Back to the Future

Back to the Future adalah film komedi petualangan fiksi ilmiah Amerika Serikat yang pertama dalam waralaba Back to the Future, dirilis pada tahun 1985. Film ini disutradarai oleh Robert Zemeckis, dan pemeran utamanya adalah Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, dan Crispin Glover.

Tanggal rilisnya pada 3 Juli 1985. Film ini menceritakan kisah Marty McFly, seorang remaja yang sengaja dikirim kembali dalam waktu dari tahun 1985 ke 1955. Dia bertemu orang tua masa depannya di sekolah tinggi dan sengaja menarik minat romantis ibu masa depannya. Marty harus memperbaiki kerusakan sejarah dengan menyebabkan orang tuanya untuk jatuh cinta, dan dengan bantuan ilmuwan Doktor Emmett "Doc" Brown, dia harus menemukan cara untuk kembali ke tahun 1985.



Seventeen-year-old Marty McFly lives with his bleak, unambitious family in Hill Valley, California. His father, George McFly, is bullied by his supervisor, Biff Tannen, while his unhappy mother, Lorraine Baines McFly, is an alcoholic. Marty's underachieving older siblings, Dave and Linda, also live in the household. When Marty and his band audition to perform at the high school dance, they are rejected. Despite this setback, Marty's girlfriend, Jennifer, encourages him to pursue the dream of being a rock musician. At dinner that night, Lorraine recounts how she and George first fell in love when her father hit George with his car.


The house used as the McFly residence in the Back to the Future trilogy
Marty meets his friend, scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, late at night in the parking lot of a deserted shopping mall where Doc reveals a time machine made from a modified 1981 DeLorean DMC-12; the vehicle's time displacement is powered by plutonium, which supplies the 1.21 gigawatts of power to a device he calls the "flux capacitor." Doc explains that the car travels to a programmed date upon reaching 88 miles per hour, using the date November 5, 1955, as an example destination. Before Doc can make his first trip, the Libyan terrorists from whom he stole the plutonium shoot him. Marty attempts to escape in the DeLorean and inadvertently activates the time machine. He is transported back to November 5, 1955, and finds himself without the plutonium needed for the return trip.

While exploring the 1955 version of Hill Valley, Marty meets his teenaged father, who is being bullied by Biff. As George is about to be hit by Lorraine's father's car, Marty pushes him out of the way and is knocked out by the impact. Consequently, a teenaged Lorraine becomes infatuated with Marty instead of George. Marty is disturbed by her flirtations and leaves to find the younger Doc of 1955. Marty convinces Doc that he is from the future, and asks for help returning to 1985. Doc explains that the only available power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of energy is a bolt of lightning. Discovering the "Save the Clock Tower" flyer that Marty received in 1985, indicating that lightning will strike the courthouse clock tower the following Saturday at 10:04 pm, Doc makes plans to harness the lightning strike to power the DeLorean's flux capacitor. When they observe a fading photograph of Marty with his siblings, they realize Marty has prevented his parents from meeting, jeopardizing his family's existence.

Marty attempts to set George up with Lorraine. To make his parents fall in love, Marty plans to have George "rescue" Lorraine from Marty's inappropriate advances on the night of the school dance. A drunk Biff unexpectedly shows up, pulls Marty from the car, and attempts to force himself on Lorraine. George arrives to rescue her from Marty, but instead finds Biff, who humiliates George and pushes Lorraine to the ground. Standing up to him for the first time, George knocks Biff out. A smitten Lorraine follows George to the dance floor, where they kiss for the first time, ensuring Marty's existence.

Marty arrives at the clock tower where Doc is making final preparations for the lightning strike, and tries to warn Doc of his impending 1985 murder in a letter, but Doc tears it up, fearing it will lead to altering the future. A falling tree branch disconnects Doc's wiring setup, but Doc repairs the connections in time to send Marty and the DeLorean back to 1985. Although Marty arrives too late to prevent him from being shot, Doc is still alive and admits to reading the letter anyway and wearing a bulletproof vest.

Doc drops Marty off at home and uses the time machine to travel 30 years into the future. Marty awakens the next morning to find his family changed; Lorraine is happy and physically fit, a self-confident George is a successful science fiction author, Dave is an office employee, and Linda no longer has trouble finding boyfriends. George and Lorraine now have a closer relationship than ever, while Biff has become an auto detailer/washer who is on good terms with the McFly family. As Marty reunites with Jennifer, Doc arrives, insisting they accompany him to the future to sort out a problem with their future children. Marty and Jennifer enter the upgraded DeLorean, now a hovercar powered by nuclear fusion, and Doc flies the time machine into the future.

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Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part II adalah film kedua dalam trilogi Back to the Future. Film ini disutradarai oleh Robert Zemeckis, dan ditulis oleh Zemeckis dan Bob Gale.

Pemain:
Michael J. Fox sebagai Marty McFly Sr., Marty McFly Jr. dan Marlene McFly
Christopher Lloyd sebagai Dr. Emmett L. Brown (aka Doc Brown)
Lea Thompson sebagai Lorraine Baines (McFly/Tannen)
Thomas F. Wilson sebagai Biff Tannen dan Griff Tannen
Elisabeth Shue sebagai Jennifer Parker (McFly)
James Tolkan sebagai Mr. Strickland
Jeffrey Weissman dan Crispin Glover (BTTF1 footage) sebagai George McFly
Billy Zane sebagai Match
Casey Siemaszko sebagai 3-D
J.J. Cohen sebagai Skinhead

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Superman Returns

Superman ( Brandon Routh ) telah hilang selama lima tahun, sejak bepergian ke lokasi di mana para astronom percaya bahwa mereka telah menemukan sisa-sisa Krypton . Selama ketidakhadirannya, Superman nemesis Lex Luthor ( Kevin Spacey ) dibebaskan dari penjara (karena kegagalan Superman untuk muncul di pengadilan Lex) dan menikah dengan seorang janda kaya ( Noel Neill ) untuk mendapatkan hartanya setelah kematiannya. Superman, setelah gagal dalam usahanya untuk menemukan Kryptonians hidup, kembali ke Bumi dan, sebagai Clark Kent, melanjutkan pekerjaannya di Daily Planet di Metropolis .

Dia kemudian belajar bahwa Lois Lane ( Kate Bosworth ) telah memenangkan Hadiah Pulitzer untuk artikelnya "Kenapa Dunia Tidak Perlu Superman." Sementara itu, Lex perjalanan ke Fortress of Solitude dan mencuri kristal Krypton, digunakan untuk percobaan yang menyebabkan pemadaman listrik massal di Pantai Timur. Daya yang hilang mengganggu dengan uji terbang dari pesawat ulang-alik yang akan diluncurkan ke angkasa dari piggy-back yang terpasang pada pesawat, yang ditempati oleh Lois Lane, yang meliput berita. Clark terbang ke tindakan sebagai Superman dan berhenti pesawat dari menabrak ke sebuah stadion bisbol.

Para bergembira dunia pada kembalinya Superman, tapi ia mengalami kesulitan mengatasi Lois 'tunangan, Richard White ( James Marsden ), keponakan dari Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White ( Frank Langella ), dan 5-tahun anaknya, Jason ( Tristan Danau Leabu ). Dengan Superman terganggu oleh kendaraan out-of-control (pengalihan melibatkan Lex mitra-in-kejahatan, Kitty Kowalski ( Parker Posey ), Lex mencuri Kryptonite dari Museum Metropolis of Natural History. Perry kemudian memberikan Lois untuk mewawancarai Superman sementara Clark menyelidiki pemadaman. Lois dan Jason tidak sengaja yacht papan Lex dan ditangkap setelah Lois memutuskan untuk menyelidiki cerita pemadaman, yang ia menghubungkan bereksperimen Luthor Ia mengungkapkan kepada mereka rencananya terbaru untuk menyerobot tanah dan kekuasaan..

Dengan menggabungkan salah satu kristal Krypton dicuri dengan Kryptonite, Luthor bisa tumbuh suatu daratan benua baru di Utara Samudera Atlantik, yang akan menyebabkan permukaan air laut naik secara drastis, membunuh miliaran orang dan affording dia kontrol penuh dari tanah hanya tersedia bagi para korban.

Noticing Jason mengalami reaksi sedikit untuk Kryptonite, Lex bertanya siapa ayah Jason benar-benar, Lois menegaskan bahwa ayah adalah Richard. Kristal mulai membuat daratan baru Lex, sementara Lois mencoba untuk melarikan diri tetapi diserang oleh antek a. Jason melempar piano di antek, membunuh dia dan membuktikan bahwa dia sebenarnya anak Superman.

Sementara itu, Superman berupaya untuk meminimalkan kerusakan di Metropolis disebabkan oleh pertumbuhan daratan baru 'ketika Richard tiba di pesawat laut untuk menyelamatkan Lois dan Jason dari yacht tenggelam. Superman segera tiba untuk membantu dan kemudian terbang untuk menemukan Lex.
Lex Meeting, Superman menemukan daratan diisi dengan Kryptonite, yang melemahkan dia untuk titik bahwa Lex dan kaki tangannya mampu mengalahkan dia.

Superman ditusuk oleh Lex dengan pecahan dari Kryptonite dan jatuh ke laut. Lois membuat Richard kembali untuk menyelamatkan Superman, dimana ia menghapus Kryptonite dari punggungnya. Superman, setelah mendapatkan kembali kekuatannya dari matahari, mengangkat daratan setelah menempatkan lapisan bumi antara dia dan Kryptonite tersebut. Lex dan melarikan diri Kitty di helikopter mereka, Kitty, tidak mau membiarkan miliaran orang mati, melemparkan menjauh kristal yang Lex mencuri dari Fortress of Solitude. Dia dan Luthor terdampar di pulau terpencil kecil ketika helikopter mereka kehabisan bahan bakar.

Superman mendorong daratan ke ruang angkasa dengan kristal terjebak di daratan, namun dilemahkan oleh Kryptonite dan crash kembali ke bumi. Dokter menghapus Kryptonite lebih dari luka Superman, tapi setelah dihapus mereka tidak dapat menembus kulit dengan alat bedah mereka. Sementara Superman tetap dalam keadaan koma, Lois dan Jason mengunjunginya di rumah sakit mana Lois membisikkan sesuatu ke telinga Superman dan kemudian menciumnya.

Superman kemudian terbangun dan terbang untuk mengunjungi Jason, membaca ayahnya Jor-El ini ( Marlon Brando ) pidato terakhir untuk Jason saat ia tidur. Lois mulai menulis artikel lain, berjudul "Mengapa Dunia Kebutuhan Superman". Superman meyakinkan dirinya bahwa ia sekarang kembali untuk tinggal, dan terbang ke orbit rendah, di mana dia menatap ke bawah pada dunia.

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Bad Boys II

Eight years after the events of the first film, Miami Police Department (MPD) detectives Marcus Barnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) are investigating the flow of highly-potent ecstasy into the city. Their surveillance of boats coming in from Cuba leads them to a Ku Klux Klan meeting and drug drop in a swamp docks outside Miami.

The subsequent raid on the Klan members proves to be a disaster; malfunctioning radios delay back-up, causing a firefight where Mike accidentally shoots Marcus in the buttocks, while the Klan members are revealed to be mere small-time buyers and not the distributors of the ecstasy. The incident leaves Marcus to further question if he still wants to partner with Mike, while Mike fears that Marcus may discover his new relationship with Marcus' sister, Syd (Gabrielle Union).

Unbeknownst to Mike and Marcus, Syd is an undercover operative with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), as a money laundering agent for Russian gangsters; the Russian gangsters are in fact the distributors of the ecstasy on behalf of neurotic Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia (Jordi Mollà). During her first assignment in Miami, a violent Haitian gang attempts to hijack the money transport between the Russians and Tapia, putting Syd in danger.

Mike and Marcus inadvertently stumble into the action, and an intense firefight and car chase ensues between the gang members and the MPD/DEA, devastating the local area and enraging Police Captain Conrad Howard (Joe Pantoliano). Marcus and Mike learn of Syd's actual work, which makes Marcus unhappy, while Capt. Howard demands they find the supplier of ecstasy.

Marcus and Mike go to confront the Haitian gang leader, which results in a firefight and the leader revealing that his information about the transport came from his friend's camcorder. After viewing the footage, Marcus and Mike find out that a local business, the Spanish Palms Mortuary, is possibly being used as a front by Tapia. Disguised as pest terminators, the detectives penetrate Tapia's mansion and discover that Tapia has eliminated his Russian distributors and begun to woo their former associate Syd, who is still undercover with the DEA and has refocused the investigation towards Tapia. The detectives also recover evidence linking Tapia to one of the boats involved in the Klan raid in the swamps.

After pressuring one of the arrested Klansman into making Tapia's boat, the detectives find themselves involved in another firefight, this time while pursuing a morgue van from the docks carrying emptied cadavers. Mike and Marcus decide to infiltrate Tapia's mortuary, where they learn that the drug lord is using dead bodies to smuggle his drugs and money.

The mission is nearly sabotaged when the pair are almost discovered, resulting in Marcus accidentally ingesting some of the ecstasy and Mike ordering the disguised officers outside the building to crash an ambulance into it, creating an diversion. After Mike and an intoxicated Marcus obtain a search warrant from Capt. Howard, the mortuary and Tapia's mansion are raided, with the drugs and money being intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard. However, the mansion raid is botched when a vengeful Russian gangster, Alexei (Peter Stormare), violently storms the mansion on his own.

Alexei is killed by the police, while Syd is discovered by Tapia and is kidnapped by him, leaving with her to Cuba. With Syd held prisoner in Tapia's compound and guarded by the Cuban military, the drug lord demands the return of his money in two days in exchange for Syd's life.
Mike and Marcus, along with their voluntary SWAT team and Syd's DEA co-workers, prepare a military assault to rescue Syd from Tapia's fortress.

During the battle, Mike and Marcus extract Syd and escape, pursued by the infuriated Tapia. After a lengthy pursuit, they end up in a minefield just outside U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, where Tapia holds Mike at gunpoint. Marcus rescues Mike with a skillful headshot to Tapia's skull in the middle of the minefield with his last bullet; in a nod to the previous film, Mike exclaims "Now that's how you supposed to shoot! From now on, that's how you shoot!".
Later, at the Burnett house, Mike has bought Marcus a new pool (replacing a previous pool that had been destroyed in a prior gag), and Marcus finally makes peace with Mike dating Syd and no longer doubts their partnership. Despite the sentiment, Mike's new pool breaks, washing the two into a river, as they sing the "Bad Boys" theme song.

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Bad Boys

Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) are best friends and detectives in the narcotics division of the Miami-Dade Police Department. One night, $100 million of seized heroin is stolen from a secure police vault. This is a major blow to Burnett and Lowrey, because it was the biggest drug bust of their careers. Internal Affairs thinks that it was an inside job and warns Miami PD that if they do not recover the drugs in five days, the narcotics division will be shut down.

Lowrey asks one of his informants and ex-girlfriend Maxine "Max" Logan to look for people, who are newly rich and therefore suspects. She gets herself and her best friend Julie Mott (Téa Leoni) hired as escorts by Eddie Domínguez, a former cop and part of the coup. His boss, French drug kingpin Fouchet (Tchéky Karyo), does not want the coup to be endangered by outsiders and therefore shoots Max and Dominguez. After witnessing the murder, Julie manages to escape over the roof.

Although she has not met Mike, because of Max's relationship with him Julie will only trust and deal with Lowrey. However, he is away when she contacts the police about the murders, threatening to run if she does not speak to Mike. Captain Conrad Howard (Joe Pantoliano) forces Burnett to impersonate Lowrey to get Julie to cooperate. In order to continue the deception, Burnett and Lowrey switch lives. Burnett tells his family he is going to Cleveland for a case, leaving Mike to stay with them.

Burnett then moves into Lowrey's apartment with Julie and her dogs. In Julie's presence, Burnett poses as Lowrey while Mike poses as Burnett.
The investigation proceeds with Lowrey and Burnett calling in on their old informants, including Jojo (Michael Imperioli), a former chemist and drug convict. Later, Julie identifies one of Max's killers, while looking through mug shots.

The two cops then head off to Club Hell, one of his known hangouts. Unbeknownst to them, Julie has followed, eager to dish out revenge on Max's killers. Though the criminals spot them first, after a brief fight and car chase, all three manage to escape. The incident is caught on camera by a news helicopter. The subsequent report is later seen by Burnett's family.

At Club Hell they discovered barrels of Ether, which is used to refine heroin, so Lowrey and Burnett decide to visit Jojo again. After an aggressive and convincing good cop-bad cop act from Lowrey and Burnett, Jojo tells them the location of the chemist who is cutting the stolen drugs. After staking out his house, they follow him to where Fouchet is hiding the drugs.

They return to Mike's apartment with Julie, where they are confronted by Marcus' wife who blows their cover, causing Julie to try to run. Fouchet and his gang arrive at Lowrey's apartment and kidnap Julie. Because of this, Internal Affairs reassigns all members of the narcotics division, effectively shutting them down, but Captain Howard delays the order to give Lowrey and Burnett a chance to get Julie and the drugs back.

Burnett, Lowrey and two other members of the Miami P.D. organize a plan to stop the criminals from killing Julie and selling the drugs. A final shoot-out erupts between the group of cops and the drug dealers at an air field. Burnett is shot in the leg after saving Julie from Fouchet. Fouchet also shoots Lowrey while escaping the building, which is now on fire, but he is rescued by Burnett and Julie who left to get Lowrey's car.

The cops and Julie chase Fouchet's Shelby Cobra AC 427 in Mike's Porsche 911 Turbo. Burnett bumps Fouchet into a concrete barrier but he manages to escape the wreckage. Attempting to run, Fouchet is shot in the leg by Lowrey. Fouchet, knowing he is beaten, tries to goad Lowrey into killing him, which he almost does as revenge for Max's murder, until Burnett prevents it.
While on the ground Fouchet then pulls out a concealed weapon and aims at Burnett, but seeing the reflection on his partner's forehead, Lowrey spins and shoots Fouchet numerous times, killing him.
Later, after Marcus and Mike profess their mutual platonic love for one another and their relief in surviving the gun fight, Marcus handcuffs Julie and Mike's hands together and hobbles away hoping for some much needed "quality time" with his wife.

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GI JOE: RETALIATION

The G.I. Joes are framed for stealing nuclear warheads from Pakistan by Zartan (Arnold Vosloo) who is impersonating the President of the United States (Jonathan Pryce). The entire team is eliminated in a military strike with Duke (Channing Tatum) as one of the casualties. Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson), Flint (D.J. Cotrona) and Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki) are the only survivors.

Meanwhile, Storm Shadow (Byung-hun Lee) and ex-Joe Firefly (Ray Stevenson) rescue Cobra Commander (Luke Bracey) from a penitentiary in Germany. Storm Shadow is injured during the escape and retreats to a temple in the Himalayas to recover. Upon learning that he is alive, the Blind Master (RZA), leader of the Arashikage Clan, sends Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and his apprentice Jinx (Elodie Yung), Storm Shadow's cousin, to capture Storm Shadow so he can answer for the murder of his uncle, the Hard Master.

Roadblock, Flint, and Lady Jaye return to the United States where they set up a base of operations in a rundown gym. After Zartan announces that Cobra will replace the Joes as America's main protective unit, Lady Jaye deduces that someone is impersonating the President, and Roadblock leads them to General Joseph Colton (Bruce Willis) who provides them with weapons and helps them infiltrate a fundraising event that the President will be attending, where Lady Jaye steals a sample of his DNA and confirms that he is Zartan. They escape after a brief confrontation with Firefly and Zandar (Matt Gerald), the head of the Presidential Detail and a member of Cobra.

Snake Eyes and Jinx locate and capture Storm Shadow after a battle with ninjas and take him back to Japan where Storm Shadow reveals that Zartan murdered the Hard Master and he joined Cobra to avenge his uncle, embittered that the clan didn't believe in his innocence. Storm Shadow then accompanies Snake Eyes and Jinx as they join the Joes' efforts to stop Cobra.

Zartan invites the world leaders to a summit, where he blackmails them into disabling their nuclear arsenals, and reveals that he has created Project Zeus: Seven orbital kinetic bombardment weapons of mass destruction at his command. He destroys central London to prove his superiority and threatens to destroy other capitals if the countries don't submit to Cobra. However, Storm Shadow betrays Cobra Commander and kills Zartan, revealing Cobra's deception to the world leaders. While Snake Eyes, Jinx, and Flint fight Cobra's soldiers, Cobra Commander activates the remaining six weapons and instructs Firefly to protect the launch device. Firefly is killed in combat with Roadblock, who deactivates and destroys the orbital weapons. Meanwhile, Colton, and Lady Jaye rescue the President.

Cobra Commander escapes during the battle and Storm Shadow disappears after avenging his uncle. The President initiates a global massive manhunt on Cobra Commander, who is now considered to be a terrorist, and reinstates the Joes with Roadblock leading Flint, Lady Jaye, Snake Eyes, and Jinx, and recruiting more soldiers to join them. Roadblock swears to avenge Duke by capturing Cobra Commander.

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Back to the Future Part III

Back to the Future Part III is a 1990 American science fiction comedy Western film. It is the third and final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and starred Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, and Lea Thompson.

 The film takes place immediately after the events of Back to the Future Part II. While stranded in 1955, Marty McFly discovers that his friend Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown was killed by Biff Tannen's great-grandfather Buford. Marty decides to travel to 1885 to rescue Doc and return to his own timeline.

Filming took place in both California and Arizona, and the film was released in the United States on May 25, 1990. The film was a commercial success and achieved $244.53 million at the international box office, making it 1990's sixth highest grossing film. Critics also gave Part III better reviews than Part II, which had been met with mixed reviews.


On November 12, 1955, Marty McFly discovers that his friend Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown has become trapped in the year 1885. Marty, with Doc's 1955 self, uses the information in Doc’s 1885 letter to locate and repair the DeLorean. While retrieving the car, Marty spots a tombstone with Doc's name, dated six days after the letter. Learning that Doc was killed by Biff Tannen's great-grandfather, Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, Marty decides to go back to 1885 to save Doc.

Marty arrives on September 2, 1885, in the middle of a United States Cavalry pursuit of Indians. While evading the pursuit, the DeLorean's fuel line is torn, forcing Marty to hide the car in a cave and walk to Hill Valley. Marty meets his Irish-born great-great-grandparents, Seamus and Maggie McFly, and also runs afoul of Buford and his gang. Buford tries to hang Marty, but Doc saves him. Doc agrees to leave 1885, but with the DeLorean out of gasoline and no more available, there is no way to accelerate the car to 88 miles per hour.

After some experimentation, Doc devises a scheme to use a locomotive to push the DeLorean up to speed. As Doc and Marty explore the rail spur they intend to use, they spot an out-of-control horse-drawn wagon. Doc saves the passenger, Clara Clayton, and the two fall in love. Buford tries killing Doc at a town festival, but Marty intervenes. Buford then goads Marty into a showdown in two days' time. Consulting the photograph of Doc's tombstone, Marty and Doc note that Doc's name has disappeared, but the date on the tombstone remains unchanged. Doc warns Marty that he, not Doc, might be killed by Buford.

The night before their departure, Marty and Doc place the DeLorean onto the rail spur. At Clara's house, Doc tells Clara he is from the future, but Clara believes it is an excuse to end their relationship. Doc returns to the town saloon to get drunk, but Marty rides to the saloon and convinces Doc to leave with him. However, Doc drinks a single shot of whiskey and (due to extreme alcohol intolerance) passes out instantly.

Buford arrives early and calls out Marty, but Marty has finally realized his reputation is unimportant and refuses to fight. Doc revives after drinking the bartender's special "Wake-Up Juice" and tries fleeing with Marty, but Buford's gang captures Doc, forcing Marty to duel. Marty uses a firebox door from a stove as a bullet-proof vest. During the fistfight that follows, Buford destroys the tombstone, is knocked unconscious and arrested for an earlier robbery. Marty and Doc depart to "borrow" the locomotive.

Clara is leaving on the train when she overhears a salesman discussing a man he met in the saloon, despondent about his lost love. Realizing the man is Doc, Clara triggers the emergency brake and runs back to town. She discovers Doc's model of the time machine and rides after him. Doc and Marty, having "borrowed" the train at gunpoint, begin pushing the DeLorean along the spur line, attempting to get it up to 88 miles per hour.

Clara boards the locomotive while Doc is climbing towards the DeLorean. Doc encourages Clara to join him, intending to bring her to 1985. As she climbs to Doc, Clara falls and is left hanging by her dress. Marty passes the hoverboard to Doc, who saves Clara. They coast away from the train as the DeLorean disappears through time, while the locomotive roars over the edge of the incomplete bridge.


Marty arrives on October 27, 1985. He escapes the powerless DeLorean before it is hit by a freight train and destroyed. Marty discovers that everything has returned to the improved timeline. Marty finds Jennifer sleeping on her front porch. Later, he uses the lessons he learned in 1885 to avoid being goaded into a street race with Needles, avoiding a potential automobile accident. Jennifer opens the fax message she kept from 2015 and finds that the message regarding Marty being fired has been erased.


Marty takes Jennifer to the time machine wreckage. As they survey the remains, a locomotive equipped with a flux capacitor appears, manned by Doc, Clara, and their two children. Doc gives Marty a photo of the two of them by the clockworks at the 1885 festival. Jennifer inquires about the fax, and Doc tells them it means that the future has not been written yet. After the Browns bid farewell to their friends, Doc’s train converts into an aerial craft and roars off into an unknown time.

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2

Bella awakens from her transformation from human to vampire, not only keenly aware of her new abilities, but also of changes within the coven as Jacob has imprinted on her child, Renesmee. It also appears that Bella's father, Charlie, has been attempting to contact the Cullens for updates on Bella's illness. They intend to tell him she didn't survive, which requires that they move out of Forks, Washington to protect their identities. Jacob, desperate not to lose Renesmee, tells Charlie that his daughter is in fact alive and well, and explains that Bella has had to change in order to survive. He morphs into a wolf, revealing his tribe's shape-shifting power, but does not tell Charlie about vampires, stating that Bella just had to change into something "other".

Several months pass uneventfully, with Carlisle monitoring Renesmee's rapid growth with Bella, Edward, Jacob and the rest of the Cullen family worrying what will become of her with such a rapid growth rate. On an outing in the woods, a bitter Irina sees Renesmee from a distance, and believes her to be an immortal child. Immortal children were those who were frozen in childhood, and because they could not be trained nor restrained, they destroyed entire villages. They were eventually executed, as were the parents who created them, and the creation of such children outlawed. Irina goes to the Volturi to report what she has seen to them.

Alice sees the Volturi and Irina coming to kill the Cullens, and leaves with Jasper the next day, instructing the others to gather as many witnesses as they can that can testify that Renesmee is not an immortal. They must gather the witnesses before the snow covers the ground, because that is when the Volturi will come. The Cullens begin to summon witnesses, such as the Denali family. One of the Denali, Eleazar, later encounters that Bella has a special ability: a powerful mental shield, which she can extend to protect others from mental attacks like those from Jane and Alec, with practice.

As some of their potential witnesses are attacked and prevented from supporting the Cullens, Carlisle and Edward realize they may have to fight the Volturi, despite their desire to avoid this. Some witnesses hesitate, but ultimately agree to stand with them in battle.

The Volturi arrive, led by Aro, who is eager to obtain the gifted members of the Cullen coven as part of his guard. Aro is allowed to touch Renesmee, and is convinced that she is not an immortal child. Irina is brought forth and she takes full responsibility of her mistake, leading to her immediate death. Her sisters are tempted into picking a fight, but are restrained.

Although the blunder has been settled, Aro still insists that Renesmee may pose a risk in the future. Alice and Jasper appear to attest to the existence of other children like Renesmee, and Alice shows Aro a vision of the future. In the vision, Aro refuses to change his decision and a battle ensues, during which both sides undergo heavy casualties, with most of the Volturi dying.

The identifiable major characters who die in the vision are (for the Cullens) Carlisle, Jasper, Seth, Leah and (for the Volturi) Aro, Jane, Alec, Caius, Marcus, Demetri and Felix. After the vision ends, Alice reveals to Aro that the vision will come to pass if Aro maintains his pursuit of Renesmee. Two more witnesses then arrive: a fully grown vampire-human hybrid and his aunt who have been living peacefully and undetected for 150 years, proving Renesmee is not a threat. (In a change from the novel, his three hybrid half-sisters and the gender differences in vampiric qualities of hybrids are not mentioned) For the sake of self-preservation, Aro orders his guards to retreat but not without giving one final glance to Alice and Bella.

Back at the Cullen home, Alice glimpses into the future, seeing Edward and Bella together with Jacob and a fully matured Renesmee. Edward reads Alice's mind and feels happy that Renesmee has Jacob to protect her. Alone in the meadow, Bella finally allows Edward a peek into her thoughts. As the two share a kiss, their story closes as a book revealing the final line, "And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever."

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The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man merupakan sebuah film Amerika Serikat yang dirilis pada tahun 2012, Film yang disutradarai oleh Marc Webb ini pemainnya antara lain oleh Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, dan masih banyak lagi. Tanggal rilisnya pada 13 Juni 2012.

Pemain:
Andrew Garfield sebagai Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Emma Stone sebagai Gwen Stacy
Rhys Ifans sebagai Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard
Denis Leary sebagai Kapten George Stacy
Martin Sheen sebagai Ben Parker
Sally Field sebagai May Parker
Irrfan Khan sebagai Dr. Rajit Ratha
Chris Zylka sebagai Flash Thompson

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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate adalah pada 2011 wuxia film yang disutradarai oleh Tsui Hark dan dibintangi Jet Li , Zhou Xun , Chen Kun , Li Yuchun , Kwai Lun-mei , Louis Fan dan Mavis Fan . Film ini merupakan remake dari Dragon Gate Inn (1966) dan New Dragon Gate Inn (1992). Produksi dimulai pada tanggal 10 Oktober 2010 dan difilmkan di 3-D .  Film diputar di luar kompetisi pada Festival Film Internasional ke-62 di Berlin pada Februari 2012.  Film ini menerima tujuh nominasi di tahun 2012 Asian Film Awards , termasuk Best Picture dan Best Director.


Para kasim Kaisar 'telah mendapatkan kekuasaan dan pengaruh, Biro Timur dan Barat Biro mata-mata dan polisi bangsa. Mereka mengunjungi galangan kapal, tetapi hanya sebagai pelindung untuk mengeksekusi orang-orang yang akan mencoba dan melaporkan pengambilan mereka suap kepada Kaisar.

Wandering pahlawan Zhou Huai'an perkelahian pemimpin Biro Timur, mengalahkan dia dan meletakkan kepalanya di kotak dan menggantung sebagai peringatan bagi pejabat yang korup lainnya.
Selir Kaisar meminta Kepala Biro Barat mengapa mereka membuang-buang waktu pada perebutan kekuasaan ketika ia hanya peduli bagi mereka untuk mencegah Kaisar membuat siapa pun kecuali hamil. Tiga pelacur telah dilaksanakan, keempat sedang diburu.

Pejabat menghentikan pengoperasian dan sekitar untuk mengeksekusi seorang wanita tetapi campur tangan pahlawan bertopeng. Zhou mengamati dari dekat dan pahlawan bertopeng juga mengaku Zhou. Penipu membantu pelacur melarikan diri ke Dragons Gate, Zhou dan para pengikutnya memutuskan untuk melawan Biro Barat membantu menunda mereka dan bantuan dalam melarikan diri.

Badai pasir mengancam Gerbang Naga, dan sebagian besar wisatawan mengungsi ke stasiun kurir lebih terlindung, tetapi beberapa bandit dan tentara bayaran dan pejabat berburu pelacur hilang tetap. Kelompok penyamun berencana untuk menemukan harta karun yang tersembunyi oleh badai pasir.


Cast:

Jet Li sebagai Zhou Huai'an
Zhou Xun sebagai Ling Yanqiu
Chen Kun sebagai Yu Huatian dan Angin Bilah
Li Yuchun sebagai Gu Shaotang
Kwai Lun-mei sebagai Zhang Xiao Wen / Tribal putri
Louis Fan sebagai Ma Jinliang
Mavis Fan sebagai Su Huirong
Wu Di
Zhuang Guoqi
Li Yuan sebagai Kuo Zheng
Gordon Liu sebagai Wan Yulou
Zhang Xinyu sebagai Royal Consort Wan

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The Forbidden Kingdom

The Forbidden Kingdom merupakan sebuah film Amerika Serikat yang dirilis pada tahun 2008. Film yang disutradarai oleh Rob Minkoff ini pemainnya antara lain ialah Michael Angarano, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Liu Yifei, Collin Chou, dan Li Bingbing. Tanggal rilisnya pada 17 April 2008.

Pemain

Aktor	Sebagai
Jackie Chan	Hop, the thrift store owner/Lu Yan, the Drunken Immortal
Jet Li	biksu pendiam/Sun Wukong, raja kera
Collin Chou	Panglima giok
Michael Angarano	Jason Tripitikas, the Traveler
Liu Yi Fei	Golden Sparrow, the Orphaned Warrior
Li Bingbing	Ni-Chang, the White-Haired Assassin

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The Expendables 2

The Expendables 2 adalah 2012 Amerika ensemble film action yang disutradarai oleh Simon Barat , ditulis oleh Richard wenk dan Sylvester Stallone dan berdasarkan cerita oleh Ken Kaufman, David Agosto dan wenk. Brian Tyler kembali mencetak film. Ini adalah sekuel film action 2.010 The Expendables , dan bintang Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham , Jet Li , Dolph Lundgren , Chuck Norris , Terry Crews , Randy Couture , Liam Hemsworth , Jean-Claude Van Damme , Bruce Willis dan Arnold Schwarzenegger . Cerita berikut kelompok tentara bayaran yang dikenal sebagai "Expendables" saat mereka melakukan misi yang tampaknya sederhana yang berkembang menjadi sebuah pencarian untuk membalas dendam terhadap saingannya Jean Vilain tentara bayaran, yang membunuh salah satu dari mereka sendiri dan mengancam dunia dengan senjata mematikan.

Kepala Sekolah fotografi berlangsung selama 14 minggu (dimulai pada bulan September 2011) pada anggaran $ 100 juta. Film lokasi termasuk Bulgaria , Hong Kong dan New Orleans . Kontroversi muncul atas kematian disengaja kerusakan stuntman dan lingkungan disebabkan selama syuting di Bulgaria.
Film ini dirilis di Eropa pada tanggal 16 Agustus 2012 dan di Amerika Utara pada hari berikutnya. The Expendables 2 kotor lebih dari $ 312.000.000 di seluruh dunia, dengan sukses besar di luar Amerika Utara. Kritikus umumnya dianggap film perbaikan atas pendahulunya (mengutip peningkatan penggunaan humor dan adegan aksi), tapi plot dan dialog menerima ulasan negatif. Sebuah tie-in video game download dirilis pada tanggal 31 Juli 2012 sebagai prequel peristiwa film. Sebuah sekuel, tentatif berjudul The Expendables 3 , adalah dalam pengembangan per November 2012.


The Expendables Barney Ross-pemimpin (Sylvester Stallone), pisau spesialis Lee Natal (Jason Statham), tangan-ke-tangan pertempuran spesialis Yin Yang (Jet Li), berat spesialis senjata Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), penghancuran pakar Jalan Tol ( randy Couture), yang Gunner Jensen tidak stabil (Dolph Lundgren), dan sniper Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth), merekrut tim terbaru dan 'Ross anak didik-dikerahkan ke Nepal untuk menyelamatkan Dr Zhou, sandera. Mereka juga menyelamatkan Palung tentara bayaran ditangkap (Arnold Schwarzenegger), saingan Ross '. Yang meninggalkan kelompok untuk mengawal Zhou kembali ke China.

Setelah kembali ke New Orleans, Billy mengatakan Ross bahwa ia bermaksud untuk pensiun pada akhir bulan dan tinggal bersama pacarnya Sophia. Kemudian, Ross dipaksa untuk menerima misi dari operasi CIA Mr Church (Bruce Willis) untuk mengambil item dari pesawat jatuh di Albania . Gereja mengirimkan teknis ahli Maggie Chan (Yu Nan) dengan tim.

Di Albania yang Expendables mengambil item, tapi kemudian disergap oleh internasional Jean kriminal dan pedagang senjata Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme), tangan kanan nya Hector (Scott Adkins) dan kelompok tentara bayaran nya (yang Sangs), yang telah ditangkap Billy. Vilain menuntut item dalam pertukaran untuk kehidupan Billy. Tim menyerah item, tapi lokomotif Vilain tendangan pisau melalui jantung Billy dan melarikan diri dengan Sangs dengan helikopter.

Ross pulih catatan untuk Sophia dari tubuh Billy, tim mengubur rekan mereka jatuh, bersumpah membalas dendam pada Vilain.
Maggie mengatakan kepada mereka bahwa item tersebut adalah komputer, dengan lokasi lima ton halus plutonium ditinggalkan di tambang oleh Uni Soviet setelah Perang Dingin . Vilain bermaksud untuk mengambil plutonium dan menjualnya. The Expendables mampu lemah melacak sinyal komputer dan mengikuti Vilain, yang membawa mereka ke Bulgaria di mana mereka tinggal semalam di sebuah pangkalan militer Rusia ditinggalkan.

Keesokan harinya, tim ini disergap oleh Sangs dan tank. Setelah Expendables kehabisan amunisi, mereka diselamatkan oleh teman lama Ross ', Booker (Chuck Norris), yang dengan cepat menghilangkan kedua Sangs dan tangki. Sebelum dia berangkat, Booker menginformasikan kelompok dari desa terdekat yang penghuninya menentang Vilain. Sementara itu, Hector dan Vilain menggali plutonium dan mulai mengumpulkan itu.

Di desa, para Expendables menemukan beberapa warga perempuan bersenjata menjaga anak-anak mereka dari pasukan Vilain itu. Penduduk lokal diambil dan menempatkan untuk bekerja sebagai budak di tambang, tidak pernah kembali, dan wanita meminta bantuan Expendables '. Para Sangs tiba untuk lebih banyak warga desa, tetapi disergap oleh Expendables dan dibunuh. Setelah menemukan Vilain dan tambang, tim serangan area dengan pesawat mereka sebelum sengaja menabrak tambang. Tim menyimpan penambang diperbudak dari eksekusi, tapi Vilain dan Hector melarikan diri dengan plutonium. Vilain jarak jauh meledakkan bahan peledak di tambang, itu runtuh, menjebak para penambang dan Expendables.

Gereja dan Palung tiba, membebaskan para penambang dan tim, dan bergabung dengan Expendables untuk mengejar Vilain. Kelompok penyadapan Vilain dan anak buahnya di bandara saat ia bersiap untuk meninggalkan dengan pesawat. Bergabung lagi oleh Booker, yang Expendables, Palung dan Gereja melibatkan Sangs dalam pertempuran. Natal decapitates Hector, sementara Ross dan Vilain melawan tangan-ke-tangan. Ross mengalahkan Vilain, menusuk dia dan membalas Billy.

Setelah kejadian itu, Ross diberikan tua Antonov An-2 biplan oleh Gereja, Gereja, Maggie, Booker dan Trench kemudian meninggalkan tim. Di Perancis, Sophia (Nikolette Noel) menemukan sebuah kotak di depan pintu nya dengan sejumlah besar uang dan surat Billy. Sebagai Expendables berangkat di pesawat, mereka bersulang akhir ke Billy.

Ensemble cast bintang aksi, termasuk (kiri ke kanan)Sylvester Stallone , Jason Statham , Jet Li , Dolph Lundgren ,Chuck Norris , Jean-Claude Van Damme , Bruce Willis ,Arnold Schwarzenegger dan Crews Terry

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Watch Season of the Witch

Season of the Witch is a 2011 American period action film with supernatural elements and directed by Dominic Sena. The film stars Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman as knights who return from the Crusades to find their homeland ruined by the Black Plague. A girl is accused of being a witch and causing the devastation. The film will be released on January 7, 2011.

Season of The Witch 2011 Synopsis :

Many years have Behmen (Nicolas Cage) and Felson (Ron Perlman) lives in battle. Sharply honed instinct they have their instincts as a fighter while also not be underestimated. Unfortunately, the two soldiers of the Crusades was not aware that they face a task that would have proved far more terrible than a battle they've ever experienced.

How disappointed Behmen and Felson when returned to their hometown and found their shattered homeland ravaged, not by enemy but because of an outbreak that has swept the land. Rarely can survive the deadly plague and the only hope left is Behmen and Felson. Church and Felson Behmen ordered to arrest and bring a young girl named Anna (Claire Foy), who was accused as the cause of the horrible plague to a monastery for this plague to an end.

Anna should follow a cleansing ritual that will end the storm that has engulfed the death of the entire European continent. Behmen and Felson not alone. There was a priest named Debelzaq (Stephen Campbell Moore), a soldier named Eckhardt (Ulrich Thomsen, a con man named Hagamar (Stephen Graham), and a young man named Kay (Robert Sheehan). None of them are aware of how much danger would they face in bringing Anna's journey into the remote monastery. And no one knows who the real Anna.

Season of the Witch
Genre : Thriller
Release Date : January 7, 2011
Director : Dominic Sena
Script : Bragi F. Schut
Producer : Alex Gartner, Charles Roven
Distributor : Relativity Media
Duration : 92 minutes
Budget : -
Official Site : seasonofthewitchthemovie.com

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X-Men: First Class

Info : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/
Release date : 3 June 2011 (USA)
Movie Quality : BRRip 1080p
Genre : Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Format : MP4
Size : 1,7 GB
Subtitles :  Indonesia, English











X-Men First Class  Movie is a series of the 5th of the movie X-Men after the X-Men trilogy and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. X-Men: First Class is the prequel of the X-Men trilogy set in the 60s when Charles Xavier and Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto is still young.

Movie Details
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones
Running Time: 131 Minutes

Like the four previous series, the film adaptation of the Marvel comic is also predicted to be as successful as the previous films. Film-film adaptation of the Marvel comic is much demand and has proved more successful even in the year 2011 alone 4 movie Marvel is ready to call it aired Thor (already aired last May and had topped the box office), X-Men: First Class (aired June 3 of this), Captain America: First Avenger (aired in July), and Spider-Man 4 (TBA).

X-Men: First Class Movie Synopsis :

X-Men: First Class Movie tells of the friendship of Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy) and Eric Lehnserr (played by Michael Fassbender). Their friendship eventually dropped out due to disagreements. Charles then formed the group X-Men while Erick formed Brotherhood of mutants. In addition to Professor X and Magneto, another character known in previous X-Men series is Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy, aka Beast (played by Nicholas Hoult) and Mystique (played by Jennifer Lawrence). Antagonist character in this film are a group of Hellfire Club, chaired by Sebastian Shaw (played by Kevin Bacon) who has the power to absorb the kinetic energy weapon fire and then use it to increase strength and speed.

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Spartacus Gods Of The Arena Reckoning

Having simply just a pair of episodes associated with Spartacus: Gods on the Area left in order to weather, Now i'm pondering of which items are usually stocking up on towards one thing significant. To get those of you that have happen to be viewing your Spartacus prequel, we've found a clip and many specifics of the following Comes to an end night’s show of which you’ll undoubtedly wish to think about.

Final Comes to an end night’s show has been information on decadence within the section of Lucretia and Batiatus’ pals. The following Comes to an end nighttime, it appears your gladiators are increasingly being place on the test as Titus wants to discover which usually analysts actually are worthy of his or her make. Will certainly the following often be Crixus’ possible opportunity to glow?

Spartacus Gods from the Arena Episode a few on Feb 18, 2011 along with preserve one of the best of your respective Fri while using sequence with this is the prelude to the previous fitting up in such a six units connected with episode from the prequel sequence.

Spartacus Gods of the Arena Episode 5 Reckoning Synopsis:

Batiatus’s father arranges a tournament between his gladiators to put his ludus into a test and determine the worth of his men. Fully committed to succeed, Crixus finds himself drawn into the power play within the house.

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Pirates of the Caribbean 4 on Stranger Tides

Johnny Depp goodness. Is there really anyone out there who could make a sexier pirate that Johnny? Not bloody likely!

ON STRANGER TIDES is one of the best PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN movies to date. There were some doubts going into this as two key characters from the original trilogy are missing, Will and Elizabeth Turner. While Will and Elizabeth added a lot to the first three films their absence in the fourth is hardly worth mentioning. A new cast mixed with many old favorites makes for a great story.

On this adventure Jack faces off against Blackbeard, vicious mermaids, and an old girlfriend while searching for The Fountain of Youth. It’s good to see that Jack is keeping busy.

This movie is fun and exciting, loaded with action. There’s even a nice cliff-hanger to encourage the idea of a PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 5. It seems like this franchise can truly go on forever without getting stale. Jack is such a great character that movies about him can never be boring.

The only disappointing aspect of this movie is the very minimal amount of screen time allotted to Jack the Monkey. That monkey is darn cute and kind of serves as a mascot for these films. Besides it’s a simple fact that monkeys should always have maximum screen time.

ON STRANGER TIDES is a great addition to a great franchise. This movie is not to be missed.

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Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

The first Urban Legend film ended with the death of the serial killer shrouded in mystery clearly pointing at a sequel. Urban Legends: Final Cut completely ignores that scenario (except until the very end) and comes up with a new one that is a rehash of the original film, but arguably executed slightly better.

In this film, Amy Mayfield (Jennifer Morrison) is a film student at Alpine University trying to come up with a thesis project. Given that her father is a famous director, there are heavy expectations placed on her. She finally decides on a project featuring a serial killer whose modus operandi is based on urban legends, myths where young college students are killed in hideous and gruesome ways.

Needless to say, this idea takes on a life of its own as people around Amy start dying. As in the Scream films, there are a lot of red herrings as to the identity of the real killer. In this film, the ending was one of the more surprising ones for me (though not completely a shock).

The suspense level in the film is fairly high (thanks in part of the surreal visual effects) and perhaps the cleverest aspect of the movie is that it dismisses the events in the first one as an urban legend (also the multiple choice involving guns at the end is amusing). The acting is passable. Urban Legends: Final Cut is a decent time killer and worth the matinee fare on the big screen. I don't recommend renting it though, unless you're a fan of the self-referential slash/gore horror genre.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

There are few roles in which I like Johnny Depp, but every time he plays an off-beat character, I really enjoy his performance. The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is one such occasion.

Here Depp stars as Jack Sparrow, the famous pirate captain of the Black Pearl who was abandoned on an island by his first mate Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). Through luck, Jack manages to survive and ends up on Port Royal in the Caribbean where he encounters an ongoing soap opera featuring Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightly) the governor's daughter; Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), the son of a former pirate but taken in by the governor, and Norrington (Jack Davenport), the commander in charge of the armed forces on the island who is set to marry the governor's daughter. Jack not only has to deal with the governor and the commander who consider him a thieving pirate, but also with Barbossa and his crew who have now acquired the infamous curse of the Black Pearl.

One of the best aspects of the film is Depp's walk, which people say I mimicked when I was in Thailand and handed a drink which I just took a sip from but made me feel really woozy (there are stories of people drugging foreigners to take their money but fortunately I was with friends). It completely dominates the film. There's also a clever, but predictable, way out of the situation that Jack ends up being thrust in (namely, how does one kill things that can't die). In general the movie is characterised by situations where at first Jack appears to be doing something stupid but in reality is doing something very smart. This leads to some comic relief.

The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was a surprisingly good movie, much better than I expected. I highly recommend checking it out on the big screen.

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Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World

Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World is essentially a rehash of the original. Man messes with nature. Things go wrong. People get eaten. The major difference is in the last part which is quite sophomoric and not at all fitting of Steven Spielberg.

It is four years after the horrific disaster that happened at Jurassic Park. Again, we meet the good doctor, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), no longer at the head of his company but still pulling a few strings behind the back of his son, Peter (Arliss Howard). The original base camp of operations set up by Hammond on Isla Sorna, Site B, still exists and there are living colonies of dinosaurs there. Hammond, who has gone from capitalist to naturalist, wants to observe the creatures in their natural habitat and put to rest years of speculation about the lives of the great animals.

Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) is asked to come on board the team sent to scout the island where the dinosaurs live. He refuses until he learns that his girlfriend, paleontologist Dr. Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore) is already alone on the island. He then becomes part of a rescue mission including himself, photographer Nick Van Owen (Vince Vaughn), equipment specialist Eddie Carr (Richard Schiff), and his daughter Kelly Curtis (Vanessa Lee Chester) who stowed away in the back of the van.

Besides the animals who would like to have humans for din-din, Malcolm's team has to cope with Peter Hammond and Roland Tembo (Pete Postlethwaite). Tembo's goal is to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex to prove man is the greatest hunter. Peter wants to capture the animals and bring them to the mainland to create "Jurassic Park, San Diego". Bad idea.

Spielberg and company, clearly realising they had a winning formula the last time around, don't deviate very much from it. By the time the Tyrannosaurus Rex gets to San Diego, I couldn't help but thinking I had just seen Jurassic Park again.

What is missing in this movie compared to the original is the intellectual aspect. There's no talk of chaos, no background about how the animals were bred and raised, no delving into evolution about how the animals could overcome their lysine deficiency, and no "this is Unix, I know this stuff!" Viewers are simply expected to have this knowledge, and this means more time for bone crunching effects. As a result, we have a movie that is darker and gorier than the original.

The movie is entertaining and has some interesting messages about cruelty to animals and leaving nature alone to do as it will. See it for the matinee price but don't spend the big bucks on this one.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The second Harry Potter film is better than the first, not because it is true to the book's story, but because it is true to the book's atmosphere.

The first Harry Potter movie was very good, but it stayed so close to the book that it spread itself too thin trying to get at every single detail. This adaptation of Joanne Rowling's second book (which I think is the weakest among the entire series) does indeed have all the good parts but focuses primarily on the main storyline. The film skips a lot of the background details, which makes for effective pacing, while taking liberties with the story to fit the big screen.

Here Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliff) and his friends, Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) once again encounter Voldemort (Christian Coulson) as a memory that has the power to become real. Voldemort opens the Chamber of Secrets freeing a fearsome Basilisk, an Alien-like snake that can kill with a glance. The snake's attacks threaten to close down Hogwarts School and Harry must stop them or be sent home to live with his foster parents (you can understand his motivation when you meet them at the introduction of every book/film).

The film is darker than the first, with scenes that are definitely creepy: Harry's encounter with a strange hand in Diagon Alley, Ron and Harry getting stuck in a willow tree that attacks them with its branches, Harry and Ron escaping from the giant spiders, and Harry's final battle with the Basilisk. There are also some Orwellian themes touched upon here, including Dobby the Elf's masochism and slavery, the ideal of some of the "Purebloods" to cleanse Hogwarts of the "Mudbloods".

The familiar high-profile cast do a fine job, with the newcomers, Kenneth Branagh as the pompous (and hilarious) new Dark Arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart, and Jason Isaacs as an evil-oozing Lucius Malfoy, particularly standing out. While the child actors carry their roles well, some of them do tend to overact. The score does a great highlighting the suspense, which there exists a lot of.

The set design and accompanying cinematography and production deserves a paragraph of its own. The integration of computer generated images and the actors is very seamless. The Hogwarts school, the surrounding countryside, and the brief Quidditch match are all rendered with amazing reality.

If the first film was the setup, this one's definitely the payoff. Even though I know what happens next, I can't wait to see it.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to translate a book into a movie. The problem has to do with one's imagination: words in a book conjure up images that are highly personal and subjective, and any attempt by a third party to lend form to them ends up disappointing. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is no exception in this regard, but fortunately, the imagery presented is awesome and wondrous in its own right.

The film is made strictly by the book: Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), a young boy mistreated by his foster family, learns that he is special and comes of age... in the Hogwart's School of Magic (!) where he learns wizardry, plays Quidditch and fights an evil despotic wizard (who does not turn out to be his father).

While the movie stays fastidiously true to Joanne Rowling's book, perhaps one of the best adaptations ever, the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words doesn't hold true here. For the most part, from the initial victory of the baby Harry Potter upto the Quidditch match, a lot of the details are skipped. What we're presented with is a jump from one scene to another (sometimes too quickly) that illustrates with painstaking effort the magical realm that Rowling has constructed in her series. For example, while the opening sequence shows Professor Albus Dumbledore (Richard Harris) turning out the lights in a street, Professor McGonagall (Maggie Smith) changing to her true form from being a cat, and Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) bringing Harry on his flying motorcycle, we're not really shown the celebration of Lord Voldemort's fall. This isn't criticism but just an observation; in fact, I think doing this is especially okay if one is familiar with the Harry Potter books, but it does impart a sense of urgency in the beginning portions of the film.

I marvelled at how technology enabled the film makers to make possible the wonders of Harry's world, including Diagon Alley and Gringotts Bank, the moving pictures, Hogwarts Castle, the Sorting Hat (Leslie Phillips), the ghosts in the Castle (including a cameo by John Cleese), Fluffy the three-headed dog, the ugly troll, and so on. I believe that it is technology that makes the Harry Potter film authentic, in the same way as in the X-Men or the How the Grinch Stole Christmas movies, by letting at least the imagination of a few people come to life as vibrantly as possible. Most of what I imagined and what was projected on the screen weren't really colinear, but it was still cool, incredibly so at times, to watch.

The movie, however, picked up with the first Quidditch match where Harry, on a broomstick, plays the position of a Seeker after the Golden Snitch, a particularly hard-to-catch ball, which is key to winning a game. The inspired depiction of the game meshed with my imagination extremely well, and from there on, the story of Harry's second encounter with the dark Lord Voldemort (Richard Bremmer) enfolded in a less fragmented and more cohesive manner. The final confrontation, and what Harry and his friends have to do get there, is a delight to watch.

For those paying attention, the main change from the book has to do with how Hagrid's dragon is disposed of and the resulting consequences. The ghosts also play a smaller role here though given the movie's running time, I'm not surprised parts like those were omitted.

The actors playing the young leads give decent performances, with Emma Watson as the know-it-all Hermione Granger standing out. The adult actors aren't given much time but they all present solid performances. The score by John Williams is simple but effective. The set design, cinematography, and visuals are impressive. Director Chris Columbus does a great job of bringing to the big screen the Enid Blyton-like atmosphere that Rowling's books exude.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a great movie to watch. I viewed it from the perspective of someone who is intimately familiar with the books, and I believe there is strong merit to watching it being completely unfamiliar with the story, a choice I do not have given that I've read the four books a few times. Definitely check it out on the big screen and make sure you goto the bathroom before.

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Spiderman 3

The Spiderman movies have definitely changed the story from the comic book. Watching the first of the film , I wasn't happy with the depiction of Peter Parker as more self-centred and vain, which is unusually in the context of the comic books. At this moment, Peter Park goes through so much crap that it's a wonder he doesn't commit suicide (it's kind of like Jack Bauer in 24).

Some factual points that were changed, which I'll agree was necessary to make a decent movie, are as follows: The Venom costume is an alien being acquired during the Secret Wars battle with the Beyonder (which was one of the best "cosmic" series Marvel has put out). Spiderman doesn't want to kill villains; even when he is beaten and pulverised, he holds back from taking the ultimate step (in fact, it is rare to show people dying in the comic books). Harry Osborn is more like the depiction of Normie Osborn (the son of Harry and Liz Allan) who is friends with the daughter of Spiderman (Spidergirl). Gwen Stacy is killed by the first Green Goblin (Norman Osborn). The people of New York have rarely been on the side of Spiderman. J. Jonah Jameson has always had a point in saying that it is people like Spiderman who create the villains. And so on.

It's difficult for me to reconcile what I know of Spiderman's history with a movie story that does its best and I admire that. A problem with the movies is that they can't intersect with the other characters from the Marvel Universe. It would be great to have movies like the Secret Wars or the Infinity Gauntlet, War, and Crusade series where a bunch of the Marvel superheroes get together and the stories make more sense (for example, explaining the origin of the Venom symbiote), but I guess that would be a logistic and budgetary nightmare.

Halfway through the movie, the story gets in line with what you'd expect from the book. The rejected symbiote bonds with a humiliated Eddie Brock to become Venom, one of the coolest villains to be introduced in the later years. The Sandman is a villain who is ambiguous. And Spiderman has a run of bad luck and is pummeled constantly but triumphs in the end against all odds.

I once wrote a review of the Batman series where I connected them to a lot of the comic books (I own a huge number of Spiderman comic books) and some other reviewer criticised my review. The perspective I offer is fairly unique: it is based on an experience I can't ignore or negative, and I think it helps place the movie in context of a long history of the books. So if you're interested in the saga of Spiderman beyond what you see in the three movies, I recommend buying some of the great story arcs of Spiderman just to see how complicated and mythological the creations are.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is better than its predecessor, and that's a rare occurrence when it comes to Hollywood films.

The story begins where the first film left off: Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) continues on his quest to Mordor to destroy the powerful ring in the same fires of Mount Doom from which it was created. Aiding him, directly and indirectly are, fellow Hobbits Samwise Gamjee (Sean Astin), Meriadoc Brandybuck (Dominic Monaghan) and Peregrin Took (Billy Boyd); Gandalf (now) the White (Ian McKellen); Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen); Legolas Greenleaf the elf (Orlando Bloom); Gimli the Dwarf (John Rhys-Davies); and Treebeard the Ent (voice of John Rhys-Davies). Against him are Saruman the White (Christopher Lee) and Sauron the Dark Lord, whose spirit is intertwined with the ring. And a creature whose intentions are ambiguous (quite literally) is Smeagol/Gollum (voiced by Andy Serkis).

The main goal of this episode is to showcase the unleashing of the Saruman's forces to conquer middle earth. The movie actually ends on a positive note, with our friends having the upper hand in the two epic battles--between Saruman's 10,000 strong army and the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Rohan at their Helm's Deep fortress; and between the Ents and Sarmuan's war machine in Isengard--as well as several minor ones.

The cinematography, along with the computer graphics, is awe-inspiring. Gollum is animated brilliantly, so much that I thought he was more convincing than any of the real actors. The CGI in general is state-of-the-art; the only time I could clearly discern the computer generated images was when they had the battle with the Wargs, There is a lot of humour in the film, which shows that nothing in life is worth taking too seriously. The soundtrack, which is reminiscent of old Westerns, is excellent.

It's hard to fault a film that is as well-made as this one. In my view, The Two Towers is best judged on its own merits. While it would help to be familiar with Tolkien's works (including The Hobbit, which really fills in a great deal of the background material), this tale can stand on its own if you use your imagination.

The reason Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, are such big successes is because of the mythology they create. The Lord of the Rings, which predates these works, is no exception and is one of the richest. The film itself can be described only in superlatives. Go see it.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is an old adage that has been the basis for many a story. It is the primary plot device behind John Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings classic. Written in 1954-55, with origins dating back to 1937, the first of the three movie installments, which have already been filmed, tries to stay true to the mystical world present in the book. The resulting effort is a definite success.

The star of the story, and the film, is not a person, but an object, a ring. The ring allows one to control a host of other rings handed down to the different peoples of Middle Earth: three rings belong to the immortal elves; seven to the dwarfs; and nine rings to mortal humans. The ring that rules all the others, forged using the fires of Mount Doom by the evil Wizard Sauron (Sala Baker), gives its holder so much power that it corrupts all those who seek to wear it, even the purest.

Of course, there are some peoples that are more pure than others. Humans generally seem incapable of wearing it without being corrupted by its influence (no surprise there). But there exists a diminutive people, the Hobbits, who do seem at least capable of carrying it without being polluted too much. It falls upon one Hobbit, Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), to take the ring to Mt. Doom, which is the only place where it can be destroyed.

Frodo is aided in his quest by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), the elf Legolas Greenleaf (Armando Bloom), the dwarf Gimli (John Rhys-Davies), two humans Strider aka Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) and Boromir (Sean Bean), and three other Hobbits including Frodo's friend Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin). The story chronicles how Frodo, being a reluctant hero, travels through mysterious and dangerous lands of breathtaking beauty, and fights terrific monsters in the context of awesome towers and citadels, to achieve his goal.

Perhaps one of the most visionary aspects about Tolkien's work is how he set the stage for a Dungeons and Dragons style video-game. Director Peter Jackson imbibes to the film the same feel present the book, in terms of traversing a diverse variety of landscapes, while encountering a diverse variety of creatures, friend and foe alike. Watching the film, it's easy to become mesmerised by the fantasy that is unfolding purely based on the cinematography.

Like with Joanne Rowling's Harry Potter (or for that matter, Stephen King's It), this film does not live up what I imagined, but it does a great job of presenting what Jackson and his co-workers imagined. The special effects are spectacular and meticulously done, perhaps even better than those observed in Harry Potter. There are no cop-outs here and every place that it matters, the effort and the expense have been evidently put in. The soundtrack sometimes overwhelms the dialogue, of which there is a lot, interspersed between the action sequences. Do not miss seeing this on the big screen. This is how movies should be made.

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