2012年10月8日星期一
2012年10月7日星期日
Resident Evil : Retribution 2012
The Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race's last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun
Immortal Movie: Titanic 2012
Forget the fact that James Cameron's 1997 Titanic is second only to Cameron's 2009 Avatar as king of the box-office world (more than a billion bucks each). Forget that Titanic won a record 11 Oscars including Best Picture. Forget that Titanic catapulted Leonardo DiCaprio, then 21, into the realm of global catnip. Now that Cameron's ship has sailed back to the multiplex, the question is: How is Titanic in 3D? The answer is pretty damn dazzling. Look, I hate retrofitted 3D as much as the next critic, though not as much as Roger Ebert, who called the loss of brightness that comes with the revamp "a shabby way to treat a masterpiece." But Cameron and 300 determined artists from Stereo D took 60 weeks and $18 million to get Titanic ship shape, and their artistry shows. Does Titanic look as astonishing as it might have if Cameron had shot in with 3D cameras? Probably not. But Titanic 3D is revelatory, not just for scale it brings to the maritime disaster of an unsinkable ship hitting an iceberg and going down, but for the hushed closeness it brings to the interplay between the characters. The 3D intensifies Titanic. You are there. Caught up like never before in an intimate epic that earns its place in the movie time capsule.
Not that Titanic is a perfect movie in 3D or 2D. Cameron shot the film with a poet's eye, but also with a tin ear for dialogue. It doesn't help, either, that Cameron divides the passengers schematically into the listless rich and the lively poor, who are most often found below deck, dancing lustily or bonding with their children. Cameron is often shamelessly sappy in telling the fictional love story between Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), a 17-year-old American girl traveling with her hot-tempered millionaire fiancé, Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), and 20-year-old Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a struggling artist who wins his steerage ticket in a poker game. But the actors more than compensate for their clunky lines. Winslet won a deserved Oscar nomination; DiCaprio did not. Now more than ever, the snub seems wrong-headed. DiCaprio, in the full vibrancy of youth and acting vigor, is the spirit of the film. And that spirit soars.
Cameron, as director, writer, producer and editor, stuck his neck out, way out, in combining his romantic fiction with a real-life tragedy. His daring is still exhilarating. On April 15, 1912, five days after embarking on its maiden voyage, from England to New York, the unsinkable Titanic hit an iceberg and went down off the coast of Newfoundland, leaving 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers dead. Cameron aimed to astonish us with sights hitherto unseen and to fill us with pity and terror. Visually, he does both. And in 3D, the effect is not just heightened – it's deepened. From the moment the largest floating object ever built hits that iceberg, we are confronted with images that still leave jaws dropping in wonder that, yes, movies can do this. Cameron built a replica of the Titanic 90 percent to scale in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, and reproduced the original interiors down to the silverware, wallpaper and carpeting.
It's the words, Cameron's own, that fail him. For example: "I'd rather be his whore than your wife," Rose tells Cal, who oils his way around the ship like a dastardly villain out of a silent movie. Yet we are drawn in by DiCaprio and Winslet, who seem close as a whisper in the 3D retrofit. Take the scene when Rose boldly asks Jack to sketch her in the nude, wearing only a priceless blue diamond, a gift from Cal. In a Renault touring car tucked away in the ship's storeroom, Jack trembles as he and Rose make love for the first time. No words. Just feeling. Cameron's rep as just a hard-ass action director is belied by such tender, mostly silent scenes in Titanic and a closer look at the tender relationships in such films as Aliens and The Abyss.
The film opens and closes with present-day scenes of Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett, a treasure hunter who uses a submersible vehicle to dive two and a half miles beneath the Atlantic to shoot the rusted ruins of the Titanic. Cameron made that dive himself, using robo-cameras to shoot inside the ship. Those haunting shots of staterooms, fireplaces and chandeliers are in the film, and when Cameron dissolves from their ghostly visage to a vivid recreation, the effect is breathtaking in 3D or not.
Brock, of course, is interested in more than aesthetics. He wants to find the blue diamond that Rose wore the night Jack drew her. To that end, he enlists the aid of Rose, now 101 and played, beautifully, by Gloria Stuart. It's fair to say that Cameron sees himself in Brock the profiteer and in Jack the artist, who knows you can't be in it just for the money. For Cameron, Titanic is an attempt to raise pop entertainment to the level of art. The 3D version is most startling when the images are most harsh: the great ship cracking in two, its stern standing nearly straight up with passengers clinging to its sides before plunging into the sea. Most terrifying of all is that final moonless night, the sea teeming with life-jacketed passengers, faces blue and throats raw from screaming for help before hypothermia reduces them to silent, floating corpses.
Cameron is the ultimate technocrat, constantly pushing the art of the impossible. Last month, using a specially-designed submarine, he made a record solo dive 35,576 feet below the ocean's surface, describing the seascape of Mariana Trench as "desolate" and "lunar." Ironically, Titanic 3D speaks timelessly about the dangers of blind faith in technology. In a now-iconic early scene, Jack and Rose stand on the bow of the ship, stretching their arms out to sea, oblivious of the 47,000 tons of steel beneath them. They're flying high on youthful optimism, unaware of the corporate greed and technological arrogance that will bring the ship down. Cameron is fully aware. The sight of the sad ruin of the Titanic got to him. It'll get to you, too, and stick with you long after you take off those 3D glasse
One Day-- one and only love story
One Day -----07.15
Anny Hathaway
Jim Sturgess
"One Day" is the only love movie i favored until now. And also the only movie i watched with tears. After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day. Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their university graduation. We see them every year on the anniversary of that date - July 15th. Emma is smart but success doesn't come quickly for her, whereas for Dexter, success and women come very easily. Through the years they grow apart as their lives take different directions and they meet other people. But as they grow apart from those other people and their lives start taking opposite directions again, Emma and Dexter find that they belong with each other.
Words cannot describe how wonderful an actress Anne Hathaway is, and in One Day she is in fine form, if there ever was an actress to go down in the history books among the greats it would be her. Jim Sturgess is quite a charming devil swell.
The story that takes place in One Day is at moments the anti love story and other times a sweeping epic romance, even though this movie has been adapted from a book it's still a lot more original than other romantic themed films of late. Lone Scherfig definitely suits this style of English romance, starting with An Education and now this, it may sound mean but I just don't think the romantic dramas that come from the U.S have the same genuine feel that the English films do.
I had read the book and i have to say that this is a very loyal adaptation, much of the beauty from the book is clear and present here, particularly the friendship aspect between Dex and Emma, in the book it's a quirky kind of friendship and it transferred well on the screen as, I was very pleased that the film makers didn't ruin that with a cheap silly sexual type of friendship.
I could say a lot about how lovely this movie is but I think I'll let everyone make up their own mind. A lot of people have a bad opinion of this movie which I find baffling but I suppose each to their own, I just got totally wrapped up in this gorgeous romance.
Bait III 2012 movie review
It’s a locally-made movie about sharks eating people in a flooded supermarket: it’s supposed to be crap. Crap is what it’s aspiring to. Mindless, silly crap where ten minutes after you leave all you can remember is the cool way someone got chomped by a killer shark. And there’s nothing wrong at all with making that your goal. Some of the most enjoyable films of all time have taken that approach, especially if they involve killer sharks eating idiots. Problem is, Bait doesn’t even manage that.
A year after seeing his friend (and brother of his girlfriend) chomped by a shark while taking his shift as the local lifeguard, Josh (Xavier Samuel) is now a depressed supermarket shelf-stacker going through the motions while he waits for his heart to heal. Then his now ex-girlfriend Tina (Sharmi Vinson) turns up, only she’s got a new boyfriend! And Julian McMahon and a masked buddy are going to rob the place! And Ryan (Alex Russell) just lost his job because his girlfriend Jaimie (Phoebe Tonkin) loves to shoplift to piss off her cop father (Martin Sacks)! So it’s shaping up to be a pretty busy day at this particular supermarket even before a tsunami hits, flooding the store and the parking garage below.
When it emerges that a couple of twelve-foot great white sharks have been flushed into the supermarket, there are thirteen survivors all set to become shark food. So you’d think “surplus cast members” would be a pretty large category. Turns out that for a movie about killer sharks this doesn’t really feel the need to constantly shovel cast members down various shark’s gullets, and the overall body count remains depressingly, frustratingly low. Unless you’re of Asian decent, mind you: while being a woman is pretty much a sure-fire guarantee of survival, being non-white seems to make things a little dicier around these particular sharks.
The great whites do at least claim a couple of victims – including one via a pretty impressive standing jump out of the water – and for one character, making a personal shark cage out of supermarket shelving was never going to end well. But time and time again instead of seeing some surplus-to-requirements cast member turned into party snacks like we’ve come to this movie to see, instead we see them hauled out of the water just in the nick of time.
It’s as if director Kimble Rendall (responsible for the extremely dubious slasher flick Cut) couldn’t think of any other way to create suspense than by repeating the same old narrow escape time and time again. Let’s not forget, close shaves are only exciting when sometimes the person doesn’t make it. Oh but then we get a part where someone has a giant fishhook stuck into their torso and is used as human bait to lure the shark away from everyone else and it’s hard not to think “why didn’t you lead with this stuff?”
With such a large cast spending much of the film sitting around on top of supermarket shelves wondering if their loyalty card covers dismemberment, the humans really should have given the sharks a run for their money when it came to chewing the scenery. Alas, only the ever-reliable Dan Wyllie really takes charge and hams it up here: everyone else in the supermarket is content to let their damp clothing set the tone for their performances.
Things are slightly more entertaining in the flooded carpark, where Russell seems to be having fun trying to survive alongside an abs-flashing comedy brodude (Lincoln Lewis) and his Paris Hilton (complete with little dog) wannabe girlfriend (Cariba Heine). Just don’t ask how the carpark still has air when it’s under the flooded supermarket, or how brodude’s car is somehow completely watertight after the deluge.
Bait 3D isn’t a complete loss – there are still sharks in a supermarket after all – but considering it’s about, well, sharks in a supermarket, this really should have been a lot more fun. Or any kind of fun really: the performances aren’t bad enough, the deaths aren’t crazy enough, the twists aren’t surprising enough (if you don’t see the big twist coming, presumably you’ve been asleep) and the whole thing is nowhere near silly enough. Let’s put it this way: if you make a killer shark movie that features an annoying little dog and the annoying little dog doesn’t get chomped, you’re doing it wrong.
My favorit Movie Collection of Jason Statham
The Transporter
Jason Statham has done quite a lot in a short time. He has been a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished 12th in the World Championships in 1992. He has also been a fashion model, black market salesman and finally of course, actor.
Jason Statham literally drips attitude as The Transporter, a stolid, nattily dressed former military man who spends his time delivering packages (no questions asked) all over the French Mediterranean for what turn out to be some pretty shady criminal clients. One day he discovers that the `package' he is to deliver happens to be a human being - a pretty young Chinese girl named Lai Kwan who has been dropped, bound and gagged, into the trunk of the sporty car on which he lavishes most, if not all, of the love and caring he has to offer. Yet, Frank turns out, despite his initial air of callous and self-serving indifference, to be a criminal-type with a heart of gold, and he is soon helping Ms. Kwan foil an attempt by her nefarious father to sell a crate load of Chinese immigrants into slavery. However, the plot is the least of the matter when it comes to a movie like `The Transporter.' This film is far more concerned with attitude and style than it is with its storyline, which exists merely as a vehicle on which to hang all the explosions, car chases and kickboxing fight scenes that have become the stock-in-trade for modern action pictures. The movie is well directed, well edited and quite beautifully photographed by cinematographer Pierre Morel, who gives the film's French Riviera setting a bright, sparkling sheen. In fact, Morel's camerawork here is some of the best I have seen in a film in a very long time.
In addition to Statham, who makes for a very `cool' action film hero, Francois Berleand turns in a wonderful performance as a shrewd, wisecracking police inspector who knows that Frank is up to something but who has enough faith in his own instincts to at least give the man the benefit of the doubt. Qi Shu is cute and charming as the uninvited and unwelcome `complication' that steps into Frank's smooth-running, well-ordered life.
`The Transporter' is the cinematic equivalent of junk fast food - not high in nutritional value, but quickly consumed and satisfying when you don't have the time or inclination for something more demanding. Like its cool-under-pressure protagonist, the film delivers the goods.
The Transporter 1 (2002)
The Transporter 2 (2005)
The Transporter 3 (2008)
National Treasure---Nicolas Gage( Best Movie I have ever seen)
National Treasure
This was a fun film, sort of like an Indian Jones movie, but the treasure hunter must figure out clues. I'm sure the reason this was made and released now has a lot to do with the Da Vinci Code. The plot is just like it except instead of involving religious history, the clues center around American history, and namely the founding fathers.
So Nick Cage, plays Ben Gates, the treasure hunter whose family has been looking for the treasure of the knights templer for years. One of his relatives possessed the last remaining clue from a dying Mason. So, the movie starts with Cage finally solving that clue, and the film goes from there. Of course, we have the evil billionaire guy who wants the treasure for himself and the funny sidekick. But, I think the sidekick failed because he wasn't all that funny. The movie could have used some more humor. And of course, Gates hooks up with a beautiful woman along the way to help him solve the clues, which sounds just like Da Vinci.
It is unbelievable that someone could just come up with the answer to these difficult clues after thinking about them for 2 minutes, but we don't have time to let the characters ponder them for a few months. It is meant to be fun, so forget about the plot holes. The whole set beneath the church looked very neat, but I would have to think all those wooden stairs would have been rotten by then and no one could walk on them. But who cares, it's fun.
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