Alone in the Dark

Alone in the Dark! In the 90’s, Alone in the Dark was the best PC game which was ever made, action, thrill and excitement, all in one, with a unique story about the ancient civilization who closed the gates between earth and hell so that not even one soul could get out of the darkness. As the story tells, there was indeed a gate, The Gate of Hell, which was opened ones, and demons got out and half of the world was destroyed but they managed to close it, but some demons still remain on the surface, they were locked up in odd places, with different ways which made difficult to open up. Time passed away and we are in the 20 century, a young man is taking over the tradition, he is the one who has to protect the gate and the ways to the demons which were hidden and closed. Edward Carnby (Christian Slater) is also a detective of unnatural, investigates a mystery with clues leading to "Shadow Island" that brings him face to face with bizarre horrors. As he discovers that evil demons worshiped by an ancient culture called the Abskani are planning on coming back to life in the 21st century to once again take over the world. He and his ex-girlfriend, Aline Cedrac (Tara Reid) are trying to safe the world by the demons, which are relised by an evil man named Captain Chernick.

Some links:
Alone in the Dark
Alone in the Dark at IMDB

The Rock

The Rock! Every one heard about Alcatraz the high secured prison, but since 1969 it was closed. But one thing we don’t know that every one could hide there and could defend the island easily! Starring with Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery . On a cold, rainy night a group of marines, lead by General Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris), broke into a highly endangered facility which held a highly toxic chemicals, they stole 15 rockets carrying deadly VX nerve gas. On the next day, on the island of Alcatraz, the General will take over the whole island with his crew, taking a group of tourist as hostages. The reason for this riot is that the General has served in the army and he has seen many soldiers fall, and not even a burial was held for then, not even there family were helped. The General wants to change this, he want $100 million for the family of those who have fought and died for their duty. The FBI finds out that the rockets are so dangerous that even one of them would be enough to take out the whole city of San Francisco. FBI call upon their expert in Chemical Weapons, Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) who is asked to join the elite force which is going to break in Alcatraz with the help of John Mason (Sean Connery) who ones escaped Alcatraz in 1969. As they get into Alcatraz the elite force is taken down by the marines, only Goodspeed and Mason remain undetected, but Goodspeed in not so into action, so Mason has a real hard time forcing Goodspeed with him and taking down the whole marine force on the island.

Some links:
The Rock at IMDB
The Rock at Wikipedia

The Oscar

The Academy Awards! In the movie world every one is struggling to make the best movie for the people and for the entertainment world. So too reward these people who are trying to entertain us, they made the Annual Academy Award of Merit. The Oscar was born in 1929 just after the first movies were starting to talk, the first ticket was 5$. The Academy, itself, began with 36 members, who were production executives and film celebrities. Actual membership in the Academy is by invitation of the Board of Governors and is limited to those who have achieved distinction in the arts and sciences of motion pictures. Officers are elected from the Board for one-year terms. Cedric Gibbons, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Art Director, designed the statuette and Los Angeles sculptor George Stanley was selected to create the trophy. The figure is a knight standing on a reel of film and holding a sword. The film reel features five spokes, signifying the five original branches of the Academy, actors, directors, producers, technicians, and writers. The official name of the statuette is the “Academy Award of Merit.” The award began to be nicknamed the “Oscar,” after Margaret Herrick, an Academy librarian and eventual executive director, who commented that the statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar. The 15 statuettes presented at the initial ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze. Within a few years, the material used was changed to the Brittanium alloy, which gived the statuettes a smooth finish. Due to the metal shortage during the World War II years, the statuettes were made of plaster. Following the war, all of the awarded plaster figures were redeemed for gold plated ones. Each statuette is actually made from the alloy Brittannium and is then plated in copper, nickel silver, and, finally, 24-karate gold. The Academy Awards represents society’s connection to the world of movies. Movies have constantly bonded hopes, and dreams of all individuals. They have helped the public both through excitement and times of great success. At times, we watch a movie and just look at the surface of the plot, when there have been so many people behind the actual production of the film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences provides a way of honoring those who put their heart and soul into the project. The Academy also honors college students in order to help them pursue their ideas, which could then alter the future of film as we know it today. Future generations will have the opportunity to know how the motion picture industry was formed, but they will also have the chance to put their own twist on things in order to create a whole new way of producing films.


Some links:
The Oscar Official Website
The Oscar at Wikipedia

National Treasure

National Treasure! In the ancient time, big kings from all around the world have gathered their treasures in hidden place so that if one day the kingdom would be destroyed, the treasure would have been in safe, hidden for ever, until the time would come to be revealed again! But the fear is always there! What if the treasure gets in the wrong hand? They gone sell it and the whole treasure and then the treasure would be spread through the world and lost forever. Thank’ god there are still some people who are willing to sacrifice their life’s in order to stop these thieves and takes the treasures to highly secured museums where the whole world could see the treasures that our ancient civilizations have left behind. Our story starts with Benjamin Gates ( Nicolas Cage ) who is a treasure hunter as his father and grandfather where. The interesting thing is that he is seeking the same thing as his father and grandfather was seeking for! The treasure is a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. To find this phenomenal treasure he has to solve a little riddle which he found on a ship wreck deep in the Arctic, named SS Charlotte. The riddle says:

The legend writ,
the stain affected.
The key in Silence, undetected.
Fifty-five in iron pen,
Mr. Matlack can't offend.

Ben finds out that the riddle says on the back of the Declaration of Independence is map which leads to the treasure, but Ben don’t wants to steal it, and this force a conflict between Ben and his partner Ian Howe ( Sean Bean ). So they separate, but Ben will steal it so that Riley could not steal it too. But with this they will get a whole lot of trouble on their back. The FBI and the Police is chasing them, Riley is chasing them too, and they got a women on their back too, an attractive National Archives archivist, Dr. Abigail Chase ( Diane Kruger ). So just watch the movie to see the real excitements in it.



Some links:
National Treasure Official Website
National Treasure at IMDB

Watch the trailer:
View at Apple
View at Yahoo! Movies

Troy

Troy! Troy was the legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems of Homer. As the story says, Paris of Troy takes Helen of Sparta with him to Troy and when King Menelaus finds out, the whole army of Sparta to Troy to get beck Helen, Queen of Sparta. The movie was inspired by Homer’s legend The Iliad, the whole movie was filmed on the coast of Greek. The movie starts with the war, King Agamemnon ( Brian Cox ) decides to accept a challenge between the two armies best fighters, King Agamemnon calls upon Achilles, the famous, the legendary Achilles ( Brad Pitt ) who easily dispatches his much larger opponent. After the war as I mentioned, Paris ( Orlando Bloom ) will take Helen ( Diane Kruger ) to Troy. Then King Agamemnon sends an army of 50000 Greek soldiers to Troy. Achilles is leading the army, on night Achilles’ cousin Thetis joins the army and he dresses as Achilles’ and he is killed by Hector ( Eric Bana ) , Prince of Troy. Achilles didn’t wanted to fight the Trojans, but after this tragedy he is will to fight Hector for the revenge of his cousin. Achilles defeats Hector. After many days of fight, and without success, Odyssey comes up with a plane that was the history never forgot. They build a horse as a gift for the Troy, but what the Trojans didn’t know and expect, that Achilles and some of the soldiers hide in the horse, after the Trojans got drunk they got out of the horse and opened the doors of Troy and then the hell was unleashed. And so on…



Some links:
Troy Official Website
Troy at IMDB

Watch the trailer:
View at Apple
View at Yahoo! Movies

The Last Samurai

Last Samurai! “Samurai” means “to serve”, to serve your lord, to serve your country, to protect your religion and the traditions. In the middle age, the Samurai’s where the protector of the Japan kingdom, but time went by and the world got modernized. The Royal King decided to reorganize the whole army with the help of the British and the France colonies, he wants to modernize the army with guns and big, but what about the Samurai’s, what about them, are they good enough. This is when that war Boshin War where Samurai’s fight with there own nations army. The movie was based on Jules Brunet’s story about how he got to The Empire of Japan to help the king with the modernization of his army. The story starts when high ranked Captain Nathan Algren ( Tom Cruise ) is sent to Japan to train the new army with the newest weapons equipped which was brought from Europe. The army is force to early in the battle and this way they lose the battle with the Samurai’s, but Nathan manages to kill a samurai, this way he is taken as a hostage to the Samurai’s hidden village, to the family which father he kill in the battle. After he recovers from his wounds, he has to remain there. He will learn how to use the katana, means sword in Japan, he has a real hard time living with them, but with time he will learn the main things about Samurai’s. The Samurai’s leader Katsumoto ( Ken Watanabe ) is arrested, but Algren goes to rescues him. During the rescue, Nobutada ( Shin Koyamada ), Katsumoto’s son, is killed. A force of swordsmen and warriors is set up and Algren receives a katana of his own. He is also receives the armor of the samurai he killed, by Taka ( Koyuki ). The samurai plan, with the assistance of Algren, is to make their final battle and the battle starts. What kind of world is this? We are fighting for nothing, does is matter so much? What about peace!?


Some links:
The Last Samurai Official Website
The Last Samurai at IMDB

Watch the trailer:
View at Apple
View at Yahoo! Movies

Meet The Fockers

Meet The Fockers! The thrill ride continues, with the friendliest family in the world, with a loving father with his famous circle of trust. After the maddest weekend that Greg Focker ( Ben Stiller ) could image, he is about to take his new wife and his in laws to his motherland, to his hometown where his father and mother lives. Jack has bought his new full extra RV with the latest technology, and Jack ( Robert De Niro ) has build in a hiding place where he could be in touch with the CIA and can get any information. And finally they arrive to Miami, Florida where Greg’s father and mother live. Finally the Byrns family will meet the Focker family, but from the first time Jack doesn’t feels like home. As he meets Bernie ( Dustin Hoffman ) and Roz Focker ( Barbra Streisand ) who are as different from them as is can be. Pan and Greg is working hard to get the two family together, but nothing works out as the way they wanted. Jack meets up with a boy who is the son of a woman who worked ones at the Focker as a mistress. Jack finds out that Greg lost his virginity with this women, so to get thing more exciting, Jack plead that the boy is Greg son, but in end turns out that Jack was wrong, but what about the two family, will be harmony between them?


Some links:
Meet The Fockers Official Website
Meet The Fockers at IMDB

Watch the trailer:
View at Apple
View at Yahoo! Movies