District 9

District 9District 9 is the movie about science fiction. It is one of the best releases of August. For the science fiction fan it is a great gift by the filmmaker Neil Blomkamp. District 9 is produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Neil Blomkamp. District 9 is very impressive low budgeted film. Starring Sharlto Copley, Jasson Cope, Nathalie Boltt, John Sumner, William Allen Young, Nikle Blake, Sylvaine Strike.

The movie begins with the science fiction that the aliens arrive and take the position over the city. In 1990 alien star ship appeared on Johannesburg, South Africa. So alien were located ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and subjugated in squalor. In 2010, the arms corporation, Multi National United is contracted to exploit alien technology.
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Wikus Van Der Merwe who is serving in middle management of MNU is encouraged to go ahead and clear the town from aliens. While searching a hut he got accident with an alien, his DNA begins changing. So MNU ordered to vivisect him. Then he runs into District 9 and makes alliance with smart prawn, Christopher.

The movie is good with interesting theme. Blomkamp looks passionate with junk versus hi-tech. The story was different and every character of the movie portrays his/her character with full justice. The movie is the blend of drama and action. The film is receiving positive response from the audience and earned $37 million in the opening weekend. I recommended watching the movie, you will definitely enjoy it.

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All About Steve

SteveAll About Steve was released on 4th September 2009.It is written by Kim Barker and directed by Phil Trail. It is a comedy movie and starring Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Katy Mixon, Bradley Cooper and Howard Hesseman. The summer 2009 was good for both Sandra bullock and Bradley. They gave lots of big hits during the year. In All About Steve Sandra bullock played the role of Mary Horowitz, the main character of the movie. But this is one of her worst movie. She played the role of lonely eccentric cross-word puzzle creator, with the habit of constant talking which make people around her miserable. As she talk fast, many scenes were difficult to understand.

The story of the movie is not so interesting. Sandra bullock set up on a blind date with Steve (Bradley Cooper) who is the cameraman of the news channel. She fall in love with Steve and it’s a love at first sight. After a blind date she thinks that he needed her to join road assignment. Cruelly advised on by Steve pretentious TV news Partner (Thomas Haden Church).Marry beat impossible difficulties to meet her boyfriend.

Mary tolerates humiliation and great hazard. But after suffering the dangerous journey, Marry learns about her inner strength, and find true friends DJ Qualls and Katy Mixon. They also strengthen her will power.
Here is its official trailer.

Film is supposed to be a comedy, but I found it pathetic. You will be sleeping during watching the movie, believe me. I generally want to talk about Bullock. She is a terrific comedian; she also has the ability to make us emphasis with the characters she plays and to capture us into their world. Miss Congeniality is one of her Hilarious movie. But one thing I like All About Steve is its valuable message about tolerance of individual difference.

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Inglorious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds

Inglorious Basterds was released on 21 August 2009. It is an adventurous movie and written and directed by the Quentin Tarantino. Cast including Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger, Eli Roth, Mike Myers, Cloris Leachman, Samuel and Jackson Michael Fassbender. The movie was out standing and whole story revolves around the revenge. The story was about the II world war in the leadership of Nazi Germany namely Hitler. During the Second World War a team of Jewish- America soldiers called Basterds are chosen to spread the fear through killing.

The story was about a young Jewish girl Shosanna Dereyfus, who is the witnesses of her family murder by Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna migrated to Paris and make his falsify identity as the cinema operator. Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish American soldiers for the shocking revenge. After identifying the enemies Raine joins Shosanna. She had also planned to carry revenge.

After I watched Inglorious Basterds at Cannes and I am not able to give any comments about the movie because I want to see it again and again, it’s like real movie and story was much real to reality. And to me it is the best film of the year. Editing, composition, camera movement and actions all are just excellent. The Tarantino had made marvelous effort and showed his capabilities in a great way.

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The Final Destination (Sequel 4th)

Final Destination 4 Movie PosterI am a great movie lover and watch every  running movie in the theater. The movie Final Destination was released on 28 August. It is the fourth sequel of The Final Destination. It’s first three series have been viewed by the audiences and got good response Final Destination is directed by David R Ellis and written by Eric Bress. It is a kind of horror and thriller movie. Audiences are familiar with its formula. Theme is based on knowing the future institution and saved many lives from death.

In first three movies, the tense situation was balanced with the humor. The fourth one is not as interesting as the previous three sequels were. Bobby Campo the hero of the movie stars as Nick, he dreamed about the horrible accident that kills him, his friends and other fifty people. So he just saved before the actual thing take place and also saved his girlfriend Lori , best friend Janet, Janet’s boyfriend hunt and security guard.
Here is its official trailer,

The source of Nick’s premonitions was not described. It is a three dimensional film which is the positive point of the film and director as well. There are no humor and entertaining characters in the whole movie that make it quite uninteresting. No any genuine tension is revealed in the whole story of the film. I found nothing new in the story and no more real suspense.

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Whiteout

whiteout-posterAntarctica is a place where you will find out penguins. It is the coldest and isolated mass of land on the earth. Whiteout delayed for two years. Now it’s finally arrived infront of the audience on 11 September 2009. It has generated revenue of $ 9825004 at box office. It is directed by Dominic Sena. Basically it is a horror movie with cast including Kate Beckinsale, Gabriet Macht,Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short, preformed so well.

Kate Beckinsale played role of U.S.Marshal Carrie Stetko. Gabriel Macht satars as U.N investigator and performed well. Tom Skerritt played the role of doctor who helps Kate in examination of the horrible dead bodies and Columbus short played role of pilot.

The story revolves about the news of first murder in the history of Antarctica, which holds on the retirement plan of the Carrie. Carrie must have to solve the crime before the immense strong hits, which will trap her in Antarctica for next six months. Kate looks gorgeous in the whole movie and acts superbly.

Overall I found it bored, many chased sequences were sluggish. Whiteout is a tiring movie with lots of problems. You should avoid wasting your time. The one of the big blunder is that there isn’t any single penguin in the whole movie.

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Gamer

gammerI am a big fan Mark Neveldine and Brain Taylor. Gamer is directed by Neveldine and produced byTaylor, so I am much excited for the release. It was released on 4 September 2009. I planned out to watch the movie, so in my leisure time I watched movie. They are the directors of Crank movies. But this move is totally different from the previous one.

Starting was so bored; I can’t focus in the begging of the movie. After 20 minutes I found it interesting. It’s about latest technologies of future that how humans can control others by multiplayer online gaming environment. Butler the hero of the movie wanted to get sovereignty from a game called slayers, whose mastermind was “Hall”.

The story of the movie was quite good. When I saw trailer, I thinks that is such kind of death race of the prisoner, but the story was quite different, when Butler gets out, the real story open up. Butler performed excellent; he is a true action star. There are some excellent funny shots in the move which make you laugh as well.

Michael C Hall performed negative character so well and did full justice with his character. Great shots and action scenes make the move more interesting. It comes up with amazing scenes and sequences. All crew effort was outstanding and appreciate able. I recommend you, to watch the movie and enjoy the thrill and drama.

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Tupac Shakur

tupac-stTupac  Shakur is the name of american artist who was one of the best rappers of all the times. He is also known with the names of 2pac, pac and Makevali. His full name was Tupac Amaru Shakur and he was born in east harlem, New York on June 16, 1971. He lived most of his life in California. In addition to his rapping skills he was also a talented actor, poet, song writer, record producer and an social activist. Although he excelled in many fields yet rapping was always his main concentration. He has sold nearly 75 million albums worldwide up to this date. His associate artists are Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Outlaws, Thug Life, Richi rich, Kurrupt, Dave Hollister and many others. His work mainly promotes social, economical, political and racial equality. Through out his life he was involved in many controversies and lawsuits. He also has lots of enemies due to his open criticism against government, cops and fellow rappers. He was shot four times in the chest in September 7, 1996 and died seven days later due to respiratory failure and cardiac arrest.

EARLY LIFE:

tupac-1He was born in very miserable conditions, her mother was the only one to support him but she was too financially weak to serve her duty. Growing up without father support and living in dirty and poor conditions is what made him angry young man. In very young life he witnessed fellow blacks being forced to sell drugs and to rob peoples to find a solution their financial problems. He noticed racism from cops. He also hated miserable conditions of young black women who become pregnant at very early age and boyfriends left them on their own. That’s why most of his songs deals with the pain he gone through in his childhood and the problems being faced as a black man. He was a social activist, through his art he made America realize that what was going through poor dirty streets of black peoples. Because of his open criticism against Government and cops and his hard and violent language he was also a very controversial person.

MUSIC:

STUDIO ALBUMS:

He became famous with his debut album “2paclypse Now”. Before that he was part of rap group Digital Underground as a backup dancer or roadie. 2paclypse Now produced hit singles like “Brenda’s got a baby”, “If my homie calls” and “Trapped”. It was certified gold. He was critically praised for his rapping skills  but was heavily criticized for violent lyrics.  Second album “Strictly 4 my niggaz” attained platinum status with hit singles “I get around”, “Keep ya head up”, “Papa’s song” and “Holler if ya hear”. In his third album he joined other rappers including Big Syke and formed rap group named Thug Life and released album entitled “Thug Life Volume 1”. Singles released from this album were “Cradle to the Grave”, “Pour our liquor” and “How long will they mourn me”. The album was certified Gold. After this relase 2pac again started solo career with album “Me against the World”. The album was a huge success and attained multiplatinum status (2x). “Dear Mama” first single was a worldwide superhit. Other singles were “Can u get away”, “Temptations” and “So many tears”. Next album released was “All eyez on me”. It was 2pac’s first double cd album and it has reached upto 9x Platinum status. It produced so many hit singles including “California Love”, “How do u want it”, 2 of amerikaz most wanted”, “all about u”, “I ain’t mad at cha”, “Life goes on” and “Hit  em up”.

POSTHUMOUS ALBUMS:

All the albums which were released after the death of 2pac may be called as Posthumous albums.  First album released was “Don Kulliminati 7 days theory” or “Makevali”. It was released on November 5, 1996 and was able to sell 4 million copies. Super hit songs of this album are “Toss it up”, “Live n die in L.A.”,  and “Hail Mary”. Afterwards albums released are listed below

  • R u still down (Remember me)               4x Platinum

(Singles: “Do for Love” and “I wonder if heaven got a ghetto”)

  • Greatest Hits (Compilation)                     9x Platinum

(Singles: “Changes” and “Unconditional Love”)

  • Untill the end of Time                               3x Platinum

(Singles: “Untill the end of time” and “Letter to my unborn child”)

  • Better Days                                                  2x Platinum

(Singles: “Thugs Mansion” and “Still Ballin Nitty remix”0

  • Loyal to the Game                                      Platinum

(Singles: “Thugs get lonely too” and “Ghetto Gospel ft Elton John”

  • Pac’s Life

(Singles: “Untouchables ft Krazie Bone”, “Pac’s Life ft T.I. & Ashanti” and “Playa Cards right (female) ft Keyshia Cole”)

MOVIES:

Tupac was also an exceptional actor. His debut performance in the film “Juice” was critically highly appreciated. And then later with the movie “Poetic Justice” starring against Janet Jackson he established him as professional and successful actor. List of his movies are:

  • Nothing but trouble
  • Juice
  • Poetic Justice
  • Above the Rim
  • Bullet
  • Gridlock’d
  • Gang Related
  • Tupac: Resurrection
  • Notorious (2009, Himself archive footage)

DOCUMENTARIES:

tupac59ph1His life is portrayed in many documentaries describing his feeling and ideology. Tupac Resurrection was nominated for Academy awards.

  • 2006: So Many Years, So Many Tears
  • 2007: Tupac: Assassination
  • 2009: Tupac: Assassination II: Reckoning

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Julie And Julia

On every weekend, I hanged out with my friends, for watching movie. On this weekend we watched movie by Nora Ephron Julie and Julia. It is fabulous movie and we enjoyed it a lot. We found it very amazing and funny.

The movie was about cooking French food. Amy Adams plays the role of Julie and Meryl Streep plays the role of Julia’s child .The move is based on Julie Powell’s book Julie and Julia. Julia is thirty years old and living in apartment in Queens and doing temporary office job of government. She has not anything to do special in her life, so she accept defy and want to achieve it. The job is to undertake Julia Child’s and teach her the art of French cooking in 365 day, all 524 recipes.

On early stages of cooking, its looks quite simple, she start with a potato soup into extra multifaceted recipes then she understand that it is not an easy job and it takes much time to teach. With the workload Julie become upset and but she can’t refuse to Julia’s. Julies learns a lot through her experience. Julie do hard work and make its promise possible. Julia’s imaginations create much trouble for Julie. Julia has no money problems and not any job related issues but she wants to teach Americans, how to cook French food.

Meryl Streep as Julia’ child play most entertaining role and look stunning. Amy Adams also performed so well and looks so sweet and gorgeous in the whole movie. The movie is full package of amusement, entertainment and fun. The Director Nora Ephron has done the fantastic job by making this exciting and entertaining movie.

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I Can Do Bad All By Myself

The movie by Tyler Perry released on 11 Sept 2009, Friday.I planed out with my friends to watch this movie. This movie was same as his previous movies. It did good business at box office. It generated $24 million revenue on box office. Complete drama is there; such emotional scenes created by the Tyler Perry were out standing, that’s really touches strings of heart, especially during the worshiped scenes, at the church. The story was amazing, when there is any intense scene in the movie; Tyler Perry beautifully balanced it by adding comedic relief in the scenes.
All the actors and actress portrayed their characters with full devotion and gave their 100 percent to do justice with their characters.
Henson did awesome job by performing her character and gave excellent shoots on singing scenes. Adam Rodriguez also gave his 100 per cent although his accent is not good as Americans, but the way he played villain is amazing.
Brain White performed so well as a married man which sticks to Hanson’s life. Henson’s nephews and niece and Wilson showed great performance. Wilson played the role of Jennifer and led the character into correct direction. As Wilson belongs to England, so she did great job in improving her accent.
Frederick Siglar and Kwesi Boakye did so well in the movie. Boakye is very entertaining and gave cheerful face expression, when tension was on its climax. My favorite scene in the movie is, when Jennifer asks Madea to teach how to pray. Madea acted superbly in the whole movie.
Mary J. Blige performed not so well, he did not impress me much. Many people get bored of Tyler Perry movies. But this movie is superb and I recommended you to watch it with your friends and family, you will feel spiritual.

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