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Monday, March 30, 2015

The (not really) Bad Movies

Just admit it! Of course you have ever watched a movie that quite enjoyable but it turns out the ratings are very low. This time I will discuss the actual film well not really bad. These movies sometimes become our guilty pleasure. Check this out

Carrie
via:wikipedia
What I mean with Carrie is Chloe Grace Moretz’s movie in 2013, which is a remake of an old movie. The film is based from the novel of the same name from Stephen King. The story is about a teenage girl who has the supernatural power. Yeah I know, the story of Carrie's own repeated again and again.
Why do I think this film is not really bad?
1. Chloe is really cute
2. The story of nerd revenge to his friends never gets old
Seriously, Chloe’s acting is very good as nerd who was bullied. Carrie memorable scenes that 'destroy' prom night that done by Chloe is very well. Because it was made in 2013, of course, the film is also added to the effect that even seemingly 'real'. The film also stars a lot of great actors such as Julianne Moore as Carrie’s mother and Ansel Elgort as Tommy, Carrie's date. I think this movie is still worth to get a higher rating.

Three people dressed in Western style. On the left in the background a man dressed in dark colors with a gun held high. In the center a man in a blue shirt with a brown waistcoat, and to his right a blonde woman
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Seth Macfarlane, the mastermind behind the successful R Rated comedy in 2012, TED. He is also the creator of adult cartoon series Family Guy. In 2014, he returned (again) with comedy movie. This time he, himself who acted as the main character. I think this movie is quite funny. For those who familiar with the Mr. Macfarlane’s humor sense, would laugh at this movie. This film has a lot of reference in everyday life and pop culture. The film also starring Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson and cameo from many celebrity.

Before i go to sleep poster.jpg
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This is the Thriller movie that I think is quite underrated. Nicole Kidman + Colin Firth + Mark Strong. What could go wrong? Thriller about short-term memory and ended with a plot-twisted in my opinion pretty exciting. The storyline is short, dense and wordy. The movie based on the novel of the same title.

Incredible Burt Wonderstone
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Okay, maybe this movie doesn’t have a sophisticated magic trick like in Now You See Me, and The Prestige. This genre comedy movie has a very simple story and (maybe) can make us laugh. Steve Carrell, actor who usually in comedy movie, become a magician which his career has ruined. Olivia Wilde is very beautiful and Jim Carrey’s scene in here are not much.

The Proposal
The Proposal.jpg
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Are you kidding me? The movie was one of the best comedy-romance movie. Chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds are very strong. Betty White as an eccentric grandma can make us laugh with her behavior. Seriously, this movie is super funny. The film is not only about love, but also about the family. The film must be in the must-watch-list of each couple.

  
Final Destination
Final Destination movie.jpg
via:wikipedia
The thriller movie has produced many sequels and increasingly gore. What we are discussing is the first Final Destination, the origins of the (lame) Sequel. We can call Final Destination the initiator of the teen thriller. Many unexpected twist and death processes that make us shivered. Admit it, every time you want to shower, cook, or do something, you always do it carefully because you imagine the death like in the Final Destination

Miss Congeniality
via:wikipedia
Again, movie from Sandra Bullock get in this list. Sandra Bullock is very famous for her comedy-romance movie. The movie is about an undercover cop who becomes Miss America contestant. Sandra Bullock successfully becomes the police that boyish, strong and messy to be Miss America contestant who is elegant and smart. Lots of funny scenes occur when Sandra Bullock tried to turn into a feminine and while she searched for criminals who threatened to kill the winner of Miss America. Bonus: Michael Caine becomes very feminine in this movie.

The Uninvited
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Perhaps this is one of Asian movie that remake by Hollywood are still forgiven. The Uninvited is a remake of Korean horror movie, A Tale of Two Sisters. Again, I think this remake is not sucks like other remake movie. We can still feel the creepy atmosphere from this movie. Although there are several different aspects from the original film, the film is still good for a remake.

Walk of Shame
via:wikipedia
This film can be referred as the Hangover 2.0. The story is about where the main character faced many misfortunes after drinking too much. The film is quite fun to watch. Elizabeth Banks can act silly and face a lot of bad luck to him. Many unexpected events and closed with a pretty good ending.

Dream House
Two girls holding hands, their dresses match the wallpaper behind them.
via:wikipedia
Daniel Craig, the James Bond actor, this time acted as a good father figure in the film Dream House. I think it’s a pretty good horror movie. The movie is about something strange in family that terrorized in their homes and in fact what we saw is very different from reality. The film is still depending on plot twist for the anti-climax. I think the twist is too fast. The twist was told in the mid-movie. The film also staring Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts
                                                                                                                   





Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Oscar Winner 2015

via:variety.com

Best Picture
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole, WINNER)
“American Sniper” Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan, Producers
“Boyhood” Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland, Producers
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson, Producers
“The Imitation Game” Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman, Producers
“Selma” Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
“The Theory of Everything” Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten, Producers
“Whiplash” Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster, Producers

Actor
Eddie Redmayne in “The Theory of Everything” (WINNER)
Michael Keaton in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Steve Carell in “Foxcatcher”
Bradley Cooper in “American Sniper”
Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Imitation Game”

Actress
Julianne Moore in “Still Alice” (WINNER)
Marion Cotillard in “Two Days, One Night”
Felicity Jones in “The Theory of Everything”
Rosamund Pike in “Gone Girl”
Reese Witherspoon in “Wild”

Director
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Alejandro G. Iñárritu (WINNER)
“Boyhood” Richard Linklater
“Foxcatcher” Bennett Miller
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Wes Anderson
“The Imitation Game” Morten Tyldum

Supporting Actor
J.K. Simmons in “Whiplash” (WINNER)
Robert Duvall in “The Judge”
Ethan Hawke in “Boyhood”
Edward Norton in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Mark Ruffalo in “Foxcatcher”

Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood” (WINNER)
Laura Dern in “Wild”
Keira Knightley in “The Imitation Game”
Emma Stone in “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Meryl Streep in “Into the Woods”

Adapted Screenplay
“The Imitation Game” Written by Graham Moore (WINNER)

“American Sniper” Written by Jason Hall
“Inherent Vice” Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson
“The Theory of Everything” Screenplay by Anthony McCarten
“Whiplash” Written by Damien Chazelle

Original Screenplay
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo (WINNER)

“Boyhood” Written by Richard Linklater
“Foxcatcher” Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness
“Nightcrawler” Written by Dan Gilroy

Animated Feature
“Big Hero 6” Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli (WINNER)

“The Boxtrolls” Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
“How to Train Your Dragon 2” Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
“Song of the Sea” Tomm Moore and Paul Young
“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Documentary Feature
“CitizenFour” Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky (WINNER)
“Finding Vivian Maier” John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
“Last Days in Vietnam” Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
“The Salt of the Earth” Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and David Rosier
“Virunga” Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

Original Song
“Glory” from “Selma”
Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn (WINNER)

“Everything Is Awesome” from “The Lego Movie”
Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
“Grateful” from “Beyond the Lights”
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from “Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me”
Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
“Lost Stars” from “Begin Again”
Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Foreign Language Film
“Ida” Poland (WINNER)
“Leviathan” Russia
“Tangerines” Estonia
“Timbuktu” Mauritania
“Wild Tales” Argentina

Original Score
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Alexandre Desplat (WINNER)
“The Imitation Game” Alexandre Desplat
“Interstellar” Hans Zimmer
“Mr. Turner” Gary Yershon
“The Theory of Everything” Jóhann Jóhannsson

Film Editing
“Whiplash” Tom Cross (WINNER)

“American Sniper” Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
“Boyhood” Sandra Adair
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Barney Pilling
“The Imitation Game” William Goldenberg

Visual Effects
“Interstellar” Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher (WINNER)
“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
“Guardians of the Galaxy” Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
“X-Men: Days of Future Past” Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

Cinematography
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Emmanuel Lubezki (WINNER)
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Robert Yeoman
“Ida” Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski
“Mr. Turner” Dick Pope
“Unbroken” Roger Deakins

Costume Design
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Milena Canonero (WINNER)
“Inherent Vice” Mark Bridges
“Into the Woods” Colleen Atwood
“Maleficent” Anna B. Sheppard and Jane Clive
“Mr. Turner” Jacqueline Durran

Makeup and Hairstyling
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier (WINNER)
“Foxcatcher” Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
“Guardians of the Galaxy” Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White

Production Design
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock (WINNER)
“The Imitation Game” Production Design: Maria Djurkovic; Set Decoration: Tatiana Macdonald
“Interstellar” Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
“Into the Woods” Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
“Mr. Turner” Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Charlotte Watts

Animated Short Film
“Feast” Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed (WINNER)
“The Bigger Picture” Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
“The Dam Keeper” Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
“Me and My Moulton” Torill Kove
“A Single Life” Joris Oprins

Live Action Short Film
“The Phone Call” Mat Kirkby and James Lucas (WINNER)
“Aya” Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
“Boogaloo and Graham” Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
“Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak)” Hu Wei and Julien Féret
“Parvaneh” Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger

Documentary Short Subject
“Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1” Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry (WINNER)
“Joanna” Aneta Kopacz
“Our Curse” Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej Slesicki
“The Reaper (La Parka)” Gabriel Serra Arguello
“White Earth” J. Christian Jensen

Sound Mixing
“Whiplash” Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley (WINNER)
“American Sniper” John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
“Interstellar” Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
“Unbroken” Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee

Sound Editing
“American Sniper” Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman (WINNER)
“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Martín Hernández and Aaron Glascock
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
“Interstellar” Richard King
“Unbroken” Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

Source : variety.com

Birdman won Best Picture  and it is quite surprising that beat Boyhood shooting process takes 12 years. It proves that a good storyline is still sought after by jury Academy Awards. In addition, the shoot technique of Birdman made the movie became a winner of best Cinematography.

Julianne Moore won as best actress in Still Alice. The actress was very great and beat Rosamund Pike as Amy in Gone Girl. And in my opinion, Rosamund Pike was able to achieve a Best Actress.

Intersellar which became one of the most talked about films in 2014 only able nominated and won for Best Visual Effects. In fact, I think this film is worth at least a nomination as a Best Picture.

Finally Big Hero 6 won best animation and beat How to Train Your Dragon. Big Hero 6 has been lost in the Golden Globe and BAFTA but won the highest award in Movie award event. Unfortunately Lost Star and Everything is awesome didnt’ win best OST.


Hopefully Oscar can be better in the next year.

Friday, February 20, 2015

Reasons Why Taron Egerton is The Right Person for The New Spiderman



via:marvel.com
After watching Kingsman, and fell in love with Eggsy, I just thinked. He is the right person for Spidey.
With all due respect for Andrew Garfield, right now there are many rumors that Andrew is going to be replaced because Spiderman has 'returned' to Marvel. Although the outstanding issues is not necessarily true, there's nothing wrong that we try to predict the candidate  for the new Spiderman?


via: screenrant.com

Currently my choice fell to Taron Egerton. A man at Birth 10 November, 1989 Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, has a height 173 cm. He won the Stephen Sondheim Society's Student Performer of the Year 'in 2011, had a good tenor voice and Specialize
zed in stage combat. 

via:unitedagents.com

In my opinion, Taron can be a Spiderman because he can be a punk like in Kingsman (like Spiderman when he fight with enemy) and his parkour skill is awesome.
Maybe become superhero like Spidey is not a problem for him.
In addition, there are some scenes where he feels insecure and there I think that he is the right figure for Peter Parker. Perhaps too quick to judge him right to be Peter Parker from only one action movie, but hey! It is only my opinion.

Oh y
a, On September 25, he and Tom Hardy will acted together as a gangster in The Legend.

Fun fact: Mark Millar, the writer of The Secret Service comic book supports Taron be Spidey with
tweeted  # taron4spidey. Colin Firth who became acting opposite and mentor for Taron in Kingsman stated that Taron has acted with an incredible skill and Kingsman would be an important first step for him.