The Rock

A chemical weapons expert and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when soldiers threaten a gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco

This movie is

SENSATIONAL and BREATHTAKING!!!

if you notice the golden casts and crews of this movie, you will know this is definitely a top class production.

Directed by: Michael Bay

Produced by: Jerry Bruckheimer

Music by: Hans Zimmer

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris


Michael Bay is my favourite director, the best action movie director in Hollywood.

His action sequence is planned so well, fully utilized the chemical effects of video and audio, and it gives visual pleassure to audiences.

Jerry Bruckheimer is the undispute best producer of all time, for his commercially success movies.

"We are in the transportation business. We transport audiences from one place to another."
This is his point of view to film industry.

As we can see, he make movies for audiences, entertainment and excitement are the main concerns.

Hans Zimmer is always great, my favourite music composer....his film score can carry audiences' emotion shot by shot, scene to scene. The original soundtrack of this movis is recommended....

Trust me, this is a movie you don't want to miss!!!

10 minuta

"10 minuta" is a ten minutes Bosnian short-film that won Best Short-Film Award in European Film Awards 2002

This is one of the foreign short films that impress me the most....

it's Huge, it's Impressive, it's Great!!!

"The film's opening scene start at Italy, showing a Japanese tourist go into a photo-printing shop, asking the shop owner is it possible to have his films finish print in 10minutes

The shop owner ensure him that the photo can be done in 10minutes. And so, he wait outside the shop, take his cigarette, and look at his watch, 10minutes on!



Then the film's scene switch to Bosnia, showing a woman ask her son to buy a loaf of bread and fetch some waters home

In order to do so, the little boy must go through a war zone....and so, he walk all the way in the war zone and reach to the breadseller....While he is buying the bread, suddenly the enemy army start bombing to Bosnian

The little boy run all the way back to his home and found his family was dead!!!



The scene switch back to Italy, showing the Japanese tourist's photos are done, 10 minutes end.... "




The cinematography is great!!!

Single continous shot in the Bosnia scene....

Not shaky at all, camera angle and movement is perfect!!!

The setting is massive and excellent....



This film show us the contrast of Rome and Sarajevo....

Perhaps a "10 minutes" doesnt mean anything for the Japanese tourist

But for the Bosnian little boy, a "10minutes" had changed his life forever!!!

Can you imagine??? What a big impact it was!!!!



Highly recommend by JT, must watch....haha!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppAn0LNU_V8

Psycho (1960)

Psycho is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Multi-award nominations... no doubt, this is indeed a CLASSIC....

Following are the most important recognition of Psycho:

1: AFI's 100 years... 100 movies

2: AFI's 100 years... 100 film scores

3: AFI's 100 years... Villain#2

4: AFI's 100years... 100 movie quotes

Psycho is the first Hitchcock's film that I watch, which is why, it is not fair for me to judge his style...people said he is the pioneer of many technique in filming psychological and horror film. I don't know why.


"The Shower Scene" of Marion Crane has been studied and discuss for so many years....people said it was horrify, I don't know why.


I always respect to classic and old movies, but I have to say, as an audience, I really didnt feel terrify at all when I watch the famous shower scene....I still can take my shower without leaving the bathroom door open. (because I'm afraid of cold, not afraid of murderer,haha)


But ofcourse, the interesting part of the shower scene are the Editing and Camera Shot, which are something worth for film studies....the combination of Close up and Extreme Close Up, rate of frame cutting, duration of each shot are really hard to estimate and joint in order to let audiences make sense of what is going on.


By the way, the concept of the shower scene is brilliant, Hitchcock used shower to "wash away" Marion Crane's guilt. When she stepped into the bathtub, it was as she was stepping into the baptismal waters. When the water sprayed from the shower and beat her body, her soul was purified from the evil. We can see that she take her shower in peace.


Instead of the shower scene, actually I was get frightened at the scene where Bates come out from his mother room and killed the detective.


High angle shot showing the staircase and the room's door in silent. The detective is going up from the staircase...suddenly a curly hair old woman come out and stabbed the detective, the scene fit very well with Bernard Herrmann's score.


Next thing to discuss is about Norman Bates, a psychological killer who killed his victims while wearing his mother's cloth. For me, this character is very worth for discusssion. A tragedic villain who suffered for emotion abuse....struggle in between the personalities of "Norman" Bates, "Norma" Bates,"Normal" Bates??? Personally, I really like the resolution part where the truth reveal who Norman Bates actually is.


Allright, this is it, a movie that is recommended for film studies or psychology studies.


There are alot of interesting conversation in this movie. I love this movie not because I want to get frightened, it's because I really like the idea, the concept and story.


Movie quote that I like from Norman Bates:

• A boy's best friend is his mother.

• Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies.

• A hobby should pass the time, not fill it.
  
  
  
  

City of Angels

A story about an angel called Seth, decides to become a human so that he can experience all of the human feeling that he had never been able to understand all this while....

He is willing to give up his immortality, his eternal life....it's all happen because of falling in love with a surgeon called Maggie....

The symbolic action of falling from a building.... signify a fallen angel falls into the river of love!!!

So sad, so romantic....

The movie is beautiful, I love the story, very simple, very pure....

No dramatic or twist ending, it is not a sensational romance story like Paris and Helen...

But it is sad enough to make u cry....

I didnt cry, but I can feel the pain of Seth, when he lost Maggie....

Yet I can feel his joy in being human....he did not regret....

And this would be my favourite quote...conversation between Seth and his angelic colleague Cassiel...discussing about the feeling of become human...

Cassiel: To smell the air.

Seth: Taste water.

Cassiel: Read a newspaper.

Seth: To lie.

Cassiel: Through your teeth. To feed the dog.

Seth: Touch her hair.

Cassiel: What are you waiting for?

Soundtrack recommend:

"Uninvited" by Alanis Morissette

"Angel" by Sarah McLachlan

"Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls