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March 10th, 2010 by jeremiah8804770
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Here’s a movie for dog lovers, the elderly, children of divorce, FOBs (Friends of Birds), passe Boy Scouts, people yearning for adventure, and anyone who has ever loved… and lost. Up is for everyone. It made me laugh out loud, and it made me bellow.

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I conception it would be tough for Up to match the emotional power of Wall-E. The two Pixar films are similar in their lack of dialogue in the first act, which helps deepen the emotional impact. Up begins with Carl, a shocked young boy star-struck by a notorious explorer; and kookie Ellie, who has a similar obsession. The two kids become snappy friends, and pronounce to one day recede to Venezuela’s Paradise Falls. After getting married, they take their dream home and fix it up, hoping to gain it with children. Carl and Ellie’s life together from childhood through dilapidated age is depicted, silently, with delicacy and subtlety. The first 15 minutes is like a celebration of a elated marriage, and you truly feel Carl’s wound when he is left alone. He sits slumped in his chair, talking to the house as if it is the missing Ellie.

When developers terminate in on Carl’s beloved home, he decides to fulfill his promise to Ellie and recede to Paradise Falls. A stale balloon vendor, Carl lifts his home with hundreds of knowing balloons. Stowing away on the porch is Russell, a burly, brave kid trying to salvage a scouting badge.

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After landing in Paradise Falls, the frail man and the itsy-bitsy boy are joined by a golden retriever named Dug who can talk with his collar, and a enormous rare bird that bonds with Russell (he names her “Kevin”) . Dug is priceless: spot-on for every dog that ever lived, including an obsession with squirrels. Through a series of halt calls and adventures, the quartet vanquishes a villain, saving the day. And Russell earns his scouting badge.

In the process, Carl learns to let go of his black mourning for Ellie, and live life again. When this happens, a truly magical thing happens. Before, Carl’s craggy face is gray and monochromatic. At the moment of his transformation, Carl’s face is awash in color, and he is surrounded by fine hues. It reminded me of The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy steps out of her gray world and into a candy-colored Munchkinland. Carl, too, enters a whole modern world.

Up is a deeply emotional film, rotund of truth. It’s the year’s best film. Salvage another triumph for Pixar.

Someday, Pixar is going to do it — they’re going to get an emotionally uninspiring, lackluster enchanting movie. But in the meantime, they’re peaceful putting out appetizing inspiring movies like “Up,” which defies the usual kid-movie conventions by starring a crotchety used man. It’s a charming, fun cramped adventure account with flying dogs and balloon-powered houses, but underlying it is a bittersweet miniature anecdote about loss and adore.

As a child, the stupefied Carl Fredricksen bonded with the oddball Ellie over their shared admire of adventure, the explorer Charles Muntz, and Paradise Falls. They later married, proceed into their “clubhouse” together, and lived a long, sadly childless life together. When Ellie died, she had never fulfilled her dream of going to Paradise Falls.

Now crotchety, alone and harassed by a dependable estate developer, Carl (Ed Asner) is finally ordered to a retirement home. But he isn’t going quietly — instead he attaches thousands of balloons to his house and floats it away toward South America. But he accidentally takes an fervent, naive Wilderness Explorer (a thinly-veiled Boy Scout) named Russell (Jordan Nagai) along for the hasten. Bad kid was objective trying to regain an “assisting the elderly” badge.

And the jungle prance to Paradise Falls turns out to have some surprising obstacles: a gargantuan emulike bird that Russell names Kevin, a talking dog named Dug (”I am jumping on you, bird!”), and a mysterious used man who lives deep in the heart of the jungle. Turns out the mature guy is very familiar to Carl — and to retract Kevin, he’s willing to sacrifice Carl and Russell.

Industry experts were babbling about how “Up” wouldn’t be as common as the previous Pixar movies, because the protagonist is basically a crusty former coot. Well, shows what they know. It ended up becoming one of those classic movies that somehow appeals to all ages — while the humor and action appeal to children, adults can indulge in Carl’s worship for his lost wife, and his wearisome realization that he’s clinging to the past.

In fact, the first ten minutes are some of the most heart-tugging, quietly bittersweet scenes I’ve seen in a long time. Without a word, they point to all the ups and downs of a realistic marriage — joys, sorrows (Ellie’s inability to have children), growing veteran together, and finally loss.

But it’s not a depressing movie by any stretch — in fact, it’s like a childhood fantasy reach to life, complete with a floating house suspended on hundreds of balloons, and biplanes piloted by a talking dog army.. Plenty of immense dialogue (”Do you want to play a game? It’s called Witness Who Can Go the Longest Without Saying Anything.” “Wintry! My mom loves that game!”) and an action-packed climax in an broken-down airship.

Ed Asner is absolutely perfect as ubergrouch Carl — crotchety, grumpy, and positive to fulfill his wife’s lifelong dream, but gradually realizing he’s clinging to the past. Nagai is equally perfect as Carl’s polar opposite: a naive, chattery Scout who is positive to reunite Kevin with her baby chicks. And the utterly adorable Dug and the other dogs deserve special study. These creatures are utterly hilarious — they talk (”I hid under your porch because I treasure you”) and act the contrivance dogs would if they talked. Three words: cone of shame.

The two-disc edition is going to have some very nice extras, but once again people with regular-def DVDs are going to collect shafted because the Blu-ray edition will have a bunch of strange stuff. Grr. As for this one, there’s a digital copy, the director’s audio commentary, kinda-alternate-ending “The Many Endings of Muntz,” and the documentary “Adventure Is Out There” about the research for this movie.

There are also a pair of adorable enchanting shorts. “Partly Cloudy” has a much-abused stork having to bid potentially noxious baby creatures from a kind but clueless cloud. And “Dug’s Special Mission” is a sort of backstory for the adorable Dug, explaining what the heck he was doing before he met up with Carl and Russell.

“Up” continues Pixar’s running tally of gloriously spellbinding, emotionally layered movies that the entire family can devour. With that, I have only one more thing to say… SQUIRREL!

Watch The 36th Chamber of Shaolin Movie Online

March 8th, 2010 by jeremiah8804770
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Movie Title: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
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Gordon Liu (also known as Lau Kar Fai) stars as a young man who’s friends and family have been killed by the novel government. He wakes up at the Shaolin Temple, a spot he has only heard about a couple of times. When he realizes he is at the best location possible to learn kung fu, he begs and begs to learn so that he can revenge his family. He does finally score taught, but has to originate with the basics. Every section of his body must become stronger before he can learn how to fight. After he finishes the first stages of training in represent time, he is now highly respected and moves onto learning sincere fighting styles. He breezes through this and becomes a mountainous fighter in only 5 years or so. This is not one of those movies that has 1 or 2 training sequences. Gordon is shown in at least 13 of the chambers and half of the movie is spent at Shaolin. So after he has become a master fighter, he is given a high honor and told that he can become second in charge of any of the 35 chambers. A senior monk played by the mountainous Lee Hoi San objects to this and says that he can’t have this honor unless Gordon defeats him in a weapons duel. Lee Hoi San does not play a villain, but he does not consider that Gordon is a genuine enough fighter to receive so mighty praise. His thought works better than he could have ever imagined. He ends up helping Gordon improve as a fighter and as a person. Gordon is told he can leave Shaolin now, and he goes to acquire revenge on the heinous General who killed his family.

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One thing that sets this movie apart is that it tries to be a loyal movie, and it succeeds. Watching Gordon grow up into a man is much to study. The commentators didn’t contemplate, but a lot of the stuff in this movie is very genuine. When Gordon has to utilize the pole with the wieght on the demolish to hit the bell over and over again, that is a accurate weight on the waste of the pole! Gordon talks in the interview (included on this disc) about how the sabres that Lo Lieh uses in the final fight are staunch, and it objective makes the movie that considerable better. Dont quiz your average chronicle of revenge. I was touched deeply when I first saw this and there are not many kung fu movies that have as great meaning and feeling.

Rating- 5/5

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Picture quality is remastered very well. It does earn a bit darker and lighter in some scenes, but other than cramped print hurt once or twice, the describe quality is perfect. The Mandarin, Cantonese and English tracks all sound splendid. In fact, I have never heard the English dub sound this worthy. The subtitles should have been written better, and the English dub is actually a better translation. They are not horribly written, but could have been a lot better. I am not complaining though since this is the only fault on the DVD.

Special features include a vast commentary from The RZA and this Andy Klein guy who does not know very great about the genre. Luckily RZA is there to serve him point out actors like Lau Kar Flit, Wilson Tong and Hsiao Hou. I found the commmentary delicious. RZA talks about his experiences with this movie, and he is definitely a 36th Chamber expert. And I found it dazzling amusing that he seems to assume Gordon Liu is a monk in valid life.

The 17 diminutive interview with Gordon Liu is very involving. He talks about many things such as training day and night and how tremendous of an honor it was to work with a megastar like Lo Lieh. Gordon skips over the years like people should know what he is talking about, but fair in case you don’t, I will bear you in. In 1974 Lau Kar Leung was Chang Cheh’s top action director and Gordon Liu was cast as a villain alongside Johnny Wang Lung Wei and Leung Kar Yan in movies like ‘7 Man Army’. When Lau Kar Leung split up with Chang Cheh he started directing his acquire movies for the Shaw Brothers, starting with ‘Spiritual Boxer’. In his next movie ‘Challenge of the Masters’, Lau Kar Leung cast his younger adopted brother Gordon Liu as the lead. This is what led to Gordon becoming the star of ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’, the greatest Shaolin Temple movie ever made.

There is a 17 tiny documentary on Shaolin that is basically another 17 minutes of awesome info from Gordon Liu.

The 8 limited interview with film critic/scholars Andy Klein and David Shute is a very generous description of how stout of a movie this is.

The RZA gets a 10 runt interview where he talks about where he first started watching these movies and also gives his thoughts on the Shaw Brothers and explains why the Master Killer in his rap group took that name.

The trailers are the best special feature. The trailer for ‘Shaolin Mantis’ is very unusual. Instead of showing clips from the movie, the actors introduce what kind of kung fu styles are going to be dilapidated (be definite to perceive for Lily Li!) . Lau Kar Leung is the director of ‘Shaolin Mantis’ and doesn’t even have a role in the movie, but he gets to display off his ultra awesome kung fu skills quite a bit in the trailer. I mediate I have watched this trailer about 50 times, and I will eventually master that Shadow style!

Also included are Fresh trailers for ‘The 36th Chamber’, ‘Return to the 36th Chamber’, ‘Disciples of the 36th Chamber’, ‘8 Arrangement Pole Fighter’, ‘My Young Auntie’, ‘One Armed Swordsman’, ‘Infernal Affairs 3′ and the unusual Master Killer US TV commercial.

The last special feature is a gallery of fresh movie posters and movie stills.

This 1970s classic is a must-have for action/martial-arts movie lovers. The yarn centers around a young scholar (Gordon Liu) who enlists as an underground rebel seeking to overthrow the Manchu rulers that have taken over China. The cross local Manchu warlord, played by Lo Lieh (the Shaw Brothers’ common villain!), discovers the station and slaughters Liu’s family. Liu flees to the Shaolin Temple, where he becomes a monk, adopts the name “San Te”, and learns the secrets of Shaolin kung-fu (because the dubbing is frail, the character’s pre-Shaolin name is difficult to create out) . This is when the movie shines! The training sequences, though dramatized at times, are the most fantastic ever caught on film and highlight the excruciating distress the monks endure. Seven years later, San Te leaves the Temple and returns to his ragged village to seize revenge on the Manchus.

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Unlike many HK martial arts films, this one does not have “wire-fu” and ridiculous side antics and comedy that distract from the status. The fighting sequences are snappy, hard, and clean- pure traditional school heaven! The yarn and dialogue are simple; the dubbing could exhaust improvement, but one should understand most of the words. Pay conclude attention to the skills San Te learns at Shaolin, and then seeing them applied when San Te battles the Manchus! When you se this, you really bask in the attention to detail that the makers of the film place forth.

Overall, a gem of a movie. They don’t execute them like this anymore!!

Lara Croft Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life Movie Streaming

March 3rd, 2010 by jeremiah8804770
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Movie Title: Lara Croft Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life
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It would be easy to dismiss “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life” as being a outrageous being “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and a James Bond movie except for two things. The first is that there is nothing inherently substandard with combining those two elements, even if the genesis of your character is a series of video games. The second is that despite the overwhelming place similarities between this second Lara Croft film and the first and third Indiana Jones movies, there are actually things going to with the titular character. We are not talking profound psychological development here, but for an action film there is actually something else going on as well.

The main thing, of course, is the action, which is why the James Bond comparisons are so determined. An earthquake shakes the Greek island of Santorini and the next thing we know Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) is on the saunter of Pandora’s Box. Apparently it was what brought life to Earth and inside it there is one more thing. Not hope, as most versions of the Greek chronicle convey us, but a plague that will wipe out all life on earth. Lara is fervent in the box because her reason d’etre is that: “Everything lost is meant to be found.” But gross scientist Dr. Jonathan Reiss (Ciaran Hinds), a Nobel prize winner who is apparently searching for the perfect poison, wants what is in the box. Along for the perambulate is Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), a charming rogue from Lara’s past who might be the yin to her yang.

Alexander the Tall is interested in all of this as well, but that is honest exposition. As was the case with the first Tomb Raider film, Lara Croft goes globe trotting, visiting as many continents as possible before the final credits. More importantly, each and every opportunity for putting in some stunts (not to be confused with CG effects) is taken advantage of, including Lara out for a horseback dart. Director Jan de Bont (”Accelerate”) and first time screenwriter Dean Georgaris have do together a obedient sequel, and Jolie is mighty more comfortable in the role. Lara Croft’s biggest similarity to James Bond is not all the stunts but the overwhelming sense of being icy. No matter where on the planet she finds herself, Lara always knows more than here enemies and has friends end at hand.

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But beneath the glamorous adventures and stop brushes with death, Lara Craft has a series of reality checks to go through in “The Cradle of Life.” Section of it is professional, since there is growing reason to beget that finding Pandora’s box is not a respectable concept. But the other section is personal, since Sheridan keeps insisting there is something between them worth pursuing. The popular denominator is that both of these issues instruct to Croft’s feminine side. Clearly she is all woman, but remarkable more, and being keep in the plot of being either a new Pandora or an ordinary woman does not create Lady Croft overjoyed. The endings of these two position lines might be predictable, but at least they give the character and the movie some depth.

Speaking of being unhappy: This film was banned in China because “it damaged China’s reputation, giving the impression of a country in chaos, with no government and over-run by secret societies.” A movie has to deserve at least four stars for doing something like that.

If you liked the first film in the Tomb Raider series, “Cradle of Life” will enlighten honest as powerful fun. The sequel begins with artistocratic archeological adventuress Lady Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) diving off the flit of Greece, where a volcanic eruption has uncovered the fabled Lunar Temple. Within the underwater temple, Lara discovers a mysterious orb. As with many of her tomb raids, however, things soon go awry, and the orb falls into enemy hands.

Representatives of the British intelligence agency MI-5 recruit Lara to retrieve the orb, which Alexander the Broad created as a draw to Pandora’s Box. MI-5 fears that a scientist known for creating biological agents will utilize a plague contained in Pandora’s Box to earn weapons of dread. Lara scoffs at MI-5’s offer to send agents to attend her, and insists on an assistant of her bear choosing–a possibly untrustworthy mercenary (Gerard Butler) who is her veteran lover. And thus the quest for the orb begins anew.

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Once again, Jolie brings to Lara Croft a terrific mixture of Indiana Jones’ dauntless and cleverness, James Bond’s class and grace under fire and an acrobatic combat style, wittiness and sex appeal all her occupy. She makes a very arresting heroine that both men and women can bask in. At one point, as she is checking from rural China in via cell phone, her assistant asks her what she’s doing, and she coyly comments “Accessorizing” as she straps on automatic weapons and knives.

Lara is a woman faded to doing things her arrangement, as evidenced by how unimpressed she acts when the MI-5 agents sing her that the Queen requires her assistance in retrieving the orb. She aims her dry wit equally at her mercenary ex-lover and the thieves attempting to hold control of the orb.

The rapport between Gerard and Jolie is somewhat reminiscent of the repartee once seen on the silver veil between Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Although their barbs aren’t quite as snappy fire as “His Girl Friday” dialogue, the tension and lingering attraction between the two add spice to the movie. The quiz of whether Lara really can trust Terry (Gerard) to not double-cross her, and sever a better deal with the unsavory characters seeking the orb creates additional suspense.

One disappointment in “Cradle of Life” was that the puzzles that Lara must solve to obtain her arrangement to Pandora’s Box aren’t as complex as the puzzles in the first “Tomb Raider.” Most of the puzzle work is done via computer with Lara sending images assist to her assistant to crack relieve home. The imperative to pick up the orb and accept to Pandora’s Box wasn’t quite the hasten against the clock alive to in the first “Tomb Raider,” where pieces to the triangle that controlled time could only be retrieved during clear moments in a planetary alignment. Consequently, while the need to beat the terrible guys to the next step was obviously primary, the clock didn’t seem to be running quite as rapidly.

Nevertheless, “Cradle of Life” does not disappoint with its breathtaking travelogue-style cinematography and its tricky stunts. A series of gymnastic maneuvers that Lara executes to climb atop the roof of the underwater temple and a motorcycle slide along the Sizable Wall of China were reminiscent of the settings in the first two Tomb Raider games. In other scenes, Lara flees from her captor among Chinese terra-cotta tomb warriors, and then rappels head first down a sheer cliff. The spiral passageways leading to the hiding spot of Pandora’s Box created an eerie and exotic setting.

Overall, “Cradle of Life” is a lot of fun! The fancy myth between Lara and Terry adds a complexity to the action. The exotic settings and the kick-butt stunts add up to a sequel that’s impartial as enthralling to explore as the first. Stare this on the immense cover. While I’m positive the DVD will be favorable, the sweeping views of China, Greece and Africa won’t translate as well to the dinky cover. Look it now!

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