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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Robocop Film Review

!±8± Robocop Film Review

Robocop is a 1987 scifi action movie set in a futuristic version of Detroit, Michigan. It stars Peter Weller as Murphy/Robocop, Nancy Allen as Anne Lewis, Dan O'Herlihy as the Old Man, Ronny Cox as Dick Jones, Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker, and Miguel Ferrer as Bob Morton. The producer is Arne Schmidt (xXx) and the director is Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall).

Old Detroit is a mess. Crime bosses have taken over and cops are being killed on a daily basis. Omni Consumer Products (OCP) has taken over the police force so it can soon tear down Old Detroit and rebuild a utopian society that the president of OCP, referred to only as the Old Man, calls Delta City. But he cannot easily do this with the crime spree going on. So, the Old Man decides to "cut out" the crime. The senior vice president of the corporation, Dick Jones, builds his own robotic machine known as ED-209 to help accomplish this.

But, after a violent malfunction with the machine, the Old Man is disappointed. Then, executive Bob Morton suggests a more human version, one that can make decisions and judgments. So he lines up a list of candidates, Officer Alex Murphy being one of them. After he is brutally shot to death by crime boss Clarence Boddicker and his gang, OCP takes his body and transforms it into a cyborg known as Robocop. Robocop is a huge success from the start. Yet, Robocop has a dream about Murphy's death and takes off. While on patrol, he spots a robbery in progress at a nearby gas station. He confronts the perpetrator and discovers that it is one of the men who killed Murphy. He arrests the man and checks his known accomplices and, sure enough, Robocop finds the other killers' records.

He looks into Boddicker's and finds out that he was a suspect in the murder of Alex Murphy. One by one, this cybernetic organism hunts down the gang, including Boddicker himself. Just before being arrested, he confesses that Dick Jones is involved with him. Robocop then goes after Jones only to find out that he cannot arrest an officer of OCP. Jones sends another ED-209 to destroy Robocop, but it is unable to climb down the stairs so he gets away. Meanwhile, due to the police strike, all of Boddicker's gang is released from jail and given powerful guns with which to destroy Robocop.

In a way, Alex Murphy is symbolic of the Christian savior Jesus Christ. He is violently and cruelly murdered and then left for dead. But Murphy comes back in a different body and, later on in the film, he is seen walking ankle-deep in water, which gives the viewers the illusion that he is actually walking on water as Christ was. Paul Verhoeven said he did this on purpose to portray Robocop as a Christ-like figure and savior of Old Detroit, as Christ is believed to be the savior of humanity.

In addition to that, the writers' decision to make Clarence Boddicker wear glasses in the film is somewhat symbolic. It causes him to resemble Heinrich Himmler, the leader of Nazi Germany's feared secret police known as the Gestapo. That may have been done intentionally to make Boddicker seem more menacing. The viewers may notice in the scene where Robocop arrests him, he loses his glasses as Robocop is throwing him through the windows. This somehow makes him appear more human and, therefore, more vulnerable and less dangerous.

To wrap, Robocop is an extremely violent flick and is not for the feint of heart.


Robocop Film Review

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Movie Review "Up"

!±8± Movie Review "Up"

"Up" (my value 0-10: 10)
(Animation)
Director: Peter Docter, with co-director Bob Peterson
Written by Bob Peterson
Voices: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Delroy Lindo, Bob Peterson
Duration: 1 hour, 36 minutes ..
Rating: PG (Action dangerous)

A masterpiece of adult level art and craft of animation, not to mention a quality storyline wonderfully refreshing seriously explore the trials and tribulations of our lives. The points of praise for this film can notexaggerated. This is a landmark of the city.

And no, forget the need to see it in 3-D. If anything, it is annoying.

Pixar, always the innovator in the bar on animated feature films presents a film artistically and intellectually brilliant talk at random, both children and adult viewers, though its points are definitely for adults Subles. No, I do not need to be approved by a child under 9 will be accompanied, you can totally love this gemShow yourself. Yes, even surpasses the brilliant "WALL-E".

And no, it's not like all the previews at youth level, simply an old man who has his house and even to use loft with thousands of balloons in fantastic adventures. This has nothing to do with the level of visceral emotional power of film. He speaks the timeless emotional values ​​in all the current age until the end. Ane guess what, not overshadowed by the elderly and children, are actually shownwiser.

For the great intelligence and sensitivity that went into this movie on the simple idea that certain human emotions, dreams and aspirations are universal in people of all ages from early childhood to the greeting is based. Above all, loneliness. Yes, I cry in some scenes, not for the cartoon characters on the big screen up there, but because the feelings that are independent of the medium and the age of the characters, evoking as they are, whether they are from genuineAction or animated characters.

Package created this incredibly fascinating aspect of aesthetics, some essential quality, endless fun and the ideas of human interaction, and you have an experience, not a film to come. Inspired by the design color screen and the balance of forms, the dynamic pace, which combines history, traditional values ​​provoke your deepest values ​​and aspirations.

Here we have the love between an 8-year-old boy and a girl growing into adulthood and marriage, thenThe age and a poignant reminder of 78 and 'all in together in a fast delicious.

Now for the fun and beauty.

The story is essentially that of the journey wonderfully impossible to suction the unknown region that produces wonderful new emotional energy of an old geezer and a young explorer. Sound sentimental? Just as it is charming and disarming itself here, with elements of fantasy at least, the only criticism, if you can have an irrevocableCynical, he feigned indifference to any religion. In fact, the film takes admirable risks turning into a relatively clear and well-talky than usual "market" parts baby appeal action.

The story begins with 1930 simulted Movietone newsreel story is told in the name of a Muntz Explorer tries to convince the world the existence of a giant bird. The widely derided as a joke, it was in self-exile in the jungles of South America to find the bird again.Deeply impressed by the film are Carl and Ellie, two children with adventurous ambitions. While growing up (in a wonderfully descriptive fitting short) grow to maintain their dreams and marry her and the realization of this dream.

But, alas, is destiny. Ellie has to be solved for a happy, loving, but perhaps boring balloon-seller, Carl (voiced by Ed Asner). And so tragic, so dies the first time. It has a sinister record. And an irascible man widowera virtual recluse. He just wants to be alone. Or so he thinks. His house is surrounded by huge construction project, which is very depressing for him.

But human inventiveness springs eternal. Faced with eviction, Carl comes with the mother of all systems. In a sequence of dazzling, puts the thousands of colorful balloons for the house that rise toward the sky.

So now, flying to South America to live with the dream of his deceased wife. But he has a stowaway on board. And 'Russell, whoJunior Wilderness Explorer just trying to get the old to help him help his elders had given badges.

Upon their arrival at the falls, in dense fog on top of a mesa, have an adventure, jungle animals infinite, all presented with great imagination and perception, with that something special sympathy in dogs greet them feature started. In the end, a Zeppelin will be driven by Muntz (the presentation and treatment of a powerful visualexperiencein its exterior and interior processed), Explorer idealized model of Carl on his adventure. Muntz did not believe that every year in search of birds in the world existed.

Many events and so much action, but the film is always first class in its attempt to explore the depths of human emotion. There is always a class act, fun, exciting. Move.


Movie Review "Up"

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