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Phil loses it whilst filming on the set of the new Butt Collector movie.

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"We have to learn that we have a lot more power, we vote three times a day."-Robert Kenner, Director of Food Inc. movie the daily show :)

A simple analysis of the worst movie of the year: "Public Enemies"

Because the movie was so bad...

1. Suffers from a lack of actual substance - insight, thrills, or dramatic tension.
   Instead the director opted to make every scene as artistic as possible, making for a nice desktop wallpaper, but a horrible film.
2. Putting in famous actors doesn't guarantee a film, ever.
   Downright amazing in the ways it has gone wrong. Taking into account the talent involved in front of and behind the camera, the finished product is almost a travesty.
3. Public Enemies has everything going for it except a reason and a script
   We don’t learn anything about Dillinger’s background or the reasons for his behavior. Christian Bale locks so furiously into a part that you gasp for oxygen whenever he’s onscreen. His G-man, Purvis, has no family, no past, no nothing other than his mission to scour America of its barnstorming gangsters.

I think TwinCities.com narrates the issue the best: "Michael Mann has terrific visual ideas but, in Public Enemies even more than Miami Vice, he is so fascinated by how everything looks that he doesn't care whether the story or people make sense"

On screenwriting - John Hamburg, co-writer of "I Love You Man"

"If by page 8 you don't know what the story is, what the guy wants and what stands in his way, then you're just treading water"

- from an interview by Jeff Goldsmith, Creative Screenwriting Magazine Podcast, Fri, March 13, 2009
(Download the whole interview)

The Surrogates

100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds

'Skip to the End' Film Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

As this is my first 'Skip to the End Review' i thought i'd explain.... i'm gonna ramble in my reviews but if you just want the quick details.... well... skip to the end! hope this works out!

I was stood outside the cinema with my mate G last night.  Basking in the sun and just wondering why the hell we were gonna sit in a darkened room for the next couple hours when the UK is having a mini-heatwave and people have done the inevitable thing of switching from complaining about the cold to complaining about how hot it is.  Humans just can't be happy!  ....and this leads me to say why we were there.  Transformers.  Big huge-ass mechanical, robotic, alien things that ...well.... transform, but not just into a Breville or something.  Big huge trucks and fighter jets.  Yeah, this is a typical male thing who just LOVE toys, especially big ones with rockets and jets and engines and....well... you get the idea.  This is one of those franchises that many will remember growing up with including myself which is why we were there.

Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is the sequal to the Transformers movie released in 2007, both produced and directed by Michael Bay who has done other films such as The Island, Armagedden, and Bad Boys.

SYNOPSIS the film starts with a bunch of cavemen following a 'asteroid' and guess what? they find a load of transformers.  They're alright just harvesting some power from the sun, no worries, then theres this one guy known as 'The Fallen' who, guess what? wants to use it for evil, whowuddathunkit? anyway, the 'Elder Primes' (something like that anyway...) sacrifice their bodies to hide the key' which switches on the harvesting device.  Skip to the present day and the decepticons are trying to get megatron back and switch this machine on under instructions from the weakened fallen.

That is basically the premise of the story, good vs evil again, with an 'innocent kid' cought up in it all but sometimes you're chosen and destined to right the world... that kinda thing.

Whilst watching the film I noticed a couple .... peculiarities...  I think these were added to make the film be more topical.  e.g. there are two OBVIOUSLY overdubbed bits in between scenes where there is dialogue which blatently wasn't in the original script.  One mentions Obama, the other swine flu.  These seem pointless and added absolutely nothing to the already mediocre storyline. 

Other than this i gotta say, the SOUND was pretty good, i mean, even the opening sequence with the paramount pictures thing coming up sounded good!  Low end sweeteners, high twinkly metalic sounds spinning around you, crazy FM Synthesis or whatever other kind of synthesis was used.  Thats some good sounds.  During the film action sequences were big.  Some things made me snigger though like really stereotypical 'things in filght' sounds like a cow moo, car alarm, etc.

I didn't really feel any connection to any CHARACTERS or care for them (until one part which is shocking but you can still kinda guess the outcome, either way sad times...), to be honest when i say that i mean the main character Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf).  I thought he was a bit of a prick.  I mean, fine... you discovered an alien race and helped defeat the Decepticons AND you ended up with a really hot chick, Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) BUT theres no need to become an arrogant twat.  He's trying to become 'a normal college kid' in this one, the premise of many a film.  As for Mikaela i felt for her *high five* giddigy.  I digress.

The ACTION SCENES THIS is what this film is about.  They. Were. Awesome! robots flying around, gigantic cannons, rockets, machine guns, fast cars, and did i mention big F'ing robot fights ripping into each others mechanical guts! pulling out parts from their very souls.  Well good!  one particular fight to mention is when Bumblebee is trying to save Sam, i mention this one in particular cos the fight is awesome but also there is a small amount of emotinal attachment to him and you never see him do much apart from drive Sam about.

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END so, this film was ok about a 7/10.  What lets it down is the storyline and some poorly overdubbed scenes and poorly executed comedy (perhaps the comedy woulda appealed to someone younger).  However, the action is immense, everytime there are huge robotic transforming aliens on screen the film is awesome, every time they're not you just wanna see Megan Fox. ha.

I would say the film is definitely worth seeing, as i thought it was better than the first one and its frickin' Transformers! The action scenes definitely redeem this film for some of its AWFUL jokes, which, many-a-girl would say were pretty funny so... i guess the film has something very everyone.... date movie, family movie, geeks movie(not geeky enough perhaps actually)...

CONCLUSION Transformers are cool, everything and everyone surrounding them are not.

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RELEASED 19 June 2009 (UK)
RATING 12A
DIRECTOR Michael Bay
STARRING Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, Rainn Wilson, John Turturro, Josh Duhamel

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in future this bit won't exist but like i said at the beginning, my first STTE (Skip to the End) review i just wanted to say i hope that was alright and if you have any suggestions on what you would change, other aspects of a movie i should have mentioned, or just general remarks please feel free to sound of in the comments!

peace mofos. :P

x

In the meantime

Writing about my simple trip to Villa Elisa is taking some time, specially because I'm not so good in english but well, maybe it's because I'm watching movies these days (I'm already back, you can realize that).

Here's a sneak I've most enjoyed of the "Seth Macfarlane's Cavalcade Of Cartoon Comedy". Porn and comedy should be walking side by side for ever.

The story behind the end title sequence of Wall•E

Narrating a short story

This is again a brilliant animation from Ideas to Inspire.



It could be used when teaching house and bedroom in another language, as well as verbs in the present tense.
After watching it, students would have to:

• describe the bedroom/ the characters
  
• write a narration for the story in the present tense
  
• think of an alternative ending