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A movie 10 years in the making, from the legendary director who brought us Titanic and the Terminator series, a movie that promise it will change how people make movies, can Avatar in any way live up people’s expectation? Luckily for the film, I wasn’t expecting much at all. I guess because the premise of the movie is so familiar – military-industrial vs. nature – that i really questioned can this movie show me anything new, concept-wise? and to my surprise, actually it did!
Before we get to that, …
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I like the Twilight book series a lot, so I was able to tolerate all the problems the first movie adaptation had. Then comes adaptation of the second book New Moon. The movie version is an improvement on the first one, but the weakness and problems persisted. I tried very hard to figure out what went wrong and I think I figured it out. We have to look at why the books are so successful in the first place. How did it strike a chord …
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I watched Where the Wild Things Are in the same weekend as the Box, even though the two are very different genres, both are adapted from very short stories (children’s or not). It’s good to compare how the two different approaches where the source material was too short to fill the entire length of a movie. In the Box Richard Kelly pretty much wrap up the original plot in about 20 mins and for the rest of the movie is all his imagination and has no trace of …
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Before I get to the movie, I want to briefly talk about the short story that it was based on first. The short story titled Button, Button by Richard Matheson was a very short moral story that you can finish it in under 10 minutes. It is about a couple who received a locked box that contains a button and a note that tells them Mr. Steward will be visiting to explain. Indeed Mr. Steward showed up and give the wife an offer (husband was at work): …
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It’s always scary to watch a remake or re-imagination or a film adaptation of something that you adored back when you were a kid. Going into Astroboy is the same, especially I wasn’t very used to the 3D look of Astroboy. The 2D old comic look of Astroboy burned deep within my memory. Luckily the new film give new life into the story, and the 3D looks has enough resemblance of the old look that by the middle of the movie you would be used to the …
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Zombieland was an action comedy that is pure fun, and oh, it has zombies in it! The plot is pretty standard zombie flick – virus turn human into flesh-eating zombies, and now there’s only very few people left in this world. It was only two months after the zombie apocalypse, but most places are already deserted. Woody Harrelson find the perfect role to play here as a guy who find killing zombies as fun as sport, and his only passion is to find the remaining Twinkies on Earth! Jesse Eisenberg …
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9 sets in a stunning post-apocalyptic world where all that’s left is deaths and destruction, well, and some tiny rag-dolls with numbers, and some deadly robotic beasts that are hunting them. The movie is incredible well-made with amazing details and style, and yet I found it too depressing to do a second viewing or recommend it to others. There are always films like that, so good and yet so depressing that you can’t even watch – Children of Men, I am looking at you! 9 is another example, …
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Fame is a remake of a 1980 film of the same name. I didn’t see the original but I surely hope the original is better. It is about a group of students who went into a performing arts school and their journey through 4 years of studying there. This movie does have a few exciting musical numbers, but with abysmal script that every plot line is predictable and most characters are very one-dimensional, it’s hard to conjured up sympathy for any of them. To make the …
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Newest trailer for New Moon, also, one that finally give me some confident that this might actually not be as problematic film adaptation than the first one!
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The Cove is an action thriller about a covert mission to expose a tightly guarded secret of a quiet town in Japan. Oh, and it’s a documentary! The film really unravel like a spy thriller, even the people in the film joked about them being the team of Ocean’s Eleven. Well, except that their mission is not to pull off a heist, but to obtain footage of a brutal truth of the town of Taiji, Japan – a seemingly lovely town that adores whales and dolphins.
The truth is …
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