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I had seen this movie some time back in the televison - a good one.



Apocalypto is a 2006 epic film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Rudy Youngblood. Set in Central America, during the declining period of the Maya civilization, Apocalypto depicts the journey of a Mesoamerican tribesman who must escape human sacrifice and rescue his family after the capture and destruction of his village.



The performance of the Hero is extremely good. Also Dalia Hernández (Hero's wife) performance when heavy rain sets in, which begins to flood the ground cave in which she and son are still trapped and gives birth to a child.



Good Movie.

I had seen it today in Star Movies - Nice interesting movie. Its about a bank robbery & a hostage situation & how they get out without getting caught

This movie I had seen 2 days back. Sunshine is a 2007 sci-fi film directed by Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle



The plot is In 2057, with the Earth in peril from the dying Sun, the crew is sent to reignite the Sun with a massive stellar bomb, a nuclear device.


the Icarus I, which carries a massive payload, an experimental nuclear bomb, intended to reignite the Sun disappears without a trace and its vital mission is never completed. a second spacecraft with a new stellar bomb, the Icarus II, is dispatched to the Sun in a final attempt due to all remaining fissile materials on earth having been mined for the payload. Enroute they detour to Planet mercury, after receving distress beacon from Icarus I. All the trouble starts from this point.



Nice movie to watch - enjoy.

Ayan is a 2009 Tamil action thriller film written and directed by K. V. Anand, starring Surya Sivakumar, Tamanna Bhatia and Prabhu Ganesan. The film's story revolves around Deva, a youngster working for a smuggling group run by Arumuga Dass who has been looking after him since childhood. Conflict occurs when Deva's prime rival, Kamalesh opposes and tries to eliminate Arumuga Dass from the smuggling business. Who wins in the conflict forms the climax of the story.



The screenplay was meticulously written, working out on minute aspects of the smuggling business & trade secrets they use.



The worst thing in the film is the female lead actress (Tamanna Bhatia) performance. She was not expressive, in fact, she gives woring expressions for all the scenes.



Positive Points - Cinematography, Surya, Locations, Background score & Songs.



Negative points - Tamanna, running time of the movie, a bit slow pace of the movie for this genre.



Definetly worth watching in theatres

Pulp Fiction (1994) is an American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino. Pulp Fiction joins the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase.


Starring John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman.

Ok... This weekend (10 May'09) I saw 4 movies. This is one of them.



From Hell is a 2001 film based on London Whitechappel serial killings by "Jack the Ripper".



starring Johnny Depp as Inspector Abberline, and Heather Graham as Mary Jane Kelly. The film's plot turns on Stephen Knight's conspiracy theory that the murders concealed the birth of an illegitimate royal baby fathered by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence.



Slow but good movie due to the real life backdrop of the story.

This is another movie I saw this weekend.

DOA: Dead or Alive is a 2006 martial arts film.

Starring Tina Armstrong (Jaime Pressly), Christie Allen (Holly Valance), Kasumi (Devon Aoki), Ayane (Natassia Malthe) and Helena Douglas (Sarah Carter).

The plot is about a fighting competition held in an island for the best fighter in the world. The organizer plans to harvest the skills with a help of a techie assistant & sell the skills worldwide.

Worst movie except for the bikini clad girls (they all come in bikini througout the movie :)...) ... they are really hot...

OK... the old but THE best I saw this weekend - Kate & Leopold is a 2001 romantic comedy picture about a story of a duke who time travels from New York in 1876 to the present and falls in love with a career woman in the modern New York.

Starring stars Meg Ryan & Hugh Jackman.

Nice movie for a weekend.

I saw this movie sometimes back - The General's Daughter is a 1999 film starring John Travolta. The plot concerns the mysterious death of the daughter of a prominent general, reportedly based on a true story.



When a general's daughter, an army captain in psychological operations, is found murdered, two warrant officers are brought in to investigate. The young woman was staked down with tent poles, strangled, and presumably raped. But what the investigators find is even more bizarre, relating back to her days at West Point and involving the general himself and his aide. The daughter's one confidant also ends up as an apparent suicide and is assumed to be the culprit. Cover-ups and sexual scandals rampage throughout the film.



Very good movie

Lions for Lambs is a 2007 American drama film about the connection between a platoon of United States soldiers in Afghanistan, a U.S. senator, a reporter, and a California college professor. It stars Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep.

With a title that alludes to incompetent leaders sending brave soldiers into the slaughter of battle, the film takes aim at the U.S. government's prosecution of the wars in the Middle East, showing three different simultaneous stories: a congressman who launches a new military strategy and details it to a journalist, two soldiers involved in said operation, and their college teacher trying to re-engage a promising student.

The film was partly based on Operation Red Wing, an unsucessful SEAL operation in Afghanistan.

The Messengers is a 2007 supernatural thriller film, starring Kristen Stewart.

The film is about an ominous darkness that invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in North Dakota, and the Solomon family is torn apart by suspicion, mayhem, and murder.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a 2007 adventure film, sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure. Cast - Nicolas Cage & Diane Kruger.

Treasure hunter Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) embarks on a new adventure in this movie. Ben and his father, Patrick (Jon Voight), take great pride in their ancestors and their family's devotion to the United States. When Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris) produces a page from the diary of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth allegedly linking Ben's great-great grandfather to the plot, Ben and Patrick set out on a path to clear their family's name. Ben also believes that the diary page contains hints to the whereabouts of a treasure map leading to an ancient city made of gold, and soon the hunt is on. Tech expert Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) and Ben's now ex-girlfriend Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) join the Gates in their quest,

It's true that the storyline and the actions of Gates and his team--which include breaking into the Queen's study at Buckingham Palace, sneaking into the Oval Office, and kidnapping the President of the United States--are completely unbelievable. But with a storyline built on true, interesting trivia and great locations, this film is an amusing, family-friendly romp.

Prelude to a Kiss is a 1992 American romantic fantasy film starring Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan.



Rita Boyle (Meg Ryan), falls in love with and marries Peter Hoskins (Alec Baldwin), the conservative employee of a Chicago publishing house. At their wedding, the couple is approached by a lonely, elderly man who requests permission to kiss the bride. When he does, their spirits switch places, leaving Peter with a young, vibrant wife trapped within an aged, diseased, disintegrating body. Whether or not he can see beyond the physical and embrace the beautiful soul he loves and Julius will agree to return to his cancer-riddled flesh by kissing Rita again are the dilemmas that must be resolved.

Keeping the Faith is a comedy-drama film, starring Ben Stiller.

Not very interesting.

Hannibal Rising is a 2007 thriller film, the fifth film to feature Dr. Hannibal Lecter. It is a prequel to Manhunter/Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal in the Hannibal Lecter series. The film is an adaptation of Thomas Harris' 2006 novel of the same name and tells the story of Lecter's evolution into the infamous serial killer

Okay, at last I had seen this movie last weekend.



The film introduces a young Kyle Reese from the original 1984 film, as well as depicting the origin of the T-800 Model 101 Terminator. Terminator Salvation, set in 2018, focuses on the war between humanity and Skynet - a departure from the previous installments, which were set on the present day and featured time travel.



Definetly need to see if you are a fan of Terminator Fanchisee.

Atomic Train is about an accidental nuclear explosion destroying the city of Denver.

A freight trainis loaded with nuclear bomb by a waste disposal company along with hazardous and flammable chemicals including metallic sodium which spontaneously ignites on contact with water. The train suffers a brake failure and becomes a runaway heading for Denver. The train derails and becomes a terrific wreck.

Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian language film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice (played by Roberto Benigni, who also directed and co-wrote the film), who must employ his fertile imagination to help his son survive their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.

One of the best movies.

Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 historical drama film about the hotelier Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle) during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. And it is listed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 most inspirational movies of all time.

It is about A true story of a man who fought impossible odds to save everyone he could and created a place where hope survived. The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.

Good Advice is a 2001 comedy film starring Charlie Sheen, Angie Harmon and Denise Richards. Charlie Sheen plays Ryan, a hotshot broker living an upscale life in New York City with his shallow girlfriend (Denise Richards). He was tricked by a owner of one of the biggest newspaper publishers of New York, Simpsons, and loses his job & girl friend.

Since he can't get another job anywhere else, lies to the editor Page (Angie Harmon) and takes over the column imposting as Cindy. The column turns into a huge hit and Page's newspaper begins to sell more and more across the city. Ryan begins to develop feelings for Page, feelings which turn out to be mutual.

However, things didn't go so well for Cindy, and she comes back into town. Ryan and Page are caught in bed, and reveal everything to Cindy. However, Cindy blackmails them, and moves to Simpson's company. Ryan uses his brokerage skills to make huge money off the combination of Cindy and Simpson. Ryan and Page are engaged, and Ryan has since become a successful columnist in his own right. Nice movie for a relaxed sunday eveing with a few beers.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a science fiction action horror film. It is the second installment in the series of film adaptations based on the survival horror game series Resident Evil.
The film follows the heroine Alice, who has escaped the underground Umbrella facility, and must band with other survivors and escape Raccoon City, before it is too late.

Milla Jovovich is great. can watch.

Fargo is a 1996 American neo-noir film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. The film is about a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for $80,000. Small-town police chief Marge Gunderson investigates the crime, which sets off a chain of murders. Fargo earned seven Academy Award nominations, winning two for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film also won the British BAFTA Award and the Award for Best Director for Joel Coen at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Fargo opens with the following text:
? THIS IS A TRUE STORY. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred. ?

Although the film itself is completely fictional the Coen brothers claim that many of the events that take place in the movie were actually based on true events from other cases that they threw together to make one story.

Salvador is a 1986 film which tells the story of an American journalist in El Salvador covering the Salvadoran civil war. While trying to get footage, he becomes entangled with both leftist guerrillas and the right wing military.

The Human Stain was a national bestseller and was made into a film in 2003 starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman.
The story is told by Nathan Zuckerman, a writer who lives a secluded life until Coleman Silk becomes his new neighbor. At 71, Silk falls victim to an unjustified charge of racism against two black students. This incident leads to Silk's resignation and soon after to the death of his wife Iris. Silk starts an affair with one of the school's janitors, Faunia Farley, a 34 year old woman It has some steamy scenes.

The Missing is a 2003 film directed by Ron Howard. Set in the late 19th-century New Mexico, an Apache medicine man (Eric Schweig) and a dozen of his followers who have left the reservation pass through the area, ritualistically killing settlers and taking their daughters to be sold into prostitution south of the American border. Among those captured is the eldest daughter of Maggie Gilkeson (Blanchett) who was unable to forgive her father, Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) for abandoning the family and leaving her mother to a hard life and early death.

The U.S. Cavalry refuses to help retrieve the captive women and this leaves Maggie, her father, and the younger daughter alone in tracking the attackers along with Kayitah & his son, a Chiricahua, and an old friend of Jones.

This Western thriller set in 1885 New Mexico is notable for the authentic use of the Apache language by various actors, some of whom spent long hours studying it.

Twenty Bucks is a 1993 film that follows the travels of a $20 bill from a crisp new note from the ATM in downtown Minneapolis through various transactions and incidents from person to person through the city.

The entire movie takes place at a high school graduation party, and in a style much like that of the high school movies of the 1980s. The film revolves around an eclectic group of students from Pennsylvania attending a high school graduation party at a large house owned by a rich class member's family. Each character has different plans for the night. Optimistic misfit Preston Myers (Ethan Embry) plans to proclaim his love to his four-year secret crush, to whom he's never had the nerve to speak before, prom queen Amanda Beckett (Jennifer Love Hewitt), who in turn has recently been dumped by her top jock boyfriend, Mike Dexter (Peter Facinelli) who is targeted by classmate William Lichter (Charlie Korsmo), who is plotting revenge against Mike for happily making his high school years a living hell.

This plot begins with Christina Walters (Diaz) and Courtney Rockcliffe (Applegate), all-around party girls, attempting to ease their roommate Jane Burns' (Blair) relationship-induced depression by taking her on a girls' night out. During that evening Walters meets Peter Donahue (Jane) and falls for him. However, having missed her chance that evening, Walters and Rockcliffe spend the rest of the movie chasing him down.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 drama film starring young Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis and very young Leonardo DiCaprio.The film opens in the small town of Endora, Iowa, where Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) is busy caring for his mentally handicapped brother, Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio) as they wait for the trailers to come drive through town. His morbidly obese mother, has done little except eat since her husband's death, and longs only to see Arnie live to the age of eighteen. Gilbert has taken responsibility for repairing their old farmhouse and looking after Arnie, who has a habit of climbing the town water tower if he is left unsupervised for too long, while his sisters do the chores and the cooking.

The movie is loosely based on the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas, a document which the Vatican and most other Christians have declared as being the product of a heretical Gnostic group.
The film is about an atheist Pittsburgh hairdresser who exhibits true stigmata, and a Father (a former scientist) investigating miracles for the Vatican. He discovers that the stigmata stems from the spirit of Father Paulo Alameida, who was excommunicated for his discovery of a lost Gospel challenging the very foundations of Catholicism by suggesting that Jesus Christ did not want churches built to worship God.

Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith) is a professional "date doctor", who coaches other men in the art of having the perfect date with the woman of their dreams. While coaching one of his clients, Hitch finds himself falling for Sara Melas (Eva Mendes), a gossip columnist who is determined to unmask and ruin the so-called date doctor after one of his "clients" (with whom Hitch refused to work, unknown to Sara) had a one night stand with her best friend.

The film is fictional, but inspired by bombings at the Riyadh compound on May 12, 2003 and the Khobar housing complex on June 26, 1996 in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The story follows a team of FBI agents who investigate the bombing of a foreign-workers facility in Saudi Arabia.

Syriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film starring Matt Damon. The film focuses on petroleum politics, and the global influence of the oil industry, whose political, economic, legal, and social effects are experienced by a CIA operative (George Clooney), an energy analyst (Matt Damon), a Washington attorney (Jeffrey Wright), and a young unemployed Pakistani migrant worker (Mazhar Munir) in an Arab country in the Persian Gulf.
Syriana uses multiple, parallel storylines, jumping from locations in Texas, Washington D.C., Switzerland, Spain, and the Middle East, categorizing the film as hyperlink cinema.

The film stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze.
Three Kings revolves around four U.S. soldiers attempting to steal seized Kuwaiti gold bullion from the Iraqi bunkers. During their journey they become involved with a badly outgunned and desperate group of Iraqi Shia rebels who have risen against Saddam's regime but were abandoned by the Coalition. The film deals with the aftermath of George H. W. Bush's appeal to Iraqis to rise up against the tyranny, and the ensuing massacre as Saddam's loyalists put down the popular rebellion, killing many thousands of civilians.

Rat Race is a Comedy Film. The story is about six teams of people given a task of racing 563 miles (918 km) from a Las Vegas casino to a train station in Silver City, New Mexico (which is, in reality 573 miles), where a storage locker contains two million dollars. The first team to reach the locker wins and gets to keep the money. Unbeknownst to them, however, they are actually just part of a betting game.

Outlander is a science fiction film, starring James Caviezel and Sophia Myles. The story is about a soldier from another world, who hunts a vicious, photo-luminescent creature known as the Moorwen. Man and monster both seek revenge for violence committed against against each other.

Nanda Gopal / Nandu(Mahesh Babu) is a professional assassin. A political leader Shiva Reddy wants someone to attempt an assassination on him so that he could get more votes through sympathy. On the day of the murder attempt, before Nandu gets to shoot Shiva Reddy, someone else fatally shoots Shiva Reddy. Police tracks down Nandu, assuming he is the murderer. From there Nandu persues his search to find the real assassin while impersonating as a decessed Pardhu who ran away from his village at his young age and shot by police in a cross fire during a gun-fight with Nandu.

Top Hollywood talent agent, Jack Giamoro (Ben Affleck), seems to have it all: a successful career, a lot of money, a nice car, a beautiful wife, etc. However, while pursuing success, he somehow lost himself and neglected his marriage. He decides to take a journal writing class to do some self-searching. Jack's seemingly perfect world starts to unravel when he learns that his wife, Nina (Rebecca Romijn), is cheating on him with his most important client. Things get worse when Barbi (Bai Ling), an ambitious journalist, steals Jack's journal, which contains secrets that could ruin him personally and professionally. Jack is forced to fight for everything he has worked so hard to achieve and in doing so, he attains the self-insight he was looking for. Ironically, by realizing that there is more to life than work, he begins to focus on what's most important in his life.

Tears of the Sun is a war film, about a rescue mission by U.S. Special Force - Navy SEALs in the West African country of Nigeria amidst a civil war. Bruce Willis commands the team sent to rescue U.S. Doctor Monica Bellucci from the civil war en route to her jungle hospital. SEALS rescue the doctor along with her patients, but they are being attacked by the rebels enroute to the refuge camp. Did they made it - that's the movie. Not bad.

Death of the President is a fictional documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush, U.S. President, on 19 October 2007, in Chicago. By means of archival film footage, actors, and computer-generated special effects, the assassination is the thematic beginning of serious discussions about civil disobedience, racial profiling, the U.S. Government's reduction of the civil liberties of its populace, news sensationalism as agitational propaganda, and the theory of Just War.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine
It is a prequel to the previous installments, being set twenty-three to seventeen years before the film X-Men. The film focuses on the violent past of the mutant Wolverine and his relationship with his half-brother Victor Creed. The plot also details Wolverine's early encounters with Colonel William Stryker, his time with Team X, and the bonding of Wolverine's skeleton with the indestructible metal adamantium during the Weapon X program.

Nice Movie - Remake of the the Hindi 'Wednesday'. Must see.