UN officer called Boris whom mistaken the three to CIA agents. Soon they realize that none of UN, NATO, or any country, wants to catch Fox for real, there are many hidden intention lo let him run free.

Comments:

Hmmm...at the beginning, i think the movie is very exciting, war reporters..i mean that's sounds like wow! And it was nice at the beginning, but as the story goes i found it a bit boring. They were just talking and talking and talking *_*. Fox was to easy to catch, and to hunt a famous war criminal, the obstacles they faced were just too little. I know i'm just a regular watcher and i don't know exactly which part they said the movie is smart and exciting (hmmm????). But anyway, apart from the weird story, this movie is quite nice and the actors play were nice.
All i can say is this is just different than what i've expected ^_^. For others may be not that bad, but for me, i'll skip.

Fun facts:

• The UN mission ended in 20 December 1995 when NATO took over (IFOR/SFOR). In 2000 there should have been SFOR flags instead of the UN flags, SFOR patches, not UN and no blue berets. Military vehicles should have their national camouflage painting and SFOR markings.
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D-WAR

Title : D-War

Genre : Action

Cast : Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Foster

Rating : Very average u_u

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Synopsis:

The film is based on Korean legend. The story began with the discovery of unidentified silver things in LA. Reporter Ethan Kendrick (Jason Behr) is capturing the discovery in his video and the silver thing reminds him of his childhood. Fifteen years earlier he met Jack, an antique shop owner, whom told him a story of a Korean legend. Jack (Robert Foster) said in every 500 years, a girl with the great power is born, with her power she is able to change regular imoogi (serpent) to a celestial dragon. She will be recognized with her dragon mark on her left shoulder.
Heaven sent two warrior, Bochum and Harem, to protect the girl from the evil dragon, Buraki. And for human sake, the cycle must fulfilled and Buraki can not have the power otherwise he would destroy mankind. Soon, the choosen girl was born to a upper family called Yoo Yi Joo. Being protected by Harem, no soon they were getting closer and fallen in love. But instead fulfilled Yoo Yi Joo destiny, the couple chose to run away and comitted suicide.
Jack gave the warrior pendant to Ethan and advised him to find Yoo Yi Joo reincarnation, named Sarah. Meanwhile, Sarah Daniels life suddenly changing, she experiences bad dreams and people start to think she is crazy. The evil Buraki shows up in present time, chases after Sarah for her power. Ethan now must repay his past mistake and brings Sarah to her destiny tough it is hard since he is in love for the second time to the choosen girl.

Comments:

Hmmm, seeing the legend, this movie should be fantastic, but somehow i found it a bit boring.
Jason Behr acting is flat and i don't feel any imotion involve, well he supposed to be a man whom protected his lover, right? Amanda Brooks was even better. And on the city scene, where the evil Buraki was attacked by the military force, i felt like watched another Godzilla movie.
Basically, the effect is quite nice, but the story is not strong and Jason Behr is definitely flat.
And the conclusion? Oh well, just watch if you have sooooo many spare time and tooooo much money to spend ^_^

Fun facts:

• On the beach scene, after Ethan rescue Sarah from the hospital, Sarah is dressed in hospital gown and slippers, she slips off her slippers and than walks down the beach. In the long shot she is wearing her slippers and than the next shot is a close up of both of them and in the lower left corner you see her slippers sitting on the beach where she took them off.
• A character (the policeman) incorrectly refers to the US Bank building in downtown LA as the "Liberty" Tower, when in fact the Tower is actually known as the Library Tower.
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THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES

Title : The Spiderwick Chronicle

Genre : Adventure

Cast : Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, Mary-Loise Parker, Martin Short, Nick Nolte

Rating : A perfect film for the holiday ^_^

Pic : wikipedia.org

Synopsis:

The Grace family moving in to a huge and creepy house whose before belong to the mother's, Helen Grace (Mary-Loise Parker), aunt. The Grace siblings find the house is very weird, especially one of the twins, Jared (Freddie Highmore) which is rebellious and has a anger issues.
One night Jared enters his great great uncle study room and finds a sealed book called The Field Guide to Fairies, which has a forbidden to open note. Jared ignores it and open the book. Then he meets a brownie called Thumbletack, whom tell him that the book contains secrets of fairy creatures and will be a a disaster if Mulgarath (Nick Nolte), an evil goblin knows it. He also gives Jared a stone which has a hole and trough the hole, he can see fairy creatures. Jared tries to warn his family of the existance of this creatures, but no body believes him. Until one day Mulgarath's army is kidnapping Simon, Jared's twin brother. In the effort to save his brother, Jared meets Hogsqueal, a pig alike creature that give him the ability to see all fairy creatures without a seeing rock. Jared is able to rescue his brother, Simon insists to give the book to Mulgarath so he will let them in piece, but Jared knows that Mulgarath will kill them anyhow.
The twins run away back to the house, the protection charm around the house saves the twins, but minutes after, their sister, Mallory shows up. The twins yells and asks Mal to stay inside the charm, but she refuses to do it,. The goblins attack Mal and with the help of the magic stone, she is able to see them and fight back. And things get worse when Mulgarath gets some parts of the book and finds out how to break the charm, now the siblings must work together saving their lives even no body is believing.

Comments:
Another family movie which is perfect for this holiday ^_^. You can ask your children to watch and feel no worry. This is pure adventure movie, an imaginary film which is quite entertaining. Not too many family movies in theater nowadays and when i found Spiderwick and Kung Fu Panda, i'm pleased. Well tough i don't have kids to take along, this safe movie is sometimes a good way to relase your stress. Don't miss this ^_^

Fun facts:

• Film prints were send to some theaters under the fake title called "Widow".
• When Mallory and Jared are fighting at the beginning, you can see Jared is mouthing Mallory's words.
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THE INCREDIBLE HULK

Title : The Incredible Hulk

Genre : Action

Cast : Edward Norton, Liv Tayler, Tim Roth, William Hurt

Rating : QC passed ^_^, go ahead and see it

Synopsis:

The film began with fragments of events where Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton), starts the gamma radiation project and he become the experiment object. Something has gone wrong and change Banner into furious green giant, he destroys the lab, kills a couple of security and hurt his lover, Dr. Elizabeth Ross (Liv Tyler) and his dad, General Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt). This caused Banner to be a fugitive for years. General Ross is very determined to catch Banner and mobilise his best people to capture Banner, one of them is Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth), which later become Hulk's first opponent.
Having a simple life in crowded Brazillian small city, Banner tries to do anything to surpress his anger. He works in local beer factory and practising hard portugese. Keep on searching oh the cure, he is online with somebody called Mr. Blue, which ask for his blood sample and advice of a flower as a cure which is failed. Soon, General Ross finds him and aims his troops to the city . Banner is edged and turn to mighty Hulk, furiously destroy everything around and try to escape.
Return to civilization, Banner finds out that Elizabeth aka Betty has dating to someone else. His old friend, Stan, a restaurant owner help him by providing food and shelter. Upon leaving, Betty accidently sees him, and shocked. The loving couple soon get back together and try to find the cure and meet Mr. Blue, Banner mysterious online friend, the day after, General Ross finds him and mobilized more troops and many hard weapon to catch Banner. Betty tries to stop her father. Surrounded by armed troops and tears gas, Banner changed into Hulk. The troops shooting and bomming, but none of it affect hulk, he becomes more and more furious. Blonsky which has been shot by gamma in a small dosage, faces Hulk and beat easily. Betty hillariously ask her father to stop and when a helicopter falls down, Hulk protects her and brings her away.
The two are fugitive now, and wherever they run, the general finds them. And the end they have to face Blonsky which turned into horrible creature.

Comments:

Well, now i just realize this movie is a bit more like the previous film at 2003, the point is the same, Banner changed and must avoid General Ross seizure. I think there are many episodes in the comics and also the television, why don't they make it differently? Hmmm...
Ok then, this movie is quite interesting, i like it ^_^. Edward Norton is just perfect for Banner's role, i can't imagine anyone better ^_^. The whole story was dominated by General Ross's effort to chase banner, the duel between Hulk and the monster was quite furious but very short, and at the end he just gave up that easily? This Hulk was very much look like animation, the green television hulk was look even alive (since he was real human ho ho). Apart form that, i think this movie has the same level with Spiderman, quite entertaining ^_^
And to my suprised, they linked Hulk with Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. showed up in the last part, still played as Tony Stark, he he he ^_^. And i bet there will be Hulk 2 and 3, he he there are many unsolved matters there.

Fun facts:

• The Incredible Hulk joined Toronto's Green-Screen initiative, to help cut carbon emissions and waste created during filming. Edward Norton had fun using a hybrid vehicle on set.
  
• William Hurt, who play as General Ross and his son are big fans of Hulk
• In the comics, Emil Blonsky was a KGB agent who takes on a scaly reptilian appearance, becoming the Abomination. Louis Leterrier felt that while that was cool, it made no sense considering there was no reptile mix in his origin. So in this film Blonsky's appearance is redefined to have his skin/muscles/bones exaggerated and sticking out all over his body; he however retains pointed ears as a tribute to his original form.
  
• 'Tim Roth' signed on the film because he was a fan of "The Incredible Hulk" (1978), as well as to please his comic-book-fan sons. On set, he constantly asked whether this would "be a cool shot" for his kids to see him in. He thoroughly enjoyed playing Blonsky, but found it difficult since to portray Blonsky's over-the-hill state he could not work out; but he hired a personal trainer to assist him in motion-capturing the Abomination's movements.
• The character of General Ross is incorrectly portrayed as a three-star Lieutenant General instead of a four-start General, yet his name plate still shows "General Ross."
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