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| Movie: | 28 days later, heat, pans labrynthe, volver, blown away, beverlly hills cop movies, anything with swarzenager and stallone and great expectations |
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| Actor: | george clooney, nicole kidman, brad pitt, angelina jolie, clint eastwood, paul newman, marlon brando |
| Director: | sam pecinpah, martin scorcese, francis ford coppola, steven spielberg, stanley kubrick |
| Quote: | to be or not to be. |
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A History of Violence
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a girtty violence film from famed canadian director david croneberg usually known for horror flicks as rabid, scanners, the dead zone and the fly and for werid flciks such as videodrome and crash comes back full circle to directing a film about violence and how it affects us all in different ways. A departure from david cronenberg comes this film about a violence man named tom stall who use to work for the mob and whoes brother Rictchie cusack is a small time gangster in boston. Tom stall for the past fifteen years has lived in a small town with a beautiful wife and a teenage son who has been picked on at school by the school bullies. When two sociopaths enter the small town after brutally murdering a convenicne store owner and his family to death, enter a small time restaurant owned by tom stall. They come into the restuarant begging for trouble. When they try to rape and harass his customers, tom stall quickly and brutally murder the two sociopaths and Tom quickly learns that by doing this will put him in the spotlight and in all the newpapers and will later bring touble to his town that he wished would never sneak back into his quiet homly life. After this incident the town even the sherriff begins to look at tom as a hero and slowly as someone they dont know anymore even his wife begins to to doubt and after his son sned the bullies at school to the hospital, tom quickly realizes his life might never be the same again. Life gets worse when an enemy of his crawls into town named Carl fogerty who begins to stalk him and his wife by telling them that he is not tom stall but tom cusack a violent hood who is Ritchie's younger brother and was sent by ritchie to bring his brother back. After the menacing carl forgety is murdered by tom's son and his men are killed by Tom, he realizes the only way this violence is going to stop and to portect his family is to acknowledge his past self and who he really is and to confrotn his older brother Ritchie played with menacing glee by William hurt. The last twenty minutes is a joy watching the two brothers confrt each other in the end. To tell you anything about what happens at the end is for you the viewer to watch and see for yourself. The film end abruptly and is somewhat disappointing sicne it does feel like if there would a sequel in the works. It just ends without any closure. A let down. Other than that and some dull moments through the middle section of the movie, the movie does contain some great work from viggo mortensen who manages a good job as to playing the nice tom stall and then quickly changing into the violence sociopath known as tom cusack, ritchie's younger brother, the films also contains some great suporting perofrmances from maria bello as the wife trying to cope with her husbands mood, stephen mcahattie as the sociopath that tries to hurt the people in the restaurant, the brilliant ed harris as a sociopath that tom almost killed fifteen years earlier and the cause of the Carl losing his eye and now wearing a patch over his right eye, and the wonderful but underused william hurt having so much fun playing Ritchie, the older brother and angry hood who could have been a big time gangster if it werent for his brother who tried to kill Carl years before. The story is good but a little over the top, the performances are quite good and david cronenberg pensuion with good storytelling and for the macabre is put to good use. a decent film with a bad ending which could have been a classic. worth renting
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A Perfect World
PG-13
one of the most powerful films from the 1990's. I never thought kevin costner and clint eastwood could be as good as they were in dances with wolves and unforgiven but here they both proved to be even better together onscreen. the chemistry between actors kevin costner and the young boy is partly why the whole movie works alongside Clint endearing character and a very powerful story line and message about mistakes we make and how we soon we rtegret making them. A must see for anyone who ever wanted to be moved
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Quantum of Solace
by Teresa(Scheduled for Nov. 7 2008 release..directed by Marc Forster) I want to see it...loved Daniel Craig in Casino Royale as the "new" Bond...so here is some promo (by Sexyvixen posted here) for this movie....New Bond Girl Proud of Her 'Little Oddity'
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Full Story: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/gemmaarterton_blog...
Bond girls have long been exceptional women. From Ursula Andress to Halle Berry, they have each embodied the feminine ideal of their particular time. Gemma Arterton, the statuesque stunner who plays Agent Fields in next month's Quantum of Solace, has proven herself to be exceptional not only for her English Rose beauty, but also because she was born with six fingers on each hand.
"It's my little oddity that I'm really proud of," she said to Esquire magazine. "It makes me different." Different indeed. The condition, called Polydactyly, occurs in 1 of every 500 births.
Don't bother looking for additional digits in the film, though. As a child, the surplus digits were "tied," which causes the boneless protrusions to fall off with time. She still bares bumpy scars where her extra appendages once were.
Earlier this year, she revealed that she was also born with a crumpled ear, which was surgically corrected in childhood. "I was born with lots of deformities," the 22-year-old actress told the British press.
Arterton, a graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who was best known for a BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," beat out 1,500 contenders to become the latest Bond girl. She admitted to InStyle magazine that having to kiss Daniel Craig on her first day working on the film had her "giggling left, right, and center and being really immature."
Next up for Arterton is the movie adaptation of the videogame Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, coming the summer of 2010. To see more of the genetically unusual but undeniably extraordinary future star, watch the behind-the-scenes video from "Quantum of Solace" below.November 7 2008 scheduled release...
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