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The Blind Side

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Movie: The Blind Side(2009)

Studio : Alcon Entertainment

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Runtime : 128 min

Website : The Blind Side

Trailer :http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xatyjg

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The movie “The Blind Side” is based on the book released in 2006 by Michael Lewis. The book tells the story of a football player and how as a kid he is misguided in life. The movie takes the story from there and outlines how he finds his way to the right direction and eventually reaches maximum success in his life as a football player.

The plot of the story is about a poor and uneducated Micheal Oher who is hired by a football College program. There he gets full attention of the instructors who help him become an educated and successful athlete playing for the NFL. Michael is an African American young man who belongs to a broken family. Michael’s mother is completely addicted to drugs and his father is nowhere to be found. Michael is supported by the Touhys, a family who help him reach the success points in his life. There are many challenges that Michael faces in his process to become a football player. He puts a lot of effort in his studies and his games in order to become a terrific player. The Touhys family and coaches provide him great guidance throughout the process.

Ray McKinnon plays the role of Michael’s football coach, a remarkable actor who has pulled off this one very nicely. McKinnon plays a powerful role in making Michael a professional NFL Player. Initially he tries to use Michael for his own personal career advancement but then realizes that the future of the player is the main priority.

The movie is very refreshing with many humorous scenes. You might get the idea from the trailers that it’s a tragic story but the dialogues between the family members will make you laugh. The closing sequences are terrific as well which shows Michael’s ceremony pictures with the NFL.

The story and the screenplay of the movie is nothing really unique. It does not make it shine out amongst the rest of the movies made with similar plots however it is a good movie with a good message.

The movie can be watched if you are up for some light drama. There is not much football scene if you think there is. The story is more focused on Michael Oher’s family and his student life relative to football sports.

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Avatar

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Movie: Avatar(2009)

Studio : Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

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Runtime : 162 min

Website : Avatar

Trailer :http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa8i7b

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Avatar is a great movie with astonishing visual effects. The graphic features of the movie are awesome but the movie is not free from being flawless.

The story is based on Jake Sully who has been transferred to another planet known as Pandora. He is there to replace his brother after his death and if he succeeds to accomplish the mission the government will then restore his legs. Pandora is a place which is occupied by the race known as Na’vi and it is Jake’s task to get used to their way of living and subsequently remove them somewhere else. When this happens the humans would come and rule the planet. The planet of Pandora is a land filled with rich material and this is what Parker Selfridge is after.

Jake has the task to gain access to the Na’vi people while using the identity of an “avatar”. In the process to create his bond between the race and himself he meets Neytiri and falls in love with the attractive alien. At the same time the merciless Colonel tries extreme tricks and techniques with his military unit to drive the race out and calls for a battle with the aliens of Pandora.

The visual effects of the picture are really unbelievable. Avatar is about a new world and when you watch the movie you feel you enter their world for a short period of time. The actors have worked remarkably well and have portrayed their emotions on to the viewers. Zoe Saldanas depicts a great emotional character and for some reason Sam Worthington parades around with many different hairstyles throughout the movie.

The movie is not an original and unique story, it is not much different from what we have been seen in the past. Although the director has done a great job in putting the movie together the story is nothing special.

You can enjoy ‘Avatar’ if you have a great liking for artistic and heavy visual effects. If not then this movie is not made for you and you are better off doing things outside the theater. However if you decide to go for the movie turn off your mind and just keep your eyes open to watch the creativity in the making of Avatar and you will then certainly enjoy it.

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Zombieland

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Movie: Zombieland (2009)

Studio : Pariah Films

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Runtime : 80 min

Website : Zombieland

Trailer :http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbr8u3

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It probably doesn’t help that I came into the theater already expecting it to be good because I’m a big Woody Harrelson fan, but to be frank I enjoyed Zombieland. To a point, at least.

Reese and Wernick’s zombiesploitation film features a classic scenario popularized from decades of undead films, comics, and internet memes: a virus gone bad, flesh-eating humanity, and a list of rules about what to do if you’re one of the living few. The result is a grindhousey romp through the U.S., and it is mostly successful, but there are two major faults that I must point out.

Jesse Eisenberg, who after this year’s Adventureland seems like another candidate for an Apatow film, isn’t strong enough to hold up this film as its leading role. While his pathetic demeanor provides premature laughs, he cannot seem to keep it up through the film beyond a funny run. Luckily, having Woody Harrelson seems to keep the film going along, as his buddy role as a zombie serial killer and Twinkie connoisseur is hilarious, right down to his facial expressions that not only tell you how pissed off he is, but how much he loves those yellow pastries.

The other fault lies in a midsection of the film involving Bill Murray’s mansion. I’m a big Murray fan, but at the same time I felt like the theme of surviving the apocalypse suddenly stopped at that point. In fact, every scene at that point has almost nothing to do with the apocalypse and more to do with teens doing whatever they want, at least until the climax. There’s so much potential you can cook up with a zombie-filled Hollywood, but it never gets considered and is instead replaced with Murray fandom and non-zombie things, and for such a short film it hurts the pace.

But that aside, it’s still relative fun to watch. I’m probably being partial because of Woody, but it’s definitely worth a group watch on DVD just because you can skip over that mansion scene.

-Donald Lee-

Action, Comedy, Horror, In Theaters Zombieland

Where the Wild Things Are

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Movie: Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

Studio : Village Roadshow Pictures

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Runtime : 101 min

Website : Where the Wild Things Are

Trailer :http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8um1a

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Returning to childhood is never as good as we may remember it. Spike Jonze brings us back to those days in his adaptation of a popular children’s book that probably has lost most of its original meaning in the process. I say “probably” because it has been so long since I have read it that I only remember the core pieces of the plot, which I’m sure Spike Jonze assumes of his audience as this movie is not really as much a family film as much as a painful return to nostalgic times perhaps best left in nostalgia.

If you plan on bringing a child with you to this film, I emphasize that this movie is sometimes wince-inducing, and even downright graphic. The monsters in the original story have become personal aspects of the boy, bringing with them the sing-song logic of children seen in tales like Alice in Wonderland rather than, say, the modern children’s films of the 90’s featuring a wisecracking child capable of outwitting and conquering adults in the real world.

In the end, this film feels like the end result of Calvin and Hobbes mixed with Lord of the Flies. Granted, while the film paints a bleak picture of a child’s fantasy gone wrong, it also makes it that much more powerful seeing the tenderness and pure love that can be found between the unintentional violence of this fantasy world and the real one.

I suppose if there is anything I could gripe about, it’s how incomplete the ending feels with loose strings and unresolved issues. But, in a way, it’s that incomplete nature that just reminds me of how much reality is like that, and I guess I have to credit Jonze in the end for it rather than criticize him.

-Donald Lee-

Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, In Theaters Where the Wild Things Are