He’s just not that into you

The film starts with a scene where a little boy annoys a little girl and make her cry. The little girl’s mother told her that when men act like jerks, it means they like her. Continiueing with little scenes where women solaces each other, the narrator says why do we always make up excuses to feel better . Why no one except the fact that maybe “he’s just not that into you”

Years later, that little girl Gigi is now trying to find a true love. She’s naive a little bit and believes that all the things a man said is sincere. When she was waiting a call from her latest date, she went to a place where she can meet with the guy “coincidentally”. A friend of that guy understood the situation and explained Gigi what it means when a man does specific things for helping her. This talk made Gigi’s eyes open and her point of view to men changed. At the same time the guy who had a date with Gigi called her girlfriend who meets with Gigi’s friend’s husband in a supermarket.Later, the girlfriend and Gigi’s friend’s husband had an affair. Also, another friend of Gigi has problems with his boyfriend who doesn’t want to get married. All these conected stories are showing some facts about relationships eventually.

The best thing about the film is that you saw things that happened to you or someone around you. All the given statements and facts are true.Therefor, no one should miss that romantic comedy film.

Opinion Article

There were many discussions about who deserved the Oscar awards more. Some like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, some like the story of a poor teenage. Before the ceremony, everyone was talking about it and putting forward an idea. When the ‘it’ night came, everyone was very excited and intense.

In the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the daughter of Daisy Williams reads her mother the diary of Benjamin Button who had born an old man who has diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at Benjamin’s home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. The film has an extraordinary topic. As a result, you think it would be an interesting movie but it longs three hours which makes you feel bored after some time.

Slumdog Millionaire is the story of a boy who is at the age of 18 called Jamal Malik . He participated to a competition named "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" which is a very popular contest and known by many countries included Turkey. I used to watch that competition and enjoyed watching it. Therefore, I know how hard it is to win the biggest prize. You have to be wise and have liberal education. In addition, you have to be very calm during the competition. As Jamal, an orphan from the slums of Mumbai, continued giving correct answers, everybody got curious about his success. Since he is an uneducated poor boy, polices thought he is cheating or something. They arrested and interrogated him before the day that he would answer the last question. Jamal started to tell his life story and the places he went with his brother. In every adventures story he told, the audience and polices saw the answers of the questions in the stories. Meanwhile, he keeps trying to find his first love (Latika) and prove that being together is their destiny. He doesn’t quit fighting and the reason that he participates to the competition is to show Latika himself. In the end, when he show up on the Tv for answer the last question Latika sees her on the screen and escape from his husband who is a jerk to find Jamal.

Both movies are about love stories but have completely different topics. Benjamin Button is a surreal movie whereas Slumdog expresses the real life in Mumbai. Benjamin Button is a good example for high budget Hollywood movie. Brad Pitt and the main actors are very famous movie stars like we all see in the other Hollywood movies. On the other hand, Slumdog has normal people and kids from Mumbai which also lives in these very poor slum areas of Mumbai. There are nor famous or popular actors in this movie.

The only good thing about Benjamin Button is the main idea that his person lives his life reversely but it’s very long and the story doesn’t reflect a strong love. The opposite way round, in Slumdog the characters are very real, full of emotions and follow the voice of their heart. Even the bad character of the film, the big brother, sacrifices for his brother to help them run away at the end of the film.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won awards in 3 different categories, while Slumdog Millionaire won 8. The Slumdog Millonaire had a cast of poor Indians and the film’s budget is approximately ten times less of the money that spent for Benjamin Button. The ironical situation is that probably the film publishers of Benjamin Button offered Brad Pittt million dollars but who wins millions and a priceless award is a slum. Looks like it isn’t all about money.

( written on Apr 29 but posted now because of the technical problems )

The Notebook

At the beginning of the film, an old man called Duke reads a love story from his notebook to a female fellow patient (Allie) in a nursing home. The story takes place in 1940s. It’s about two young lovers, who have different social statuses. Their passionate relationship fascinates you and makes you think that the love they have only exists in fairy tales. As Duke continues to tell the story, some visitors come to the nursing home. Allie doesn’t recognize these people, who keep begging Duke to come home. He insists on staying. At that moment of the film, we officially understood that the two young lovers in the story are Allie and Duke. Turns out, Allie has amnesia and Duke is reading her diary to her every single day to make her remember the memories they had. When Duke finishes the story, Allie remembers everything and they embrace in reunion. At the end of the story the nurse finds them in bed together, having both died peacefully holding each other's hands.

Across the Universe

An American rock musical that makes you live the 60’s while listening to The Beatles. The film is about an English boy, Jude, which goes to USA to find his father that he has never seen. However, when he reaches USA, he finds himself in a chaos; the Vietnam war, racism… Jude joins a group of friends that includes sister of Max, Lucy. They fall in love with each other, but the chaos effects them and they break up. Because Jude is an immigrant, he gets kicked out of the country and he’s sent back to his country. However, he can’t hold himself and decides to return to USA to find Lucy. They find each other at a rooftop concert, and they live happily ever after =)

The Most Popular Films of 2008

Rank
Film Title
Distributor
Cumulative Total (US$)
Open Date

1
The Dark Knight
Warner Bros.
$530,540,885
7/18/08

2
Iron Man
Paramount
$318,313,199
5/2/08

3
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Paramount
$317,023,851
5/22/08

4
Hancock
Sony
$227,946,274
7/2/08

5
Wall-E
Disney
$223,704,223
6/27/08

6
Kung Fu Panda
Paramount
$215,434,591
6/6/08

7
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Paramount
$165,653,852
11/7/08

8
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who
Fox
$154,529,439
3/14/08

9
Sex and the City
Warner Bros.
$152,647,258
5/30/08

10
Quantum of Solace
Sony
$151,620,134
11/14/08

source:http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/tops-in-2008-most-popular-movies-and-dvds/

Seven Pounds

What would you do if you cause seven people’s death? Could you live with that remorse? In the film Seven Pounds, the main character Ben Thomas (who has performed by Will Smith) cause an accident. Her wife and six teenagers died in this accident. Ben felt so guilty because of his mistake and he decided to give life to seven people by donate his organs to them. However, before that he observed the people he has chosen to see if they deserve that donation. While he was observing these people, something unexpected happened and he fell in love with one of them. It made the situation harder because he had to kill himself to save the woman he loves’ life. If you love dramatic movies, you better not miss that one.

source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814314/

The Winners of Oscar 2009

Rich and Handsome Brad vs Poor Indian Jamil

There were many discussions about who deserved the Oscar awards more. Some like the curious case, some like the story of a poor teenage. Before the ceremony, everyone was talking about it and putting forward an idea. When the ‘it’ night came, everyone was very excited and intense.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won awards in 3 different categories, while Slumdog Millionaire won 8. The Slumdog Millonaire had a cast of poor Indians and the film’s budget is approximately ten times less of the money that spent for Benjamin Button. The ironical situation is that probably the film publishers of Benjamin Button offered Brad Pittt million dollars but who wins millions and a priceless award is a slum. Looks like it isn’t all about money.

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Slumdog Millionaire

It’s the story of a boy who is at the age of 18 called Jamal Malik . He participated to a competition named "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" which is a very popular contest and known by many countries included Turkey. I used to watch that competition and enjoyed watching it. Therefore, I know how hard it is to win the biggest prize. You have to be wise and have liberal education. In addition, you have to be very calm during the competition. As Jamal, an orphan from the slums of Mumbai, continued giving correct answers, everybody got curious about his success. Since he is an uneducated poor boy, polices thought he is cheating or something. They arrested and interrogated him before the day that he would answer the last question. Jamal started to tell his life story and the places he went with his brother. In every adventures story he told, the audience and polices saw the answers of the questions in the stories. Finally, he has released and everybody believed that he is innocent. Do you want to know what happened in the end to the slumdog millionaire? It’s came to the motion screen today. Why don’t you buy a ticket, call a friend, grab some popcorn and move your ass :)

source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/plotsummary

The Very First Films

The first short was "Strongman Sandow" in 1890, if you discount the 1877 series of pictures showing a horse galloping. The first short with a story line is "The Great Train Robbery", and the first feature length film was "The Story of the Kelly Gang." The actors are Godfrey Cass, Nicholas Brierley, Elizabeth Tait,and John Tait. The first full feature color movie was "The World, the Flesh and the Devil" which made it's debut in 1914. In this film the actor who played the Devil is H. Agar Lyons.








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Do you know?

• The two films that won the most Oscar Awards:
  
  In 76 years there were only two films that won the most Oscar Awards. In 1959, BEN HUR and in 1997 TITANIC won 11 awards in different categories.
  




• The ones that was nominated in many categories but didnt win any:
  

In 1997 THE TURNING POINT and in 1985 THE COLOR PURPLE was nominated in 9 categories but they couldn't win even one Oscar.

• The country that won the most Oscar Awards:
  

French films won 32 awards in the category of 'the best foreign film.

• The longest period to win an Oscar :
  

It took 21 years for the film LIMELIGHT by Şarlo to win an Oscar.

• The different aspects for a film to be nominated in an Oscar category?
  

1. should be longer than 40 minutes





2. should be shown at least once in a Los Angeles theatres with tickets





3. should be shown at least for one week on the motion screen

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The film that has seen by many people before it came to the motion screen: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The reason of this film’s popularity is that it has an interesting theme. In the film, the daughter of Daisy Williams reads her mother the diary of Benjamin Button who had born an old man who has diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at Benjamin’s home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. You should see this unordinary and interesting story. Surely, it will impress you as if it did many people. Additionally, another fact is the film excepted to win many awards.

Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421715/

Twilight

Twilight, the awaited film, which is adapted by a book has came to the motion picture screen! The readers say that the book cause an addiction and they can’t stop reading before finish the whole book series which forms by four books. As a result, it has many fans that were waiting for the film to come. I have seen the movie this weekend. Even though I didn’t read the book, I impressed by the movie a lot. The film is about a modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair - between vampire and mortal .The girl, Bella, comes to live with her father and starts to a new school. In the school, she meets with a boy called Edward who is a vampire. They fall in love with each other and try to hurdle the obstacles between them. Special effects, soundtracks and the interesting topic make the film fascinating and affecting. I highly recommend you to see this movie.

Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/