Senin, 31 Oktober 2011

Oscar Winner Movies | Inglourious Basterds Directed By Quentin Tarantino

Storyline: In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history.



This movie Won an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Christoph Waltz. See more awards
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Runtime: 153 min


Taglines:

Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France...
You haven't seen war until you've seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino.
If You Need Heroes, Send In The Basterds

An Inglorious, Uproarious Thrill-Ride of Vengeance.
"We're in the Nazi killin' business and cousin, business is a-boomin'."
A basterd's work is never done.

"Can you Americans speak any other language than English?"
"I love my unofficial title, precisely because I have earned it."
"...because, Marcel, my sweet, we're going to make a film, just for the Nazis."
Diane Kruger Is A Basterd
Til Schweiger Is A Basterd
Eli Roth Is A Basterd
Brad Pitt Is A Basterd
Mélanie Laurent Is A Basterd


Trivia for "Malditos Bastardos"

Quentin Tarantino worked on the script for almost a decade.

During the final card game at the LaLouisiane tavern, the card that Hellstrom (the Gestapo major) has to identify is King Kong. King Kong was one of Adolf Hitler's favorite movies.

Christoph Waltz's character speaks the most different languages in the movie out of anyone else in the cast, 4 (English, French, German, and Italian).

As of 2010, this is Quentin Tarantino's film with the most Academy Award nominations (8).



Denis Menochet, who played Perrier LaPadite, was the first person to audition for the role. He's also the first person to appear in the film.

Only five characters in the movie appear in more than two chapters (Hans Landa, Aldo Raine, Donny Donowitz, Shosanna, and Adolf Hitler). Hans Landa appears in four chapters, the most of any character throughout the movie.

The dialogue is in English for approximately 42% of the running time, in German for 28%, in French for 22%, and in Italian for 1%. There is a 54-minute stretch in which less than nine minutes of dialogue are in English, including 25 straight minutes in which no English is spoken.


The film uses the 1963-1990 Universal Pictures logo.

Both the opening and closing credits change fonts numerous times, displaying typefaces seen in a variety of earlier Tarantino films.

Goofs And Mistakes for "Bastardos Sin Gloria"

Factual errors: Adolf Hitler has brown eyes in the movie, but in reality he had light blue eyes.

Friday I'm In Love - The Cure
Continuity: When Lt Raine is speaking to the Basterds and says "We're into one thing", he is standing at the right side (Samm Levine's) of the formation. An instant later, when he says "Killin' Nazis", he is at the other end.


Girls And Boys - Blur
Continuity: When Shosanna is on the ladder for the second time, before the Germans come to take her, she is cleaning black letters. She cleans 2 different letters, one of them a 'u', another one, and the 'l' remains uncleaned. The next shot you can see only the 'l' has been cleaned.

La Grange - ZZ Top
Anachronisms: Shosanna is introduced working on her marquee in Paris, "4 years later". Yet this occurs in 1944 and the previous scene in 1941. That's 3 years, not 4.

Stand - Poison

Memorable Quotes for "Le commando des bâtards"

Col. Hans Landa: So who are your three handsome escorts?
Bridget von Hammersmark: I'm afraid neither of the three speak a word of German. They're friends of mine from Italy. This is the wonderful Italian stuntman, Enzo Gorlomi; a very talented cameraman, Antonio Margheriti; and Enzo's camera assistant, Domonick DeCocco.
Bridget von Hammersmark: [in Italian] Gentlemen, this is an old friend, Colonel Hans Landa.
Lt. Aldo Raine: [southern accent] Bawn gorno.

Grantchester Meadows - Pink Floyd

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Master SGT. Wilhelm: Who are you? British, American? What?
Lt. Aldo Raine: We're American! What're you?
Master SGT. Wilhelm: I'm a German, you idiot!
Lt. Aldo Raine: You speak English pretty good for a German.
Master SGT. Wilhelm: I agree.

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Col. Hans Landa: [Landa and Bridget sit alone in Shosanna's office; in German] Let me see your foot.
Bridget von Hammersmark: [in German] I beg your pardon?
Col. Hans Landa: [he pats his lap] Put your foot in my lap.
Bridget von Hammersmark: Hans, you embarrass me.
[Landa intolerantly points at his lap. Bridget gives in and places her foot in Landa's lap. Landa gently removes her shoe]
Col. Hans Landa: Could you please reach into the right pocket of my coat and give me what you find in there.
[Bridget slowly reaches into Landa's pocket. Her hand closes around what's inside and she glances at Landa with a look of sudden terror]
Col. Hans Landa: [he simply smiles at Bridget and nods]
[Bridget slowly pulls out the shoe she lost in the tavern firefight, from Landa's coat pocket]
Col. Hans Landa: May I?
[Bridget hands over the shoe, and Landa slips it neatly onto her foot, showing it fits perfectly]
Col. Hans Landa: Voila.
Col. Hans Landa: [In English] 'What's that American expression? "If the shoe fits, you must wear it.'
Bridget von Hammersmark: [chuckles lightly and nervously] What now, Colonel?
[Landa aggressively grabs Bridget by the throat, throws her off the chair and violently strangles her to death]


Roxanne - The Police
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Lt. Archie Hicox: Lieutenant Archie Hicox reporting, Sir!
General Ed Fenech: General Ed Fenech. At ease, Hicox. Drink?
Lt. Archie Hicox: If you offered me a Scotch and plain water, I could drink Scotch and plain water.
General Ed Fenech: Attaboy, Lieutenant. Make it yourself like a good chap, will you? The bar's in the globe.
Lt. Archie Hicox: Something for yourself, Sir?
General Ed Fenech: Whiskey, straight. No junk in it.

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Lt. Aldo Raine: Well, I speak the most Italian, so I'll be your escort. Donowitz speaks the second most, so he'll be your Italian cameraman. Omar speaks third most, so he'll be Donny's assistant.
Pfc. Omar Ulmer: I don't speak Italian.
Lt. Aldo Raine: Like I said, third best. Just keep your fuckin' mouth shut. In fact, why don't you start practicing, right now!

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Bridget von Hammersmark: I can see since you didn't see what happened inside, the Nazis being there must look odd.
Lt. Aldo Raine: Yeah, we got a word for that kinda odd in English. It's called suspicious.

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Sgt. Donny Donowitz: [Aldo is carving a swastika into Private Butz's forehead] You know, Lieutenant, you're getting pretty good at that.
Lt. Aldo Raine: You know how you get to Carnegie Hall, don't ya? Practice.

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Col. Hans Landa: [to a bound and blindfolded Lt. Aldo] You've had a nice long run, Aldo. Alas, you're now in the hands of the SS.
[raises hands in a dramatic manner]
Col. Hans Landa: My hands, to be exact. And they've been waiting a long time to touch you.
[fingers reach out and poke Lt. Aldo in the face; Lt. Aldo flinches]
Col. Hans Landa: [chuckling] Caught you flinching.
[Lt. Aldo headbutts Col. Landa]

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Lt. Aldo Raine: You didn't say the goddamn rendezvous was in a fuckin' basement.
Lt. Archie Hicox: I didn't know.
Lt. Aldo Raine: You said it was in a tavern.
Lt. Archie Hicox: It is a tavern.
Lt. Aldo Raine: Yeah, in a basement. You know, fightin' in a basement offers a lot of difficulties. Number one being, you're fightin' in a basement!
Sgt. Donny Donowitz: Speaking of Frau von Hammersmark, whose idea was it for the death trap rendezvous?
Lt. Archie Hicox: She chose the spot.
Sgt. Donny Donowitz: Well, isn't that just dandy.
Lt. Archie Hicox: Look, she's not a military strategist. She's just an actress.
Lt. Aldo Raine: Well, you don't got to be Stonewall Jackson to know you don't want to fight in a basement.
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Col. Hans Landa: May I smoke my pipe as well?
Perrier LaPadite: Please, Cononel, make yourself at home.
[Hans pulls out a very large pipe five times the size of Perrier's]
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Major Dieter Hellstrom: I must say I grow weary of these monkeyshines.
[Maj. Hellstrom cocks his Walther pistol and aims it at Lt. Hicox under the table]
Major Dieter Hellstrom: Did you hear that? That was the sound of my Walther. Pointed right at your testicles.
Lt. Archie Hicox: Why do you have your Walther pointed at my testicles?
Major Dieter Hellstrom: Because you've just given yourself away, Captain. You're no more German than that scotch.
Lt. Archie Hicox: Well, Major...
Bridget von Hammersmark: Major...
Major Dieter Hellstrom: - Shut up, slut. You were saying?
Lt. Archie Hicox: I was saying that that makes two of us. I've had a gun pointed at your balls since you sat down.
[Stiglitz takes Hellstrom by the shoulder and aggressively forces a gun against his crotch]
Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz: That makes three of us. And at this range, I'm a real Frederick Zoller.
Major Dieter Hellstrom: Looks like we have a bit of a sticky situation here.
Lt. Archie Hicox: What's going to happen, Major... you're going to stand up and walk out that door with us.
Major Dieter Hellstrom: No, no, no, no, no, no. I don't think so. I'm afraid you and I... we both know, Captain... no matter what happens to anybody else in this room... the two of us aren't going anywhere. Too bad about Sergeant Wilhelm and his famous friends. If any of you expect to live, you'll have to shoot them too. Looks like little Max will grow up an orphan. How sad.
Lt. Archie Hicox: [In English] Well, if this is it, old boy, I hope you don't mind if I go out speaking the King's.
Major Dieter Hellstrom: By all means, Captain.
Lt. Archie Hicox: [picks up his glass of scotch] There's a special rung in hell reserved for people who waste good scotch. Seeing as how I may be rapping on the door momentarily...
[drinks his scotch]
Lt. Archie Hicox: I must say, damn good stuff, Sir.
[sets his glass down and smokes his cigarette]
Lt. Archie Hicox: Now, about this pickle... we find ourselves in. It would appear there's only thing left for you to do.
Major Dieter Hellstrom: And what would that be?
Lt. Archie Hicox: Stiglitz.
Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz: Say "auf Wiedersehen" to your Nazi balls.
[Stiglitz fires his gun into Hellstrom's crotch]

Time - Pink Floyd
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Col. Hans Landa: [giddy] Oooh, that's a bingo!
Col. Hans Landa: Is that the way you say it? "That's a bingo?"
Lt. Aldo Raine: You just say "bingo".
Col. Hans Landa: Bingo! How fun! But, I digress. Where were we?


Source: IMDb

OUR RAITINGS AND CRITICS
Recommend: 10 out of 10
Cinematography: 8 of 10
Lead Performers: 9 out of 10
Supporting Cast: 8 out of 10
Director: 9 out of 10
Screen Play: 8 out of 10
Music Score: 10 out of 10

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Sabtu, 29 Oktober 2011

Sci-fi 2011 Movies | Source Code Directed By Duncan Jones

Storyline: Colter Stevens, a US Army helicopter pilot whose last memory is flying in Afghanistan, wakes up on a commuter train. However, he discovers that he has assumed the identity of another man. 8 minutes later, the train explodes and Stevens finds himself in some kind of pod. He then talks to someone named Goodwin, who tells him he has to go back and find out who the bomber is. He is sent back to go through the whole thing again and attempts to find who the bomber is but fails. The bomb goes off and Stevens finds himself in the pod again. He is sent back another time, yet still cannot find out anything. When he returns, he asks what is going on. Goodwin and Rutledge, the scientist in charge, tell him that he is part of a project that can put someone in another person's consciousness during the last 8 minutes of their life. Stevens then asks why he cannot just stop the bomb. He is told that...



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Runtime: 93 min
Tagline: Make every second count
I Remember You - Skid Row
Trivia for "8 minutos antes de morir"

None of the sessions in the Source Code actually last 8 minutes of screentime. The third session is the longest, taking 7 minutes and 30 seconds.



Goofs for "Code Source"

Continuity: The clocks on the train station show different times.

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The conductor always asks Colter for his ticket, but for some reason never asks Christina for hers.


Continuity: During one of the first missions, Stevens gets in a fight and falls on the train track, the very same the the blown-up train rode on. Stevens is then hit by a train on the very same track, which wouldn't be possible.



Memorable Quotes for "Código Fuente"

[first lines]
Christina Warren: I took your advice. It was good advice, thank you.

Dr. Rutledge: This is not time travel. This is time re-assignment.

Colter Stevens: Tell me everything gonna be okay.
Christina Warren: Everything's gonna be okay.
[train explodes]

Colter Stevens: What would you do if you knew you only had one minute to live?
Christina Warren: I'd make those seconds count.
Colter Stevens: I'd kiss you again.
Christina Warren: Again?
[he kisses her]

Colter Stevens: Lily awoke in an evening dress and an opera cloak. In her hand were 5 playing cards. At some point today, you're gonna hear about a failed terrorist attack on a commuter train near Chicago. You and I kept that bomb from going off. If you're reading this e-mail, then Source Code works even better than you and Dr. Rutledge imagined. You thought you were creating 8 minutes of a past event, but you're not. You've created a whole new world. Goodwin, if I'm right, somewhere at the Source Code facility, you have a Capt. Colter Stevens waiting to send on a mission. Promise me you'll help him. And when you do, do me a favor: tell him everything is gonna be okay.



MY RAITINGS AND CRITICS

Recommend: 8 out of 10
Cinematography: 8 of 10
Lead Performers: 9 out of 10
Supporting Cast: 9 out of 10
Director: 7 out of 10
Screen Play: 7 out of 10
Music Score: 8 out of 10

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Rabu, 26 Oktober 2011

Mystery Movies | Limitless Directed By Neil Burger

Storyline: An action-thriller about a writer who takes an experimental drug that allows him to use 100 percent of his mind. As one man evolves into the perfect version of himself, forces more corrupt than he can imagine mark him for assassination. Out-of-work writer Eddie Morra's (Cooper) rejection by girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) confirms his belief that he has zero future. That all vanishes the day an old friend introduces Eddie to NZT, a designer pharmaceutical that makes him laser focused and more confident than any man alive. Now on an NZT-fueled odyssey, everything Eddie's read, heard or seen is instantly organized and available to him. As the former nobody rises to the top of the financial world, he draws the attention of business mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro), who sees this enhanced version of Eddie as the tool to make billions. But brutal side effects jeopardize his meteoric ascent...




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Runtime: 105 min
Taglines: What if a pill could make you rich and powerful?




Trivia for "Sin Límites"

Morra, Bradley Cooper's character's last name, is the imperative of "to die" in Brazilian Portuguese, which means the name of the character is something like "Edward Dies" or "Edward Die!".


Goofs for "Sem Limites"

Plot holes: During the realtor's presentation it is shown that the "vault grade door" has multiple bolts that go into the steel frame. The Russians only cut out the one lock at the door handle.



Memorable Quotes for "Sans limites"

Eddie Morra: A tablet a day and I was Limitless.

Eddie Morra: [to Carl Van Loon] No scenario? I see every scenario, I see 50 scenarios, that's what it does Carl - it puts me 50 moves ahead of you.


Eddie Morra: You see that guy? That was me not so long ago. What kind of guy without a drug or alcohol problem looks this way? Only a writer.

Eddie Morra: I don't have delusions of grandeur, I have an actual recipe for grandeur.

Eddie Morra: Well, in order for a career to evolve, I'm gonna have to move on.
Carl Van Loon: And you would even think that, would only show me how unprepared you are to be on your own. I mean you do know you're a freak? Your deductive powers are a gift from God or chance or a straight shot of sperm or whatever or whoever wrote your life-script. A gift, not earned. You do not know what I know because you have not earned those powers. You're careless with those powers, you flaunt them and you throw them around like a brat with his trust-fund. You haven't had to climb up all the greasy little rungs. You haven't been bored blind at the fundraisers. You haven't done the time and that first marriage to the girl with the right father. You think you can leap over all in a single bound. You haven't had to bribe or charm or threat your way to a seat at that table. You don't know how to assess your competition because you haven't competed. Don't make me your competition.


MY RAITINGS AND CRITICS

Recommend: 8 out of 10
Cinematography: 8 of 10
Lead Performers: 8 out of 10
Director: 7 out of 10
Screen Play: 8 out of 10



Sources: IMDb


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Selasa, 18 Oktober 2011

Adventure Movies | Thor Directed By Kenneth Branagh



The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.

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Runtime: 115 min

Taglines
Two worlds. One hero.
Courage is immortal
The god of thunder. The king of Asgard. The god of mischief. The guardian of worlds. The goddess of war. The woman of science.

The title of the film doesn't appear until the end credits.



Goofs: Factual errors: Tasers used as depicted cannot knock people out. They are an immobilizer used to gain compliance via pain.


Trivia: It's mentioned in passing that Thor's hammer was forged inside "a dying star". This actually makes a modicum of scientific sense. When a very large star dies in a supernova, sometimes its remains collapse to form a "neutron star". These objects cram the mass of the sun into the size of a city, forming a new kind of matter nicknamed neutronium. A single teaspoon of this material would weigh billions of tonnes. If Mjolnir was made of this material, it would certainly explain its incredible weight.



Quotes

Agent Coulson: [interrogating Thor] It's not easy to do what you did. You made my men, some of the most highly trained professionals in the world look like a bunch of minimum-wage mall cops. In my experience, it takes someone who's received similar training to do what you did to them. Why don't you tell me where you received that training? Afghanistan, Chechnya? No, you strike me more as the soldier of fortune type. Who are you?

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Agent Cale: [staring at The Destroyer] Is that one of Stark's?
Agent Coulson: I don't know. Guy never tells me anything.

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Thor: You! What place is this? Elfheim, Nilfheim?
Darcy: [frightened, pulls out a taser] New Mexico?
Thor: You dare threaten the son of Odin with such a puny weapon...?
[Darcy tasers him]
Darcy: [to Jane] What? He was freaking me out!

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Times Like These - Foo Fighters
Thor: Once I retrieve Mjolnir, I will return to you the items they stole from you. Deal?
Jane Foster: No. You think you're gonna just walk in and walk out ?
Thor: No. I'm gonna fly out.

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Thor: My friends, have you forgotten all that we have done together? Fandral, Hogun, who led you into the glorious of battles?
Hogun: You did.
Thor: And, Volstagg, who introduced you to delicacies so succulent you thought you'd died and gone to Valhalla?
Volstagg: [chuckles] You did.
Thor: And who proved wrong all who scoffed at the idea that a young maiden could be one of the fiercest warriors this realm has ever known?
Sif: I did!
Thor: True, but I supported you, Sif.

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Thor: [walking into a pet shop] I need a horse!
Pet Store Clerk: We don't have horses. Just dogs, cats, birds.
Thor: Then give me one of those large enough to ride.

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[after hitting Thor with her car... again]
Jane Foster: I swear I'm not doing this on purpose.

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Darcy: [On seeing Thor, who's been hit by their car, lying on the ground] Whoa, does he need CPR? 'Cause I totally know CPR!

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Best Of You - Foo Fighters
Agent Garrett: [about Thor's Asgard buddies] Is there a Renaissance Fair in town?
Agent Jackson: Call it in.
Agent Garrett: Yeah. Uh, base, we've got, uh, Xena, Jackie Chan, and Robin Hood.

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Thor: [taking coffee for the first time] This drink... I like it! More!
[throws the mug on the floor and shatters it]
Jane Foster: [to the other people] Sorry, it was an accident...
Jane Foster: [to Thor] What was that?
Thor: It was delicious! I want another!
Jane Foster: You could have asked!
Thor: I just did!
Jane Foster: I meant nicely!
Thor: I meant no disrespect.
Jane Foster: No smashing. Deal?
Thor: You have my word.

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[Thor is knocked down by a gargantuan SHIELD agent]
Thor: You're big. I've fought bigger.

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Heimdall: You would defy the commands of Loki, our king? Break every oath you have taken as warriors, and commit treason to bring Thor back?
Sif: Yes.
Heimdall: Good.
Sif: So you will help us?
Heimdall: I am bound by honor to our king. I cannot open the bridge to you.
[walks off]
Fandral: Complicated fellow, isn't he?
[the Bifrost activates on its own]



My Hero - Foo Fighters
MY RAITINGS AND CRITICS

General: 6 out of 10

Screen Play: 8 out of 10

Recommend: 6 out of 10
Cinematography: 7 of 10
Director: 6 out of 10



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Kamis, 13 Oktober 2011

Colombian Movies | The Boss Directed By Jaime Escallon-Buraglia

A black office comedy about a head of human resources who threatens to run away with his wife's best friend to escape the insanity around him.



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Northern Downpour - Panic At The Disco



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Senin, 10 Oktober 2011

Action Movies | I Am Number Four Directed By D.J. Caruso


PLOT: Aliens and their Guardians are hiding on Earth from intergalactic bounty hunters. They can only be killed in numerical order, and Number Four is next on the list. This is his story.

The studio tried to recreate the success of Twilight with this film by marketing it as a "Twilight for boys". Although a box office success, the movie did not create the hundreds of millions that the Twilight films grossed. Although, this movie won a Teen Choice Award in the category Choice Movie Breakout: Male for Alex Pettyfer.


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RUNTIME: 109 MIN
Drops Of Jupiter - Train
I AM NUMBER 4 MISTAKES:
Plot holes: When Henri gives John his phone, he informs him that he'll be calling every hour John is on his own to make sure he's okay, and if John doesn't pick up, Henri will know something is wrong (implying he'll assume the Mogs have attacked John and will come looking for him). During dinner at Sarah's, John reluctantly surrenders his phone after noticing three missed calls from Henri. Despite the fact that John had not answered his phone for three hours, Henri did nothing about it, and does not even mention it at all afterward.


Continuity: During the scene where John throws the football back at Mark's friend, Sarah is just getting her camera out and doesn't take pictures of John until after he throws the football. However, when John is looking at her website later, there are a sequence of photos of him throwing the football.  

Continuity: When John and Nicole are making out in the water (about 5 feet deep) at the beginning of the movie they are far away from the other people at the beach party. When John's leg starts glowing she has to swim to shore and then run to the other people. But in the video from the website they are in shallow water (2-3 feet deep) and the person filming them is apparently quite close as the video is very clear and close up.


 I AM NUMBER FOUR MEMORABLE QUOTES

Sheriff James: Who they hell are they?
Mark James: Big-ass linebackers?

Number 6: Red Bull's for pussies.


MY RAITINGS AND CRITICS

Recommend: 3 out of 10

Cinematography: 6 of 10
Lead Performers: 6 out of 10
Director: 6 out of 10
Screen Play: 7 out of 10
 

Sources: IMDb

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Minggu, 02 Oktober 2011

USA Movies | Battle Los Angeles Directed By Jonathan Liebesman


Los Angeles and other cities around the world are being bombarded by meteors that seem to be slowing down once they hit the earth's atmosphere. The earth is suddenly being invaded by space aliens that have landed off the shore of LA, and who begin killing everybody along the beach. The military is ordered into action. Marine Staff Sergeant Nantz (Aaron Eckhart), who was about to retire, is reassigned to a new platoon. The platoon, flown by chopper to the forward operating base at Santa Monica Airport, is being led by a new 2nd Lt. Martinez (Ramon Rodriguez). They are sent on a mission to rescue some civilians who are trapped at the police station within alien territory. They only have 3 hours to complete their mission and get out before the Air Force bombs that zone. 1 win and 1 nomination


The film is inspired by the real life incident known as the Battle of Los Angeles, during World War II. On the night of 24-25 February 1942, unidentified aircraft were allegedly spotted in the airspace above Los Angeles. Suspecting it to be the Japanese, a blackout of the city was ordered and over 1,440 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition was fired. Upon finding no evidence of the existence of any enemy aircraft, the incident was declared to be a "false alarm". The event has since been chalked up to as being a result of "war nerves", likely triggered by a lost weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining anti-aircraft batteries.

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Runtime: 116 min

Very little of the film was actually shot in Los Angeles. Tax incentives brought the production to Louisiana where sets of Los Angeles streets were constructed.

Aaron Eckhart broke his arm while filming a stunt. He never missed a day of work because of it.

Due to script changes, 'Michelle Rodriguez''s character wasn't added until a month before filming began.


The officer referred to by Sgt. Nantz on the bus in reference to the line "Retreat Hell" is Capt. Lloyd W. Williams of the 2nd Battalion 5th Marines.When advised to withdraw by a French officer at the defensive line just north of the village of Lucy-le-Bocage on June 1st, 1918, he is said to have replied: "Retreat? Hell, we just got here!". Captain Williams died 11 days later near Chateau-Thierry.

Goofs 

Factual errors: Public transit buses don't require a key to start, so there is no need to "hot wire" one.
Factual errors: The laser used to "paint" the target is depicted as a red laser. Lasers used for this purpose are not in the visible spectrum.

Quotes

Corpsman Jibril Adukwu: Shit, I'd rather be in Afghanistan.

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Cpl. Kevin Harris: Santos, you okay?
TSgt. Elena Santos: Yeah. I got that nasty stuff all over my mouth, man.
TSgt. Elena Santos: Ha ha ha ha.
Cpl. Kevin Harris: It's not funny.
TSgt. Elena Santos: Ha. You let him do you on the first date.



LCpl. Richard Guerrero: So what's your take on this, specs?
Cpl. Kevin Harris: I don't know, extraterrestrial?
Cpl. Lee Imlay: You mean like from space?
Cpl. Nick Stavrou: No Imlay, from Canada.




Source: IMDb

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Jumat, 30 September 2011

Martial Arts Movies: 2009 Ninja | Behind The Scenes With Scott Adkins





Behind The Scenes With Scott Adkins


 Ninja (2009)
Soundtrack Music by Stephen Edwards

Tracklisting
1. Main Title [2:18]
2. Fight Ejection [3:45]
3. History Lesson [2:40]
4. Learn from Casey [1:30]
5. Theatre Massacre [2:40]
6. Painful Past [1:49]
7. Masazuka Turns [2:51]
8. Mother Theme [1:31]
9. Sensei Killed [5:19]
10. Casey's Solemn Duty [1:14]
11. Dart to Da Neck [1:10]
12. Police Station Melee [4:18]
13. Namiko in Trouble [3:57]
14. Whoopass Latte [1:43]
15. Yoroi Bitsu History Lesson [0:51]
16. Casey the Ninja [4:50]
17. Ninja Honor [3:49]
18. Namiko's Waltz [1:22]
19. End Credits [3:39]




Martial Arts Movies: 2009 Ninja


My personal rating: 5/10

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Kamis, 29 September 2011

2008 USA Movies | 21 [Blackjack] Directed By Robert Luketic


Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intrigued by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out.







Taglines:
- Inspired by the true story of five students who changed the game forever.
- They proved the Vegas Blackjack System was beatable...by beating the hell out of it.

Runtime:
123 min


Goofs for21: Black Jack (2008) 

  • Continuity: During the first meeting with Ben, the cards that Micky deals alternate from face up, face down, and missing altogether.

  • Continuity: When Ben's mom is serving birthday cake to Ben and his friends, she serves Cam twice.
  • Continuity: When Ben is handed his earnings from the first night a five dollar bill is seen on the outside of the bundle. Moments later a $100 is on the outside.

  • Continuity: During the opening credits, while Ben is riding his bike on the road, you see the same orange PT cruiser go past twice and the same silver Chrysler 300C go past three times.

  • Continuity: During the opening scene montage, when Ben is riding his bike across the bridge, the position of his backpack changes several times.

  • Continuity: When Prof Rosa calls Cole, Terry answers the phone and places Rosa on hold. However, when Cole takes the phone from Terry, he does not take Rosa off of hold and proceeds to talk to him.

  • Continuity: When Mickey and Ben are walking through the park before the first trip, there is no one behind them. The camera changes and there is a woman walking her dog and another man.

  • Continuity: The first night the group gambles in Las Vegas they are in the Hard Rock Casino, however the table at which Ben gambles says "Red Rock Casino". When he switches tables it says "Hard Rock Casino." 
  • Continuity: When Ben meets with Mickey and the group for the first time, he explains the basic rules of 21 and deals himself a face-up card, then the camera cuts to Ben then back to Mickey and now Mickey's card is face down.

  • Continuity: In the shot of Ben counting cards on the first arrival in Vegas, Ben's tray is down. If the plane is as close to arriving as the view from the window shows, the trays would have to be in the "up and locked" position.

  • Continuity: During the chase seen at the end of the movie Kate Bosworth's character alternates between running in heels and running barefoot.

  • Continuity: When Ben is riding his bike on the bridge, a young guy with a lady are passing in the back stage. After this, when a yellow stripped bus passed behind Ben, that young guy and lady disappeared (it seems, they jumped into water) then another lady in white jacket appears who was absent before in the back stage.

  • Plot holes: In two separate places in the film, the player is hollering for the dealer to draw a "monkey" (a face card or a ten) when, in fact, a monkey would have given the dealer a winning hand. The first instance is when an Asian woman introduces the main character to the slang. The more egregious of the two instances is when the main character (who, by this time in the film, has established his big player credentials) calls out for a monkey twice when either of those times would have given the dealer a winning hand.

  • Crew or equipment visible: When Ben leaves the Hard Rock Hotel after their first night in Vegas, the shadow of the Cameraman and Camera on the dolly are visible on the hotel front and security guards in the background.

  • Factual errors: In the scene were we first see Ben in the casino playing for the first time, the count is +18. We then see a face card (worth 10) appear and Ben wins. Micky then asks him what the count is. He says +18, but it's really +17 because a face card has a value of -1.

  • Revealing mistakes: All the cards in the casino scenes have rounded corners opposite the index numbers, identifying them as used cards that have since been removed from use on the casino floor and altered so they can never be sneaked back into play.
  • Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Miles shows Ben the source code of the robot, Ben looks at them and immediately says this is very good. Actually, even a highly experienced programmer could not understand a source code just by looking at it for 2 seconds, especially the code of a really complex system such as this robot.



Memorable quotes for21: Black Jack


Ben Campbell: Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

--

Micky Rosa: Choi, you made five grand last night. So would you stop stealing 9 cent pens and everything you can get your hands on from the maid's cart. It's embarrassing!
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Micky Rosa: [to Ben about card counting] What were going to do is perfectly legal and they can't do a single thing about it.
[very next scene: in a concrete room, bare bulb lights, a fist hits a guy who's strapped to a chair: he's bleeding/sweating]
Cole Williams: You think you can beat the system?
[shows guy his meaty fist]
Cole Williams: This *is the system*... *beating you back*
Cole Williams: You wanna count cards, you do it in Atlantic City! Get him up.
Terry: [growling] Let's go. Get up! On your feet!
Cole Williams: Count to five. Count to five!
Card Counter: [disillusioned] What?
Cole Williams: Count to five so that you don't have brain damage, you can go home.
Terry: Start with One.
Card Counter: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Cole Williams: Good. Now... stop counting!
--
Choi: [laughing and taking a video while Ben is goofing off as a new persona in the mirror] No please, keep going, this video's priceless!
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Ben Campbell: [after Jill wakes him up when their plane arrives in Boston] I seem to be waking up to you a lot.
Jill Taylor: Don't get used to it.
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Micky Rosa: [while Choi is stealing everything that isn't nailed down in the hotel room] *Hey!* You steal The Bible, you go to Hell. Those are the rules.
Choi: Like I'm not going anyway.
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Ben Campbell: [in regards to Mickey Rosa inviting him to the Blackjack team] So why are you telling me?
Micky Rosa: Well, let's just say a spot opened up on our roster.
Ben Campbell: How?
Micky Rosa: Jimmy got a job at Google.
Ben Campbell: Jim... Jimmy got a job at Google?
Micky Rosa: Yeah, it's catchy, I know.
Ben Campbell: Well, if you're making so much money at this then why did he take it?
Micky Rosa: Ben, I said Google, not Sizzler.
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Ben Campbell [Last Lines]: I had a 1590 on my SAT, I got a 44 on my MCAT, and I have a 4.0 GPA from MIT. I thought I had my life mapped out, but then I remembered what my non linear equations professor once told me, always account for variable change... I let down my good friends, but as it turns out, they weren't too bad at simple math either. I scored the prettiest girl in school. I got beaten down by an old school Vegas thug who was having trouble accepting his retirement, but I worked out a deal with him that got him a nice pension... And I lied to my mother, but I confessed a lie and well, she still loved me... So my senior year of college I joined this team and I learned this new skill. I went to Vegas 17 times to use it. I made hundreds of thousands of dollars counting cards. And then I had it all stolen from me, twice... How's that for life experience professor? Did I dazzle you? Did I jump off the page?
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Micky Rosa: He says, "Ben, do you want to stay with door number one or go with door number two?". Now, is it in your interest to switch your choice?
Ben Campbell: Yeah.
Micky Rosa: Well wait, the host knows where the car is. So how do you know he's not trying to play a trick on you - trying to use reverse psychology to get you to pick a goat?
Ben Campbell: Well I wouldn't really care. I mean, my answer's based on statistics - based on variable change.
Micky Rosa: Variable change? But he just asked you a simple question.
Ben Campbell: Yeah, which changed everything.
Micky Rosa: Enlighten us.
Ben Campbell: Well, when I was originally asked to pick a door, I had a 33.3% chance of choosing right. But after he opens one of the doors and re-offers me the choice, it's now 66.7% if I choose to switch... So yeah, I'll take door number two and thank you for the extra 33.3%.
Micky Rosa: Exactly. People, remember - if you don't know which door to open, always account for variable change.
Micky Rosa: Now see, most people wouldn't take the switch, out paranoia, fear, emotions. But Mr. Campbell, he kept his emotions aside and let simple math
[in a game show host voice]
Micky Rosa: get his ass into a brand new car!... Which is better than that goat you've been driving around campus...

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Trivia

Spoilers 

An alternate ending was shot, where Mickey Rose evaded capture from Cole Williams. After retirement, Cole spots Mickey gambling on a boat and the two trade stories about their past.


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