White House Down Two Times Deja Vu

Fuqua Magic is Intact

Would you believe it?

Two movies in the same season using the White House as their plot-line.

Not too Juicy a Role

Of these movies, Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down, the superior direction lifted one way above the other in all aspects. Antoine Fuqua's direction of the former was tight and it was not all that predictable when compared to the latter.

Bassett has a Punchy Role

The casting for Olympus especially with Morgan Freeman  in the lead as the Speaker of the House, Aaron Eckhart as  President Adler and  Gerard Butler as Army Ranger Mike Banning, the one man army that sets everything right making this an A1 movie. Radha Mitchell and Angela Bassett provided the eye candy.

Poor Competitor

Compare to this, White House Down was a feeble effort to develop a gung-ho macho movie platform for Channing Tatum as a new Bruce Willis as in lengendary Die Hard. Jamie Foxx played an insipid President of the USA.

The only twist in the film  is the role of  Tatum's on-screen daughter in exposing the villains which perhaps add some flavour to an otherwise predictable and boring movie. Maggie Gyllenhaal does play her role well as a staff member of the Security Detail of the White-house with her controversial confirmation of the 'JFK-Marilyn Monroe' tunnels.

Go see Olympus Has Fallen and if possible give White House Down, a miss!

This is Enlightenment!

Hit the Jackpot! How true!

McDonald's Minion Marketing Damage

Only in Bolehland

I guess it must have been one superb marketing stunt.

A meal and a gift of a rubber toy called a 'minion' from the Despicable Me 2 movie currently on the circuit.

Yes, before the opening of the McD restaurants, long lines could be seen snaking around the restaurants country-wide, so it seems, just to have a grab at those supposedly collector's item.

As usual, in Bolehland, things can go awry.

So, one restaurant in Butterworth got its shutters torn off by these eager beavers!

All for a minion!

Niagara Falls Frozen-A Rare Occurrence in 1911

Niagara actually froze in 1911.

Solid state

A picture tells a million words!

Walk-about on Niagara-1911

Partying on the Falls

Gone-Almost......

Suspenseful

The movie "Gone" has built-up thanks to the editing of the movie.

It is generally tight to give the suspense as the movie develops.

A simple plot has Jill been abducted to be killed by a serial killer.

Charming Amanda

However, she escapes but no one believed her because her story that she was kept in a deep hole in a public forest reserve was unbelievable and thus she was sent to a mental institution.

After leaving the institution, she sought her would-be killer and took sweet revenge.

The movie should have ended with the revenge scene but the extra footage of Jill sending the photos of the victims  to the police department to show that everything was not in her mind shows some amateurism on the part of the director.

Adorable

Otherwise, enjoy the really good acting of Amanda Seyfried!

Schwarzenegger's Last Stand

Fun time with Arnold

One can't get the feeling that these are perhaps "the last leg" movies of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The earlier one was The Expendables where he played a cameo role.

Here in The Last Stand, he took the role of an old retiring sheriff of a small border town on the US side across from the Mexican border.

Smothering Genesis!

A dull town turned into a battle zone when a drug lord tried to escape to the Mexican side driving a sports car.

The contest of vehicles across a corn field is truly refreshing when you remembered the earlier outing in Prime Cut with Lee Marvin many eons ago.

The movie may have its fair share of cliques and movie silliness but it was interesting generally.

Vivacious Jamie Alexander

Providing the eye candy here are obviously the amorous Genesis Rodriguez and  Jamie Alexander.

The Incongrous Six Degrees of Separation

Can be Disturbing

An interesting theory that postulates that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away from another person. As such, a chain of statements such as an introduction can connect people in six steps.

This movie shows how the persona of Will Smith and his undoings could bring people who are strangers together for better or worse.

Though disturbing to some extent, it actually can be mind-blogging as the characters reflect on their lives.

Stars Donald Sutherland as the art wheeler-dealer, his wife Stockard Channing and the adorable Will Smith who made it all possible.