Showing posts with label 2000-2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2000-2009. Show all posts

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Post By boosyears88 on Tuesday, March 24, 2015

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The Nobel Prize champ John Forbes Nash Jr. still instructs at Princeton, and strolls to grounds each day. That these typical articulations almost conveyed tears to my eyes proposes the energy of "A Beautiful Mind," the narrative of a man who is one of the best mathematicians, and a casualty of schizophrenia. Nash's revelations in amusement hypothesis affect our lives each day. He additionally accepted for a period that Russians were sending him coded messages on the front page of the New York Times.

"A Beautiful Mind" stars Russell Crowe as Nash, and Jennifer Connelly as his significant other, Alicia, who is pregnant with their youngster when the main manifestations of his ailment wind up noticeably evident. It recounts the tale of a man whose psyche was of colossal administration to humankind while in the meantime deceived him with terrifying daydreams. Crowe breathes life into the character by evading sentimentality and working with little behavioral points of interest. He demonstrates a man who plunges into franticness and afterward, surprisingly, recaptures the capacity to work in the scholarly world. Nash has been contrasted with Newton, Mendel and Darwin, but at the same time was for a long time only a man mumbling to himself in the corner.

Chief Ron Howard can propose a center of goodness in Nash that motivated his better half and others to remain by him, to keep trust and, in her words at his breaking point, "to trust that something exceptional is conceivable." The motion picture's Nash starts as a calm however arrogant young fellow with a West Virginia complement, who step by step transforms into a tormented, hidden distrustful who trusts he is a covert operative being trailed by government specialists. Crowe, who has an uncanny capacity to adjust his hope to fit a part, dependably appears to be persuading as a man who ages 47 years amid the film.

The early Nash, seen at Princeton in the late 1940s, serenely tells a grant victor "there isn't a solitary original thought on both of your papers." When he loses at a session of Go, he clarifies: "I had the main move. My play was great. The diversion is defective." He knows about his effect on others ("I don't much like individuals and they don't much like me") and reviews that his first-grade instructor said he was "conceived with two helpings of mind and a half-aiding of heart." It is Alicia who causes him discover the heart. She is a graduate understudy when they meet, is pulled in to his virtuoso, is touched by his depression, can acknowledge his concept of romance when he advises her, "Custom requires we continue with various dispassionate exercises previously we engage in sexual relations." To the extent that he can be touched, she touches him, albeit frequently he appears to be caught inside himself; Sylvia Nasar, who composed the 1998 memoir that educates Akiva Goldsman's screenplay, starts her book by citing Wordsworth around "a man perpetually voyaging through interesting oceans of Thought, alone." Nash's schizophrenia takes a strict, visual frame. He trusts he is being sought after by a government specialist (Ed Harris), and envisions himself in pursue scenes that appear to be enlivened by 1940s wrongdoing motion pictures. He starts to discover designs where no examples exist. One night he and Alicia remain under the sky and he requests that her name any question, and after that interfaces stars to draw it. Sentimental, however it's not all that sentimental when she finds his office thickly papered with incalculable bits torn from daily papers and magazines and associated by frenzied lines into nonexistent examples.

The motion picture follows his treatment by an understanding specialist (Christopher Plummer), and his horrifying courses of insulin stun treatment. Medicine causes him enhance to some degree - yet just, obviously, when he takes the pharmaceutical. Inevitably more up to date tranquilizes are more compelling, and he starts a provisional reentry into the scholastic world at Princeton.

The motion picture interested me about the life of this man, and I looked for more data, finding that for a long time he was a hermit, meandering the grounds, conversing with nobody, drinking espresso, smoking cigarettes, paging through heaps of daily papers and magazines. And afterward one day he paid a very customary compliment to an associate about his little girl, and it was seen that Nash appeared to be better.

There is a momentous scene in the motion picture when an agent for the Nobel panel (Austin Pendleton) comes going to, and indicates that he is being "considered" for the prize. Nash watches that individuals are normally educated they have won, not that they are being viewed as: "You came here to see whether I am insane and would mess everything up on the off chance that I won." He did win, and did not mess everything up.

The motion pictures have a method for pushing psychological sickness into corners. It is unusual, outstanding, adorable, entertaining, adamant, unfortunate or unreasonable. Here it is just a malady, which renders life yet not exactly incomprehensible for Nash and his better half, before he ends up plainly one of the fortunate ones to haul out of the descending winding.

When he won the Nobel, Nash was gotten some information about his life, and he was sufficiently straightforward to state his recuperation is "not by any stretch of the imagination a matter of euphoria." He sees: "Without his 'frenzy,' Zarathustra would essentially have been just one more of the millions or billions of human people who have lived and after that been overlooked." Without his franticness, would Nash have additionally lived and afterward been overlooked? Did his capacity to enter the most troublesome scopes of numerical idea some way or another accompany a cost connected? The motion picture does not know and can't state.
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Avatar (2009)

Post By boosyears88 on Saturday, January 17, 2015

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AVATAR takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save the alien world he has learned to call home. James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of Titanic, first conceived the film 15 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not exist yet. Now, after four years of production, AVATAR, a live action film with a new generation of special effects, delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

Watching "Avatar," I felt sort of the same as when I saw "Star Wars" in 1977. That was another movie I walked into with uncertain expectations. James Cameron's film has been the subject of relentlessly dubious advance buzz, just as his "Titanic" was. Once again, he has silenced the doubters by simply delivering an extraordinary film. There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely.

"Avatar" is not simply a sensational entertainment, although it is that. It's a technical breakthrough. It has a flat-out Green and anti-war message. It is predestined to launch a cult. It contains such visual detailing that it would reward repeating viewings. It invents a new language, Na'vi, as "Lord of the Rings" did, although mercifully I doubt this one can be spoken by humans, even teenage humans. It creates new movie stars. It is an Event, one of those films you feel you must see to keep up with the conversation.


The story, set in the year 2154, involves a mission by U. S. Armed Forces to an earth-sized moon in orbit around a massive star. This new world, Pandora, is a rich source of a mineral Earth desperately needs. Pandora represents not even a remote threat to Earth, but we nevertheless send in ex-military mercenaries to attack and conquer them. Gung-ho warriors employ machine guns and pilot armored hover ships on bombing runs. You are free to find this an allegory about contemporary politics. Cameron obviously does.


Pandora harbors a planetary forest inhabited peacefully by the Na'vi, a blue-skinned, golden-eyed race of slender giants, each one perhaps 12 feet tall. The atmosphere is not breathable by humans, and the landscape makes us pygmies. To venture out of our landing craft, we use avatars--Na'vi lookalikes grown organically and mind-controlled by humans who remain wired up in a trance-like state on the ship. While acting as avatars, they see, fear, taste and feel like Na'vi, and have all the same physical adeptness.


This last quality is liberating for the hero, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), who is a paraplegic. He's been recruited because he's a genetic match for a dead identical twin, who an expensive avatar was created for. In avatar state he can walk again, and as his payment for this duty he will be given a very expensive operation to restore movement to his legs. In theory he's in no danger, because if his avatar is destroyed, his human form remains untouched. In theory.


On Pandora, Jake begins as a good soldier and then goes native after his life is saved by the lithe and brave Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). He finds it is indeed true, as the aggressive Col. Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) briefed them, that nearly every species of life here wants him for lunch. (Avatars are not be made of Na'vi flesh, but try explaining that to a charging 30-ton rhino with a snout like a hammerhead shark).


The Na'vi survive on this planet by knowing it well, living in harmony with nature, and being wise about the creatures they share with. In this and countless other ways they resemble Native Americans. Like them, they tame another species to carry them around--not horses, but graceful flying dragon-like creatures. The scene involving Jake capturing and taming one of these great beasts is one of the film's greats sequences.


Like "Star Wars" and "LOTR," "Avatar" employs a new generation of special effects. Cameron said it would, and many doubted him. It does. Pandora is very largely CGI. The Na'vi are embodied through motion capture techniques, convincingly. They look like specific, persuasive individuals, yet sidestep the eerie Uncanny Valley effect. And Cameron and his artists succeed at the difficult challenge of making Neytiri a blue-skinned giantess with golden eyes and a long, supple tail, and yet--I'll be damned. Sexy.


At 163 minutes, the film doesn't feel too long. It contains so much. The human stories. The Na'vi stories, for the Na'vi are also developed as individuals. The complexity of the planet, which harbors a global secret. The ultimate warfare, with Jake joining the resistance against his former comrades. Small graceful details like a floating creature that looks like a cross between a blowing dandelion seed and a drifting jellyfish, and embodies goodness. Or astonishing floating cloud-islands.


I've complained that many recent films abandon story telling in their third acts and go for wall-to-wall action. Cameron essentially does that here, but has invested well in establishing his characters so that it matters what they do in battle and how they do it. There are issues at stake greater than simply which side wins.


Cameron promised he'd unveil the next generation of 3-D in "Avatar." I'm a notorious skeptic about this process, a needless distraction from the perfect realism of movies in 2-D. Cameron's iteration is the best I've seen -- and more importantly, one of the most carefully-employed. The film never uses 3-D simply because it has it, and doesn't promiscuously violate the fourth wall. He also seems quite aware of 3-D's weakness for dimming the picture, and even with a film set largely in interiors and a rain forest, there's sufficient light. I saw the film in 3-D on a good screen at the AMC River East and was impressed. I might be awesome in True IMAX. Good luck in getting a ticket before February.


It takes a hell of a lot of nerve for a man to stand up at the Oscarcast and proclaim himself King of the World. James Cameron just got re-elected.
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Masitneun sex geurigo sarang (2003)

Post By boosyears88 on Friday, January 16, 2015

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In this intimate bedroom romance, Shin-ah is a free spirited modern woman and Dong-gi is a young man searching for something new and exciting. Their chance meeting turns into an unforgettable night. After breaking up with her boyfriend, Shin-ah decides to meet Dong-gi for another passionate encounter. The two 
==> Initial release: June 20, 2003 (South Korea)
==> Director: Bong Man-dae
==> Running time: 1h 30m
==> Screenplay: Kwak Jeong-deok
==> Music composed by: Jeong Won-yeong
==> Director: Man-dae Bong
==> Writer: Jeong-deok Kwak (screenplay)
==> Stars: Seo-hyeong Kim, Seong-su Kim 

Storyline :
(Korean with English subtitles) Shin-ah and Dong-gi hook up for an unforgettable night despite the fact that she has a boyfriend. Shin-ah decides to break up with her boyfriend and hook up with Dong-gi again. The two madly fall in love and the romance begins. But can they build an actual relationship that is more than just an excuse for their steamy sexual escapades?
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Jan Dara (2001)

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The final part of Jan Dara sees the young man taking his revenge against his stepfather. Jan learns that Lord Wisnan, who has abused for 17 years, is not his real father. He flees to the provinces, only to be driven back to Bangkok by his vengeful grandmother to seize power and reclaim the dignity of his clan. Jan is consumed by rage and lust, and orbiting around him are women such as the sexy Boonleung, his promiscuous step-sister Kaew and his respected Aunt Wad.

Actors :
==>    Suwinit Panjamawat as teenage Jan Dara
==>    Santisuk Promsiri as Khun Luang, Jan Dara's father
==>    Christy Chung as Boonlueang
==>    Eakarat Sarsukh as adult Jan Dara
==>    Wipawee Charoenpura as Aunt Waad
==>    Patharawarin Timkul as Kaew
Storyline :

Jan is a boy growing up in 1930s Siam in a wealthy, dysfunctional family where sex has a huge impact on everyone's lives. Jan Dara is viewed by his father, Khun Luang, as cursed, since his mother died giving birth to him. The abusive Luang is a womanizer who has sex with many women in front of the portrait of his late wife.

The younger sister of Jan's mother, Aunt Waad, is brought in to care for Jan. Luang has sexual relations with her, which causes young Jan to be jealous, since he has developed feelings for Waad. Waad and Luang have a daughter, Kaew, who is the apple of Luang's eye. From the beginning, he spoils her and teaches her to hate the "bastard Jan". Waad, in return, treats Jan like her own son and despises the bratty Kaew.

Later, another of Khun Luang's women, the sophisticated nymphomaniac Boonlueang, moves into a guesthouse on the estate, and she teaches Jan his first lessons in the ways of love.

Jan is then framed for the rape of Kaew, who was having relations with the son of one of the family's maids. But it is Jan who ends up punished for Kaew's transgressions. Later, it emerges that Kaew is pregnant, with the seed of her own father. To smooth over the damage to the family's reputation, Jan is asked to return to the family estate and is forced into an arranged marriage with his half-sister Kaew. He does so, as long as he is promised the deed to the estate, which he views as a form of vindication against his father for the abuse he endured from him during his childhood.

Kaew gives birth to Luang's child and curses it after it has emerged from her womb. The child displays classic dysmorphic features found in genetic mutations such as trisomy 21, commonly known as Down's syndrome.

Kaew, meanwhile, enters into a lesbian relationship with Boonlueang. When Jan discovers this, he demands that Kaew give him his own child and forces himself upon her repeatedly. Kaew becomes pregnant with Jan's child but she refuses to have the baby she is carrying, and with Boonlueang's assistance, performs a bloody, self-administered abortion.

Jan subsequently finds himself repeating the libidinous patterns of his father, going as far as to have sex with a maid in his father's sitting room, in front of the portrait of his mother. Jan wonders why he can't escape the cycle of sexual abuse started by his father. Then it is revealed that Jan is the product of a gang rape of his mother.
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Cinderella Man (2005)

Post By boosyears88 on Monday, January 12, 2015

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Cinderella Man is a 2005 American drama film by Ron Howard, titled after the nickname of heavyweight boxing champion James J. Braddock and inspired by his life story. The film was produced by Howard, Penny Marshall, and Brian Grazer. Damon Runyon is credited for giving Braddock this nickname. Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger and Paul Giamatti star.



Actors :
  •     Russell Crowe as James J. Braddock
  •     Renée Zellweger as Mae Braddock
  •     Paul Giamatti as Joe Gould
  •     Bruce McGill as James Johnston
  •     Craig Bierko as Max Baer
  •     Paddy Considine as Mike Wilson
  •     David Huband as Ford Bond
  •     Connor Price as Jay Braddock
  •     Ariel Waller as Rosemarie "Rosy" Braddock
  •     Patrick Louis as Howard Braddock
  •     Rosemarie DeWitt as Sara Wilson
  •     Linda Kash as Mrs. Gould
  •     Nicholas Campbell as Sporty Lewis
  •     Gene Pyrz as Jake
  •     Chuck Shamata as Father Roddick
  •     Ron Canada as Joe Jeanette
  •     Alicia Johnston as Alice
  •     Troy Amos-Ross as John Henry Lewis
  •     Mark Simmons as Art Lasky
  •     Art Binkowski as Corn Griffin
  •     David Litzinger as Abe Feldman
  •     Matthew G. Taylor as Primo Carnera
  •     Rance Howard as Announcer Al Fazin
  •     Robert Norman Smith as reporter


James J. Braddock is an Irish-American boxer from New Jersey, formerly a light heavyweight contender, who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his hand in the ring. This is both a relief and a burden to his wife, Mae. She cannot bring herself to watch the violence of his chosen profession, yet she knows they will have no good income without his boxing.

As the United States enters the Great Depression, Braddock does manual labor as a longshoreman to support his family, even with his injured hand. Unfortunately, he cannot get work every day. Thanks to a last-minute cancellation by another boxer, Braddock's longtime manager and friend, Joe Gould, offers him a chance to fill in for just one night and earn cash. The fight is against the number-two contender in the world, Corn Griffin.

Braddock stuns the boxing experts and fans with a third-round knockout of his formidable opponent. He believes that while his right hand was broken, he became more proficient with his left hand, improving his in-ring ability. Despite Mae's objections, Braddock takes up Gould's offer to return to the ring. Mae resents this attempt by Gould to profit from her husband's dangerous livelihood, until she discovers that Gould and his wife also have been devastated by hard times.

With a shot at the heavyweight championship held by Max Baer a possibility, Braddock continues to win. Out of a sense of pride, he uses a portion of his prize money to pay back money to the government given to him while unemployed. When his rags to riches story gets out, the sportswriter Damon Runyon dubs him "The Cinderella Man", and before long Braddock comes to represent the hopes and aspirations of the American public struggling with the Depression.

A title fight against Baer comes his way. Braddock is a 10-to-1 underdog. Mae is terrified because Baer, the champ, is a vicious man who reportedly has killed at least two men in the ring. He is so destructive that the fight's promoter, James Johnston, forces both Braddock and Gould to watch a film of Baer in action, just so he can maintain later that he warned them what Braddock was up against.

Braddock demonstrates no fear. The arrogant Baer attempts to intimidate him, even taunting Mae in public that her man might not survive. When he says this, she becomes so angry that she throws a drink at him. She is unable to attend the fight at the Madison Square Garden Bowl or even to listen to it on the radio.

On June 13, 1935, in one of the greatest upsets in boxing history, Braddock defeats the seemingly invincible Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.

An epilogue reveals that Braddock later worked on the building of the Verrazano Bridge, owning and operating heavy machinery on the docks where he worked during the Depression, and that he and Mae used his boxing income to buy a house, where they spent the rest of their lives.
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