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THE CUTE ROBERT PATTINSON, THE BEAUTIFUL EDWARD CULLEN

Posted on November 4, 2009 Written by ripitup

Robert Pattinson

Rob Pattinson is a pretty boy. He is cute. Sure he can be beautiful, graceful and alluring. He is dreamy as a man can get when he stops being Rob and becomes Edward Cullen in the Twilight Saga. Edward is elegant, deep, intense and captivating. You see, guys can understand why a woman can find Gerard Butler handsome. Look at The Ugly Truth. Look at Lara Croft The Cradle of Life. He is as manly as one can get, with a great frame and the acting that can make him cute and sexy at the same time. Or look at Hugh Jackman. Look at his role as Logan in Wolverine. But even when they are not playing certain characters, they maintain those good looks and charisma.

Now, I loved Pattinson in Twilight. He is the perfect vampire. He is a seductive creature by nature. He also plays a 17-year-old going on 90- which adds wisdom to his character. And he really isn’t 17 but early 2os, so you don’t have to feel a little ashamed about falling for an actor that young. But when he is not Edward, the magic disappears. Now, I know there are many Robert fans out there who will want to shoot me just for making this comment but this is the way I see it: He is a kid. He is young, he got way too famous way too soon and he is both embarrassed and bored by the attention. No matter how grounded you are, I don’t think it is possible not to let all that fame go to your head. Fair enough. I’d be bored too if I suddenly become this person everybody was dying to get a piece of or suddenly had to dress up and go to award shows and be handed awards by Denzel Washington. No,wait-(this is how my friend was defending Edward when I said I find him cold and just cute off the movie screen), I actually wouldn’t. I’d love it if Denzel knew my name and even though the show is just MTV’s popularity contest, I’d not care. But Edward was just like a bored kid among “pretentious” adults and just looked like he didn’t belong there. C’mon,it is MTV- if you have become a world-wide celebrity, that’s exactly where you belong. You are supposed to lay back and enjoy.

But if I want to see Pattinson hot, and not just cute- if I want to see him intense and not just funny, all I have to is wait for the New Moon and catch another glimpse of Twilight. Let me visualize my point for you:

Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) from the Twilight Saga — The intensely gorgeous Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson)

* Robert Pattinson vs. Taylor Lautner

http://socyberty.com/people/pattinson-vs-lautner/

* New Moon Movie Review: New Moon Dissected

http://cinemaroll.com/fantasy/new-moon-dissected/

* Robert Pattinson isn’t vain. He is British.

https://pinartarhan.com/blog/robert-pattinson-isnt-vain-he-is-british/

* Twilight Movie Review: Twilight Mania

https://pinartarhan.com/blog/twilight-mania

Someone Like You starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd

Posted on October 23, 2009 Written by ripitup

B00006ZXSO_01_LZZZZZZZ — Someone Like You starring Hugh Jackman, Ashley Judd and Greg Kinnear

Jane Goodale (Judd) is happy. She’s got a good job as a talk show producer and she’s dating Ray (Greg Kinnear), also from behind the scenes. Their relationship is going just great and they both seem totally invested in it, and Ray really makes Eddie (Jackman) look bad. Eddie is also working behind the scenes and a true womanizer. But then Ray does something Jane doesn’t see coming: he dumps her, right after having made plans for moving in together. Jane is now single, bitter, extremely heart-broken; and to top it all, she is homeless. So now moving in with Eddie seems like her only option.

The disappointmet inspires Jane to write a theory that compares men to male animals and labels dumped women as old cows. So the theory suggests that the male would move on to a new cow after a while. It also seems more fun to pen this theory under the identity of a very old professor, the secret identity only known by her best friend Liz (Marisa Tomei).

Eddie is half- amused and half-pissed about Jane’s weird assumptions. And all though he is “using women as ATM machines” as Jane puts it, maybe Eddie and Jane could make a better match than Jane and Ray ever did…

Someone Like You: A Worthy RomCom

So what if you knew she would actually fall for all Jackman right after the movie starts? No, I’m not giving any spoilers. It is just so obvious. Kinnear’s character turns out to be a jerk, and he was too good to be true in the first place. And of course we are introduced to Eddie’s past, and learn he used to be in a serious relationship which ended with the girl tearing his heart out.

And seriously, who can consider Eddie (Hugh Jackman) just a friend/roommate anyway? It just doesn’t happen. So it is a sweet and kind of quirky (what other romantic comedy you watched had so much cow talk and images ?) and funny. Of course it has clichés but they are fun so who cares? 2 men. 1 girl. 1 guy treats the girl a lot better. There are bound to be similarites to stuff you have been before.

But it does its job. It’s romantic and it is funny. And it is not like either sex will have a hard time figuring out why they are attracted to each other. It’s Ashley Judd and Hugh Jackman we are talking about.But be warned, if you don’t like to see the ending coming, please stay away from Someone Like You. And the 99.99% of romantic comedies. I’m just saying.

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Hugh Jackman: My favorite Australian ever

Posted on October 19, 2009 Written by ripitup

He presented the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. I traditionally watch the show every year since I was a little kid and I don’t remember having been entertained this much. His theatrics, jokes, presence were all just brilliant. He danced and sang like a pro. He was genuinely funny- I think the only guy who could do a funnier job is Jim Carrey but then again I am not sure Jim could pull of the dancing routine like Jackman.

Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway at the 2009 Academy Awards

hugh-jackman_beyonce-knowles_8st-academy-awards — Who would have thought? Beyonce and Hugh dancing together

It is amazing how far Hugh has come in his career. Not that he doesn’t deserve all of his popularity, but I just hadn’t seen it coming when I first saw him in the 2001 movie, Swordfish. Since then he has been in rom-coms, dramas, thrillers and action movies. He has done theater and played the lead in hit Broadway musicals. He has done movies both in his hometown Australia and in Hollywood. Though his biggest and role has been of Wolverine, one of the most popular characters in the X-men series. Although arguably Meg Ryan was the more famous one when they starred together in the 2001 flick Kate and Leopold, right now Hugh Jackman has a much stronger status.

He is just one of the lucky men in Hollywood whose adored both by men and women; by critics and movie-goers. He is breathtakingly gorgeous. I haven’t yet met a girl who thinks that he is not attractive. I remember being in the movie theater with two girl friends of mine, watching Swordfish. We have absolutely the most opposite taste in men yet we all simultaneously agreed that Hugh was hot. On the top of all this, he is a family man. He has been married to his first and only wife since 1996 and they are raising their kids together. Oh,well-as I said, everyone loves him. And his masculinity and strength are not questioned by his fellow co-stars. Ryan Reynolds– who plays Wade Wilson actually said that Hugh would probably win, were they to engage in wrestling.

Of course there are some of his old projects that I couldn’t get my hands on (like some of his earlier Australian work) and some movies of his that I didn’t enjoy all that much, such as The Fountain and Deception. But mostly, his movies entertain. They take you from your reality to the movie’s and he makes you believe whatever reality his movie is representing. Since this guy has done so much, I think it’s best if we just consider some examples from this decade.

X-men (2000)

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He plays Wolverine. He’ll continue to play the role for three more movies, the second and third parts of the trilogy and X-men origins: Logan/Wolverine. He likes to be and work alone but he needs to join in the mutants team for the sake of Prof. Xavier and he also has the hots for Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), who is married to another X-men mutant: Scott/Cyclops (James Marsden). The plot is just to good to go into the specifics and X-men shall have their own posts.

Swordfish (2001)

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John Travolta makes a great villain. He’s tough, he’s crazy and he’s fun to watch. You just keep your fingers crossed that hacker Stanley Jobson can pull off everything so that he can save himself and others from the potential wrath of the psychotic Gabriel (Travolta) and his not so pleasant surprises.

(2001) Kate & Leopold

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Kate (Ryan)’s neighbor/ex-boyfriend Stu (Liev Schreiber) discovers a time travel portal and manages to be tracked down by someone from 1870s: Leopold. Leopold’s process of adjustment to today’s life in New York is hilarious. Meanwhile, Kate is thinking that she always has attracted crazy men. After all, Leopold acts just like himself. Still, Leo is handsome, gentle and has a unique character. Little does she know that the uniqueness does comes from a different era…

Van Helsing (2004):

Jackman plays the famous monster hunter Van Helsing, fighting the ultimate bottle with the help of Anna (Kate Beckinsale)

(2006) The Prestige

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Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play the rival magicians- one has the ultimate secret of a breath-taking trick and the other will do anything to get it. Great twists and turns however the ending really let me down.

(2008) Australia

australia_movie_poster_1 — Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in Australia. Two of my favorite Australians. Both are great actors and both are gorgeous. Perfect combination.

It’s not your typical Buz Luhrmann movie. It is epic and in some senses it i much more traditional than his other works like Romeo and Juliet or Moulin Rouge. However it is beautiful- with performances and cinematography.

Pre-World War II. British Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) comes to Australia to meet her husband and manage the land but she finds that her husband is dead and the natives are being abused. Along with the help of the loner/free-spirited cattle driver Drover, she needs to save her cattle and from an enemy.Not to mention the growing attraction between her and Drover (Jackman)…

Hugh Jackman is of course not exactly resting. He has many movies in (pre-) production stages and Wolverine II is one of them. At 41, he is at the peak of his career and his looks. He enjoys all the perks of fame without letting the whole concept get to his head. I just hope that he never tires of acting. And how lovely it would be if I ever got to see him live on Broadway.