Gran Torino (Movie)
This is a great movie.
Clint Eastwood performs a knock-out and surely Oscar worthy performance as a disgruntled Korean War vet called Walt Kowalski. The plot, though simple in substance and style is brilliantly planned and educated. The film follows a disgruntled Korean war veteran named Walt Kowalski, who sets out to reform his neighbour, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.
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Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
All right. Listen up out there. You could say this is Juno without the baby…or almost as useless and watered down as a straight to DVD movie…but you would be missing the point–not that every movie has to have a point.
N&N is not trying to sell something or be something–it’s not even trying to be great…because most love stories that try to be great fail. When you see N&N (and if you’re in the mood for a lighthearted enjoyable movie, you should), don’t go with an expectation of grandeur or even for the entire thing to be great. Alexis Diziena is as useless in this film as she is anorexic and whorish–her part is almost explicitly sexual. And there are so many subplots that their lives appear at times to be exaggerated. What matters almost seems to be camouflaged by what should be secondary.
The movie succeeds in a number of understated ways, though. Ari Graynor’s part is by far the funniest character of the bunch and Ari plays the part extremely well. The gay band Michael Cera is a member of adds a quirky afterthought to his character’s back story. And what’s most important–the characters Nick and Norah act like slightly more interesting versions of normal people. They have their flaws and their disagreements but they’re capable of finding the beauty in each other and their story along the way.
Movies should be about the creation and expansion of a spark of magic–not about giving you exactly what you expect or want. The perfection of the movie lives in its imperfections. The love is in the relationships that are real and what is fake gets left behind in a sketchy area near 10th street (that’s not a spoiler). It amplifies grace with its soundtrack and hope with its random culmination of peculiar events over a single-night.
So just let the infinite playlist play and enjoy it already.
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can
“Catch Me If You Can” is based on the true story of Frank Abagnale, the most successful conman in history. By the age of 19, Frank had already posed as a pilot for Pan Am, paraded around as a medical doctor, and fooled everyone by taking an on-the-side-job as a lawyer. (By the way, he faked a Harvard-graduate diploma to become one.) During this time he cashed fraudulent checks at various banks around the country, and eventually around various places in the world. His is an amazing story, and this film is based on it.
There’s no real plot to go into, as I have already given it to you. Other than telling you that the film opens when Frank is sixteen and runs away from home after his parents (Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye) have a messy divorce, you pretty much have the setup for a light, fluffy, and altogether fun film.
Frank is played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and the man hot on his trail, agent Carl Hanratty, is played by Tom Hanks. There isn’t really a Carl Hanratty in real life, but it adds to the story. Frank, on the run, actually starts to become friends with Hanratty, who realizes Frank is just an adolescent and does not realize the eventual outcomes of what he is doing. Hanratty sort of adopts Frank, even after he is caught and thrown in a French prison. He helps him get transferred to an American prison, and then even gets him a job in the FBI for spotting fraudulent checks.
The film is entirely watchable, and doesn’t try to become an epic. Steven Spielberg creates a real dazzler here; it is effortlessly watchable and even at two and a half hours long, it doesn’t become overbearing. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and, unlike most critics, I thought Tom Hanks did a great job in his role.
I especially like how Spielberg captured the image of the ’60s so well here, and John Williams’ score fits the part of the film very well. And as for the cast, they are all matched perfectly to their characters. I especially liked Christopher Walken as Frank Abagnale, Sr., who steals every scene he is in. His performance was worthy of its Oscar nom.
If you just want to sit back and relax, “Catch Me If You Can” is the perfect film for you. There’s nothing all that special in the film, but the film kind of becomes special because it is so easy to watch. I recommend “Catch Me If You Can” to anyone who can enjoy a movie for what it is.
A must watch!!
Ocean’s Eleven
Ocean’s Eleven
Ocean’s Eleven is not your typical heist movie.To start with there are eleven people working together all with specific, indispensable jobs to do. Yet the mood is still light hearted which makes it even more compelling to watch.
The inspired direction and flowing script assure that there is never a dull moment and that every scene is important, as is every character. There are also a couple of cameo appearances from some other big names to look out for.
This is a film that will keep you fascinated the entire time you are watching. It does not conform to the conventional values of the genre that we have come to expect. The twists and turns guarantee that by the end you will be sitting there thinking ‘that was really clever’. Perhaps it isn’t quite what you would expect from such a star studded cast and an Oscar winning director. But that is why it is so much better than the archetypal Hollywood blockbusters that we have come to expect.
Clooney plays Danny Ocean with the same self – confidence, composure and unmistakable coll that hasn’t been seen since Sinatra himself. All the other characters are brand new, that is except for the character of Tess Ocean (Julia Roberts). In the 60s original Tess, played by Angie Dickinson, is Ocean’s defender (to some extent). However, Roberts’ re-vamped character is more self assured and unmoved by Ocean’s charm. Rusty (Pitt) is rarely seen without snack in hand and the suit are certainly something to look at. He may be a new character but he is still played in the carefree manner typical of the Rat Pack.
Definitely a must see!!
Italian Job
Italian Job
This was a very fun movie to watch, and the action in it was very well choreographed, no doubt. This had some of the best chase scenes. The acting was good as well. How could it not be? Modern greats like Wahlberg, Theron, Statham, and others were all cast in this movie in ideal roles for their style. But the thing that keeps this movie from being something truly special is the most important element in a good film- the storyline.
A group of thieves lead by Mark Wahlberg rob a gold safe in Italy and thankfully for them the heist is successful and they get away with it without any big problems. Before the group can celebrate however Steve played by Ed Norton decides he want the gold all for himself and pulls a Cout De’ Ta on the group and shoots one of the members. He and his accomplices leave thinking that the group is dead but luckily the group is not dead. A year later we get back into the story where the group has tracked down Norton and decide to steal the gold back and spend the rest of the movie coming up with plans to steal back their gold and settle a score.
Bourne Trilogy
Remember… Everything. Forgive… Nothing.
Bourne Trilogy
FlipGraph brings to you, the best action thriller of the 20th century: The Bourne Trilogy – a golden collection of all three jaw dropping Bourne movies – The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy & The Bourne Ultimatum.
Forget about James Bond, give Matt Helm some rest. It’s time for Jason Bourne to rule the spy world. This series is based upon the character Bourne, a former CIA assasin suffering from psychogenic amnesia, created by author Robert Ludlum in his novels. You might have seen sequel movies and would always have said, “Terminator 2 is the best of all…” or “First movie of the Matrix series is much better than rest…”. But the magic of Bourne will never let you compare among the three parts as all of them are equally brilliant in all aspects. Let it be casting, performance, script, thrill, action, dialogues, anything… the movies are simply brilliant in all corners. Now let me take you through a glimpse of the series one by one. Enjoy the trailers.
The Bourne Identity: A man is found, almost dead, floating in the Mediterranean Sea with two gunshot wounds in his back and a device with the number of a Swiss safe deposit box embedded in his hip. He wakes up to find that not only he has forgotten what happened last night, but also what his identity is and where he belongs to. The man assumes the name Jason Bourne after finding passports under the name in the safe deposit box, along with many other international passports bearing his photograph but all having different names, large amounts of assorted currencies, and a gun. He subsequently attempts to discover his true identity while countering attempts on his life by CIA assassins, eventually realizing that he is one such assassin who failed to complete his most recent mission. All he wants now is to forget what he didn’t knew and start over…
The Bourne Supremacy: Some two years after learning that he is a trained assassin and breaking his connections with the CIA, Jason Bourne is framed for a crime connected to one of his past missions. A subsequent attempt on his life results in her Love, Marie’s death, so he decides to take revenge by hunting down those responsible for her death and his forgotten past, thinking that the CIA are hunting him again. His quest for revenge pulls him back into his past. And now he starts playing their game, on his rules…
The Bourne Ultimatum: His Identity… erased. His Loved One… murdered. His Past… destroyed. With nothing to loose anymore, Bourne decides to take them all down and uncover those who did it all this to him. But to do so, he has to first uncover his secrets… his past… his true identity… The Bourne Ultimatum will make you want to cry that the series is complete, yet you won’t not even attempt to stop smiling for hours after watching the ending. However for me, that last one was never a problem. I think it adds to the suspense…
Doug Liman and Paul Greengrass have created this mind blowing series with all the action, the dialogue, and of course the shaky camera. Cast is superb and no one could have done it better than Matt Damon himself. Its an unforgettable trilogy and a collection worth treasuring!!!
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fantastic Mr. Fox
In recent years, Disney’s Pixar division, with their monopoly over animation, has churned out some of the biggest, funniest, most emotional material to hit theaters in the last ten years.
“Fantastic Mr. Fox” is a pure delight. A feast for the eyes. From frame one, it takes no time at all to draw you into its beautiful visuals of vast countryside’s, running streams and falling foliage.
‘A’ list movie cast : George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Brian Cox, Adrien Brody and many more…
Giving up his life of a chicken thief because of a child on the way, Mr. Fox gets a job as a newspaper writer and lives underground. Years pass, he child is older and he wants to move to a tree and not feel poor anymore. Along the way he takes in his nephew and decides to steal again, from the three biggest farmers. The farmers get wise and start a battle against Mr. Fox, his family and all their creature friends.
Definitely a must watch!!!
Unforgiven
This movie is dedicated to all the fans of western genre who want to see real role of Clint Eastwood,Eastwood dedicated this movie to his mentors ‘Sergie and Don‘, Sergie made him ” The Man with no name” and Don gave him his one of the most recognized role ever “Dairy Harry“,so this movie will thrill you with extreme attitude of Eastwood and his brilliance in western genre.He won his first best director Oscar for this movie.
Eastwood plays a weakened, once-violent but reformed gunfighter – and an aging pig farmer.He was pursed by Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) to win a bounty against a notorious killer but Little Bill (Oscar-winner Gene Hackman), however, has no intention of letting any bounty hunters impinge on his iron-clad authority.At last Munny(Eastwood)he accepted the union for his children, and the two men convince Munny’s clean-living comrade Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) to join them in righting a wrong done to a woman.
This serious, dark, film-noirish, violent tale of retribution that concludes with a climactic and bloody showdown. The themes of justice, law enforcement, the untamed West, corruption, revenge, honor, feminism and masculinity, mythic heroes vs. reality, the tainted gunfighter, and the central, brooding and complex message of the non-glamorous, painful nature of gunplay and violence are well-delineated.
This is only the third Western ever to win the Best Picture Academy Award.Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman ), Best Director, and Best Film Editing (Joel Cox),total four Oscars out of nine nominations.
Just watch it for neo-violence of western and Clint Eastwood.
Gran Torino
Gran Torino (Movie)
This is a great movie.
Clint Eastwood performs a knock-out and surely Oscar worthy performance as a disgruntled Korean War vet called Walt Kowalski. The plot, though simple in substance and style is brilliantly planned and educated. The film follows a disgruntled Korean war veteran named Walt Kowalski, who sets out to reform his neighbour, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino.
The characters are fully drawn, believable, and resonate true human emotion.Great acting i might add.
A must watch!!
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