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I have watched the five episodes of the first season as well as the fifteen episodes of the second season which have been aired so far- and so far, I am completely loving this TV show. It is one of the finest TV shows that are airing right now, because of its three-dimensional characters and very realistic story. The cast is of the high class- the funny, somewhat cute Dave Greco who has troubles in his marriage with Deena; Brian, who never seems to be able to have a long relationship with a girl; Adam, Brian's best friend, who is a lawyer; Marjorie, who is a doctor and leaves Adam by the altar; Nicole, Brian's sister whose husband dies and leaves her a single mom to a new born baby. An interesting TV show that gives us many surprises by each episode. The most TV show that is being aired on TV right now often has one dimensional characters, especially when it is about men, but in this TV show it is so different. I like the new idea to make a TV show about thirty years old group of friends and their everyday life, instead of the melodramatic and unrealistic high school TV shows or the morally TV shows like 7th heaven- or the "rich life" TV show, The O.C.

This is definitely better than Desperate Housewives, according to myself.

The Night Listener is probably not one of William's best roles, but he makes a very interesting character in a somewhat odd but very different movie. I can guarantee you that you have never seen this kind of movie before. Some people maybe won't like the slow pacing of this movie, but I think it's the great plus of the movie. It is definitely one of the top movies that have come out the year 2006. It has a intriguing performance in a movie with a great content, dramatic feeling. This is no americanized movie. Neither is it a predictable movie. You just feel that it is a movie that has secrets which you have a hard time to determine what the outcome of it may be. This is no excellent movie that has everything, but hell, it's a damn good and very original movie.

When it's about movies like this, I have to put it simple and hard. This's no Titanic. No new Ghost Ship. You may now ask, but the biggies? Well, Richard Dreyfuss plays a gay. Hollywood most certainly have a rule in many events. In this movie a concept is proved - gays in movies never die. He's aged a lot too, and his acting is not as wonderful as the best years - the 70s and 80s. Kurt Russell who was a big action star is no character that we say "wow" to. Well, despite the biggies, this is more like a B-movie that tried tapper to give the audience action, but hey, they forgot to give us the story part. The visual effects are wowoa, but yet I could notice in some scenes fakes in the visual effects which disappointed me. If the visual effects couldn't be perfect, and we couldn't be given the story part, then hey, why am I watching the movie? The movie had a disappointing beginning, a okay middle and a ending that doesn't make me leave the movie theater more satisfied. Just the opposite.

First of all, this is not a movie based entirely on fact and truth. There are many inventions and many events that are not entirely chronological correct. I grew up adoring Pocahontas, and when I was almost six years old I watched the Disney version of the movie. Three years later, I watched the movie "Pocahontas: The Legend" which was disappointing but yet didn't stop my fascination for the story of Pocahontas. In 2000, when I was going to be eleven years old, I saw the famous painting of the engagement between Pocahontas and John Rolfe in the Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.

This movie shouldn't be seen solely for historical truth; but rather solely for entertainment and its beauty. It's a fascinating and great story, yes, but the legend of Pocahontas varies depending on where the source came from. Also, most of the stories of Pocahontas has been invented, or romanticized to make it more interesting. Yet, the only facts that I can determine are true is that Pocahontas was a real person as well as John Smith and John Rolfe. But whether they actually were in love with her, and if she actually loved them we never can know. But what's true is that Pocahontas eventually married John Rolfe.

Other than that, this movie can almost be called an art. The photography is so beautiful, and tends to stay at a point of scene a bit longer than most movies usually do, which give the movie a real, calm and thoughtful feeling. Unfortunately, it also leaves a lot of empty gaps in the movie, which makes the 2 hours and 15 minutes story feel a bit too long. Anyways, you feel as if you could identify with what the characters of the movie felt. This movie is so totally different the earlier versions, including the Disney movie.

Like all the legends of Pocahontas, this movie starts with the Englishmen shipping ashore to the Virginia coast in 1607, and meets the naturals who first act very friendly and curiously. But what happens thereafter is too uncertain, and too loose based on too many theories and speculations. So, let's say the rest of movie is based on a lot of theories, a lot of mythological stories we've learned about Pocahontas and a lot of fiction, too, to make it more interesting.

The family Stone are unlike other families that you've ever met. In that family, Kelly and Sybil are the parents of five children - Everett, the oldest who is played by Dermot Mulroney, who comes home with a new girl friend, Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker), who everyone in the family immediately start to hate, Thad (Ty Giordano), the gay and deaf son who with his partner Patrick (Brian White) want to adopt a child, Ben (Luke Wilson), the laid-back brother who doesn't care what anyone thinks about Meredith, Susannah (Elizabeth Reaser), the only of the siblings who is married, but even if she is, the marriage is somewhat troublesome, and she has a daughter who is about ten years old and a baby is on its way, and finally, the youngest and most rebellious sister of all, Amy (Rachel McAdams).

So, of course, when Everett brings Meredith home for Christmas, a disaster is predicted... Just as it seems to getting worse, Meredith calls her sister Julie (Clare Danes)to come and make a good impression. Love and trust keep the family together as some secrets are told.

All simply, this movie is a feel-good movie, and perfect to watch during Christmas time, but can be watched anytime during the year. You will just love Diane Keaton's very different mother, unlike her role in "Father of the Bride" or any other movie she has been starring in during the years, Rachel McAdams' aggression about Meredith and Sarah Jessica Parker's business woman Meredith who is very unlike her Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex and the City." However, even if it is such a great entertainment, the ending may be a bit stuck out but yet good. This is surely one of the funniest and most entertaining movies of 2005.

I remember when I saw the movie the very, very first time... I was eight years old, and I was just so amazed when I watched "King Kong." By that time, I never thought any movie would beat the fantastic impression I got by that movie. I completely loved it, the movie magic was so real, unfalse and so tremendous. It was an amazing experience. To have watched such a movie when I was eight really made a lasting impression to my growing movie interest. It is sure one of the very first movies that made me a movie buff today. I love movies, I love making movies, just because of that movie and other movies that I saw by that time. I think that I have got the fortunate to have watched such great movies by that age, because I am sure that if I had just watched kid movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, my interest in movies had been very different today.

Since then, I haven't watched it again. I haven't dared to try give it another try, because I want to beware the first memory of the movie... for now.

I remember the boat shipping to the island, the woods, the Indian dancing around the king Kong and the movie producers with the blonde actor Fay Wray getting caught in King Kong's arms, making him falling in love with her... how he later gets caught... and how he made the famous climbing to the top of Empire State Building. It is these things that I will never forget, these things that made me love movies. King Kong... it is a very tremendous movie, a movie that nobody should underestimate or even call a nasty movie. It is one of the greatest movies made of all time, because it was such a tremendous, such an amazing movie for its time... and still today, because we are so amazed how the movie could have been made in 1933. Yeah, the picture quality is not of the best compared to present movies, but it is one of the things that made King Kong... King Kong. Without this, it hadn't been famous. It hadn't been a classic. It hadn't made Peter Jackson a movie director. It is an evidence how meaningful a movie can be, because it can influence so many lives, whether you want it or not. However, I am sure that there are also people who don't get the point of King Kong. I respect them for that. Everybody can't have caught the magic, the important message of the movie... Some were really impressed by the magic, others not. It is the truth. It is what happens with all the other movies too. It is nothing special.

But to me, King Kong will forever be the very very first favorite movie of mine. It is still a favorite movie, even if I haven't watched it once since then. I still want to beware the magic, the memory.

If you haven't seen it, it's a serious case! I Love Lucy is one of the best classical TV comedy shows throughout time, and you just know nothing about what is funny if you haven't seen Lucille Ball's spoiled Lucy and Desi Arnaz's Ricky, a Cuban crooner, and their neighbors, Ethel and Fred. You will just enjoy the slap-sticks, the one-lines, the simple but funny story each episode, the ever fight between Ricky and Lucy about something simple as money, how Ethel always supports Lucy, how easy Lucy gets jealous when a beautiful woman gets Ricky to do something that Lucy couldn't persuade him in doing and a lot of more. You just have to see the TV show to understand what I mean. For you have surely not missed all the reruns that are going on TV, the wall calendars that can be found in any book store and that this is always talked on any TV forum on Internet? I Love Lucy will forever be an unforgotten classic, and you should be ashamed if you haven't seen the TV show... then you have missed something real big, something legendary and something that will never be forgotten.

Stephen Glass, genially portrayed by Hayden Christensen, most known as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in the two last Star Wars movies, is a 24-year old star journalist at The New Republic, and all his articles are entertaining its readers. He has a great life, he enjoys his job and he gets frustrated if he believes somebody is mad at him. But so far, he is happy. However, what nobody could ever imagine is that he has a secret. Chuck Lane, who is the editor, finds out the truth after the last article Steve wrote, Hack Heaven, lacks real sources and he starts to question him. It turns out that Stephen has fabricated more than half of his articles and it became the end of his journalist career.

It's an incredible story, a story that you would never believe about a fact-checked magazine, but that you know would happen in all "the other" gossipy magazines. This is just a unbelievable story that is portrayed by unbelievably great actors. You will just end believe in everything that read on newspapers, magazines, everything. You will also start feel sorry for Steve, despite everything. Stephen Glass had a potential, all his stories had potential, but don't believe in anything just because they are entertaining... they can be fictional.

What does not make sense is why Stephen Glass did not become an author instead of journalist for a popular magazine? Well, he wanted a little attention, he wanted fame, and he got it, but it also became the end of his career. The irony is that he has received his law degree and his first novel, that ironically is about a fictional story of a journalist who fabricated over half of his articles, has been published recently. The movie just made me think: What do you know about your friends, your parents, your siblings, your employees, your partners, your bosses? They can perhaps have any secret that you just couldn't ever imagine... just because they are such great people, so clear in their minds. But what I can say is that you will never judge people by their looking, character and personality... never judge them by their lies, secrets and what they have done, too... don't judge people at all. Just don't believe everything they say or write.

Well, I grew up reading Francine Pascal's book series of the twins Liz and Jess Wakefield in Sweet Valley so it grew naturally that I became a huge fan of the books and later discovered this TV show, making it a favorite TV show of mine. I couldn't miss a single episode of this TV show, which I followed through four years and have surely watched more than three reruns of this TV show.

And it was a long time ago, when I hadn't yet become a teenager. And really, this TV show is not to be taken seriously - all stuff in this TV show is all simply too "Hollywoodish" or too "beautiful and perfect", so to say. Well, this milks stereotypes - the twins are blonde, busty, one of them are beautiful cheerleader, a friend is a studious brunette, another is fiery redhead, etc. And worst of all, bad acting. Get the picture? Yes.

But it is yet all part of the fun, and I think no one takes the series to heart and starts to question the reality of it all because it is just another Hollywoodish TV show... And did you know, all TV shows from Hollywood are more or less un-realistic.

Well, the best you can do is skipping the seriously part and enjoy it as it is... why wouldn't we when there are similar stereotypes of this kind of show in other shows both formerly and recently - 7th heaven, The OC, Summerland, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place - all of them always have some beautiful blondin or brunette and similar unrealistic events that could just happen in either the movie or TV worlds. But hey, just enjoy it... when you won't experience it in real life.

First, I can tell that this TV show is definitively not the version you are expecting - which means Edgar Rice Byrroughs's classic version of Tarzan or a version that Johnny Weissmuller is dressed in loincloth and swinging in the jungle and fighting crocodiles - this TV show is instead a new, modern version of the Tarzan mythology. The jungle lord is updated, which was a real risk the WB network took, and moved him from the Kongo jungle to the skyscrapers of New York. What we get is surprisingly an entirely new Tarzan mythology, and what surprised the more is that it is extremely good.

Tarzan aka John Clayton grew up in the Kongo Jungle but after getting caught and escaped those who caught him, he now climbs skyscrapers and hides himself from his uncle, the head of Greystoke Industries, who got him shot and caught in the Kongo jungle, meanwhile he helps victims that are attacked by criminals. Jane is also not the typical heroine that we know from the old mythology - she is now a strong and beautiful and brown haired NYC police detective, who (unsurprisingly) finds herself increasingly drawn to the mysterious and dangerous Tarzan. The writers again took another risk to let Tarzan's dark side show through, making the TV show more intensely, different and more thrilling. This Tarzan is handling two different sides of himself - the one with violence and anger and the next one helping innocent people or protecting his loving one, Jane. But, some of his violent actions while protecting Jane often result in putting Jane in danger. In fact, much of the story is recognized from the old mythology - the New york jungle is most likely like the Congo jungle, what makes it different is that it is located in New York and is taken place in a modern time - and it makes it good.

And what's more good with this TV show is that the stars are more or less unknown actors. Travis Fimmel (plays Tarzan) is an Australian ex Calvin Klein model, Sarah Wayne Callies (plays Jane) is another newcomer. And hey, both actors are really better than I expected, and actually, they managed to give the love between Tarzan and Jane the same feeling that I had when I read the novels or watched the earlier versions of Tarzan. But even though there is no kiss here, they manage to have some powerful scenes that, instead of a dialogue, tells their love by a glance here and a blush there. Even though it may be strange, it works. Also, Fimmel impresses by doing most of his stunts himself, making it look like he is a real jungle boy, and he also manages to make his Tarzan strong, proud, having a child's innocence and always battles for what he believes is right. That's really impressing for a new coming actor.

Other stars are Lucy Lawless, Mitch Pileggi and Miguel A Nunez Jr that also give their great skills in great supporting roles. Lucy plays an important role - as Tarzan's smart aunt Kathleen, Pileggi is really the perfect candidate to take on Uncle Richard (who wants to catch Tarzan by every price) and Nunez, whose lines are surely the best the best in this show, plays Jane's partner, Sam Sullivan.

The only negative part with this TV show is that there are only 8 episodes, but although it's so, each episode always improves something new and thrilling, either in Jane and Sam's hunting villains or in the romance between Tarzan and Jane, and always improves upon the last.

I highly recommend this TV show as it is worth watching, especially if you appreciate great dialogue, good plenty of action and two interesting characters that are fighting both to stay out or stay with each other through the TV show.

Hey, this is really good stuff. It is very seldom I am so into a movie as I was when I saw this movie. After ten times, I am still as impressed as when I first watched this great and magnificent movie about tragedies and parallel histories that are tied in some way.

Frank TJ Mackey (Tom Cruise) is a known profile but what nobody know is that his real father is Earl Partridge (Jason Robards) who lies for his death. Partridge's production company produces the TV jeopardy show "What do kids know" of which the program leader is Jimmy Gator, who has Cancer and a troublesome relationship with his daughter. His daughter, Claudia, sniffs cocaine and meets a police, Jim, whom she goes out for a date with. Stanley, a clever guy, is a participant of the show "What do kids know". Donnie Smith was the cleverest guy when he as a child won a jeopardy show, but since the thunders met him, his life hadn't been that good. As the day pass, it turns out a horrible day - it rains, someone gets panicked, some secrets are told and the question is: Is everything that happen in the life a coincidence?

An interesting movie with great actors. No doubt, Paul Thomas Anderson has directed a small masterpiece with a masterful story.

I can't just say this is a masterpiece, but it is really nothing less than a great movie. Nicole Kidman is convincing and amazing, Matt Dillon unlikely than the other roles he's been playing and Joaquin Phoenix sweetly innocent (in one of his best roles). Casey Affleck is also co-starring in a small role of Russell. Amusing as well as a serious movie, based on true events. Suzanne (Kidman) has just married Larry Mazetto, but she doesn't let her marriage stop her dreams of draw a little attention and becoming a big TV profile. In her way to the top, she must start from the bottom... and as time pass by, she becomes all more fixed by the thought of becoming TV star. It goes that far that she rents three teenagers for murdering her husband. A fine story of a woman who just wanted a little attention.

It is such a movie that gets you fell good. Maybe mostly a movie for girls, but yet a great and excellent movie. Ione Skye plays Frankie, who is about to leave in one week for her acting dreams in L.A., who wants to meet the man with blue eyes. And in comes David, new in town and who happens to be employed in the Café Blue Eyes which Frankie's uncle Leo runs. It becomes a crazy week together with Frankie's best friend Allison (Jennifer Aniston), Frankie's gay cousin and uncle Leo. Fixed by the decision to catch David, Frankie does everything for trying to get David to fall in her... but it is really a hard task as he has a girlfriend. A fine story of love, meaningful quotes, insomnia, dreams and true friendship. In addition, this movie also have excellent acting, beautiful ending and as a result, this movie gives hope.

First of all, I want to tell that I haven't watched this movie before and that the first time I did watch this was yesterday. Further, I can say that by watching this movie I understood what I've been missing... Danes and DiCaprio is such a great couple in this movie... This is such a truths worthy and realistic movie, all authentic to the Shakespeare story except from that fact that the story is moved from Verona in the 16th century to present time in Verona Beach and some changed lines, some changed scenes and a bit modernized story. Beautiful scenes, beautiful cinematography, sad story, fine person chemistry between Danes and DiCaprio. Can say that if the book was for grown ups, then this movie is mostly for teenagers and younger.

First of all, I want to tell you that I have been one of Batman's greatest fans since I started reading the comic books. Actually I discovered Batman before I started reading the comic books, which is not that strange because I was born in the year of 1989. When I was about eight years old, I watched the first Batman movie starring Michael Keaton. And yeah, I liked the humor in that movie a lot. I didn't like the second movie as much as I liked the first, but it was yet a great movie. But when I watched the third and fourth movies, which was after I started reading the comic books, I really disliked it. I couldn't understand why they wanted to make such two bad movies when Burton did good with the two first movies. Although Batman & Robin was a bit fun, I yet disliked it.

And now, the fifth movie has finally arrived and come to the cinemas anywhere. This is the movie that tells the background story of how Bruce Wayne becomes Batman... And it has never been that good. It is darker than ever, but the mind of humor is still there, and is noticed sometimes throughout the movie. You notice a few known faces - whose names are such like Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson and Rutger Hauer. And of course, not to be forgotten, the star of this movie - Christian Bale. Honestly, I think Bale is perfectly characterized as Bruce Wayne alias Batman, probably also better than Michael Keaton, who I couldn't really like in the first two movies.. But in here, I really feel Bale is the right one as Batman... He gives a mix of feelings with fear, power, charisma and revenge. But I have to admit that Michael Caine really is great besides Batman as his butler, and he is also the first who gets to know Bruce's intentions of becoming Batman... and helps him in all ways, being like a sort of uncle for him. Caine is really an excellent actor and he gives a proof of him being one of the movie's greatest actors throughout the movie's history in this movie.

It starts with Bruce as a little boy being attacked by a lot of bats and how he is getting nightmares of it. Some days later, interrupting a Opera show because of his fear of bats, Bruce sees his parents being murdered of a thief. He becomes powerless, making it his life purpose to revenge the one who killed his parents. But some incident 14 years later gets him to hide himself, taking him to the criminal way... and to a prison and finally to a mountain, where he meets a mystic man who teaches him to accept his fear and to fight. Back to Gotham City, Alfred becomes Bruce's truths worthy assistant and soon Bruce is able to characterize himself as Batman, Gotham City's rescuer from falling in decline. With help of a police (Oldman) and an employer of Wayne Tower (Freeman) who knew his father , Bruce tries to save the city and surprise the villains and give them what they deserve. But it becomes a hard fight against decline.

A great movie that is thrilling, amazing and magnificent as well as masterful. Gotham City looks like a darker version of Chicago, Manhattan and Chinatown, and is greatly illustrated and dark toned. The stars are great and Holmes is fitting as Rachel, her serious charisma making it realistic.

But even though it is great, the background story takes much time but it is yet great to know the background story of Batman, when you only experienced a few minutes of it in the first Batman movie with Keaton. This time it is different, modern, darker and more spectacular than ever, but I can't say if it is better than the two first movies - but one thing is true and it is that the background story is greatly made and that the stars have never been better. Actually, everything is great and I can't complain of anything bad in this movie, but I feel it is yet not enough to give this movie full grade... something is missing.

It is the third movie this half year that is based on a comic book - first it was Sin City, then it was Fantastic Four and now this... Still Sin City is the best.

I loved this movie completely. Jake Gyllenhaal, before his breakthrough role in Donnie Darko, stars as Homer Hickam, a teenager who in October 1957 decides to build a rocket. This is based on a true story, written by Homer Hickam, of how four friends start to build a rocket in the small city Coalwood, West Virginia, and how they inspire the people of that town by doing the impossible. Except from the story of the building of rockets and how people are both happy and unhappy of it, it is the story of a father and son relation, how a teenager really fights for his dreams, no matter what his father thinks or wants. A beautifully storytelling movie with all glorious moments... that it is a true story makes it more believable, but at the same time also unbelievable.

Highly recommended, not only for the fine story but also for fine characters, great actors and a great photography. Forget visual effects - this is a great drama movie with a great story.

It is impossible not being impressed or loving this movie completely. Robert De Niro is making one of his greatest roles, along with Taxi Driver and The Godfather, in this movie by playing David Aaronson, a Jewish gangster, who hangs out with his friends - Cockeye and Patsy among others - when he was a boy, when they said that they would die for each other... They shared their fortunes (which they earned by making some crime in the under world), their loves and their lives. When they grew to men, they shared a dream, a dream to skip poverty, which was their world, and rise to power. But they don't realize that it will cost them their friendship - that it will be built on greed, violence and betrayal for making the dream come true. Finally, their dream would end as a mystery that refuse to die. Except from De Niro, James Woods is making his maybe best role of Max, who becomes the leader of the gang of which De Niro is a member.

It is a fine story by three and half a hour that tells the whole story by the beginning of David's escape from the justice after being accused of having betrayed his friends, and how he thirty years later came back to his youth, wanting to find an answer of his past, returning to his memories from his time in the gang, how he was in love with Deborah, how he was best friends with Max, how everything ended... the end that still is a mystery.

It is a very thrilling drama movie, which the ending will be nothing you imagine, but of which you understand will happen by the last ten minutes until the fine story ends. The photography is beautifully filmed, the cinematography realistic, which make it feel like you are in the first half of the 20th century, when you aren't, and the actors all simply great as well as the characters and the story. It's one of the best storytelling movies, along with movies such like The Godfather and The Untouchables, that I've been watching... All simply, it's a great experience of a greater movie.

It is the kind of TV show that won't let you go after watching the first episode. What gripped me in this TV show is the different characters, the different story and the amusing mind of humor even in serious events. It's the kind of TV show that don't try to tell you that there ARE really something mysterious, maybe alien like, in the world, but try to tell you that there may be something mysterious, maybe alien like, that is behind anything special event, for example suicide or murder.

I love it completely, liking all actors and characters, and every episode awaits always another new surprise.

Starring Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards), Jessica Alba (Sue Storm), Chris Evans (Johnny Storm) and Michael Chiklis (Ben Grimm) who are turning into the fantastic four - part elastic, part invisible, part fire and part stone. They are astronauts and scientists who are teamed up with Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon) who runs his million dollar concern and can afford the trip of a few days in the space just for Richards's discovery of a cosmic storm, which will cure sicknesses and that kind of stuff. But something goes wrong and the storm comes earlier than estimated. Back in Earth, Reed finds himself elastic, calling himself Mr Fantastic, Sue finds herself invisible, calling herself Invisible Girl, Johnny finds himself being able to burn, naming himself Human Torch, and Ben finds himself becoming the thing with a body of stone. The only who seems have survived the cosmic storm is Victor Von Doom - it seems that... But some event later get the fantastic four to change their minds and stop him before it's too late.

Despite the stubborn beginning, it's a great movie with great visual effects, great and fun characters, great actors and a great story. It has also a lot of great mind of humor, that got me to burst into laughing a lot of times. Further, the photography is also smart, as well as the cinematography. Everything seem realistic or real like, anyways. The smart thing I think the director and the film company have done in this case, is to take quite unknown actors into this movie, because I think that if actors such like Charlize Theron (who has been talked about being the Invisible girl) or Nicolas Cage or another big star had gotten the roles instead of those unknown actors, it had been a bad movie... everything had not felt that good, then, I guess. Now when it is quite unknown actors (except from Alba and McMahonm, whom I knew before from Dark Angel and Nip/Tuck respectively) who have the roles in this movie it is easy to identify with the characters and feel a sympathy for them.

In other ways, it's an amazing and pleasant movie, which yet can't strike Sin City from being the best movie I have seen this year yet.

It isn't that often I go out from the cinema with such a satisfying feeling for having watched such a great movie. This is surely one of the very few movies that has given me the credit to have such glorious and satisfying feeling. Probably the best movie I've watched this year and the year isn't ended yet.

This movie is casted of surely almost all actors you know or recognize either their faces or names - names such like Mickey Rourke, Rutger Hauer, Nick Stahl, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis, Alexis Bledel, Jessica Alba, Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Michael Madsen and a few more. This movie is parted by a few histories that is tied to each other and make new ways to new stories and new mysteries. The first story is a young charming man (Josh Hartnett) who kills an unbeknown st woman who believes he loves her (it's how he gets to kill his victims). The second story is about Hartigan (Bruce Willis) who is the only last good cop left in the sin city. He is fixed by the mind of finding Nancy Callahan, 11, who is kidnapped by the town's senator's son (Nick Stahl) who later turns to be the yellow and disgusting man. He arrives in time, killing his assistants and, to last, shooting the ear and the cock off the kidnapper, saving the pretty and very scared girl. But he is betrayed by his friend, another cop, and is shot a few times. He finds himself waking up in the hospital, accused for having killed the other six girls and kidnapped this pretty girl Nancy who he actually saved. He gets into prison and eight years later, he is prepared for revenge. The third is about Marv (Mickey Rourke) who has a glorious night with Goldie, but finds her murdered besides him on the morning, making him looking for the murderer who did this, at any cost. It becomes a thrilling hunt that may finish a few lives, making a way to the person who is behind everything, the villain you never would ever imagine... or dream about. Also, another story is about Dwight (Clive Owen), who comes to the Old Town where the whores have their own laws and their own business. He is there for a business - because of Jackie (Benicio del toro) who has been with his last whore (Brittany Murphy). It turns about to be that the girls make the task of stopping him themselves - but what they don't know was that he was a cop, making the resting between the whores and the cops turning into a war... if not they are stopping it before it is too late.

Sin City is no usual movie. The visual effects are very unlike the others you've seen - it's all based on comic book-like, making it feel that you are the audience behind the events into a comic book, when it actually is a movie you are watching. It feels real, so real, that you just keep your eyes on the movie, afraid of missing anything meaningful, anything interesting or anything great and magnificent, or afraid of missing any special character. The movie is all black and white except from the eyes that are colored (either blue, green, brown or whatever), the yellow man (Nick Stahl), the Goldie hairs of Goldie and a red dress. Blood can turn to be red sometimes.

It is filmed in a real action way, a way that make this movie real, thrilling and bloody. I have never liked action movies that much before, but I really really like this movie, despite all violent scenes... it is despite everything a fine story of violence, fighting for your people against all others, finding your loving one, making murder for revenging your loving one's death, truth and corrupts. It is more bizarre than the reality but it is such a well-done movie gathered by all great actors into one and same movie and all great visual effects. The story ain't stupid either, and the characters are very different and cool.

I enjoyed this movie fully, never being bored or missing anything even a second... Couldn't practically blink... was completely obsessed.

If you would name a few movies that are almost perfect or perfect in your eyes, this is a movie you would name (in my sight, anyways). Million Dollar Baby is far different from other movies you've seen - especially when it's about fighting in matches, wanting to win and fighting for dreams come true, such like The Karate Kid (a bad one) and Rocky (a good one, but the sequels were bad). This movie takes another perspective on the boxing world - into the woman boxing world mixed into a story about a woman, overage who really WANTS to be a professional boxer, and an old man, who against his will becomes her coach and doesn't have an idea that it will influence his life forever... and no matter how he denies it, it makes him a better person. Told by his assistant, Scrap (Morgan Freeman), this is an unbelievably beautiful movie about friendship, dreams and identity.

I didn't have high expectations of this movie, which didn't make me disappointed when I finally watched this movie. I expected it, anyways, even though Spielberg is a good director and has done many well-done movies in his past - E.T., Close Encounters, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List and Jurassic Park just to naming a few. This is just not a movie that even Peter Jackson would be able to make good. The problem is that War of the worlds was written in the end of the 19th century and when you will make a movie about it and change the time to the 21th century, then the story gets too simple and the visual effects take over too much. The beginning had deep, the rest is flat. I prefer the original War of the worlds, when everything had deep but the end was flat. Maybe there is a curse about War of the worlds being filmed.

The story seems promising in the beginning, but gets too fast with the machines from outer space - they start to attack already after about ten minutes and don't finish until five minutes before the ending scene, which made it a pity to see the movie. The story is too simple - it is just about Tom Cruise and his two children escaping from or fighting the machines. But there are some deep scenes during the entire movie - the scenes between Tom Cruise's role as the father and his relation to his son, Robbie. And how he takes care of Rachel (Fanning). Those scenes are very deep, but it doesn't make the movie any better. Despite that fact, the visual effects are very spectacular but the sad truth is that visual effects can't make a movie good if there is no great story. And the ending is also too predictable, it becomes too Hollywoodish, excuse my saying this. Too much clichés.

But anyway, like I said before, nobody could have made it any better than what Spielberg did (Jackson would probably have done it at least as good as him, but who knows? You can always be surprised) in this century. If you really want to see a good version of any of H G Wells's novels, see the original Time Machine from the '60s.

First, I want to make clear that there is nothing new in this movie. So was it said.

If you have watched Scream or other movies that was written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven, you recognize this kind of movie. It is so predictable that nothing is new or surprising - which is very, very bad to be a horror movie. But as a cliché movie, this is a good one. It contains everything you can expect of a cliché movie - bad/half good actors, bad/half good story, half smart one-liners, spectacular but very visible visual effects, humor, bad beginning and funny ending. That kind of stuff is to be expected in this movie.

And now, to the second thing. That this has got one so high grade by me, is only because of Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg. They fit good into the roles of two siblings in Los Angeles, who end up being bitten by a werewolf while trying to save a girl whose car they accidentally crashed into. As the following hours go by, Jimmy (Eisenberg)gets obsessed by getting to know facts and information about werewolves or any kind of wolves, while Ellie (Ricci) doesn't want to know anything about it. But when a few more attacks by a werewolf are reported, Ricci has to facing the truth and starting the hunt for killing the wolf, learning some truth and prevent her body from changing to a werewolf.

Surprising for once's sake, Joshua Jackson's flat. Michael Rosenbaum is not seen that much in this movie either, neither does Shannon Elizabeth. But it doesn't make this movie less good- this movie has Christina Ricci, which increases the thrill for the entire movie. Without her, I don't know what this movie had ended up being.

All simply, I watched this because I wanted to see how Paris Hilton acted. Her presence has got many to raise their eyes, with all rights. But yet, this is a movie that you can make fun of Paris Hilton. She is not seen so much in this movie, but when she does, then it is scenes that makes fun of her. Like a camera or the way she is killed. It is definitively worth a watch, only for seeing her die. Terrible thought, I know, but yet I have to admit nobody could have made her role better than herself. Her role was maybe written for herself, I don't know, but in fact it does not matter when her presence increases the interest of the movie.

Otherwise, this is good stuff. It's a good horror with all receipts of what a good horror must have - a villain, disgust factor is very high, lots of blood, lots of killing and all simply a predictable movie as a good horror always must be! I enjoyed this movie, all simply. And Elisha Cuthbert is definitively perfect as scream queen, while Chad Michael Murray is definitively best for the role of a tough brother who saves his twin sister.

Otherwise, the story is bad and flat, but it's the factor of disgust and the blood scenes that makes this a good horror movie.

I had heard bad critics of this, but also fine critics, so I decided to give this movie a try. I also wanted to see John Travolta in such a different role - drunk, white-haired and a little fat. And he really makes it good. I am also impressed by Scarlett, although this isn't her best role - her best role's still in Lost in Translation - but yet she makes a good role. In fact, every actor in this movie are very good. I feel so happy when I am watching this... All simply it's a movie about people, their hearts, love, dreams and passions. It's also about finding what you were looking for - finding your own way in life. A very fine coming-of-age movie of a very different kind, very different other drama movies. It's not a movie about love story like the most drama movies, but about finding your identity and get your dream to come true.

The plot? Two drunk men are living in the house that Lorraine (mother of Purslane, played by Scarlett Johansson)left to them and Purslane. Purslane has not met her mother in years, barely remembering how she looked like, but decides to go to New Orleans when her mother Lorraine dies. Missing the funeral, she decides to stay in the house as she is one of the three inheritors. The other two inheritors are of course the drunk men, Lawson (a becoming writer) and Bobby (a former literature teacher at college). So starts their life together with all its problems... but also dreams, passions and truth-finding.

It's maybe too long and low-voiced and too calm movie and 2 hrs is a little too much, but yet it's a very beautiful movie. You smile and you laugh slyly sometimes as well as almost burst into tears.