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Ghostbusters Directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver and Annnie potts.
With the new game almost here, I thought I would review the original classic Sci-Fi comedy that is Ghostbusters. It follows a group of university professors Dr Peter Venkmen (Bill Murray), Dr Ray Stanz (Dan Aykroyd) and Dr Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) get fired from their University and decide to start up their own business to investigate the paranormal and catch ghosts with thier Secetary Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts). Business is a bit slow until a lady named Dana Barret (Sigourney Weaver) comes in to discuss the strange things that is going on in her kitchen. Peter goes to investigate but finds nothing. Things pick up for the Ghostbusters when they get a call from the Sedgewick Hotel with their proton packs they meet the loveable ghost Slimer and learn why we should never cross the streams. Read the rest of this entry »
Book: Written by Stephen King.
Film: Adapted from book writing creditors Don Carlos Dunaway and Lauren Currier.
Directed by: Lewis Teague
Main characters Cujo ……… The St Bernard. Donna Trenton………Dee Wallace Stone.
Vic Trenton…..Daniel Hugh Kelly. Tad Trenton………Danny Pintauro
Cujo was written first as a novel by Stephen King in 1981 and later released as a film in 1983. It’s all about a great heavy St Bernard dog called Cujo, who chases a rabbit into a bat cave which disturbs them and in the excitement of them flying around and Cujo trying to catch them he gets bitten by a rabid bat. Cujo lives with garage mechanic Joe Cambers at Castle-Rock Maine, a peaceful idyllic area where the Trentons, Donna and Vic have come to live with their young son Tad.
Vic is a high flyer in the city and is away at work a lot. This puts a lot of strain on the marriage and leads Donna to have an affair with the local handy man. One extremely hot scorcher of a day Donna and Tad take the car to the garage for some minor repairs, here also is Cujo who’s about to go berserk.
Book in my opinion better than the film, also not the same ending. Neither for the faint hearted.
After reading or watching! ……….Bet you never look at your dog quite the same again.
From this to this in just one bite.
Fight Club was released in 1999 it is an adaptation of the 1996 book by Chuck Palahniuk. Starring Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden) and Edward Norton as the nameless (narrator).The narrator who cannot match society’s requirements for happiness.He also suffers from insomnia. his doctor refuses to give him sleeping pills and suggests he visit a testicular cancer support group so he can appreciate real suffering. After attending the group he breaks down and is able to sleep! So he starts to fake more illnesses so that he can attend more groups on doing this he meets another impostor, Marla Singer(Helena Boham Cater). He then meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) on a business trip who is a soap salesman and they exchange phone numbers. When the narrator arrives home his flat has been destroyed by an explosion.With this he calls Tyler and they meet up. Tyler agrees to let him stay with him on one condition, that the narrator hits him.The two end up having a fist fight outside the bar which they enjoy. The narrator moves in with Tyler. They then return to the bar and have another fight this is when “fight club” is established. I don’t want to give to much away,but there are a lot of metaphors this is one of Brad Pitt’s
“Fight Club is a metaphor for the need to push through the walls we put around our selves and just go for it, So for the first time we can experience the pain.”
The director intended the bathtub scene to represent a homoerotic moment.To make the audiences uncomfortable and unprepared for the film’s coming events.
The twist at the end of the film left me with a lot of unanswered questions, So a second viewing is definitely recommended .Tyler Durden’s recitation of the rules of fight club is one of the most quoted monologues in film “
“ The first rule of fight club…you do not talk about fight club…The second rule of fight club is…you do not talk about fight club..”
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Hello my name is Maggie, I enjoy a wide selection films especially psychological thrillers such as Jacobs Ladder. I love a film that stays with you hours after you have watched it . I also like a good spy movie full of espionage and suspense such as the fantastic Bourne Ultimatum with the gorgeous Matt Damon.I think a film should be like a good book that you don’t want to put down, That keeps you guessing till the end.
My name’s Jamie and I’ll be reviewing films on this blog. I mainly like comedies, science fiction, action and gangster movies. Some of my favourite films are Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrells, The Star Wars series(episode 3 is my favourite but they’re all good), Reservoir Dogs and Friday.
Basically I enjoy supernatural and comedy, do not like war films unless their futuristic, all films that leave a cliffhanger. One of my favourite old comedies are the Norman Wisdom films, a modern one is Men in Black. The most fav supernatural films are ones usually directed and written by Stephen King.
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Now, I like cartoons, I like Kung-fu movies, I quite like Jack Black as an actor, you’d think then that I would probably love this effort from Mark Osborne and Jack Stevenson, but … I don’t. For some reason I just couldn’t get into it. Sure thing, the animation’s pretty, it has an A-List cast, Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman no less, but I personally thought there was just nothing too great about the movie as a whole. Read the rest of this entry »
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This film stars Hayden Christiansen as the main jumper (teleporter) David Rice.
Fellow jumper Griffin, played by Jamie Bell of (Billy Elliot) fame
Rachael Bilson as Millie (Davids girlfriend). Dianne Lane and Michael Rooker as David,s parents Mary and William.
Samuel L Jackson, As NSA agent (National Security) Roland Cox
300(Film)300 is an adaptation of a Frank Miller novel (who also wrote Sin City), it is a fictional retelling of the semi-historical version of the Battle of Thermopylae.
I never thought that I would enjoy such a violent film but what a surprise! The film was shot mostly in blue screen, which I find totally amazing! All the sky, mountains, mythical creatures were all added by computer after the actors had acted out their part in the studio. Fantastic colours, realistic mythical creatures and gory fight scenes, make it look like the imagery of the original graphical novel. Read the rest of this entry »
