Tuesday 4 November 2014

Movies blog video

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Tuesday 14 October 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2013 adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.



An absolute blast. Director, Wes Anderson's best movie in years, once again he dives us into a enjoyable, imaginative and stylistic world and has us enjoying every minute of it. A hilarious, heartfelt and wickedly loveable adventure with a cant-miss all-star cast who all give great and fun performances. Ralph Fiennes steals the show, he gives an outrageous and joyful performance that shines with the work of Peter Sellers. A grand and brilliant comic performance. Tony Revolori is an absolute delight. Revolori and Fiennes have excellent comic chemistry. Its a gorgeous and wonderfully structured piece of comedy heaven. An old-fashioned screw-ball comedy that's smart, zany and wholly original.









References List:
www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Budapest_Hotel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fg5iWmQjwk

Sunday 12 October 2014

LIVE DIE REPEAT: EDGE OF TOMORROW



Edge of Tomorrow is really awesome! It's easily the best movie of the summer so far and you need to see it. An unlikely mix of Groundhog Day, Black Hawk Down, and Aliens, this is one of the most original sci-fi films of the past decade and makes Tom Cruise's previous film Oblivion, feel like a teaser trailer for this.
The mimics are the coolest aliens since...well, Aliens. The premise is equal parts smart, bizarre, and trippy, all while undermining the cliches of the sci-fi action genre. And let's not forget the actors, especially Cruise and Emily Blunt; you won't see a better action team in any film this year.
Strong characters, a great story, and stellar effects make Edge of Tomorrow a near perfect masterpiece. Director Doug Liman has more than redeemed himself for Jumper, making this the best film he's made since The Bourne Identity.




There is a good bit of humor in the movie and the performances of Cruise and Blunt are spot on, with good supporting work from Bill Paxton, who plays a very hard-headed sergeant.

Though lacking the overall conceptual sophistication of modern time-warping classics such as Looper and Inception, Edge of Tomorrow is still more than capable of applying an unshakable grip upon the viewer from start to finish.

From watching this movie, I would rate this movie 9/10! I really enjoyed every moment of it and would recommend you all to watch it.



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The Conjuring

The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan,Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga star as Ed and Lorraine Warren, who were American Paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting . Their reports inspired the Amityville Horror. The Warrens come to the assistance of the Perron family (Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor), who are experiencing increasingly disturbing events in their farmhouse inRhode Island in 1971.
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Synopsis

In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror. In desperation, Carolyn contacts the noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area steeped in a satanic haunting that is now targeting the Perron family wherever they go. To stop this evil, the Warrens will have to call upon all their skills and spiritual strength to defeat this spectral menace at its source that threatens to destroy everyone involved.


Caroline’s view

At 1st October, 2014, a horror movie called ‘Annabelle’ has been on show. However this article is not talking about this horror movie but ‘Conjuring’. ‘Annabelle’ is a prequel of ‘Conjuring’, and they are both related. ‘Conjuring’ is talking about a curse made by a mother, who killed her son and curse to everyone that tried to take their land, afterward suicide. After some years, Perron family with five of their daughter bought the house and planned to live in the house, and the curse came to them. Their dag, Sadie, refused to get into the house and dead next morning with mystery. Afterwards, more horror things happened to this family, such as weird sounds with nobody awake, clapping and laughing in a dark and empty room, which makes this family full of nervous and fears. The family finally need to find Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators, for help and save their family. With plenty of research, they figure out what was happening in this house and told Perron family that they have been cursed and it will last forever, even they move to another place to live. However Carolyn, the mother of Perron family, has been possessed and tried to kill two of her daughter. With help from Ed and Lorraine Warren, two daughters and Carolyn have been saved and suffered from the curse. If you wanna scream, it's a good choice.

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National Treasure

Introduction
National Treasure was released in 2004 by Walt Disney Pictures. It is directed by Jon Turteltaub. The story was written by Jim Kouf, Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio, Cormac Wibbeeley and Marianne Wibberley. The starring included Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger and Jon Voight.


Plot
Benjamin Gates(Nicolas Cage) comes from a family of treasure hunters. His grandfather told him the stories about the Templar Treasure when he was a young child, and Ben decided to hunt it himself. Ben discovers the Charlotte, which leads him to another clue that is on the back of the Declaration of Independence. In the process of searching, Ben meets and eventually falls in love with Abigail Chase. Abigail doesn't believe him, but he is determined to prove he is right about the treasure.
At the end, Ben was successfully in discovering the treasure.The following series is National Treasure : Book of Secret.
Rating
I watched this movie and really enjoyed it.  I rate it 8/10.

Referencing

https://www.google.com.au
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Treasure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxiflW57r4
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368891/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1








Friday 10 October 2014

Frozen

INTRODUCTION
Frozen was an amazing movie I watched this year. Frozen was released in Australian movie cinemas on the 26th of December 2013. Frozen uses fantastic story lines and music to captivate many young viewers. I too was captivated by the amazing story line and the fantastic story lines and music to captivate many young viewers. I too was captivated by the amazing story line and the fantastic music in the film. Frozen was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. The cast consists of voices by Indina Menzel (Elsa), Jonathan Groff (Kristoff), Josh Gad (Olaf), Kristen Bell (Anna) and many other actors and actresses.
PLOT
Princess Elsa who is gifted with magical ice powers suppresses her magic and fears against it due to its powerful yet dangerous nature. One day Elsa and her sister princess Anna host a party in their kingdom, but, Elsa unfortunately traps the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. With environments being frozen and temperatures in Arendelle falling to low temperatures Anna, Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven venture into the mountains to find the frightened Elsa who ran away from Arendelle. In finding Elsa to help stop the eternal winter cursed on Arendelle, Anna and her companions face various dangers in their adventure

In experiencing this movie. I would rate it 9/10. I thought the movie was very entertaining with its cinematics, music and story line. If you haven't watched Frozen yet, I would strongly recommend you to watch it.
REFERENCE LIST
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http://www.impawards.com/2013/posters/frozen_xlg.jpg
http://www.superbwallpapers.com/cartoons/frozen-24539/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbQm5doF_Uc
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/


Dawn of the Planet of the Apes



INTRODUCTION

The Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was released on the 10th of July 2014 in Australia and was a phenomenal movie I have watched this year. I expected this movie to be terrible and not live up to expectations of the fantastic sequel "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", however the movie lived to expectations and was amazing. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes uses fantastic story lines and magnificent CGI to portray the apes expressions and make the apes feel real. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was directed by Matt Reeves, and the cast consists of Andy Serkis (Caesar), Jason Clarke (Malcom) & Toby Kebbell (Koba)


PLOT

Since the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is based off events after the Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the story line is based off the post apocalyptic stage of the human race. Caesar and his colony of apes was living peacefully in the mountains before they are threatened by a band of human survivors. This brings war between the two races, the two races prepare for war to determine which of the two races is dominant.



From experiencing this movie, I rate this movie 9/10 and strongly recommend that you should watch this movie as well as the Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
REFERENCE LIST

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2103281/
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/custom/Embeds/Dawn_Planet_Apes_Split_Two_html.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sHMCRaS3ao



Wednesday 8 October 2014

Saving Mr. Banks



 This is an utterly captivating origin story on how the all singing, all dancing, iconic technicolour musical (with bells on) -- Mary Poppins came to be. Saving Mr Banks is perfectly gauged to suit its subject matter - the light touch of Disney and the toughness of Travers, the slickness of Hollywood and the roughness of the Aussie outback.



As with so many American films of late, the acting in Saving Mr Banks is superlative...Tom Hanks presents Walt Disney as a lovable extension of his TV persona while Emma Thompson is the stone-heart whose must inevitably soften.

Though about one of the most undeniably commercial movie companies in history, there's something enjoyably strange about Saving Mr. Banks, and its gallery of unusual characters.

I enjoyed Saving Mr. Banks and would rate this movie 8/10. 


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Tuesday 7 October 2014

He is just not that into you

He's Just Not That Into You is a 2009 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Ken Kwapis, based on the self-help book of the same name by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, which in turn was inspired by a line of dialogue in Sex and the city.

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Synopsis

The needy Gigi Haim is a young woman seeking her prince charming somewhere amongst her unsuccessful dates. After dating estate agent Conor Barry, Gigi anxiously expects to receive a phone call from him. However Conor never calls her. Gigi decides to go to the bar where he frequents to see him, but she meets his friend Alex who works there. They become friends and Alex helps Gigi to interpret the subtle signs given out by her dates.


Caroline's view

My friend just recommended me this movie. I am not that into romantic drama, but my friend insisted. So I gave it a shot. Fortunately, this was a good movie. It’s worth for every girl to watch. There is an impressive story line: “A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the woman he loves”, which remind girls, don’t embarrassed yourself if the guy doesn’t call you. But there is a question. If the guy is not interested in you, but you do. If you don’t take any actions, it is impossible for you to have a relationship. So girls, you should think about this. In terms of marriage, this movie also tell us, two people in love will get married, finally. Anna, a cast of this movie, who has been dating the same guy for 7 years and he doesn't want to get married. Because of different view of marriage, they broke up. But when Anna’s father got ill, Neil came to help Anna to do housework and support her. After those things, Neil understood if you love her, give her what she want. Marriage is not a cage, is a security.





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Saturday 4 October 2014

Matrix




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Introduction
The matrix was released on March 31,1999 in the United Stated. It was produced by Joel Silver.
The starring included Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving and Joe Pantoliano. The film received well critics and won four Academy Awards. The praise of its innovation include visual effects, cinematography and its entertainment.
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The Plot
The story is  about a man named Thomas Anderson who is also known as Neo who lived in an ordinary life. His computer was hacked and a woman named Trinity seeks him to wait a man named Morphus. Morphus awakens Neo to the real world in which humans are captured by a race of machines. To rebel against machines, Neo must return to the matrix to confront the agents.


Rating
I watched this movie and enjoyed it.  I rate it 7/10.
Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk1KWRknrIQ
http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/files/styles/blog_post_media/public/the-matrix-reloaded-50598dafd44bf.jpg?itok=YRj3unHH

Taken


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Introduction
Taken is an action film directed by Pierre Morel. It is the first film in the Taken film series and was written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. The starring are Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsy, Holly Valance, Katie Cassidy, Xander Berkeley, Olivier Rabourdin, Gerrard Watkins and Famke Janssen.

Plot
Bryan Mills is a retired agent who left the Central intelligence Agency to live near his daughter Kim in California. Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and Joy of Bryan. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter and Amanda lets him know that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers Kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call Bryan and give him information. He gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. He travels to Paris to search for Kim.
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Reference
https://www.youtube.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(film)
https://www.google.com.au/
http://mikeyb185.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/taken-film.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Taken_film_poster.jpg
https://www.mightyape.com.au/images/products/20983068/Taken-DVD-Digital-Copy-14459231-5.jpeg

Sunday 28 September 2014

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (2014)

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (2014)


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INTRODUCTION

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles directed by Jonathan Liebesman was a fantastic movie that I have watched this month. Whilst watching this newly released movie, it helped me reminisce of my past child hood memories. This movie is perfect for adults to flash back to their child hood memories like I did as well as help the new age children become a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I mean honestly, who doesn't love mutated turtles who have ninja powers?

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PLOT
New York City is consumed with darkness from the evil Foot Clan which is run by the infamous being called the "Shredder" (Tohoru Masamune). The foot clan has seized control of everything in New York City from the police to the politic parties. April O'neil (Megan Fox) who is reporting on suspicious activities by the foot clan encounters four brothers who have risen from the sewers to save the city known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Donatello (Jeremy Howard), Raphael (Alan Ritchson), Michelangelo (Noel Fisher), Leonardo (Pete Ploszek) must work with April and their master "splinter" (Danny woodburn) to save the city from the Foot Clan and intercept Shredder's diabolical plans to destroy New York City. 
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RATING
From experiencing this movie I rate it 7/10.
REFERENCES
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291150/
http://ngagamers.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/tmnt-all.jpg
http://redcarpetrefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-movie-trailer-2014-michelangelo-no-mask-master-splinter-revealed-in-first-tv-spot-for-teenage-mutant-ninja-tur.jpeg
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8h8ZG-v7F4AqntHlSfEbYqkFSOZVLLCNJvcymXgX9tNE_HHNbgkEdwBcfLFzonexpF5PONs94SgUB49H-PUmJhZApZBSLJkZso-s3DD7gZAPJRVM9Bz70QbnH_ba6oPrkgctRaLPQaJhZ/s1600/Ninja-Turtles-set.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwXFsrp6WBs

Saturday 27 September 2014

The maze runner



The Maze Runner is a 2014 American science fiction action thriller film directed by Wes Ball, based on James Dashner's 2009 book of the same name.
This film was released on 18 September 2014 in Australia.

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Synopsis

When Thomas wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover Morehis true purpose and a way to escape.


Caroline's view

Maze runner, an exciting movie but brings out an important message to the audience. This movie is about a group of people being sent to a ‘village’, where is actually the middle part of a maze. Those people, however, don’t know the reason why they are sent into this place, only knowing that each month there will be some supplies sent from an elevator. One day Thomas, a guy who doesn’t remember his name like the others at first, has been sent to the ‘village’ as well. With his arrival, everything changes. He becomes a ‘runner’, a name for an evaluation team investigate the maze, and tries to get out from the maze. With lots of difficulties he and some of people in ‘village’ escape from the maze, but what welcome them is a calamity. The city becomes a desert due to the environmental problem. It makes us think about what we have been doing and what effect has been brought.
This movie is exciting because the maze doesn’t stay consistent, it changes every night and will only open til sunset. Not only trap in the maze, there are some monsters staying in the maze and kill the people who are still in the maze. Audience will definitely get excited at the first Thomas get into the maze but still stay alive, as there was no one who can stay overnight but still keep their live safe. It is also the reason why he becomes a ‘runner’, and this is the reason I strongly recommend you to watch this movie.




Reference list

Into the storm


Into the storm is a 2014 American disaster film directed by Steven Quale.Richard Armitage and Sarah Wayne Callies, who played the lead roles in the film.
This film was released on 4 September 2014 in Australia.

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Synopsis

In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while others run towards the vortex, testing how far a storm chaser will go for that once-in-a-lifetime shot.


Caroline’s view

The budget of this film is 50 million dollars. In the Hollywood, it's a low-cost film. However, the tornado scenes were pretty cool. The effects wrere impressive and the destruction on display was well done. All disaster movies make people think we are so weak when we confront with nature. No doubt 'into the storm' is included. Some scenes in this film are very touched, like dad never ever give up any chance to rescue his son, even if the tornados are coming. However, the first 30 minutes of this movie is very boring, although it is try to introduce you to characters and background. All in all, if you need to watch movie to color your life, don't pick up this movie.






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Monday 22 September 2014

The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers



The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is my favourite movie in the series of The Lord of the rings. This epic fantasy movie was directed by Peter Jackson. The story was based on the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. The two towers is preceded by The Fellowship of the Ring and concludes with The Return of the King.
The film is interpreted into three story lines. Frodo and Sam continue their journey towards Mordor to destroy the One Ring and meets Gollum who was the ring's owner. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli come to the war-torn nation of Rohan and are reunited with the resurrected Gandalf, before fighting at the Battle of Helm's Deep. Merry and Pippin escape and meet treebeard the Ent and help to attack Isengard. In the scene of the treebeard, I had the fantastic experience of Pippin escaping whilst riding the treebeard to attack Isengard. I was totally captured by the treebeard because of the same spirit of fighting the evil. The technology of the film was perfect and I really enjoyed each scene of the treebeard.


Rating
I watched this movie and enjoyed it.  I rate it 7/10.
Reference 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBNSOdEjtZs
http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/object/429/429941/lotr_the-two-towers_poster.jpg




Friday 19 September 2014

A Beautiful Mind



Synopsis
John Nash was a Mathematics student who went through ups and downs from his time as a Mathematics student. Studying in the graduate school at Princeton in the late 1940's, he won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994. Nash is a talented yet somewhat arrogant and an antisocial man and Nash prefers to spend time within his thoughts. Nash's thoughts consist of seeing and connecting mathematical formulas with everyday occurrences, than with people. 

However Nash connects with two people. the two people he connects with were Charles who is his room mate at School, and also Alicia Larde who is his student he  taught at M.I.T in the early 1950's. They eventually marry. As time flows by, Nash continuosly imprisons himself in his thoughts more which starts to cause major problems in his life. Alicia however stands by Nash to his retrieval of the Nobel Prize. Nash learns that his graduate school colleagues, where he had a distant relationship with are closer friends than he imagined. Nash realises later in life that he misses Charles' company more than anything even though spending time with Charles is not in his or anyone's best interest.

In watching this movie, I would rate this movie 8/10! It was very interesting and I would recommend those who haven't watched it yet to watch it

A Beautiful Mind Trailer 





images source: imdb.com

Sunday 14 September 2014

Guardians of the Galaxy




INTRODUCTION


In my opinion Guardian of the Galaxy was one of few phenomenal movies that I watched this year. The movie uses funny dialogue and fantastic cinematic action scenes to deliver both Sci-fi comedy and Sci-fi action to the viewer. When I watched the movie, I couldn't stop being drawn into every minute of the movie. Guardians of the Galaxy was directed by James Gunn and the cast consists of Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Chris Pratt (Peter Quill), Dave Bautista (Drax), Vin Diesel (Groot), Bradley Cooper (Rocket), Lee Pace (Ronan) and many more actors and actresses.


PLOT


Whilst Peter Quill explores the outskirts of outer space he discovers an ancient temple. In this temple he finds an ancient mysterious orb, he decides to sell this orb to a merchant to gain money. However Quill never knew that this orb contains mass dark power. Quill instantly becomes a target to a villain called Ronan the accuser. Quill meets different people and "organisms" where he befriends them to form a team known as "Guardian of the Galaxy" to save the galaxy from grave danger.


RATINGGuardians of the Galaxy was a phenomenal movie. Experiencing this movie first hand, I rate this movie 9/10. Feel free to watch the official trailer






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