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Knight and Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz

Posted on July 12, 2010 Written by ripitup

Knight and Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. I attached a foreign poster because it just looks way better than the regular. Image via http://forum.divxplanet.com

June Havens (Cameron Diaz) is a beautiful car mechanic who is about to fly home with her recently acquired car parts from Kansas. She needs to be at home soon for her sister’s wedding and she will be using the parts for her wedding gift, a car their deceased father has left them.

When she meets handsome stranger Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) at the airport and ends up on the same plane with him, she is more than thrilled. The problem is, she was never meant to get on that plane. The plane carries only a bunch of passengers and along with the pilots and stewardesses, they are all intent on killing Miller- who happens to be a very capable and deadly secret agent.

When June goes to the bathroom to well…look prettier and work on tactics on how to get on with Roy, Roy is busy killing everyone attacking him. She comes out to face the biggest adventure of her life when landing the plane in a field, being briefed about what not to do when rogue agents come asking about Roy is only the beginning…

As much as June tries to get along with her life, FBI tracks her down. They do everything Roy told her they would and he comes and “saves” June from them. She doesn’t exactly trust Roy, but he has saved her life several times and well, he also happens to be the most attractive and exciting guy she ever met.

So June is thrown into a journey involving agents (Peter Sarsgaard), Spanish arm dealers (Jordi Molla), genuis teenagers (Paul Dano), exotic islands, around-the-world traveling, a lot of (car) chases and some good old fighting. But the question remains: Is Roy telling the truth and as genuinely interested in her as he seems to be or is he the rogue one? And how far will June go to find out?

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Knight and Day is an excellent blend of action, comedy and romance. There rarely comes a movie that combines all these genres perfectly. Knight and Day never ignores a genre that it belongs to. Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise are together on screen once again after Vanilla Sky. While Vanilla Sky was an intriguing film, comedic action has suited this dynamic and extremely attractive duo much better.

As much as I like to make fun of Tom Cruise’s weird fascination with everything Katie Holmes and scientology, I am going to admit that he has never stopped being one of my favorite actors and entertainers of all time. And he is notably gorgeous and young-looking at 48 is beyond me.

I have read many funny and stupid comments about the movie. Some of them includes:

– That Cameron Diaz is too old to wear a bikini and look bad in it.

Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise in Knight and Day — Cameron Diaz looks bad in a bikini??? You have to be kidding me! Image via fotos.ekolay.net

Are you kidding me? She may not be the youngest-looking 37-year-old actress out there, but she certainly looks amazing all the time.

– That this movie is an insult to animal rights as it involves scenes in Spain with bulls…

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day. Talking about having an exciting relationship. And effects are marvelous. Tom Cruise stands taller than Diaz 😉 Image via http://www.scene-stealers.com/

This movie is the perfect reminder of why Tom and Cameron have been so popular for so many years. They are pretty, talented, in shape and they provide great chemistry.

Favorite Line/Scene: June is given a form of truth serum. She is supposed to escape from the bad guys with her knight Roy but she is much more intent on flirting and expressing her true feelings for him. Trust her to distract the most professional agent:

June (to Roy): I think we would have great sex!

Roy: Did they give you something?

See it. You will have fun.

9/10 for all over entertainment, well-done script and casting.

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Trailer:

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Jackson Rathbone and Xavier Samuel

Posted on July 10, 2010 Written by ripitup

And the world’s bestselling vampires, shapeshifters and the luckiest plain girl are back!

If you are about to see Eclipse, and haven’t seen or read Twilight or New Moon, I wrote the ultimate background guides. It provides you all the info you need to enjoy the films more:

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Twilight Eclipse starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Image via eclipsemovie.org

ECLIPSE PLOT SUMMARY AND REVIEW

Bella Swan the human (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen the vampire (Robert Pattinson) are together and still very much in love. However, they have some problems:

– After everything Bella has gone through (the dangers in Twilight and the depression in New Moon), her father Charlie (Billy Burke) is not, naturally, fond of Edward. Of course he is still clueless that he is a vampire.

– Charlie would rather have Bella spend time with his friend’s son-Bella’s best friend -Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Well, Charlie is also clueless that Jacob is a shapeshifter that can turn into a wolf. However Bella and Jacob are not exactly in good terms. After all he is in love with her and he despises Edward to the core. And Edward also hates Jacob.

– The Volturi (led by Dakota Fanning’s Jane) want Bella to turn into a vampire. Bella has been wanting this since the first movie. Edward now has no choice, but he has made one condition. She has to marry him.

– And Bella is not exactly sure how she will be explain to her parents that she will marry her boyfriend at the age of 18 and she is not even pregnant. And if she does agree to marry Edward, how will Jacob handle it?

Despite the complications, Bella won’t give up on either Jacob or Edward. She makes piece with Jacob again but Jacob still loves pissing Edward off and vice versa. He makes it clear to Bella that he won’t give up the fight for her heart. But as he finds out, she will willingly turn into a vampire and he is disgusted by the idea. Still, he says he will be fighting for her until her heart stops beating (as a human).

While Bella is caught in between the love of her life and her best friend/the second love of her life, there is another and much bigger problem. An army of newborn vampires are terrorizing Seatlle, led by a local Forks boy-turned-vampire led by Riley. As the Cullens explain, newborn vampires are at their strongest, most vicious and most uncontrollable. They are suspecting that their number one vampire enemy Victoria is behind it and they are right. As the Volturi (currently lead by Aro’s sister Jane Volturi) don’t seem to be doing anything so it is up to the Cullens to protect Bella, the town and each other. When Jacob and his friends realize how big the threat is, they decide to join on the fight. After all, as Jacob puts it, they will at least get to kill some vampires.

So it is up to Jasper Cullen (Jackson Rathbone) to train both his family and the werewolves to train against the newborns. Jasper has a history of fighting wars-both humans and creating/training newborns.

This fight will force Edward and Jacob to try to put their differences behind. But can they manage to deal with Bella’s feelings for each of them and beat a vicious army at the same time?

Trailer:

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Scene Video:

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This movie is fun. It is at the height of mindless entertainment. It is rated a 4.6 on IMDB but if there is something about the movie I will rated below that, it is the wolves. Just like New Moon, they do look ridiculous. Yeah, wolves that big are not meant to be realistic but they should look a bit less funny.

Apart from that, this is an enjoyable experience, especially if you try and not to get tangled up in the hype of hatred. So vampires shine in the sun instead of bursting into flames? Get over that already! There are vampires who fall in love with humans and refuse to suck human blood and try to make amends for their past mistakes and sins. I’d have thought after Buffy, Moonlight and True Blood, people would get used to the idea of nice vampires. And yes, pretty vampires. If you love Dracula’s make-up, fine. Watch that. The ugly vampire faces from Buffy are so 90s and as much as I love True Blood, the teeth look ridiculous. Oh sure, the vampires in Twilight get unflattering make-up too but hey they are vampires. They do have to look at least a little off and unnatural.

Are you bothered with the almost fairy tale like romance? Fine. Don’t see the movie. Or if it makes you happy to hate it and then complain about it, sure-by all means go for it. But don’t go saying the movie has been the worst experience of your life because

a) If this movie has been the worst movie you have ever seen, you take everything far too seriously and b) you have done it to yourself.

This movie is not a horror film and it is not a thriller. It is a romance movie with vampires that happen to have some nice fighting sequences attached to it. Twilight was never meant to be scary or impressive in the horror/thriller department.

Could it be done better? Probably. But is it just alright the way it is? Yeah. It involves pretty people Not just for girls- guys are bound to find at least one of the female characters pretty. The blonde Rosalie Cullen (Nikki Reed), the adorable Alice (Ashley Greene), the fiery redhead Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) and of course the plain yet pretty brunette Kristen Stewart.

Frankly, I found this movie’s most interesting character to be Jasper. He no longer looks like Edward Scissorhands but more like a little made-up but gorgeous glam rocker. He is cool, charismatic, fun and has a better haircut. His past and his training scenes make for a nice sub-plot. And as if the girls were complaining about the lack of the pretty men, we know get another hunk in the form of Riley, played by Australian Xavier Samuel. One of my friends even complained that he should be playing Edward.

The movie also includes decent jokes and fun moments:

– Bella claims to be Switzerland.

– Edward complains about Jacob’s shirtlessness.

– Edward kisses Bella to mark his territory and Jacob hugs her tight and carries her around to mark his.

– Jacob says that he can feel Bella’s attraction towards him. Yeah, like Bella could hide it… I mean her gorgeous yet old-fashioned boyfriend is withholding sex until marriage whereas Jacob is all muscles and well, more than ready for anything physical with Bella…

– Charlie’ s awkward but hilarious conversation about protection and his reason to love Edward.

– And the best line ever:

From Jacob to Edward: I am hotter than you.

I am underlining 4 things: mindless, entertainment, eye candy, romance. Keep your expectations rational and you might have a good time. I went to see the movie with 2 friends, one female and one male. Now, the girl does like the movie. And the guy did have fun. He was busy lusting over Alice (Ashley Greene), joking about how horny vampires were (as in Riley and Victoria), what a faggot Edward was, how slutty Bella was and how she should have picked Jacob. I do agree on most accounts.

Also keep in mind the novels were written by a female by the name of Stephenie Meyer. Yes, it is after all one woman’s romantic fantasy. But then again, so fucking what?

Ratings:

10/10 for eye candy for girls

7/10 for eye candy for boys

2/10 – as for the lack of sexuality

3/10 for wolves effects, 7/10 for the rest

7/10 for all over entertainment

2/10 for the poster

9/10 for the romance.

Enjoy!

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Death at a Funeral starring Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Alan Tudyk, Kris Marshall and Rupert Graves

Posted on July 8, 2010 Written by ripitup

Death at a Funeral starring Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes — Death at a Funeral starring Matthew Macfadyen, Rupert Graves, Alan Tudyk, Peter Dinklage, Daisy Donovan, Keeley Hawes and Kris Marshall. Image via http://www.lovefilm.com

While Daniel (Matthew Macfadyen) is getting ready for his dad’s funeral that will take place at home, he thinks his biggest concerns are preparing a good eulogy and remembering to put down a deposit for the flat he and his wife Jane (Keeley Hawes) will be moving to. However from the very beginning, everything that can go wrong (and things that you thought would never happen do) go wrong:

His cousin Martha (Daisy Donovan) is driving with her fiancé and is supposed to pick up her brother Troy (Kris Marshall) who is studying to be a pharmacist and is experimenting with drugs. When she wants to calm her extremely nervous fiancé (Alan Tudyk) down, she gives him a Valium. Only, it is not a Valium- it is a mixture of drugs, including acid- designed to keep you high, very high.

Daniel’s mates Howard (Andrew Nyman) and Justin (Ewen Bremner) are supposed to pick Daniel’s Uncle Alfie up- a very grumpy old man in a wheelchair and all the dirty work falls upon Howard since Justin is really only coming to the funeral so that he can hit on Martha.

There is a very short man in the funeral called Peter (Peter Dinklage) who claims to be his father’s friend but no one has met him before. And he insists that he needs to talk to Daniel.

And everyone seems to be disappointed that the eulogy won’t be coming from Robert (Rupert Graves), Daniel’s accomplished novelist of a brother who is not exactly the most responsible kind…

From then on, it is about trying to control a drugged fiancé, an angry father, a friend who is more concerned about his skin than the funeral, a supposed friend only concerned about shagging Martha, a man with a very humiliating secret, lost drugs posing as valium and….yeah, there is more.

Matthew Macfadyen in Death at a Funeral. Poor sod. His dad is about to have one hell of a funeral... Image via http://www.smh.com.au

While you have seen families with issues before, you probably haven’t seen families dealing with all these issues, at the same time, during a funeral. Events are so funny that there is really no need for one liners. Some stuff will make you grin and some might really make you laugh out loud. Sure, you might not enjoy one thing or two. I thought the whole toilet incident was disgusting. But overall, this is a funny comedy. And the hilarity increases when Peter explains what he is there for and family members try to prevent him from exposing.

It is fun to see Matthew Macfadyen in such a film after seeing Pride and Prejudice. Who could have thought a funeral could have been so hilarious?

Written by Dean Craig and directed by Frank Oz. 7.3. Agreed.

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The Heartbreak Kid starring Ben Stiller, Malin Akerman and Michelle Monaghan

Posted on July 6, 2010 Written by ripitup

The Heartbreak Kid starring Ben Stiller, Malin Akerman and Michelle Monaghan. Image via: http://www.collider.com/

Eddie (Ben Stiller) has reached 40 and single. Unfortunately for him, his happily married (=wife-obliging) best friend Mac (Rob Corddry) thinks he will end of alone and miserable and his father Doc (Jerry Stiller, the real life father of actor Ben Stiller) is not happy with how many women his son is sleeping with. In between all the trouble they are getting him and his ex-fiancé getting married, he happens to meet a gorgeous blonde by chance. Her name is Lila (Malin Akerman), she is sweet, down-to-earth and seems like the perfect woman.

Eddie ends up marrying Lila. It is not like he could do any better. But during their honeymoon, he starts noticing that Lila is irritable, unstable and well, is a little nuts. It is during the honeymoon that Eddie meets a beautiful brunette by the name of Miranda (Michelle Monaghan). She is there for a family vacation. She is fun, easy-going and totally sane. And she seems like she is into him. Of course she doesn’t know that Eddie is married. So Eddie’s “romantic” holiday is spent between handling Lila and trying to spend as much time as he can with Miranda. But Miranda is bound to find out any time…

The Heartbreak Kid is not your typical romantic comedy. First of all, it is not exactly romantic enough to be even called a romcom. It is a comedy with some romantic moments attached and the only reason romantic scenes are only there to build the ground for more comedy. But you can’t exactly label this one as a sole comedy because well…While it is a funny movie, it is not hilarious all the time. It is fun and certainly easy to watch but you may not exactly pull stomach muscles from laughing. It is rightfully R-rated. After all, Lila is playing a character who knows a lot of weird sex positions but she doesn’t know what missionary means… And then there is Edie’s old dad who talks about p**** a lot. Yep, he uses the exact word.

The Heartbreak Kid starring Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan and Malin Akerman — Image via http://kindredsoul.files.wordpress.com

This movie is directed by the Farrelly Brothers; Bobby and Peter Farrelly and co-written by them. The script is based on the 1972’s The Heartbreak Kid.

You are probably familiar with at least some of the work of the brothers: “There is something about Mary”,”Me, myself and Irene”, Stuck on You, Fever Pitch, Shallow Hal…

The Heartbreak Kid is an R-rated, sort of romcom with the sensibility of Me, myself and Irene. But I have to say, I loved the ending.

5.9 on IMDB. A 6 from me.

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