Saw III
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh
Plot outline: Jigsaw is back, and this time he has kidnapped a man who has to forgive his son's murderers. With the help of a doctor to keep him alive, Jigsaw observes how Amanda does at executing the "game".
Considering the things I had heard about the movie before seeing it - people fainting and throwing up in the theatre, I was slightly disappointed. Sure, it matched its predecessors in terms of ickishness, but some scenes (like the brain surgery performed up close) were, as my friend puts it, "more fascinating than horrifying". The revelations at the end of the movie didn't feel as surprising as they did in the previous two, but they did give you a deeper understaning for the plots in Saw I and II. On the whole, I recommend any fan of Jigsaw to go see this one as well, as they won't be disappointed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489270/
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh
Plot outline: Jigsaw is back, and this time he has kidnapped a man who has to forgive his son's murderers. With the help of a doctor to keep him alive, Jigsaw observes how Amanda does at executing the "game".
Considering the things I had heard about the movie before seeing it - people fainting and throwing up in the theatre, I was slightly disappointed. Sure, it matched its predecessors in terms of ickishness, but some scenes (like the brain surgery performed up close) were, as my friend puts it, "more fascinating than horrifying". The revelations at the end of the movie didn't feel as surprising as they did in the previous two, but they did give you a deeper understaning for the plots in Saw I and II. On the whole, I recommend any fan of Jigsaw to go see this one as well, as they won't be disappointed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489270/
The Devil Wears Prada
Director: David Frankel
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tuckey, Emily Blunt
Plot outline: Andy wants to be a journalist, but the only jobs available are either on a car magasine or as the assistant of the editor of a highly noted fashion magasine. That editor turns out to be the boss from hell, however, and Andy soon realises she wil have to make difficult choices if she wants to succeed.
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie, perhaps because my expectations were so low. It was a light, funny movie, kind of predictable which is nice if you don't feel in the mood tp analyse too much. The on thing that bothered me was the "transformation" of the main character, a la "Not another teen movie" - just throw on some label clothing and suddenly the "ugly", "fat" "totally hopeless" girl is trendy, beautiful and starts to lose wheight (as if she needed to in the first place). But that's just me being cynical. Hell, it's a nice movie, go see it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352/
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tuckey, Emily Blunt
Plot outline: Andy wants to be a journalist, but the only jobs available are either on a car magasine or as the assistant of the editor of a highly noted fashion magasine. That editor turns out to be the boss from hell, however, and Andy soon realises she wil have to make difficult choices if she wants to succeed.
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie, perhaps because my expectations were so low. It was a light, funny movie, kind of predictable which is nice if you don't feel in the mood tp analyse too much. The on thing that bothered me was the "transformation" of the main character, a la "Not another teen movie" - just throw on some label clothing and suddenly the "ugly", "fat" "totally hopeless" girl is trendy, beautiful and starts to lose wheight (as if she needed to in the first place). But that's just me being cynical. Hell, it's a nice movie, go see it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352/
The Grudge 2
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Cast: Amber Tamblyn, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Edison Chen, Takako Fuji
Year: 2006
Plot outline: A woman is brutally murdered by her husband in a house in Japan. According to Japanese folklore, when a person dies in rage, a curse is born in that house. Now that curse has spread beyond the walls of the house, and haunts everyone who has entered there.
This was easily the scariest horror movie I've ever seen. My friend is going to have bruises, because I was gripping her thigh so tight. Now that I look back, I realise that maybe the plot has one too many holes, and there reallt isn't anything driving the story on, and that it ends with to many loose ends hanging. But that isn't something you register when you sit in the darkness of the theater, screaming and jumping out of your seat every two seconds. Let me put it this way - I'm going to see Saw III next Friday, and it'll be a walk in the park compared to The Grudge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grudge_2
Cast: Amber Tamblyn, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Edison Chen, Takako Fuji
Year: 2006
Plot outline: A woman is brutally murdered by her husband in a house in Japan. According to Japanese folklore, when a person dies in rage, a curse is born in that house. Now that curse has spread beyond the walls of the house, and haunts everyone who has entered there.
This was easily the scariest horror movie I've ever seen. My friend is going to have bruises, because I was gripping her thigh so tight. Now that I look back, I realise that maybe the plot has one too many holes, and there reallt isn't anything driving the story on, and that it ends with to many loose ends hanging. But that isn't something you register when you sit in the darkness of the theater, screaming and jumping out of your seat every two seconds. Let me put it this way - I'm going to see Saw III next Friday, and it'll be a walk in the park compared to The Grudge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grudge_2