THE LOVE GURU (2008) (a)

“The only way out is in.”


“What is it that you can’t face?”
“I can’t face my Ma.”
“Then, that’s what you have to face.”

Comment:

The two quotations above share something in common. It is to face your fear or problem, fix and conquer them. Guru Pitka wants us to deal with the problem by involving in it. He seemingly wants to assure us that even though the problem is as big as a mountain that it’d crushed us to the ground, we will stand still. Because we are Homo sapient, we have the instinct to survive over the trouble. The bottom line of this idea is just like we are sailing in a hurricane in the ocean. It’ll hit as harder if we try to retreat. And the worst case scenario, we sink to the bottom of the ocean. But, if we keep going on, the ship will get through the high waves and still sailing on the water.
From now on…be strong and face every fear and problem as if they are vitamins that’ll make you grow stronger every day.

Summary of the Movie:
In the Comedy “The Love Guru”, Pitka (Mike Myers in his first original character since Austin Powers) is an American who was left at the gate of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the US to seek fame and fortune in the world of self help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leaf Star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Romany Maleo) and his estranged wife.
After the split, Roanoke’s wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid…to the horrors of the teams owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game. So the team can break the 40-year-old “Bullard Curse” and win the Stanley Cup.

MIRACLE DOGS TOO (2006)

“Sometimes to be a hero you just need to be there for the people you love.”

Comment:
Define the term “Hero”! Hero sure has many meanings. This is only one of them. Too many times we are busy saving the world. Trying so hard to make the world a better place to live. But on the contrary, too many times we neglected the ones who love us and around us as well. They were there waiting for us to save their bad days, to laugh at their fun moments, to be supportive when it is the tears fall down. Through this quotes I found out that sometimes when the time is right, we don’t need to say a word. All we have to do is just be there and we can be an effective medicine for the sick. We don’t need weapons to be heroes, we just need to be there on our children’s graduation day or birthday party then we are heroes in their eyes. Be A “Hero” for the people you love.


Summary of the Movie:
Upon moving with his family to a new town and befriending a pair of magical mutts, a ten-year-old boy must choose between his love of animals and his desire to do the right thing in director Richard Gabai's affectionate family adventure. Like any young boy, Zack is nervous about moving to a new town. After happening across a pair of abandoned dogs with surprising magical powers though, Zack discovers that his new home may not be so bad after all. Now, with a pair of determined criminals struggling to steal the dogs for themselves and a growing determination to return his four-legged friends to their rightful owner, Zack sets out to thwart the thieves and ensure that his remarkable story has a happy ending.

WANTED (2008)

“What the fuck have you done lately?”

Comment:
From all of the quotations I’ve found before, this one is special. Why? Because I picked the quote at the very end of the movie. The sentence is quite simple but the meaning is deep. It seems that the character in the movie asked directly to me. It made me stop for a while and ask myself “what the fuck have I done lately?” This quotation has become a self reinventing for the resolution we made in the past. The resolution we made on our last birthday, at New Year’s Eve, at the new office etc. It made me realize how far my life's been derailed from the resolution track. And now it’s time to fix the wrong way and get back on the track again. Moreover, this question is applicable to wake us up from the road of life that we might think that it is a short cut to achieve any goals but in fact, it takes longer than we thought. I have asked myself with this question. What about you?

Summary of the Movie:
Wanted tells the tale of one apathetic nobody’s transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. In 2008, we are introduced to a hero new generation: 25 year old employed slacker, Wesley Gibson. Wes is the most disaffected, cube-dwelling. Clock-punching drone this planet has ever known. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. everyone knows this disengaged slacker will amount to absolutely nothing, and so does he, until he meets the sexy, foxy woman named Fox. And then everything changes. Wes’ estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The

CHAOS THEORY (2008)

“But underneath bump and the bump mess, there is a fact of pattern, the truth. And it’s LOVE. The most important thing about love is we chose to give it and we chose to receive it.”

Comment:
“Kingdoms come and go but they don’t last. We are living proofs that love remains”. The sentence above was quoted from a song entitled Love Remains (Tom Douglas-Jim Daddario) performed by a country singer, Collin Raye. The two quotations above recited one fact about love. It is true and it is eternal. We may face difficulties and hard times that we think we are out of luck or we are out of hope. However, there’ll be a time when we love shocks us. Love is always here for us. All we got to do is just keep give and receive it. Be the witness that love remains through joy or even pain.

Summary of the Movie:
Frank’s wife, Susan (Emily Mortimer), and seven-year-old daughter, Jesse (Matreya Fedor), find his obsession charming in small doses, but as a steady diet it can be very frustrating. One morning, Susan Attempts to loosen her husband’s scheduling stranglehold by adding ten minutes to his day. But, by setting the clock backward instead of forward, she inadvertently unleashes a series of mishaps that turn his meticulously ordered life upside down. A belligerent ferryman, a ruthless seductress, a reluctant mother-to-be and the secret amor of his best friend, Buddy (Stuart Townsend), combine to send his life into complete chaos. As his life unravels in several directions simultaneously, however, a stunning family revelation forces Frank to look fate squarely in the eye. Shaken to his core, he starts living entirely “in the moment,” allowing him to defy the conventions that have heretofore defined him. Those carefully coordinated index cards that had once kept his life in perfect order now become a deck of chance as Frank scribbles spontaneous ideas on random cards, shuffles, chooses and follows the luck of the draw…with unexpected results.

BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT (2008)

“Criminals aren't complicated, Alfred. Just have to figure out what he's after.”

Comment:
Keep save, criminals are everywhere. Crime happens not only because of the will of the criminals but the chance that the victims “offer” them. If you think that you have the criminals after, and then find a way to keep it saves. Why? Because we do not have Batman to save us in real life. We are not living in Gotham city. All we’ve got are the cops. Unfortunately, there is one common thing between real life and the movie. Cops show up after the crime happened. I think what Bruce Wayne was trying to say in brief is keep save .

Summary of the Movie:
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and district Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker.

21 (2008) (c)

“Well, amazing things can be done from the inside, right?”

Comment:
There is a great power and potential inside of everyone. If only we all realize and know how to show it, we could do amazing things. The question is, how do we create the amazing things from the inside? One of my friends tells me to listen to the voice of our heart. Well… for me, listen to the hearts is just one of the aspects. Beside that we have to listen to our brain. Dreams come from heart. Yes sure, to grow the giant within us we need to dream. In addition to that, we need plans to make our dreams come true. Plans are produced in the brain.
Dreams and plans will not be sufficient. We need more than that. We need action. In order for the action to work properly, we need to keep the spirit alive. Spirit is like eating. We’ll get exhausted every time we get hungry or bored. Therefore, we have to renew and refresh our spirit all the time. Refresh our spirit and encouragement like eating or taking a bath. We need them every day.
Finally, never stop dreaming. Dare to dream big. Make plans and take actions to achieve them. And you’ll realize that amazing things are actually come from inside.



Summary of the Movie:
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned. Written by matt-282

21 (2008) (b)

“You know what’s worse than a loser? Someone who won’t admit he played it wrong.”

Comment:
We make excuses to the things that do not come our way. We blame other people, the time, the place etc. when we cannot achieve our target or lose in a game. Do people really care about the reasons we give? Actually they don’t. We just trying to amuse ourselves but in fact we still lose. Sometimes we have to admit our mistakes and agree that our opponents are better than us. But it doesn’t mean that we give up just like that. Experience is a very good teacher. We must learn from it. We sure don’t want to be a loser forever. Instead of blaming and making excuses, let’s improve and evaluate ourselves. So in the future, we are not just going to play it right but we will play it win.



Summary of the Movie:
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned. Written by matt-282

21 (2008) (a)

“Hey, Fisher. Win like a man, lose like a man.”

Comment:
I hate to lose, and I am certain that you hate it too. Life is most of the time like a game or competition. In every aspect of life there are always win or lose. We laugh and celebrate when winning comes to our side. But, when we are fighting for our goal of life we sometimes stumble and lose. When we lose, we act beyond our control. Some people find it hard to go through when they lose. They destroy things. They take anarchy as their way.
Recently I got a good example from Hilary Clinton, one of the senators who went for president candidate in USA. After a head to head with Barack Obama, she lost the chance to be the next president candidate. Instead of protesting and showing dissatisfaction, she gave her total support to her Democrat fellow. She shows as what it is to win like a lady, lose like a lady. She has shown us what democracy means.
No matter we win or lose in life, let’s make it as something that we must deal every day. Willing to accept the fact that we may lose sometimes, but it doesn’t mean that we are losers. It will help us to be a better person because we will learn something from there.
Never be afraid to compete. We learn many useful things from competition. Keep your head up no mater it is win, lose or draw in the end of the day.


Summary of the Movie:
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned. Written by matt-282

GOOD LUCK CHUCK (2007) (b)

“People will believe whatever they want to believe.”

Comment:
…and when people believe in something, there is no way to turn it around. The problem emerges when what people believe is different to what other people believe. They are willing to sacrifice their lives for what they believe. Religion is one of the obvious example about believe. Religions are supposed to make peace on earth but when people can’t accept the different they kill each other. We are free to believe what we want to believe but please…be open minded so that we are ready to accept a different point of view. We cannot force everyone to believe what we believe.


Summary of the Movie:
In order to keep the woman of his dreams from falling for another guy, Charlie Logan has to break the curse that has made him wildly popular with single women: Sleep with Charlie once, and the next man you meet will be your true love.

GOOD LUCK CHUCK (2007) (a)

“It’s better to have love and lost than to have never loved at all.”

Comment:
Life without love is like a decaying tree in the middle of Sahara. Our horizon is filled with dry sand. We are neither alive nor dead. Everyone is basically blessed with love within. Share the love within our hearts because when we share, a Sahara can turn into a tropical forest. Look around you there many people need help and love. “I believe in karma what you give is what you’ll get return-Savage Garden”.



Summary of the Movie:
In order to keep the woman of his dreams from falling for another guy, Charlie Logan has to break the curse that has made him wildly popular with single women: Sleep with Charlie once, and the next man you meet will be your true love.

BRATZ (2007)

“Friendship is a big deal.”

Comment:
Friends are like shadow. They are always there when we are down the light or even when we are in the darkness. If we recall the times when we were far from family and filling down, friends were there with us to support and guide us through the hard times. Hard works can turn into something fun when got friends to back us up. Those who are handy in making friends are successful people. Thus, be friends with everyone. Friends may hurt us sometimes but let’s just take it as vitamin to make us better person. Friendship is a big deal!. Keep your friends happy and forgive them for all the wrong doing they did in the past.



Summary of the Movie:
During their first year of high school, four best girlfriends face off against the domineering student body president who wants to split them up into different social cliques.

NO RESERVATIONS (2007)

“Kate, life is unpredictable.”

Comment:
That’s right, life is unpredictable. Impatient has always been the part of human being’s life. We wish we could see the future so we can act in the right way. We go to fortune tellers so that we can predict what is going to happen next. However, we may have two results. On one hand, we may become happy because what the fortune teller tells us is exactly as what we expect. While on the other hand, we may be live in fear after we know what will happen to us is a bad thing. Anyway, nobody can predict the future. Thus let’s live the unpredictable life. We’ll find more surprises and more to learn from the unpredictable life. Doesn’t everyone love surprise?



Summary of the Movie:
Kate (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is the master chef at the trendy 22 Bleecker Street Restaurant in Manhattan. She runs her kitchen at a rapid pace as she coordinates and preparing of all fantastic meals and personally displays the food to perfection on every dish. She intimidates everyone around her, so her boss sends her to therapy. Kate hates to leave the kitchen when a customer wants to compliment her on one of her special dishes, but she is ready to leave the kitchen in a second when a costumer insults her cooking. Kate’s sister is killed in a car accident and her nine year old daughter Zoe (Abigail Breslin) moves in with Kate.

OLIVER TWIST (2005)

“Do you know what I consider the greatest sin in the world my dear? Ingratitude.
And that’s what you’re guilty of.
Ingratitude."

Comment:
Some times when we are standing on the top of success, we forget about our pal and the people who supported us along the way. In this occasion, let’s reminisce sometime, have we thanked everyone? Have we thanked God, our parents, brothers and sisters, our mentors and friends for what they had done for us so that we can become like what we are today? And then what can we do for them now to show our grateful? There is a say “Ingratitude is the essence of vileness”. We are sure we are not going to chose to be a part of vileness because we all know how to express our gratitude to all those who had supported us.



Summary of the Movie:
A story of a young boy who gets involved with a gang of pickpockets in 19th Century London. Abandoned at an early age, Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) is forced to live in a work house lorded over by the awful Mr. Bumble, who cheats the boy of their meager rations. Desperate yet determined, Oliver makes his escape t the streets of London. Penniless and alone, he is lured into a world of crime by the sinister Fagin (Sir Ben Kingsley) the mastermind of a gang of pint-sized pickpockets. Oliver’s rescued by the kindly Mr. Brownlow is the only beginning of a series of adventures that lead him to the promise of a better life.

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS (2008) (b)

“I would rather do nothing and be happy than do something that I don’t love.”

Comment:
Sometimes the situation above happens to us. We want to do things that we love but we have no choice. Thus, we just keep doing things although we are unhappy about them. Many people achieve their success because they do what they love most. If you feel like you want to do something that you love, then you better prepare for it. Spare some time for it. Who knows someday you can leave something you don’t love and just focusing in the thing that you love. It isn’t hard to do if there where your heart is.



Summary of the Movie:
Joy McNally is driven career woman who is engaged but when her fiancé grows tired of her uptight attitude; he breaks up with her. Jack Fuller is a guy who likes to goof off, which makes his boss who also happens to be his father, fire him. Feeling down they both go to Las Vegas to forget about what happened to them. When they get there, a computer error puts them in the same room. And after getting drunk, they wake up to discover they got married, which they both want to get out of. But when they win 3 million dollars, the ownership of which comes into question. When they decide to take it to court, the judge decides that they should remain married for 6 months and attend counseling sessions. So Joy moves in with Jack. And they both learn that if one of them asks to get out of the marriage, the other will get the money. So they each try to drive the other to want to get out of the marriage. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS (2008) (a)

“You know that’s the problem. You can’t handle the pressure. As soon as you think you’re gonna lose, you quit.”

Comment:
Actually this quote is rather personal. I used to be a coward who couldn’t finish what I had started. I quitted when I was about one inch left to the finish line. I couldn’t handle the pressure. However, I learnt that I will never embrace success if I keep quitting for the things I had done. Today, I take every pressure as the vitamins to grow better. Pressure can crack pipes but pressure can make diamonds too.




Summary of the Movie:
Joy McNally is driven career woman who is engaged but when her fiancé grows tired of her uptight attitude; he breaks up with her. Jack Fuller is a guy who likes to goof off, which makes his boss who also happens to be his father, fire him. Feeling down they both go to Las Vegas to forget about what happened to them. When they get there, a computer error puts them in the same room. And after getting drunk, they wake up to discover they got married, which they both want to get out of. But when they win 3 million dollars, the ownership of which comes into question. When they decide to take it to court, the judge decides that they should remain married for 6 months and attend counseling sessions. So Joy moves in with Jack. And they both learn that if one of them asks to get out of the marriage, the other will get the money. So they each try to drive the other to want to get out of the marriage. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com

FORREST GUMP (1994) (d)

“Why are you dying mama?”
“It’s my time. It’s just my time. Oh, now, don’t you be afraid sweetheart. Death is just a part of life. Something we’re all destined to do. I didn’t know it but I was destined to be your mama. I did the best I could.”
“You did good.”
“Well…I happen to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you.”
“What’s my destiny mom?”
“You are going to have to figure that out for yourself. Life is a box of chocolate Forrest, you never know what you’re going to get.”

Comment:
Death is just inevitable. So let’s forget about death and stop worrying about it. Let’s start worrying about life and to fill it day by day. Be satisfied with what God has blessed us and make best use of it. Life is a box of chocolate, we’ll never know what we are going to get. Therefore, do the best in your life. Then, although we do not know what our destiny is, or what kind of chocolate in the box, we know one thing that the chocolate we are about to eat is always sweet. The life we are living will always be sweet. Even though, it requires lots of patience.


Summary of the Movie:
Forrest, Forrest Gump is a simple man with little brain activity but good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, write bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several times. However this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny. Who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.

FORREST GUMP (1994) (c)

“I am sorry I ruined your New Year’s Eve party. She tastes like cigarette.”

Comment:
Cigarette is not just about health issue. Cigarette can be a sexual issue too. I know it’s not easy to quit smoke but at least brush your teeth before making love will you?


Summary of the Movie:
Forrest, Forrest Gump is a simple man with little brain activity but good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, write bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several times. However this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of
his childhood sweetheart Jenny. Who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone

FORREST GUMP (1994) (b)

“Run Forrest! Run!”

Comment:
Forrest Gum ran for no particular reason but he made it across the United States of America. He became a story and then turns into history. What about us? We all have goals and targets in life right. We have reasons to live. However, time is so short. We got to run to achieve our goals. Job goals, family goals, health goals or self improvement goals, we have to “run” in order to enjoy the achievement longer than we expected. If we cannot be a story than at least we can create our own sweet history. Thus, get up, get your shoes on and run, Run for your life goals. Time is so short.


Summary of the Movie:
Forrest, Forrest Gump is a simple man with little brain activity but good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, write bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several times. However this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny. Who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.

FORREST GUMP (1994) (a)

“Don’t ever let everybody tell you they’re better than you Forrest. If God intended everybody to be the same, He’d have given us all braces on our legs.”

Comment:
God has an obvious reason to create us different one another. He wants us to complete and fill one another. We are all one of a kind. We have our weakness and strength. We should not look down on other people but help them out of their problems instead. The strong helps the weak and the reach help the poor. I know that this may sound cliché but I believe that this is the action that keeps the world turning round and round. This is the action that makes social, economic, politics, law, religion etc. work the way they should. Respect!



Summary Of The Movie:
Forrest, Forrest Gump is a simple man with little brain activity but good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, write bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several times. However this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny. Who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (2007)

“Music’s the only thing that makes sense anymore, man. Play it loud enough. It keeps the demons at bay.”

Comment:
Are you having a bad day today? You feel like weary, broken hearted and under pressure. Well, those are the demons within you. They are waiting to crush you to the ground if you just let them control you. Give yourself a break. You deserve a peaceful of mind at one point. At moment like this, when nothing seems to make sense, music may be an alternative healing for the dying mind. Play your music loud enough. Feel the beat, melody and rhythm. Move and shake your body if you should. And in the end, you can kick those demons ass goodbye and find yourself that the bright sky always welcomes out there.


Summary of the Movie:
A romantic musical told mainly numerous Beatles songs performed by the characters. A young man from Liverpool comes to America during the Vietnam War to find his father. He winds up in Greenwich Village, where he falls in love with an American girl who has grown up sheltered in the suburbs. Together they experience the sweeping changes of America in the late 60’s.

PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS THE (2007) (b)

“Some things are fun the first time you do it and then not the next.”

Comment:
Routine. People can’t live with routine. We all get bored sometimes right? Things that used to be fun are now annoying us. Take some time to do something else, go on vacation, do your hobbies, or join a group to refresh your body and mind. Then, get back to routine again. Bring the new spirit and new thing that we found during the refreshing and we’ll feel the routine like something that we do for the first time again.


Summary of the Movie:
Will Smith stars in the inspirational true story of Chris Gardner, a San Francisco salesman who’s struggling to make ends meet. When his girlfriend Linda (Thandie Newton) walks out, Chris is left to raised their 5-year-old son Christopher (Jaden Smith) in his own. Chris determination finally pays off when he lands on an unpaid internship in a brutally competitive stockbroker-training program, where only one in twenty interns will make the cut. But without a salary, Chris and his son are evicted from their apartment and are forced to sleep on the streets, in homeless shelters and even behind the locked doors of a metro station bathroom. With self confidence and the love and trust of his son, Chris Gardner rises above his obstacles to become a Wall Street legend.

PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS THE (2007) (a)

Hey. Don’t ever let somebody tell you “you can’t do something”. Not even me All right?
All right.
You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves they wanna tell you “you can’t do it”. If you want something, go and get it. Period.”

Comment:
We all do not want somebody to tell us what to do. We all like to do thing according to what we want to do. We feel free to express ourselves. It hurts so badly when somebody says discourage sentence like “you can’t do anything” to us. Well don’t be sad. Take that sentence as a whip for us to run faster to achieve life goals. Never stop dreaming. People invented many great and beautiful things in this world. They all started from dreams. Believe that you can do it and in the end you’ll be proud of yourself.


Summary of the Movie:
Will Smith stars in the inspirational true story of Chris Gardner, a San Francisco salesman who’s struggling to make ends meet. When his girlfriend Linda (Thandie Newton) walks out, Chris is left to raised their 5-year-old son Christopher (Jaden Smith) in his own. Chris determination finally pays off when he lands on an unpaid internship in a brutally competitive stockbroker-training program, where only one in twenty interns will make the cut. But without a salary, Chris and his son are evicted from their apartment and are forced to sleep on the streets, in homeless shelters and even behind the locked doors of a metro station bathroom. With self confidence and the love and trust of his son, Chris Gardner rises above his obstacles to become a Wall Street legend.

INTO THE WILD (2007) (c)

“…but I want to tell you something. From the bits and pieces I put together. You know, from what you told me about your family, your mother and your dad, and I know you’ve got your problems with the church too. But, there’s some kind of bigger thing we can all appreciate, it sounds like you don’t mind calling it God. But when you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines on you.

Comment:
It is so easy for us to feel and to reach for God. There are many ways to reach God and feel the light of God. Still, forgiveness and love are the easiest ways to do. Practically, there are people who find it hard to forgive. Live becomes restless. Forgiveness is the key to unhappiness but forgiveness is the door to your happiness.


Summary of the Movie:
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.

INTO THE WILD (2007) (b)

“You really believe in love then?”
“Yeah. Totally. This is a love story that staggering to everybody in the whole world. That God really loves us a lot. Does that answer that?”
“Yeah.”
“Good.”

Comment:
The story of God’s love for human being is an eternal story. However, it is always a staggering story to some people. Because we just don’t realize that there is God who’s always taking care of us day by day. There is love everywhere. Share it with everybody.


Summary of the Movie:
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.

INTO THE WILD (2007) (a)

“Some may ask “Why act now? Why not wait?” the answer is clear; the world could wait no longer.

Comment:
The world is changing rapidly. Changing is eternal. We cannot just sit back and relax. Act now and be the first to get what you want. Reach for more!



Summary of the Movie:
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.

SHOOT ‘EM UP (2007) (b)

“You know why a gun is better than a wife?”
“Don’t know.”
“Well, you can put a silencer on a gun”

Comment:
 this quote is rather sarcasm. In real life husbands often deal with the situation where the wives talk too much. It gets worse when we cannot do anything about it. For the wives this quote may act as a warning so that in the future, your husbands will chose you instead of the gun, TV, car or Job.



Summary of the Movie:
A gritty, fast-paced action thriller, SHOOT ‘EM UP kicks into high gear with a memorable opening scene and never relents. Clive Owen stars as Mr. Smith, a mysterious loner who teams up with an unlikely ally (Monica Belluci) to protect a new born baby from a determined criminal (Paul Giamatti) who hunts them throughout the bowels of the city .

SHOOT ‘EM UP (2007) (a)

“You know what I hate? I hate these 40-year old jack-holes wearing ponytails. That ponytail doesn’t make you look hip, young, or cool.”

Comment:
Wrong style in a wrong age. Trapped in old fashion dress is a crucial and klise matter for some people. The thing is they just don’t realize it. And they still think that it is cool. In the others’ eyes, they look weird and so old fashion. Updating is important in today’s life. Updating is not about information but our performance as well.


Summary of the Movie:
A gritty, fast-paced action thriller, SHOOT ‘EM UP kicks into high gear with a memorable opening scene and never relents. Clive Owen stars as Mr. Smith, a mysterious loner who teams up with an unlikely ally (Monica Belluci) to protect a new born baby from a determined criminal (Paul Giamatti) who hunts them throughout the bowels of the city.

JURASSIC PARK (1993)

“Life will find the way”

Comment:
In life, losing the one that has become part of our lives is always unbearable. We may unexpectedly lose the love ones, get fired; break a relationship up, get broke, etc. We feel like it is the end of the world, no more hope, no light. However, surprisingly we will still get up in the morning and survive. We may even pick up the pieces and stand up on our feet again. Life goes on and miraculously finds away to continue. When trouble comes, always remember that no matter how hard our trouble is, life will find the way.

Summary of the Movie:
Scientists develop a means of bringing dinosaurs to life using DNA taken from dino' blood, which has been preserved inside insects encased in amber. Whilst Hammond is showing off his dinosaur 'theme park' to a selected audience [a lawyer (Gerrano), mathematician (Malcolm), dino' expert (Grant), palaeobotanist (Sattler) and his grandchildren (Tim & Lex)], Nedry (computer expert) disables the security system so that he can make his escape with some stolen embryos. This enables all the dinosaurs to escape their enclosures... Look out the dinosaurs are coming!

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008)

“The word for gold is translated as the treasure, but treasure wasn't gold, it was knowledge. Knowledge is the treasure”

Comment:
I used to think that investment is all about material possession. I thought that material possession is the only comfort in life. I was wrong. As the matter of fact, we should spend more money for knowledge and less money for materials. With knowledge, we will continually be richer.

Summary of the Movie:
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) newest adventure begins in the desert Southwest in 1957 the height of the cold war. Indy and his sidekick Mac (Ray Winstone) have barely escaped a close scrape with nefarious Soviet agents on a remote air field. Now, professor Jones has returned home to Marshall College only to find thing have gone from bad to worse. His close friend and dean of the college (Jim Broadbent) explans that Indy’s recent activities have made him the object of suspicion.

JUNO (2007)

“Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is… find the person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you. The right person who’s still gonna think the sun shines out of your ass. That’s the kind of person who’s worth stickin’ with.”

Comment:
True love is an unconditional love. Though it is not easy to be found, never ever let go when it is calling you. When it comes to pick you, don’t wait ‘till it’s gone. If you feel that you need to express your love then show and say it. We never know what we got ‘till it’s gone.



Summary of The Movie:
A tale told over four seasons, starting in autumn when Juno, a 16-year-old high-school junior in Minnesota, discovers she's pregnant after one event in a chair with her best friend, Bleeker. In the waiting room of an abortion clinic, the quirky and whip-sharp Juno decides to give birth and to place the child with an adoptive couple. She finds one in the PennySaver personals, contacts them, tells her dad and step-mother, and carries on with school. The chosen parents, upscale yuppies (one of whom is cool and laid back, the other meticulous and uptight), meet Juno, sign papers, and the year unfolds. Will Juno's plan work, can she improvise, and what about Bleeker?

KUNG FU PANDA (2008) (b)

"You cannot leave, because a real warrior never quits."

Comment:
Do you know that we all were born winner? It required a great spirit and courage to beat the other sperms to reach the egg. Now that we are all grown up and live as warriors to our lovers, parents, children and friends. Each of us has our own issues. The question is, are we going to quit as losers or go on as winners?


Summary of the Movie:
It’s the story about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, named Po, who is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around…which doesn’t exactly come in handy while working everyday in his family noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po’s dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols, the legendary Furious Five Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper, and Monkey—under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way, and it's up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master into reality? Po puts his heart - and his girth - into the task, and the unlikely hero ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.

KUNG FU PANDA (2008) (a)

“Yesterday was a history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, that is why it is called the present."

Comment:
Without realizing, we all receive a present every day from God and the people who take care of us. It is just we are not grateful enough for what we've got. Yesterday has passed; there is no need to regret about it. Leave all the wrong behind and bring along the best to the present and the future. Tomorrow will always be a mystery. However, we may somehow have the vision of tomorrow if we do the best today. Be joy and be grateful for today is the present God has given to us. Have a nice and wonderful day!


Summary of the Movie:
It’s the story about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, named Po, who is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around…which doesn’t exactly come in handy while working everyday in his family noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po’s dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols, the legendary Furious Five Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper, and Monkey—under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way, and it's up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master into reality? Po puts his heart - and his girth - into the task, and the unlikely hero ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.

LICENSE TO WED (2007)

“I keep their pictures in my wallet…to remind me that one man can make a difference even against insurmountable odds.”

Comment:
I once read a story about a man on a beach who picks hundreds of star fish and throw them back into the sea. He does it every afternoon. Then comes a man and asks him “don’t you have something else to do? Because it seems
to me that what you are doing is worthless. Anyway, there is a department that takes care of the wilderness. Why don’t you just give up trying to change the world?” then the man replies as he continues throwing a starfish “well, this one does change the world.”
The world does not need us to be a leader or a very famous person to change it to be a better place. We can simply change it by doing what we can. Throwing garbage into a trash can, unplug the charger of a cell phone after using it, smile to the neighbors around us are few of many simple things we can do to make a different and change the world into a better place.


Summary of the Movie:
Sadie and Ben are in love, and although Ben suggests getting married in the Caribbean, Sadie has her heart set on a wedding at the family church, St. Augustine's. Ben says sure, and they meet with the pastor, Rev. Frank. The only date open for two years is three weeks away, and Frank insists the kids go through his marriage prep course. They're to write their own vows; he also demands chastity, bugs their apartment, initiates arguments, has them care for robot twins, creates friction between Ben and her family, and raises doubts in Sadie. Desperate, Ben looks for dirt on Frank. Can he undermine Frank's authority and keep Sadie's heart?

WHY DID I GET MARRIED (2007) (c)

“And in closing I would like everyone to remember the greatest achievement of any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.”

Comment:
It is true that nobody is perfect. We cannot be perfect but we can be a complete person. We are complete when we are full of love. What should we do to be full of love? Love God, yourself, and others. It sounds simple but practically, it has always been very difficult. But easy doesn’t enter grown up life right? Thus, from now on you can start spreading your love everywhere.

Summary of the Movie:
Dr. Patricia Agnew, a psychologist, has written a best seller about marriage: hers and those of three other couples who together take a week's vacation each year to ask themselves, "Why did I get married?" It's time for one of those weeks, and all four relationships are strained: Patricia and her husband Gavin have the shadow of grief between them; Terry believes that Diane has abandoned him for her work; Angela, who's built a successful business, belittles her husband Marcus, who works for her; Mike is cruel to Sheila, his religious, overweight wife. During the week, each person's secret comes out. Will these marriages survive?

WHY DID I GET MARRIED (2007) (b)

“One man’s ex can be another man’s treasure.”

Comment:
This is one of the opinions that make the world keeps turning. There is always love that fulfills each heart of a man despite the background off a woman. There is no such term “ex” for a woman because women are precious.



Summary of the Movie:
Dr. Patricia Agnew, a psychologist, has written a best seller about marriage: hers and those of three other couples who together take a week's vacation each year to ask themselves, "Why did I get married?" It's time for one of those weeks, and all four relationships are strained: Patricia and her husband Gavin have the shadow of grief between them; Terry believes that Diane has abandoned him for her work; Angela, who's built a successful business, belittles her husband Marcus, who works for her; Mike is cruel to Sheila, his religious, overweight wife. During the week, each person's secret comes out. Will these marriages survive

WHY DID I GET MARRIED (2007) (a)

“You know…if you’re not happy about the way you look then change it. Stop doubting yourself, it’s not attractive.”

Comment:
I use this line to deal with my friends who have low self esteem, especially girls with overweight problems. They come to me and start complaining about the way they look, their dress, and their hair. Then, I said to them,” you have two choices, you can be an indifferent person and ignore about the way you look, you can eat what you want, or in other words over confidence or you work out and find the solutions for you problem. You change it and start believing in yourself. You better of taking care of something else and be good at it than keep complaining about your over weight.”
The result is unbelievable; they become more focus on their life goals and change their look. I am happy when I can influence people to be a better person.


Summary of the Movie:
Dr. Patricia Agnew, a psychologist, has written a best seller about marriage: hers and those of three other couples who together take a week's vacation each year to ask themselves, "Why did I get married?" It's time for one of those weeks, and all four relationships are strained: Patricia and her husband Gavin have the shadow of grief between them; Terry believes that Diane has abandoned him for her work; Angela, who's built a successful business, belittles her husband Marcus, who works for her; Mike is cruel to Sheila, his religious, overweight wife. During the week, each person's secret comes out. Will these marriages survive?

NOTEBOOK THE (2004) (b)

"The best love is the kind that wakens us all and makes us reach for more, that plants fire in hearts and brings peace to our mind. That's what you've given me and that's what I hope to give to you forever."

Comment:
How wonderful and complete life would be if we could share the kind of love that always wakens us and always reach for more, give warm in our hearts and peace to mind. from now on, let us contend one another with the best love that we have.


Summary of the Movie:
The Notebook begins with a man in a nursing home, reading a story to a woman. The story is about two young lovers, Allie Hamilation and Noah Calhoun, who meet one day at a carnival. Althought the two are falling in love, Allie's parents forbid the relationship and move Allie away.After waiting for any sign (such as letters) from Noah from years, Allie meets Lon and becomes engaged. However, Allie still has feelings for Noah. Despite her commitment for Lon, Allie decides to visit Noah to see how he's doing after seeing his picture in the newspaper in front of a house he said he was going to restore (and did). It soon becomes aparent that they have feeling for each other. Allie now has to choose between Lon, the man she had already scheduled to marry, or Noah, the man who she subconsciously wants. Allie picks Noah, her one true love, and dumps Lon. Noah and Allie end up having a happy life and die together peacefully in the nursing home, side by side.

NOTEBOOK THE (2004) (a)

"Science only goes so far and then comes God."

Comment:
As human being, we always be proud of ourselves and thought that we can do everything in life on our own. We thought that we are strong, we got technologies and we have other people to back us up. However, we finally find it hurts so badly when those things above were unable to help us get out of our problems. We forget that there is a greater power in this world that we call God. Life will be complete if we can balance the relationship among God, other people and us.



Summary of the Movie:
The Notebook begins with a man in a nursing home, reading a story to a woman. The story is about two young lovers, Allie Hamilation and Noah Calhoun, who meet one day at a carnival. Althought the two are falling in love, Allie's parents forbid the relationship and move Allie away.After waiting for any sign (such as letters) from Noah from years, Allie meets Lon and becomes engaged. However, Allie still has feelings for Noah. Despite her commitment for Lon, Allie decides to visit Noah to see how he's doing after seeing his picture in the newspaper in front of a house he said he was going to restore (and did). It soon becomes aparent that they have feeling for each other. Allie now has to choose between Lon, the man she had already scheduled to marry, or Noah, the man who she subconsciously wants. Allie picks Noah, her one true love, and dumps Lon. Noah and Allie end up having a happy life and die together peacefully in the nursing home, side by side.

ITALIAN JOB THE (2003)

"I trust everyone; it's the devil inside that I don't trust."

Comment:
I guess we cannot 100 percent trust someone, especially the one that we’ve just met. This quote plays its part best when I have to make a deal with a stranger. Everyone has a little devil inside. The problem is weather we control it or it controls us. Be careful with the person who has big devil inside him/her. s/he may crush us into pieces in the end.


Summary of the Movie:
The plan was flawless... the job was executed perfectly... the escape was clean. The only threat mastermind thief Charlie Croker never saw coming was a member of his own crew. After pulling off an amazing gold bullion heist from a heavily guarded palazzo in Venice, Italy, Charlie and his gang -- inside man Steve, computer genius Lyle, wheelman handsome Rob, explosives expert Left-Ear and veteran safecracker John Bridger - can't believe when one of them turns out to be a double-crosser. Enter Stella, a beautiful nerves-of-steel safecracker, who joins Charlie and his former gang when they follow the backstabber to California, where they plan to re-steal the gold by tapping into Los Angeles' traffic control system, manipulating signals and creating one of the biggest traffic jams in LA history. Now the job isn't the payoff, it's about payback

MAD MONEY (2008) (b)

"Money can't buy happiness, but it as sure as it can buy everything else."
"Money can buy happiness, nobody can tell you the difference”

Comment:
Money sure can’t buy happiness and some people probably would say “I am happy even though I don’t have much money”. However, will you say you are happy when your beloved ones are very sick in the hospital and you cannot afford to pay for the charge? Will you say you are happy when your children cannot get a proper education? Money sure can’t buy happiness, but it sure can buy everything else. That “everything else” is most of the times called “happiness”. That is why it is difficult for us to tell the difference. To have much money is not a bad thing but not having any money that is a very bad thing.

Summary of the Movie:
A woman who was used to the finer things in life is suddenly thrust back into the work force after her husband gets downsized in writer/director Callie Khouri's (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) American adaptation of the hit British comedy Hot Money. Faced with the prospect of losing her home as her debt begins to mount, posh housewife Bridget (Diane Keaton) accepts a job on the midnight cleaning crew at a local branch of the Federal Reserve Bank. When the growing temptation of the cash that surrounds her night after night ultimately proves too powerful to resist, Bridget teams with two of the other cleaners for a criminal exercise in creative moneymaking. Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes co-star in a crime comedy inspired by actual events.

MAD MONEY (2008) (a)

“I have this theory crime is contagious. If I could just kind of get in the air and people can cadge from each other and when they are cadged, they change. And then they change other people. The truth is we're all capable of anything. You don't wanna believe it's true, but it is."

Comment:
As social creature, we cannot live alone. We need other people to complete us. However, we should be aware of who we pick to be our friends. A community is like a big wave. It will drag us in and bring us far away before we come to realize that we are not in the land anymore. If we hang out with the negative thinking people, then we soon or later will become like them. I myself like to see big waves. But I pick the right wave to surf. Find the community of successful and positive thinking people and you will become like them.


Summary of the Movie:
A woman who was used to the finer things in life is suddenly thrust back into the work force after her husband gets downsized in writer/director Callie Khouri's (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) American adaptation of the hit British comedy Hot Money. Faced with the prospect of losing her home as her debt begins to mount, posh housewife Bridget (Diane Keaton) accepts a job on the midnight cleaning crew at a local branch of the Federal Reserve Bank. When the growing temptation of the cash that surrounds her night after night ultimately proves too powerful to resist, Bridget teams with two of the other cleaners for a criminal exercise in creative moneymaking. Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes co-star in a crime comedy inspired by actual events.

CLEANER THE (2007)

"Well, people do some incredible things when they're scared out of their mind"

Comment:
It has been a human instinct to find comfort and avoid fear. We will do everything to find comfort and everything to avoid fear. However, in life, fear is inevitable. People have various kinds of fear. Some people are afraid of losing, some are afraid of darkness, ghost, bugs, reptile, etc. We can run faster when a dog is chasing us down because we are afraid the dog’s bite. We would do anything for our beloved ones to be cured from sickness because we are afraid of losing. We would scream and grab everything near to us to protect ourselves from reptiles. Nevertheless, we do it unconsciously. We do not realize that we can do incredible things when we are scared. We will be astonished by the reaction we did when wew were in fear after we got our feed back on the ground.


Summary of the Movie:
A man who has lost his memory has a new and dangerous life thrust upon him in this comedy thriller. Jake (Cedric the Entertainer) is a janitor who finds himself stricken with a crippling case of amnesia. While Jake struggles to regain his memory and identity, he becomes convinced that he's an undercover spy who is trying to ferret out a ring of underground arms dealers wanted by the FBI and the CIA. As Jake is thrown into the world of international intrigue, he gains an unlikely ally in Gina (Lucy Liu), an actual U.S. intelligence agent who is tracking the same bad guys and develops a liking for the janitor.

APOCALYPTO (2006) (c)

"We should go to the forest to find a new beginning."

Comment:
This is what happening to the world right now. The world seems to go back to the forest to find a new beginig. After we exploited the forest brutally, We all go back to it to find shelter. We now understand that forests protect us from global warming, they provide alternative fuel and protect us from floods and landslide. Back the industrial era, people cut down most of the forests to build factory. Nowadays, in the information era, leaders start talking about how to preserve forests. I really do not understand. Is this away to find a new beginning after all the technology failed to save human being from their own nature?

Summary of the Movie:
Powerful Maya kingdoms ruled in the Americas for more than 1,000 years, forging expansive cities, constructing sky piercing pyramids and building an impressively advance society of extraordinary cultural and scientific achievement. Then, in a flash of history, this world collapsed. All that was left behind were a few jungle –covered pyramids and a tantalizing mystery. Now, 500 years after the end of the Mayan civilization, director Mel Gibson delves into this never explored realm to create a modern screen adventure which unfolds like a timeless myth about one man’s quest to save that which matters to him the most in the world on the brink of destruction.

APOCALYPTO (2006) (b)

"Fear is sickness. It will crawl into the soul of everyone who engages it. It has tainted your peace already. I did not raise you to see you with fear. Strike it from your heart do not bring it into our village."

Comment:
If you are fear then you are sick. You start losing your peace. Fear will knock you down and turn you to ashes if you do not conquer it first. To be fear is human but unable to fight it, then it will haunt you and all the people that involve with you.


Summary of the Movie:
Powerful Maya kingdoms ruled in the Americas for more than 1,000 years, forging expansive cities, constructing sky piercing pyramids and building an impressively advance society of extraordinary cultural and scientific achievement. Then, in a flash of history, this world collapsed. All that was left behind were a few jungle –covered pyramids and a tantalizing mystery. Now, 500 years after the end of the Mayan civilization, director Mel Gibson delves into this never explored realm to create a modern screen adventure which unfolds like a timeless myth about one man’s quest to save that which matters to him the most in the world on the brink of destruction.

APOCALYPTO (2006) (a)

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
*W.Durant*/APOCALYPTO

Comment:
Be peace and we will be pleased. Find comfort to one another. Whenever there is a war, the motto “an eye for an eye” is there as well. Thus, there will be a never ending war. Establish peace in your heart so that you’re your neighborhood can feel the influence you bring. And in the end, your great civilization lasts.


Summary of the Movie:
Powerful Maya kingdoms ruled in the Americas for more than 1,000 years, forging expansive cities, constructing sky piercing pyramids and building an impressively advance society of extraordinary cultural and scientific achievement. Then, in a flash of history, this world collapsed. All that was left behind were a few jungle –covered pyramids and a tantalizing mystery. Now, 500 years after the end of the Mayan civilization, director Mel Gibson delves into this never explored realm to create a modern screen adventure which unfolds like a timeless myth about one man’s quest to save that which matters to him the most in the world on the brink of destruction.

SHREK THE THIRD (2007)

““Who really thinks we need to settle things this way? You’re telling me that you just wanna be villains your whole life?”
“But we are villains”
“Don’t you ever wish to be something else?”
“It’s easy for you to say”
“OK. That’s fair enough. All right I’m not a talking tree, but you know, a good friend of mine once told me that just because people treat you like a villain or ogre or just some loser, it doesn’t mean that you are one. The thing that matters most is what you think of yourselves. There’s something you really want? Or something you really wanna be? Then the only person standing in your way is you.””

Comment:
Don’t we ever get tired of being a loser and unappreciated? We are bored with routine. We want to be free as an eagle upon the sky. We want to touch the clouds. But, then we re-think again impossibility block our ways and break our wings. We get back to the routine again. We give up to the routine again. Why do we always end up at the same place? Because we think and we do not act. Erase the impossibility from your hemisphere memory. People went to the moon because they thought they can and they did it. You are an arrow. Pick your target and hit it hard.

Summary of the Movie:
When Fiona's father and King of Far Far Away passes away, the clumsy Shrek becomes the immediate successor of the throne. However, Shrek decides to find the legitimate heir Artie in a distant kingdom with his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to be able return to his beloved house in the swamp with the pregnant Fiona. Meanwhile, the envious and ambitious Prince Charming joins the villains of the fairytales plotting a coup d'état to become the new king.

I AM LEGEND (2007)

“He had this idea, kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you can cure racist, I mean hate, literary by injecting music and love in the people’s lives. When he was scheduled to perform a peace rally; the gunmen came to his house and shut them down.
Two days later, he walked on the stage and sang. Somebody asked him “why?” He said that people are trying to make this world worse and not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness”.
(Robert Neville told Anna About his favorite singer, Bob Marley)

Comments:
Music is a universal language. We can simply move people through music. Bob Marley knew it exactly and he had done what he could do best. He did a revolution through music. He opened up people’s mind and way of thinking and he changed what their wrong believes. His idea about Lighting up the darkness is a brilliant idea. There is no day off for us to do the right thing every day because people who do bad things never take a vacation. I believe that there is always a hero deep down inside everyone’s heart. Be a hero to save the day. Start your day with full of motivation and always remember to LIGHT UP THE DARKNESS!


Summary of the Movie:
Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable…and manmade. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York city…and may be the world. But he is not alone. He is surrounded by “the infected”-victims of the plagued who have mutated into carnivorous beings who can only exist in the dark and who will devour or infect anyone or anything in their path. For three years, Neville has spent his days for food and supplies and faithfully sending out radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. All the while, the infected lurk in the shadows, watching Neville every move, waiting for him to make fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood.

FORBIDDEN KINGDOM THE (2008)

“They said that music is the bridge between heaven and earth”

Comment:
Can you imagine living life without music? It is like live a life without the heart. We all perish and die. Music is everywhere. In ceremonies, the I-pod in your palm, in the living room, at the office, in your car, while we are cooking, exercises, you name it. Even when I am typing this article I listen to music. Music makes us feel joy, happy, relax and full of spirit. Music unites family, nations, and lovers. When we are united in joy and peace we are all in heaven.


Summary of the Movie:
An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

GOSPEL THE (2005)

“We should spend a little less time looking good and a little more time actually being good”

Comment:
This quote completes the previous quote in Miss Congeniality 2. In Miss Congeniality 2 the quotes is about the importance of taking care of oneself. However, taking care oneself is not just about the performance to look good on the outside but also actually being good. We may wonder about the way to be “actually being good” because we have time, financial, or space limitation. Indeed, there are millions of ways to be “actually being good”. A simple smile, a polite language, putting the garbage to the right place, or driving responsibly can be some of the examples. The best and easiest way to change the world is to change ourselves first.


Summary of the Movie:
As a teenager, David Taylor was studying to become a minister. However, after his mother suddenly dies and his pastor father arrives late, he accuses his father of caring more about others than his mother. As a result he runs away and eventually becomes a hot young R&B performer and leads a very self-indulgent lifestyle. However, when his father becomes ill he returns home to find his father's church in disarray as well as his former best friend, with whom he was studying with for the ministry, now in charge and seemingly caring more about his own image than the welfare of the church or its congregation. Now David must find a way to save the church as well as his own soul.