Finding Nemo

 Released Year: 2003

Directed by Andrew Stanton

Voiced by:

Albert Brooks as Marlin

Ellen DeGeneres as Dory

Alexander Gould as Nemo

Willem Dafoe as Gill

Geoffrey Rush as Nigel

Barry Humphries as Bruce

Eric Bana as Anchor

Bruce Spence as Chum

 Story: 

Two clownfish, Marlin and Coral, admire their new home in the Great Barrier Reef and their clutch of eggs when a barracuda attacks, knocking Marlin unconscious. He wakes up to find that Coral and all but one of the eggs have been eaten by the barracuda. Marlin names this last egg Nemo.

Following his birth, Nemo develops a smaller right fin due to damage to his egg, which limits his swimming ability. Worried about Nemo's safety, Marlin embarrasses Nemo during a school field trip. Nemo sneaks away from the reef and is captured by scuba divers. As the boat departs, a diver accidentally knocks his diving mask overboard. While attempting to save Nemo, Marlin meets Dory, a good-hearted and optimistic regal blue tang with short-term memory loss. Marlin and Dory meet three Australian sharks – Bruce, Anchor and Chum – who claim to be vegetarians. Marlin discovers the diver's mask and notices an address written on it. When he argues with Dory and accidentally gives her a nosebleed, the blood causes Bruce to enter a violent feeding frenzy. The pair escape from Bruce, but the mask falls into a trench in the deep sea.

During a hazardous struggle with an Anglerfish in the trench, Dory sees the diving mask and reads the address located at 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney. As Dory finishes reading the address on the mask, Marlin is able to trap the Anglerfish using the eyepiece of the mask. To her own disbelief, Dory is able to remember the address on her own despite her short-term memory loss. The pair swims on, receiving directions to Sydney from a school of moonfish. Marlin and Dory encounter a bloom of jellyfish that nearly kills them. Marlin loses consciousness and wakes up on a sea turtle named Crush, who takes Marlin and Dory on the East Australian Current. Marlin tells the details of his long journey with a group of sea turtles, and his story is spread across the ocean. He also sees how Crush gets along well with his son Squirt.

Meanwhile, Nemo is placed in a fish tank in the office of Phillip Sherman, a dentist. He meets aquarium fish called the Tank Gang, led by Gill, a moorish idol. The fish learn that Nemo is to be given to Sherman's niece, Darla, who previously killed a fish by constantly shaking its bag. Gill then reveals his plan to escape, jamming the tank's filter. The fish would be placed in plastic bags so that Sherman can clean the tank, and then they would roll out the window and into the harbor. Nemo attempts to jam the filter, but fails, almost getting himself killed in the process. Near the harbor, a pelican, Nigel, flies to Sherman's office and brings news of Marlin's adventure. Inspired by his father's determination, Nemo makes a second attempt to jam the filter. Unlike the first attempt, he is able to successfully render the filter useless, but to the tank gang's dismay, Sherman installs a new high-tech filter before they can escape.

After leaving the Current, Marlin and Dory are engulfed by a blue whale. Inside the whale's mouth, Dory communicates with the whale, which carries them to Port Jackson and expels them through his blowhole. They meet Nigel, and after helping the pair escape from a massive flock of Seagulls, he takes them to Sherman's office. Darla has just arrived and the dentist is handing Nemo to her. Nemo plays dead to save himself as Nigel arrives, causing Darla to scream. Upon seeing Nemo, Marlin mistakenly believes he is dead, before Nigel is violently thrown out. In despair, Marlin leaves Dory and begins to swim home. Gill helps Nemo escape into a drain that leads to the ocean. Dory loses her memory and becomes confused, and meets Nemo, who reaches the ocean. Eventually, Dory's memory returns after she reads the word "Sydney" on a drainpipe. She reunites Nemo with Marlin, but she is caught in a fishing net with a school of grouper. Nemo enters the net and orders the group to swim downward to break the net, enabling them to escape. After returning home, Nemo leaves for school, with Crush's son Squirt, and Marlin and Dory proudly watch Mr. Ray carry Nemo and his friends to school.

In a mid-credits sequence, the high-tech filter in Sherman's tank breaks down, and the Tank Gang escape into the harbour. Bloat realizes that they now have to find a way to get out of their plastic bags.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

Wow, I never realize it has been more than 10 years of this cartoon and this is only the second time i rewatch this multiple awards winner movie.This year Finding Dory is out but i didnt have the time to watch it in the cinema :( So before i watch it from any website before end of this year, i need to rewatch this first movie to refresh my memory of the crazy Dory hehe.

The whole storyline is just perfect, the character is damn cute. My favorite one is Peach "the starfish" in the aquarium haha...

Hulk

 Released Year: 2003

Directed by 李安 Ang Lee

Casted by:

 Eric Bana as Dr. Bruce Banner / Hulk

Jennifer Connelly as Betty Ross

Sam Elliott as General Thunderbolt Ross

Nick Nolte as Dr. David "Dave" Banner

Josh Lucas as Major Glenn Talbot

 Story: 

Scientist David Banner introduces the idea of creating super soldiers by introducing modified DNA sequences extracted from various animals to strengthen the human cellular response, making them effectively impervious to any weaponized agent, but General Thaddeus Ross denies him permission to use human subjects. Banner subsequently conducts the experiments on himself. After the birth of his son Bruce, he finds that his son may have inherited the effects and seeks a cure, but is stopped in the process. Bruce remembers nothing of the incident after a traumatic event, and has been raised by the Krenslers. Years later, Bruce is a geneticist working with his ex-girlfriend Betty Ross, within the Berkeley Biotechnology Institute on nanomed research. The pair hope to achieve instantenous cell repair by using low level Gamma radiation exposure to activate the nanomeds once they are introduced into a living organism. During routine maintenance of their appropriated Gammaspectrometer, a circuit shorts and triggers the experiment's program sequence. Unable to prevent the machine from firing, Bruce throws himself in front of his colleague to shield him and is exposed to incredibly toxic levels of Gamma.

Betty visits Bruce in the hospital and remarks that he should be dead, but Bruce feels great. A new janitor at the lab claims that he is Bruce's biological father, of whom Bruce has no recollection. When under extreme stress, Bruce transforms into the Hulk who destroys the laboratory, though he has no memory of the incident. General Ross suspects Bruce of collaborating with his father but then deduces Bruce has repressed memories. He orders Bruce to be put under house arrest. Through a phone call with his father, Bruce learns that the radiation unleashed something that was already in his DNA, and that David Banner plans to have Betty killed by his dogs, which now have similar powers to the Hulk (thanks to David mutating them with gamma radiation), and he is attacked by Major Glenn Talbot, leading to a transformation into the Hulk. The Hulk seriously injures Talbot before leaping to save Betty from the dogs. The Hulk kills David's dogs and changes back into Bruce before being captured by the military the next morning.

Kept at a secret desert base, Bruce is kept under observation while Talbot intends to weaponize the Hulk's powers. David Banner tries to recreate Bruce's failed experiment, but instead of turning into another Hulk he finds himself able to absorb any materials and energy he touches, and hands himself over to the military after telling Betty that he murdered his wife in front of the child Bruce. Bruce has a nightmare about the event which leads to a more powerful transformation of the Hulk. Talbot is killed in an explosion of his own making. The Hulk escapes the base and rampages his way across the desert to San Francisco, battling army forces sent after him. When Betty calms him into his human form, General Ross realizes that the Hulk cannot be controlled and that Bruce should be executed.

At their mutual execution, David Banner tries to taunt his son into transforming into Hulk, but fails. He then decides to "go first" and bites an electrical cable absorbing all the electricity in San Francisco. The electricity hits Bruce, triggering his own transformation. A brutal fight ensues between David and the Hulk, with David absorbing Hulk's energy during the fight. David finds that the Hulk's energy is too much for him to handle and he is killed by an army missile at the height of his weakness. One year later, though Bruce is presumed dead, General Ross mentions apparent Hulk sightings and Betty admits her love for Bruce. In a South American jungle, Bruce has become a doctor and is approached by rebel militants who want to take medical supplies from the poor. Bruce's eyes turn green and a scream of the Hulk is heard.

 L² Scored: 7/10 

L² Comment:

It was a bit boring in the first place, as the movie gets along, it become better... No doubt its kinda "Ang Lee" style of movie, but still acceptable. Hulk is not my fav superhero, but definitely don't hate him; just hope to see more Eric Bana in naked shot lol~  

The Other Boleyn Girl

 Released Year: 2008

Directed by Justin Chadwick

Casted by:

Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn

Scarlett Johansson as Mary Boleyn

Eric Bana as Henry VIII of England

Jim Sturgess as George Boleyn

Kristin Scott Thomas as Elizabeth Boleyn

Mark Rylance as Thomas Boleyn

 Story:

King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon does not produce a male heir to the throne; their only surviving daughter is Mary. Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk and his brother in law Thomas Boleyn, plan to install Boleyn's older daughter Anne Boleyn, as the king's mistress. They hope Anne will bear him a son. Anne's mother, Lady Elizabeth Boleyn, is disgusted by the plot. Anne eventually agrees to please her father and uncle. Anne's younger sister, Mary Boleyn, marries William Carey, even though his family had asked for Anne's hand.

While visiting the Boleyn estate, Henry is injured in a hunting accident, indirectly caused by Anne, and, urged by her scheming uncle, is nursed by Mary. While in her care, Henry becomes smitten with her and invites her to court. Mary and her husband reluctantly agree, aware that the king has invited her because he desires her. Mary and Anne become ladies-in-waiting to Queen Catherine and Henry sends William Carey abroad on an assignment. Separated from her husband, Mary finds herself falling in love with Henry. Anne secretly marries the nobleman Henry Percy, although he is betrothed to Lady Mary Talbot. Anne confides in her brother George Boleyn, who is overjoyed and proceeds to tell Mary. Fearing Anne will ruin the Boleyn family by marrying such a prominent earl without the king's consent, Mary alerts her father and uncle. They confront Anne, annul the marriage, and exile her to France.

Mary becomes pregnant. Her family receives new grants and estates, their debts are paid, and Henry arranges George's marriage to Jane Parker. When Mary nearly suffers a miscarriage, she is confined to bed until her child is born. Norfolk recalls Anne to England to keep Henry's attention from wandering to another rival. In her belief that Mary exiled her to increase her own status, Anne successfully campaigns to win Henry over. When Mary gives birth to a son, Henry Carey, Thomas and Norfolk are overjoyed, but the celebration is short lived, as Anne whispered to Henry that the baby was born a bastard, which infuriates Norfolk. Henry then has Mary sent to the country at Anne's request. Shortly after, Mary is widowed. Anne encourages Henry to break from the Catholic Church when the Pope refuses to annul his marriage to Queen Catherine. Henry succumbs to Anne's demands, declares himself Supreme Head of the Church of England, and gets Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to annul the marriage.

Anne's schemes drive Henry to the breaking point, and in a fit of rage, he rapes her. A pregnant Anne marries Henry to please her family and becomes Queen of England. Despite the birth of a healthy daughter, Elizabeth, Henry blames Anne for not producing a son, and begins courting Jane Seymour in secret. After Anne suffers the miscarriage of a son, she begs George to have sex with her to replace the child she lost, because if anyone found out about the miscarriage, she would be burned as a witch. George at first agrees, realizing that it is Anne's only hope, but they do not go through with it. However, George's neglected wife Jane witnesses enough of their encounter to become suspicious. She reports what she has seen and both Anne and George are arrested. The two are found guilty and sentenced to death for treason, adultery and incest. Distraught by the news of the execution of George, his mother disowns her husband and brother, vowing never to forgive them for what their greed has done to her children.

After Mary learns that she was late for George's execution, she returns to court to plead for Anne's life. Believing that Henry will spare her sister, she leaves to see Anne right before the scheduled execution. Anne asks Mary to take care of her daughter Elizabeth if anything should happen to her. Mary watches from the crowd as Anne makes her final speech, waiting for the execution to be cancelled as Henry promised. A letter from Henry is given to Mary, warning her not to come to his court further, and implicitly revealing his decision to execute Anne after all. 10 days after Anne's execution, Henry and Jane are married, Norfolk is imprisoned, and the next three generations of his family are executed for treason, Mary marries William Stafford and they have two children, Anne and Edward. Anne's daughter Elizabeth grows up to become Queen of England, and reigns for 44 years.

 L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment: 

I have wanted to watch this movie so long but seriously, it never been my "to watch list"... And after today, I'm damn regret that I did not watch it much more earlier than I should have... This real legend movie is based on the fiction of Philippa Gregory in 2001, the whole story is not bad and based on the 15th century England, a period that i like... The most important is, we can see how Portman and Johansson compete their acting skills against each other~ for me, i think Portman is slightly better :)

Troy

Released Year: 2004
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen

Casted by:
Brad Pitt as Achilles
Eric Bana as Hector
Orlando Bloom as Paris
Diane Kruger as Helen
Rose Byrne as Briseis
Peter O'Toole as King Priam
Brian Cox as King Agamemnon
Story:

King Agamemnon lead the Greece to conquer a lot of places with the join forces with Troy and their best warrior Achilles. Back in the Sparta, Menelaus celebrate their victory with the 2 troy's prince, Prince Hector and Prince Paris. Paris has been having an affair with Menelaus' wife Helena "Helen" and brought her away back to Troy on the next morning. Hector wanna send Helen back to Sparta to avoid war between the 2 countries but Paris insists to go back with Helen and force Hector no choice but to bring everyone back to Troy.

Back in Troy, King Priam accepted Helen to be in Troy and believe the Troy's wall can defense any attack. On the next day, King Agamemnon & King Menelaus already led 1000 ships of warriors to attack. First ship is by Achilles and he succeeded to won the first war and Hector's cousin sister Briseis was caught. On the next morning, King Menelaus fight with Paris and Paris cowardly ran away and Hector killed Menelaus. This pissed off Agamemnon and he wanted to take over Troy.

Achilles safe Briseis when the warriors wanted to rape her, brought Briseis back to his own camp, Achilles has sex with Briseis instead. On the next war, Hector has scared off the Greece's warriors by his braveness and King Agamemnon wanted Achilles to fight for Greece. But falling in love with Briseis, Achilles refused to help. But Achilles' cousin Patroclus pretend to be Achilles and lead the team to fight with Hector. Hector cut off Patroclus' throat and only realize that is not Achilles but just only a teenager. Achilles get angry and ignore Briseis' beg and went to fight with Hector.

One to one, Hector lost to Achilles and stab to die. But the night before the fight, Hector inform his wife Andromache to lead the people to run through a tunnel if Troy is attack by Greece. Although Hector was killed, but Greece is still unable to went into Troy. Greece then make a wooden trojan horse for Troy with warriors hidden inside. The silly King Priam thought the Greece has give up the attack due to the protection of Apollo and took the big trojan horse in the city and celebrate. At night, the Greece sneak out from the horse and slave the whole city. Andromache led the people away from the tunnel together with Helen.

Achilles went in to safe Briseis before the spartans got her. Paris shot Achilles' heel with an arrow. The weakness of Achilles' strength and he cannot stand and fight anymore. Paris shot a few arrow and took Achilles' life.

L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

The only selling point of this movie is the 3 hot guy's sexy body, Diane Kruger's juicy breast and nothing at all. Seriously, i don't know who write the dialogue, its dumb and stupid. They spend so much on the production and actors, but why can't they write better dialogue and script?

But based on the true story, Helen of troy is same like Chan Yuan Yuan (陈圆圆) in dynasty Ming. Both woman has caused an empire to be vanished because of their beauty. And i found it quite silly an unacceptable...

The basically the 6.5 i gave is for Eric Bana 2 + Orlando Bloom 2 + Brad Pitt 2.5

p/s: Achilles Heel - Deadly weakness in spite of overall strength, that can actually or potentially lead to downfall (wikipedia)