Watch or download the new trailer of the sixth movie in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, came out on the 29th and it doesn’t really show much.
We get our first glimpse of little Tom Riddle, the troubled boy who later becomes the darkest wizard there ever was. That is all that is in the trailer, but that is a good thing! Maybe the next trailers will reveal more about the other important parts in the book.
I can’t wait to see it! Kuwait will be cutting parts of the movie so I won’t be seeing it when it first comes out. Is traveling to another country to watch the movie too crazy? What are the nearest countries that don’t censor movies?
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This Peanuts character is my second favorite after Peppermint Patty. He is the younger brother of Lucy and Linus. Thanks to their parents’ sense of humor, they decided to name him Rerun after Lucy’s reaction to his arrival. She’s always wanted to be an only child and felt that having to go through another younger brother was like watching bad re-runs on TV. However, Lucy treats him noticeably nicer than she treats Linus.
Rerun’s main story lines revolve around him trying to stay alive while riding on the back of his mom’s bicycle. In the back seat, Rerun thinks about life, sings and occasionally performs soliloquies. Not bad for a one year old. In later strips and cartoons, he is depicted as a few years older. I believe that he was the only character that actually grew.
So I got my tickets to the early showing of The Dark Knight this coming Thursday and I’m super psyched about it. I was iffy about watching the first movie a couple of years ago because I was a Spiderman fan and was extremely disappointed with the movie franchise. As a result, I avoid all comic book movies. My friend said that I seriously had to watch it and I gave in once it finally came out on DVD. I liked it. I really loved the progression of how Bruce Wayne becomes Batman. Then in the last scene, the Joker reference showed up and I said “Oh crap..” We’re looking at another franchise.
But I had a change of heart. I didn’t even bother looking at the trailers once they starting coming out in July. But I just happened to see one on TV the first week I got back from Christmas break in Kuwait and I was floored. I’m getting chills just thinking about that moment. In that short two-minute trailer, Heath Ledger was fantastic. Just the way he spoke as the Joker was something to take note of. It was like Heath did not exist anymore. Pure psychotic acting. What’s amazing to me is that I was moved by just two minutes. I can’t imagine what it will be like sitting in a movie theater and watching for two and half glorious hours.
The movie is getting great reviews and many insiders are expecting record-breaking ticket sales. The tickets went on sale last week and many cities have sold out and are being encouraged to show either a second showing at 3am (early showings for the general public start at midnight, Thursday night) or even an all-day showing.
Sadly, many party-poopers are saying that all this attention the movie is getting is because of the death of Heath Ledger. Although I believe a teeny-tiny bit of it is true, I think that this movie is going to be incredible on its own. I have absolutely no doubt about it. I saw the trailer about a week or so before his death and I could tell that he gave a seriously special performance. Some critics even say that he might even be nominated for awards.
If you have not see any of the trailers, I encourage you to do so. Even if you’re not interested in the movie, I think you should see what Heath does in those two minutes! [watch this one]
City of God is a Brazilian movie directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Braulio Mantovani. Based on a true story, this movie was an adaptation from a novel by Paulo Lins with the same title. The main characters were “Rocket,” played by Alexandre Rodrigues, “Li’l Ze” was played by Leandro Firmino, “Benny” by Phellipe Haagensen, and Douglas Silva as “Li’l Dice.”
Almost all actors in the movie, major or minor, have little or no experience at all. To provide the movie with authentic acting and displays of action and drama, many of the actors were actually from the infamous town the movie was based on. The intended audiences were fans of the novel, which chronicled the author’s life in Cidade de Deus, a shantytown or ‘favela’ in the Brazilian cit of Rio de Janeiro. Read the rest of this entry »
I found this on YouTube. It’s a great song sung by someone who is not known by a huge number of people, although a few of her songs are very familiar to us.
Asmahan was Fareed Al Atrash’s sister, born Amal. She had a beautiful voice and, after finding this video, I see that she was gorgeous as well.
This song is called Emta Hataaraf and it was for the second and last movie she made, Gharam Wa Enteqam. She died in a dramatic car accident (crashed into the Nile) before production ended. Asmahan was only 26 years old.
First of all, I want to congratulate Manchester United on a fantastic season and hope they will do the same (plus one!) in the next.
OK I just got back from the movie and as a lifelong Indy fan, I approve. I’m so glad that Steven Speilberg and George Lucas continued right where they left off in terms of direction and production of the movie. It looks exactly like the previous three. The action sequences were great, just as was expected. They did use some CGI but thank God they didn’t over-do it like movies today. I was worried that the action sequences wouldn’t look believable for a man of Indy’s age to do, but thankfully I didn’t think they looked out of place for an Indiana Jones movie. The sequences were nice and long, just the way I like them. Oh and there’s something that is so unbelievably gross but amazing (and frightening) to watch. It’s one of the best moments in the movie.
Something I didn’t remember to expect was the totally over the top ending. Speilberg and Lucas are best known for their science fiction masterpieces and unrealistic imagination. They never failed to include some of those elements in the first three movies. Remember the melting faces, the man that was still alive after having his heart ripped out, and the holy grail? So it is unfair for critics to hold that against them.
Last but not least, the characters and the actors who played them were perfect. Harrison Ford did look older obviously but that was because of his grey hair. Once he wore his hat and was his usual active self it was as if he’d only aged five years since the last movie. He still has his undying wit and sense of humor. He just rocks my socks, man. Shia LaBoeuf plays an intuitive sidekick for Indy and he was great as well. Rumors say that Speilberg and Lucas ended the movie so that there would be a possibility that Shia LaBoeuf’s character would be the lead in a spinoff series. Karen Allen plays Marion Ravenwood, the feisty love interest from the first Indiana Jones movie. She was always my favorite of the three love interests so I was glad that she was included in the adventure.
Overall, the movie fits very nicely in the series. I honestly do think that the style in the writing and directing of the movie is exactly the same. Change is one of the things I hate and I’m just so happy that the crew didn’t change a thing.
Bottom line, go see it. Either you will appreciate the quality, or will be a satisfied longtime fan.
P.S. They had a little competition before the movie at the theater I went to and were asking trivia questions and the one that answers correctly wins. There were only two authentic posters as prizes and I wanted one so bad. I won one!
