22 January 2008

'The Invisible'[2007] Review

This is the story of Nick Powell(Justin Chatwin is also filming for Dragonball he will be Goku) a student raised only by his mother, a woman with a "perfect" life that never shows her feelings. Nick is a senior student who dreams at leaving USA and going to London to become a writer. The other character, important to this story is Annie Newton(Margarita Levieva) a child with a short temper who lives in a broken home. Nick and Annie both lost one of their parents at and early age.
Nick's dreams are shattered when he is betrayed by his best friend Pete(Chris Marquette) in order to save his skin and when beaten to death by Annie, who though that Nick turned her in to the police. Abandoned in the woods Nick shortly realizes that he's "invisible" the others. Trying to get the attention of those who are searching for him he is confident that he is dead. Only he finds out he's not dead he's near death, but how can he lead the cops to his body if nobody hears him. Nobody? No. There is only one person who can hear his voice, Annie, the same person that almost killed him.
His quest is now to persuade Annie to tell the cops where she left his body. Will he succeed? Will he find his body? It worth seeing for yourselves.

'The Invisible'[2007] Trailer:


21 January 2008

'Harsh Times'[2005] Review

I've seen this movie a few months ago, it was made in 2005, but I haven't heard of it until 2007, lack of publicity. This movie is directed by David Ayer the creator of: Training Day(2001) and the one who made the screenplay for: S.W.A.T.(2003) and The Fast and the Furious(2001). Some people told me that Harsh Times is "Training Day 2", because of the style and those who enjoyed Training Day sure will like to see Christian Bale(ex-Ranger Jim Luther Davis), Freddy Rodríguez(Mike Alonzo) and Eva Longoria Parker(as Sylvia).

The story starts with ex-Ranger Jim Davis who mets his best friend Mike "Miguel" Alonzo in order to have a few beers and to cruise around Los Angeles. Jim is hopping to be recruited in the L.A. Police Department. Jim seems to lose his minds, not being able to make distinction between reality and his memories from war. He becomes mad when he finds out that he was rejected from Los Angeles Police Department due failure of psychological test. He starts acting violent, gets involved in a few fights, robs some gangsters and drug dealer. Good news come fast and Jim finds out that he will be recruited by the Department of Homeland Security for a job in Columbia against a drug lord.

Because of Jim, Mike gets into a fight with his girlfriend Sylvia and tries to get a job to prove that he's not "good-for-nothing". The line that I like the most is: "You're crazy and you're dangerous! And my biggest nightmare is you with a badge!" when Sylvia is having a fight with Jim. So basically Jim is begging to lose his mind when he tries to kill his girlfriend, the same woman he wants to marry, because she told him that she is pregnant.

This drama is one of the best movie in which Christian Bale performed since Equilibrium(2002).

Trailer 'Harsh Times'[2005]:

19 January 2008

'The Nines'[2007] Review

A few days ago John told me about "The Nines" and made me curious, so today I've saw it. And for 3/4 of the movie I was like: "What the hell is this?" I was not getting anything from the movie, although John told me the plot. First I thought it was the wrong movie, it was not the one that John was referring to. But soon pieces came together and at the end I could say: "It was a good movie!".
The main character is interpreted by Ryan Reynolds and actually this character is in three different roles. The main idea of the movie is that there are beings more powerful that humans, from a scale from 1 to 10 humans are number 7. God is the supreme being so it will be 10, and below God there are the nines, beings with a lot of power and that can travel between dimensions, and Gary/Gavin/Gabriel(Ryan Reynolds) is one of them. Only G is a junkie, his drugs are humans, he likes to spend time between them to make sure that they are ok. But this drugs turns against him, when the other nines come to take him back, in order to remember what he was. So because he spent so much time with the humans he started to feel something for one of them. But in order to become what he has forgotten he decides to live the humans behind.

Trailer "The Nines":

16 January 2008

Elodia, Pestilence and Perfect Crimes(top 10)

1.After being imprisoned, released, interviewed Elodia's husband is now in jail. Don't think it's because the cops found Elodia's body or the murder weapon. Nope. The police discovered that Cristian Cioaca logged onto Elodia's email, from her office. So they've decided to pick him up and bring him in order to asking him more questions. Also it is known that Elodia had an affair with and officer from SPP(Secret Service). So my guessing is that her husband was trying to find emails between Elodia and her lover in order to find out if she is alive or not. There is no perfect murder, without blood, without witnesses, without a dead body. And there is no murder without a body, Elodia is still missing, she's not dead. Elodia give us a sign if you're out there.

2.Michael Begon a known ecologist made a warning regarding the pestilence(the plague from 14th century called Black Death who made 75 million of victims) which is spreading in Africa right now. The plague kills each year between 100 and 200 people there and most of the time is spread be the rats. Also this plague is nothing much this days compared with car accidents and AIDS victims. So I guess it's easy to die in a robbery than by Black Death.

3.Recently in US they've put together Top 10 Perfect Crimes, the crimes that were never solved. Between them, at position 5 there is the death of Tupac Shakur(2Pac) and Charles Wallace(Notorius B.I.G.). 2Pac and B.I.G. were both gunned down in 1996(Tupac) and 1997(Charles). Even if both were shot in the street nobody was arrested. Both were shot in their cars and both received 4 bullets in their chests. It was thought that 2Pac was not dead, that he was still alive. Until now their deaths remains a mystery. R.I.P. I think this Top might come in handy as a guide on: "How to commit the perfect crime!" for those who are in the business.

15 January 2008

Youtube, Politics and Conspirations

1.A college from Oslo was closed today after a video broadcast on Youtube.com in witch a massacre was announced. A 15 years old student from Kjenn School, who's identity was not yet revealed, admitted that he uploaded the movie clip on Youtube website. The video clip has 50 seconds, was uploaded on Saturday and removed from Youtube yesterday. In the movie clip appears the image of a school with music background and then the faces of six teachers, while a voice says: "This will happen someday, you will die!"
Yeah so that's kinda scary, knowing that you will die someday, but it's the truth. So the kid actually didn't threaten anyone. He just told them that they are going to die, thing that it's going to happen to all of us, someday, as the kid says. Yeah... got to be really scary to be intimidated by a 15 years kid. Kid's can be very scary.

2.Today, in Romania(country of all possibilities), ANES(National Agency for Chance Equality) announced that the refuse of Norica Nicolai as Minister of Justice by President Basescu could be a discrimination against women. This is very funny, because the president doesn't have a record of treating women badly, he supported some of them in their career in politics.
But because Norica Nicolai is from PNL(same political party as Ludovic Orban which by the was found to have no implication in the car accident) and PNL want to have their own man inside Ministry of Justice in order to harass those from PD and PLD, because soon the election from mayors will come. So when the president Traian Basescu refused Norica Nicolai, the prime-minister Calin-Popescu Tariceanu(PNL) began a campain against Basescu.
So it began all this scandal all trowing with mud at each other. But somewhere in the past when voting a law, Norica Nicolai sent her niece to vote in her place, because she was to busy. So maybe here niece will decide who gets prosecuted by the Justice Department, if she becomes Minister of Justice.

3.In the year 1976 occidentals were decided to stop the communism with the force. NATO was prepared to hit Italy if the Communist Party won the elections in 1976. "The Times" says that CIA was already infiltrated in Italy, being positive that the communists would win the election. So 30 something years ago NATO and CIA were fighting against the communist, big deal.
I guess that the Italians are now pissed off and think that the CIA had no right to get involved and all those paranoid stuff(maybe CIA is still there, maybe they want to do it again). So before thinking of that as a bad thing, think that you would have lived in communism for 30 years, and no democracy for you. How would have that been? Enjoyable? Think of all the country that gained democracy when the Iron Curtain felt, do you think that those people were happy on communism? Think again!