Titanic 3D an Experience You Do Not Want To Miss: Titanic 3D Review

If you know me personally, then you know how obsessed I am over Titanic. Not just the movie, but the Titanic itself. I’ve watched every movie about the Titanic, I know so much about the ship, and you’d think I work as a historian for Titanic. The reasoning for the attachment is---my great grandmother held a third class ticket on Titanic. Fortunately, she missed the boat when it left Ireland. Every time I watch any version pertaining to Titanic, I always think to myself what would have happened  had she made that trip. Would she have survived?

            Out of all the movies that have covered Titanic, my most favorite is---well obviously James Cameron’s version. Cameron paid deep attention to every detail from the era, and casted each and every role with an exact look a likes to people they were portraying.  Furthermore, he had portrayed the sinking as it were really happened, from the time it struck the iceberg, to when the band stop playing, and when Titanic finally went down to her ice watery grave. Even according to some of Titanic’s few remaining survivors who were still alive in 1997 had said that Cameron’s version was closes to the exact thing that happened on April 14^th 1912. The 100 year anniversary of Titanic’s sinking is upon, and along with the recent uprising in 3D. Titanic is being re-released on the big screen---Titanic in 3D.

            Titanic in 3D, you experience the movie on a whole other level. The story virtually comes to life right in front of you, and you feel as if you are walking along Titanic’s decks, or taking a walk down her elegant grand staircase. Titanic in 3D becomes most spellbinding when it’s in the moments of the sinking---the 3D puts you in it. Myself, along with several other audience members said they were overwhelmed with great emotion. Everything you know about Titanic---the personal passenger stories of their hopes and dreams---the excitement and anticipation about Titanic---and all the loss---you feel 10 times more. 

If you loved Titanic when it was first releases in 1997, you will fall in love with it again in 3D.  Out of any movie I had seen in 3D prior to Titanic was just merely preparing me for this one. Take the journey and experience The Ship of Dreams one more time on the big screen. You can revisit Titanic April 6^th.

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Remembering the Legendary Whitney Houston

Like everyone else, I was in complete shock of hearing about the passing of iconic singer Whitney Houston. I found out of her untimely passing via twitter, I had just got out from seeing The Vow. I started my car, while it was warming up; I was flipping through my tweets. Honestly, I thought it was just another one of those twitter death hoaxes that seemed to emerge on the site way too many times, but sadly this time it was not a hoax. Whitney’s death is such a tragic lost to the musical word, to her family and friends, as well as to her fans.                                      

I grew up listening to her music; my mom was a huge fan of hers. I always used to sing along to “All at Once,” dancing idiotically around my bedroom to “How Will I Know,” and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” and even “So emotional.” However my greatest memory of Whitney’s music come from when I was in high school, I got to perform in a solo performance in choir her 1986 hit “Greatest Love of All”. That particular song has such a powerful meaning in itself.    

Houston also starred in a couple of movies, “The Body Guard,” and my favorite, “Waiting to Exhale.” With the news of her death still streaming the web, everyone is still trying to process it. To us fans it still seems unreal, and I cannot to begin to fathom what her family and friends are going through right not. In this time of sorrow, I offer my most sympathetic thoughts to Whitney’s family and friends, the world has truly lost a legend.

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The Woman in Black: Review

When I first saw the trailer for The Woman in Black, I instantly wanted to see it. It caught my attention solely because it was starring Daniel Radcliffe whom we all recognize from the Harry Potter franchise. Since this movie is post Harry Potter, I figured it would be an interesting twist to see how this young actor switched from child star to adult. Nevertheless Radcliffe successfully shredded himself from his child star image in this suspense horror film.

            The Woman in Black script is written by Jane Goldman, who leaves a lot of the movies material up to the audience’s imagination, which I was very skeptical of this approach at first. However, Radcliffe proved his acting skills despite the fact he’s never studied acting before his Harry Potter days. Some people are just born with it, and Daniel Radcliffe proved he has the natural talent of acting. His body language and actions help speak about the story of a man who is being tormented by a vengeful spirit.

            Daniel Radcliffe stars as the young attorney Arthur Kipps. Kipps is summoned to Crythin Gifford, a small market town on the east coast of the United Kingdom to go over paper work that requires legal action. He is given the case and is told that he must use this case to prove his worth to the agency.  The house he must go to is on Nine Lives Causeway and at high tide is completely cut off from the mainland with only the surrounding marshes and sea frets for company. On his first day there, he sees that the town folks are less than welcoming, some of them seem even a bit fearful of Kipss arrival. It is not long until he discovers why.

            His first trip to the house, he hears strange noises, however he doesn’t make much of it. When he looks out the window, he sees a woman in black standing in the yard. When he goes back to town for the night, while talking to a constable, a child comes in and dies in his arms. The area town folks learn of this news, and order Kipps to leave, but he refuses. On his second day, he learns of the myth of a woman in black is seen and a child dies.

            I very much liked this movie, despite the predictable scenes that make the viewer’s jump. The Woman in Black is an adaptation Susan Hill's 1983 novel, it is rated PG-13 for thematic material and violence, disturbing images, the running time: 95 minutes. In his first starring role after Harry Potter, Radcliffe has officially marketed himself as a very versatile actor. I give this four out of five stars.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Review

Over the last 10 years, whether or not a film about one of the darkest days in American history has been up for much debate. The debate has been if it’s too soon to have a film made, but to be honest, flight 93 in 2006 was greatly considered to be too soon. Even though, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was just a novel in 2005, it was criticized for being too soon for being released in 2005. As most novels seem to have this happen to them, the novel was turned into a film, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close went through that same debate is it still too soon? However, if a movie is to be made regardless of what is mention, or where it centers, Hollywood is going to make the film.

            Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has the advantage of a decade-long perspective on the events of that day, and it brings back in a rush of all the pain and sorrow. It transports you 10 years back in your life when the world literally stopped, and everyone was focused on their TV watching the horrific events unfold live in front of them. The film follows a highly intelligent 11-year-old New Yorker, Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), whose father Thomas (Tom Hanks), a jeweler who was visiting one of the Twin Towers on 9/11, is killed during the attack. Oskar and his father had a wonderfully close relationship. His bond with his mother (Sandra Bullock) however, is more distant.

            In order to make some kind of sense out of the events of 9/11, Oskar who narrates the movie, sets himself an impossible mission. Discovering a key in an envelope marked “Black” in his father’s closet, he decides to find the lock it opens by tracking down all 472 people named Black listed in all the boroughs of New York. While Most of the time his encounters are brief and dismissive. In a few instances, such as the one involving a woman named Abby (Viola Davis), he finds himself innocently walking in on a domestic crisis. After a while Oskar acquires an ally in his quest, an old man, known only as “the renter” and played by Max von Sydow, who lives down the hall from Oskar’s grandmother (Zoe Caldwell). This dignified and mysterious gent is mute by choice and everything he says is written down on a notepad. It is Oskar’s strong suspicion that the old man is actually his long-lost grandfather.

            Oskar’s precociousness and obsessiveness is linked to a possible diagnosis of Asperger’s. (“Tests were inconclusive,” he dryly comments in voice-over.) He’s a wearying kid, and Horn – who is himself a prodigy and a champ on the junior edition of “Jeopardy” can be a wearying actor. (It’s his first movie.) He never lets up. No doubt this has a lot to do with the way Stephen Daldry directed him. Still, the film’s title could just as easily apply to Oskar as to 9/11. Hanks and Bullock are wonderful, though their screen time is very brief. But the central dynamic of the film, Oskar’s search for meaning in his father’s death – is obscured by the boy’s frantic odyssey, which quickly takes on a life of its own untethered to 9/11. It is only near the end, when Thomas’s increasingly panicky phone messages from that day are played out, that the film hits home. Grade: A- (Rated PG-13 for emotional thematic material, some disturbing images, and language.)

Posters For Modern Movies Re-Imagined With Classic Casts

These posters are awesome in so many ways. I can only imagine how completely different these movies would be if these classic actors/actresses really played in these films