Fhay Seni (ashvelagosha)

johnny depp.. he's good at it.. trying to wear all the small things accesories in his clothes.. but not too much.. and each person in this movie has its own characteristic.. and awesome The reason why it wasn?t as good as the first two movies is because it felt unoriginal. Sure?that seemed almost inevitable, but I was hoping that they would throw in more surprises here and there. You knew that Depp was going to be the highlight. You knew that Sparrow was going to be the lead in any scene that differed from the first two movies (i.e. a trippy scene in Davy Jones? Locker where multiple versions of Sparrow imagined the rocks were crabs.) The rest of the movie was just your usual brand of swashbuckling. It?s not like we have never seen pirate movies before?from 1935?s classic Captain Blood to 1995?s studio closing flop Cutthroat Island?but the first Pirates movie took it to a level that made pirates cool again. Whether it was helmer Gore Verbinski?s directing or Depp?s acting (okay?let?s admit it?it was Depp?s acting) that made us love it?we apparently wanted more. The way they set it up meant for a good trilogy, but I wish that this one specifically were as good as the first movie. I?d like to point out why I specifically liked the second movie over this one. After already seeing the ride we were in for with the first movie, the second movie upped the ante by setting up scenes that were outrageous, unbelievable?and immensely enjoyable. I am specifically referring to the runaway waterwheel scene. There were no ?wow? scenes in this third installment. We got your usual good special effects and action, but I wanted at least one (action) scene that stood out (the trippy scene stood out in general, but it was played for laughs instead of action.) By the way?the heavily hyped cameo of legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards as Captain Teague?Sparrow?s father?was disappointing. I barely noticed his mostly mute appearance! This was the inspiration for Captain Jack Sparrow? Pirates of the Caribbean: At World?s End was a good time at the movies?but it just wasn?t as good as the first two flicks. At almost three hours, it is a little butt numbing (though that is three hours in which you are able to get out of the scorching sun, if you live in a hot area like mine and you tend to go to matinees more often than nighttime showings like I do.) I don?t want to give away the ending, but if you stay past the end credits, you will see a scene that may satisfy everyone who might have been frustrated with loose story threads (which means that they could stop it at a trilogy, or go on to sail more of the seven seas. Depp has expressed an interest in making more of the movies.) When I went into this movie, I still had the sour taste of the Country Bears movie on my tongue. I was so happy to sit through a fun action movie with a standout performance by the Oscar-nominated Johnny Depp. I doubt he will win (lighter movie nominees never tend to win), but if I ruled the world, he would.

he doesnt talk too much in this movie.. i like the plots.. i like hows it story goes.. I have to be honest: despite the fact that director Stephen Spielberg has made many wonderful non-sci-fi flicks, I?m always a little leery of how well I will take them. The same thing always happens though?I end up loving them anyway. That happened again with his latest, The Terminal. Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) is a citizen of the fictional Eastern European country of Krakozhia. He has come to New York City to do a favor for his father, and then he plans to go home. In the period of traveling from Krakozhia to New York, his homeland had erupted in civil war. This creates a logistical problem for him, since he is caught in an immigration Catch-22. The United States no longer recognizes his country (at least during the civil war), so he is not allowed into the USA for this reason, and they won?t allow him to go back home for the same reason. This is a problem for airport security director Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci), since his boss, Salchak (Eddie Jones), has informed him that he is up for a promotion, and he doesn?t need this headache. He has head security guard Ray Thurman (Barry Shabaka Henley) escort Viktor to the international lounge of the airport terminal and give him some food vouchers. Ray tells Viktor that he has to stay there until the situation in Krakozhia is resolved. Viktor doesn?t quite get it, since he can barely speak any English, but when he sees footage of the civil war on the terminal TVs, he understands and freaks out. He soon accepts his situation and looks for a way to survive, but he accidentally loses his food vouchers to custodian Gupta Rajan (Kumar Pallana), who thinks that Viktor is a foreign spy. Frank can?t technically let Viktor leave, but he tries to slyly allow Viktor to go unofficially, so that the foreigner will be someone else?s problem. Viktor?s honesty weighs out, much to Frank?s distress. Since he has no food vouchers, Viktor finds other ways of getting food, from eating crackers with mustard and ketchup to returning luggage trolleys for quarters so that he can buy burgers at Burger King. Enrique Cruz (Diego Luna), a driver for the airport food service, sees his plight and makes a deal with him. He agrees to feed Viktor in exchange for him getting personal information about customs official Dolores Torres (Zo? Saldana), with whom he is madly in love. Everyday Viktor takes his pass and exit form to Dolores, gets denied entry into the country with her big, red ?Denied? stamp, and finds out more useful information for Enrique. Baggage handler Joe Mulroy (Chi McBride) also helps out Viktor, and eventually so does Gupta, after Joe convinces him that Viktor is not a spy. Viktor himself starts to fall in love, with flight attendant Amelia Warren (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who occasionally passes through the airport. She is having an affair with a married man named Max (Michael Nouri) and is frustrated that he won?t leave his wife for her. At night, Viktor sleeps on a row of chairs in the unfinished Gate 67, but out of boredom, he finishes the work on the gate, leading the construction foreman, Karl Iverson (Jude Ciccolella), to hire him for his crew and pay him under the table. Days turn into weeks, which turn into months (nine months to be exact), but he has patience, since he made a promise to his dad to do this favor, and not even the United States? bureaucracy will stop him. This story is loosely based on the story of Merhan Nasseri, an Iranian refugee. In 1988, Nasseri landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris after being denied entry into England because his passport and United Nations refugee certificate had been stolen. The French authorities would not let him leave the airport, and he stayed there in Terminal One for the rest of his life (he has since been granted permission to either enter France or return to his own country, but chooses to live in the terminal.) Screenwriters Jeff Nathanson and Sacha Gervasi took Nasseri?s story, changed the location, added some supporting characters and a love interest, and told a charming, though slightly disjointed, story. Hanks gives another performance that should be nominated for an Oscar. It didn?t take me long to believe that he was a foreigner, and not just an actor playing a foreigner. Tucci, whom I normally don?t like, is good as the ?bad guy,? if that?s what you can call his character. I liked Zeta-Jones, but I thought that her character was more of a distraction than an integral part of the plot. Other than the Zeta-Jones character, the only other thing that irked me slightly was a bit of misplaced humor that Spielberg occasionally lets in. In Minority Report, it was Tom Cruise?s eyeballs rolling down a ramp. In this movie, it was Gupta?s attempt to entertain Viktor and Amelia during a romantic dinner. While they were eating, Gupta would do something even odder, from juggling to spinning plates, each time they showed him entertaining them. I know that this movie is kind of a comedy anyway, but it wasn?t slapstick, so I thought that it was a weird running joke. Overall, The Terminal is an endearing and highly entertaining movie. Throughout Spielberg?s career, he has had more hits than misses with me, so next time he comes out with a movie, I should assume that I will like it, sci-fi or otherwise. Don?t let me down, Stephen!