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Saturday, November 26, 2011
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN Part 1
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN Part 1
On the night of her wedding to Edward Cullen, Bella Swan is visited by her friend Jacob Black. When Bella accidentally indicates to him that she and Edward plan to consummate during their honeymoon, Jacob tries to attack Edward but members of his wolf pack hold him back. He then runs off into the woods, and Edward takes an upset Bella back to the reception.
The couple spends their honeymoon on a private island in Brazil called Isle Esme. Although hesitant, Edward has sex with Bella for the first time. After Edward realizes that he bruised Bella's arm during sex, he says that he will never have sex with her again, much to her disappointment. After many attempts to make him have intercourse with her, Edward finally gives in. Two weeks into their honeymoon, Bella discovers that she is pregnant with a half-human/half-vampire child at an unnaturally accelerated rate. They rush back to Forks, Washington, where Carlisle confirms the pregnancy. However, Bella refuses to heed Carlisle and Edward's advice for an abortion, and enlists Rosalie to protect her and her unborn baby.
Opposed to Sam Uley's plans to kill Bella and her child, Jacob leaves the pack in protest and arrives at the Cullen house to protect Bella along with Seth and Leah Clearwater. As the pregnancy progresses, Bella's health greatly deteriorates, and Edward gives her blood as a last resort. Her health greatly improves as a result, but that night, Bella goes into a very painful labor and gives birth to her daughter, Renesmee. To save her life, Edward injects Bella's heart with his venom, but nothing happens, and Bella is thought to be dead. Greatly distraught, Jacob attempts to kill the baby, but stops when he realizes he has imprinted on her.
When the werewolves learn of Bella's death, they attack the Cullen house to try to kill the baby. They stop when they learn of Jacob's imprinting of Renesmee, which under werewolf law, now means Renesmee cannot be harmed. Later that night, Bella's wounds heal and she wakes up with red eyes, as she is now a new-born vampire.
An additional scene shown after the credits are rolling and the main cast names are displayed shows a woman, obviously a human, walking towards the Volturi leaders as they sit in thier thrones, and gives Aro a letter. The letter is from Carlisle stating that he has added a new member to his coven. He notes that she spelled Carlisle with an 's' as if she has done something wrong, and he motions for Felix and Demetri to take the receptionist away. Marcus dully states "This means our dispute with the Cullen's is over." To which Aro replies that it is not over, that it goes far beyond the fate of a mere human and that the Cullen's have something he wants. The scene ends with Aro smiling while both Caius and Marcus look on astonished as the screen fades to black.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Ice Age 4 : Continental Drift Trailer
Monday, October 10, 2011
Hugh Jackman : Real Steel
Plot
In 2020, humans have been replaced by robots in boxing. Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a former boxer who attempts to get money in illegal boxing matches between robots to pay his debts to loan sharks. During a fight, Charlie's robot, Ambush, is destroyed by Black Thunder, a bull belonging to Ricky (Kevin Durand). Having made a bet that Ambush would win, Charlie now owes Ricky $20,000, which he doesn't pay before leaving.
While leaving, Charlie is informed that his ex-girlfriend has died, and he has to attend a meeting to decide the fate of his 11-year-old son Max (Dakota Goyo). Max's aunt Debra (Hope Davis) and uncle Marvin (James Rebhorn) want full custody, and Charlie gives it to them in exchange for $100,000 from Marvin, $50,000 of in advance, on the condition that Charlie takes care of Max for three weeks, while Marvin and Debra are away on a second honeymoon.
Charlie and Max meet with Charlie's friend Bailey Tallet (Evangeline Lily), who runs the boxing gym of her deceased father, Charlie's old coach. There, Charlie buys a secondhand Japanese robot, Noisy Boy, and arranges for it to fight the illegal circuit's champion, Midas, at a vanue belonging to his friend Finn (Anthony Mackie). Partly due to his inexperience with the robot, Charlie ends up losing control of Noisy Boy and Midas destroys it.
Charlie breaks into a junkyard with Max to steal scraps that he can use to put a new robot together. There, Max falls over a ledge, where he is saved from doom after being snagged by a lodged and buried robot arm. After Charlie pulls him back up, Max uncovers the entire robot, called Atom. On Max's insistence, Charlie takes it back to Bailey's gym, where they discover Atom is a sparring bot that can sustain massive damage, but is only able to fight by reproducing the movements of others through a "shadow mode". Max convinces Charlie to get Atom a fight, and upgrades him to take vocal commands using spare parts from Noisy Boy.
Charlie and Max take Atom to fight an unsanctioned outdoor match against a robot called Metro, and Atom wins, earning back some of Charlie's money. Atom's string of subsequent wins attracts the attention of a promoter from the World Robot Boxing league (WRB), who offers Atom a professional fight against a robot called Twin Cities. Charlie accepts, and Atom wins again, thanks to Charlie's knowledge of boxing, which allows him to locate a design flaw in Twin Cities. Taking advantage of Atom's subsequent novelty attention, Max challenges WRB champion Zeus, designed by arrogant genius Tak Mashido (Karl Yune) and sponsored by rich Russian Farra Lemcova (Olga Fonda), who accepts, but first tries to buy the upstart Atom.
As they leave the Twin Cities fight, Charlie is attacked by Ricky and his men, who beat him severely, assault Max and steal their money. Feeling guilty, Charlie returns Max to his aunt and uncle so he can protect them, but Bailey convinces him he can be a better father to Max. Convincing Aunt Debra for one more chance, Charlie takes Max to the Zeus-Atom match, Zeus severely damages Atom — while also getting injured, a first for Zeus. In the last round of the five-round match, Atom's vocal receptors are damaged, and he has to fight in shadow mode, copying Charlie's moves from the aisle. After Zeus runs very low on power, Atom begins to heavily damage Zeus, but doesn't win before the round ends, forcing the judges to declare a winner on points. They favor Zeus, but his reputation is tarnished, and Atom has become famous as "the people's champion".
Cast
- Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton
- Dakota Goyo as Max Kenton
- Evangeline Lilly as Bailey Tallet
- Kevin Durand as Ricky
- Anthony Mackie as Finn
- Olga Fonda as Farra Lemcova
- Hope Davis as Debra
- Phil LaMarr as ESPN Boxing Commentator
- James Rebhorn as Marvin
- Karl Yune as Tak Mashido
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The Thing Movies Preview
The Thing is a science-fiction horror film starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton in the lead roles.
Plot
Taking place three days before the events of the John Carpenter film, paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a crashed extraterrestrial spaceship buried in the ice of Antarctica. They discover a creature that seems to have died in the crash eons ago.
When an experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate joins the crew's pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing and imitating them one at a time, using its uncanny ability to mimic any life form it absorbs through digestion, and potentially reaching civilization.
Starring
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
- Joel Edgerton
- Ulrich Thomsen
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
50/50 Movie Trailer
Plot
Adam a 27-year-old man is suddenly diagnosed with cancer. He breaks the news to his girlfriend his best friend and his mother who is also dealing with her husband (and Adam's father) who has Alzheimer's disease. Each deals with the news and subsequent treatment in different ways. In the middle of it all, Adam also seeks therapy from a young and inexperienced therapist assigned to him by the hospital, and befriends several older, wisecracking chemotherapy patients
Starring
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Seth Rogen
- Anna Kendrick
- Bryce Dallas Howard
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Mission Impossible 4 - Ghost Protocol
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Gerard Butler : Machine Gun Preacher - Trailer
Machine Gun Preacher is the inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children.
Starring
- Gerard Butler
- Michelle Monaghan
- Michael Shannon
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Drive Movies Preview
Driver (Ryan Gosling), who remains unnamed throughout the film, works in Shannon's (Bryan Cranston) garage, picks up occasional stunt driving work, and moonlights as a getaway driver. At the start of the film, his driving skills and precision are established as he helps two burglars evade the police and split up at the Staples Center's crowded parking lot. Driver always works anonymously, never for the same crooks twice, and makes a point of only allotting them five minutes to do their business.
Shannon approaches Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks), a Jewish mobster, to provide the backing for Shannon's scheme to buy a NASCAR racecar and have Driver drive it. Bernie agrees to back the scheme with $300,000 after seeing Driver exhibit his driving skills. Bernie is partners with Nino (Ron Perlman), another Jewish mobster who, we learn later, had once had Shannon's pelvis broken because he overcharged for his services.
Driver becomes involved with his neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan), and her young son, Benicio (Kaden Leos), when their car breaks down at a grocery store. Driver and Irene appear to be slowly developing a romantic connection when her husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac), comes home from prison. Standard owes "protection" money to Cook (James Biberi) from his time in prison. Cook beats him for it and threatens to come after Irene and Benicio if Standard does not do a job for them.
Concerned for Irene, Driver agrees to help Standard placate Cook by robbing a pawn shop. Also participating in the heist is Blanche (Christina Hendricks), a woman associated with Cook. The job goes fatally wrong as Standard is shot dead by the pawn-shop owner. As Driver and Blanche escape, they are pursued by a mysterious car. As it turns out, Cook had double-crossed them and was planning to steal the money from them after they pulled the job.
Driver and Blanche elude their pursuers and hide out in a motel room. There they discover that the stolen money was much more than they had been told. (Later we learn that it's Mob money being held at the pawn shop.) Two of Cook's men attack them in the motel room, killing Blanche with a shotgun blast and injuring Driver before he kills both of them.
Driver confronts Cook and learns that Nino has been behind the heist all along. Nino resents the East-Coast Italian mob and has engineered the job to get at them.
Driver attempts to make a deal with Nino: the money for Irene's safety. However, Nino sends a hitman, whom Driver brutally kills in an elevator while Irene cowers in terror. After Bernie kills Shannon and Driver kills Nino, Driver and Bernie meet in a restaurant, ostensibly to broker another deal of money for safety. In the parking lot afterward, as the money is pulled from Driver's car's trunk, Bernie stabs Driver in the abdomen. The attack is not fatal, however, and Driver stabs and kills Bernie, leaving his body on the ground next to the satchel of money. The film closes ambiguously with Driver driving through the night, followed by a smash cut to black.
Starring
- Ryan Gosling
- Carey Mulligan
- Bryan Cranston
- Christina Hendricks
- Ron Perlman
- Oscar Isaac
- Albert Brooks
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