Some might think a grown up man watching cartoon is kindda funny but Pixar animations are worth watching for.
I wanna watch Pixar's latest work UP but i am keeping busy (playing games).
As of 18Jul09, UP grosses $323,895,668 worldwide with the budget of $175 Millions (quite high for animation movie, uhn!!). That means not bad for a movie even before it's DVD release.
Last year, another Pixar's work Wall-E captured my heart. So I am looking forward for this UP.
Hopefully, in very soon future, I am able to watch it in good quality in any way, any how.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an upcoming science fiction/action film due for release on June 24, 2009. It is the sequel to 2007's Transformers, which was the first live action Transformers film. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg return respectively as director and executive producer, while Shia LaBeouf reprises the role of Sam Witwicky, the human caught in the war between Autobots and Decepticons. The film introduces many more robots and the scope has been expanded to numerous countries, the most important of which is Egypt. Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) discovers something about the origins of the Transformers and their history on Earth. The evil Decepticons need to capture him for information. The climactic battle takes place at the Giza pyramid complex, where a temple is located within. Lorenzo di Bonaventura explained the film will show the Transformers who visited Egypt before the pyramids were built, and "all our heroes end up here because of the Decepticons' master plan." Furthermore, Egyptian hieroglyphs resembling helicopters and other present day vehicles in real life will be explained in the film as being depictions of those Ancient Cybertronians who visited Earth.
Terminator Salvation is the fourth installment of Terminator Series and set to be released on May 22 of 2009. And it is still blur that the main character Arnold Schwarzenegger who had played T101 Model in previous installments will be is this movie or not. Christian Bale (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) will be in the main cast portraying John Connor, young soldier waging war against Skynet after it destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, who is destined to become humanity's leader. Terminator Salvation is directed by McG (Charlie's Angels & Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle). Budget for this movie is $200 Millions (pretty impressive in hard times like this, rite?)
And here is an official trailer found on Meta Cafe.
This time around, if you read about The 81st Academy Awards,
everyone talking about The Wrestler as the one of the biggest release of 2008. Especially about lead actor Mickey Rourke for Best Actor. In this movies Rourke plays as a fading 80's top-card professional wrestler who wrestles in various independent wrestling promotion for his living. Even with his life-threatening heart attack, he decides to wrestle one more match in the end.
Well, since this movie is so popular and I'm being a big wrestling fan, I spent my whole night to watch this one from Justin TV. Even movie finished, I couldn't understand what movie is trying to say.
But one thing for sure is the acting of Rourke is still remaining in my flash memories and even in my heart. A fallen star wanting to fight back is glory. A headstrong man who believes the path he has chosen is right and continues walking his path even though it is too rough.
And if I think carefully about this film, it shows some parts of wrestlers real life. All of us know wrestling is fake (but I'd say it is scripped). But why may people in this world watching wrestling show weekly and why wrestlers are still wrestling for their professional even as the part of their life? The Wrestler will answer for those question.
Even more, the movie original sound track provided by Bruce Springsteen also makes movie stronger. Here is a video clip from Youtube about the song by Bruce Springsteen and some of the cut scenes for the movie.
(Courtesy of Youtube)
Here are Awards and Nominations of the movie
Golden Lion (Won) Golden Globe Award: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (Mickey Rourke) (Won) Golden Globe Award: Best Original Song - Motion Picture ("The Wrestler" written and performed by Bruce Springsteen) (Won) Golden Globe Award: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Marisa Tomei) (Nominated) Academy Award for Best Actor (Mickey Rourke) (Nominated) (TBD) Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Marisa Tomei) (Nominated) (TBD) Screen Actor's Guild Award for Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role (Mickey Rourke) (Nominated) Writer's Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay (Robert D. Siegel) (Nominated) BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Mickey Rourke) (Won) BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Marisa Tomei) (Nominated)
