Tuesday, March 20, 2007

POTC 3 At World's End - Official Trailer!

Here is the exclusive trailer of the 3rd and final franchise of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie



The film releases worldwide on May 25th

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

300 - Movie Review



Forget Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, Alexander and all those so called “sandals and swords “movies. These films do not hold a candle to the amazing piece of artwork that is “300” Frank Miller, who did nothing but take a flashlight the size of the sun and shine it on his graphic novel work with green-lighting the film adaptation of "Sin City" in '05, is now back in film once again. But instead of Robert Rodriguez manning the directorial duties, Zach Snyder was tapped to do Miller's graphic novel "300", Znyder uses Rodriguez's revolutionary visual green screen technique utilized in "Sin City" to create the world of Sparta and the Battle of Thermopylae for "300". However, that isn't to say that the two movies look the same. Where "Sin City" felt like a comic book in black and white as per Miller's source material, "300" feels like a whole different world.


The story is very simple Spartan King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) leads 300 of his finest warriors into battle against the vast Persian armies of King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro). Outnumbered beyond reason, Leonidas chooses to make his stand at the 'Hot Gates', a twisted mountain path facing the sea where the vastness of the Persian army will be of no use. Meanwhile, on the home front, Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) struggles with the corrupt and complacent Greek senate to send reinforcements to aid in the King's battle.


The actors are deserving of a word or two. Gerard Butler's Leonidas was a bit over the top, intense every moment. Some acting dynamics would have made his high-intensity scenes feel more intense. The same is true to come extent of the entire cast. Lena Headey was great as the unfortunately-named Queen Gorgo, and Dominic West was wonderfully malicious as the evil traitor Thereon.

300 was by far the best cinematic experience that I have had since Return of the King came out. And that’s quite saying something .The visuals in the movie were spectacular and unique. The colors used were perfect with an antique look about the whole movie. It was the best war movie I have ever seen with jaw dropping action sequences and tasteful slaying (blood was flying, but in a good way). Don’t go around looking for character development and chemistry between actors .If you are eager for one hell of a movie, Look no further.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Spider-Man 3 Exclusive Sneak Peak 7min Trailer

Here is an exclusive clip of the upcoming summer blockbuster Spiderman3 , Has a great action sequence in it and look out for the Venom in the last scene ...Looks killer



Spiderman 3 Releases 4th May 2007 worldwide.


Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Zodiac - Movie Review





Zodiac is the newest film by masterful director, David Fincher, about the obsessive case of the Zodiac murderer. The film stars Mark Ruffalo and Jake Gyllenhaal, as a cop and a journalist who both over time obsess over the untraceable case, concerning a possible of thirty-seven supposed killings.







Zodiac contains three parts, or acts. In act 1 it tells the story of the Zodiac killer, and the individual reactions of cartoonist, Robert Graysmith, played by Jake Gyllenhaal; alcoholic journalist, Paul Avery, played by brilliant Robert Downey Jr.; and co-lead detective, Inspector David Toschi. Each of these people react in different ways, one way being the necessity to find how who this killer is, and what his codes mean, and others which involve going to the pub and having n exotic blue drink.



When someone refers to an all star cast, usually they refer to names everyone has heard of, in this, there are 3 large box office draws, and has a handful of performances that "wow" you and make you want to go home and learn more about the actor. The film contains more than enough people to make this a star studded cast, that hopefully by the end of the year at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, it will not be forgotten. Robert Downey Jr. gives one of his best on screen performances, starting the Best Supporting Actor race for next years Academy Awards, while Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Ruffalo will have to battle it out off screen come Oscar time, due to both being monstrously captivating in the mysterious case, and giving so far some of the best performances of the year. While this is not saying much, Mark Ruffalo does in fact contribute the best performance of his career.


The supporting cast consisting of Brian Cox, Anthony Edwards and John Carroll Lynch give standout performances as well. John Carroll Lynch in particular, who manages to intimidate us with only a few scenes in hand. Brian Cox plays Melvin Belli, a morning news reporter who is forced to talk to the maniacal killer, manages to be both remotely comical and eminently dramatic.

Usually in films like this they fail miserably, not going in-depth about murders, evidence and such, much like The Black Dahlia, however here, David Fincher grabs you by the throat and presents you evidence, and the consuming and tortured lives the main characters must lead to find out the final verdict of the case.

The film has an illusive running time of 2 hours and 40 minutes of what one would expect to be sheer torture, regardless it seems as if you are there only for an hour or so, and by the time the film is over and the credits are rolling in front of your face after an elongated end title sequence, you will have wanted to see even more! Throughout the film it is thrilling, scary, and very akin in genre to The Silence of the Lambs, which coincidentally was released less than a month before Zodiac 16 years earlier, giving Zodiac a sense of hope for all viewers in that it has the slim chance of being considerably commemorated near the Academy Award reception.

In its technical aspects such as cinematography, editing and art direction, still it succeeds magnificently. David Fincher being the first ever to entirely shoot a film in uncompressed digital format, it makes the film all the much more astounding to watch next to the masterminded cinematographer do his work. The editing is not the best aspect of the film, but technically takes the title, making everything even and not overstretched leaving everyone neither thoughtless nor apathetic during it.

The best element which is David Fincher's common, excluding Panic Room, but still bewildering and new direction about the unfound Zodiac executioner. David Fincher gives us hints of Se7en and elements of The Silence of the Lambs, making it not a stupid horror film, but an intellectual thriller, that does not spoon-feed the plot to you, but keeps you intrigued regardless of being mindful of the plot, whether it be by acting, or the occasional gruesome murder and thrilling scenes. If it were not for David Fincher, the film would be good, but not by any means as fantastic and consummate as the movie ended up being.

The screenplay adapted by numerous Robert Graysmith books, was written by James Vanderbilt who shows off his chops by including both comic relief that commences as clearly humorous to a undoubtedly heartbreaking performance from Robert Downey Jr. as washed up has been journalist who makes wise-cracks and intellectual dialogue including telling off his intervening boss or his truthful once friend. The movie is funny; it's dramatic, and overall thrilling.

Zodiac proves to be through each of its accurate; detailed and on occasion frightful themes a more than stellar and an above first-rate film, that leaves you literally on the edge of your seat. In comparison to Fincher's other works, Zodiac is his most cultivated and perfected film, not having any weaknesses to drag it down as his others had. If Zodiac does not go down as one of the best films of this decade, never the less ever in its genre, I for one will be affronted and choleric, and will make it my personal goal that others can appreciate this film and be absorbed by its plot and characters as I have. Zodiac remains the best film of 2007 as of yet, and illustrious casting putting the cherry on top of this sugar coated gem of a film.