It’s been a while since I blogged about the movies I’ve seen. It doesn’t mean I haven’t been seeing any, you know that’s impossible, I just haven’t been writing about it.
So here is a list of the movies I’ve seen lately:
– Cellular
– Shall We Dance?
– Taking Lives
– The Door In The Floor
– The Punisher
– Surviving Christmas
And now here’s a little review of each one…
On Saturday afternoon, we picked ourselves out of our weekend laziness and headed to downtown Tunis for a change of setting and maybe to catch a movie or something.
We found the Egyptian movie “Tito“, featuring Ahmed El Saqqa and Hanan Turk and directed by Tarek El-Aryan, playing in one of the cinemas. So we thought we’d check it out.
It was great!. Certainly one of the best movies Egyptian cinema has produced lately.
The script, the story line, the characters, the acting, the directing, the cinematography and even the stunts were really good.
It’s great how this new wave of actors and directors in Egypt are ushering in a new age in Egyptian cinema, some sort of renaissance after the ugly movies of the 80’s and 90’s.
Tito tells the story of an ex-con who tries to escape his sinful life and start a new clean one, but his past comes back to haunt him.
I loved how they built the characters and gave them real depth and developed them througout the movie.
I also find it great they’re talking about really important issues in the society.
I truly recommend this movie to everyone.
You should really check it out.
Prominent Egyptian actor Nour El Sharif has announced that he plans on presenting the life story of the late Palestinian President, whom he was very good friends with, in a new film. Nour revealed that he video taped the funeral ceremony held for the President in Egypt and Ramallah in order to use them in the film, which he will begin work on once the mourning period is over.
Nour stressed that he will seek a good scenarist to write the script of the film once he completes collecting all the needed research on the President
Walt Disney Studios is actively proceeding with a second sequel to Pixar’s “Toy Story” franchise on their own.
Disney is in the process of setting up a digital animation facility in Glendale — not far from their bitter rivals DreamWorks Animation — that will be used for the production of “Toy Story 3.”
While Disney has the rights to do sequels to “Toy Story,” it has held off from doing so in the past because the guys at Pixar haven’t wanted to lose control of the characters.
But with Pixar announcing earlier this year that it would end its distribution relationship with Disney following the 2005 release of “Cars,” Disney have signaled their determination to bring Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the gang back to the big screen.
This totally sucks.
I already wrote about this before when it was just speculation and before the plans got under way and I still maintain my same position.
I just feel that without Pixar behind the wheel, this will be a miserable failure.
No one can produce that Pixar magic, not even Disney.
Plus Disney suck at sequels, their storywriters suck, and their 3D animations aren’t that good.
I think it’s a shame Disney are foolishly going to screw up something as great as Toy Story.
The first animated movie depicting the life of the Prophet Muhammad will be screened in North America after delays due to 9/11.
Muhammad: The Last Prophet will premiere in cinemas in 37 US and Canadian cities for one week from 14 November on Eid al-Fitr – a Muslim holiday marking the end of fasting in the month of Ramadan.
The 90-minute film that chronicles the early life and teachings of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad was produced for Badr International by RichCrest Animation Studios, the creators of animated classics such as The King and I, and The Fox and the Hound.
Because of Islamic traditions prohibiting the visual representation of religious figures, no images of Prophet Muhammad appear in the film.
The Council on American Islamic Relations, America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group, said the movie was an excellent opportunity for parents and children of all faiths “to learn more about a historic figure like Prophet Mohammed and events that shaped today’s world”.
John Voll, director of Georgetown University’s Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding, said: “The movie is especially relevant in the current time when so much of the media presentations of Muslims and Muslim life is so negative.
“And this provides an alternative perspective,” said Voll, among a group of academics consulted about the movie, budgeted at more than $10 million.
[Source: Al Jazeera]
I knew the main idea behind the movie but didn’t know how they’d build on to it.
So, the movie is a take on the chaos theory and the concept of time travel mixed together.
The chaos theory mainly says that as much as a little change in the initial conditions can result in a big difference later, and well time travel is time travel, basically going back and forward in time.
I liked how they put the ideas together and how they came up with the time travel possibility, I thought it was rather creative.
It’s quite a good movie although it was lacking a certain something I can’t quite put my finger on. But it was still fun to watch.
The end was sort of funny and unexpected (for me that is, as other people could see it otherwise) and I liked it ending that way.
If I had to rate this movie, I’d give it 7/10 maybe.
It’s a really good movie.
Joel Schumacher does a great job directing this movie and Colin Farrell carries it wonderfully.
The whole movie is shot around a phone booth. You wouldn’t imagine something like that to be much fun, but it’s great and it so sucks you in, you start imagining how it would be if you were in that phone booth.
This movie is a must see for anyone into thrillers. Very enjoyable.
I’ve actually seen it twice already.
Last night, I finally got around to watching Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore.
I think Moore did a good job with this documentary. He shed some light on a side of the events that all Americans should see.
I also liked the humour in it. Some parts were very funny.
Some people think it’s pretty one sided and that Moore goes a bit too far at times, but well, that’s his opinion and the way he sees things. There is no such thing as too much or too far for the human brain.
There are things I agree with him on and things that I might not. But it’s great to see his side of things anyway.
He truly makes some very important points.
Just came back from the cinema.
As I’m such a movie freak, I talked my wife and her brother and sister into catching a movie somewhere. After reviewing all the options, I pushed for us to go see “I, Robot” at Century Cinema even though none of them felt like it.
But well, I got them there 😛
And well, what can I say. I loved the movie. I truly enjoyed everything about it, from the action to the science fiction to the humour to everything.
This is absolutely Will Smith’s best movie yet.
The others liked it a lot too. So that was cool.
I got to boast that I was the movie God again 😛
Anyway, if you’re in Amman and you’d like to catch a cool movie, I truly recommend this one. If you do and you don’t like it, well bite me 😛
Last night, I got to see a great movie called “Radio” starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ed Harris. It’s inspired from a true story and what a truly beautiful story it is.
Both Cuba and Ed did a wonderful job on this movie, they were amazing. I’m talking real Oscar level acting here.
Cuba plays the role of Radio, a mentally retarded guy who used to waste his whole day wandering around with a shopping cart full of his stuff until Ed Harris’ character (a football coach) takes him in to help him with the team, changing both their lives forever.
In the end of the movie they actually put some footage of the real life characters who inspired the movie, which convinced me even more of the great acting that the two lead actors gave.
This movie is so heart-warming and sweet, I think it is totally a must-see.
