The Tourist Movie Review

If knowing who the main casts are is not enough for you to watch this movie (ok I’m a bit bias there) here’s my take and movie review after watching the Tourist.

As we all know, Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie are the main stars of this movie. Portrayed Frank and Elise respectively. As the usual, Jolie’s character here is a girl with a strong personality. What I actually think different (at first) is Depp’s character.  His character is simply ordinary. With a profile like that, an actor like Johnny Depp is really the perfect one to portray this role, for a simple reason that, Angelina’s personality and popularity may overpower his leading man.

The story is unique in some ways, fast phased and delivered straight to the point. No extra scenes that would add up to the running time of the movie.

It’s a love story, with a bit of action, thriller and suspense.

What I actually love about the story is the unexpected ending. I love unexpected endings and I love stories that would keep me guessing and wondering till nearly the end. So I can say that watching this movie is really worth my time.

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Avatar Movie Review

I watched the most talked about film “Avatar” and just after finishing the movie that I found out why it had that title. For sure, internet users are familiar with this word especially those who are into on line gaming or some social network sites wherein you are asked to put an image to a name, be it a copied one or your real picture, an avatar.

Anyway, back to the movie, the setting was from a far planet named Pandora, where people or Navis living here have their own culture, language and appearance very different from humans. Aside from that, humans can’t breathe in their planet without the help of a gas mask.

Major character here was Jake, the crippled ex-war veteran who had a scientist brother who died and was a member of a group studying the inhabitants of Pandora. He was then offered to be his replacement and was sent to that planet in exchange of a huge compensation plus a chance to have a fresh start.

There was also Grace, played by Sigourney Weaver, a scientist in charged of the program, whom at first, doesn’t like Jake because she said he can’t be of any help to them but later on became acquainted with each other especially when they are on their avatar self.

To be an avatar, a person was placed in a tube like machine, put into sleep, then their mind travel to their avatar self, a genetically creature with genes of a human and a Navi.

They were then brought to the Pandora community to mingle and be able to study their way of living. But other member of the program especially those in the military, have other reasons of joining. They were after a precious gem, an Obtanium which sold a million bucks a kilo and can be found in the midst of the huge trees, where inhabitants of Pandora lives.

Meanwhile, Jake, upon being with the Pandora’s inhabitants, got attached to a female Navi named Neytiri. She was the daughter of the King and Queen of the Navi clan. She was assigned to teach Jake of how a Navi lives, their language and culture. Jake and Neytiri later on fell in love with each other.

When the military attacked the Navi’s, Neytiri’s father died and she got really mad at Jake. Navis then learned that Jake and Grace were humans and were with the people who destroyed their planet. They were later on tied by other Navis and were supposed to be left in the midst of the war. But Neytiri’s mother freed them and instead asked for their help.

Jake, being closely attached to the Navi’s considered himself as one of them encouraged the other tribe to fight the humans with him. He even prayed to the Navi’s God, Eywa to help them win the battle. And when they thought that the war is coming to its end, seeing the Navi’s dying in numbers, with the humans almost taking over, wild animals came to the rescue and helped them win.

At the end of the movie, the humans were seen heading back to their space craft with the Navi’s escorting them. They were sent back to Earth but Jake and some humans were allowed to stay at Pandora. Grace died and so was Trudy, the girl military pilot who stayed at their side till her last breath. Jake on the other hand, asked Neytiri’s mom to turn himself permanently in his Avatar self leaving his human body behind. Truly this movie deserves two thumbs up with their 3D effects and a unique story.

There are a lot of people, but that’s not enough to take all the seats. I guess since this is the first movie presentation on the schedule for today.

Things went well, as the movie started. Hmm, As I had said, this is not a movie review but I’ll post some of my observations about this twilight sequel.

In general, Since I read all 4 twilight saga books, I am expecting things or at least something similar to the story in the book. And Yes, every scene turned out to be an  interpretation of the book.

One thing I noticed though, even though this is not that focused on Edward and Bella love story, this should have some emotions. I can’t feel the same intense emotion as it was on the first movie,much more on the emotion depicted from the book.

As I was reading New moon, I felt the emotions of the characters, It gave me sleepless nights, feeling, thinking of their emotions, how hard it is for Bella, The hope and pain of Jacob, the sacrifices and pain of Edward.  These things are the ones I am looking for in the movie, which unfortunately I did not see.

This is far from what I had imagined when I was reading the book.

Also,  I think people who just watched Twilight (first sequel),  cannot relate much on the scenes. I guess this is targeted for fanatics who are already familiar with the story? or maybe, the movie interpretation is not that good.

Howell, of course, I’ll still watch the next Twilight Sage movie hoping to feel the emotion that made the book one of the best sellers I think.

I still love Jacob hehehee