>> PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
Starring: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, and more...
Director: Gore Verbinski
Genre: Action & Adventure
whoaahhh.. this is a fun movie to watch. tales about pirates. a walt disney movie, produced by jerry bruckheimer, this sure is a fantasy movie with all the fun imagination come true. johnny depp plays jack sparrow *ooohh yess.. that's captain jack sparrow to you!*, a charming, carefree 17th century pirate whose domain is the treacherous but exciting caribbean sea. when a rival pirate, barbosa (geoffrey rush), pillages the coastal village of port royal and kidnaps the governor's daughter, elizabeth, jack decides to help elizabeth's love, will turner (orlando bloom), to save her. but the mission isn't quite that simple or straightforward....
the story is just like any complicated tales. it's a classic.. you might have heard them too. at least it's not that too far off. a long long time ago, there was this ship of pirates led by captain jack sparrow. the ship was called the black pearl. it was one of the most fearful pirates in the sea of the caribbean. until one day, the ship was cursed and everyone on it became immortal. they cannot die nor can they feel pain or pleasure. the curse goes on forever and they go around the sea to find the aztec gold that was the source of the curse so they can go back as the mortal living being. in the midst before the curse, captain jack sparrow was betrayed by his crew. he was marooned by the crew and his place was placed by barbosa. according to the "piracy rules" ... well it's more of just a guideline that it is a rule... when a pirate being marooned by a ship crew, he is supposed to be left in an uninhibitated island with a gun that only has a bullet in it. so jack sparrow was left there. usually, a person would survive at the most 3 days, then he would starved, thirsty and gone nuts. so the bullet would be used just to kill themselves to get out of the misery.
but jack sparrow is not just a regular person. he managed to escape the island alive and determined to get his ship back. and so he met elizabeth who was friends with will turner, who is a blacksmith. elizabeth and her dad saved will when they found him floating in the sea after a ship was destroyed by pirates. they thought that will was a survivor of the pirate attack, but only elizabeth keep the secret... the secret of the last aztec gold that was hanging around will's neck when they found him.
so how does it end? well.. then you just have to see it.. i'm not going to spoil it here. although... i really wanna comment about the movie itself and the actors in it, particularly the return of mr. johnny depp *lah emangnya kemana dia?* well, the movie is filled with cool graphics, especially when the moonlight shines through the immortal pirates that transform their bodies to skeletons to others. it's also filled with cool actors. maybe the first orlando bloom's lead role since legolas, and keira knightley proves that she'll be the next best thing after her recent breakthrough from bend it like beckham. although the movie was filled with these fantasies and tales.. i find it typical. yeah.. typical hollywood movie. i mean, there's no surprise there.
the only reason i give it 4 stars... because of the incredible jack sparrow's role played amazingly by johnny depp. he definitely steals the show in this movie. and when i say it's the return of johnny depp is because he has not been in any blockbuster movie for the longest time. well he was in from hell or sleepy hollow not that long ago, but both are not quite what you call a blockbuster movie. johnny always has his own characterization and an i-don't-care-what-you-think-but-this-is-me attitude. and it also applies to his acting in this movie. the producer was taking quite a risk putting johnny as part of the movie due to his past problems. and when he came in to the shooting place with full attire of his imagination on how he will act as jack sparrow, he surprised the movie crews. with the gold cap teeth, pirate clothes and flamboyant behavior, he obviously does not portray the stereotype of "a pirate". most of us stereotype "a pirate" with a scary look, eye patch, big body and muscular. not how the jack sparrow is pictured here.. uh-oh.. no!
but whatever it is.. it sure does work.. and by the end of the movie.. it's stuck with you that you can't help but falling in love with the character. definitely a show stealer.. !!!
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>> TALK TO HER
Starring: Javier Camara, Dario Grandinetti, more ...
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Genre: Drama (Foreign)
originally titled "HABLE CON ELLA" in its original language, this movie is about two men who become friends based on a shared love of women who are in comas, although their individual circumstances are completely different. as usual, renowned writer-director pedro almodovar weighs in with a compelling story in this spanish movie. known from other previous movies, including the most talked-about movie, all about my mother, pedro did a good job in portraying the different beatiful screenplays. this film, in fact, won the best screenplay in oscar 2003. the movie is bookeneded by dance performers, with characters from the movie watching from the audience, and also features a movie-within-the-movie.
haunting funny disturbing beautiful. this is quite a great movie, more like "all about my mother" than it is like almodovar's earlier movies -- i.e., more sedate, serious, meditative, but still funny, and outrageous at times. for the first time that i have seen, almodovar focuses more on the male characters. the plot is sure to be scandalous or offensive and i find many of them quite disturbing actually, and it is at the very least provocative. and that's maybe why i only give 2 stars, in spite of the good reviews and the artistic presentation. i mean, don't get me wrong.. i love them all, but the story just really creeps under my skin.
the story opens with this beautiful play about two women on stage who walks around with their eyes closed, the other is following another. in the audience, there were two guys (benigno & marco).. and one of them actually cried from watching the play, marco did. then the screen goes to a set in the hospital, where benigno was taking care of a comatose patient and telling the story about the play to her.
on the other hand, marco saw an interview on tv on a girl matador. he was a writer and was interested in writing the story about the girl matador. and so he went and asked his editor who then allow him to go for the interview. after the first time they met, they became lovers. the girl matador told stories about how her father wanted her to push herself to stand out and not just be like any other girls. to be strong. but then she got injured during her 'fight' with the bull and went into the hospital in a vegetative state.
in the hospital, marco saw benigno taking care of a girl. benigno was a male nurse who was hired to take care of a girl who got into an accident and went in a coma. she was a ballerina who used to go to the ballet academy right in front of benigno's house. he fell in love with her and fate made him the one who takes care of her. and fate met benigno & marco again for the second time and they become friends from the shared experience of taking care the girl they love.
the ending was touchy, the movie-within-the-movie was interesting.. but still, i find that some of the story is very provocative and disturbing. the fact that benigno raped the girl he's taking care of and made her pregnant *while she's in a come*, and he ended up paying for it in jail. it's a disturbing love story, i'd say.
but i gotta admit, the screenplay was just really beautiful. there is one scene where marco and his girl were at a party and they were watching a singer singing a sad song... but it was just a beautiful song.. just watching it from the tv and listening to the song, i was drown into it.. such a beautiful scene! or when it goes to the stage showing the symbology of the actors' feelings through the play with beautiful ballet moves or during the bull fight. ballerina and bull fight, two different scenes, yet almodovar was able to bring the similarity in it.
yet, i only give two stars.. although i'm still contemplating whether i should give it two or three stars. i mean.. i love the art way of how this movie was made, but i just very much disturbed with the story.. i think that's just how almodovar tells a story. even with his other movies, i was always have mixed feelings about it. and just like this one.. in fact, this is one of the hardest review i've made so far.. my suggestion? go watch it, and tell me what you think... ...
whoaahhh.. this is a fun movie to watch. tales about pirates. a walt disney movie, produced by jerry bruckheimer, this sure is a fantasy movie with all the fun imagination come true. johnny depp plays jack sparrow *ooohh yess.. that's captain jack sparrow to you!*, a charming, carefree 17th century pirate whose domain is the treacherous but exciting caribbean sea. when a rival pirate, barbosa (geoffrey rush), pillages the coastal village of port royal and kidnaps the governor's daughter, elizabeth, jack decides to help elizabeth's love, will turner (orlando bloom), to save her. but the mission isn't quite that simple or straightforward....
originally titled "HABLE CON ELLA" in its original language, this movie is about two men who become friends based on a shared love of women who are in comas, although their individual circumstances are completely different. as usual, renowned writer-director pedro almodovar weighs in with a compelling story in this spanish movie. known from other previous movies, including the most talked-about movie, all about my mother, pedro did a good job in portraying the different beatiful screenplays. this film, in fact, won the best screenplay in oscar 2003. the movie is bookeneded by dance performers, with characters from the movie watching from the audience, and also features a movie-within-the-movie.
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