Vantage Point

MY VIEW: The cast was great! The directing was great! The storyline is just another story!! I'm really stretching it to give this movie a 5 on a scale of 1 -10, with 10 being outstanding!! The movie kept starting over and over giving you each players perspective on "what happen". I personally didn't like the way the movie ended either. I think it could have ended better. It wasn't a 'bad' movie but it's also one I don't think I'll watch again either. That's just MY view...

SYNOPSIS: The movie begins in a TV-news remote trailer in Salamanca, Spain, where the hassled, blinkered executive producer (Sigourney Weaver) is trying to steer live coverage of a peace summit toward bland bromides and away from the anti-U.S. demonstrations on the periphery of the event. Once the assassins' shots hit their human target and a large bomb disperses the crowd, the movie flashes back 23 mins. and starts all over again, in be-kind-rewind fashion, and we get the perspectives of President Ashton (William Hurt), two of his Secret Service bodyguards (Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox), an American tourist bystander (Forest Whitaker) and a few of the terrorists as they develop their scheme and attempt their escape.

JUNO

MY VIEW: I found this movie to be a good movie but a bit "dorky" for lack of a better word. The youth could totally relate I'm sure. The 16 year old was a lot more mature for her age and handled her decisions pretty well. I think I would have cast different people to play some of the characters but over all it was a good movie.

SYNOPSIS: Sixteen year-old Juno MacGuff is the type of girl that beats to her own drummer, and doesn't really care what others may think of her. She learns that she's pregnant from a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend, Paulie Bleeker. Juno and Paulie like each other, but don't consider themselves to be exclusive boyfriend/girlfriend let alone be ready to be a family complete with child. Although she would rather not be pregnant, Juno is fairly pragmatic about her situation. Although there, Paulie really leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides that she will have an abortion, but that's something that she ultimately cannot go through with. So she decides to have the baby and give it up for adoption. The next step is to find prospective parents for the yet unborn child. In the Pennysaver ad section, Juno finds Mark and Vanessa Loring, a yuppie couple living in the suburbs. Juno likes the Lorings, and in some respects has found who looks to be a kindred spirit in Mark, with whom she shares a love of grunge music and horror films. Vanessa is a little more uptight and is the one in the relationship seemingly most eager to have a baby. On her own choosing, Juno enters into a closed rather than open adoption contract with the Lorings - meaning she will have no contact with the baby after she gives it up.....see the movie to find out what actually happen!!

THE ATONEMENT

MY VIEW: I personally thought the movie was well done. It was a sad movie. Keira Knightley(Cecilia) and James McAvoy(Robbie) were cast perfectly to the characters they played. There was an enduring love between them. He hung onto her love with letters she had sent while he was at war. She, who comes from such wealth ends up in a little flat in England. This has an "R" rating. There were some parts that were a bit gory when they showed wounded men in the hospital that just came from the war. There was language, again from soldiers, and there was a bit of sexual content between these two lead characters. I have to say as much as I read books, I liked the movie alot better than the book.

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony -- who has a crush on Robbie -- is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested -- and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love.

THE BUCKET LIST

MY VIEW: First of all...IGNORE what the critic say about this movie. Once again I went to see a movie that the critcs gave a low score to and saying "don't waste your time or money on it". I thought Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman gave a really good performance along with Sean Hayes, who also played a part well done. I would say GO SEE THE MOVIE, IT'S NOT A CRUMMY MOVIE!!

Jack plays a man who has a LOT of money but no friends, family or love in his life. Morgan plays a hard working black man who wanted to be a History Professor but is a mechanic. He has family and love around him. Both men are in the hospital sharing a room. They become friends and they each learn from their doctor that due to the cancer they have, each only have a short time left to live. Morgan makes a "bucket list". Things he wants to do before he kicks the bucket. Jack finds the list and adds to it and with all his wealth he talks Mogan into getting away with him and fulfilling everything on the bucket list. Jack who plays a very rich man is all to happy to fund this adventure. Morgan teaches Jack how it feels to kiss the most beautiful girl in the world. (tissue was good here)

I thought the movie was emotional, funny and had deeper thought provoking moments in it than the critics gave it the credit for. Go See It!

FOOL'S GOLD

MY VIEW: This was a fun, cute movie to watch. It's always fun to see Kate and Matthew play together. The movie also starred Donald Sutherland who played his cool self very well. This was a good clean movie...a young teen would even enjoy it!

SYNOPSIS: Ben "Finn" Finnegan is a good-natured, surf bum-turned-treasure hunter who is obsessed with finding the legendary 18th century Queen's Dowry--40 chests of exotic treasure that was lost at sea in 1715. In his quest, Finn has sunk everything he has, including his marriage to Tess Finnegan and his more-rusty-than-trusty salvage boat, "Booty Calls." Just as Tess has begun to rebuild her life, working aboard a mega-yacht owned by billionaire Nigel Honeycutt, Finn discovers a vital clue to the treasure's whereabouts. Certain that his luck will change with the newfound information, Finn maneuvers himself aboard Nigel's yacht and, using his good-natured charm, convinces the tycoon and his Blackberry-wielding, celebutante daughter, Gemma, to join him in the pursuit of the Spanish treasure. Against Tess' better judgment, the search rekindles her love... of discovery. But they are not the only ones after the treasure. Finn's mentor-turned-nemesis Moe Fitch has also set out to claim the prize. Let the treasure hunt begin...

MICHAEL CLAYTON

MY VIEW:

WOW! what a movie! George Clooney was the Executive Producer and the lead actor. It was a really good movie.

SYNOPSIS:

Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class-action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life. Written by Warner Bros. Pictures

P.S. I LOVE YOU

MY VIEW:

Well since I'm already a Gerard Butler fan this movie was a must see for me. Hillary Swank was right when she said that you will love the movie. You will cry but you will laugh through the tears. Great performances given by Gerard Butler, Hillary Swank. The whole cast was great. I loved the movie too! It was so funny yet sad too but funny!!

SYNOPSIS:

Holly Kennedy is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life - a passionate, funny, and impetuous Irishman named Gerry. So when Gerry's life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So it's a good thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake, and to her utter shock, a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get out and "celebrate herself". In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way; P.S. I Love You. Holly's mother and best friends begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but in fact, each letter is pushing her further into a new future. With Gerry's words as her guide, Holly embarks on a journey of rediscovery in a story about marriage, friendship and how a love so strong can turn the finality of death into a new beginning for life.

27 DRESSES

MY VIEW:
I absolutley loved this movie! Even though the critics give is a low score..what do they know. I thought it was funny. Katherine Heigl gave a great performance. It was a fun date with my daughters and then again with a friend.

SYNOPSIS:
Jane is idealistic, romantic and completely selfless--a perennial bridesmaid whose own happy ending is nowhere in sight. But when younger sister Tess captures the heart of Jane's boss--with whom she is secretly in love--Jane begins to reexamine her "always-a-bridesmaid..." lifestyle.

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR

MY VIEW:

This was a good movie. Great performances by Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. A little eye opening...yet sad. Is this stuff really going on? This was a true movie, so maybe so!

SYNOPSIS:

In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow. Written by http://imdb.com/SearchPlotWriters?Kenneth%20Chisholm%20(kchishol@rogers.com)

THE GREAT DEBATERS

MY VIEW:

WOW! This was a very good movie. Denzel not only starred in this movie but he directed it also. Excellent acting, especially on the kids debut part.

SYNOPSIS:

A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

I AM LEGEND

MY VIEW:

A Little Weird...but a pretty good movie.

Will Smith gave an excellent performance I thought. I can't imagine being alone and surviving on my own.

SYNOPSIS:

After the outbreak of a lethal virus in 2009, in 2012 U.S. Army virologist Lieutenant Colonel Robert Neville is left as the last healthy human along with his trusty dog in New York City and possibly the entire world. For three years, Neville is trying to discover a cure for this disease and to find out if any other people might have also survived. But most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, 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. But his blood is also what The Infected hunt, and Neville knows he is outnumbered and quickly running out of time.

WICKED

MY VIEW:
On December 27, 2007 my wonderful husband and I celebrated our 34th wedding anniversary. He took me to New York city for a few days. We went to see this awesome play at the Gershwin Theater. It was fantastic. The acting was exquisite!

The book club I used to belong to read this book. The play was better. Well in my mind anyway. It's mostly the story of the two witches. Ga-Linda the good witch of the North, and her rival the Wicked witch of the West. I loved them both!!

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

MY VIEW:
Okay, Okay, I DO HAVE AN OBSESSION AND A PASSION FOR THIS MOVIE!! I have seen it maybe 100 times now. I LOVE the soundtrack to the movie. I didn't think I would like this movie and avoided seeing it. A friend took me and assured me I would love it! I Did! I thought the acting was done very well. Such passion for eachother. There was a chemistry between the actors which made the movie believable. I never knew who Gerard Butler was before this...I now own almost every movie he was in.
Emmy Rossum played Christine
Patrick Wilson played Roul
Gerard Butler played The Phantom
This was a sad story of the life of the Phantom and his love for a girl he could never win.
I cried when I read the book and I cried when I saw this movie.

I think I would rank this as my favorite .....I give it a 10!

....now how can I meet this Gerard Butler guy?????....... LOL!! "Tsst!!"